Sold To The Untouchable Alpha novel Chapter 38

[Ivan’s POV]

I reached for the hunter closest to me, drawing his attention away from Arissa and towards myself. By this point, there were a good dozen hunters circling her, and I needed to work fast before she was overpowered.

Reaching around, I grabbed the hunter's neck and pulled, ripping his skin entirely and leaving him to bleed out. Throwing him aside, I jumped forward onto the back of my next target just as the group erupted into calls for battle.

From the middle of the circle, Arissa let out a cackle of joy and jumped up, landing easily on the back of one of the hunters who was about to shoot a silver arrow at her. Opening her mouth, she prepared to bite her victim's throat. However, what struck me as odd in that moment was the fact that her canines were elongated.

If she had had a wolf and could shift, then that wouldn’t have been so weird, but given the fact she was wolfless, it left me asking questions.

"Pay attention!" Arissa purred, pulling me from my daze. "Otherwise, you’re going to get yourself killed, idiot."

"Who are you calling an idiot?" I asked, twisting the hunter I was fightings arm behind his back and snapping it. "I’d say that is you."

Shaking her head, Arissa bit down on her target's throat and yanked, then lifted a bloody smirk towards me.

"Only idiots get distracted during battle." She responded, jumping back to the ground and kicking the now bleeding hunter forward.

"Isn’t arguing with me distracting?" I asked, grabbing another hunter and snapping his neck.

"Not really." Arissa shrugged, dodging an arrow that had managed to be shot towards her and giving a sweeping kick on the ground.

I watched with appreciation as three hunters fell from her attack, leaving them open for her to pounce.

She once again moved with inhuman speed, running her canines along their necks as if she was kissing them. Only instead of leaving lipstick or kiss marks behind, she left long gashes that exposed their veins and muscles.

I had to give it to her. Arissa was a killing machine and she was becoming more and more of a mystery to me. That mystery alone drew me to her like a moth to the flame, and I couldn’t stop the need to know more.

Deciding that now wasn’t the time to be distracted, I shook off my curiosity and continued to attack.

Together, Arissa and I killed all the hunters, leaving only a whimpering Gisele alive in the room.

"Now, since that is done." Arissa announced, wiping the blood from her face. "We should get back to the questioning."

"I think that can wait." I said, reaching out and touching Arissa’s shoulder. "Instead, we should do something about these bodies."

Arissa seemed to just realize that the area around us was riddled with mangled corpses, and a smile begin to spread across her face.

"Can I cut them up and feed them to the fishes?"

"Fishes?" I repeated.