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The Alpha’s Second Life 72
"Cover your mouths! Get back into the tunnels!"Richard’s voice cracked like a whip over the panic. Above us, the gray sky didn't drop water. It dropped dust. A fine, metallic mist that caught the morning light, turning the air into a haze of pulverized silver. My lungs burned at the first whiff. It wasn't just poison; it was a cage."Richard, wait—" I grabbed his arm. My fingers slipped against the sweat and grit on his bicep. "Don't shift! If you shift now, the intake will kill you in seconds!"He turned, his eyes already bleeding into that frantic Alpha gold. "My scouts are out there, Joshua! They’re hitting the dirt and they aren't getting back up!"Across the clearing, three of the Ridge guards had fallen. They weren't dead yet. They were worse. They were shifting involuntarily, their bodies caught in a spasming mid-point between human and wolf. The silver rain hit their open pores, sizzling. They clawed at their throats, coughing up thick, black bile that smoked when it hit the
The Alpha’s Second Life 71
"Don't move, Bianca."The words didn't come from my throat. They came from the room itself. The floorboards vibrated. Dust shook from the ceiling. Bianca’s body slammed into the stone floor as if an invisible hand had just crushed her spine. She let out a choked, wet sound—half-sob, half-grunt."Joshua, stop!" Richard’s voice was a ragged scrape. He was on one knee, his claws digging into the dirt, fighting the pressure. "You’re... you’re suffocating the whole pack."I didn't look at him. I couldn't. My vision was a jagged smear of violet and white light. The silver heat in my stomach was moving upward, a rising tide of liquid metal that made my skin feel like it was cracking. I looked down at Bianca. She was clawing at the floor, her fingernails ripping against the wood."You came here to bleed me." I stepped toward her. Each footfall sounded like a drum in a cathedral. "You wanted to sell the miracle.""Please" Bianca’s face was pressed into the dirt. Snot ran down her lip, mixing w
The Alpha’s Second Life 70
"Don't even try to stand up."Bianca hit the floor. Hard. The silver dagger she’d been holding skittered across the stone, its metal screaming against the granite. She tried to push herself up, her muscles bunching, her eyes bleeding into that predatory gold. She was halfway through the shift, fur sprouting along her jaw, teeth lengthening into yellowed points.Then she stopped.The air in the cabin didn't just get heavy; it turned to lead. My voice hadn't been loud, but the vibration of it sent a shockwave through the room that shattered the glass in the window frames. Bianca’s jaw snapped shut. Her wolf—the thing she’d spent thirty years sharpening into a weapon—whimpered. It didn't just retreat; it curled up and died inside her."What... what did you..." Bianca choked. Her face was pressed into the dirt. She was clawing at the floorboards, trying to find enough leverage to breathe. "Joshua... stop...""I didn't tell you to speak."I stayed in the bed. I didn't need to move. I could
The Alpha’s Second Life 69
"Don't stop the car."My voice sounded like it belonged to a dead man. I gripped the door handle of the SUV as the tires screamed against the mountain asphalt. The Harrington Estate was a memory in the rearview, probably crawling with DIR agents and fed-contracted wolves by now."We’re clear for another three miles, Richard," Silas said from the driver’s seat. His knuckles were white. "But the grid is hot. They’re tracking the heat signatures from the mercury-shift.""Forget the grid." Richard reached across the console, his hand heavy and warm on my thigh. "We’re going to the North Ridge. The Ancient Den. It’s off the maps. Even the Council hasn't been there in fifty years.""That’s suicide," Silas muttered. He swerved to avoid a fallen branch. "The Ridge is a graveyard. No cell service, no backup, and the local packs there are feral.""They won't touch us." Richard looked at me. His amber eyes were dark, reflecting the dashboard’s red glow. "They’ll smell the miracle. They won't hav
The Alpha’s Second Life 68
"Move! The seals are blowing!"The emergency sirens didn't just scream; they vibrated through my teeth. Richard’s arm hooked under my knees, hauling me up against his chest. I felt the wet heat of his skin against my face, smelling like salt and the metallic tang of his mercury blood. Behind us, the facility groaned. A deep, tectonic sound. The ocean was claiming its due."Don't leave them!" I grabbed Richard’s shoulder, my fingers digging into his muscle. "The others! Look!""I have them, Joshua. Just breathe."Behind us, the liberated Omegas moved like a pack of ghosts. They were pale, shivering in their thin hospital gowns, their feet splashing through the six inches of rising water. They didn't run. They followed Richard. He was the sun in their dark world, the only thing keeping the ceiling from crushing us all."The airlock is jammed!" Silas screamed from the end of the hall. He was kicking at the heavy steel door. "Richard, we’re trapped!""Move aside."Richard didn't slow down
The Alpha’s Second Life 67
"Dive! Now!"Richard didn't wait for the boat to slow. He launched himself from the deck of the Black Obsidian. The night air was a freezing slap against his bare chest, but his blood was boiling, thick with the silver poison he’d injected. He shifted mid-flight. Bones snapped and reformed with a sound like dry branches breaking in a storm. By the time he hit the Atlantic, he was a six-hundred-pound engine of fur and fury.The water exploded.Richard kicked his back legs, driving himself deeper. The pressure squeezed his lungs, but he didn't care. He could taste Joshua in the water—salt, mercury, and the sharp, metallic tang of fear."Target in the water!" A voice crackled through the sonar. "Three o'clock! Fire the harpoons!"A silver streak hissed through the dark. Whirr. It caught Richard in the thigh. He didn't howl. He couldn't. He just felt the cold burn of the silver spreading through his muscle. He grabbed the shaft with his teeth and ripped it out. A cloud of dark red blossom
The Alpha’s Second Life 38
"Open the door, Joshua."I didn't move. I leaned my forehead against the cool wood of the apartment door. The rain was lashing against the hallway window, a steady, rhythmic drumming that matched the thudding in my chest."Go away, Richard.""I'm not leaving." His voice was muffled, thick with some
The Alpha’s Second Life 37
"Strip her of the Harrington name."Richard stood on the high dais, his voice a jagged blade. He didn't look at the woman kneeling in the center of the Council Hall. He couldn't. His fingers dug into the mahogany railing until the wood groaned."You can't." Bianca lifted her head. Her hair was a ma
The Alpha’s Second Life 36
Silence is a luxury we no longer have, Alpha."Edward Harrington’s voice scraped against the high vaulted ceilings of the Council Chamber. He sat in the center of the mahogany dais, his skin the color of old parchment. He was a skeleton draped in a tailored suit, one hand trembling as it rested on
The Alpha’s Second Life 35
"Get in the car, Joshua."Richard’s voice came through the phone like grinding stones. I gripped the receiver, my knuckles white. Henry was in the other room, humming to a cartoon. The sound usually calmed me. Today, it felt like a countdown."I’m not a Harrington employee anymore, Richard. Call yo
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