Page 56 of Sold to the Alpha Wolf

His wolf form was broken and limping, his gorgeous white fur dotted with blood splatter, and still, he was trying to fight. My heart split in two, and I screamed out silently at seeing him like that. He leaped at Terrance, knocking the man backward.

They tumbled off the pile, but Terrance landed on top, standing to put his booted foot on Jet’s prone body. He shoved down, the sound of bones crunching beneath the weight of the evil wolf’s assault.

“You’re weak. Everything will be mine.”

In the vision, Terrance looked up, making eye contact with me, and it was as good as being punched in the chest.

“You will be mine.”

Terrance stooped low, reaching for Jet’s head. He twisted my mate by the neck until a horrible crack echoed through my mind, and Jet went limp.

“No!” My voice tore into reality, and I screamed and screamed until the room came back into focus.

“Senna!” Kaiden was at my side, holding me up by the elbow. “What happened? What did you see?”

I snapped my attention to him, meeting his eyes as tears poured from my own.

“Jet. Terrance is going to kill Jet. I just know it. We have to do something.”

“Senna, we can’t—”

“Please!” I gripped his shirt, pulling hard until Kaiden was inches from me. “We have to do something. He’s going to die unless we leave this room right now.”

He hesitated, and the burning well of fury in my gut grew stronger. I connected to something deep in there. Channeling it with everything I had, I stood up and glared down at Kaiden.

“If you won’t help me, you best get out of my way, pup.” My voice rumbled, a growl forming through the words even when I didn’t have one. “I will go to my mate, and I will tear apart anything that keeps me from him.”

Realization dawned on Kaiden’s face, backed by an awe that I couldn’t allow myself to consider. He stood up, nodding once and going to the door to unlock it.

As I walked up, he turned and met my eyes. “I promised to protect you, Senna. And I will do that. But I have also vowed to aid my alpha whenever I can, and I will not let him fight alone.”

Warmth surged behind my ribs, equal parts wrath and respect. Holding Kaiden’s stare, I allowed whatever it was that was offering me this newfound strength to take over. He pulled open the door, checking both directions before giving the signal to leave.

And then we ran.

Just a few more feet down the hallway, and the area erupted into chaos. Wolves from the Collins pack leaped for us, knocking me back into the wall.

The hard surface smashed into my spine, but I ignored it. Jet needed me. Instincts I’d never known kicked in, and I reached up toward the wolf’s snapping jaws, hunting for its eyes. I lined up, jabbing my finger into the soft flesh and then kneed upward as hard as I could.

The attacker was thrown off balance, and I rammed forward, forcing him back in a hard shove until he hit the banister and tumbled over.

I may have recognized him, but the cold numbness of survival had taken over.

“Senna! Come on!”

Kaiden hadn’t shifted yet, and he gestured toward the far end of the hall for the stairs down. He’d managed to knock out the two wolves attacking him, but his arms were covered in thin slashes from their claws.

I rushed after him, but my heart pinched as we hurried down the stairs. Injured wolves were scattered on the floor. I couldn’t tell friends from foes, and something inside me knew that the window of time to get to Jet was shrinking rapidly.

I also didn’t know where he was.

“Where would he have gone?!” I called out to Kaiden. “Where would Jet have lured Terrance if he could?”

Kaiden whipped his head back and forth, looking across the house for threats and considering my question.

“He wouldn’t want him downstairs. If he got that far…can you scent him?”

There was so much blood already, the frenzy of the house letting in too many smells and sounds for me to concentrate. I couldn’t remember what Jet had said about the protocol during an attack. I was fucking useless.

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