Lahat ng Kabanata ng The Alpha's Fated Encounter: Kabanata 281 - Kabanata 290

“That’s true, but honestly, we’re running out of time,” Felipe said. “I’m with Nico. We gotta take what we can get, right?”Diego and Luis share a look before nodding to each other. Luis looked at the group. “Yup. We say go with Nico’s plan.”Sinthy grinned. “I think this is a good plan. As Felipe said, time sort of feels like it’s getting short somehow. This is our chance.”That was it. Donatello and I had been outvoted. They had a good argument. It all made sense, but something about it made me uneasy. Part of me truly thought that when Viola found out her own son had been taken, she’d simply shrug and go about her day. How did you reason with, or even threaten, a person who was a monster?“Sinthy, I think you and I should go and get this guy,” Nico said. “We use the tracker you put on him, teleport to his location, and take him. We’ll leave some kind of message for Viola. If she wants him back, she’ll have to call off the manhunt on Maddy and turn herself in.”The group continued w

The witch held a hand up to the house, muttered a few words, then touched my ear with her other hand. Suddenly, I could hear some mumbled conversations going on within. I was never going to get used to this kind of magic. None of the voices were female, so Viola wasn’t there. I didn’t know if things would get much better. It might be our best shot.“Are we ready to go in?” I asked.“Yeah. As we walk up, I’ll remove the charms hiding the house and whatever they have protecting the entrances and exits. I’m sure they’ve tried something, but if the sound barrier and avoidance charms are any example, any other spells won’t be worth a damn.”I looked into her eyes, then gave a terse nod. “Let’s do this.”Without another word, Sinthy and I pushed away from the bakery wall and walked straight to the house. As we stepped off the street and up to the curb directly in front of the stoop, Sinthy waved her hand across the house, and I could feel the spells collapse and vanish. The men inside must

Maxwell’s eyes darted to Nico, and he swallowed hard. “I guess… I hoped you guys would use it to find her. To… end this mess. I never thought you’d kidnap me. I’m worthless. I don’t matter. You’d have been better off leaving me for dead.”“You aren’t worthless,” I said soothingly.My heart shattered. This young man had been so broken and twisted by Viola that he truly didn’t think he was worth a damn. She’d made him believe he was nothing but a tool. A reviled and disgusting tool, no less. He was stronger than I was. If Viola had been my mother, I’d have killed myself long ago.Maxwell ignored my words; he was still looking at Nico imploringly. “What about my siblings? They aren’t Viola’s children. They were born to my dad’s second wife. She has no attachment to them. She’ll hurt them. She might think I planned this with you all and kill them for retribution.”“Where are they, Maxwell?” I asked. “If you know where they’re being held, we can try to get them out. You saw what Sinthy is

I had no words. I couldn’t answer their questions. All I could do was stare at the screen. The video seemed to be taken from some kind of drone. Viola’s voice spoke over the video.“Everything these creatures know and love will be destroyed.”“No way,” Sinthy said. “The wards are too strong even with me gone. She’s bluffing.”Almost as though Viola could hear what Sinthy said, a strange flash and crackle of static appeared on the screen. The flash was so bright that it washed out the video in a blaze of light.Sinthy gasped and hit her knees. That finally pulled my eyes away from the screen. The witch was on the ground, clutching at her chest. She looked both shocked, confused, and terrified. It sent an icy finger tracing along my spine. I spun back around to check the TV. Part of me was prepared to see a massive smoking crater in the ground with a mushroom cloud ascending into the sky above the charred and dead bodies of my family and friends and what used to be my home. Thankfully,

Between the strength of the shifters and the power of Sinthy’s spells, we might have a chance. The fight started to turn as Sinthy sent more magic toward the crowd—fireballs, then electric bolts, and then a shimmering flash of ice shards that miraculously missed all of us but crashed into the attackers. Sinthy was pressing her attack, doing more magic in a few minutes than I’d seen her use the whole time I’d known her. Not only was she attacking the anti-shifters, but she was also casting protection wards around as many shifters as she could see.An instant later, a bullet pinged away from my face. Sinthy had obviously put a ward around me, and I hadn’t even noticed. She’d just saved me from having my brains blown out for the third time in one day. If I survived the rest of this, I’d have to find a way to thank her properly.The fighting became more chaotic. The humans spread out, and the battle wasn’t as easy as a straight face-to-face fight. Instead of waning as I grew tired, my rag