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.

bulletstorm seemed to last forever and when it finally stopped,

them!" someone

as soon as the first soldiers barged in, Alaric threw out his hands and

that was going on, a roar came from behind and they turned only

past him,

men like rag dolls, slamming bodies aside with guttural snarls. And they didn’t

could recover, Alaric

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

through the mask, then ripped

"Who sent you?!"

kill the Cardinal Alphas and take Violet Purple alive!"

hurling a bolt just

Almost immediately, a silver bullet grazed Asher’s ear, fire searing across his skin. Damn it!

commanded the man who nodded like a robot and picked

ducked, weaving between bullets, and

need to find Violet.

lightning erupted from his

the forest toward her while

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you doing?!"

he told her to run, he meant away

stepped between the soldiers and Griffin, her breath shaky, her skin burning

And then, she screamed.

the hallway like a sonic hurricane, slamming into the armed men and flinging them backward. The shockwave shattered the sonic emitter they’d used to incapacitate

breaking the surface. His shoulders straightened, and then, he was back on his

to his side.

contorted, bulking up rapidly, bones stretching and snapping into place until he towered over her at seven feet tall, barely containing his size beneath the