Accidental Surrogate for Alpha

Chapter 332 – Red in Tooth and Claw

Ella

“NO!” I scream, but the word is transferred instantly to a roar as I transition into my wolf, my

but I barely bones and body shifting in a flash. It hurts – less than it did the first time, of course – notice it because I shake myself out of my captor’s hands and am halfway across the room at once, leaping for the man who holds Rafe, my jaws gaping. He goes a little pale, taking a step

backwards and putting out a hand towards me to stop me –

But that hand, it disappears into my mouth. And I snap my teeth down.

The man’s scream pierces my sensitive ears as my teeth meet together around his wrist, as I wrench my head to the side, tossing his torn hand aside, savoring the taste of his blood in my mouth. He screams again as he looks at the bloody stump I’ve left behind, as I prowl another step

forward –

But suddenly, I feel a great blow against my shoulder that sends me staggering sideways

And then, almost at the same instant, I hear what sounds like an explosion behind me – I don’t

turn to it, my eyes fixed on the man who holds my son in his arms – but I know, through the bond,

through some other wolf instinct, that it is Sinclair.

I don’t take my eyes off the man who holds Rafe, instead finding my feet and beginning to prowl

slowly forward towards him again. He backs up, step by step, looking over my shoulders at his

colleagues as they die. I can see the progress of the battle in his expression, in the fear that comes

into his eyes, in the blood that drains from his face as he realizes that he’s not getting out of this.

room. That he’s going to die here, but not until he watches all of his friends die first.

I hear the ripping sounds my mate makes in his gigantic wolf form, the screams of the masked

men as he takes them down, his snarls and his roars, the rending sound of flesh. And each blow

rings through me like a song as I bare my teeth at the man holding my child, as I stare him down.

It doesn’t take long for Sinclair to finish. I didn’t think it would.

—

surely it was minutes – before

deep into my fur until they

man left alive in this room is my mate, and only he would I

like

all right, Ella,” Sinclair says, a growl still resonating in his voice, the

blood. Something soars in me at the sight of him like that – my warrior

Our

and then he sees the determination in me

The man does so, immediately, blood dripping from his trembling arm, knowing that his cause is lost

the man, from me,

just me, and this man, and

prowl another step

towards me, palms out. “Please,”

it’s a waste

my paws hitting

my teeth into his neck, ripping out

me on top of him, growling

leaves his eyes.

to my mate,

gore, his mouth curved up on one

standing

running down my neck. And then, with perfect control, I cross the

I stare down at my child, who cries his little

every scream that echoes in my

if I can hear him, it means that he’s still here, he’s still

done my job. I’ve

Sinclair

with me as Roger bursts into

stay with the priest – to make sure

up here.

secure, they

says, his eyes going wide as he looks at the blood

ceiling – and at the bodies scattered

“What the – how did you –”

look down at her,

This is the woman who cried when

chocolate Easter bunnies because it

of ferocity