Filed to story: Owned by the Alphas Novel
I knew the wolves weren’t about to forget. This was going to be a test, to see if my brother was genuine or not.
I just hoped he passed.
“Come to bed, Little Human. We would like to worship you.” Kai smirked, and I looked over my shoulder with a smile.
“I am very lucky,” I said softly, and my alphas smiled back at me like the very sight of me was enough for their hearts to soften. It made mine do so in return.
“We are the lucky ones. Mated to the most beautiful of humans.” Derik said, and I smiled, standing up and taking my letter to the door.
I knocked once and Cain opened it, grabbing the letter before saluting and leaving to hopefully peacefully deliver it and get a response for me.
I shut the door again and turned to my alphas.
“So. Now that the humans are here and the wolves are complacent, whatever shall we do with ourselves?” I teased, walking forward, slowly undoing my robes and dress.
Kai stared hungrily as Derik narrowed his eyes on my movements. Brax had his shadows already inside me, caressing me, building up the tension in my body with a delicious amount of heat.
I climbed onto the bed and lay down between them, letting them take my body to its limit before falling asleep, naked and sated.
***
I was woken by vicious growling and a loud crash hours later and gasped, sitting up.
A wolf with reddish-brown fur plowed through the wreckage of the French doors he had destroyed, baring his teeth as he circled the bed.
My alphas woke, alert and tense as they saw him too.
Brax slowly pulled me back farther behind him on the bed, handing me a throw to cover myself with as my harsh breath came through my tight chest.
I swallowed hard as the wolf growled and snarled again, his paws crunching on the broken glass.
“Tobias. Stand down,” Derik growled, his voice full of alpha authority.
The wolf gnashed its teeth, drool spitting out as he did.
“You got her, Brax?” Kai asked, and Brax shuffled me closer to the edge of the bed, slowly and stiffly.
I followed his lead and tried to connect the link, but there was nothing there. Kind of. I could feel the tension and everything my mates felt, but I couldn’t hear their thoughts.
“The pack link isn’t working either. It’s Fractum,” Derik answered my unasked question, his voice soft and quiet as the wolf stared us down.
“Tobias, I’m warning you now, if those teeth, claws, fur, get anywhere near her, I’ll rip you to shreds. Happily. Stand down,” Kai threatened, and the wolf’s hackles raised, his teeth baring as a feral growl ripped through the tension.
“I’ve got her,” Brax said as he inched me closer to the bathroom, his shadows around me, brushing over my skin, ready to protect me from whatever was going to happen, but I could feel my own magic, and it was just as ready.
Magic burned beneath my skin, and I paused in the doorway to the bathroom as Derik and Kai slowly stood from the bed.
“Get in,” Brax urged, but I shook my head.
“I’m okay, I will be okay. I know this is Fractum, not him,” I said, fear draining from me, leaving only sadness at what my father had caused.
“He is about to attack, and I need you out of harm’s way, Spitfire,” Brax said, and I smiled.
“I have the border magic to protect me, Brax. And maybe Tobias will respond to that. It is the same magic that Fractum broke, is it not?” I asked.
He seemed to contemplate what I had said before nodding and letting me stand at the doorway, even though his big body stood in front of me and made it almost impossible to see what was happening anyway.
“Fractum or not, if he attacks, I’m putting him down,” Kai snarled.
“How did he even get in? Where are the guards? This estate should be protected,”
Derik bit, and Brax bristled in front of me.
“I believe he was on as one of the guards tonight, D. He was on the edge of the estate last I checked, but the wolves have been struggling to keep their shit together.
“Having extra human scent here might have tipped him over the edge,” Brax explained, his eyes going slightly cloudy as he read the situation.
Derik nodded once, taking a step toward Tobias, but the wolf growled angrily.
“I need to make sure the others are okay. If he got in, I need to make sure nothing else did,” I said, but Brax stopped me from moving.
“One problem at a time, Spitfire,” he said, and I let out a breath before nodding. I couldn’t get past the big-ass wolf anyway.
Tobias started shaking then, growling and raking his paw through broken glass before the whining started. He shook his head, like he was trying to clear his thoughts.
“He’s fighting it,” I realized, and Brax nodded.
“The alphas’ order to stand down is warring with the savage in him that wants to attack the foreign scent you carry. We’re waiting to see if he can manage it before we step in.”
“And if he can’t?”
“Then we bury one of our own tonight,” Derik whispered, and I shivered.
“And this will keep happening?” I asked softly.
Brax nodded. “This is only the beginning.”
25. The Tea
LORELAI
It was more awkward than I thought to sit there with my brother and Mom. Of course Mom was chatty, proper, and polite, but all I could do was sit there.
My brother looked so different. He was pale, his eyes red, and he wore clothes like Silas now. It was off-putting. So was the feel of him.
My shadows were prickly, wary, like they knew they had been inside him once, knew he was connected to me, but since he was now a vampire, they couldn’t figure out the reason for the connection.
It was disorienting.
“Don’t be nervous. I assure you, I am in control,” Lucas said, and I smiled tightly.
“I know, you just feel different from last time,” I said.
He shrugged. “I am different. I am a vampire now.”
“I’m sorry,” I said, guilt eating at me for the compromise I had made on his life.
It shouldn’t have been my decision, and I had made it anyway. He was a vampire because I had made it happen, and it sucked knowing that I had made him the cold and distant thing he was.
“Don’t be. It has been enlightening. And I would prefer this life to the werewolf one you have chosen, but I respect your decision, sister, and I thank you for the protection you have given our mother,” he replied, his voice deep and different.
He sounded like Silas. It wasn’t what I wanted to hear.
I missed the slight nasally tone to his human voice, the rasp in it, but it didn’t matter now, and the smile on my mother’s face made it a little bit more worth it.
“I’m just glad you are both sitting in front of me. With your father on this revenge path and with everything that has happened, I consider myself extremely lucky for that fact,” Mom said, and I grinned.
She was right; we were lucky to have that at least.
“I miss you,” I murmured, turning to Lucas, who smiled softly at me, his eyes going to my stomach.
I had worn my silk dress. The fabric wasn’t restricting against my stomach and was easier to use the bathroom in, but a woolen cloak hung around my shoulders.
The sun faded behind gray clouds above us, the wind brisk and fresh, a warning for the winter that was on our doorstep.
“And I miss you. I am quite excited to become an uncle. Have you thought of names?” he asked, and I smiled.
“Not yet. I have three alphas to convince whenever I think of a name, which is not as easy as I thought it would be.” I laughed and rubbed my tender stomach.
Mom placed her hand against the bump and smiled proudly. “I think something strong.”
“He is strong,” I agreed.
Lucas held his hand out. “May I?” he asked.
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