Defy The Alpha(s)

Chapter 470: Run Mate

At the cabin in the mountains....

It felt like forever, but night eventually came.

Strangely, Roman had settled. Though still feral, the beast within him had quieted, no longer thrashing against the walls, trying to be free.

To be honest, Asher and Alaric were tempted to return to Violet, but if earlier events had taught them anything, then they were safer out there than the inside where Violet’s scent would tempt them into losing control.

The plan was to survive the night in this cabin with Roman, and by dawn, pray the fever broke. They sat in heavy silence with their backs pressed to the wall, when Roman’s ears twitched and his nose flared.

A low, rumbling growl rolled from his chest.

Alaric straightened. "What now?" he muttered, already bracing himself. Just when he had started to believe Roman was calming down.

But Asher was already alert, his eyes narrowing. Roman wasn’t acting up, but was reacting to something.

"There’s someone out there," Asher said grimly.

Alaric focused, tuning into his werewolf hearing. Then he heard it.

"We’re surrounded."

"Don’t make a sound," Asher ordered, low and lethal.

Whether he was speaking to Alaric or Roman, it didn’t matter because the feral Roman had already froze, motionless as stone.

For a moment there was unnatural silence as the boys stood taut, waiting in anticipation. Then Roman picked on the smallest sound and growled the warning just as Asher shouted. "Down!"

The windows shattered as bullets rained through the cabin. The floorboards cracked, splinters flying, and both boys hit the ground, shielding their heads while Roman buckled to a crouch in the darkness.

seemed to last forever and when it

someone shouted

boots pounding down the stairs to the basement. But as soon as the first soldiers barged in, Alaric threw out his hands and bolts whipped across the air, striking down each soldier as

behind and they turned only to see that Roman had broken

him, fully shifted, his bear form monstrous

through the armed men like rag dolls, slamming bodies aside with guttural snarls. And they

could

the surface but Roman was nowhere to be found. Unknown to him, an enemy crept behind him with his gun raised. Before he could fire, Alaric fried his arm with a crack of lightning and the man screamed,

lunged forward and punched him through the mask, then ripped

"Who sent you?!"

to kill the Cardinal Alphas and take Violet Purple alive!" the soldier

Alaric warned, hurling a bolt just as another

a silver bullet grazed Asher’s ear, fire searing

man who nodded like a robot and picked up his weapon, spinning

weaving between bullets, and dropped

need to find

from his hands

the forest toward her while praying to the goddess they weren’t too

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are you doing?!"

he told her to run, he meant away from danger, not

up. She stepped between the soldiers and Griffin, her breath shaky, her skin burning with

And then, she screamed.

throat, raw and seismic. It tore through the hallway like a sonic hurricane, slamming into the armed men and flinging

His shoulders straightened, and then, he was

his side. "I need

bones stretching and snapping into place until he towered