บททั้งหมดของ Rise of the fated alpha pair : บทที่ 41 - บทที่ 50

Lyra POV It was chaos.Every time a vampire went down, another showed up. But the pack was fierce. The contingent automatically fell into ranks, teaming up to take down the bloodsuckers. Coupled with the basic training the entire pack had, we were a force to be reckoned with.“I’m going to get the pups inside,” Marni hollered to me. “It’ll be easier to fight if we don’t need to keep one eye on them as they run.”I nodded. “I’ll help.”At full speed Marni blurred between the vampires, easily as fast as them.I slunk and spun to avoid detection, not wanting to draw the killers to the children.They huddled together near the fire, where vampires were being thrown into it one after the other, until it was a raging inferno. Tears streamed down their faces. A few of the older kids, including the older one I’d saved, stood fiercely in front of the others.“You need to follow us to the Alpha’s house,” Marni commanded.One of the kids, who held a fiery log ready to swing, glared up at her. “T

Ronan POV Lyra hobbled after him, pausing at the cabin door. “Next time ask before you start ripping stitches out!”She stiffened and backed up a few steps until she was looking into my office. “Oh. Uh . . . hey all.” She gave a lame wave.An odd anger filled me at seeing her standing there so . . . normal, dressed in leggings and one of my sweatshirts that was so large on her it was almost a dress. My wolf rose swiftly within me, growling in satisfaction. I was so utterly relieved she was alright, yet at the same time completely indignant she could just stand there like she hadn’t been dying in my arms a few days ago. I wanted to shout at her. I wanted her to apologize. I wanted to press her against the wall and make her swear through her kisses she wouldn’t pull such a stunt again.Lyra infuriated me and made it difficult to concentrate. She was a liability to my pack and a threat to my mateship.My hands fisted against my jeans. “If you all would excuse us. Lyra and I have some bu

Ronan POV Rebecca shifted back as soon as my order hit her ears. With Lyra, it had come a split second later. I didn’t know why her wolf was resistant to my Alpha orders, but the last thing I needed was the entire pack seeing her defy them. If she openly defied me, there would have to be a punishment, and it would have to be public.Yeah, I couldn’t imagine that going down well. With Lyra or my mother.My imagination went wild for a moment, imagining a mate that wasn’t susceptible to my Alpha voice and couldn’t no, wouldn’t be cowed. My body reacted immediately, and I forced myself back to the present. My ‘other head' was the reason we were in this entire mess to begin with.I whirled around to Rebecca, not wanting my body to give away my reaction to the pack. “What are you doing?” I snarled. I ignored the growls of her father behind her.Rebecca flinched at the venom in my voice, a small whine leaving her throat. “What am I doing? What are you doing? Every time I turn around, you’re

Lyra POV “How much longer?” My legs burned with exertion from hiking for the last couple of hours. I was excited to stretch my legs, but I hated not knowing where we were going. And Ronan insisted we had to stay in human form.Ever since the perimeter breach, more of the contingent have been stationed along our borders, with a team even leaving the boundaries with special permission in order to hunt for vampires. Xavier swore that no one could figure out how they got through. Ronan insisted on checking out the border, and with everything that had happened, I didn’t want him to go by himself.Damn Alpha instinct.I had tried to resist the need, but my wolf didn’t stop howling until I offered to come along. It was hard for me to leave the pack after everything that had happened, but Xavier was left in charge for the day, and Marni was off running border control with Aniyah, which helped settle my wolf.“Just five more minutes.” The bane of my existence assured me, stepping over the tru

Ronan POV Xavier met us halfway back, his eyes wide with panic. Our wolves skidded to a stop, nearly slamming into some bushes as our momentum carried us forward.Moments later we stood in the clearing as humans, panting hard.Xavier’s face was pale, his expression wide and shocked. I’d never seen him so unsettled in all our years together. “It’s your mother,” he wheezed. “The vampires have taken her. I assume as retaliation for not rolling over and dying like good little puppies and fighting back when they attacked us.”I saw red. Pain exploded in my hand. Lyra swore; I’d nearly punched a hole straight through a tree.She whistled. “Impressive, but not smart right before conflict. Focus.”I fell to my knees, not feeling much like an Alpha as I contemplated every horrible thing that could be happening to my mother.“It doesn’t make sense. Vampires don’t take hostages.” Xavier was talking, but I didn’t understand what he was saying. I was stuck in a vortex of rage and grief, of anger