Page 33 of Rise of the Alpha

“Come on, Magnolia, let's go get a table. Zeke should be up soon,” Blaine says as he leads us over to a table right off the bar separating the cage pit from the rest of the room.

The table has a perfect view of the bloodbath taking place in the ring. The poor soul on the floor isn’t even conscious, and they still haven’t called the fight. The six-foot-four man is lording above him, gloating, before finally sending a kick to his gut. Turning to the crowd, he holds his hands up in the air as the music goes off and Viking is announced the winner.

Wylla is giddy, her eyes wide as she takes in the scene before us as she bounces around in the chair screaming out, “Hell yeah! You fucked his ass up.”

The winner leaves the cage as three men with red shirts on with medic written on them rush into the cage with a stretcher, load the crumpled form on the floor onto it and rush him out.

“How about that, ladies and gentlemen?Club KOhas a special treat for you tonight. A fight that wasn’t on the docket. So get out your money, it's one you’re going to want to bet on. Just a few weeks ago, these two were in this very ring. One walked out and one crawled out crying, ‘wah wah wahall the way home’. First up, we have Elizan,” the emcee announces as a six-foot-four man comes out from the hallway to the right of the ring. He bounces around on the balls of his feet as he makes his way down the aisle. His body is covered in tattoos, and his hair is cut close to the scalp. Thumping hip-hop music plays until he steps inside the cage and shakes hands with the referee standing inside. “Next, we have a man who needs no introduction. Bone Crusher.”Bodiesby Drowning Pool begins to play over the speakers as both Blaine and Jude high-five each other.

“Just watch. You’ve never seen anything like this,” Blaine leans into me and whispers in my ear.

I’m looking frantically around, waiting to see who Bone Crusher is when I see Zeke step out of the hallway to the left. He has a stone-cold look on his face as he takes his time making his way down the aisle to the cage.

“Zeke, Zeke!!” I scream out, but he can’t hear me over the roar of the crowd. He steps into the cage and shakes the ref’s hand. Zeke and Elizan stand toe to toe, with the latter towering a good four or five inches over Zeke.

My heart drops into my stomach. My poor Zeke is going to get hurt, and it’s all my fault. Blaine said he’s only here because of how I treated him this afternoon when he confessed to me.

The ref moves out of the cage, slamming the door shut behind him. Zeke’s opponent takes that as the perfect time to attack. Zeke is quick though and drops to the floor, sweeping his leg around, and kicks Elizan’s legs out from under him, sending him slamming down to the floor.

The man quickly recovers, doing a kip up, landing firmly on his feet at the same time, throwing a punch, and catching Zeke across the jaw. Zeke fucking laughs.

“Zeke,” I scream out again. This time he hears me as he turns his head and locks eyes with me. My stupidity in calling him causes him to lose focus of the fight, and he’s caught with another punch, catching him right in the eye.

“FUCK!” Jude screams out

“Get your head in the game, Z! Show him who you are,” Blaine screams out.

“Shit, that had to hurt, but fuck, if this isn’t exciting,” Wylla cries out as she wraps her arm around my waist, pulling me into her. “He’s going to be okay,” she says comfortingly.

I bring my hand to my mouth and start to nervously chew on my nail. Zeke regains his composure, and the two of them begin to throw punch after punch at each other. This seems to go on forever, both of them bleeding from their face until Zeke jumps up doing a roundhouse kick that lands against the huge fucker’s temple, and he flies backward, hitting his head on the mat. Zeke uses this opportunity to jump on top of him, straddling his body as he begins to lay a series of punches to his face.

I can’t just sit here. I need to get to him. Looking around, I find a gate that leads to the area around the cage and take off in a sprint to it.

“Sorry, lady, you can’t pass here,” the guard tells me as he stops me from entering. I’ve lost track of what’s going on in the ring, but from the screams, it must be coming close to an end.

“You’re not fucking keeping me from him,” I growl out, baring my teeth to the jerk, before calling on every ounce of strength I have, pushing him away, and running to the cage.

“And the winner is Bone Crusher,” the emcee announces, and I can see Zeke stepping out of the cage.

“Zeke!” I scream out, getting his attention, as I barrel straight toward him, jumping into his arms, and slamming my lips onto his. His hands grip my ass as he deepens the kiss.

Blaine

Isthishowlifeis always going to be with this woman? Chasing her ass around because she just runs off? This is becoming a habit of hers, and the only good thing about chasing after her is getting to watch her plump ass bounce with each step she takes.

Following her through the crowd of people in the pit area surrounding the cage, I can see every man and woman’s lust-filled eyes on her. I make sure to keep an eye on Magnolia as she so recklessly runs toward the fight, the crowd parting for her like the sea. I’m not taking any more chances on someone grabbing her like that asshole did before the fight. I thought Jude was about to shift and go full demon on his ass. People think that his only power is sex, but his demon side actually has increased speed and strength, along with the fact that he can suck a person’s soul out of them with his kiss of death.

He doesn’t use it unless he’s sent to do something for the demon court, but I think he was about to change that when scar face touched our girl. Luckily, atClub KO,all we had to do was mention who she was here for and he unhanded her quickly. No one around here will dare fuck with Bone Crusher. Our girl is about to find that out firsthand.

It’s been adorable watching her worry about him. Thinking, since he’s a ferret, he would be injured or killed. She was chewing her nails, fretting over him being hurt. As if anyone stands a chance in a fight with him. When he took that hit to the face when he noticed her in the crowd, she turned ghostly white and jetted from our table to get to him, acting as if her worst fear had come to life.

So here I am, following her through the crowd until we come to an abrupt stop. I look up from her delectable ass to see why we halted our journey. We’ve made it to the gate that leads directly to the cage. The guard is informing Magnolia she can’t get through, but she shoves him away like he’s a piss ant, and barrels toward the winner, Bone Crusher, otherwise known as Zeke.

He catches her in his arms and their lips connect.MINE!My wolf growls, watching our mate so easily kiss Z when she has continuously rejected us. I soothe him by telling him she’ll beours.We just need to be patient. He settles slightly, but I can feel him pacing inside me as we watch our friend taste our girl.

They’re too wrapped up in each other to notice the rest of us standing here watching them make out. I clear my throat, “Can you quit eating my mate’s face, Bone Crusher?”

Magnolia breaks the kiss and climbs off of Zeke, his eyes widening in recognition of what just happened. Magnolia wastes no time in spinning around and chastising me, “You don’t own me, wolf boy.” I raise an eyebrow at her, silently asking her if she’s sure about that. Paying me no mind, she turns her attention back to the ferret.

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