Filed to story: Owned by the Alphas Novel
It was the same, but something felt cold, eerie.
I looked at the twins who were both tugging on the same book. I was sure they were about to have their first fight over it.
It distracted me for a second when there was a whisper in my ear.
“Watch your back, ” it whispered.
I quickly turned, the whispers making me shiver, but there was nothing there.
The whispers hadn’t felt dangerous or hostile. They had felt like a warning.
Zale’s shadows reached out, wary and questioning.
“It’s okay, Sweetie. Mommy’s just going to put you back in your crib for a minute,” I said, scooping them up and dashing to put them in their crib.
I immediately encased them in a shield.
I shuddered at magic usage.
I was meant to be taking it easy, but something felt wrong.
The magic tingled in my fingertips, my shadows were writhing beneath my skin.
Zale’s tried to connect, but I shook my head at him.
“Keep yours in there with you and your sister, okay Z?” I said.
It amazed me how much he understood, even as an infant. He said nothing back of course, but his shadows instantly retreated, hovering within the shield around him and Enzi.
“Good boy. Keep them there, no matter what,” I said, then moved around the room, checking in the wardrobe, behind the curtains, and in the small bathroom attached.
There was nothing there.
I still wasn’t convinced, though.
“Keep your magic ready, it will come for you and them, ” the whispers warned again.
The same rush of cold fell over me. My skin raised, and I kept my magic at my fingertips like it said.
I didn’t know who was whispering or why I was hearing something that no one else seemed to, but if it was warning me of danger, I wasn’t about to argue with it.
“Alphas? What’s going on? ” I asked in the link, heading over to the window, checking the shut door every few seconds.
“We think there has been a breach. We’re on our way. Stay there, ” Brax said first.
“Don’t let anyone in, ” Derik warned, “~Not until we know if we can trust them.~”
That had my gut turning, “We’ve been betrayed? “
“I’ll kill whoever it was, but first we need to make sure you and the twins are safe, ” Kai answered.
So we had.
And it sounded like my Alphas had known about it. Something they had neglected to mention the entire day I had been with them.
“Assholes, ” I muttered in the link.
None of them responded but I hadn’t expected them to.
Instead I got a wave of guilt from them. Good. They should feel guilty. A traitor in our midst was something I should have known as a Luna whether I was their mate or not.
“It is hard to make that distinction when something is threatening you, Beautiful, ” Derik said.
The other two were silent.
I knew they couldn’t be far away but they didn’t get there in time.
Instead, the door flew open, smashing against the stone of the wall.
A man with messy hair, half tied back with beads and braids stood in the doorway. He was slightly hunched, his body breathing hard as he stared me down with red eyes.
He stunk of moss, dirt and had a staleness to him that the pack didn’t.
I grimaced and moved in front of the twins.
“Rogue. Enjoying the sun?” I tried to talk but he sneered at me.
His torso was naked, covered in dirt, and his shorts were torn. He had dirty bare feet that he used to put himself inside the door.
I thought he was going to launch at me and the twins, but he didn’t.
Instead, he pulled a pouch from his waistband, then turned his back.
He put a line of powder in front of the door.
When I realized what he was doing, I shoved my shadows at him.
He stumbled, gripping the door frame, rebounding off the barrier he had just placed.
I sucked in a breath as the Alphas came running to the door.
They tried to get through the threshold, but the powder had put up some kind of translucent shield, rebounding them back every time they tried.
The rogue grinned and spun to me, chucking the pouch down.
“It’s just you and me, Luna,” he grinned, his teeth chipped and crooked.
Was there something in the rule book that said rogues had to neglect basic hygiene? I was starting to think so.
“Your mistake is thinking I need my Alphas to protect me. I can stop you just as well,” I challenged.
The rogue sneered as my Alphas bashed on the shield in the doorway. It didn’t give, and I ignored them, concentrating on where the rogue stepped.
He was circling, and I kept myself between me and the twins who were still shielded.
“You can’t hold that magic forever. Not while holding the border. We know that as well as you do,” the rogue taunted.
I refused to acknowledge how right he was.
I had been using a lot. The border and the lake had wiped me.
I hated that Derik had earned an epic I-told-you-so moment.
“Is it me you want?” I asked, not sure why the rogue was there. It could have broken in and done all kinds of damage, but it had come here. So did it want me or the twins? Because only one of those answers I was going to let slide.
He nodded to the twins, “I want them,” he grinned, “And you.”
I let him get his sentence out then blasted him with my magic. I was not doing this again. Silas had already destroyed this room, tried the same thing. He hadn’t come out better off anymore than I was going to let the rogue.
“Why?” I demanded as the rogue dusted himself of debris from the concrete dent in the wall.
“Their magic is from the witches. We want it. If we add yours to that, we will no longer be outcasts. We will run the city, the wolves, all of it. We will have the power to kill the ones who do not follow, have mercy on the ones that do.
It’ll be our choice. And we will live like Kings,” he grinned.
Sounded like someone had been slipping him magic mushrooms from the field where the grassland met the forest.
I had been known to find myself there a time or two. It was fun while it lasted, offering the sweetest future and the most vivid promises. But it was all a lie. Just as his ideas were.
That was when he launched himself, his talons long, his canines out. His eyes glowed red and feral. I caught him on me, my shadows pushing back off.
He came back, scratching and biting.
“Lorelai!” Kai roared, bashing on the barrier again.
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