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Authors: Tim O'Rourke

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She hit the ground, her long, bushy black tail whipping to and fro as she turned to face me again.

“Don’t make me kill you, Kiera,” I said, tears standing in my eyes.

“You won’t kill me,” she snarled. “You can’t kill me because you love me. The Wolf Man was right. The love you and this other Kiera Hudson have for each other will be what kills you.”

Kiera bounded towards me, and swiping one giant claw through the air, she cut four jagged tears across my chest. I pushed her back and cried out in pain.

“Don’t listen to this Wolf Man,” I tried to reason with her. “He isn’t who or what you think he is.”

Kiera leapt at me again, her eyes bright and full of rage. I rolled back my fist and punched her straight in the snout. Yelping and howling, she flew backwards into the side of her little red Mini. Scrambling onto all fours, Kiera looked back at me as she leapt onto the roof of the car. “He told me to bring you up here tonight and kill you. If I did that, then I would be free.”

“He doesn’t have the faintest fucking idea what true freedom is!” I roared at her. To see Kiera like this was agony. “He isn’t a wolf. He’s a Vampyrus like me, and he wants to rule you. He wants to rule everyone. That isn’t freedom.”

“Liar!” she howled, leaping from the car at me.

I dropped, and raising my claws into the air, I dragged them down the side of her body. I could of driven my claws deep inside her – killed her – but I couldn’t. I didn’t have it in me to kill Kiera. I knew there would be good inside of her. There had to be – she was Kiera Hudson.

“Kiera, listen to me,” I shouted, as she rolled over in the dirt. She was panting heavily now as blood gushed from her side, matting her black fur together. “The Wolf Man is called Luke Bishop or Elias Munn… he has many names and faces… but one thing for sure is that he will kill you.”

“Why?” she snarled.

“Because the other Kiera Hudson… the Kiera I love… she won’t ever give up the fight. She won’t ever be beaten. And somewhere deep inside of you, you are the same. Bishop will see that in you, and he will destroy you, Kiera.”

She rose up on her haunches before me, her eyes locked with mine.

“Please, Kiera, you don’t have to do this… you’re breaking my heart,” I whispered.

I looked into her eyes, and the brightness seemed to fade. It was like something I had said had made a connection with her.

“You don’t have to be like the other wolves, Kiera,” I breathed, sensing that the fight had gone out of her. “You might not be the Kiera Hudson I fell in love with, but you are the same. I know it.”

Kiera lowered her claws and looked at me.

She opened her jaws to say something…

Clack! Clack! Clack!

Kiera jerked forward and I caught her in my arms. She howled in pain as she started to change. The soft black hair that had covered her body fell away, revealing the real Kiera hidden beneath. Her hazel eyes were open as she looked blankly up into my face. I cradled her in my arms and held her tight, and it was then I saw the circular red bullet hole in her forehead. A line of thick, black blood trickled from it and down onto her cheek. It looked like she was crying tears of blood.

“Kiera,” I cried, holding her lifeless body to my chest.

A shadow fell over us. I looked up to see a hooded figure standing before me. In one hand was a gun, and in the other there was a camera.

“You shot her!” I cried.
“You killed her!”

Slowly, the photographer pulled back the hood.

“No!” I gasped, seeing the photographer’s face. “Why did you have to kill Kiera?”

“To save your life, Potter,” the photographer said.

Dead Lost

(Kiera Hudson Series Two)

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