Pierce POV I can’t break through the forcefield, the red cloud like substance that continues to grow in strength around Libby and Reuben, is completely impenetrable. It’s as if a storm was brewing around them, some kind of vortex. I’m using all my energy, all my strength to force my way through it, but it was an entity not of this earth, not even of the shifter world. “Libby!” I scream out in horror as the black darkness seeps out of Reuben’s eyes, feeding directly into my mate’s. This can’t be happening. No…No…this can’t be, I can’t lose her. Her wolf was blocking me out, pushing back but I can feel the struggle through the mate bond, feel the darkness taking her. The red demonic glow continues to wrap itself around the two of them, protecting them…even as Reuben’s eyes finally return back to normal. Even as he seems to wake up from the power that had controlled him. He moves his hands up to Libby’s trying to force them off him, shouting out at her to stop….that it wa
Libby POV “Libby? Go back…Dane get her the fuck out of here.” Pierce growls out as the light from his beta’s self-lit torch begins to fade. The material nearly burnt to a crisp. I can feel his anger, his disapproval….his protectiveness towards me through the mate bond, feel it plough into me like a high-speed train; the sensation forcing me to gasp out as he must lift that block up. His alpha command washed over me, trying to gain my attention, trying to force me to flee as far from this cave as possible. I want to, the old me…the human me…wants to take flight…but I’m hypnotised by the Alpha King standing in front of me. The one that I share blood with, my brother….I can’t stop staring at his demonic black eyes. The black has completely bled out, not a speck of white remains in his eyes…that shadow that I once saw drifting across his eyes, is now a dark cloud that has taken my brother. “Reuben?” I step forward, wanting to touch him, to shake him out of it but the threateni
Libby POV “Where are my children!” Evelyn screams out, trying to follow Pierce through the front door but I hold her back. She wasn’t in the right frame of mind; she would put herself in danger. “Libby…” She growls at me to move aside but I hold steady, firm in my positioning to block her. “Evelyn, just wait…let Pierce report back first.” “If my children are in that cave…I…I need to be with them, I need to get them out of there.” “Pierce will get them out.” “No Libby you don’t understand…get off me.” She pushes me aside, my back hitting against the wall. The old me wouldn’t have fought back, would have let her pass….but I can feel my wolf’s strength growing…I am starting to feel what I should have felt all along. Strength, resilience. “I said no Evelyn, just wait.” I yank her back by her elbow, the movement surprising even myself. “My babies…” She gasps out, excruciating pain that I couldn’t fathom, registering in her eyes. She needed to be with them, I know she does…but a
Pierce POV This can’t be happening, not again. Not the children…Evelyn won’t recover from this, not if something happens to them. Why the cave, why would they be a cave of all places… I don’t wait, I needed to act now. Keeping as hidden as possible I move between buildings, spotting the overcrowded Pack Hall, which was guarded by Natascha’s minions. This is where she was keeping the Sickle Pack warriors, the ones that refused to fight for her. These warriors needed to take back their own pack, they needed to fight for their lands…fight against Natascha. I creep up on the guards, taking them down with ease. I don’t know where she got these men, but they certainly weren’t trained to a high level, the smell that exudes off them informs me that they are in fact rogues. Typical, she can’t find followers based on her own integrity…she must buy them. These fuckers must have been the ones tormenting my Libby, trying to capture her for Natascha’s gain…for her inheritance. I bre
Libby POV “What do you want?” I snarl down the phone, a sleeping Angel starting to stir in my arms as mybody starts to shake with anger.“Are they safe, are they alive?” Evelyn leaps for me, trying to take the phone out of my grip but I turn, Natascha has called me for a reason. She wanted me to hear this.“Libby…” Evelyn growls out at me, her aura spreading out on to me. Reluctantly I place the phone on speaker phone, but keep a hold of it tightly in my grasp. “I want what is mine, the Sickle Peak back, you had no right in taking it.” Natasha shrieks down the line. “You lost your pack when you and your father committed treason.” Evelyn roars out, Noah moving towards her to try and comfort her. “IT’S MINE…I want it back.” Natascha screams down the phone to Evelyn, before clearing her throat and adopting that cold calculating tone of hers, that I have grown accustomed to. “The imposter alpha has to go, he doesn’t belong there. I want him gone.” She continues to demand, my eye
Libby POV I forget that I have a wolf that can heal me, as I grip tightly onto the car seat for the entire journey as Pierce speeds through the traffic in a race to get us to Evelyn and Angel. “This is going to break her…we need to find them and fast.” “We will, we have to.” The idea of not getting to them, of something happening to them is just unthinkable. I refuse to think of it. We arrive at the royal pack gates, extra guards on the gates as Pierce flies through, refusing to slow down. Thankfully they were expecting us and opened the gate just in time. As soon as I open my car door Pierce is already gripping me tightly to him. We were in no danger here, he had to calm down, this was about Reuben and the children. Entering the royal house, a collection of faces greets us…alphas of both alliances here to offer their assistance. Their auras hung in the hallway like a dark black cloud, a struggle in dominance as each aura tries to come out on top. It doesn’t seem to affe