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This disgusting excuse for an Alpha is exactly why I’ve been afraid. I should have just let Eli mark me. I would have been better off.
“The hard way it is.” He says before starting to shift. He’s going to mark Maia, make her compliant then force her to shift so he can mark and mate me in human form.
In a last bit of hope, I send up a howl hoping beyond hope that if Eli is nearby, he’ll hear me and get here in time. As the Alpha finishes his shift, his pack pounces on me.
Maia fights back immediately. She’s ripping at anything she can sink her teeth into, fur, flesh, I think she even ripped an ear off. But we’re no match against six full-grown, ranked wolves and warriors.
Eventually, they have her pinned to the ground on her stomach. She continues to al and bare her teeth, but we can’t move. I can feel the Alpha in wolf form walk over top of me before laying his weight on me, holding Maia in place.
She turns her head and snaps at his face. The Alpha grabs her by the back of the neck, forcing her head to the ground, growling at her, trying to get her to submit. I can feel his aura pushing out, but it has no effect on us.
I don’t have time to think about what that means because I hear a commotion behind me and feel some of the weight lift off me. The Alpha lifts his head and turns to look behind us. Maia takes the opportunity to reach up and grab the side of his neck, biting down and ripping a chunk of his throat out. The Alpha gives a gurgling howl before moving off us. Maia immediately starts to run. She’s running full out when the Alpha smashes into her again, blood dripping from the wound in his neck. His teeth are snapping at her neck, trying to bite down on her marking spot when he’s knocked off his feet by a giant black wolf. Louis.
The two begin fighting, Louis putting himself between me and the Alpha. I know I should run, but I can’t leave Eli. I’m his Guardian, but also, he’s magnificent. I know he told me he’s descended from a Beta line, but Louis is bigger than this Alpha’s wolf.
Maia already injured the Alpha, so I’m hoping that Eli can finish him off. I watch as they fight to the death over me. The other wolves are now surrounding Eli and Alpha Brody waiting for the battle to end. They won’t interfere, this is a battle for dominance and strength. If they were to interfere, it would mean they don’t trust their Alpha to win.
Louis takes some swipes of the claw and bites to his back and flank. This Alpha may not look like much, but he’s an Alpha. In the shifter society, you don’t maintain that rank unless you fight for it and win it. So, he is a strong fighter and is giving as good as he gets until Louis finally manages to bite down on the back of his neck.
The sound of the Alpha’s spine breaking is loud in the suddenly quiet field. Louis. shakes his head to ensure that the Alpha is dead before dropping his body to the ground. He shifts and Eli is standing in front of me, in all his naked and bloody glory.
“Mine!” He says, pointing at me. He’s definitely more animal than human right now and it’s the only word that comes out of his mouth before the other five wolves all jump toward me, as if they plan to mark me as theirs. They are powerful wolves to have chased me this long, so I’m guessing, they are hoping to seal their position as the new Alpha if they mark me.
Eli jumps at the nearest wolf, turning slightly to me. “Run!”
Maia doesn’t waste any time and takes off. I hear Eli shift back into Louis behind me as we run. It’s hard to hear what is happening through all the growls and snarls that I hear behind me.
I feel another nip at my heel, causing us to trip, but Maia gets her footing and continues on. Moments later, we’re brought to the ground, the heavy weight pushing us into the ground. In a moment, the weight is pulled off us and she stands ready to run again, when another body lands on top of her, and I feel the sting of canines sinking into her fur at her mating mark.
“NO!” I scream in my mind, as everything around me begins to go black. The last thing I remember is trying to cry out for Eli, but the sound is only in my head.
I left Maia in the safest place I could find before heading into the town to get food. When I get close to the town, I shift and call Rik, letting him know that we were still running from the red wolves. I told him that I’m hoping we have enough of a lead on them that we will make it without any further issues.
As we’re talking, my eyes are moving around, watching everything, and I see it. Three cars with men standing and looking around, sniffing the air like only shifters do, and waving toward the direction that I left Grace.
“Rik, I have to go. They’ve found us.” I tell him before hanging up and turning around. I run back to the tree line before shifting and running back toward Grace and Maia. I’m about halfway there when I hear the howl go up. They found her, or at least, they found where she was. The howl is the howl of the hunt, not a capture. I change course, hoping she followed my instructions and started running east. When I hear a second howl go up later, I divert south. She must be trying to maneuver around them but I’m guessing they have her surrounded.
I come around a bend and see several shifters, in their human form, working to set up camp and starting a fire. I don’t have time for them, so I run around them. However, it tells me that their Alpha is here and he’s after Grace.
Louis starts running faster and when we finally catch up to them, what I see nearly makes my heart stop. Maia is being held to the ground by multiple wolves and she has a large wolf on top of her, pinning her head to the ground. I can feel his Alpha aura as he tries to get her to submit. He obviously has no idea that Guardians are immune to the Alpha aura.
