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    The Last Werewolf
    The Last Werewolf
    The Last Werewolf
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    The Last Werewolf

    By Catherine Banks

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    “My name is Lily, and I’m the last werewolf.”

    In a world where vampires lay claim to everything, Lily is the last of her kind. It used to be her and her brother, until a mysterious hunter tracked them down. Only Lily survived.

    It’s enough of a struggle trying to fit into society with no pack and hiding what she really is, so when The Hunter who murdered her brother comes to town, catastrophe is sure to follow. The only barrier between her and certain death is Irving, a mage who discovers her secret and offers to keep her safe. But why, when it’s at such a great risk to him?

    Irving has his own set of secrets, and if either of them want to make it out alive, they have to work together. Lily will need all the help she can get for when The Hunter comes knocking.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherCatherine Banks
    Release dateSep 1, 2017
    ISBN9781946301048
    The Last Werewolf
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    Catherine Banks

    Plays by Catherine Banks include Miss N' Me; It Is Solved By Walking; Bone Cage; Three Storey, Ocean View; and Bitter Rose. Bone Cage won the Governor General’s Literary Award for Drama in 2008 and It Is Solved By Walking won the GG 2012. (The latter was translated into Catalan for readings in Catalonia in 2012.) Catherine’s adaptation of Ibsen’s An Enemy of the People, In This Light, will premiere in July 2019. Her newest plays are an adaptation Ernest Buckler’s iconic novel The Mountain and the Valley, and Downed Hearts.

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      The Last Werewolf - Catherine Banks

      Chapter One

      My name is Lily and I’m the last werewolf.

      Twenty years ago, the werewolves declared war on the vampires. The werewolves were tired of being under the vampires’ control and used like slaves. One by one, each alpha joined the rebellion until eighty percent of the werewolves in the world had joined the fight. It took ten years of planning before the big battle finally happened.

      As you can imagine, it wasn’t a pretty battle and, unfortunately, the werewolves lost. There were about eight hundred werewolves at the time the battle started and only two hundred of us left when the battle ended. The vampires ordered the rest of the werewolves to be exterminated, to cull anymore ideas about rebelling against them. They wanted to make an example of us so that no future groups tried the same thing.

      Vampires, Hunters, and humans looking to make some cash hunted us mercilessly. They killed men, women, children, infants, it didn’t matter to them. The only thing that mattered was the extinction of the werewolf race.

      Our numbers plummeted until last year when my brother, Aiden, and I were the last.

      The night Aiden was murdered was an especially chilly night in the middle of September. September twentieth to be exact. Aiden and I were huddled together inside of a cave, waiting for the storm to blow over so we could continue traveling. We didn’t dare start a fire since we were on the run from a couple of vampires hunting us, and they’d smell the fire miles away.

      Our bodies ran at a higher temperature than humans, but the cold wind and snow was enough to make us shiver. Aiden rubbed my arms as I rubbed his back, trying to warm each other up. He was five years my senior and he seemed to have aged an additional five years since we’d been on the run. We were both focusing on warming up, when the smell of corpse hit our noses. Vampires were near. Aiden pushed me behind him, into the shadows of the cave. He faced the mouth of the cave, waiting anxiously for the vampires to appear.

      A voice like ice whispered, We can make it quick and painless, werewolf. Or, we can make you suffer. There are two of us and two of you, but we both know that we outmatch you and your little sister. Come, let us end your lives without pain.

      Aiden growled and yelled, You’ll never have my sister! His body twitched twice and then he stood in front of me as a giant grey wolf. I loved Aiden’s coloring and envied him since I was a plain red wolf with no beautiful silver undercoat like he had.

      Aiden lunged forward and began fighting with the vampires. I knew what I was supposed to do in situations like this, but I just couldn’t leave him alone to fight the vampires. I changed forms and ran forward, biting one of the vampire’s legs and tearing it in half. The vampire screamed angrily and backhanded me. I flew across the cave and landed on my side, skidding across the ground until I was in the shadows of the cave once again.

      Aiden bit one of the vampire’s heads off and rushed towards the injured one. I stood up, unharmed, and prepared to aid him if he needed it. Aiden bit into the vampire’s neck, severing its head, when the crack of a gunshot echoed in the cave.

      Aiden dropped the dead vampire and staggered backwards before falling on his side. I wanted to run forward to him, to help him, to protect him, but I was hidden in the shadows from the shooter and I couldn’t risk being seen. I stared at Aiden’s ribs and willed them to move, but they lay still. I watched in horror as his body reverted to his man form, something that only happened when we died.

      I crouched low to the ground and suppressed the whine and pain for my own survival. Aiden taught me above everything else, I had to survive.

      A man in a black trench coat walked forward with his gun on his shoulder. Looks like I got the wolf just after he finished the vampires. A three-for-one kill.

      A Hunter. Hunters were dhampirs, half-human and half-vampire who killed vampires, werewolves, and any other violent preternatural they could get their crosshairs on. They were the most hated being on the planet, and were forced to live as nomads since no one could stand having them

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