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.

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

my sister at her lowest I don’t care if they’re doing better. I don’t care if he had daddy issues. I don’t

cainc.

one person who saw the best in me getting

safe I’m not trying to baby you but you’re going through

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

around. “F***ing stop it,” he growled. This isn’t a game. You are not invincible I

he

his hand and yanked it off my shirt but he didn’t budge. “You fight for her and so do I. I have to obey every order that Grayson gives me. You

which meant I had to be Grayson’s b*tch. My alpha or my heir places a law on me a

alpha or

on me. Now I’m ordered in my

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

bruther by

your punches and keep your claws

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on the edge of the forest

going to surprise them and wait to let our scents get into the forest so that when we did

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 and I knew

gave me because I had to fight it and I was really

hear Charlie breathing and the men shuffling and that owl fluttering its wings here and there. I was cold and I didn’t like it. How Anna had accepted a mate who

just frosty I’m sure Grayson wanted this needed before we

hand wave and we slowly

their heads and somehow they barely fought.

he jolted awake and fumbled unsure of what

wasn’t friendly his wolf seemed to take over but

kicked him square in the chest he fell backward so I kicked him in his balls.

stomp on his face until

and moved on one wolf saw me and so we started walking

to extend my claws slowly into his head. But

wide, I clocked him in his

to move to avoid only acting with instinct, and they swung instead of punching.

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

his hands.

“Stay down,”

think I may have broken

at once, but this was Charlie I was nothing compared to him. He grabbed one of the by the wrist and clenched down he broke something by the way his prey screamed. The other swung at my brother

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was

Stevens’s wolves in trouble I swung and beat the attacker in the head he flew and was left

to his feet and he nodded

well, but he wasn’t like us. He was new blood so his status showed. Charlie was leaner but tall he didn’t look like he could take Grayson but

them up by his shirt and

some poor girl she was doing her best but I figured

away. The girl quickly took her opening and kicked the other wolf in his chest and then jumped up on him getting

blowed the other one before one uppercut took him

turned to

She was one of the ones that were always

come. I want to see this finished,”

over. She was the kind of dainty frail beautiful. Like the women in paintings. But

brother’s voice came behind me.