Filed to story: Owned by the Alphas Novel
He would get his own justice.
I looked over the group of humans, inspecting their leather vests and the armor they wore. It wasn’t stuff I had seen before, some metal sculpting with a Valarian crest on it because my father was that egotistical.
A scream pierced the air, and I grimaced at the sound, turning away from it, my eye catching on the wrist of one of the humans.
I frowned and stepped forward, the small marking that was on the man’s skin glowing.
“What the hell?” I said out loud as I yanked his sleeve back and found an X there. A red, glowing, throbbing ~X~.
“Cain?” I asked in my mind, able to reach him thanks to the magic he used on the potions he gave me.
It wasn’t a strong link or one he let me tap into whenever I wanted, but he must have sensed my urgency because he opened the door in his mind.
“What is this?” I asked, and showed him through my eyes the red marks, checking every wrist, every single one of them wearing it.
It was magic, something the humans shouldn’t have access to or be able to use.
~”Lorelai, run! Get away from them!” he screamed, getting my attention away from the marks just in time for explosions to go off in the clearing, for my alphas to call my name through the chaos, for the bodies on the cart to explode right in front of me.
29. The Demon
BRAX
The rain pelted down over my bare skin, my chest puffing as fury filled me.
The sky was gray, dark, and angry, just like the pack. It infiltrated everything, sizzling between everything as thunder boomed and lightning cracked. It was what I needed.
My shadows riled inside me, and I grinned at my next target. I ran toward the tree where a human hid, launching poison arrows at my pack.
The taste of that poison polluted my tongue and I roared, running up the tree, my claws sinking into the bark and launching me onto the branch with the human.
It shook it enough that his next arrow fell and he gasped, backing up against the thick trunk behind him.
He yanked a sword out of the sheath at his hip, and I edged forward. My packmates fought better as wolves, but my shadows fed my human side, and that made me much more lethal in that form.
Maybe the man thought that was not the case, but he had never faced a wolf like me. I was pissed at the scar they had left on my shoulder, the wound that had taken strength from me and the mage keeping my girl and baby alive.
I wasn’t a fan of the humans at the best of times, but now? I hated them. Everything that made them human made me angry. Especially when they had their sights set on destroying my life and my family.
I inched forward and growled, my canines extending, flashing my red eyes at him.
He shivered, his hold on his sword wavering as I grinned.
“Quick and easy means you stay right where you are and don’t fight the fate you have been given.
“If you fight, if you strike back, I will choose the hard way and make sure you feel every single second of the breaths leaving your body,” I warned, still slowly getting closer, the blood in my veins boiling higher, my rage trying to break out, my shadows hissing as I did.
He narrowed his eyes on me, strengthening his pose.
“Wolves will die at human hands before the moon is full. Humans will be victors, riches and spoils for all,” he said, and I frowned at the words.
They sounded rehearsed, like they were not his own, and there was only one creature in this godforsaken Fractum realm who would say them like that.
“Not for you though,” I said, crouching so the tip of his sword reached my chest.
“It is prophesied.”
“The humans are fools. Prophecies in this realm are given by a creature with a single interest at heart. Themselves.
“And they will lead you all to your deaths. Kind of like now,” I warned, and he seemed to take that just as seriously as his prophecy.
He shook, and I took the opportunity. I grabbed his sword, yanking it out of his hand at the hilt so the poison touched nothing, and threw it down.
It landed on the ground, sinking into the mossy earth as I grinned up at my new plaything.
He started praying, crossing over his chest, but his god would not save him now.
Not when I had the fury of Fractum within me and the rain of my people sinking into my skin.
Then Cain pulled tight on the pack link and I scowled, turning to the direction he was focused on.
Lorelai.
I pinned my human into the tree with my claws at his throat, then turned to her.
Our link had confusion and wariness in it. I frowned and watched as she turned the arms of each human she had piled on a wooden cart.
“What’s she doing?” I asked to any of the alphas.
They were busy with the humans, bathing in their blood, especially Kai, unleashing the Fractum demons that whispered at us constantly.
Derik spared a glance, regretting it when he was hauled back by three humans. He bit each one, tearing them off him before they could get their blades into him.
I snapped my head to Lorelai as Cain’s tug got stronger, more urgent. I never let him fully in, but this time I knew I had to. Something was wrong.
I let him in just as he screamed at Lorelai to run, and the human chuckled. I ripped my claws through his throat, then jumped just as the cart of humans exploded in front of her.
“No!” I roared, then threw out my shadows. They caught her just before the fire touched her, but the distance was making it hard to keep them there.
I ran as fast as I ever had as her body flew back, aiming for a thick tree that I knew would hurt like a bitch if she hit.
But my shadows were holding the explosion back; I didn’t have enough in me to grab her too.
I ran faster, the rain pelting me, doing nothing against the fire that fought my darkness. The flames pushed like they were possessed, aiming for her, like they were alive and had a single purpose.
I would not let them reach her.
Sweat beaded over my forehead, my breath misting as the rain mixed with it down my body.
I shook as my shadows tried to back down, to forfeit, but I didn’t let them back to me, keeping them against the fire like a wall.
And then I was there, reaching her. I kicked off a thick tree root and leapt into the air, catching her from behind just before she hit the tree.
My back crashed into it, the wood cracking and groaning as I did, my head hitting it with a thud.
Pain ricocheted in my mind and I groaned, shaking as I struggled against the fire that fought against the shadows.
But she was there, in my arms. Safe. She clutched me, her arms around my neck as I held her tight to my soaked body. Hers was too, but she was alive, and that was all I cared about.
“You okay?” I breathed as she opened her eyes that had clenched shut.
She blinked a few times, looking around, then up at my wall of shadows that were being burned and penetrated by the fire throwing punches like it was just as determined to win as I was.
“This is not normal,” she whispered, and I shook my head.
“Something powerful is helping these humans, and that fire is part of that.”
“The humans had red X s on their wrists,” she said, standing up slowly as I did.
We both looked toward the wall of fire, which was too close for comfort, the heat inching closer as my shadows buckled.
“The witches can’t interfere. This makes no sense,” I bit, then looked over to where the pack was, not sure why the hell Kai and Derik hadn’t raced over yet.
But they were surrounded by fire too. The lifeless bodies they had created had exploded as well, and the fire was burning its way to ours.
They were screaming orders, piling rocks and dirt, but the fire ate it all.
“We have to get out of here,” I said, knowing we couldn’t keep this thing at bay without help.
We needed backup, we needed the elders too–the ones that could still shift.
“We can’t. This will burn through the entire forest until it reaches the city,” Lorelai said, then stepped forward.
I grabbed her wrist to stop her getting closer, but my shadows stole my breath, begging to come back.
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