Filed to story: Claimed by My Ex’s Alpha Brother
His body continued to morph into his wolf as I forced him back, my only goal to get him away from Ella and our son. Just when I was losing hope, I spotted a large window.
With a loud grunt, I tightened my arms around Noah and jumped sideways through the window. We both crashed through in a spray of shattering glass. Unfortunately, my head took most of the blow. My skull screamed in pain, but I barely registered it.
While we were still airborne, I transformed into my wolf. I let go of Noah as my body shifted into my other form.
When we landed, Noah and I were both in our wolf forms in the hospital’s courtyard. The last rays of the setting sun made the scattered shards of glass that had fallen around us glint dangerously.
Noah had flattened a rose bush in his fall, but he rolled to his side and stood up. He shook off residual glass fragments. His sandy-colored fur was a bright spot in the fading light. Since Noah was on the shorter side in his human form, his wolf was smaller for a male. But years of sparring him in both of our forms had taught me not to underestimate him. Noah was quick on his feet and wasn’t afraid to fight dirty.
His eyes zeroed in on me, and we began to circle each other. My gaze followed his every movement. If he even looked like he was going to make a break for Ella or our son, I would rip out his throat.
At this moment, Noah was no longer my brother and oldest friend. By shifting into his wolf form, he had put everyone in the hospital in danger-including my Mate and our son.
Because of his recklessness, now he was nothing but my enemy.
I made the first move, digging my nails into the dirt and springing forward, shooting through the air like a bullet.
I crashed into Noah with so much force that he was thrown onto his back, landing on another rose bush. His head hit the ground with a heavy thump.
Our collision made a high-pitched ringing begin in my ears. It sounded similar to a train’s whistle. Maybe I had a head injury from when my head went through the glass to break the window. But I wasn’t going to let a small thing like a concussion stop me from protecting my Mate, our son, and my compound.
I stalked toward him, wanting to end this fast.
Noah growled as I neared closer, but he didn’t scare me. Not in the slightest.
He rolled to his side and stood up on shaky legs.
I am your future Alpha, I said through our mind link. You will not be able to win any fight against me, Noah. Leave my compound. Now.
Noah howled with rage and leaped at me, his sharp teeth heading for my neck.
But I was ready for him.
I dodged out of the way, spinning until I was balancing on my front legs, and used that momentum to kick Noah’s stomach with my hind legs. My paws made contact with his ribs with a satisfying crunch.
Noah’s body flew thirty feet through the air and landed in the shattered glass. He howled as sharp edges dug into his fur.
Rage and frustration flashed in Noah’s eyes.
The clinking sound of more glass falling to the ground momentarily distracted me. Ella still stood inside the hospital, just behind where Noah was lying in the glass outside. The wind from the shattered window made her hair whip around her face and showcased her wide, anxious blue eyes. Her head turned to glance down the hospital hallway-looking at the place where our son was.
She was still in her human form, guarding the window in case Noah tried to get in the hospital, but she didn’t dare transform into her wolf inside that enclosed space.
But this made her a sitting duck. She wouldn’t have time to transform and protect herself against a surprise attack.
Noah’s head turned in Ella’s direction and it dawned on me with cold horror what he planned to do.
Noah and I pounced at the same time.
Noah lunged for Ella through the open window and I leaped toward him. But Noah was only a few feet away from his goal…and I was thirty feet away from mine.
Rage and dread shot through me as I watched Noah’s front paws push Ella to the ground. The two tumbled through the air until they were out of sight.
Ella let out a high-pitched scream. The sound cut me deeper than any knife ever could.
A fury unlike anything I’d ever known pumped through my bloodstream as I flew through the window, but Noah had already sunk his teeth into Ella’s right shoulder. Then, he opened his mouth and lunged for her neck.
With a roar, I barreled into him, knocking him away from Ella and standing in front of her, prepared to defend her, even if I had to kill him.
After what he just did to my Mate, I wanted to kill him.
Ella whimpered in pain behind me.
My heart tore in two. Her pain was my pain.
I stalked toward him and growled, planning the most painful death for him.
Noah’s eyes widened in fear. Then, he spun around and leaped back out through the broken window, his movements hindered by his injuries.
I wanted to go after him. I wanted to make him pay for what he had just done. But I needed to take care of my Mate. I kept my eyes on his retreating form, needing to make sure he was gone before I could attend to Ella’s wounds.
As Noah ran away with a slight limp, I heard his voice inside of my head.
I’m going to get you back for this, you bastard. You have no idea the kind of connections I have and the kind of hell you just unleashed on WaterLock. You better sleep with one eye open. I denounce you and your father as my Alpha.
My heart throbbed with pain as the mind link between us broke. His denouncement meant that he was no longer a member of the WaterLock Pack.
Quickly, I spun around to help Ella, my brother’s rejection echoing in my head.
As Noah’s bite mark on her shoulder gushed with blood, Ella’s eyes fluttered closed and her head lolled to the side.
Ella POV
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