Page 40 of The Beast's Baby
Effectively she had freed them as well.
“She must think we wouldn’t get far,” Jay commented.
“True,” Isobel agreed. “But what doyouthink?”
Then a soft growl was heard from the darkness of the corridor and the following moment two glowing eyes met hers. The wolf was huge, coming into view through the broken glass, and she noted that its fur was silver-grey.
Alpha.
Her wolf growled, but it was in greeting more than it was in a warning for him to stay out. She felt the tug within. The one she had felt in the factory the previous night. The one that urged her to bend her head in obedience. It was stronger this time around. As though their closed quarters and the darkness served to make his presence more potent. He growled, taking a step forward so that his head slowly entered through the broken window, filling up the space. She took a step back but paused.
She narrowed her eyes, staring into the wolf’s golden glow.
“Are you Brendan Rosen?” she asked.
The wolf snarled softly.
Yes.
His voice in her head.
The moment the word was spoken she knew she had nothing to fear from him, and yet she felt afraid. She felt afraid of what he wanted to do with her child and what it might make of her that she was born from parents such as this. She’d never felt as though she quite knew her place in the world, but very swiftly she was growing fully aware of how her place sure as hell wasn’t here.
With these people.
She looked over at Jay. His eyes were glued to the wolf. Unsurprisingly.
She turned her eyes back on her father.
Her father, the Alpha.
For a dizzying second, she felt as though she was about to lose her mind. Her brain wanted to shut down. There had been enough shocking revelation to last her a lifetime and it was now that her brain should take over and simply shield her from it all. Have her hide under the covers and roll into a ball. She could wait there for it all to be over, couldn’t she?
But no.
There was the gentlest flutter in the middle of her stomach that told her she couldn’t. And perhaps it was all in her head, because surely there was no way that she could feel her baby this early, but it didn’t really matter.
“Let us out,” she said to the Alpha. “Let us go.”
The wolf glared at her. He didn’t respond. Didn’t move an inch.
Your brothers are here, he said.
Her eyes widened. “What?” she asked.
I can smell them. So can your mother. They don’t stand a chance against the pack.
“You can’t kill them,” she protested.
We won’t. But they’ll be captured and the people who are with them will be put in cells too. Like this one. Unless you save them.
“What are you talking about?”
“What is he saying?” Jay cut in, getting to his feet, but she held a hand up briefly to ask him to be patient. She couldn’t fill him in right then.
Tell them to turn back, her father said.
How?she asked.
