Chapter 106 – Owned by the Alphas Novel Free by Jen Cooper

Filed to story: Owned by the Alphas Novel

That had my eyelids peeling open, my gaze landing on my alphas, all standing there watching.

The purple of the border, just a subtle tinge in the air before, was a vibrant mist around us all. I sucked in a breath, the piercing look from my alphas taking me even higher.

Their magic met mine, and then I felt it all. The pack, the humans, the earth they walked on, the air they breathed, the magic that existed in every part of them.

It was intoxicating, it was beautiful, it was recreating everything inside of me until I was closing my eyes again, falling into the oblivion the magic was providing me with.

Everything fell away. I couldn’t see them or hear them, I could only feel the magic, and it made everything okay.

I didn’t care that my father was being an asshole, I didn’t care about the balance, because I felt the balance and I knew I could get it back.

I was the balance, I was the answer, the question, the solution in those moments, and it was the most powerful I had ever felt.

I breathed through it, preparing to pull my hand back, knowing the border was safe for now.

But a picture flashed in my mind. A young child, shifting into a wolf and running with three strong alphas.

I sucked in a breath. They were running toward me. It wasn’t crystal clear, the edges of the scene faded, but it gave me hope, it felt like hope.

It fell away then, changing to a picture of us on three thrones, me on Derik’s lap, facing the dining hall full of the pack, laughing, eating.

Their joy filled me, their safety, their love and devotion. It was everything I wanted in our future, and I wasn’t sure if it was me telling the border that or the border feeding me the possibility of it.

I so badly wanted it to be the latter.

Then it fell away again, and I sucked in another breath. It was dark and twisted, blood everywhere as I stepped through what I thought used to be my village.

The huts were burned, my mother’s included, the sky angry and full of a brewing storm. I stepped through the carnage, the air strangely silent, unnerving me, and I looked around for my alphas.

But I couldn’t feel them or see them.

I shivered as the cold bit into my bare arms and through my dirty, torn dress, taking my breath away. There was blood all over my clothes. All over my hands.

Panic consumed me and my chest tightened just as snow started falling. I looked up to the sky and the tiny, innocent white puffs of ice fell to the ground, covering the destruction with a deceptive cleanliness and purity.

But it was all a lie. Had I done this? Destroyed the village? I looked around for the answer, but there was nothing, no one. I was alone, and that was the hardest hurt to face.

I shuddered at the possibility of the vision being another future for us.

I padded my freezing feet through the snow and mud. I wasn’t sure why, but I felt like there was something else I had to see. The picture wasn’t fading away like the other ones had; that had to mean something.

I kept walking through the huts, the snow still falling, the cold still biting, and the sky still thundering, the dark aura I felt covering the desecrated village making my stomach turn.

I made it to the middle of the village, where my ceremony had changed my entire life, coming to a stop as that life crumbled away.

Bodies, bloodied and lifeless, lay all over the courtyard, but it was the pale creatures with red eyes and long fangs that stole my breath.

They had blood running from their teeth, over their jaw, down their chests, and their hands were clasped around the women of my village.

Some of the women were undressed, some were fully clothed, but they were all dead. There was no sign of my father’s men.

But it was the woman in Silas’s hand that caught my attention. Her hair was dark and long, her eyes as blue as my own. Her slender frame had been brutalized, her neck pierced by the fangs that now dripped with her blood.

“No,” I whispered, and my heart deflated.

Everything I thought was holding me up, my alphas, my shadows, my magic, fell away at the sight of my mother’s lifeless body in the arms of our enemy.

My fists clenched.

“No!” I cried, and Silas looked up, then fucking grinned and nodded toward the men’s village.

“That’s not all, little winter born. Want to see your alphas’ corpses too?” he said.

I shook my head, the air leaving my chest, the pain so tight and visceral inside me.

And then I was running.

But the scene fell away, and I gasped. The pain still there, but nowhere near as soul-crushing. I had no idea what the vision meant, but I needed to figure it out.

Was that a warning or a probability? Was it the witches telling me the future was already set? Or could I change it?

I needed to know. It was everything in that moment.

I kept my hand against the border, begging for another vision, one that gave me some kind of hope after what I had seen. I didn’t want that to be the thing that took Elias’s place in my nightmares.

My cheeks were sticky and wet with tears I hadn’t known I’d shed, and I wiped them away, taking a deep shuddering breath.

I was still connected to the border when something sharp pierced my face. I yanked away from the magic and spun to find out what it was, wondering how it had gotten through my alphas, who were meant to be standing next to me.

But they weren’t.

They were fighting against Garrett and Taylor, the pack in a circle around them, howling and growling, their paws padding the ground, their anger palpable.

My alphas were circling Garrett and Taylor, who were scowling, eyeing me as I glared back.

Kai had a cut across his cheek, the one I had felt, and my glare hardened on them. I was still alive on magic from the border, and I had no idea what was happening, but I could guess.

A challenge.

I wasn’t sure why I hadn’t heard it or felt it while connected, but I was back now, and I wasn’t a fan of any of them taking advantage of the fact that I was too busy saving their ungrateful asses.

My fingers tingled, the magic brushing my fingers, caressing them, and I knew I could use it.

I was unlocked, my magic and shadows one force now that hated seeing the alphas challenged just as much as I did.

It was the blood dripping down Kai’s cheek that had me stepping toward them. Kai turned his head to me with a smirk.

“It’s okay, Little Human. These two are not a threat. They are about to made an example,” he reassured me, and I hesitated, standing on the edge of the circle, the wolves around me giving me a quick sniff before bowing their heads and moving a little farther back.

I looked down to what they were sniffing, frowning at the small bump that seemed even more visible than before.

But it wasn’t the fact that it had grown that got me, it was the purple mist that hovered around it and the creepy strokes of it against my stomach.

My head was so full of visions and my child that when a feral growl ripped through the air, it gave me a fright.

My head snapped up, and I watched as my three alphas dove on Garrett and Taylor, who both burst into wolf form and snarled back, fighting them.

They were so fast, it was hard for my human eyes to keep up, but I was pretty sure my alphas were making sure the two who had challenged them were never going to make that mistake again.

The mist along my body grew thicker, its caresses stronger, like it was urging me to do something. It didn’t like what was happening. I felt it down to my soul.

I stepped forward, and a wolf stepped in front of me, not in anger but almost protectively, nudging me gently back.

I smiled and gave it a pat on the head, having to reach up to do so. I had no idea who it was, but I felt its loyalty, and that alone had me reassuring it.

Not that I knew the customs when it came to wolves. Did they even like being patted?

I gasped as I was scooped up around the waist. A kiss landed on my mouth, and I felt Kai in it.

He held me close, sliding his tongue along mine as I sighed into him, kissing him back, not caring that he was meant to be fighting with Derik and Brax. I had every faith they could handle Garrett and Taylor.

My magic stirred again at that, and I pulled back. Kai grinned down at me, tracing my forehead with his lips.

“Little Human, your brain is going a million miles a minute. It is distracting me while I make a meal of my betas. Shush your worries for a little while longer.” He kissed me again, and I smirked.

Oops.

He put me down, nodded to the wolf beside me, I think in thanks, then stepped away. He gave me one last look over his shoulder. “And yes, we like it.”

He smirked before he strode toward the four wolves in the clearing. Two on each side. Kai snarled, and they all turned back to human.

“Enough!” Derik boomed, his face twisted into a dominant alpha, darkness clouding his eyes at the betrayal of his betas.

Kai just looked like he was having fun, barely breaking a sweat, while Brax looked just as pissed as Derik. Garrett and Taylor were covered in open gashes and bite marks, blood flowing down them.

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