Page 42 of Alpha On The Hunt: My Luna Stole My Sons

The women downstairs look out into the fields, and the others try to hide the children, screaming, tossing themselves in front of the kids, and backing up toward my mother when she looks up at me. Wolves step out from between the barn and the mobile homes, and I gasp, realizing we are under attack.

Snatching the phone off the ground, I rush out of my room when Sondra comes out of hers.

“Elena?” she calls, and I grab her arms. “Lock yourself in the room with my boys. I will send Luke to you. Go!”

“Elena, what’s going on?” Axton demands at the same time Sondra does.

“My father’s pack is here,” I tell him, and Sondra gasps rushing into her room. “Go, I’ll get the boys!” She yells as I race for the stairs, still breathless from Noleen’s tether breaking.

I run for the stairs, skipping a few in my haste when pain ripples through the pack link, and I stagger on the stairs clutching the banister. “Lacy,” I curse, feeling her tether snap as I open the pack link, telling the women on patrol at the back end we are under attack and to head home.

“I’m on my way!” Axton says, but I can’t answer him when my head is filled with my pack’s voices.

Dropping the phone, I feel Lexa lurch forward, waiting for me to finish with the pack-link, when I hear my mother scream. My feet thud on the stairs as I race down them, hearing all the women screaming and the sounds of fighting. My mother is screaming for Luke, and he is for her when I burst out the door to find the car is the same one that followed me, and my father is trying to rip Luke into the backseat.

My mother grabs my father’s arm when he grabs her hair, also trying to drag her to the backseat while my mother pleads for him to let Luke go.

It is utter chaos. Within seconds, my father’s pack has us entirely surrounded, and the women are backed into a corner, trying to shield their kids.

“Let them go!” I snarl at my father, and I feel Lexa press forward, my claws lengthening, and my father looks up. He sneers at me, and I walk down the steps, tossing the phone onto a chair nearby. I can hear Axton demanding to know what is going on, but I can’t speak to him and deal with the problem at hand.

“You dare sabotage my name, think you can kidnap my son and mate! Then have the audacity to claim my pack!” My father roars as his pack warriors close in around me.

“My pack, now let him go!”

“She moves; kill her!” My father orders his pack. I glance at my father’s warriors, who seem unsure as they glance between us.

“Derrick, please, I will come back. Just leave Luke here. You’re scaring him.” My mother pleads while gripping his forearm.

He looks at her, and he cups her cheek with his hand. My mother leans into his touch, but I know better; I know she is playing along, for Luke’s sake. Luke peers out at me, tears rolling down his face, which is blotchy when my father’s hand on my mother’s face turns from affection to cruelty as he grips her hair and her ear, jerking her closer.

“You rejected me, love. Now you’ll learn what betrayal earns you.” He sneers, and my mother’s features harden like a rock as her canines slip out.

“You were always a fucking coward!” She snarls before shifting and attacking him.

Chapter Thirty-One

Gasps break out from my father’s pack surrounding me, and I move to help her, only for them to close in, pressing closer.

“Elena, please.” Ben, one of my father’s warriors, pleads with me to not interfere.

“Stand down!” I snarl at them. But they just move closer, yet cast nervous glances at my mother and father when I hear her whimper. Casting my eyes back to them, my father has her white wolf by the scruff of her neck, holding her head to the ground.

My mother thrashes, yet she is weaker, no match for him. Luke is frantically kicking the door when I hear the glass shatter, and he tries to climb out the window.

“Submit!” my father screams at her, and I shake my head at Luke, telling him not to interfere.

“Derrick?” My father’s gamma looks at him, unsure. “You’re hurting your Luna.” The man stammers, taking a step toward her. My father snarls in return when my mother twists her head, her eyes locking with mine.

“You know what she did! Know your place, or I’ll banish you!” He growls, his aura smashing his gamma, forcing him to bare his neck and submit to him.

“Axton?” my mother asks through the mind link, and my stomach drops. My tiny pack is no match for my father’s, and I’m no match to take them on, even being an alpha. We are vastly outnumbered, and with so many children present, it could quickly become a tragedy.

“He’ll get here,” I reply, glancing around at the women and opening the link.

“We need these children gone!” Lexa tells me.

“The moment I move, get the children out of here. They’ll come for me. Get them out.”

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