And Then There Were Four (Lilith Carrie)

Damian.

going to be my family.

It didn't take long for them to decide they were going to move forward with the plan, and before I knew it, I was dragged from the room, cuffed and blindfolded, and thrown into a vehicle. I knew deep down the destination they had planned. It was going to be my pack; it was Everything I had worked so hard to protect was going to fall.

Call me a pessimist if you will, but what was I supposed to think?

I wasn't there to protect my family.

I was an alpha, not able to protect his pack. What kind of alpha did that make me? Weak... pathetic.

I couldn't allow myself to go ahead with this frame of mind. I was better than this, better than them, and I spent my entire life trying to show I could be more than just damaged.

Plans started formulating in my mind.

I had to find a way to divert the attention.

If I could cause a distraction, perhaps I could find a way to escape. Find a way to make it back to my pack before it was too late.

From what I could tell, the Council had sent scouts ahead to assess the situation from the whispers and murmurs of the guards surrounding me. They were going to try for a surprise attack.

down my pack

in my pack. I didn't make my women fight unless they wanted to. They had that freedom, so those who could not protect themselves, even though they had gained strength when Ivy completed the connection

me, and before I knew it, the chitter chatter

that we're actually going to go in there and do this." A man with a gruff voice to my left proclaimed. "If she's anything like they said she is, she'll kill us before we

If Ivy could escape,

at her, you would never think such a thing because she was such a delicate woman, so petite, so thin and beautiful. She didn't seem like she'd be the type of

a little bitch. That stupid whore won't stand a chance if I get my hands

jolt forward and hit the man at my right, who said what he did. However, I was

her honor. No matter how much I

be brave. What, you don't want me messing with your little whore?

everyone you love dearly," I threatened in a low

would touch my mate,

they laid one fucking finger on that pretty little head of hers, I would kill them all. I had worked too hard to ensure her happiness, to ensure she had a life with my brothers, a life that she deserved, and for the Council to unhinge that... Well, it made me

to see you

tied

surrounding air, and as much as I wanted to rip them apart, I couldn't. I was drained, weakened by the silver in my veins and the silver on my wrists. There was nothing I could honestly do, and that upset me

wanted to be the strength

shit about a man who's unable to do anything," the man to my left said with

I had their scent, but I wanted to see what they looked like. Remember their faces so