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.

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

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

cainc.

best in me getting hurt. So I

baby you but

answer to him and he says I can fight so I’m fighting. She’s my sister too and I know

“F***ing stop it,” he growled. This isn’t a game. You are not invincible I have one sibling with a target on their

the sensible one he didn’t behave

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 know that you placed the

mouthed off which meant I had to be Grayson’s b*tch. My alpha

alpha or heir.

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

get a say but you can watch

hours later my bruther by

your punches and keep your claws in,” he told

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the forest by the camp of this

and wait to let our scents get into the forest so that when we

I 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

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

that owl fluttering its wings here and there. I was cold and

it was just frosty I’m sure Grayson wanted

waiting, I saw a hand wave and we slowly encroached

in their heads

over one man from a dead sleep and he jolted awake and fumbled

out I wasn’t friendly his wolf seemed

him he attempted to scratch me but I kicked him square in the chest he

for me to stomp on his face until

left that tent and moved on one wolf saw

rip his throat apart. I wanted to extend my claws slowly into his head.

wide, I clocked him

They were all so poorly trained. They never seemed to move to avoid only

sl*pping and I felt a crack. He sucked

zip–tied his

“Stay down,”

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

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 with a sword but Charlie extended his claws

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yet I was the feral

saw another one of Stevens’s wolves in trouble I swung and beat

his feet and he nodded before running

new blood so his status showed. Charlie was leaner but tall

shirt and pants before slamming them into

who had ganged up on some poor girl she

quickly took her opening and kicked the other wolf in his

before one uppercut took him

you,” she turned to me.

be with my sister?” She was one of the ones

asked me to come. I want to

this whole thing started over. She was the kind of dainty frail beautiful. Like the women in paintings. But she had just choked a

alright?” My brother’s voice came behind