Filed to story: Owned by the Alphas Novel
His hands snaked through my already tousled hair, and his kiss turned fierce, holding me to him until we were breathless and the desire inside me had built again.
“If it’s safe, we’ll do this, Brax, but not before we find out everything we can. I might not even be able to do anything.
“But I just think if I supposedly have all this power in me and in my shadows, why not use it for something like this?
“I don’t know how, and I haven’t done much with my powers yet, but maybe I could learn.” I shrugged, my voice quiet, like this moment was just for us.
He nodded, kissing me again before Kai opened the door of the carriage. He climbed out, and Brax held on to me.
I waited until Kai popped his head in to let us know it was all clear. Derik stepped out and lifted me from the carriage. He didn’t put me down until we were on the deck of Tabby’s house.
I wanted to be all independent and demand to be put down, but Ruby the alligator still kind of terrified me, so until my courage reached the point when that was no longer true, I was going to stay firmly in one of my alpha’s arms.
Kai chuckled, probably in my head again, like he always was.
“Ruby won’t hurt you, Little Human. If she does, I might just let Brax turn her into a belt and boots like he’s been swearing to do his entire life,” Kai smirked, eyeing Ruby, who eyed him right back, almost looking like she was smirking too.
I shook my head and walked toward Tabby’s, knocking on the door.
“Come in,” she sang, and I went in, raising a brow at the change in her home.
It seemed bigger. I’m not sure how, but it was. There was a large circular wooden table to the right, with ten chairs around it.
The kitchen was still the hub as she bustled about putting her tea together.
To the left was her magic area, where she had brewed my potion. It still held the little couch, rocking chair, and coffee table, but there were more seats.
“Your place is…bigger. Different,” I murmured, looking around, nervous for what it meant.
She sighed and put the tea down on the table, going back for cups. I helped her take the other couple to the table as the alphas came in and sat down where she had placed the cups.
They said nothing about the change in Tabby’s place.
“Yes, well, apparently now I have three races to allow in my home and must make them equally comfortable,” she muttered, seeming just as annoyed by the new situation.
“Yeah, that’s kind of why we’re here.”
“I assumed,” she said, finally settling into her seat at the table just as Cain came in, brushing his hair back from his face.
He was a little flushed, and I raised a brow at him as he grinned.
“Sorry, Mom. I’m late, I know,” he said, giving her a kiss on the cheek, then standing behind her like he always did.
She waved him off and nodded to the teacup set on the bench for him.
“I must say, I was worried for you with the mate the fates had chosen for you, but I do enjoy seeing that smile on your face when you come to visit,” she said, her mouth spreading into a proud grin.
He smirked and nodded. “She’s something special. Anyway, the business we’re meant to be discussing?” he prompted, looking toward Derik, who leaned forward from his seat next to me.
“Yes. We’re here to ask about the border.”
“The answer is yes, Derik. I know you are hoping for the other one, but I must give you the truth: the winter born magic will support the border.
“A simple touch will keep it alive, and with the heat coming up again, that will give it a nice little magical boost too, I daresay.” Tabby smirked over the rim of her teacup, and Kai tensed.
“Is it safe?”
“She is in a city full of werewolves, sweetie, werewolves with a lack of control and magical instability. I believe your concern for her safety is somewhat misplaced.”
She sighed and put her cup down as Brax growled.
She eyed him and shook her head. “You have the power to keep the border working just fine, winter born,” she said to me, but there was something else behind it.
“But…?”
She looked at me with serious eyes that told me I was going to have to be a big girl if I wanted the answer. I held back my emotions and made sure I could handle whatever she told me.
“The child will feed on the border magic. It will act in the same way as the toxin, filtering through your blood to your child. Now that could be a good thing, or it could go very bad.”
I frowned at that and pulled back as my alphas’ tension tugged at the link.
Their thoughts were haywire and I couldn’t get anything direct from them, but I could feel the curses they were trying not to utter.
“I thought I wasn’t even allowed to use my shadows or anything while I was pregnant?
“I would’ve gotten myself out of my father’s captivity if I had known I could,” I bit, annoyed that the rules of this stupid magic stuff just didn’t make sense to me.
She shook her head, pointing to my stomach. “Your shadows are your own. They are keeping him alive inside your human body. That is their job at the moment; give them another one and you’ll both die for it.
“The border is another thing entirely. It is a magic that runs from all the sacrifices and souls it protects. Before that was just the wolves, who then drew on the humans’ souls to feed the border.
“Now the humans have muttered that godforsaken word and destroyed all that. The border will take from their souls directly.
“You’re human and wolf. It will accept your magic as a unity, like it did before,” she explained, and I nodded, trying to wrap my head around it.
“So it is safe for me, and a maybe for our baby?” I tried to clarify, but then she went and shook her head again, and I couldn’t help but huff in exasperation.
“What my darling mother is trying to say in her own witchy way,” Cain interrupted, stepping closer, “is that the magic could turn bad in the baby just as the shadows can inside a winter born, but we won’t know until later.
“For now, it would work. It would not kill either of you.”
That was easier to understand but harder to swallow.
How was I meant to make that decision? My parents never had to worry about the decision, I was just born, but now I had to make one that could mean I was sentencing my child to the same fate as my brother.
Or Elias.
“We won’t let that happen. He will be loved,” Derik tried.
“So was I. My mother gave me love, so much.”
“And you were good. Your brother and your father did things wrong. We won’t.”
“I don’t know if this is a good idea,” Brax murmured, and I was in the same boat as him.
Maybe it was a shadow thing. But then again, those things were happy. They didn’t spark up at the idea, give me any indication that it was the wrong decision, and I did trust them.
They were keeping my baby alive inside me, after all.
“What happens with the magic once the child has been born?” Kai asked, and I smiled at him, glad he’d asked because I hadn’t even thought about it.
“It will be in the child,” Tabitha answered before sighing. “And some residue, like the toxin, will remain.”
“Which means what for Lorelai?” Kai demanded, his heated question making Tabitha scold him with her look.
He softened his features, but his eyes still said that same thing in the same way.
“She will be a powerful luna.” Tabitha shrugged, and I smiled.
That was a good answer. Finally. I wanted to be powerful, I wanted to stand by my alphas’ sides as an equal.
“You won’t be equal, you’ll be more,” Derik murmured, a frown crossing his face.
I picked up on the tension in the room. I almost didn’t want to ask what I had missed in the statement. I didn’t want an answer that might ruin the last one for me.
“She will be our alpha,” Brax realized, letting me in on the secret, and I frowned, looking at them and their somber faces with a chuckle.
“I mean, so what? Nothing will change. You’re all still mine, I’m yours.
“My title won’t change how we are together, and it won’t make me go all alpha on you. Unless we’re in bed, then I might.” I grinned, and the change in our link, in the atmosphere, was tangible.
Kai barked out a laugh as Cain snorted in his tea. Tabby smirked over her cup, and Derik just raised a brow.
Brax grabbed my hand under the table. “Still our Spitfire, huh?” He grinned, and I nodded.
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