Alpha Kane
My muscles were tense, my body was frozen, and I fought the urge to reclaim what was mine. As much as I hated it, Zara was right. The pack needed their Alpha fighting by their side. I wouldn’t make the sa decision as Marcus.
If my pack died, I would stay with them until the end, and I knew Zara would do the sa. Heeding her words, I sent a group of my most talented warriors to her aid. I also sent Ryan and Mason, giving her so familiar faces.
I wasn’t sure what she’d endured during her ti with Father, but I could only hope Ryan and Mason would remind her of what awaited her.
As the sun began to set, most of the warriors headed to the northern part of the city. There was a small grassy clearing there beyond the tree line, and I hoped we could focus the bulk of the fight there. The less damage the city suffered, the better.
Beyond the whispers, an oppressive sense of foreboding hung in the air. It seed the entire Sterling Empire, my empire, was holding its breath.
Every empty house, school, and store waited, waiting to see if they would be standing by the morning. I sent a small group of scouts into the forest, ordering them to remain hidden at all costs. Their sole purpose was to warn us when the King’s forces began advancing through the forest.
An hour after arriving at the battlefield, Ryan and Mason established a ntal link with .
"We got her, Alpha," Ryan said through the ntal link, and I breathed a sigh of relief, unaware I’d been holding it. The tension of the week lifted from my shoulders, and I felt lighter. However, the feeling was short-lived, as Mason intervened, his voice filled with suspicion and irritation.
"Changed plans," Mason grumbled. "She’s forcing us to take Marcus and so girl she calls her sister."
A wave of anger shot through at the ntion of his na. Marcus was always trying to get into her heart and into her pants while working for her Father. I might not have deserved Zara, but he was far from ever being worthy of her.
"If we can’t trust our chosen one, who can trust?" my wolf interjected. My wolf was usually hot-tempered,
But the trust he felt in Zara was incredible. Fragile. No matter how much he hated Marcus, he believed she had made the right decision.
Grinding my teeth until my jaw hurt, I suppressed the anger seething within . A million questions swirled in my head, none of which I could answer right now. If we survived, I would get answers.
I had a sneaking suspicion that her information had co from Marcus, and I wondered whose side he had ultimately sided with. If the information he’d given Zara was wrong, and this whole thing had been a setup, I would make it my goal to take his life first.
"Trust Zara, Mason." I hardened my voice, but refrained from using the Alpha command. I’d never had to use it before, and I had no intention of doing so now. Taking away soone’s free will was a good way to lose their loyalty.
Before I could say anything else, I felt the connection tremble in my mind. Zara’s presence was faint, but I could feel it. After a week of feeling nothing from her, I could detect even the faintest trace of her in my mind.
The mory of her scent enveloped , displacing all emotion except a grim resolve. We would see each other again after this battle was won.
"Zara! Zara, are you there?" I called to her, trying to strengthen the connection and heal her of the silver that blocked our bond. "I can feel you. The connection... It’s faint, but I can feel it."
Another voice echoed in my head, causing my muscles to tense and the wolf to growl. The scouts I’d sent into the forest had reported news. They were approaching, moving from the north, just as Zara had predicted.
"We see them, Alpha." The voice of one of the warriors filled my head, pushing aside her. "A three-minute walk."
The small group of warriors I’d dispatched to the city confird this. The King’s forces were moving forward, advancing through the city and heading north. What intrigued most was that one of the warriors swore he’d seen the King among his own troops.
The warrior wasn’t sure, having never seen him in person before, but he noticed how the other seed to have ford a barrier around him, considering him important.
"Go around it and co back here. I don’t want any of you stuck behind them," I told the warrior, breaking the ntal connection.
"I’m here! Kane, I’m here!" she called after a few monts of silence. Her voice was quiet, as if she were shouting from a long corridor, but it still made my stomach clench, and my heart flutter. "Did sothing happen?" What happened?
"Everyone was safely evacuated," I told her. "Wherever you got that information, it was correct. Your father’s n ca from the north. The rest are moving through the empire, trying to ambush us. They’re here, Zara. The war is beginning."
I’d seen many battles as a teenager and as an Alpha, but I’d never seen war. The mont the brown wolves erged from the tree line, all hell broke loose.
I had only a split second to see realization dawn in their eyes before they all rushed forward, a sea of dark clothing and the cunning glint of silver blades.
The sound of ripping clothes filled the air as many warriors transford into wolves. So chose to remain human until the last mont, while others transford and charged the brown wolves. As brown wolves and our clash on the battlefield, the sound echoed through the night.
I t Zeke’s gaze, usually carefree and playful, but this ti, a similar look of determination appeared on his face. I called my wolf, and within seconds, he was standing on all fours.
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