Filed to story: Owned by the Alphas Novel
He held my cold face, leaning down to kiss my lips before looking me in the eye with that intensity that held me at his mercy.
I couldn’t look away, I couldn’t feel anything around me, as if his lock on my eyes was a window into his soul where I could read everything he kept hidden. And I was the only one allowed in that particular book.
“And for that to be the case, you will need the special shackles with magic runes that keep her from using her powers. Ones that I happen to have, and you don’t, so…” He let his blackmail run out, and I raised a brow at him, challenging him to finish that sentence. But he smirked, waiting for me to respond.
“And you think you have the willpower to keep them from me?” I teased, and he held me against him, his warm body keeping mine hot too.
“I do. Unless you agree to my terms.”
I laughed. “What kind of terms?”
“You won’t get hurt, not a single scratch, and if there are vamps, you will not engage, you will retreat. Then, I might just let you have the shackles you need to capture her and keep her locked down,” he teased, running his fingers down my face.
He tucked my hair behind my ear as I tightened my grip on him. He had a strong argument, I was enticed, but I was also determined to go without the anchor of a promise. I didn’t want to be bound to any words that might stop me from getting her.
“Hmm, interesting tactic. I’m going to go with no, though.” I smirked, leaning up to capture his lips with mine. He melted into the kiss, keeping me connected with him until we were both breathing hard, our breaths misting.
“And why is that, beautiful?”
“Because I have a Kai. And he will get the shackles from you if I can’t. Not to mention I have it on good authority that you want my fangs in you. I’d be willing to mark you before I left as a promise that I will still be yours no matter what happens, and if I get hurt, I will heal, I will come back to you,” I said, my lips a whisper away from his, my voice soft, my fingers tracing over the lines of his clothes that hid his muscular frame.
Then he was kissing me again, his mouth hot and demanding.
“You should deal with the council from now on, you’re a much stronger negotiator,”
he laughed, and I did too.
“I’ll take the beast, thanks though.”
And then we were silent, giving into the moment, passion and pleasure keeping us kissing, warm and creeping up on desperate as Derik’s arms wrapped even tighter around me.
“If she’s marking alphas, I dibs next,” Kai grinned, coming over, his eyes hungry as they raked over me. I looked over my shoulder as Derik put me back on the ground.
“How about I go let the beast know the new plan. D, you can go tell the council what they need to know, and Kai, you can talk to Tatum about the hunting tomorrow.
Then we go back to the suite, and whoever gets there first, I bite,” I wagered.
They both grinned–Kai with a lazy, cocky, confident grin, while Derik’s was more refined, hidden in a knowing smirk.
“Jokes on you two, I’m already here, that means I win, right?” Brax interrupted, and I laughed as the other two scowled.
“Fuck off, cheat. You had your turn.” Kai snarled before taking off.
“See you soon, beautiful.” Derik smiled, kissing me one last time before taking off.
Both of them left me there in the cold, dark gardens. I shook my head with a smirk.
“Guess I’ll keep myself company on the way to the barn, thanks, Alphas,” I teased in my head, and they were both silent in my head.
“Sorry,” Derik broke first.
“I left you with Derik. He left you alone. He should be punished for that.” Kai barked out a laugh that I heard from my path to the barns. I grinned and rolled my eyes as I walked. Anetta found me just before I headed into the barn, bumping into me with wiggling brows.
“So, you marked one of them. How was it?” She grinned, and my jaw dropped.
“Uh, how did you know that? I swear to the balance if Brax let out some pack wide thing–“
Anetta laughed heartily before shaking her head.
“No, he didn’t.” She laughed again. “But we all felt it. You marked the alphas, you officially claimed Brax as a wolf–not just a mate–that kind of thing ripples through the pack. We’re all a little high from it.” She grinned, surprising me again.
“Yeah, it was pretty powerful for me too,” I admitted.
“I bet. I wouldn’t be surprised if we had another heat because of it.”
“And if I was to mark Nikolai and Derik tonight as well?” I was scared to know. That had her eyes widening with some kind of excitement. I checked the pack link, sucking in a breath when I felt exactly what she meant.
