Filed to story: Owned by the Alphas Novel
I looked over my shoulder at the alphas, who were all frowning. I wondered what they were all worried about when the breeze blew colder.
“The witches,” Galen breathed out in surprise.
I raised a brow as the breeze blew in with a purple mist, a soft one that only tinged the air slightly. It settled around my body, specifically my stomach, before growing warm. Like a hug.
I smiled and rubbed my stomach.
“The witches never get involved. Not when the humans are, they are not allowed,”
Derik whispered, but the warmth heightened, the hug tightened, and I grinned.
“The witches know this is the right thing to do too,” I said, and looked up to the council.
“So do we need a vote or should we just accept the fate the witches have chosen for us and announce the new reality to the wolves so they can start getting used to it?” I continued, waiting for the eventual nods.
I left the room fifteen minutes later with my yes. My mother was safe, and so were the humans she had brought with her.
I couldn’t wait to tell her, especially because they all needed attention, medical and physical.
The women really had been living in dire need of even the simplest of amenities, but the men put a price on everything. Wives were being shared, used as payment, and being punished for refusing.
I wasn’t sure when we had let the men have so much power, but I was going to put a stop to it.
I walked down the hall, waiting until the wolves had shifted and strolled past in their wolf forms, which I was told would happen as they relayed the new information to the pack, then letting my energy deplete.
It had taken all my strength to use the magic I had and to keep myself strong in front of the council. More than my body had at the moment, with the baby taking everything.
I collapsed against Derik, who caught me, holding me up as Kai came over. Brax’s shadows moved through me, checking me.
I breathed hard as a tightening pain stretched across my stomach, and my nails dug into Derik’s shoulders.
“Lori?” Derik asked, and I shook my head.
“I’m okay. I just need Cain,” I said, wincing as the pain got worse and my head swam.
“What do you need him for?” Brax demanded, but I ignored him, concentrating on breathing.
I clenched my jaw, holding Derik as he lowered me to the ground, and Kai let his fangs drop. I turned my head, ready for the bite, when I sensed Cain there.
He ran up, a jar of his purple potion in his hands. He handed it to me and I grabbed it, ripping off the lid and swallowing the liquid down.
Cain was pale and panting as he leaned against the wall, slumping down next to me.
I lolled my head to him as Derik held me. Kai frowned, narrowing his eyes on Cain, while Brax inched back.
“That better be the last stunt you wanna pull for a little bit, Luna. I’m tapped out,”
Cain breathed, his eyes closing, his chest rising and falling harshly.
I grabbed his hand and squeezed. “It is. Thank you,” I said, and he nodded before huffing and slowly standing, using the wall for balance.
“Good. Well then, I am off to replenish, which does include my mate. I don’t want to be disturbed, so get biting, wolves.
“She’s going to need it if she’s going to make it through the next full moon, and even the winter that is about to land,” he said before saluting us and running away.
I grinned and looked at my wolves, who helped me up.
“Want to explain what that was about and the stunts he is talking about?” Derik asked, but I shook my head.
“Back in our room,” I said, slowly starting to walk down the hall.
“Then let’s go,” Brax said, but I stopped him, my steps faltering a little as the potion fought the weakness inside me.
“No, I have to get my mom, tell her they’re safe,” I said.
Kai scooped me up into his arms, kissing my forehead. “No, Little Human. You have to get some rest. Derik and Brax are going to see to it that your humans are safe, and I will see to it that ours is.”
I grinned and snuggled into him, knowing I could trust them to get my humans to the mansion.
“We’ll just make sure you are tucked in before we go,” Derik said, and led the way down the halls to our room.
Once we were there, Kai put me in bed, and I smiled.
“So…the stunts. I should probably confess,” I started, and they all stopped.
Derik stopped turning the blankets back, Brax stopped opening the windows, and Kai stopped undoing my dress.
“That is a dangerous statement coming from your beautiful lips,” Derik teased, and I shrugged.
“Maybe. I just… I may have known that your mother was going to challenge me at dinner. Well, I knew I had to be strong enough to challenge her. Something I just wasn’t going to be able to do without help,” I said, and the tension grew thick.
“What’d you do, Spitfire?” Brax stepped forward, leaving the door closed.
“I may have sorted it with Cain to overdose on magic. Safely, of course. It meant with him doing his witchy stuff on his end and me using my magic on my end, all hyped up on the good stuff, that I could make all that purple mist come in and make my shield crazy big,” I admitted.
Kai laughed. “Purple mist, huh? Kinda like the witchy mist that was just in the conference room?” he guessed.
I shrugged, nodding once before blushing.
Kai laughed louder, pulling my jaw in so he could press his lips against mine.
“Every day I love you more.”
He grinned against me. I had known he was going to love the idea.
It was the other two I was worried about, Brax with his whole thing against anything Cain and Tabitha, especially witchwise, and Derik because the rules were important to him. His parents too.
I had technically just screwed them both over. For a good reason, but I wasn’t sure if he was going to be mad or not.
“And that was safe?” Derik murmured.
I nodded. “Cain wouldn’t have done it if it wasn’t. I just needed a bit extra, so he kind of did this thing that lent me the magic I needed, I just have to replenish it afterward.
“It’s very temporary and can make me weaker after, but that’s why he always gives me more potion than normal afterward. I was meant to only do it once, but Tabitha assured me pushing it to two wouldn’t hurt the baby.”
“You trusted Cain and not us? Why wouldn’t you tell us what you were doing?” Brax asked, and the hurt in him pierced me.
I hadn’t meant to hurt him.
“I didn’t know how far the link with the pack would go, whether you’d be able to keep something like that from them, or even if you were allowed to.
“I didn’t want to put you in that position,” I said, hating that it came across differently.
“I don’t like you working with them in secret. Or at all,” Brax bit.
I nodded, going over to him and holding him as his arms eventually wrapped back around me.
“I know. But it was necessary. If I had let the council even consider saying no for longer than a second then they would have stayed there, and I cannot send my mother and the humans away. I just can’t, Brax,” I said, and he sighed.
“I know, Spitfire, I just wish you had come to us for help first.”
“I will next time. I love you,” I said, and he found my mouth, kissing me hard before edging me toward the bed. I went with him until my back pressed up against the post of the bed.
“I have to tell my mother,” I breathed, turning my head to the side as he kissed down my neck.
Derik cleared his throat, and Brax paused, turning to him.
“Is the pack informed?” Brax asked throatily, and Derik nodded, his eyes roaming over me with that hungry stare I loved so much.
Kai grabbed my hand and pulled me from Brax.
“I believe you two have humans to escort.” Kai grinned, his fangs dropping.
My stomach fluttered at the memory of those fangs and the way they felt burying in my flesh. I shivered against him, and he smirked at me. Derik rolled his eyes and made his way to the door.
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