Chapter 352 – Owned by the Alphas Novel Free by Jen Cooper

Filed to story: Owned by the Alphas Novel

I looked over at my other Alphas. Kai and Derik were slaughtering their way through the rogues but there were so many.

We were outnumbered and we hadn’t expected that. They were both covered in blood, spots of color from thrown powder.

It was chaos. Carnage. Complete war everywhere. Blood spilled onto the path from different wolves. Roars and growls were smothered by the rain but I felt each one in my chest, heard it in the link.

We held the city but it was the fight Heather had promised. I turned back to Heather who was circling slowly.

Until Derik came running up behind her. Kai on her other side.

Kai reached her first and she launched him back with a vial that crashed on his fur and sent him flying. He rolled, bowling through rogues and the pack, skidding to a stop.

Derik was ready though. His huge wolf roared over Heather then ripped the vial belt from her, crushing every single one beneath his paw.

“No!” She screamed, then ripped a dagger from her belt, swinging at Derik. She swiped his shoulder, and the mate in me raged.

I threw my magic at her, wrapping her wrist in the end of a purple whip. I yanked her hand hard, and she dropped her blade.

Derik whined and licked his bleeding shoulder, then turned to fight off another attack. Kai was trying to make it back, but he was being surrounded by betas too.

We all were. The black wolves were everywhere, and it felt impossible.

But if we were going down, I was taking Heather with me. My magic whipped at Heather again, yanking on her ankle.

She tripped and spun, falling to the ground.

Brax used his shadows to lift her, holding her off the ground as she struggled. But she was an Alpha. And her betas’

objective was to protect her.

So they swarmed us, on us in seconds. They came from everywhere. I used my magic on them, shoving them back, knocking them out with magic bitch slaps.

I swiped with my claws, I used my dagger, I used my shadows. I had killed my way through at least twenty rogues. My white hair was dripping in dark red blood, my face spattered.

My clothes I had chosen so carefully were ruined. It was messy and heartbreaking.

Brax dropped a second later, his shadow usage burning through his energy. Heather cackled and ran at us.

I stopped her, shoving her back with a blast of magic. Brax wiped the blood off his nose and stood, but he was pale.

Heather came running back, her daggers in her hands.

I drew mine out, spinning them in my hand before meeting her blade for blade. I spun and stabbed, she blocked and swiped back. I dodged and charged.

It was a dance, one she knew as well as I did apparently. But I couldn’t dance forever.

I combined my magic and my shadows inside me. I turned them over and over in my body until they were wild and hot. They were pulsing inside me together like an electrical storm.

I shoved Heather back then covered her in shadow and magic. She swiped blindly but she was way off.

I kept her in there, fighting nothing. Burning through her energy.

“Are you okay?” I asked Brax.

He nodded and looked over me, “Are you? You’re pale,” he said.

Kai and Derik moved around us with Cain and Beenie, keeping the rogues from getting to their Alpha.

I crashed my magic on her, tightening it around her, encasing her in it so she couldn’t escape. Heather struggled, screaming out as I tightened again.

“Kill them!” Heather screamed, “Take out her magic!” She ordered.

I narrowed my eyes and moved my shadows up to cover her mouth. But her betas had heard her.

And suddenly potions were coming at me. They were full of black liquid and they came so close to hitting me.

Kai and Derik threw away the ones they could, fought back the rogues they could.

Cain and Beenie, too.

But one made it through and that was all it took.

I sucked in a breath as it landed against my shoulder. Pain exploded in my head and my magic screamed in it. It retreated even faster than it had on the border, yanking from my shadows and hiding deep inside me.

I coughed as it burned, my stomach turning.

My shoulder ached and I looked down at it. There was a black mark burned into my arm, black goo dripping down it.

I hissed and wiped it off but it burned everything it touched.

Derik roared that deafening roar and stepped forward, tearing the head off the wolf that had thrown it.

The rogue slumped, headless to the stone floor, his blood pooling. Derik snarled at it then got ready for the next one.

I wasn’t sure what made him worried about me seeing that side of him. It was hot. Kai had the same temperament, he just didn’t hide it and I still loved him.

I wanted to tell D that, but Heather struggled against my shadows. Brax poured his in with mine, connecting with them to hold her there, but we were both weak so it was a struggle.

The black magic was tainting mine. I felt it like sticky tar inside me. It had suppressed my magic completely until the tether to it was almost non-existent.

Cain ran over with a powder. He muttered some words to it, then wiped it over the bloody burn on my arm.

It fucking hurt.

I held my breath as it burned more.

It didn’t heal.

“Impossible,” Cain frowned.

“What?” I demanded, clenching my jaw against it.

“This magic. It is not possible. The witches know it is forbidden,” he snarled.

“Like that has stopped them at any point in this,” I scoffed.

Cain went to explain more, but another horde of rogues came on us.

The pack protected me and Brax while we struggled to hold Heather in our shadows.

I weakened with every second, and so did Brax.

I just had to get close enough to kill her.

I stepped forward, “I’m going for her, hold it steady,” I said to Brax. He eyed Heather then planted his feet and nodded.

“Hurry, I don’t know how long I can hold this, she’s using a dagger on the inside,” he muttered.

I felt that too. It wasn’t a normal dagger and I felt the infusion of wolfsbane in the blade. Something that made it harder and harder to keep pinning her.

I was so close, readying my dagger for her throat.

But she smirked, looking behind me.

I gasped and turned in time to see something land on the path behind me.

A fucking explosive.

“Damn,” I snarled.

It exploded and I reached for my magic but there was nothing.

I went flying. My shadows covered me but I couldn’t do what Brax could.

I smashed into a wall, the whole thing getting blasted by the bomb.

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