Her Savior Alpha

I lay on my side as Gina went to work on my hind paw. She gnawed away at it as the other wolves pinned my snout to the ground so I couldn’t breathe. I was going to die in the woods. No wonder Dane approved the marriage. He wanted to see me dead. I snuffled as I viciously thrashed my head from side to side trying desperately to remove myself from the hold they had me in. My lycan wolf managed to give me enough strength to wrangle out of the hold and flip my broken body over. Excruciating pins and needles flowed through my ankle as I snarled wildly ready for the fight of my life. I had no time to wallow in the regret of trusting Reily and his crew. I had to get up and fight otherwise I would torn to shreds.

Limping, a blood curling howl rang out behind me. Other wolves were on the move and we were deep in the forest with nightfall hot on the heels of the moon. Soon the forest would be cloaked in darkness and the coyotes would likely be out. I had minimal time to fix the imminent mess I found myself in. Gina, reattached herself to my already wounded leg going in to tear it off. If I shook to hard it would only make the gaping wound rip open further.

I’d never been so wild and desperate at the same time. Reily’s eyes were full of evil as he stood over me, but the call in the distance gave me enough leeway to get away from trouble. I rose whimpered sucking in deep breaths as shot of fire raging through my paw. I held it up as blood dripped.

The wolves formed a circle around me as the howls of oncoming wolves rang out. I could hear their cries now. They were gaining ground and hopefully getting closer to me. I sank down unable to hold my paw in position for too much longer. I had to lie down. Blood poured from my snout where Gina swiped me. The circle was closing in and Gina and Reily began to play their psychological mindlink games.

There, there, look at the poor white wolf. Pity, your coat is actually quite nice. You could have gotten a stronger wolf, but I should have known you were pitiful. All that training to end up eaten alive by your own pack.

Reily’s champagne fur bristled as he delivered the blow, and I fell on my side unable to hold the weight of my body any longer. I shed a tear as it slid down my matted fur. Parts of it where clumped together from the bloodshed at my expense. I could only hope the howls the Moon goddess land carried were howls of Clive or Archer because if it were howls of more wolves coming to dis member me I would let them take me.

Reily... how could you do this to me? I’ve been so kind to you. I gave you a second chance. Why did you do this to me?

Vibrations of feet under foot gave me a sliver of hope, only a sliver that whoever was coming would rescue me. Rescue me. I saw Reily move his gaze from me to the rest of his crew who were all closing the gap as I tried to push through the pain to work out a way to escape enough to fix my paw.

Shit. Who is it Reily? I heard Gina talking to Reily, obviously they weren’t expecting guests. I blinked hard biting down on the pain in my leg hoping things would change rapidly.

I don’t know, but they better stay out of the way. I can smell them. Fuck. It’s my brother. Now I’m going to have to fuck him up.

Reily faced to the howls giving me enough time to scoot backwards in the undergrowth of leaves, twigs and mud. I came into the forest white, but I wasn’t any longer. I looked like the dirty, flesh eating wolves who were surrounding me looking for their next meal. What had I ever done to Reily’s friends. I didn’t even know them. Not a single one of them had dealings with me personally, so I couldn’t understand why they would be after me. Maybe it was hate via association. Either way it was an unfair burden. I wept, feeling sorry for myself, but knowing I shouldn’t have been so gullible, just wanting to be loved by one who’d have me. Why didn’t I see it? The lies? The deception? How could Reily change from being my regular abuser to loving me as if I was the only wolf on earth. The more I thought about it, the more I understood it wasn’t possible.

Maybe the moon goddess was looking out for me because a series of loud thuds made me flash my eyes open from my drift off. I was slipping in and out of consciousness and another voice was speaking to me.

Vera let me take over. Vera let me take over. I ignored the whisper of a voice, so faint I could barely here it.

Drowning in my own shame amongst the leaves I regathered the scattered hope I had welcoming Clive and Archer as I needed time to recover. I had to dig deeper and draw on my lycan, relying on the depths of strength from it. I tried again to get up as I lifted my head to the murky evening sky.

