Filed to story: Owned by the Alphas Novel
Kai sighed and looked toward the door, frowning as he heard what I already sensed.
The vampires were getting closer.
If they got close enough, they would sense us. Not to mention that any minute, someone could discover we were gone and let the hive mind know to hunt us down.
If we were still in the castle when that happened, we were more than fucked. We were dead.
“Fine,” Kai bit out, then moved over to the window. “But I’ll jump first. I’ll shift mid-air and catch you on me so you don’t hit the ground.”
I raised a brow at him. “You haven’t shifted in a while, and it’s winter. My magic only just came in again; are you sure you can shift fast enough to catch me?” I asked.
His hesitation made me tense.
He peered over the window again, then nodded. “Yeah.”
I was about to answer him when my magic flared, burning me, warning me.
“Fuck, they sensed us,” I snarled, as the vampires raced toward the room we were in. Not just one or two of them–all of them.
Kai’s eyes widened a second before he ran at the door and shoved himself against it. Just as he did, it tried to open. He growled and held it closed against the ferocious banging and hissing on the other side.
“Go!” Kai snapped at me, nodding toward the window as he held the door. I looked between the open window and him, struggling with the door. No way was I fucking leaving him.
“Don’t you dare, Little Luna. I’ll hold them off; you get the fuck out,” he ordered.
I shook my head, smirking at him.
“Not a chance, psycho. Would you leave me?” I countered. Kai narrowed his eyes; we both knew he wouldn’t.
“It’s not the same,” he grunted, as the vampires grew more vicious, bashing harder to get in past Kai’s body barricade.
I grabbed his chin, then kissed his lips softly, walling the heat away behind my determination. “You are my mate as much as I am yours. I protect what is mine, Kai,” I said, then turned to the door.
I reached out and put my hand on it.
“Get ready to run and jump,” I said, my magic glowing from my hand against the door. “And turn if you think you can,” I added. Kai went to argue, but something in my expression stopped him. Instead, he nodded once and looked toward the window.
“Ready?” I asked. He nodded, still eyeing the window, leaning against the door with his back, his hands on the heavy wood.
The room had a huge bed to the left, but it was the only thing in there, which left a clear shot to the window. That meant I should make it in time before the next wave of vamps took over. As long as my plan worked.
“Good,” I said, looking toward the door with narrowed eyes. “Go!” I cried out.
Kai moved fast, running at the window and jumping forward as I screamed and let my magic explode from me. The purple mist turned into a ribbon of lethal magic that wove through every vamp that tried to get to me. Each one went down.
One by one, my magic stole the energy from them. I wasn’t sure if they were dead, just like I hadn’t been in my connection with Silas, but just like then, I wasn’t sticking around to find out.
I ran past the bodies of vamps, my magic happily swooning inside me as I fed it.
Then I flung myself out of the broken window. Kai hadn’t fit, but I shouldn’t have expected him to; the guy was huge.
I sailed through the air, turning back to the window, throwing my magic at it. My magic latched onto the window pane and created a mini border. The next wave of vampires ran straight into it.
I laughed.
Then I realized I was falling to my death. I probably should have climbed down the cliff first.
Too late. I turned my body mid-air, gasping when I saw Kai passed out on the grass.
He hadn’t turned.
Fuck.
I smashed into the ground, taking the brunt of the fall on my shoulder. I heard the pop before I felt it.
It fucking hurt.
I tumbled over the ground, my shoulder the pivot point, before crashing onto my stomach. I groaned as I rolled onto my back, holding my limp shoulder. I couldn’t feel my arm properly, and pain streaked across my collarbone and chest where it pulled.
“Kai,” I said through my clenched jaw as I looked over at his still body. It was moving, which meant he was still breathing. But there was no way I could carry his big ass body as we ran from the vamps.
The vampires were bashing at my magical border against the windows. It was slowly wearing me down, especially since all I could feel was pain. So much aching and heaviness in me. It almost had me blacking out, but I refused to let it.