Louis runs up, ripping first one wolf then a second off of Maia. This gives Maia a chance to run and she does before the Alpha pins her down again, snapping at her, trying to mark her.
‘Louis, take that Alpha asshole down.’ I shout at my wolf.
‘No one touches our mate and lives.’ He says before jumping in knocking him off Maia then turning so we stand in between the Alpha and our mate.
The Alpha turns and I know this will be a battle to the death. I only have a moment to wish that Maia would take this opportunity to run, but I know she won’t. Maia has been clear about her responsibilities as a Guardian, even if she doesn’t truly understand them.
I’m full on in the fight. This Alpha is like every other Alpha I’ve ever fought, he’s fierce. Even though Maia has injured him, he’s coming at Louis with everything he’s got. I’m surprised that we’re larger than this Alpha’s wolf, but it’s still taking every bit of training and a lifetime of battling with rogues to hold my own against this wolf.
When we get an opportunity, Louis jumps in and snaps his jaws on the back of the Alpha’s neck, shaking his head vigorously making sure the spinal cord is completely severed.
I feel feral when Louis gives me control to shift and I shout “Mine!” to the other wolves, letting them know that I will fight all of them for my mate.
When I see them all jump after her at once, I tell her to run and I shift quickly, taking one out immediately, then grabbing another from behind and slicing my claws from their ribs, through their stomach and down their flank.
Louis wants to go for the kill, but we see Maia get tackled and Louis jumps at him, grabbing him by the tail and ripping him off.
I didn’t want it to be this way. I didn’t want to force a mark on her, but I have no choice and I gave her my promise. There’s no way I can guarantee that none of these wolves will get past me to mark her.
‘She’s ours.” Louis roars in my head as he jumps on top of her, his canines sinking into her neck.
I immediately feel the mate bond kick in. I can feel her fear and just before she loses consciousness, I hear her screaming my name in her mind. Maia goes limp. I pump more venom into her while she’s out, making sure that her scent changes to include mine before Louis pulls his canines out.
Louis turns, standing over top of Maia who is now shifting back into her human form. He snarls at the four remaining wolves. She’s marked, but that doesn’t mean that they won’t try to kill me and remark her.
I watch as they look at each other, then at their dead Alpha and the other one I just killed. I see them mind linking each other before they turn and run off. I’m not foolish enough to think that we’re out of the woods yet. I saw the others back at their makeshift camp and they’ll be angry that I killed their Alpha and what I’m guessing is another ranked wolf. Knowing I have the Guardian will only make them more intent on killing me.
I turn, shift quickly, and run back to where I saw Grace’s bag before grabbing mine, pulling on a shirt and shorts. I sling both bags over my shoulder then pick Grace up and I begin to run.
When we get close to the next town, I grab some of her clothes and dress Grace. I find a place to leave her, tucking into an empty field right outside of town. I go into town and find a bus station, getting us tickets for the next bus heading east. It leaves in a couple of hours. I’d rather get out of here sooner, but this will have to do. I will somehow have to sneak an unconscious Grace onto the bus without it causing any raised eyebrows. On my way back to get her, I grab some food and some bottles of water. I know she must be starved by now and when she wakes up, she’ll need lots of water.
I find her right where I left her and I pick her up, carrying her toward the bus depot. I take the back roads as much as possible until we get to the depot. There, I find where our bus will be leaving, and I sit her next to me, wrapping my arm around her as if she’s sleeping until the bus comes. When it does, I wait until the bus empties and the driver goes inside. I hurriedly pick her up and carry her onto the bus, finding seats for both of us in the back.
We take this bus overnight and into the next day. Grace still hasn’t woken up and I’m getting nervous. When we get to the outskirts of a larger town, I decide to get a hotel. I need to check in with Rik and I need to make sure my girl is okay.
I wait for the bus to empty before picking Grace up and carrying her off the bus. There’s a hotel about a block away, so I quickly walk down the street carrying Grace. I’m getting some weird looks, so I try to make it look like some kind of romantic thing where I’m carrying her and whispering in her ear.
When I get to the hotel, I set her in a chair in the lobby and get a room. When I finally get her into our room, I change her clothes into one of my shirts and tuck her into bed. I lock up and go in search of food and supplies.
Yay Eli marked her
I come awake slowly. I’m completely disoriented, not recognizing any of the smells around me. When I open my eyes, I see that I am alone in a hotel room.
Everything comes flooding back to me and I gasp, my hand flying to my neck. I can feel where my neck has puncture wounds from being forcibly marked.
‘Maia? Do you know where we are?’
‘No. I was knocked out, the same as you.’
I sit up and look around. From where I’m sitting, I see my bag and what looks like Eli’s bag. I get up and run over to his bag, opening it and seeing that it is his and his things are still inside. I open my bag and see that it’s pretty much untouched, my money still inside.