Page 155 of A Chance at Love for the Twin Alphas

Oh fuck, this will take a while to heal once I shift back. I don’t care, though, lunging towards the shifters attacking us. Most of them are werewolves, but there are some werecats between them, and Cassiopeia grimly attacks them. Marcel and I take two of the wolves to our left while Henry runs headfirst into another one with Elise and Elodie as his backup. The trio easily overpowers the next bunch of wolves. Arman and Harmony have combined their attacks, too.

Meanwhile, Apophis and Maahes are still engaged in their fight, and it doesn’t look like either of them is winning.

I’m getting that fucking building down while we are out of it,Henry huffs.Elodie told me they placed one of the explosives. We did, too. That should be enough.

Do it!I agree.Let’s finish what we came for.

I watch him run off to where we hid our bags. One of the werecats tries to follow him, but Cassiopeia jumps onto their back and bites down on their neck, her regal jaguar easily overpowering its opponent. I decide to help Arman and Harmony with the four wolves attacking them. Harmony has it covered, so I join Arman and tackle one of the wolves latched onto his back. The both of us drop to the ground, but Lys jumps back up and buries his teeth into the wolf’s neck. It cracks with a sickening sound, and with that, the last of our attackers is finished.

Cassiopeia shifts back to her human form and hurries back to me. “Shift back, Anthony,” she mutters. “Your arm is hurt.”

Lys lies down on his stomach and groans while we slowly turn back to my human form. Harmony retrieves a blanket from somewhere, wrapping it around me. “Your arm looks nasty,” Elise mutters as she scoots closer.

Our other friends remained in their wolf form to make sure we are safe from attackers. I try to turn away from them to look at the two deities, my heart sinking at seeing how Apophis has wrapped his tail around Maahes and Maahes has his teeth deep in his neck… They are still going strong, but I know Maahes is fighting in Dalila’s body. Her body will give away eventually.

“What are you doing?” Cassiopeia asks me as I scramble to my feet.

“I need to go to my mate,” I mutter.

“Your mate has formed an alliance with Maahes,” Cassiopeia huffs. “You can’t go there. These two deities are fighting, and we would be collateral damage.”

I shake my head, my heart clenching at the thought of losing her. I saw her die today more than once, and although I know it was just a nightmare, it still felt real. It can become a reality, and I can’t allow that to happen.

The ground beneath us shakes once more, making us all flinch in shock as the remains of the cult base are ripped into pieces. Henry was successful, it seems, and he was right. The two explosives were enough to destroy everything. I can see him in Arlo’s form, running towards us again.

Maahes and Apophis have stopped their fight, too, for a moment. Maahes uses the moment to escape his opponent’s deathly grip. Before the two of them can lunge at each other again, a voice echoes through the place.

“ENOUGH!”

A hooded woman approaches us, her cat-like eyes scanning her surroundings. “Shift,” she tells us, her voice calm yet demanding, forcing the rest of us to shift back to our human form too. With a wave of her hand, she has dressed us all. She raises her brow when she sees Arman before turning to me. “You were about to go between two deities? Are you out of your mind?”

“My mate matters more than my life,” I tell her. She looks at me for a moment, her gaze softening.

“I know,” she says quietly.

Then she turns to the deities, who are still growling and hissing at each other. They have stopped their attack but kept their fighting stance.

“I said that’s enough,” she commands.

To my surprise, Maahes indeed takes a step back and shifts back to Dalila’s form. She is wavering a bit but remains uptight. I can’t believe how amazing she is. It only dawns on me now what she probably did to save us and how she was ready to accept all these changes around her life just like that.

“Mother,” Maahes bows his head.

Mother?

So that’s Bastet!

“I can understand your anger,” she tells him. “But killing Apophis is not a solution. The world needs chaos to an extent.” She furrows her brows to look at Apophis. “You went too far, Apophis. You attacked humans. You allowed your want for power to cloud your judgment. And your feud with Maahes made you try to bind him in a human’s mind. You need to answer for this in front of the other deities.”

He snarls at her. “I don’t need to answer you, Bastet.”

“I know, but do you want to answer to Isis or Osiris?” She furrows her brows while he seems to waver for a moment. “You are meddling with the humans, Apophis. This should be below you!”

“It is below me,” he huffs.

“Yet you mingled with the humans.”

“I used them!” he says, his expression angry. “They would have done what they did with or without me!”

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