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 everagain.

“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 sympatheticbig 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 hiscommand.

I know he was lenient with me. I know I acted out and made my sister cry. I know I wasn’t doinganyb*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 mymother 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 offmy back.

I had to do everything he said but he let me fight. And he may or may not actually love my sister, aswell 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 thatfor 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 hadto 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 andthe 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 onme that

night.

It was hard to think of my sister the demure, kind–hearted, optimistic girl as able to take someone’s eyebut 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. Thisthreat to us only made me angrier and more bloodthirsty.

“I want you to replace restraint on the battlefield. I want you to be calmer,” Grayson told me. “If you don’tyou’ll be sent home to guard Annette,”

If this enemy was completely incompetent they’d attack my sister with Theo and my father protectingher. 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.

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

But he’d put my sister at her lowest I don’t care if they’re doing better. I don’t care if he had daddyissues. I don’t

cainc.

The one person who saw the best in me getting hurt. So I wanted to hurt him back.

“Jamie,” Charlie shouted as he ran after me. “I want you safe I’m not trying to baby you but you’regoing through things and being on the battlefield right now is too dangerous I think you should-”

“I don’t answer to you, big brother. I answer to him and he says I can fight so I’m fighting. She’s mysister too and I know her better,” I rolled my eyes.

My brother grabbed me by the shirt and spun me around. “F***ing stop it,” he growled. This isn’t agame. You are not invincible I have one sibling with a target on their back I don’t need two,”

Charlie was the sensible one he didn’t behave this way.

I grabbed his hand and yanked it off my shirt but he didn’t budge. “You fight for her and so do I. I haveto obey every order that Grayson gives me. You know that you placed the law on me,”

I mouthed off which meant I had to be Grayson’s b*tch. My alpha or my heir places a law on me asacred order from

the alpha or heir.

Father made Charlie place it on me. Now I’m ordered in my very bones to pay penance for my actions.

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

We headed out a couple of hours later my bruther by my side and Grayson across from me.

“Watch your punches and keep your claws in,” he told me.

We waited on the edge of the forest by the camp of this enemy.

We were going to surprise them and wait to let our scents get into the forest so that when we did attackthey would be woken up by the newfound scent their wolf was smelling.

So I sat and I waited even if I wanted to rip through the camp the way I knew I could, but somethingdark came with that sense and I knew I had to fight it.

I hated everyone and all the looks they gave me because I had to fight it and I was really tired of it all.

Silence consumed us I could hear Charlie breathing and the men shuffling and that owl fluttering itswings here and there. I was cold and I didn’t like it. How Anna had accepted a mate who lived in afrozen hell’s cape I’ll never know.

We were entering the true winter soon now it was just frosty I’m sure Grayson wanted this neededbefore we were frozen where we stood.

After an agonizing time waiting, I saw a hand wave and we slowly encroached upon them.

Fast asleep no worries in their heads and somehow they barely fought.

I kicked over one man from a dead sleep and he jolted awake and fumbled unsure of what was goingon.

When he figured out I wasn’t friendly his wolf seemed to take over but I had made an agreement.

I kept my claws in and punched him he attempted to scratch me but I kicked him square in the chest hefell backward so I kicked him in his balls.

He howled and was incapacitated enough for me to stomp on his face until I saw him black out.

I left that tent and moved on one wolf saw me and so we started walking towards each other.

I wanted to rip his throat apart. I wanted to extend my claws slowly into his head. But I couldn’t.

He swung way too wide, I clocked him in his jaw and he stumbled back.

The issue with these fights. They were all so poorly trained. They never seemed to move to avoid onlyacting with instinct, and they swung instead of punching.

He came again and I jabbed his ribs my anger sl*pping and I felt a crack. He sucked in a breath and fellonto his ass.

I zip–tied his hands.

“Stay down,”

He was only heaving deep breaths. I think I may have broken more than one. Oops.

I went off and saw my brother fighting two wolves at once, but this was Charlie I was nothing comparedto him. He grabbed one of the by the wrist and clenched down he broke something by the way his preyscreamed. The other swung at my brother with a sword but Charlie extended his claws and slashed theother eyes out.

And yet I was the feral one?

I picked up a club or a baseball bat it looked misshapen. I saw another one of Stevens’s wolves introuble I swung and beat the attacker in the head he flew and was left drooling.

“Get up,” I helped my ally to his feet and he nodded before running back into the fight…

Grayson was off knocking them out with one punch. He was a full–blooded alpha as well, but he wasn’tlike us. He was new blood so his status showed. Charlie was leaner but tall he didn’t look like he couldtake Grayson but he could probably level if he had to.

Grayson picked on them up by his shirt and pants before slamming them into the hard ground.

I turned and went after two men who had ganged up on some poor girl she was doing her best but Ifigured she needed help.

I grabbed one by the back of his head with his hair and yanked him away. The girl quickly took heropening and kicked the other wolf in his chest and then jumped up on him getting him into a chokehold.

I b*dy blowed the other one before one uppercut took him to the ground as well.

“Thank you,” she turned to me.

“Aren’t you supposed to be with my sister?” She was one of the ones that were always glued to mysister’s side.

“The alpha asked me to come. I want to see this finished,” she straightened

She was pretty. Very pretty. She must have been the one this whole thing started over. She was thekind of dainty frail beautiful. Like the women in paintings. But she had just choked a man to death.

“Are you alright?” My brother’s voice came behind me.

He looked angered crazed anger.

“Charlie?” I furrowed my brows.

“Yes sir,” she bolted from where she stood and took off to fight another wolf.

“Come on Jamie,” he grabbed me.

He was acting oddly. Well odd for a man who usually has a stick up his ass.

“Let go,” I wrenched my arm free.

It seems that when my brother and I came together it was a tempting target. Four no five wolvessurrounded us.

You would think this a stupid idea anyway but if you knew that my father had us train together to workas a team almost exclusively you’d know this to be a mortally stupid idea.

“Ready?” My brother asked me as we went back to back.

“Ready,” I grinned bringing my fists up to my face.

One swung at me and I blocked grabbing his hand and punching him and another swung at the sametime I absorbed the blow and kicked at his knee.

A third came at me but Charlie’s claws came out at him from the corner of my eye and his chest wasstriped red. I punched him square in the nose it crumpled.

The first two attackers felt neglected and went to grab me and throw me to the ground but I saw whatthey were doing and as they were focused on my chest I grabbed their heads and slammed themtogether.

They wobbled one dropped with a dazed look. The other shook it out and brought his fists up.

I suppose we know who has the thicker skull.

Charlie launched one guy sideways and turned to help with the last one but upon seeing both mybrother and me, he

huffed and surrendered.

We looked around and it appeared with only a few stragglers that the fight was done.

“Congratulations,” our prisoner sneered.

Charlie zip–tied his hands tightly. “Thank you,” he smirked before punching the guy and he went out.

“Is it just me or are they all unbelievably annoying?” He rolled his eyes. “They give us no challenge indisliking them,”

“Tell me about it,” I looked around, Grayson was dragging someone towards us.

“Found their Omega,” He explained the man was scratching at Grayson’s arm but it seemed mybrother–in–law was

unbothered.

“Knock it off,” I kicked him in the head with a good amount of effort.

The Omega retracted his claws because he was now too dazed to keep them out.

“I’ll never give up anything,” he coughed.

“Oh. That is the least of your worries,” Grayson pulled out a knife and knelt down.

My laptop has risen from the dead! The book has been saved from its stupid hard drive. New laptop,book uploaded. Of course when I say update tomrrow this happens, anyways the next chapter will beGrayson’s POV