Page 134 of Rejected By the Alpha King

Lunessa was facing off with a witch. And a ghost.

Amaya.

Between them, Cam Lee lay in the leaves, stilled.

“You’re dead,” I said as I grabbed Jax’s shirt. “She’s dead. Am I hallucinating?”

“A ghost,” Jax breathed.

“Not a ghost,” Amaya said gleefully as she rose in the air.

Lunessa ran toward us. “Amaya has a twin.”

“And you’re avenging her death?” I asked cautiously. “We didn’t kill her.”

“No, of course not. I did. How else could I get on this land? She is my connection to combat your witch’s little spell. Where is she, by the way? I would have assumed she’d come to her friend’s aid.”

Irene. I couldn’t let her get to him. “I wouldn’t call her and Cam that close of friends.

Lunessa, are you all right?”

“Oh, the fair maiden? Second best in this fight, I’m afraid. For while Lunessa is restricted by the rules of white magic and her coven, I am not!”

Flinging her hand out toward Lunessa, she started chanting, and Lunessa gasped and started rising into the air, chest first.

“Time for you to die, Maiden.”

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“No!” Racing toward Lunessa, I pulled her back down and placed my hand on her chest.

The magic was there, buried deep, but I couldn’t draw it out fast enough.

Jax shifted and launched himself at Amaya’s twin, whatever her name was. He knocked her out of the air and sank his teeth into her. I focused on drawing the magic away from Lunessa, and when I was done, Lunessa gasped for breath. Jax yelped and flew through the air.

“A null,” the black witch hissed. “How interesting. A null and a wolf. Where did you come from, darling?”

She hadn’t known?

Lunessa stood, but the black witch shook her head. “Don’t bother. I’m already done here.”

She disappeared, and I ran to Jax’s side. He was slowly shifting back. “I’m fine,” he muttered. “I’m already healing.”

Turning, I raced to Cam. As soon as I knelt down by her, wolves shot out of the trees.

Some of them were from Jax’s pack. Jenson came with Irene in his arms.

London. Emerson. Maeve and all her guards.

I should have known that Lunessa’s scream would have woken them up and called to them. Her magic had pulled them all from their beds.

“No,” Maeve roared. “Cam!”

“She’s dead,” I said shakily.

“You,” she hissed. “You did this.”

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