Page 44 of My Bad Boy Alpha

“Too late for what?”

“Y-you’re going to die,” she cried, collapsing to her knees and shaking her head.“I saw it, Stone.He decapitated you.Your head was at my feet.Durnbone was in flames, crumbling, turning to dust.Girls were … girls were being raped.Boys taken as slaves …”

“Fuck,” James murmured from the other side of the room, running a hand through his messy hair.He looked up at me and spoke through the mind link.“If what she’s saying is true, then it’s just like the prophecy said.”

“Derrit hasn’t even made it halfway to Durnbone yet,” I said.

She wrapped her arms around herself.“You’re wrong.T-they’re already here.”

“What do you mean?”I asked.“Our spies said?—”

“Alpha,”one of my warriors, Calr, said through the mind link,“we spotted?—”

Suddenly, the mind link ended, my thoughts to Calr empty, which meant that …

James sprinted to the back door, shifted into his wolf, and ran into the forest, where Calr had been stationed tonight.Zuri sat in tears at my feet, grasping on to my thigh, like if she didn’t, then I would disappear.

“You have to believe me,” she whispered.“If we don’t stop him tonight, then Derrit will kill us all.”

CHAPTERTWENTY-NINE

ZURI

“We need a plan,”I said, hurrying after all the warrior wolves racing out of the house.

Stone rushed by me and headed for the back door, growling to himself.I ran up to him, grabbed his wrist, and dug my heels into the ground.If they ran out to Derrit blindly, then it would be even worse.

“Stone,” I attempted to reason, “please, you have to be careful.”

“We will.”

“You don’t know what he’s capable of,” I whispered.

Twirling around, Stone stopped at the back door.“Youhaven’t seen what I’m capable of.”

My eyes widened slightly, brow furrowing.I … he was right.I didn’t know what he was capable of, but I had seen what Derrit could do with his own magic.As far as I knew, Stone didn’t possess any kind of magic.At least none like that.

“You’re staying here,” Stone growled at me.

His eyes burned black, his canines dripped with thick saliva, and his claws extended far past where I had ever seen them.I hadn’t seen him this pissed since he’d brought me home and then gone back to my old pack to burn it to the ground.

Tears welled up in my eyes, but I refused to back down.“You’re not leaving me alone.”

After snarling at me, he turned toward the door.“Don’t leave my side and stay shifted.”

And then he leaped into the air, transformed into his large black wolf, and ran into the forest.I followed in his footsteps, shifting into my wolf and running after him, pushing myself so fast to catch up to him.

Halfway to the borders, he glanced over his shoulder at me.“Don’t fall behind.”

“We should go to his camp,”I said through the mind link.“This has to be a trap.”

“I’m going to murder him,”Stone said, running faster.

“You need to outsmart him.Not out-magic or out-muscle him.”

Wolves howled in the distance.I cursed underneath my breath and continued forward to catch up with Stone’s large beast.Two enemy wolves lunged at me from the back left, and I barely even caught sight of them before Stone turned and ripped their throats from their bodies.

They smacked against the ground with a thud as blood dripped from Stone’s canines.I jumped over Stone, spotting another wolf lunging toward us, and swiped my claws across his belly, so deep that his guts spilled out onto the ground.

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