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

sister at her lowest I don’t care if they’re doing better. I don’t care

cainc.

getting hurt. So I wanted to

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

you, big brother. I answer to him and he says I can fight so I’m fighting. She’s my sister

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

was the sensible one he

he didn’t budge. “You fight for her and so do I. I have to

b*tch. My alpha or

alpha or

it on me. Now I’m ordered in my very bones to pay penance for my

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

my bruther by my side

your punches and keep your claws in,”

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the forest by the camp of

to surprise them and wait to let our scents get into the forest so that when we did attack they would be woken up by

even if I wanted to rip through the camp the way I knew I could,

had to fight

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 were frozen where

waiting, I saw a hand wave and we slowly

no worries in their heads and somehow they

dead sleep and he jolted awake and fumbled unsure of what was

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

but I kicked him square in the chest he fell backward so

howled and was incapacitated enough for me to stomp

one wolf saw

throat apart. I wanted to extend my claws slowly

swung way too wide, I clocked him in his jaw

never seemed to move to avoid only acting with instinct, and

sl*pping and I felt a

zip–tied his

“Stay down,”

deep breaths. I think I may have broken more than one.

of the by the wrist and clenched down he broke something by the way

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yet I was

a club or a baseball bat it looked misshapen. I saw another one of Stevens’s wolves in trouble I swung and beat

and he nodded before running back into the fight…

one punch. He was a full–blooded alpha as well, but he wasn’t like us. He was new blood so his status showed. Charlie was leaner but tall

them up by his shirt and pants before slamming them into the

on some poor girl

took her opening and kicked the other wolf in his chest and then jumped up on him getting him

b*dy blowed the other one before one uppercut took him to the ground

turned

supposed to be with my sister?” She was one of the ones that were

want to see this finished,”

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

My brother’s voice