Page 7 of Her Destined Alpha
I heard some commotion up ahead, and the scent suddenly became stronger. I sped up, and just then, I saw a slender young woman running toward me, looking over her shoulder. Her heart was pounding, her breathing heavy, her very pale hair covering her face. Two pairs of heavier footsteps were approaching as well, and the smell of witches mixed with her intoxicating one.
I froze on the spot, my heart pounding as I stared at the young woman – the source of that scent. The realisation struck me like a bolt of lightning.This girl… this human… she…
As she looked over her shoulder, she was so preoccupied with her own panic that she slammed straight into me. Sparks erupted, shooting through me like a sizzling live wire the moment our bodies made contact. She would’ve gone tumbling to the ground if I didn’t catch her. My hand snaked around her tiny waist, and she gasped, looking up at me. Her hands gripped the leather of my jacket. From behind her locks, her stunning, vibrant blue eyes widened. Never had I ever seen a prettier pair of eyes.
Her scent enveloped me, and the moment her breasts grazed against my thin shirt, my eyes flashed. The urge to mark her coursed through me.
Goddess…She’s my mate.
A Debt
Delsanra
“Hidden in plain sight… you have done well to stay under the radar. To think, we were passing through here by accident.”
I turned to look at the witch, who had black hair and piercing green eyes, wearing a black cloak. The man wore a leather jacket with a badge on his left upper arm that consisted of a black six-pointed star on a blood-red background. I knew who he was. A high knight of the Coven, a son of a powerful witch, something Dawson had been training to become years ago.
I didn’t recognise either of them, but they were both strong. When the knight project was established, I knew they were laying the groundwork for the formation of a powerful army.
I stepped back. It was too late to play dumb. They somehow knew who I was… how, though?
“You can drop the dumb act. She’s rather pretty for a cursed one, don’t you think?” the man muttered. He took something out of his pocket, and I frowned at what looked like papers with runes.
Hell, he had spells to hand! My powers were still suppressed by Endora, I could only do the bare minimum... at this rate, I wasn’t going to get far. But they could go fuck themselves if they thought I was just going to go with them without a fight.
“Piss off,” I said, mustering every ounce of venom I could muster into my voice as I threw the container of food at them. That was not something they had been expecting. It hit the woman, bursting open and covering her with spaghetti and whatever else Gwen had packed for me. I didn’t stop to see exactly what it had been. Instead, I turned and began running.
The man chanted, and I felt something whizz past me. Instinctively, I dived to the side just as a small explosion erupted in the spot I had been in seconds earlier.
If there was one thing that I was exceptionally good at, it was running. I was fast. Maybe it was the years of trying to escape and failing that made me continue to push myself. I had built my stamina up; I never knew when I would need it. The ground trembled as the woman whispered a spell. Shit, she was an earth witch!
I jumped over the growing cracks, speeding up. My heart thundered in my chest as I stared over my shoulder. Not looking where I was going, I turned a corner, my feet barely hitting the floor as I ran as fast as I could. Suddenly, I slammed into a wall of pure muscle and heat.
I gasped, my head snapping up to the dangerously handsome stranger I had knocked into. My stomach sank when I realised that it was a werewolf. His eyes flashed a dazzling emerald green as he looked down at me possessively.From one enemy… straight into the arms of another.
I tried to pull away, panic filling me as I stared over my shoulder, the shadow of the duo coming into view.
“Let go of me!”
Hell! He was strong! What was he made out of? Pure rock? His large hand held me tight; he didn’t even seem to move when I pushed against him with all my might.
“Fuck! Dude, let me go!”
Wasn’t it the Blood Moon? Wasn’t he meant to be doing something useful like wolves did on a Blood Moon?
He didn’t speak. His eyes were fixed on the two who had stopped. The tension in the air was so strong that I could have cut it with a knife.
“Give the girl to us, and you are free to leave,” the woman said with a cold smirk.
The hostility and hatred between our kinds had only grown in the last few years, and as much as this felt like the perfect moment to escape, I couldn’t. Firstly, the animal man was holding on to me like a treat he had just won, one he really seemed to want to devour, and secondly, it wasn’t his fight.
“Let go of me,” I commanded. He simply looked down at me as I glared at him with a deep frown. Argh! It didn’t work.
“Walk away, and no one gets hurt,” he said quietly to the others.
My heart thrummed strangely at the sound of his voice. It was deep and masculine with a sexy-Stop. Stop, Del.What the hell... was I actually checking out a werewolf? Gross.
He seemed familiar, but I’d remember if I saw someone so handsome. I frowned as my thoughts went in an unnecessary direction.
