Filed to story: Owned by the Alphas Novel
He fought him, meeting every surge of his body with a clash of his own.
I was so enraptured by the fight, I wasn’t paying enough attention.
I should have been.
A strong arm wrapped around my throat, and I squealed. Another vampire grabbed me, his teeth at my throat. I swallowed and tried to pull my magic from me, but as soon as I tried, my body began to collapse.
I yanked on my shadows, but they stayed around the twins.
Silas boomed out a laugh and spun Derik to see me in the vampire’s arms. He stopped fighting.
Kai’s wolf fell away as he stood up as a human and took in what was happening.
Brax did too and moved over to help Kai up. He grimaced and hung his arm on Brax.
We didn’t move. Nobody did.
Until Silas moved past an unmoving Derik to me.
“I warned you, Derik. Same weakness as Grandaddy Achlis,” Silas said, running his talon along my jaw.
Stuck in the grasp of another vampire, my Alphas hurt, manipulated because of me, it would’ve been easy to fall into a pit of despair. To let that hopeless feeling that was hanging on to the edge of my panic in.
But I wasn’t a weakness. I wasn’t just a winter born. And I hadn’t taken on motherhood and being luna of our pack to get taken out in the first war.
I was a survivor.
And I could survive Silas.
Silas rambled about how powerful he was, how much he was looking forward to marrying me, to using the twins as his, to putting the wolves in the dungeons. To his credit, he monologued like a true villain. Full of himself and full of shit.
I was sick of hearing his voice, though. I was sick of seeing his face.
So I drew on the twins. I latched my weak magic to them. I latched my shadows to them.
They accepted me easily into them, and I smiled.
It was seamless, the way our powers formed together.
A surge of strength flowed through me, a powerful surge that had me grinning.
The power filled my body as well as my Alphas did. It waited with me, eyeing Silas’s every move.
We waited until he was close, my hands ready. My claws were long, my body warm and bubbling with the magic inside it.
And then Silas moved in, his smug smirk making me snap.
He was right in front of my face when I put my hands on his chest and let the magic out.
It blasted him back, right into the wall.
Derik sped to the other vampire that had me, holding him back with an impressive strength.
I kept Silas on the wall, the purple magic glowing and stabbing at him over and over again.
He screamed and writhed, crying out as the magic wrapped around his neck.
I felt no weakness. There was no exhaustion or waning.
The twins’ power was more than even I had guessed, flowing through me easily and entirely ready to end the threat. Our shadows moved to support the magic.
“I don’t have an epic monologue about power and the future. All I have is now. And right now, I’m so fucking glad I get to kill you. Because you fucked with my family, my pack, and my children. Enjoy the afterlife, Silas. I hope it hurts like hell.”
I clenched my magic around him.
I tightened it and tightened it as he screamed and hissed, trying to break out. But he couldn’t.
The black ash of his body puffed out of the magic and floated harmlessly around us.
There was a lot of it, snowing over the room as it went silent.
The magic whipped back into the twins, my own sinking far down inside me to recuperate. I let out a heavy sigh, then stumbled. There was the weakness.
Kai stepped into me, holding me up. He grimaced, and I laughed tiredly.
“Kai, you’re more hurt than I am,” I said. He shook his head and kept a hold of me.
His pain tolerance was insane. I was pretty sure he had a broken collarbone and his entire ribcage was bruised.
It would heal, but it would take a while. He still wouldn’t let me go.
Brax went to the twins and grinned down at them.
“Already saving our asses. These two are gonna be trouble,” he said.
“Three,” Derik said over his shoulder as he eyed the vampire he held.
The vampire had gone still, his eyes wide as he stared at the dust. It landed on his hand as he slowly outstretched it.
“He’s gone,” the vampire whispered.
We all wanted to know what that meant.
The vampire’s mouth spread slowly into a grin, and I tensed. I didn’t like it when vampires grinned.
This one looked at all of us.
“I’m Lucien. I’ve ordered a retreat of all vampires back to our territory,” he said.
I let out the breath I was holding.
Derik let the vamp go.
“Lucien. You’re the new leader?” Derik asked, straight back into political mode as if we hadn’t just won a war by the tiniest bit. I was sure we were done for. But we had done it.
I held Kai, trying not to sag into him, but my bones were jelly in my skin. I had used so much magic, so much shadow.
We’d all used so much.
The wolves howled outside, and I grinned. That was a victory howl.
I felt it in the link. The vampires really were retreating.
“I am. And we have no interest in taking out the wolves. Not with me in charge,” he bowed his head.
Derik eyed him, probably deciding whether to trust him.
“The vampires have caused a lot of damage and death. There must be balance,”
Derik whispered.
Lucien nodded, his white hair in a long braid down his back. His teeth and ears were pointy, with his fancy clothes not looking at all like he had just fought in a war.
“I think that is why I was chosen to lead. None of us were strong enough to beat Silas in a challenge, but I did have a different approach to what we should do with the border coming down. If you’ll hear me out?” Lucien asked, eyeing us all.
Derik asked us in the link.
“Hear him out,” I said easily. We hadn’t just fought one war to end up in another.
“It could be a trap, setting us up to think they’re not going to keep attacking?” Kai said, ever the pessimist when it came to vampires.
“Not having to worry that the twins are going to get taken would be a lot off my mind.
I vote to hear him out,” Brax said, and that settled it.
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