Stronger by Ang Chris

Chapter 80

James POV

Grayson was so f**king stupid he should have blown the bridges. He should have let me gut that alpha. I know he has to think about the future but at least that way no one would dare threaten my sister ever again.

“We’ll attack at sundown,” Grayson commanded and everyone disbanded.

“Look I think you should sit this one out,” Charlie came over to me with those aggravating sympathetic big brother

eyes.

“No f**king way,” I scoffed at him.

“You’re not in control remember,” Grayson walked over to us..

As my sister’s mate so loved to remind me, I had mouthed off and gotten myself enslaved under his command.

I know he was lenient with me. I know I acted out and made my sister cry. I know I wasn’t doing anyb*dy any favors but Goddess be. I really didn’t like the look on his face.

Anna would be home with us safe and sound without him. I would have my sister beside me without my mother fretting over me or my father looking at me like he knew I would combust any second.

No, instead here we were fixing this door’s mess. My sister was in danger, but hey my parents were off my back.

I had to do everything he said but he let me fight. And he may or may not actually love my sister, as well as give her everything she’s ever wanted.

Anna would be a good mom, and I know that’s the dream she’d held closest to her heart. I wanted that for her and I wanted our family to grow.

“I think it would be wise to have me there,” I kept my voice eleven and civil.

Grayson said that I was getting too blood crazy and that I needed restraint. I think he’s stupid but I had to do what he said.

The second I became his ward even if I hated it I felt the urge to do as he said. Like the pull of a string, he told me to jump and I bounced until he said stop.

If my sister had let him be as cruel as he’d wanted I would have had a worse fate. Scared or mutilated, possibly even dead.

My mind flashed to the night of Anna’s presentation. That wolf that had tried to speak down to her and the blood. streaking from his face.

Anna hadn’t even left him his eye. I had wanted to kill him in his sleep but my father had kept an eye on me that

night.

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It was hard to think of my sister the demure, kind–hearted, optimistic girl as able to take someone’s eye but I knew her and she had more to her than most were able to see. She loved passionately and for the people she loved, I think she’d burn the world.

“I want to fight,” I pushed. I wanted to defend her.

My family annoyed me with their worried stares and disappointed glances, but I wanted them safe. This threat to us only made me angrier and more bloodthirsty.

“I want you to find restraint on the battlefield. I want you to be calmer,” Grayson told me. “If you don’t you’ll be sent home to guard Annette,”

If this enemy was completely incompetent they’d attack my sister with Theo and my father protecting her. Not to mention my bear of a mother.

Yes. Sir, I growled and marched out of the tent.

What really pissed me off was the fact that most of his orders weren’t orders they were requests, advice, and guidance.

was a prick but he was giving me a choice when no one else did.

don’t care if they’re doing better. I don’t care if he had daddy issues. I don’t

cainc.

person who saw the best in me getting hurt. So I wanted to hurt him

I’m not trying to baby you but you’re going through things and being on the battlefield right now is too dangerous

don’t answer to you, big brother. I answer to him and he says I can fight so I’m fighting.

This isn’t a game. You are not invincible I have one sibling with a target on their back I don’t need

the sensible one he didn’t behave this

and so do I. I have to

had to be Grayson’s b*tch. My alpha or my heir places a law

or

I’m ordered in

You don’t get a say but you can watch my back,” I patted his arm

out a couple of hours later my bruther by my side and Grayson across from

your

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the forest by the camp

scents get into the forest so that when we did attack they would be woken up

sat and I waited even if I wanted to rip through the camp the way I knew I could, but something dark came with that sense

the looks they gave me because I had to

there. I was cold and I didn’t like it. How Anna

it was just frosty I’m sure

I saw a hand wave

heads and somehow they barely fought.

from a dead sleep and he jolted awake and fumbled unsure of what

I wasn’t friendly his wolf seemed to take over but I had made an

I kicked him square in the chest

for me to stomp on his face until I saw him black

tent and moved on one wolf saw me and so we

wanted to extend my claws

swung way too wide, I clocked him in his jaw and he

with these fights. They were all so poorly trained. They never seemed to move to avoid only acting with instinct, and they swung instead of

again and I jabbed his ribs my anger sl*pping and I felt a crack. He sucked in a breath and fell onto

his hands.

“Stay down,”

was only heaving deep breaths. I think I may have broken more

one of the by the wrist and clenched down he broke something by the way his prey screamed. The other swung at my brother with a

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Chapter 80

I was the feral one?

it looked misshapen. I saw another one of Stevens’s wolves in trouble I swung and beat the attacker in the head he flew and was

helped my ally to his feet and he nodded

He was new blood so his status showed. Charlie was leaner but tall he didn’t look

on them up by his shirt and

two men who had ganged up on some poor

away. The girl quickly took her

one before one uppercut took him to the ground as well.

you,” she turned to me.

sister?” She was one of the ones that were always glued to

asked me to come. I want to

thing started over. She was the kind of dainty

you alright?” My brother’s