Don’t even think about trying to escape bitch. I will rip your other leg to pieces. Now we have to think about where to get rid of your body.

Gina still had command over me as her snout leaned over my face, but she would have to heed the call of the battle as the snarls and collision of wolves was ringing off behind her. I counted in my head. Reily’s crew, four and then Gina. I didn’t know if with their smarts and agility they would be able to beat the numbers. I mustered every ounce of fortitude I’d gathered over the years of being brutalized and got on my feet. Putting the pain of my hind paw to the deepest vault of my brain I raised up on all fours standing proud as caked mud covered me, making me feel heavy.

I had to help them. I could hear the gnashing of teeth and the fibers of body parts being ripped. I hoped it was Clive and Archer - number one and number two I hoped it was them doing the ripping to pieces. I stared into the mini clearing identifying both of Clive and Archer. Reily’s crew was employing exactly the same tactics. They were surrounded, a fire burned beneath the pain as I drew near. Reily swung his head to me and then back to his brother.

If he could play a mind game I could play one too.

Are you going to kill your brother? Is that what you’re going to do? He didn’t kill your parents, I did. Shut up bitch! After I’m done with him, I’m coming after you. Reily had lost it. How could you claim you would be killing your own brother? Was it that hell bent on destroying me that he would do such a thing?

We should bury her in the thatched house where she came from. The little poor wolf. Kory possessed mindlink as well and chimed in with his two cents.

Yes! That’s a great idea. Think, could be a remake on the big, bad wolf, except she’ll be the one who gets eaten alive. Zion continued the taunting as each message rebuilt the strength inside of me.

I wanted to tell them all to shut up, but the fight was on and Clive and Archer were in the middle of it. Clive could communicate with me via mindlink, but Archer couldn’t. His wolf was sleeker, but wiry. I watched as the circle of fiends turned on them both. Archer appeared to move quicker than Clive who was bearing the brunt of the hits. I thought Reily might have gone easy on him being it was his brother, but the opposite occurred. He specifically pursued him as they tussled slipping around together as the floodgates of rain flooded open.

At least my wound would get washed. Involuntarily my body was shaking from the rain, the cold, and the trauma from the events. I had two choices; fight with Clive and Archer or run...

Clive

I knew something was wrong when I looked into Dane’s eyes as he made the speech to unite Vera and Reily. He never liked her, in fact if he killed her in one of his heinous attacks he would have been happy. He was a hard, hard man and worse as a wolf. The callousness in his eyes as his smile refused to reach his eyes in toasting to their mate bond. Fire ran through my bones as all my wolf intuition kicked in and I picked up the ugly scent Reily was covered in.

As soon as I saw Reily bailed up in the corner whispering to Gina with Zion and Rory who were laughing and sneering at Vera who had her head on some hopeless romantic cloud I felt ill.

Reily had no intention of taking care of Vera. There was no love in his eyes only hate. The whole day I stewed over telling Vera about my thoughts. I didn’t want her to think I was a hater, but I’d made a place for her in my heart and I would kill anyone if they harmed her. I tried to stay as close to Reilly as possible the day of the celebrated announcement.

“Are you really going through with this Reily? You might have everyone else fooled, but I know you... I’m your brother remember?” We were standing in front of one another on the training ground as I packed down from sword practice. I shoved the sword into the ground as black rage festered inside of me.

“You’re getting mighty angry for nothing. I do want to be with Vera and it has nothing to do with you. I think you’re jealous. Yeah, I think that’s what it is. I can smell it on ya.” Reilly licked his lips as his dark eyes narrowed. He paced around behind me as my fingers flexed wanting to jab him right in the jaw. He was close enough to do it, but I keep the last ounce of cool I had as he stood behind me.

“You know as well as I do, that you don’t give a shit about Vera. You have hated her for as long as our parents have been dead. You can’t tell me because of some mate bond you suddenly turned into some loving wolf and want to be with her. You’re full of shit. You’re scheming, I can feel it.” I let my words cut through to him as I switched position to face him.

