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.

to last forever and when it finally stopped, dust

them!" someone shouted

the first soldiers barged in, Alaric threw out his hands and bolts whipped across the

roar came from behind and they turned

as Roman stormed past him, fully shifted, his bear form monstrous in

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

any of the soldiers could recover, Alaric finished them

with his gun raised. Before he could fire, Alaric fried his arm with a crack of lightning and the man screamed,

through the mask, then ripped it off and locked

"Who sent you?!"

Alphas

bolt just as another body

grazed Asher’s ear,

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

ducked, weaving between bullets, and dropped beside Alaric

to find Violet.

Then lightning erupted from his hands and tore a path through

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

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Violet—what are you doing?!"

run, he meant away from danger, not straight into

her breath shaky, her skin burning with fever and

And then, she screamed.

the hallway like a sonic hurricane, slamming into the armed men and flinging them

man breaking the surface. His shoulders straightened,

ran to his side. "I need the

His body 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 cabin