Accidental Surrogate for Alpha

Chapter 452

#Chapter 452- On the Edge

Ella

My eyes flick to Jessica’s to find her gaze already on me. I stare at her, hoping she can intuit, hoping she has the courage to run when –

“If you think my human sister is a bitch,” I say, taking another precise step forward, forcing Xander to rise his foot to take his final step back. As that foot falls, I bare my teeth. “Then just wait until you really meet me.”

And as Xander places that foot down, and it falls on the edge of the stair that he didn’t know was there, I bare my teeth and transform in a flash.

Xander’s foot slips and slides unsteadily to the step below, unbalancing him. He flings out an arm to balance himself and while he keeps one hand steadily on Jessica –

As I hoped, the hand he flings out for balance is the one that holds the knife.

The moment she feels the cold press of it leave her neck, Jessica screams and rips herself away from Xander. His hand is still knotted in her hair and I swear I hear it rip from her scalp as I leap for him, but I can’t turn and see

Instead, I’m already in the air in my wolf’s body, sailing for him, my teeth bared. His eyes are wide as my paws slam into his shoulders, as I take him down to the ground.

A garbled scream falls from his mouth as he whips the knife in his hand toward my side, but it’s too late.My teeth are already closing around his throat, digging deep.

The dagger cuts me, I can feel it, but it slides away from my skin to clatter on the ground as Xander’s body crashes into the stone steps. My jaws close, my teeth meeting, and instincts take over as I shake my head, ripping the life from him as I tear his flesh.

I feel him go still beneath me quickly, leaving no time for a last gasp or a final word.

I did my job well.

My chest heaving, I stand above him for a moment, looking down into his face, making sure his eyes are dead.

And then I disdainfully step away, wanting nothing more to do with him, wanting the taste of his putrid blood out of my mouth.

I transform back into my human body as I continue to stand above him, my shoulders still heaving, and I drag an arm across my face, wiping the blood away from my mouth with my sleeve as much as I can.

around us, shouting orders and I blink suddenly, brought instantly away from my primal instincts to protect and back to my reality, where I’m standing above a dead man

first thought is for Jessica, and I

turn wide-eyed back to the stairs. Because I realize with quick horror that while I

this is still a palace in the middle of a city on a night

with people who look at me in shock. And press, who snap pictures of their

but then suddenly – quite suddenly –

I turn when I hear Jessica’s voice, screaming her

have to get to Sarah,” I say on a gasp, knowing that

let me go, so I glare up at him. “Seriously, Ella,” he says, his voice low

“But she -”

nodding to me, “she’s conscious – let us take her

realizing that he’s right. Because I am panicking right now, and trying to do everything at once, and completely forgetting that I’m a Queen and not some vigilante who can just

step away from Xander’s lifeless form. Conner’s hand is still supportively around my arm as we begin to stride towards the entrance

seeing that the girl is scared and struggling against the guards who hold her back from her sister, at

to me,

me!” I command, holding out my free hand. The guards hesitate but then let the girl go as they see

arm around her. “The doctors are going

she says, looking back, “do you

it. “We just all need to get inside, okay? And Sarah needs

little for that. The doctors – they’re

to my side, but she trusts me and

large form fills it, and my knees go almost shaky with relief as I instantly recognize

throw myself in his arms, but I’ve got Jessica with me

he steps back as Sinclair takes a step forward, his face livid and scared and breathless all

and glancing momentarily down at Jessica and over at Conner, assessing them as threats

up and place my hand on his cheek, shaking my head. “I’m fine, it’s fine,”

and fear still burns in him, I know, but it’s tempered now with the knowledge that

to get her in,” I say, my

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