Filed to story: Owned by the Alphas Novel
The potion made me feel strong, but I also felt the fragility of it. I needed the bite, and soon, but I wanted to deal with my asshole of a father first because I wasn’t letting him get away with what he had done to me.
“Because you have power, and we need that if we are ever to get out from under the thumb of your precious wolves,” he spat, and I scoffed, finally in front of him.
I punched him. Hard. His jaw cracked and my fist ached, but the way his head snapped to the side, his hand coming to hold it, his whimper at the punch, made the pain worth it.
I shoved my fist into his gut so he dropped to his knees.
He didn’t fight back, but that wasn’t surprising. For all his talk, he was still scared of the alphas that flanked me and were letting me take control of my well-deserved confrontation.
“I would never use my power against them.”
“That is why I didn’t kill that mutt inside you. It was going to be leverage,” he snarled, spitting at me.
I slapped him, my handprint marking his cheek, but it was barely a dent in the pain I felt inside me.
My own father being so cold and full of hatred toward me and his grandchild pierced some shell I didn’t realize I had. I refused to cry in front of him, but the tears still pricked my eyes at his words.
I grabbed his throat, drawing on the link, borrowing strength from my alphas as I squeezed. His eyes bugged and he clawed at my arm, but I wasn’t done.
“Threaten me or my child again and I won’t let you survive the time it takes to say the words,” I bit, then threw him to the ground.
I stepped back and let him scramble back to his feet, his hand on the hilt of his sword. I narrowed my eyes on the movement as Kai snarled, daring him to do it.
He glared at Kai, then let the sword go.
“I was with Mom when you took me. What’d you do to her?” I demanded, and he smirked.
“A simple herb that kept her asleep. I would never harm your mother, Lorelai. She is human, and unlike you, I am no traitor to my own kind,” he sneered.
I ignored the gibe because relief filled me at my mother being okay. I turned to my alphas, mostly addressing Derik, since I knew he would make the final decision.
“I want to see my mom,” I said, and Derik nodded.
He came forward and kissed the top of my head, pulling me in against him.
“Of course, beautiful. I’ll watch your father while Brax and the pack investigate where you were being kept, why we couldn’t sense you. Kai will go with you. Stay with him,” he ordered, and I nodded.
Kai came over then, picking me up in his arms. I went easily, wrapping my arms around his neck before looking over to Brax and Derik.
“There’s an entire network of tunnels and rooms down there. They’ve been growing wolfsbane and gardenia too, that’s why everything was dulled,” I said, then turned to my father.
“Destroy those plants,” I ordered, and my father scowled, his chest puffing out.
“No. You do not tell me what to do.”
That had me laughing. He had no idea. I was going to give him one chance to figure it out.
“Yes I can, Father. You have a contract with the alphas, and the alphas are mine.
“You’re going to do what I’ve asked if you want to survive because right now, I am the only thing stopping my alphas from ending your life,” I warned.
His eyes narrowed. I didn’t care. He could get angry all he wanted, but I was one wrong move away from saying “Fuck it, kill him.”
Maybe Derik would hesitate because of a contract, but Kai wouldn’t.
“Neither would I, beautiful,” Derik said in my mind, and I smiled, warmth filling me as their protection made me feel full again.
“Good,” I said back to him, and felt how happy that made him. I turned to Kai then.
“Take me to see my mom?” I said, and he nodded.
“A quick visit, Little Human. Then I want you home where I can sink my teeth–and my cock–into you,” he whispered against my ear, and I shivered, biting my lip as heat filled me.
A searing liquid heat that I had missed so fucking much.
“Excuse me, Alpha, Lorelai. May I please join your trip to the women’s village? I also have to check on someone after I went against orders,” Vaughn interrupted sheepishly.
I grinned and nodded, making Kai growl roughly, walking past him toward the villages.
“Kai, he can come. He helped me.”
“He’s human.”
“And so am I. Please?” I asked, and Kai rolled his eyes, nuzzling into my neck, kissing over the flesh, and I knew that was a yes.
“Vaughn, you coming?” I asked, and Vaughn smiled warily before following along toward my mother’s hut.
I just had to check she really was okay. I didn’t trust my father, and I had to tell her what was going on, maybe convince her to leave the village.
Maybe she wasn’t in immediate danger since she was human, but I doubted my alphas would let me come back and visit anytime soon, if ever, so I at least had to say goodbye.
Then I was heading back home with my alphas and losing myself in every single one of them.
5. The Word
BRAX
I surrounded myself in shadow, flipping chairs out of my way as I moved down the stairs into the underground tunnels that had hidden my Spitfire from me.
Wolfsbane. Gardenia. Two herbs that were not so great for a werewolf.
Wolfsbane was a toxin, one that would poison us, one that humans shouldn’t have access to, but it was the gardenia that stressed me out. With that stuff, they could take away our senses.
It hid the scents we needed to seek them out, and I was guessing there was a lot of it to be able to hide our linked female and all the humans they were hiding.
We had sensed a few extra, but nothing like what the tunnels suggested.
The pack moved fast in their wolf forms, sniffing and searching through the tunnel, taking in everything, feeding it to the rest of the pack through the pack link.
I moved slower, committing everything to memory, my shadows feeling over the walls, the intent, the humans’ souls.
It was all bad news. There was so much anger, resentment, and hatred. It permeated the air and filtered through me until I felt just as angry. But at them.
We had protected them for years, kept them from becoming a meal to the vampires, and they thought they could do a better job? Fuck them, let them try then.
They wanted to learn the hard way then I was happy to let them, but Derik was determined to do things by the book. I’d let him for now, but something told me the humans were against that idea too.
Every part of the tunnels and rooms I found was against the contract, but I doubted it was enough to make Derik order an attack. He wouldn’t attack first; it was his thing.
I sniffed the air, my shadows catching a whiff of Lorelai’s. I followed the scent, pausing as a human came out of one of the rooms, his eyes going wide, fear falling out of him.
His arms were full of blades, and he froze. I locked my eyes on the weapons and sniffed before growling low in my throat and pushing past him into the room, my own eyes going wide.
An armory.
An impressive one. And Valarian hadn’t been lying. Everything reeked of wolfsbane. Little fucker was going to get eaten at this point.
Shit, I was starting to sound like Kai. I shook my head and backed out of the room.
The human was still frozen in place, and I gripped his hair, yanking it back so I could whisper malice in his ear.
“You will get rid of every single one of these blades. Bury them, forget them, because if a single blade touches me or one of my pack, I will find you and rip out your tongue before peeling the skin from your body. Do you understand?” I warned.
The human whimpered, nodding quickly, then running away.
I sneered after him. These humans were only following orders. At least that one was. He didn’t want to go against the wolves any more than I wanted those blades in the hands of humans.
I frowned as my shadows tugged at me, covering a door at the end of the hall. My frown deepened as I inched toward it.
Lorelai’s scent hit me hard, and I opened the door, grimacing at the stench that billowed out.
I covered my mouth with my hand, my eyes watering as I looked around the cell she had been kept in. It was disgusting. Inhumane. She should never have been here.
I cursed, kicking an overturned plate on the ground that was covered in rotting food, and turned away. There was a bucket of vomit in the corner, and all I could smell was piss. It wasn’t even hers.
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