They were high. A euphoric, lingering powerful feeling that kept them light and happy. I grinned at that, and she nodded knowingly.
“You mark all three of them and the wolves are going to be delirious.”
“But we’re meant to be hunting tomorrow,” I frowned.
She shrugged. “That’s okay, good in fact. They’ll be stronger, faster, their senses more refined. And excited, like pups again.” She laughed, not as a dialogue tag but as an action.
“And then it’ll start the heat? We can’t afford one of those right now, not with the vampires on our doorstep,” I murmured, but she grinned.
“The vamps won’t attack during the heat. We might be distracted during that time, but we’re savage as hell. If they get in the way of what we want during that time, we’ll rip them to shreds as a snack, then feast on them to keep our energy up for other things.” She waggled her brows so I knew exactly what she was talking about, and I laughed with her.
“And it’ll be your first heat as one of us. You’ll feel it as the luna–it’s going to be the best heat yet,” she said, and her excitement infected me, the kind that had me looking forward to something.
It was a foreign feeling after everything that had been going on, but I savored it. I wanted that feeling to soak up the fear and resentment inside me, to take it over like the alphas took over me.
“So what are you doing out here then? I thought you’d be with your mate?” I asked, but she shrugged.
“Derik called the council for a meeting. I was bored, so I came to find you.”
“Oh. I’m heading to the barns to see the beast,” I said.
She nodded. “When I sensed you out here, I figured. Want some company?”
“You want to see the beast? Most of the wolves are pissed to get put on babysitting duty,” I laughed as we kept walking, arm in arm, down the cobblestone path. Our way was lit by torches, the smell of the herb gardens filling my senses as we did.
“I’m not scared of it like they are. They think it will attack them, but that’s because they don’t listen. If you really focus on his roars, on his howls, you can hear the whine. It’s like a mating call for our kind, and his is distorted, like everything else about him.
“Truthfully, I think he’s just in pain–of all kinds. Physically, he looks awful; it can’t be comfortable to be half turned and stuck there. Then emotionally, he has our savagery, our craving for bloodshed, but for a single person? One he can never catch and one he hates to need? Excruciating.”
“So you pity him?” I asked, and she thought about my question before nodding.
“I suppose so, yes.”
“Then let’s go see if we can put him out of his misery.” I smiled, and she nodded. We were a few steps closer to the barns I could see at the end of the path when a howl ripped through the air. I spun to the sound as Anetta growled and released a howl of her own that pierced my ears.
I fell into the pack link as it called to every one of us to find out what was going on, sucking in a breath when the volatile smell hit my nose.
Vampires.
I snarled and checked everywhere, my eyes piercing every shadow, every movement for what shouldn’t be there.
“They’re getting close, on the eastern border,” Tatum snarled in the link, already shifted and barking orders at the pack.
“There’s more on the south, near the lake.”
“It’s mutual territory–do not attack outside the city. If they breach the walls, kill them,” Derik snapped, turned into his wolf form with the rest of the council, joining the border patrol.
“I have the luna. We’ll be in the barn with the beast,” Anetta said, and I nodded, running toward the barn.
The vampires might not breach the city, but if they did, I’d bet they’d make a play for our beast. He was our wild card, the thing we had that they didn’t, and I wouldn’t want them to have it if it was me.
“They’re hovering on the outskirts of the city. They’ve stopped moving.”
“There’s more in the north,” another pack member said, and my heart raced as we burst into the barn. The beast was alert, growling and snarling.
“Vampires are surrounding the city,” I explained, and it growled, inching toward the door, sniffing the air.
“They’re not attacking,” Tatum said, and I waited for more information.
“And the humans?” I asked.
“Securing themselves in their huts with our toxin as planned,” Galen said, ~”Your mother is in the mansion with the twins and Braxton,”~ he added, hearing my next question before I had to ask.
“And the vampires are surrounding the city but not attacking?” I clarified.
“They’re being evasive. We’re chasing them, trying to get them to make a move, but they’re on the defensive,” Kai said, and I checked in on him.
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