Page 76 of Cruel Alpha Bully

From the way the alpha looks around, I can tell he doesn’t care that much about his pack. He obviously still holds some hope he might get out of this with his life. And with Gina, too.

He drops the blade, shaking his head as he takes a couple of steps away from it. I wait for him to get closer, wondering how he’s going to attack.

Suddenly, he lunges at me, thrusting his shoulder into my guts. He takes me off-guard, and we both hit the ground. Before I can recover from the shock, he punches me in the face. I flip my body and throw him over my head, using the momentum to jump back up on my feet and spin to face him.

He comes at me again, but I’m ready for him this time. I sidestep and land a kick in his ribs that makes him stagger away from me. I charge in again, hitting him in the knee, and he falls.

The wounded alpha gets up on his knees and stares up at me. There’s a trickle of blood at the edge of his lip, and his eyes look dull and defeated.

I step forward, coiling the strength of my whole body into one devastating punch. As I commit to the movement, I see a flash of triumph in the other alpha’s eyes and a glint of silver by my face.

The knife!

He deliberately moved the fight back to where he dropped the knife on the ground so he could try to use it to kill me. I can see it flashing towards my neck, but I can’t avoid it. The best I can do is twist in midair, and the blade cuts into my shoulder.

A cry of pain rips out of my throat as I hit the ground. I can hear Gina screaming, a note of pure terror that cuts through the sounds of barks and howls from the other packs. I know my wolves want to jump in, but they have honor, and they won’t move against the other alpha.

Small skirmishes are breaking out, though, as enemy wolves break ranks to try and join the fight. As I roll on the ground in a pool of my own blood, I wonder how these disgusting creatures could even be related to me.

As I roll onto my back to look up and face the other alpha, I feel a tingle run through me. It intensifies in my blood until it feels like I’m surging with electricity. It’s so powerful, it feels like my hair is standing on end over every inch of my body.

The sun finally slips away, and the golden light leaves the sky. On the opposite horizon, the silver light of the moon lances across the countryside, almost dizzying in its brightness.

Even though we don’t need the full moon to shift, we are always more powerful under the full moon’s light. I can feel the change coming over me, and it’s never felt like this before. With every breath, I seem to be drawing strength from the land, the sky, the stars, and the moon.

A scream bursts from my throat that swiftly becomes a howl as my body changes. I feel bigger and more powerful than I’ve ever been as I spring off the ground at the other alpha, straight at his throat.

He yells in surprise as I crash into him, dropping the knife as he hits the ground. He manages to hold my snapping jaws away from his face, but he can’t rise, either.

That’s when I realize whatever magic is affecting me, he can’t feel it.

He might be in touch with his wolf, but he is not in harmony with the mountains!

I go for his throat with my jaws, and he slithers out from under me, finally shifting. Compared to me, he looks like a skinny, shrunken dog. I charge him, and he drops to the ground, coming up underneath me to snap at my throat.

He latches on but can’t get a good hold through my thick fur. I shake him off, and he rolls away, coming up on all four paws to snarl at me.

I wait, crouching in front of him, feeling all my strength and power running through me. I see the faint shiver run through him as he prepares for his final move.

Now.

The alpha leaps, and I meet him in the air. There is a brief struggle, but I manage to get my jaws around his throat before we hit the ground.

With one swift shake of my head, I snap his neck.

Silence falls around the circle. The girl on the bike lets go of Gina, who runs towards me. I shift back and hold out my arms to her. She wraps her arms around me, and I hold her close against my chest.

The enemy wolves stare at us and the dead alpha. My pack begins to close in on them, and I can hear a low growl rising in the circle.

Feeding frenzy imminent.

“You have one chance, right now, to leave!” I call out to the enemy pack. “Any wolf who flees here now shall have their life—but only if no member of your pack ever returns here.”

I wrap my arm around Gina even tighter and look around to make sure all of them can hear me.

“If any of you ever set foot in my territory again, my pack and I will hunt you down and kill you. Every last one of you!”

There is a brief moment of stillness, then all the enemy wolves flee. Some run for their motorcycles and ride out of town, while others scamper off in wolf form as fast as their paws can carry them.

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