Filed to story: Owned by the Alphas Novel
He was running, the forest dark around him, the shadows seeming to move unnaturally. I could sense them in his peripheral. He was running with Tatum and their attack team, chasing vamps, but there were a lot of them.
“We should pull back. See what move they make,” I murmured.
“I thought you wanted us to attack?”
“Yeah, on our terms, not theirs. I don’t like this. It feels like a trap,” I murmured, and my shadows agreed. My magic burned in my palms, and I kept with Kai.
“Pull back, Nikolai,” Brax said forcefully, and I knew he felt it too–either in his shadows or the twins. Whatever it was, Kai was smart enough to recognize the warning and pulled the team he was with back.
They inched back, drawing into the city, and the vampires crowded the city wall.
Anetta was listening too, as the beast grew impatient, snarling.
“We can’t add you to the pack. Not if we want to give you back your humanity, which is what I’m going to do. Then I’m going to offer Adrenna hers. So if you can control yourself at all, don’t kill her; just catch her. And until then, do you want to come kill some vampires with me?” I asked, and the beast’s grin grew in a creepy way. It couldn’t help it, though; its whole face was creepy, and I knew what it wanted.
I grinned and nodded out the door. “Let’s go then.”
Anetta grabbed my arm. “Wait, the alphas didn’t okay this. You should stay out of harm’s way.” She was trying to persuade me, but I shook my head.
“I’ll convince them to forgive me later. Are you coming?” I asked, and she rolled her eyes before nodding.
“You’re going to get me in trouble,” she huffed before heading out of the barn with me, the beast following.
“It’ll be worth it to kill the vamps before they can hurt us,” I said, and she shrugged.
“Unless they hurt you, then the alphas will kill me for not keeping you safe.”
I ignored her comment, not sure whether it was true or not, but determined enough not to get caught by the vamps to worry. We went along the path, but the night was covered in the scent of vampires. There were enough to circle the city; that was obvious, but what were they doing? Why were they waiting?
“They’re moving in! On the north side!” one of the wolves called, howling as they defended the wall from the vampires that climbed it. The north team of wolves fought with vampires, the growling and crunching echoing through the city. I shivered and started running to help when another howl broke through.
“The group in the south are coming over the wall!”
“They’re checking our defenses, checking for weaknesses in our border patrol,” I said in realization as another howl came and more vampires attacked at the west wall.
“They’re not going to find any.” Kai grinned as he charged the vampires coming over the wall near him. I ran to him, the gate remaining closed and untouched as vampires climbed the wall and broke into the city, meeting some very hungry wolves.
They gnashed and fought the vamps with teeth and claws, the rush of the fight filling the pack as I fed them magic. I let them pull it from me with no resistance, so their wolves were strong enough to fight the vamps– who were pristine. Like porcelain, pale and translucent, their skin flawlessly white, their eyes beady, their frames lithe and quick. But it was their fangs that had my attention. They were long and snapping at the skin of my wolves, trying to get that poison of their bite into my pack. I couldn’t let that happen.
I ran with Anetta at my side and the beast at my back, shoving a line of vampires back from Kai and his team with a blast of magic that threw them into the concrete wall. It shuddered on impact as the vampires were stunned.
“Thanks, Little Luna, now go back to the barn,” Kai said in the link, grabbing a vamp between his teeth and ripping it to shreds before it could come out of its stupor. I shook my head, and my shadows fell out of me, wrapping around more vampires, squeezing the life from them.
“No,” I said, not bothering to explain myself because if I asked him to sit out, then he wouldn’t either.
Before he could answer, there was an ear-splitting cry, a scream that had chills racing through my blood. My skin prickled, and I turned to the noise. It was a vampire, a stunning one with dangerously red eyes staring at Kai like she wanted to eat him. She probably did.
Kai grinned at her, his snout covered in the blood of the vamp she looked ready to avenge. Her body was covered in a black dress, tight and long with bare feet and talons for fingernails. She looked scary, but Kai was even more so. He was licking his chops, baiting her, and I wasn’t ready to see her go for him with that look in her eyes.
So I took her out, my magic and shadow entwining in tendrils that went through her. She sucked in a breath, releasing another scream, and I smirked at her as her eyes found me. Then I twisted my magic and shadows inside her before breaking her apart. Kai came over then–in the middle of the carnage of vampires and werewolves with a beast there too–and licked up my face. I laughed and petted him.
“That was my kill, Little Luna. Any other wolf and I might’ve killed you for it.”
“Gotta be quicker than that, Alpha,” I teased, and he shook his head. “Zale and Enzi feel it. Their shadows are getting pretty angry,” Brax interrupted, his voice rough, and I knew it was because the fight was in his blood too. But our twins were a part of us, and they probably felt that too.
I smirked and looked around. The beast was smashing through vampires, the wolves were fighting, Derik was fighting with the council on the opposite side of the wall, and they had almost torn through every vampire. And I wanted to see what my heirs could do.
“Let their shadows go, Brax. Let’s see why Beenie said they were the key,” I whispered, and Brax hesitated, Kai and Derik going tensely silent in the link.
“You sure?”
