Filed to story: Owned by the Alphas Novel
Cain grabbed me from Kai, pulling me back as the humans came at us. I was not running though.
I tugged my magic and poured it out, suffocating the humans with it as Cain tried to join, but he coughed hard, then collapsed.
“Cain,” I snapped, but he was on his hands and knees, breathing hard until he fell to the cobblestones, his nose bleeding, his eyes closed.
“Fuck. Derik!” I called, and he tried to get to me, but the humans were not letting them through.
I covered Cain in my magic, trying to feed it to him as my alphas defended me with Galen, but there was only so much they could cover.
“Lorelai!”
My brother’s voice screamed, and I turned to it just as he sped in front of me, protecting me from a human with his sword raised.
Lucas tore his throat out with his teeth, sucking him dry until he slumped to the ground. I stood up, blinking hard at what Lucas really was.
He grabbed a napkin from his pocket and wiped the blood from his lip. “Apologies.”
“No, don’t be sorry. Thank you,” I said, standing up as Brax reached me finally.
He was breathing hard, blood spatter over his face and chest. He looked between me, Lucas, and the dead guy before giving Lucas a begrudging nod.
“What happened?” he asked, looking at Cain.
“He collapsed. Used too much,” I said, and he nodded.
“I’ll get my shadows to take him back to the mansion. Are you okay?” he asked, his shadows already holding Cain up and taking his body away.
I nodded, my stomach a little tight and aching, but that was usual, so I turned to the others.
“There’s too many of them,” I whispered, my magic taking out one at a time, the hesitation of it growing tighter.
It wanted to stay inside me this time, and I couldn’t coerce more out of it. It was stretched, so I wasn’t going to be much help.
“Then we go for the head of the snake,” Kai growled over the fighting as Brax shoved humans back, swiping and blading them until they were warded back.
“My father,” I said, and met Lucas’s eyes, anger coiling through me as he grinned.
“Our father,” he said, holding my hand.
I looked up at him and nodded. “We have to get to him.”
“Then let’s show these humans that their poison cannot take us down.”
We grinned at each other before we did everything we could.
I took out one after the other with my magic, Lucas sucked them dry, Derik, Kai, and Brax ripped through them.
But we were only making small dents at a time. They were still coming, and I was getting more and more tired, my magic collapsing as I tried to use it.
Galen grabbed a head and ripped it off a set of shoulders, and I winced away. He was still aloof, but his eyes were stern. Like usual.
My stomach tightened, aching and piercing my concentration, and I grabbed at it, sucking in a breath.
I had to get my heart rate under control or the baby was going to turn inside me, I had to get it together, but the pain was harsh as I breathed and clenched my eyes shut, leaning on Galen.
He frowned down at me, tugging me behind my alphas for protection. “You shouldn’t be here,” he said, looking between me and my stomach.
“I’m starting to think the same thing,” I breathed, clutching his shoulder tightly.
His eyes flickered, and I gasped, stepping back.
“My control is very tentative, and it is slipping. You need to go,” he muttered, and I nodded. “Go to your mother. I have shown her everything, she will help get those under control until we can be there.”
I frowned. “No, I’m not in labor, I’m just in pain. I–“
Another stab of pain in my stomach hit me, and I clenched my jaw shut, the ache bringing tears to my eyes. “I just need to control my emotions so he doesn’t turn.”
Galen shook his head. “Go, little luna, our heir is ready,” he said, then straightened slowly.
“I’ll take her,” my brother said, and Galen stared at him for a long second before his eyes switched to bright orange, yellow, and red in a vibrant mix that looked…
hungry.
Lucas tugged me back, and I sucked in a breath as Galen shook. He grew taller, his body breaking through the confines of his fitted clothes.
“Kai!” I called, getting him out of the way of Galen, who roared as he broke into his wolf.
Or beast. He was huge, the biggest wolf I had ever seen, his coat a stunning silvery color that looked as threatening as it was beautiful.
“Fuck, get out of his way, go for her father!” Derik ordered, and they moved, opening up.
The humans went to attack, take the opening, but Galen bellowed out a roar that felt like an earthquake beneath my feet before taking them out like they were nothing.
He chomped and howled, snarling and bashing like a teething toddler that couldn’t find something it wanted to soothe the ache.
I watched in fascination when another ache rolled over me, and my knees almost gave in, the pain intensifying.
Derik’s head snapped to me at the same moment as Brax’s did, their eyes filling with worry. I broke from Lucas and went to Derik, who kissed me, holding my face.
“Galen will clear the way, we will end your father, and then we will be there, understand?” he said, but I shook my head.
“No, I don’t want to go, I want to be here with you when it happens, then we do this together. I can hold it off until then,” I said, not sure if that was true.
“What’s going on? Was she hurt?” Kai said, puffing, looking over me.
“It’s started. He’s ready,” Derik said, eyeing my stomach, and I shook my head.
“No, I’m fine, I’m not ready.” I panicked, but Kai pulled me into him.
“Be back in a sec, Little Human, I’ve got a granddaddy to kill and then we’ll do this together,” he said, then eyed my father.
He was still on his horse, glowering at Galen, who was turning his people into chew toys with little to no effort, watching as the pack moved our way to cover our flanks.
Kai aimed his sword at my father, the tip pointed at him. My father eyed the sword, then grinned and beckoned Kai forward in a challenge.
Kai roared before charging. My father drew his sword too, but Kai was quicker, landing on the horse behind my father, who sucked in a breath.
Kai knelt down behind him, yanking his head back, the sword at his throat.
“Last words?” Kai taunted, and I let go of Derik’s and Brax’s hands to hold my stomach, refusing to wince or react to another contraction assaulting my body.
It hurt like hell, but I had to handle it. He couldn’t see what was happening.
But my mistake was letting go of my alphas’ hands because within a second, I was being yanked backward by a scent I recognized and a blade was being pressed against my stomach.
Kai snarled, his eyes meeting mine as a tear slipped down my cheek. Derik and Brax turned, both of them going to step forward.
“Ah, ah, ah. Another step and you can say goodbye to your heir.” Vaughn grinned like a crazy person.
My alphas froze and Galen stormed over, huffing and clawing the ground, his muzzle covered in blood.
“Vaughn. My little spy.” My father grinned.
I clenched my jaw. No. Vaughn couldn’t be the spy because I would’ve sensed the lie. Something was off, wrong. It didn’t make sense.
“My king. Now Nikolai, you are going to take that blade off his throat, get down, and step back,” he said, and Kai hesitated before doing exactly that, glaring the entire time.
My father jumped down from his horse, not caring that the blood of his army splattered his leather boots, bodies covering the space between his side and mine.
“Bring her here,” he ordered, and Vaughn shoved me toward my father, who was grinning, holding his sword in his sheath like he had all the power.
Maybe he did, but he was not going to make it out of the city alive. He could not have my life threatened and leave. My alphas wouldn’t allow it.
I tried to push some magic out so I could get myself away, but the second I did, another contraction had me arching against Vaughn’s hold on me.
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