Page 110 of The Alpha's Fated Destiny

I lift my eyes, looking at the sky and Elsa asks, “What are you looking for?”

I can’t answer her. Karina overhears and laughs. “Praying to the Goddess isn’t going to help. She’s not the one with your life in her hands. I am!”

But just as she utters the words, a single firework shoots out of the trees into the sky. It is followed by eight more fireworks, all from different locations, all magnified by one singular witch.

I can feel the barrier cracking, but I can’t help the smile that spreads across my face.

“Sophia! The barrier!” Elsa shouts out.

But I have no more power left.

I slump to the ground and start laughing, a hysterical sound filled with relief.

Karina looks wary and I flip her off. “Up yours, bitch.”

As soon as I say that, the Northern Alphas stop fighting and turn around. They go for the throats of Karina’s soldiers.

The North has finally joined in.

Their children are safe.

“What is going on?” Elsa asks, bewildered.

At the same time, Karina shrieks, “What are you doing?”

It’s not just the Alphas who have turned on Karina’s soldiers. It is every soldier who arrived with the Alphas of the North. Karina’s soldiers are being pushed back with this new assault. It is now the entire three alliances against Karina’s pack. I see the alarm in her eyes. It is the first time I’ve seen fear in her eyes since the attack began. She had anticipated everything but this.

“Have you lost your minds?!” she shouts. “Your children will pay the price…”

I laugh. “No, they won’t. You can’t touch the children anymore.”

Both Elsa and Karina look at me.

“You!” Karina spits out, immediately concluding that I had something to do with this. “What have you done?”

“What were those fireworks, Sophia?” Elsa asks.

I look at Karina, exhausted but smug. “Did you think I would just come here with only the soldiers from the South Alliance? No. Ispent two days reaching out to the Alphas of the North. I created barriers for their children.”

I let Elsa help me to my feet, enjoying the look on the Queen’s face. “It wasn’t easy, considering the distance, but I managed to contact a few witches. A few very strong witches. Friends of a friend, you could say.”

Marlene had been more than willing to give me the information for the few remaining witches in the North who did not belong to any coven. Contacting them had been a struggle, and convincing them to help me had been even harder.

“They were willing to act as a conduit,” I say. “You’re right. You know a lot more about magic than I do. But the Silver Wolf has a different type of magic. I can create magic out of nothing. So, I took a very big risk. The barrier that you just broke right now? I built multiple barriers of the same kind around every nursery within each pack. Even if the nannies and the soldiers die, their link to the children will not affect them. Only I can enter those barriers and break the link once I’m inside. The Alphas of the North need me alive now. I am the only one who can unlink the lives of their pups from your people. They agreed to this. The last barrier just went up now. And the signal was sent. You can’t use the children against them anymore, Karina. It’s over. You’ve lost your last bit of leverage over them.”

The only reason Karina had strength in numbers was because she had the soldiers from every pack on her side. That’s why it was so easy for her to watch them die. But now her fighting force has been cut down by more than half. While her own personal army is still large, they are nothing against the might of all three alliances combined.

The tide of the battle has changed and not in Karina’s favor.

Karina seethes. “You think you’ve won? You foolish girl! Your barrier is down. Now nothing stands in my way!”

The witches launch another attack on me but while I can no longer sustain the barrier, I’m not completely depleted. I block the attack with a massive fireball. The screams of the witches and wolves echo in my ears, and I harden my heart. “I am not as defenseless as you think.”

Karina snarls, and then screams at the witches, “Capture her and her mother. That is an order!”

The witches turn their full attention on me, but I am ready for them.

They shoot their flaming arrows at me and I keep blowing them up. Elsa looks shocked by the strength of my attacks. “When did you…?”

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