Reily challenged me as he dug the sword out of the ground and began to swing it in the air and lunge forward, showing off. “Let’s play your game; this one where you don’t believe me. So let’s say I don’t love Vera and I have some plan going on. What are you going to do Clive? Are you going to come in with your army and save Vera? She has no-one, but now she has me.”

Reily’s floppy locks hung over his eye as he tossed his head back moving it. He was wearing his leathers and had on a black t-shirt with a wolf on it. “You asshole. When I find out-”

Reily cackled as he put the sword back in the ground where I stood narrowly missing my toes.

“When you find out, you’re going to do what? What huh?” he fake lunged forward as he let out a deranged laugh and walked away.

As soon as word of the ceremonial chase got around the barracks it confirmed the nightmare racing through my head. I went forward to the only other man who I knew had Vera’s best interest at heart. Archer. I found him in the mess hall eating a chicken sandwich. He and Thelma had just finished working on wooden posting for fencing along the perimeters of the barracks. Dane was even more paranoid than usual so more measures and patrols were being brought in.

“What is it?” Archer put down the sandwich he was eating. He must have known from the tortured look on my face that something was wrong.

“Vera, it’s Vera, she’s in trouble and we need to prepare. That’s not a ceremonial chase their organizing, it’s a hunt to kill her.”

Archer wiped his mouth as if considering if I was telling him the truth. “Are you 100% sure about this Clive?” Archer had become one of my trusted allies in the pack and even though I was skeptical of his motivations as a rogue, he was proving to be a valuable and loyal pack member.

“I am. There is no way Reilly wants to be with Vera. It’s the mate bond. It does something to Vera, she’s never felt it before and it’s a powerful link. This is the perfect opportunity for my brother to subdue her. Don’t you see?”

Archer nodded his head in acknowledgement. “I can, I’ve seen it too. I thought it was weird that he was communicating with Gina after he made that public announcement.”

From there we arranged ourselves to follow the ceremonial chase. After Reilly spoke about the chase I could see the glint in Dane’s eye. There was a sinister smirk on his face that put me off.

There was no time to go home, I had to shower and change at the barracks if I was going to follow them. I hadn’t the heart to tell Thelma, plus I wanted her to stay as far away from the fight as possible. Archer and I, would follow in line to keep an eye. If Reilly by some strange twist of wolf fate had no evil intentions we could turn back and leave them to their unconventional union.

Once the chase was announced Archer and I stuck like glue to one another waiting to give them a head start. I’d seen Vera’s wolf. It was nimble and agile like Vera, she would give them a run for their money. We would have to wait for a few minutes before we gave chase. It killed me to do it, but I wanted the others around us to lose interest before we ran behind.

Sure enough as the rain began to fall the other wolves gossiped behind their hands as Archer and I waited for them to venture inside. As the rain fell on the Mount Hunter pack I shifted along with Archer and we ran as hard and as fast as we could to catch the pack. Blinded by my desire to save Vera we ran headlong into trouble.

Reilly had injured Vera and I could smell the arid smoke of danger as my feet hit the ground. By the time we arrived it felt like we were too late. I fought my own brother, nipping at him at first, but he didn’t hold back. He sank his fangs into my shoulder and crunched bones as I howled. We wrestled as the others honed in on us. I barely had time to collect myself. One would pounce and then nip, then rip. I was being attacked from all directions along with Archer. He was quicker than me and his maneuvering ability cost him less.

I did what I came to do. I saw the flash of white out of my peripheral and called out to Vera via mindlink.

Vera can you hear me?

Yes, is that you Clive?

Vera, use your wolf. Get up and run. Go. Run now.

Shut up and stop talking to her. You’ve always been too heavy Clive. It slows you down. Reily broke into the highway between me and Vera.

I knew my brother’s weaknesses... I knew he wasn’t able to kill me, but I had a few more blows to deliver before it was over.