I yanked on my shadows, and they helped me shuffle over to Kai, giving me the strength to scramble to my feet so I could turn him with one hand.
“Kai.” I shook him.
“Little Luna,” he huffed out, then his eyes slowly opened. It took him a second to get his bearings, then his eyes widened.
“Fuck!” he cried out, then sat up. I moved back, wincing as the blinding pain in my shoulder got worse. The border weakened, and a vamp tore through it. I made my magic eat him.
Well, knock him out, but it really felt like the magic was consuming him. That made me happy, and the magic.
What didn’t make me happy was the fact that I could feel the vampires drawing closer. They knew that we had gone out the window and we were in the valley on the other side of the castle.
There were also other exits out of the castle, which meant they could still get to us. I hadn’t bargained on having to run directly from the vamps; I was hoping to have the distraction for a little bit longer, but luck was not on my side.
“You’re hurt,” he gritted out.
“Yeah, we’ll take inventory later; let’s go,” I said, standing up. My head spun, and I fell into Kai as he stood up. He caught me, and I clenched my eyes shut, drawing more on my shadows to stay upright.
“I can’t turn yet; I need to heal,” Kai grumbled as he pulled me against him and started hauling me away from the castle and the forest.
“I thought that might happen.” I stumbled over and over again, glad he had me in his grasp.
“Save the ‘I told you so’ speech, Little Luna.”
“They’re coming after us,” I said, looking over my shoulder, but I couldn’t see any vamps following us yet. The good thing about diving out of a window and over a cliff? Vamps had to get around the castle to the cliff and jump off too.
They were probably much more elegant about it, but it did give us time.
Kai was limping; I was stumbling; we were both covered in scratches and bruises.
We were healing, but it was slow. Kai’s body worked faster than mine, though, and it only took him a few minutes to find his rhythm and pick up speed.
Then he was running us. I mostly hung there, my feet getting in the way of him getting us out of there. We just had to make it back to the city.
The vampires were still chasing us, though, and my eyes were growing heavy. I needed rest. I needed to heal. My magic was buzzing with happiness despite my waning strength and waved out behind us.
Any vamp that got too close went down. It was satisfying, but each time it happened, I felt the aches and pains that much more. I was wearing out, and fast.
“We need to mate,” Kai said suddenly, veering off. He wove us through the trees, along the cliff line.
“Kai, as much as the heat is still there, hurting everything inside me because we haven’t fucked, I don’t think now is the right time,” I breathed.
Kai laughed and kept searching for something, holding me close as he peered along the cliffs.
He found what he was looking for and started climbing the cliff, hauling my exhausted ass up with him. The man was all strength, and it had the heat flaring again. I sucked in a breath and leaned into him, breathing in his scent so I could feel closer to him.
“We mate, feed the heat; it means we both heal faster, and so does the pack. We won’t make it back if we don’t,” he said seriously, turning to meet my eyes as he helped me up the next part of the jagged cliffside.
“How hurt are you from the fall?” I asked wearily.
He shrugged. “Enough that I know we need to find somewhere safe until we can run faster than we are,” he said. I frowned and looked over the cliff that he was eyeing up and down.
“And the cliff is safe?”
“Not the cliff. Just over this part of the cliff is a small cave. It’s not much, but if you can do that border magic thing to seal us in there and hide our scent, they won’t know where we’ve gone. And you can’t see the entrance from down there, so they should lose our trail,” he said, hands on his hips as we stood together on the tiny ledge.
I reached out with my magic to see if the vamps were close. They were, but they weren’t moving as fast. We were already losing them.
“How do you know where the cave is then?” I asked.
“From when I escaped last time. I spent a few days healing in there. I had to go back strong, or they’d kill me. I waited until I was good enough to survive the attacks I knew they would give.” Kai shrugged as if it were no big deal that his parents had set his pack on him.
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