Captive Of The Alpha
Chapter 15

Siran could only react in one way when he saw his alpha on the ground with b***d gushing from his neck, turn into a huge sand-coloured wolf, grab the attacking wolf by the back, tearing the skin as well, and throw him with all his might against the opposite wall. He didn’t care who it was, he didn’t care about the consequences, he only knew that his alpha had been assaulted and that was unforgivable.

After a loud thud against the furniture on the wall and a shriek of pain, Siran saw the she-wolf struggle to her feet but stand up firmly. Her mouth was bubbling and her eyes were a potent carmine colour with no pupil. She was out of control, she was shaking her head looking for the threat guided by the slight instinct that remained latent in her, she was totally dominated by her wild side and that was dangerous.

She stepped back quickly as two wolves dragged Hades out and closed the door before she felt the animal’s body crash hard against the wood.

One second of silence. Two, as he lashed out again, trying to break the door, which was made of three-inch mahogany, so he couldn’t get out and only hurt himself.

He felt it slam three more times until he felt a jagged howl that shook him. What was in there was not simply the wounded girl they had rescued, it was an animal in search of freedom, thirsting for b***d.

He passed the bolt making sure it was securely locked and knelt beside his alpha with a slight tremble expecting the worst.

Hades was anything but weak, but the bite had been accurate, severing crucial veins, nerves and arteries. The b***d had stopped gushing wildly, yet one of the men pressed a part of his own torn shirt over the wound, preventing further bleeding. The other had surely gone to fetch the doctor. Everyone in the pack was prepared for any situation and knew how to react.

Siran looked at his alpha’s pale face and frown. It had all been so quick. They had barely turned and the teeth were already there, in the jugular. He clenched his fists. Was this how they paid him, after all they’d done? Rage stirred inside him.

In the distance he heard a pair of feet running towards them. He sniffed the air, bad time for them to be there. Nicolas and Adan ran in the direction of where the piercing howl came from. They had left Noa with Catalina, and Rodrigo who knew where, he was a world apart and they had never gotten along well enough to play happy family now.

The scene they encountered when they stopped a few yards away made them recoil.

-What happened?” Alan grabbed his older brother’s arm.

-What happened,” Siran tried to take a deep breath, gritting his teeth so hard they hurt, “That their so-called mother just attacked our alpha,” he said.

He stood up and walked over to them. His height of 6’4″ may have rivaled Nicholas’ but 300 years of accumulated experience over 120 of them being second in command made the two cubs shudder. He stopped in front of them, clutching the edge of his trousers so as not to get his hands in the wrong place and do something he would regret later.

Two men from the manor guard appeared at the sound of the commotion and kept their distance from the trio, though approaching the alpha to get a sense of his situation. Siran was a reasonable beta, wise, polite, but more violent than his superior when the situation warranted.

Another knock on the door and the wood of the frame splintered, drawing everyone’s attention.

-Our mother is there,” Adam ignored the intimidating man before him and walked towards the door.

-Quiet puppy,” Siran bared his teeth, “Not another step.

-Why can’t we see our mother? She’s there, isn’t she? Did Hades try to do something to her?” Nicolas questioned, his voice rising as his body was lifted and pinned against the wall, his feet off the ground and a claw around his neck.

Adam lunged at the wolf to defend his kin but was grabbed from behind and kneeled to the ground as a hand pinned his head to the hard floor.

-The only reason I haven’t killed the woman in there is because my alpha wants her for his interests, because it is intolerable to me that anyone should touch a hair on her head, so you had better go back to your room and be very quiet if you don’t want to be the ones to take the place. I have too many problems, to deal with foreign puppies running all over the mission, and, not a word about what happened here,” he brought his face close to Nicolas who was frowning in annoyance but couldn’t defend himself as he was almost choking, “Or I’ll tear out each of your tongues,” he released him and threw him next to his brother.

Another blow on the door, and the wall suffered. It was hitting harder and harder. Hades’ b***d was inside the she-wolf’s system, making her strong, but at this rate and in the actual condition of her body she wouldn’t last long. The beta didn’t really care. His interest was only in the struggling man slowly regenerating the wound in his neck.

-You two,” he gestured to the newly arrived guards, “Take them away and lock them in their quarters. They will only be limited to food. Post guards at each of their doors and if I replace out they got out or escaped they will suffer consequences.

The wolves nodded and dragged away a puppy and a wolf cub who were turning and refusing to walk and cursing. Caesar came running up with bated breath and dropped to the ground examining the wound with majestic speed.

-Quickly, carry him to his room,” the one who had fetched him, plus the one guarding the alpha’s body, grabbed him as carefully as possible and carried him away. Cesar looked at the beta and a knock on the door next to him startled him.

-Did he lose control?” he asked as if he knew it would happen.

-And he attacked the alpha, I would have preferred he wasn’t a match and would have died.

The doctor clicked his teeth.

-Post guards so the she-wolf doesn’t get out, then we’ll deal with her, I have to take care of Hades first.

-As if I care what happens to her. She’s lucky my alpha didn’t die because it would destroy her completely.

Caesar sighed and reached over and touched her shoulder. His beta was being strangely irrational.

-Siran, she was raped, tortured, locked up for 50 years by her husband who is an alpha, she can barely smell, see or hear, how do you think she would react when she opened her eyes and saw herself in an unfamiliar place with an alpha by her side,” Siran growled, “I’m not defending her, but put yourself in her shoes. How would you, my wise beta, have reacted?