Her Alpha King

Chapter 36

Chapter 36

Of course he would choose today of all days to attack, it was perfect planning, attack the grieving pack because they wouldn't be prepared.

And he was right, we weren't ready for a fight today but as his warriors swarmed the territory, we knew that we were outnumbered and unprepared, but we didn't really have a choice but to fight.

It was absolute chaos as those unable to fight made a mad dash to the pack house to seek shelter while warriors and those that were able to fight, shifted and fought with the nearest wolf. I could hear Michael giving out orders via the pack mind link as I tried to make my way to the pack house to make sure that everyone, James included, got in safe so that I could go back and fight. I was too far away from the pack house and I knew that if I would have to shift to get there faster so I stopped near a patch of trees and set James on his feet. He looked up at me, fear and confusion on his face as he reached out for me to carry him again. I grabbed his hands gently in mine.

"Remember when daddy let you and Steve ride on his wolf?"

He nodded.

"Well we're gonna do that okay? We need to get to the pack house really fast so that I can get you somewhere safe okay, so I'm gonna shift and I need you to hop on and hold on really tight because we'll be going really fast okay?"

He nodded again. So I shifted, not bothering to strip, and flattened myself on the ground enough that James was able to scramble up my side and once he had a secure enough grip I took off as fast as I could without throwing him off.

The pack house was in my line of sight when something hit me from the side, knocking James off my back and sending me into a tree hard enough that I felt a rib crack. I quickly got my feet underneath me and shook my fur out, ready to make sure James was okay but if his screaming was anything to go by, he wasn't. And as I looked up, the sight before me made my blood run cold.

The biggest wolf I'd ever seen next to Titus was standing over James, one large paw resting on his small back, pinning him to the ground. Tony.

My panic overrode my common sense and before I could think it through, I moved to lunge at him, but a cracking sound followed by James' screaming stopped me in my tracks. He'd broken his arm. I wanted to rush over to him, but I knew that I wasn't going to be the one making the decisions right now, not with James' life literally under Tony's foot at the moment.

I felt sick as I watched Tony shift back into his human form, bare foot still on James' arm.

"Shift back mutt."

I hesitated a moment too long because he raised his foot and stomped it down onto James' broken arm, forcing pained wails from the little boy. I quickly shifted back, afraid that if I took more than a second to do so, James would pay the price once again.

"Good girl."

I flinched at the phrase that had been so familiar to me. He lifted his foot from James but let it hover just over him.

"Come and get the boy, shut him up, his crying is inconveniencing me."

I quickly made my way to my feet and made my way over to them as confidently as I could. Once I was close enough, he gripped my arm and pulled me flush to his body.

"I've missed you little mate."

I looked him in the eye as I spoke.

"I can't say that I've missed you."

That earned me a backhand across the face and I felt the blood trickling from the cut that was left behind. He looked down at me from my position on the ground.