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“You grab the baby. I’ll get the person that is trying to take him.” I say to Lily in the mind link.
She nods and we burst into the room. There is a figure in dark clothing, reaching into the crib. He snatches Liam up into his arms turning to face us.
“Stand down, Guardians, or I kill the Alpha heir. This isn’t your fight.”
“On the contrary, any fight against Shadow Falls is our fight. You’ve just waged war with not one, but two packs.” I say.
He chuckles and as my eyes adjust to the nightlight in the room, I can see that this is Alpha Benjamin’s
Beta.
“Does your Alpha know what you are doing?”
“Wow, you really are stupid. All brawn and no brain. Who do you think set this up?” He looks between me and Lily again. “What I want to know is how you are still standing. We knew she would be.” He nods at Lily. “But how are you?”
“What are your talking about?” Lily asks him.
“We poisoned everyone with wolfsbane. It was in the food. The entire pack is incapacitated and now Alpha Benjamin will make his move. We will take over this pack and since we’ve already weakened your Alpha and Luna as well all we need to do is eliminate the two of you and he’ll take over your pack too.”
“You’ll find we’re not so easy to kill.” I say to him.
I see the flash of a knife in his hand and Lily is moving. I’m a half second behind her. She grabs his arm, pulling it away from Liam. I take his arm from her as he throws the baby. Lily catches Liam mid-air as he begins to scream.
The Beta’s arm comes up to hit me, but Donovan’s claws have already come out and I slice them through his throat, holding his arm as he drops to the floor, drowning in his own blood.
I turn to Lily. “You need to quiet him down. If the others know he’s awake, they’ll come looking for him. If we’re all this pack has standing between them and death, we need to be stealthy.” I tell her. She looks around, grabbing a bottle from the mini fridge in the room. She pops it in a microwave, heating it quickly. She checks the temperature and pops it into Liam’s mouth, effectively quieting his cries.
“You stay here. I’m going to check on Anders and Calista.” She nods, walking and gently bouncing Liam as she feeds him.
I move quickly to their rooms, hearing the sounds of movement on the floors below us in the packhouse. Once I check to make sure they are alive, I pick them up and carry them to our room.
As I pass the nursery, I poke my head in and see Lily changing Liam. “They’re alive, I’m going to check
Leander and Estella now.”
I find Liam’s parents unconscious, but both are still alive. I quickly pick them up and move them to our room with Anders and Calista. I put them on the bed and go to get Lily. She follows me into our room and puts a now sleeping Liam in between his parents on the bed.
As quietly as possible, we close and lock our door, barricading it with dressers and anything else we can find. Once we’re done, we sneak out the window. She and I became adept at climbing on roofs when we’d sneak out to meet up at night. We make our way to the next floor down. I find the window and check to see that the hallway is empty. I raise the window and we slide in quietly.
We listen and don’t hear anyone on this floor yet. We check the rooms and pull the quests staying on the Beta floor into the Bela’s room, barricading it as best as possible before sneaking out the window and going down to the next floor.
This time, there are several warriors on the floor. Three of the four doors are open. I carefully pull open the window and slide inside, Lily right behind me. We can hear the sounds of several people in one of the rooms, laughing over the murders they are committing
We slide into the room, quietly. Lily and I quickly take down a warrior and I turn and slice the throat of the third in this room. Lily goes and checks the pack’s Gammas. She looks at me, shaking her head. We carefully walk out of the room, check the other three as we go. The Gamma children have also been murdered in their beds. However, we find that the other Alphas on this floor, Alpha Christopher and his mate and Alpha Eric, were left untouched. The must have drugged Luna Emily with something, since she’s human and the wolfsbane wouldn’t affect her.
We quietly make our way to the bottom floor of the packhouse. The omegas have been piled in the center of the floor. Some are awake and crying, while others are passed out, or at least I hope they are unconscious and not dead. Benjamin would have no reason to kill omegas.
As I look around, I see Lily put a finger to her lips, asking the omegas that are awake to stay quiet about our presence. They’ve been roughed up, but I see a couple of them nod and one carefully points to another hallway.
I nod and Lily and I begin to make our way to that hallway. We can hear the crying and pleading as they pull the omegas from their beds. They are dragging the ones that are unconscious by their hair or feet, not caring if they injure them.
Lily and I back up against the wall as one passes by us. She nods that she’ll take the one that just went by, and I turn to continue on. I hear the soft thud as the warrior hits the floor behind me. At that moment, another one comes out the door of a bedroom, pulling an omega with him. She is screaming and kicking trying to get away and it gives me the moment of distraction I need to slice my claws into his heart from behind.
The omegas eyes go wide, and I put my finger to my lips, telling her to stay quiet. “Hide.” I whisper to her. and she nods her head, turning to find a hiding spot in her room.
I feel Lily pass behind me, going to the next room. We continue down the hall taking out warriors one at a time, and then pulling them into rooms so it’s not obvious that they are dead to anyone glancing down the hallway. When we’re done, we’ve taken out another 20 warriors.
We quietly walk back to the main hall. The omegas are still sitting there. They look at us, their eyes going wide that we are back. I hear the sound of footfalls and watch as the omegas that are awake flinch.
“Where the fuck are the rest of the omegas?” I hear Alpha Benjamin shout. He’s not concerned that anyone but his pack members will hear him.
He turns and looks down the hall that we just left. Lily and I are skirting around the room, staying quiet and moving out of sight.
Benjamin calls out to the dead warriors down the hall. When no one answers, he turns, looking at the warriors that came in with him.
“Find the Guardian!”
Cooper Author
Alpha Benjamin is definitely making his move. Good thing there are two Guardians to help.
Clint and I work well together. Not only are we in tune as mates, but also having trained together for months. We trust each other and know that we’ve got each other’s back, so it frees us to be able to focus on the immediate battle in front of us.
When Benjamin tells them to search for me, we realize we have an advantage. He still hasn’t realized that Clint is awake. We both know we’re about to be in the fight of our lives. There is no one else to help us. The fate of this pack and possibly our own, lies with us.
“Stay together, Lily. We’re stronger together.” Clint says in our mind link.
I nod. We continue to move around the packhouse, taking out warriors. We hear Benjamin roar from above us. We realize he has found the three warriors we left dead and most likely realized that we’ve barricaded the others in the Beta’s room and our room.
When he comes back down, he pulls his ace card. He knows I won’t stand by and let him kill someone while I hide. He grabs one of the omegas from the floor, putting her in front of him. A claw extends and he lays it like a knife across her throat.
“Come out, Lily. I know it’s you killing my men. Come out now, and I won’t kill this innocent omega. You don’t want her blood on your hands, do you?”
“Lily, no!” Clint links me.
I turn to him, kissing him quickly. “I trust you. We can do this. You go around, get behind him. I’ll distract him.”
“Lily!” He says, but I’m already moving forward. I watch him dart away, not willing to leave me on my own against Benjamin and his remaining warriors. two
“Lily!” Benjamin calls out to me. “I’m going to count to three. One
I’m out of time and have to hope that Clint gets into position quickly. I step out of the shadows, closer than he was expecting me.