Filed to story: Owned by the Alphas Novel
“One chance. You have this single moment to back the fuck down,” Brax offered, stepping forward, ready to get back into it if they disagreed.
Their bleeding, bruised faces turned to me, their eyes flashing with hatred. I stepped back, and Kai snarled at them. They flinched but their glare stayed.
“She is our downfall. You have brought Fractum on us, Alphas. If you had chosen a wolf, not a human, as your lover, if you’d played by the rules, then none of this would be happening.
“It’s your fault. You don’t deserve to be our alphas, not when you are looking out for her best interests, not ours,” Taylor warned back.
I let her words process. They pissed my alphas off, but when I thought about it, they were true. Of course the pack would be scared having me there, having all these unknowns suddenly clouding every decision.
Objectively, it did happen when I arrived, but it wasn’t because of me, it was my idiot of a father playing his hand at being the alpha of my race. But from the outside, I supposed it did look a little coincidental.
Derik met my eyes and I could tell he had been listening to my thoughts. He let out a breath, then stood straighter, less confrontational.
“We are not your enemy. At the moment, the humans who are trying to take us out are,” he said, and Taylor shut her mouth until Garett sneered at me.
“She’s human.”
I stepped forward then and shook my head.
“I used to be, but I’m not anymore. I have your toxin in my blood, I have your heir in my stomach, and I have your alphas’ hearts in mine.
“No human can keep the border alive with magic, no human can survive a winter as a baby on their own, and no human can take on a dark winter born and survive,”
I breathed.
A fierce loyalty was growing inside me, to the pack, to my alphas, to the future I had seen–the good one.
I needed to make sure that was the future our child was born for, not the other one, and the magic that swirled through me told me it was by keeping the pack together that I was going to do that.
They couldn’t fight each other, they couldn’t doubt each other, they had to stay strong. I had to make the others see that.
I went to stand in front of Taylor and Garrett, somehow knowing what I needed to do. Kai and Brax came closer, tense as anything but letting me do this. Derik hung back, seeing everything on the edges.
I was grateful for their protection, but I wasn’t sure I needed it, not with Taylor and Garrett keeping quiet.
They flinched when I grabbed their hands but they didn’t yank them away, their eyes meeting Kai’s before going back to me.
I let the magic guide me, let it tell me what to do, because without it, I had no idea.
And even then, I was kind of winging it, hoping that what I had to say was going to be enough to make them see the future I saw.
It was pure happiness, everything we all wanted for the pack and everything I wanted for our future.
“We’re weaker when we fight each other. I can promise you, the alphas only want what is best for all of us. When they look after the pack’s best interests, I’m included in that, and so are you. We all are, together.
“I know it sounds like bullshit, but what I just saw at the border was not. Look, maybe I don’t know what I’m talking about, maybe I’m just the alphas’ toy, as you so eloquently put it, but I do know that the entire time you were fighting each other, the magic I was just given was going crazy, wanting me to stop it.”
“It doesn’t want you doing that to each other, and neither do I. Why should we be the ones bleeding? Why should the wolves pay the price for the humans’ choice?” I breathed, anger lacing my words as I thought of what my father had done and what it was going to bring down.
I wouldn’t let him win, but I had to make sure that I wasn’t fighting the wolves too.
I wanted to fight with them, against the ones who had done this. We needed every wolf focused on that.
Garrett stepped back, pulling his hand from mine slowly, his face frowning hard as he looked over me. His eyes settled on my stomach, then went back up.
“You mean that,” he stated, frowning like he didn’t understand it.
I nodded, then looked at Taylor. She pursed her lips, her throat swallowing the bitter pill of letting me in.
I had a feeling that bitterness was more than just because we were being targeted by humans though. I got the distinct impression it had everything to do with how good Kai’s cock felt.
Kai let out a booming laugh behind me and stepped forward, kissing my cheek before grabbing my hand and pulling me over to the border. Derik and Brax stood on either side of me and the pack turned to us, watching, their wolf forms huge and dominating the clearing.
“She’s your luna now, wolves, and when you bow to us, you bow to her too. Either you accept it or we keep ripping each other apart so the humans don’t have to,”
Derik announced, and a ripple went through the pack.
As it did, they bowed.
Row by row, the wolves bowed their heads, until it got to Taylor and Garrett.
They hesitated a second before Garrett dropped to his knee, hanging his head low.
Taylor clenched her jaw before the fight left her eyes and she dropped too.
The ripple came back, dousing us in the unity of the movement, and I grinned, hope filling my chest. We needed this. We needed to be a pack, not parts of one.
I rubbed my stomach, the flutters a little stronger, the magic sinking into my skin, the purple mist covering the border. It was strong, it would hold, and I had some of the power it held.
My father stood no chance. I wasn’t sure what had given him the confidence to think he did, but it was a mistake he wasn’t going to get a chance to regret because my family was kneeling in front of me.
He was nothing but a dead man walking.
“Let us claim you, Spitfire. In front of our pack,” Brax whispered, coming up behind me, his face nuzzling in my neck, his teeth grazing my skin.
I let out a breath, tilting my head to the side, giving him access. “Do it,” I breathed, just before his teeth pierced my skin.
11. The Arrow
LORELAI
Brax’s canines bit down into my neck, and I sighed at the immediate connection that burned through me.
It took me over–the wolves, the alphas, the magic all stormed my body, creating some kind of euphoric storm that kept my eyes closed and my soul open, absorbing everything it could.
Brax’s growl radiated through me just before Kai’s hands caressed down my body.
His skin on mine was electrifying, sending my nerves into some kind of frenzy, making the storm swirl that much faster.
I moaned as he tore my skirts from my legs.
So many beautiful dresses had been destroyed by my alphas, but this one was the one I least cared about losing because I could feel the pack’s eyes on me. Watching the alphas claim me in front of them.
Not in a sexual way, which I probably would have taken too, but in a wolf way. They were openly making me a part of them, and the wolves were accepting it. That made the experience that much more intoxicating.
Kai danced his fingers over my leg before gripping my thigh and sinking his canines into the bite he had previously given me.
I cried out, my legs almost giving out at the intensity of the pleasure that filled me.
Derik held me up, his arm encircling my waist as Brax’s hand yanked my hair out of the way, sending my head to the side so he had more access to my flesh.
Kai’s toxin filled me at the same time, and I gripped his hair in my fist, my mouth falling open.
Derik met the movement, kissing me hard, his teeth grazing my lip as he released the toxin directly onto my tongue.
I expected it to taste gross, to be some kind of poison that I would want to spit back out, but it was the exact opposite.
It was some kind of sweet cedar and seduction combination that made my heart race and body hot.
I sighed against Derik, pulling him as close as I could, heat pooling between my thighs as everything within me grew desperate for more.
The sweet taste on my tongue had me sliding it against Derik’s, chasing the high with him as Kai licked over his bite, his rough tongue driving so close to my core that I was sure I was about to get eaten out in front of the entire pack.
I wasn’t opposed. Not when my body was wound so tight from toxin and power.
Brax’s tongue stroked along my neck, and I tore my lips from Derik’s to meet Brax in a kiss that made me shudder against them all.
And then the pack was howling into the night, ripping us from our connection. My alphas growled and stood in front of me.
The cold air of night broke through the desperate heat within me and I shivered, wrapping my arms around myself, my eyes darting around the clearing.
The torch lamps were lit but each one began going out, and my heart raced.
“What’s going on?” I whispered.
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