Page 46 of Betrayed By the Alpha Wolf

“Hey!” I shouted at him, letting the anger I’d been struggling to contain bleed into my words. “What the fuck did you do? Huh, asshole?!”

Leon turned and snarled at me, which was exactly what I wanted. His focus needed to be entirely on me. As he stalked forward, leaving Jet and Kenzie behind him, I squared off against him. A deep growl rumbled through me, and I bared my fangs as they descended into my mouth.

He leaped for me, and I let myself go down on my back so that I could catch him. Holding the wolf at bay, I squeezed around Leon’s throat, cutting off his air. As his eyes bulged, Leon squirming for air, Jet hurried up behind him, helping me to pin the wolf in place.

“Kenzie!”

She rushed forward and reached for Leon’s neck, finding the sensitive nerves at the base of his skull and helping me to get him passed out in a matter of seconds. Kenzie was so intimatelyfamiliar with both the human and wolf bodies that she was a formidable threat.

Leon went down like a sack of potatoes, and Jet and I hurried to get him back down the stairs to the cells and locked him back up. The carnage in front of Leon’s cell was enough to turn my stomach, and I stooped beside each body to check for a pulse.

Pine and Ash were dead, and my chest pinched. I’d already lost two of my wolves—hell of a way to start my time as Alpha.

“This is horrific. It’s like the drug cases from Kaiden’s.” Jet stooped beside me, looking over the wolven bodies that were stained with each other’s blood. “Ugh, I can smell that shit everywhere.”

I nodded, and then something hit me. “Shit, where is Kaiden? And Kit? The other Alphas…why were just Cade and Alder left out?”

“I don’t know, but we need to get back to Senna and grab them. She’s not going to be able to keep them frozen like that for much longer.”

Standing up, we both ran toward the door, but a low groan stopped me in my tracks. When I turned back over my shoulder, Choal was shifting ever so slightly on the ground, still in his human form.

“Choal!” I rushed over. “You’re going to be okay. Kenzie!”

I called out for her again, and it wasn’t long before she was down the stairs and at Choal’s side.

“Holy…Umm, get to Senna. The magic is waning, and those Alphas need to be dealt with. I’ve got this.”

Nodding at her, I held her eyes for just a moment. Confidence in her radiated from me, and the worry that was charring her scent eased up just slightly.

Jet and I hurried back up the stairs, leaving Choal in the hands of Kenzie, and the last thing I heard from her was a shout to find Forrest.

When we reached the main entry again, Senna was shaking from trying to hold the magic for so long. Kaiden was hurrying down the stairs as well, and when I saw him, relief flooded through me.

“What the…” His words trailed off as he reached the bottom of the steps. “I was locked in my room. So are Brooks and Rowan. Both of them told me to just get down here, so…”

“It was Leon.” I glared at nothing in particular as I spoke, then gestured to Cade and Alder. “They’ve been hit with the drugs. We need to get them contained.”

Kaiden nodded, and as a group, we rushed up to Senna. “Can you release it on just Alder first? The three of us will restrain him and get him down into a cell.”

My friend’s question was brilliant, and Senna nodded. “Just don’t take much longer. This is fucking hard.”

“Got it,” I asserted, positioning myself behind Alder while Jet and Kaiden took his right and left sides.

Senna dropped her concentration on Alder, and he sprung back into time, rushing and thrashing as we grabbed him and kept the guy from leaping forward and tearing into Senna.

“Go!”

We were in action in seconds, heeding Senna’s warning about holding the magic and getting Alder downstairs into a cell as quickly as we could. He hadn’t shifted yet, which was a damnmiracle, but his fangs and claws had elongated, slashing into all of us as we bodied him and tossed him into one of the cells.

Just as the door slammed shut, he leaped into the bars, reaching through them to claw at me. Alder caught the front of my shirt, tearing through the fabric and my skin. Blood welled to the surface, but it wasn’t too bad aside from the fact that it stung like bitch.

“Ugh, let’s get Cade before he does even more damage.”

The trip to get Cade locked up next to Alder was just as entertaining, with several more slashes and gouges because he decided to fucking shift in the middle of carrying him. Jet, Kaiden, and I were littered with cuts and claw marks from head to fucking toe, and I was going to rip Leon apart for this.

Another massive boom rocked the compound, and I groaned, cursing under my breath as I paused with Jet and Kaiden on the stairs back up to the main floor.

“Seriously? What now?”

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