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“The mountain witches won’t help until we fail though,” he recited, then looked at me, and I couldn’t help letting the tears fall.
“She held my stomach,” I whispered through my tears, my alphas tensing. “She was terrified, but I didn’t get to find out why.”
Brax snarled and stood up, pulling me with him. He turned me to face him, but I couldn’t focus.
My mind was racing, hopelessness and fear depleting my energy, my faith, everything I’d held so tightly to keep me pushing through. But it was gone with one look in Tabitha’s eyes.
It had all been for nothing. We were not going to survive Adrenna, not all of us.
“No, stop it. She could have been scared for any reason. You do not get to check out,” Brax snapped.
I just let him see that I already had, staring at him with the emptiness vast and wide, spreading through me.
“Snap out of it, Lorelai. Listen,” he demanded, and he fell silent with me before eyeing me.
I didn’t get it.
“Listen properly, Lorelai. There is a heartbeat. There is a live little werewolf in there, and you will not check out while that is still the case. We will not let you.”
His words bit through my numbness, and I took a deep, shuddering breath in. I couldn’t let it win; the darkness could not take me like that. He was right. I had to keep fighting.
My magic sparked back up and filled me with the hope that I clung to with everything I had.
I didn’t say anything, just curled into Brax, wiping my tears on him before taking deep breaths to calm my racing heart. Derik was behind me then, kissing the back of my head before whispering in my ear.
“We’re going to beat this, beautiful, and you are going to bring our baby into this world, safe and loved,” he said, and the insinuation that it was waiting until it was safe gave me even more hope.
I turned to him and smiled, both of them bringing me back from the desolate brink, reminding me that there was no way I would lose when I had them.
“We can leave now, right?” Beenie interrupted, heading to the door. She pulled it open without waiting for an answer, and the second she did, my stomach dropped.
There was yelling, screaming, more fighting. The wolves were howling, roaring, and Kai finally pierced our link.
“Stay there, Lorelai! Shut the door and don’t come out. Cain can stay with you, protect you.
“Derik, Brax, get the fuck out here now!” Kai demanded down the links, and I sucked in a breath at the magic pouring out of me, letting the wolves shift and fight with my strength.
“What’s going on?” I demanded as I ignored Kai’s message and left the room, the others following.
“The humans. Earlier was a test, to see how we were going to stop them. They’re all here, Lorelai.
“The shield on the city is gone, and your father is at the gates, ordering his army to slaughter us and find you,” Kai answered before cutting us off and taking out another human who swung a poison sword at him.
“Who is staying with her?” Brax demanded, looking at me, but I shook my head.
“We’re all in this fight,” I said before Derik could answer, then took off down to the lobby of the mansion, my mom and Galen there waiting.
“Oh, Lorelai! I couldn’t find you,” she sobbed, wrapping her arms around me.
“I’m okay, I’m safe, but Father is here. You need to stay away,” I warned, and she nodded.
“Galen has already given me the speech. I’m going to take the humans here to the safe space underground. We’ll wait there and only fight if we have to, like we discussed,” she said.
“I love you,” I said, and she kissed my cheek.
“Love you too. Now go,” she said, and I nodded before spinning back.
“Wait, what about Rye?”
Mom winced, and I frowned at her reaction.
“She was gone when I got back, Lorelai. I went to go take her with the others, but she’s missing. I have to get the others to safety,” Mom urged.
I nodded, refusing to let the tears in my eyes fall. I would find Ryleigh and I’d start with Vaughn, but I had to stop the humans first.
“Lorelai. Kai needs us,” Derik said gently.
“I’ll make sure they get to safety, protect them if they need it,” Beenie said quietly, eyeing Cain, and I’m sure they were talking through their link.
He nodded to her, pulling her back in for a desperate kiss before his tattoo snake slithered on his arm, sliding over to rest on Beenie’s arm, slithering there until it settled in.
I watched in awe as she kissed him back.
“Keep her with you. Use her if you need to,” he said, and Beenie scowled.
“And what about you? You just drained your magic,” she asked, but he shook his head.
“I’ve got enough. Go.”
She looked hesitant, but the mansion shook, groaning beneath us as roars and howls broke the dark sky.
Beenie ran off with the humans and my mom while I left the mansion with my alphas, Cain, and Galen.
We stepped out into chaos. Debris fell from the mansion as it was hit with boulders.
Humans shouted, wolves roared, and swords clashed in the night.
“Fucking hell,” Brax breathed before his shadows left him, tearing through the city, breaking humans.
I followed his lead and sent my magic where his shadows didn’t reach, but it was more hesitant this time. I wasn’t sure why, but it was holding back more than normal.
I ignored it and headed toward the gates where I knew my father was.
Kai caught up then, his sword dripping red, his shirt gone, his body covered in blackening slices oozing with black blood, sweat covering him as he puffed and yanked me into him, kissing me harshly.
He put me back down before breathing hard and spinning to cut through an arrow that headed for me.
When he spun back around Cain stepped forward and healed him. He nodded in thanks.
“No problem,” Cain said, but he looked like it kinda was. His face was paler than normal, but he said nothing, so neither did I.
“I’m heading to my father.”
“So am I,” Galen said, and I looked up at his incredible height to see the anger on his face.
“He’s waiting for you. He’s prepared; make sure you keep your magic ready,” Kai said as all my alphas kept every human that came for me away.
My magic wasn’t letting me do what I had done just hours ago, but I was guessing that had something to do with the tiredness that was weighing me down.
I was exhausted, and with the wolves using my magic to turn, I was pretty sure there was only enough of it left to stop me from doing myself any harm, but it was keeping my body strong.
I kept my leftover magic close, feeding the wolves what I could, trusting my alphas to keep me safe through the city, and they did.
They killed anything that came close, not letting a single thing past as I walked alongside Galen, Cain behind us.
Brax’s shadows were like lethal, invisible vines that the humans had no defense against.
He used that advantage, keeping the wolves safe, stopping the things they couldn’t see coming from stabbing them in the back as Kai and Derik dealt with the immediate danger.
Kai chucked his sword to Derik, who swiped and stabbed until he was puffing and sweating as Kai got his black talons out, ripping through the humans that came at us.
It was a bloodbath, a messy, terrifying bloodbath that all led back to my father. He was on a horse, sitting high as he held his chin straight, a smirk coming to his lips as he saw me coming.
“Ahh, my little mistake.” He grinned and trotted forward.
I glared at him, my magic turning septic in his presence. “Stop this. Enough of both our kinds have been killed already,” I said, but he chuckled.
“No, they haven’t, not until you and your pets are dead,” he said, then looked over his shoulder.
“She is here. End them,” he called right before another army of humans burst through the gate, rushing us.
“Brax, shadows!” Derik called, and Brax’s shadows yanked me back behind them, snagging humans and throwing them away as Kai and Derik kept them from me.
Galen fought too, having to because the hoard was too much.
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