Filed to story: Owned by the Alphas Novel
“We need to go back there and tear their damn heads off,” Kai growled in the link.
I hated to admit it, but teaching the rogues a lesson sounded damn good to me.
I wasn’t a fan of having bombs thrown at me.
Or being lured into a trap.
“The rogues have declared war. We need to prepare the city for attacks,” Derik ordered.
“And let them get away with throwing a bomb at our mate? At us? Fuck that,” Kai snarled.
“Hate to agree with Mr. Violence over here, but if we don’t assert some kind of statement of dominance over this, they’ll have the upper hand, D.” Brax put his opinion in the mix.
And then they were all staring at me.
“What? So now I’m the tiebreaker?” I asked.
They all waited, which gave me my answer.
“If I may offer the human’s vote, I would rather we retreat now. Then make a plan based on what we know. Out here, we seem vulnerable,” Mom said, with Galen at her side.
He didn’t agree, though.
I felt that much in the link.
He was fuming, radiating anger over the fact that the rogues had attacked Mom. He kept his mouth shut, though, which I expected.
I turned to Lucien, “Vote. Head back to the water villages and show the Rogues where we stand after their declaration, or do we go back to the city to fight another day?” I asked.
Lucien smirked, “We are vampires. We do not run from wolves.”
That left me.
I hated going against my Alphas, but when they were split, I had no choice.
And I hated thinking that either option could end in anyone getting hurt because I had made the wrong decision.
“If we retreat, the rogues will think we are weak. We have to show them we are not,” I said.
“Beautiful–“
I turned to Derik. “Derik, I know it’s not the diplomatic way but the rogues have something going on. They’re declaring war on us. That makes no sense. They don’t have the numbers and they know we just won against the vampires and that I have all the border magic. We have to go back to the water villages and learn more about what they are up to.
Otherwise, we head back to The City and a table full of questions with answers we don’t have,” I explained.
Derik hesitated, then closed his eyes and nodded, his hand sliding down to rest on my stomach.
“The idea of you anywhere near them and their traps while carrying my child gives me a fear you could not possibly understand, Beautiful,” he whispered.
I moved into him, holding him.
“I understand, Derik.”
“That is the decision then?” My mom sighed.
I looked over to her and nodded.
“Sorry,” I apologized, but only because I was sorry for outvoting her, not because I thought I made the wrong choice.
“Pearl will come back with me, we’ll check on the humans and fortify the grassland villages,” Galen said.
I nodded to him and said goodbye to my mom.
Then I turned to my Alphas, the vampires, the pack.
“Don’t separate this time. I want us together. If they plan to pick us off, they won’t get there. It’ll be easier to shield you all if we’re close,” I said, my magic ready.
Kai barked orders to the pack, getting them information, and protecting all of us. The vampires headed the group, smirking as they eyed the forest, their confidence radiating off them.
They were not worried about the rogues and normally, I wouldn’t be either.
But this was different.
Their scent was gone, and that had alarm bells ringing in my head.
The fact that they were even declaring war at all was another warning bell.
I eyed the forest we walked through, checking through the trees for any shadows that didn’t belong or any movement that wasn’t one of ours.
There was nothing though. Whatever herbs they had to shield them, were damn good ones.
My skin was still tingling in warning, my magic waiting.
My shadows were with Brax’s checking everything around us.
No more explosives came at us, which made me wary too.
Why had they led us away like they had? And then hit us again?
It felt like they were herding us, like the cattle the farmers herded.
But in this instance, we were the cattle.
“Don’t get too close, Beautiful. Let Kai and the wolves inspect the place first,” Derik whispered.
I knew when to fold and nodded.
But I did let my shadows go ahead with them.
We didn’t get far before Kai stopped, and the pack too.
“Why’d you stop?” Derik asked, narrowing his eyes on the surroundings.
We weren’t back at the villages yet. We shouldn’t have stopped, but Kai, in his huge wolf form, didn’t move.
A growl started low in his chest, and he nodded to Hank.
Hank huffed, his wolf not as big as I thought it would be considering the man himself was huge.
He padded forward.
“Something is warding us off. Like a forcefield or something. Luna, can you feel it?” Kai asked in the link with the pack.
I stepped forward, Derik and Brax with me.
I sent out my magic and shadows to the space in the forest that Kai had stopped in front of.
And I felt it.
A power radiating that shouldn’t be there. It had no scent and I wasn’t sure if it was magic or man-made. But it was a barrier of some kind.
And it felt dangerous.
Hank stopped just before it, looking up and down the forest.
I understood then.
Kai had sent him forward to test it.
“Wait!” I called out before he could touch it.
Something in my intuition told me that Hank would not survive the test. And I was listening to that.
Everyone froze and I bent down, picking up a rock.
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