Filed to story: Owned by the Alphas Novel
I still had a very low range of movement and needed to take it easy. I wasn’t headstrong enough to defy doctor’s orders when it came to this baby.
Galen had agreed with Cain: no strenuous activity, including sex, until the baby was out. And with the pain that came in bursts along my stomach every day, I was guessing that would be soon.
Kai looked to Brax, who had me curled into him.
“You’ll need my shadows,” he bit, shaking a little as he tried to hold back the anger that polluted our link.
“Then I’ll get her back.” My brother stepped forward, and Kai snarled, forcing him back.
“You are not to be left alone with her,” Kai said, and I sighed.
“You both want to go fight, so go. Help the pack. My brother will get me back,” I said, my uneasiness toward him just because he was a vampire not outweighing the fact that I needed to get back.
“I don’t trust him either, Spitfire. Our shadows don’t bristle because he is a vamp, they do it to warn us not to trust him,” Brax said lowly for me to hear, and I shrugged.
“Either you let him take me back or one of you do it. There are no other options here,” I bit back, and they looked at each other, my brother holding his hand out.
I shrugged out of my alpha’s hold and took Lucas’s hand.
“I’ll link you when I’m back safe. Go,” I said, blowing them a kiss before taking off with Lucas, who walked as fast as my pregnant waddle could go, keeping our way lit with his torch.
A second later my alphas’ howls ripped through the air, and then they were in the fight. I could feel it in our link, the tug on our strength.
They couldn’t turn, none of them could, and I hated that I couldn’t help.
I had magic, but Cain didn’t think I should use it on the humans. Not until we knew what their magic was.
We had no idea what protection they had thanks to their magic ace card, so if I used it on them and it was a trap, it could siphon completely out of me. It could bring the border down fully or take out the wolves too.
It was just too unpredictable and risked too much, so I had to let my wolves do what they did best–protect us all.
“You okay?” Lucas asked as I held my stomach, walking fast, breathing hard.
The aches and pains were normal but made moving fast a little unrealistic. I nodded anyway and urged my swollen feet forward. So sexy.
Pregnancy was not the dream my mother had made it, although I don’t think being pregnant with a werewolf was what she’d had in mind when she had said it.
“I’m okay, just get us back. I don’t know if the humans in the mansion know. We told them once they hear that howl, they need to prepare just in case, so we’ll see if they listened,” I huffed.
He smiled and nodded. “You have given the humans something they were never going to get from Father,” he said, no effort at all in his pace, holding a lot of my weight without so much as a wince.
“Like safety, warmth, and food? Or do you mean the ability to protect themselves, say no, and have control over their own bodies?” I smirked, and he grinned.
“All of the above, little sister.”
“We’re twins. I am not your little sister.”
“I was born first,” he teased, leading us around the streets.
I knew what he was doing. He was distracting me from the fighting sounds that tore through the night, bouncing off city walls to reach my ears.
Or he was distracting me from the pain, but that was all internal and not as easily ignored.
“Do you like being a vampire?” I asked, changing subjects as we turned a corner.
He shrugged. “It’s not awful like I thought it would be. Silas is a good mentor.”
I rolled my eyes at that. His judgment on mentors had a horrible track record.
As the thought filtered through my brain, so did something else. A flash of an image.
The one I’d had at the border, the vampires that destroyed everything, the blood, the lifeless bodies of the humans and my alphas, Silas with blood down his fangs, wearing a grin.
I gasped and yanked my hand from Lucas’s, a shiver taking over me. My magic spurred inside of me, coiling through every place, demanding to be let out, to stop the vision from happening.
Lucas frowned and went to step forward, but I stepped back. Was it him? Or was it because he had mentioned Silas?
“What happened?” Lucas asked. “We have to get to the mansion. It isn’t safe here, sister.”
I shook my head. My shadows and my magic were all whispering inside me, showing me what I had to do.
I turned to find the grass and soil that ran along the cobblestone path. I stepped onto it and bent down, purple mist leaking from my hands, swirling around me, ready to do what it needed.
I had never felt so connected to it. Like listening to what it wanted was what it had been trying to get me to do the whole time.
Like trusting it, letting it in had made controlling it as easy as breathing.
“What are you doing?” Lucas asked, his body hovering over mine.
“Fixing it,” I breathed, then closed my eyes and sank my hands into the ground, letting my magic guide everything I did.
I knew my alphas wanted me to keep it inside and I knew Cain was not sure what would happen, but something, a craving deep inside me, told me I could do it, I could help, and the border magic wanted me to.
I had to trust it. It had been good to me so far, lived in my body for weeks without hurting me or the baby. I had to believe it would help me now.
So, I let it out.
It was electric in my veins, livening everything as it went, seeking the darkness of the souls that attacked us.
It found them.
I knew when my magic had a grip on a human hurting my wolves because the screams broke through the fighting.
I hadn’t wanted to kill the humans last time, but because I was protecting my precious feelings, they had exploded in my face.
I wasn’t letting another trick like that get to me or my wolves. I took them out.
One after the other, the humans dropped, my magic reaching up from the ground, finding their dark, infected souls and ending them in a swift crack of the neck, my magic consuming the souls before they could be released.
I felt every single one add to the collective of my magic.
It was intoxicating and compulsive, an urge that made me keep going, moving around the wolves’ feet, avoiding them as they fought the humans until it found the next soul to consume.
A single thought in my head wondered whether that would feed dark magic within me, but as soon as it added to my magic, it disappeared into it, joining it, not tainting it, and I was convinced I was doing the right thing.
My magic filled me with warmth, like that trust in it made it happy, and it moved faster to eradicate the threat.
It moved and killed until it was only the wolves left. Then it hovered, and I frowned, slowly standing from the soil, the purple mist covering every path through the city.
My body was so full, the overdose strong, thanks to the souls, but I was guessing that was why the magic was retreating. It knew I couldn’t take that much inside me.
I grinned and looked around as my brother stood tense as hell with wide eyes.
“What the hell have they turned you into?” he demanded, and I shrugged.
“What I need to be,” I said, and rolled my hand through the mist, heading away from the mansion toward the wolves.
Lucas grabbed my wrist. “No, Lorelai. We must go to the mansion,” he growled, and tried to tug me, but my magic swirled over his grasp on me and released his fingers painlessly.
He frowned at it, then stepped back.
“No, I don’t. I get it now, what I am meant to do. It’s telling me to trust it, and I do.” I grinned, and my heart swelled.
My alphas were freaking out with worry, running to find me, but they didn’t need to. I could fix it all.
Lucas followed me as I moved through the mist toward the east wall, finding my alphas running at me two streets over.
Kai ran into me, picking me up in his arms, spinning me like I wasn’t overly pregnant. He brought me down, grinning and kissing me.
“You weren’t meant to use your magic,” he breathed, and I grinned.
“Yes, I was. Don’t you see? It was putting pressure on me, not too much, just enough to warn me. It wanted to help, and it needed me to let it,” I said.
He looked for the lie in my eyes, then he kissed me again.
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