Filed to story: Owned by the Alphas Novel
I wanted to throw my magic up and stop the vamps from getting in, but I knew I couldn’t. Not when Silas was this close. I needed all my magic.
After the spell and the extraction of the wolfsbane at the lake, I was already pushing it. And I had no idea what exertion I could use without hurting the baby.
Cain said that was most likely why I had passed out at the lake.
My body was telling me not to take any more from the baby.
Which was still a hard concept to grasp. I held my stomach again, feeling the telling flutter in there. Wolves birthed quicker than humans; I knew that, but it was still strange to think that I was carrying again. If I listened really hard, I was sure I could hear the heartbeat. Or perhaps that was hope.
Either way, I held onto it and let it fuel the need in me to protect the ones I loved.
They were my family, and Silas did not get to take them from me. I watched with narrowed eyes at every wolf I could, intervening only when it was life and death.
There were a lot of almosts.
They drew on my magic already to stay shifted, and normally that didn’t matter, but I felt it now. It was a weariness in me that I normally didn’t have. But I stayed strong, feeding them what I could while still keeping a reserve.
It was hard not to do more, to stand back and watch while the vampires tried to tear down everything. They succeeded half the time, and it was infuriating.
But the wolves were strong, and they had been training, fighting together for long enough to hold the invaders back. I watched in awe as their powerful beasts took over, fighting in cohesion together.
The pack link was steady, holding strong as the Alphas told their pack where to go, what to do, and when to pull back while still watching everyone’s back. They were true Alphas tonight, and I finally got to see what that meant.
It meant they were leaders. They saw everything, were everything, and looked after every wolf no matter what. It was all-inclusive, moving as a team, as a family. I felt that swell inside me as they fought so damn well.
The vampires were still too many, and the calls were close, but the wolves didn’t care. They were savages, using their base instincts to methodically take down every threat.
And then the humans arrived, and everything shifted. The dynamic changed, but not for the worse. Instead, there was camaraderie.
My mom was on Galen, throwing her potions and powders as he roared and stomped on the vamps that got too close.
Ryleigh was right there too. She went straight to Derik’s flank, fighting close to him, protecting his back as Vaughn had hers. I smiled, and my eyes went to Brax. He was on the other side.
He was meant to have a team of rogues with him. I frowned and looked beyond the city. The rogues should be on their way, and once they got there, we would have more of a chance. The numbers would even out.
The pack just had to survive until then.
But as I looked around, my proud face started falling.
The vampires were different. They had stopped going for the mansion, stopped destroying, stopped going for the wolves. They wanted the humans.
“The bloodlust,” I whispered.
The vampires changed into monsters. Not regal-looking creatures with lithe bodies and waif-like movements. No, they were vicious. They moved faster, their eyes red.
They tore at everything with their teeth.
They screeched so loud, my ears rang as they tried to get to the humans. The wolves moved to protect them, but a bloodlust-infected vampire was strong. Stronger than a wolf.
Fear prickled along my skin, raising the hair on the back of my neck. My stomach dropped, my heart clenching. I sucked in a breath, my eyes blurring with tears as the first human died.
“No!” I screamed, but my voice didn’t carry in the still night. And it was too late.
The human’s blood went everywhere, and the vampires’ switch was flipped.
They were inconsolable raging messes that my wolves could barely hold back.
My eyes were wide, my throat clogged as the tears fell. How could we win? Our numbers were low, our strength fading, our morale shifting. All leading to the inevitable death of humans.
They couldn’t be here.
“Send the humans back!” I screamed in the link. I sobbed as the vampires tore at Galen, trying to get to my mom. Mom sliced at them, throwing her weapons, but they were running low.
My magic tingled at my fingertips, and I gritted my teeth, trying to rationalize against using it.
“Don’t. We can handle this,” Derik grunted, sinking his teeth into another vampire and throwing him away. The vampire snarled and hissed, then came running back, bleeding out. Derik ripped him apart, making sure he didn’t try again.
“What if you can’t?” I cried, looking at the reality with my own eyes. Could they not see it? Or was he just saying what he thought I needed to hear?
Because the odds were shit. And I had the power literally at my fingertips.
“Save it for Silas,” Brax said, wrapping his shadows around a vamp and squeezing it into ash.
I knew he was right. Silas hadn’t appeared yet, but I knew he was there. He was watching the same bullshit war as I was. He was watching the wolves lose.
I couldn’t just watch though.
“Little Luna,” Kai warned. He knew what I was going to do. He knew I had no other choice.
All of them knew I was terrible at listening too.
I let go of my magic. It burst out of me, pouring like a waterfall down to the city and flooding it with purple. I let out a sigh of relief as the pressure inside me broke.
My magic had needed to help too. It wanted revenge for the whole kidnapping thing as much as I did. Maybe that was the problem though. It was feeding off what I felt. I tried not to, but I couldn’t help it.
My magic rushed and suffocated every damn vampire it came across. They dropped one by one, and I grinned.
The wolves were going to be okay. So were the humans. My family was safe.
I swayed, falling against the wall. I blinked hard as my head swam.
Fuck.
I yanked my magic back to me. It sulked about it, the bitterness still in it, but it came back to me, retreating just as fast as it had come out.
It snapped back into me, and I leaned against the wall, breathing hard as nausea swirled inside me. Sweat dampened my skin, and I held my knees. I took long, slow breaths, trying to stop the disorientation.
I had only just got my head back from its threatening blackout when my shadows hissed. They squirmed and writhed around the twins. I ran over, and the twins were wide-eyed. Their shadows were leaking too.
My skin tingled as his scent hit me.
A damp earth smell with a poison tang to it.
Silas.
I sucked in a breath, wrapping my shadows tighter around the twins. My eyes scanned the room, locking on the door as it slowly swung open.
My heart raced so fucking fast, I stepped in front of the twins’ crib, narrowing my eyes on the door.
Silas came into the room, his steps slow and calculated. He wore a smug grin, his eyes red and beady.
“Well, well, well. What do we have here?”
39. The Vampire
LORELAI
“Silas,” I said on a tight breath. He smirked and walked further into the room. I didn’t move, standing in front of the twins, my shadows still protecting them.
Silas moved slowly, circling me. With every step, he made me more nervous. One wrong movement and he would spring. And I would take him out with my magic.
It may be weaker than it had been a minute ago, but it was still there, and it wanted Silas just as much as I did. It tingled at my fingertips, burning inside me as it churned, getting ready.
“You knew I was coming,” he said with a smirk.
I nodded. “Yes.”
Zale and Enzi whined behind me, their shadows tense and leaking. I kept their shadows with mine, holding them back. We had to wait for our moment, for him to show his move.
I was almost certain he would attack, but I had to wait for that moment to make sure I caught his movements. Otherwise, he’d be gone before I could get him, and so would the twins.
“I heard congratulations are in order,” he said, nodding to my stomach.
I narrowed my eyes on him. I had only just found that out. How did he know?
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