Claimed By The Alphas

6

Kai roared, and I knew how much control it took for him not to destroy him. I was having to exercise the same control, something I had never had to worry about losing as much as I did in that moment.

“Where is she?” I demanded, and Mr. Valarian shrugged.

“Around.”

“You will give her back.”

He chuckled at that, and I almost shifted. My spine tingled, begging to let the wolf take over.

My eyes had already shifted color, and I didn’t miss the way Valarian registered it before he returned to being a smug prick.

“I don’t think so, wolf.”

“This will be considered provocation. Either you bring her out, or we go hunting,” I growled, not caring anymore that there was a contract.

I had thought he was going to feed us some bullshit about protecting his daughter, but his demeanor said anything but that. He had nothing to redeem himself with over what he’d done.

I was not holding back, and I was not leaving without her.

“Actually, it won’t, and no, you won’t. I’m taking my daughter back, which, under the contract, I have every right to do if I take the compensation accusation off the table.

“Without that, you have no reason to hold her,” Mr. Valarian said sure as anything, his body straight, his eyes meeting mine.

I roared at the intended challenge before stepping forward into his space, staring him down.

He didn’t flinch, and I snarled, my teeth snapping. Maybe there was more Kai in me than I had thought because one wrong move and I was going to kill this human.

“Stop challenging me. Your dominance is irrelevant when it comes to us. You may be the alpha of your humans, but in these lands, you are nothing but a servant,” I spat at him, my voice deep, dominant, alpha-like.

I could feel my pack bowing to me, offering up their surrender to my power. Even Kai was letting me channel him. That was rare, especially since I was connected to the pack.

But it was Brax that broke me. He coughed, falling to his knees, his eyes drooping, breathing hard.

“I couldn’t hold on to it. She passed out again,” Brax breathed, and Kai roared, rushing forward, shoving past me, slamming Valarian into the door.

It broke in half, and Kai stepped over him, pressing his boot onto his chest. Valarian went for his sword and held it up to Kai, narrowing his eyes.

Kai laughed, and I stepped back. Fine, psycho could win. They weren’t going to give her back, and if she was that weak then we had run out of time to do this the nice way.

I stepped forward and slammed my boot on Valarian’s arm, pinning it down and grabbing the sword from him.

I held it at his throat as Kai grinned, a malicious, threatening grin that intimidated the hell out of most people—even me sometimes.

He ran a long black talon down Valarian’s cheek as he smirked.

“I have wolfsbane everywhere. I have arrowheads made of it, I have spears made of it. I have an arsenal that you couldn’t imagine. If you kill me now, I promise you, I will be avenged,” the man promised, and Kai laughed maniacally.

He hauled Valarian up and threw him toward Brax, who yanked him up from the ground and held him there.

I sauntered forward, looking directly into his stubborn gaze. “We know she’s here.

We are linked magically, which is something your stupid human brain could never comprehend.

“Going against us will make that a very steep learning curve for your kind though,”

I warned, knowing they had no idea just how much magic controlled the realm they lived in.

Making the witches angry, upsetting the balance, turning on the wolves, it was all going to lead to the culling of a lot of humans, and I’d bet it wouldn’t even be done by the wolves. It would be forces much bigger than us.

But they could figure that one out on their own. I only wanted Lorelai back.

“We are not your slaves, and we are sick of bowing to you. We will not do it any longer,” Valarian spat back, and I shrugged, not interested in the words of a dead man.

“Taking her signs over your position in our realm. Keeping her from us against her will signs your death warrant. Your choice,” I offered, but I knew what his answer was going to be.

Which is why I was really going to enjoy tearing him apart with my brothers.