Filed to story: Owned by the Alphas Novel
Kai sat up slowly, tucking himself back in. He hadn’t even been fully undressed, but I wasn’t complaining.
“We’ve been planning all fucking day for the pack meeting tonight and in one moment, you destroy it,” Derik snapped.
“I didn’t destroy shit,” Kai bit back.
“Lori, might be a good time to get cleaned up,” Brax tried, but Kai growled.
“She stays.”
“I got that, Hulk. She still needs to shower for the pack meeting, which is happening now so we can try and beat Tweedledee and Tweedledum out there from spreading the word that we have a winter born human here,” Brax said.
Nikolai sighed. “Who cares if they know? They can’t do anything about it.”
“Kai! There are rules! And we had a fucking plan! She is the humans’ punishment for speaking to us the way they did,” Derik tried.
I felt sorry for him. I hadn’t meant to cause such an issue, not that it had been my choice. But I knew he was just trying to keep everything together, so I stood slowly from the bed and went over to him.
With the throw wrapped around me, I lay against him, and he wrapped his arms around me like I was hoping he would. His heart was racing in his chest, and I kissed the pec I rested on.
“I’m sorry,” I whispered against him, and he shook his head, kissing the top of my head.
“Not your fault. Go get cleaned up, beautiful, we’ve got five minutes before we have to go, and I need to talk to these two,” he said, and I nodded, stepping on my tiptoes to kiss him.
It was soft, and I only intended it to last a second, but he deepened it, cupping my face as he covered my mouth with his in a way that left me breathless.
When he pulled away, he was smiling one of those rare smiles. I smiled softly back, then went to the bathroom to clean up.
I wouldn’t admit it to them, but I was nervous for the pack meeting. Especially since I had to go after everything that had happened in the library.
Garrett and Taylor would be there. Would they turn the city of werewolves against me? Against the alphas?
I shivered as I stepped into the warm shower and rinsed off the sex. I had to learn how to fight or at least use my shadows if I really was going to stay here because I didn’t want any more confrontations like the one earlier.
I had felt too helpless, and I hated it.
A light chuckle echoed in the shower at those thoughts. “Then say yes. We’ll give you all the power you need,” it whispered, and I clenched my eyes shut, wrapping my arms around myself.
“Fuck off,” I whispered, and blocked out whatever they had to say by turning up the shower to scalding, adding pressure until I couldn’t focus on anything but the way it felt on my tense muscles.
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Fifteen minutes later I was dressed in another fancy dress, this one in cerulean blue with a corset front, with an arm through Nik’s, one through Brax’s, and Derik taking the lead.
I was their new lover, not a human hostage or prisoner, and the wolves were about to know it. Apparently it wasn’t going to go down well but was the only way to make sure I remained untouched.
Wolves couldn’t fight over a human, so the fact that Nikolai had physically reprimanded Garrett was a big deal. I hadn’t realized that but I did when I walked into the dining hall with the alphas.
I’d never had to resist the urge to run so much in my life. If looks could kill, I’d be six feet under for sure. But I steeled my spine and carried myself as if I was more than the human whore they had decided to keep.
And maybe by the end of the night, the wolves might actually believe it.
20. The Friend
The alphas sat down in three huge throne chairs made of stone, carved in their respective symbols.
I twisted my hands in front of me, not sure where to go and feeling every set of eyes on me. The entire hall was filled with wolves, and they were being rowdy until I walked in with the alphas. Now it was deadly silent.
Kai pulled me onto his lap, and I looked at him instead of the faces I knew were staring.
Derik kept standing as Braxton took a seat to the other side.
“Stay quiet, human. Stay still,” Kai said against my ear in such a quiet voice I almost didn’t hear him.
I nodded once, and he kissed me before looking up at Derik.
“It’s been a while since we have gathered as largely as tonight,” Derik started. “But we have reason to. We have a human in our midst,” he said, looking to me.
I didn’t know what to do but resisted the urge to wave, staying quiet and still like Kai had said.
“She will remain unharmed and untouched while she is with us, do you understand?” Derik said in a deep voice that had the room vibrating with pressure.
Some of the wolves bowed their heads, but a few daring wolves glared. Especially the ones surrounding Taylor and Garrett.
“Who is she, and why should she have any kind of place with our alphas?” One of the women stood up. She had a choppy cut of hair with a ragged scar over her lip that dragged down her shoulder.
I wondered how she got it but turned my head away when Kai nuzzled into my neck in warning.
“She’s the general’s daughter. Lorelai Valarian. She is what we have taken as ours in retribution for what the human dared to pen to us.”
Derik was firm and strong in his words, daring anyone else to say something. They looked like they wanted to but said nothing.
I wasn’t sure if it was going to work, passing me off as a retribution thing, but they had said it would if I stayed quiet and did what they asked. So I did.
Finally, one of the wolves voiced their opinion. Fucking Taylor.
“And what does that make her?”
“Ours,” Kai grumbled, from beneath me.
Derik gave him a scowl that warned Kai to let him deal with it, a scowl I was learning very quickly.
“She’s our lover, our female,” he said, and that must’ve meant something more than I realized because there were gasps and an even tighter silence stretching over everyone.
A male stood up on the other side of the room, his eyes filled with fury as he almost barked his words out. “And what of our females? Their heat will be starting soon.
The powerful ones will need the alphas’ magic to sate them. You would put this human before the pack’s needs?”
Another male spoke up, and I knew where this was going. They were gaining confidence.
“Taking an official lover right before the heat? And a human?” the wolf spat.
“Fucking bullshit.”
“Don’t forget winter born,” Garrett snarled, and that had the wolves roaring, howling, slamming their drinks down on the multiple wooden tables filling the room.
The lights flickered, and I clenched my eyes shut.
The shadows felt the threat too. The ones inside me felt different and safe, like I could trust the alphas, but the fear of the wolves was making it harder to ignore the ones that wanted in.
I clutched Kai’s hand tightly in mine, trying to keep them out, but the louder the wolves got, the harsher my headache got.
“They’ll attack. You know they will. And then what will you do? There’re only three alphas, against a city of werewolves. They will maul you as a human,” the shadows whispered in my head, and I felt the coldness touch my skin, the ice burning as my body grew heavy.
The wolves were still shouting, but they were getting distant.
And then there was warmth on me, Brax’s eyes staring into mine. He tugged me from Kai’s grasp.
“I’ve gotta take her, Kai,” Brax warned in a hushed voice as Derik tried to answer the questions that were coming from everywhere in the room.
Kai narrowed his eyes, holding me tighter before finally letting me go to Brax, who immediately pushed his warmth through me.
I shivered and went with him easily, the shadows already drowning out, the wolves’
voices coming back to me.
Braxton put me on his lap just as Derik got fed up.
“Enough!” Derik howled, and the entire room fell silent, every single head bowing to his voice as it commanded them.
I swallowed, waiting for him to speak again as he glared over the wolves of the city, making sure they were all listening.
I kept hold of Brax’s hand and he connected to me, making me gasp a little as his shadows and mine held on, locking out the bad ones that I really needed to figure out how to get rid of.
They had given me until the next full moon, and I had to be ready for them by then.
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