Filed to story: Owned by the Alphas Novel
“You are forbidden to see what I see,” she growled, clutching her bars.
The witches looked between each other, clearly rattled.
That was interesting.
The witches left again.
“What was that?” I demanded.
Beenie hung her head, “You don’t understand. No one does,” she whispered.
“What are you?” I asked, ignoring her. She had no idea what I would understand because she didn’t let anyone else in but she had power and the realm clearly let her use it. If she could get us out then she had to do it.
“I can’t tell you. If I do, the pack will kick me out,” she said, not looking at any of us.
The pack said nothing. Each one of us stood at the front of our cage though, even the witches.
“Our bloodline has siren in it,” Kai admitted, “Is it that? Your voice?” He asked.
“I don’t know what that is,” I said.
“It was our grandmother. Kassandra Kane. She was a Siren. Her voice was a lure, a dangerous one that apparently could control vampires. Their bloodlust at least,” Derik said.
I frowned looking up at Kai and then to Derik, “I thought it was in Kai’s bloodline?” I asked.
“Same bloodline, Spitfire,” Brax said, “Kassandra Kane also had three mates. Dorian Achlis. Atticus Trux and Zachariah Ferus.”
My mind spun with the revelation, “What the fuck? You’ve been cousins this whole time and said nothing?” I demanded.
Derik shrugged, “I guess that would make it so. But we were raised quite separately until the war. Our grandfathers were Alphas of their own packs. Kassandra bought them together but they weren’t like us. The packs were separate and she had to split her time between them,” Derik explained, blowing my mind that little bit more.
I could’ve done with this history lesson a long time ago.
“Each of our grandfathers had a son. Our fathers who mated to our mothers. Kai’s parents were the only ones who had more than one child. Rowan Ferus. Nikolai Ferus and Belinda Ferus,” Brax gave me more.
I soaked it up building the tree in my head. I just couldn’t get past the fact they were actually related. I had assumed they weren’t. I had grown up believing they weren’t.
The only stories I had heard were the ones of their parents who kept the packs separate until the war so I assumed that was why. But it still made my head ache.
Were my kids siblings or cousins? And wasn’t that fucking weird?
“I feel like this was something I should’ve known,” I frowned.
“We assumed you knew, Little Luna,” Kai admitted.
“I did not.”
“Hmm. Well now you do,” Brax smirked.
I shook my head at him then looked up at Beenie who was scowling but silent.
“And this siren power, is that what you have? From your grandmother Kassandra?” I asked.
She shook her head, “I thought so at first. And it kind of is. But the siren power is like any magic and can be tainted by a person. Maybe if Rowan hadn’t been killed by our pack in front of me and Kai captured by vampires, I could have been a simple siren and life could have been easy,” she whispered.
Derik figured it out. I knew because he gasped, his eyes wide in horror.
“Seer,” he muttered.
She didn’t deny or confirm. But that was an admission in itself. Brax had warned me about those before.
A seer could make prophecies but they turned bad.
I didn’t know much past that.
“Losing my brothers tainted me. From the night Rowan died, I started having the nightmares. Death, shadow, monsters. I touched people and saw their deaths. I dreamed of it. If I tried, I could force that death on them. But it’s dark and feeds on that need to cause pain and chaos.”
She had been living with this darkness? Alone?
“And Cain?” I asked.
“He is light. He keeps the dark away as much as he can. But he isn’t here now,” her voice darkened and she eyed the door the witches had gone through.
“Don’t Beenie. Seers turn, we know that. You’ve fought this long,” Derik warned.
She glared down at him.
“I know. I’m the one that has fought it.”
“You said nothing. For all these years,” Kai said, his voice thick.
Beenie shrugged, “Nothing you can do. You were gone. Rowan was gone. It was just me and our parents fighting a war that changed them too.”
Kai went silent.
Everyone did.
Before I could reassure Beenie that there was no way she was getting kicked out, the witches came back in.
They floated with meaning to the middle of the bridge.
It was as intimidating as they meant it to be.
Their eyes were alight with the promise of more pain.
But the pain they intended was so much worse than what they had already inflicted.
‘We have found them. It’s only a matter of time before their power is ours. So enjoy your last days, prisoners. Because now they are numbered,’ The witches’ echoes fell into tense silence.
The front one finally stretched her mouth into a grin before they left us.
My heart stopped, my stomach sunk.
Rage, grief, despair. It filled me fast.
The pack raged against their cages. The captive witches cried.
Kai roared, shaking and banging the bars of his cage.
Derik shook, his beast trying to break out of the human body it was trapped in. But whatever magic was suppressing mine was doing the same to his.
Brax’s shadows poured from him, launching up to the door. He smashed at it, banging, screaming.
But I couldn’t get words out. I could barely draw air.
The witches had found them?
I thought of Zale. Enzi. Alaric.
Our heirs. Our legacies.
“No,” I cried, my heart breaking so loudly, the cracks were all I could hear.
Everything else faded away as my heart beat slowed in my head.
It was so cold, my head spinning.
I was numb almost, empty of everything.
I had failed.
It was my job to protect them and I hadn’t.
They didn’t deserve what the witches were going to do to them. It was our war, not theirs.
New Book: Veiled Desires of the Alpha King Novel
Dayson was the alpha of the largest pack in North America. Powerful figures from other packs sought to offer gorgeous girls as potential mates for Dayson. He steadfastly rejected these advances, he was not a pawn to be manipulated. But eventually there came a mysterious girl he could hardly say No. Who was she?