KERES POV
The nearest hybrid hit me like a truck.
Not because it landed a bite.
Because it shouldn't have been able to move that fast.
One second the thing was crouched twenty feet away, red eyes glowing through the smoke.
The next it was in my face.
Samael exploded forward with a snarl that rattled through my entire ribcage and I swung on instinct, putting every ounce of weight behind the punch.
The kind of hit that usually folded grown wolves in half.
The kind that ended fights. Made people unconscious in just one strike.
My fist went straight through its head.
No impact.
No resistance.
No satisfying crack of bone.
Fucking nothing!
Just black smoke curling around my arm.
"What the f**k? This again?"
The creature reformed three feet away and laughed.
At me.
That same ho