“Yeah, let their shadows go where they need to, then follow them with yours. If they go where they’re not meant to, tug them back, and I’ll help,” I said in the link, and he let go of his hesitancy.
“Here goes nothing then,” he breathed, then released his hold on their shadows. I felt it as soon as he did.
Their shadows burst from the room, making their way down the stairs, moving quickly through the city. And killing every vampire they touched. Each one dropped, one after the other, as the wolves watched, their awe soaking the link, and I had to admit, I was feeling the same. It was beautiful, the protective instinct in their shadows so clear in their direction. It was so damn powerful. Both of their shadows intertwined into a smoke that only Brax and I could see, but if the others could see, they’d know just how amazing it was. The shadows glowed, like some dark, foreboding thing that I couldn’t turn away from.
It put every single threat down before stopping in front of the beast. It grunted at the shadows before sitting on its haunches. The shadows slid over the beast, and I tensed, thinking they were going to kill him too, but they didn’t. They petted him, covered him like a hug, and I grinned. They seemed to recognize each other, and I knew the beast had been locked in their world, but it was still different to see the interaction between shadows and beast. Especially when those shadows belonged to my children.
“Beenie was right,” I whispered, and Kai rolled his eyes.
“Don’t tell her that. Her ego is big enough.”
“I heard that,” Beenie interrupted, and I laughed; of course, she did. I met the twins’
shadows with my own and soothed them before they retreated back.
“They’re going to be powerful alphas.” Tatum blew out a breath as he came over; he’s back in human form with pants on. I nodded.
“They already are.”
“Good, because those vampires broke in for a reason, and I don’t think it was to test our defenses.”
I turned to him and frowned. “What do you think it was then?”
“To see how we would react, learn what formations we would come at them with.
Information is power, and no one knows that better than Silas. He’s testing us, and we just showed him every card in our deck,” Tatum admitted. I swallowed hard at that because I knew he was right.
We had won the battle, but we had just given Silas exactly what he wanted.
11. The Trap
LORELAI
The wolves were on cleanup duty, the beast was back in the barn, and the twins were settled after feeding and hours of cuddles. But eventually, my alphas needed me.
I went with them, climbing into bed with them. The doors were open, and the cold wind made the netting billow in, but I made no attempt to close them. I knew the craving that rested in Kai’s blood, the desire in Derik’s, and even the lingering heat in Brax’s from being bitten earlier.
I felt it too. As much as I needed sleep, needed to reset after the vampires’ attack, after realizing we had made the wrong moves and given Silas the play he wanted, I needed my alphas more.
I peeled the clothes from my body and went to the bathroom to soak my skin in a vanilla-scented mix my mother had made. I cleansed it of the blood and sex that had made up my day.
Then I climbed into bed with them.
Kai moved in behind me. My arms went around Derik as Brax separated my legs and lay down between them. I didn’t know when it had become such a routine to need the weight and heat of their bodies to relax mine, but I loved every suffocating second of it.
I didn’t know how to sleep alone anymore. They were too ingrained in everything I did, and I knew they felt the same.
I held Derik as he kissed me. His lips pressed against my cheek, my eyelids, my nose, before finding my lips again. Nikolai kissed over my shoulder, my neck, his fingers trailing down my side as Brax teased the inside of my thighs.
It was an addictive kind of pleasure to have three sets of lips all moving over my raised skin, finding the alive nerve endings and exploiting each one.
To have three powerful alphas manipulating my body in the best ways to bring me to the heights of ecstasy I had only ever read about.
They would do anything for me, and I for them. That promise was there in every kiss, every touch, every whisper of their bodies and words across my skin.
It made everything feel that much more intense. It was like I was drowning in a lake with no sensation except the ones they offered me through the lifelines they were. I grasped every single one of them with such a strong grip, it made me ache.
Derik, Braxton, and Nikolai–names I couldn’t forget, names that carried the weight of my entire world, the names of my mates. And I was theirs.
My canines dropped from my aching gums, and I sucked in a breath as their kisses turned feral. Derik’s mouth covered mine in harsh tugs of my lips, his tongue sliding against mine, his taste making me moan.
I held him tighter, my fingers digging into his muscular frame as Kai pressed his hard cock against my ass. He groaned as I moved my hips back against him, teasing his length. Brax’s breath brushed my pussy as I did, and I sucked in a breath, kissing Derik harder.
“You’re mine, Derik. I want everyone to know it,” I whispered against him, and he smiled down at me, running his thumb down my cheek.
“Then show them, beautiful,” he said, turning his head to the side. I didn’t need any more prompting. I blinked, and my teeth were sinking into his neck. It was instantly euphoric, the high right there, sending me spiraling with his taste, his soul right there in my mouth.
It filtered down through my body, and I moaned as his grip on me tightened. He lifted me up, sinking me down on his cock, and I was so damn full in that moment.
He stretched me, his cock swelling inside me, on the edge of painful, but I welcomed it, riding him as my toxin leaked into him. His life source became a part of me, and I got drunk on it.
When I ripped my canines from his skin, I was moving fast on his cock, the high still swirling before I licked over the bite and sent us both spiraling into an intense orgasm.
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