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I took a deep breath. You’re a b ada ss hybrid. You can f uck this old man up, I told myself before stepping back out into the living room to face Orion.
Just as I walked in, he’d shaken off Gabriela and was standing over Xander menacingly. Xander was a huge wolf, but so was Orion. He’d been Alpha once, too.
I locked eyes with Malachi, and he nodded at me.
I clenched my fists, drawing on my power.
“Orion, look at me!” I shouted.
He glanced up briefly, but it was enough He froze suddenly, and I knew then that I had him.
“Leave Xander alone,” I said, my voice echoing through the cabin. “Leave us all alone. Lay down, and stop fighting.
Orion fell to the ground.
Gabriela and Xander got us slowly, and their shock was palpable, even in wolf form.
I’d commanded Orion to stop, and he’d listened. And the craziest part was, I knew it would work. I knew I could control him. I didn’t know how, but I did.
Malachi stepped up to Orion slowly, placing two hands on his furry chest to hold him down, but Orion didn’t move.
And then Malachi opened his mouth wide, fangs shining, and sank them into Orion’s neck.
Xander–
I closed my eyes.
Even after everything that had happened, I didn’t want to watch my father die.
I heard the whine of my mother’s wolf, and then my father’s body going limp.
Then I felt hands on me. Lanie.
“I’m so sorry, Xander,” she breathed into my neck as she wrapped her arms around me. I laid my head against her, focusing on her warm, beautiful, familiar smell. I wanted to crawl inside of it and live there forever.
his blood still on But I opened my eyes and pulled back as Lanie let me go, I glanced once at my father, at his Malachi’s lips, and I pushed my way out of the cabin, needing to know that Xander was okay His wolf whipped around at the sound of my paws on the steps, and Braden looked up at me, too. They were dirty and panting but seemed to be okay. Mason and Rhiannon were both still lying on the ground, chained up and dazed.
Thank the f ucking g ods everyone had made it out of this. Well…everyone except my father.
I looked around while Hunter’s ears perked up, both of us on high alert for any more guards. But the forest looked empty, aside from the handful of men and wolves who were lying on the ground, unmoving and covered in blood and dirt safe”
Zane and I ran to each other, shifting back to our human forms in mid-air “Where are the other guards?” I asked “Dead. Or ran off,” Zane said, his brow furrowed. “Orion?”
I let out a long, shaky breath. “Dead,” I said.
Zane set his hand on my shoulder. “I’m sorry,” he said, and I knew he meant it.
I shrugged. “Doesn’t matter.” It was easier to say that than to let myself feel anything serious. “Lanie’s “Thanks to all of you,” Lanie said behind us.
Braden, Zane, and I all looked up at her. They breathed out huge sighs of relief.
“And Stella?” Zane asked.
“Inside with Gabriela.” Lanie smiled ever so slightly. It was a welcome sight.
She walked over to us and handed us each a towel. We slung them around our waists, even though I wished I could’ve just scooped Lanie up and taken her straight to the bedroom.
ie hands out and the chains holding him snapped like they were made of string.
His eyes flew open, and they were glowing an otherworldly gold.
He let out a great snarl and snapped the chains around his ankles.
And then he lunged.
Mason–
I threw myself to the ground, the stabbing pain in my chest almost too much to bear.
But beneath the pain, I felt something else. Power.
It was unlike anything I’d experienced before.
I’d just broken out of silver chains. How the f uck does that happen? They’re supposed to suppress a wolf’s power, not make it supercharged.
And then, all of a sudden, the pain receded. But a warm glow still hummed in my chest.
“What the f uck was that?” Xander asked, taking the words right out of my mouth.
I stood up slowly, feeling like I’d just been reborn, but I hadn’t even shifted and healed myself.
Lanie still stood beside me, a shocked look on her face. I shook my head, baffled.
“I don’t know,” I said. I glanced at Rhiannon. Had it been magic?
“Don’t look at me,” she said weakly. “Whatever that was, it came from within.”
Gabriela walked down from the porch with Stella in her arms.
“Alpha power,” she said in a soft voice, almost as if she didn’t want to say it at all.
“Alpha what?” Xander asked in a strange tone.
Gabriela bit her lip and glanced from Xander to me. “Every Alpha holds on to some residual power, even if they hand over the pack to a successor. It remains with them until they die. And then…
She trailed off, her lips forming a tight line.
“And then what?” Zane asked, his brows knitting together.
“And then it gets passed on to the next Alpha in line, Gabriela said. “When Orion died, his Alpha power had to go somewhere. And it went to you, Mason.”
S hit. Did that mean….?
“No f ucking way is he the true Alpha,” Xander snapped, laughing mirthlessly. He cut his eyes at me. “That’s a joke. The title is mine.”
Then why did the power go to me?
“I’m Orion’s son, too, remember?” I stared Xander down. “Why wouldn’t I be the true Alpha?”
“We didn’t know what time Mason was born,” Gabriela said distractedly.
Lanie’s eyes never left mine. If I really was the true Alpha, would this change things between us?
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“And now we do,” Gabriela said. “Mason was the firstborn. If he wasn’t, then he never would’ve gotten that power.
“What the hell does that mean?” Xander growled. I could tell he was seething, but so was I. Here was another f u cking thing Orion and my as s hole brother had stolen from me. “Are you saying he’s the true Alpha?”
Xander cast around desperately for an answer. I had to fight back a smile. I’d be lying if I said I wasn’t enjoying watching him squirm.
“Sounds like it’s possible,” I said.
Xander turned on me, clenching his fists. “You stole my f ucking mate, and now you’re after my Alpha title?!” he snarled.
“You stole my f ucking babies!” I cried.
“Hey!” Zane shouted, stepping between us. “This isn’t the time to fight.” He looked from Gabriela to Malachi. “Isn’t there some way to tell who the true Alpha (s? Some magic or something?”
Lanie–
“Compel me,” I said suddenly.
Xander and Mason both looked at me with raised eyebrows. “A true Alpha could do it, right?” I asked. “So try it out on me.”
Until Xander and Mason got some answers, they’d be at each others’ throats constantly. Better to find out now and move the f uck on.
What did it matter to me who was Alpha? Mason was my true mate whether or not the title really belonged to him.
Malachi shrugged, and Gabriela looked unsure.
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