Stronger by Ang Chris
Chapter 81

Charlie POV:

Grayson got the information out of their Omega but it wasn’t what he’d wanted. He’d taken a silver knifeand carved it into the omega’s chest.

Traitor

He sent the omega back and that’s when we saw real fear. The omega begged us not to send him backwith that word

on him.

He knew what awaited him if he crossed onto his lands with the word traitor carved into him..

“Please I’ll tell you anything,” he’d bargained.

He did. He gave up their location. Their real location. Grayson was happy but he still forced him back.He wanted our enemy to know we were coming.

“Let him sit in wait for us, let the fear cloud his mind and his judgment. That’s what I want,”

“They’ll just move camp Grayson,” Steven shook his head.

“No they won’t,” Grayson grinned the devil’s grin. “They leave now and they won’t get to my wife at all,they know that. They retreat they lose their footing and their revenge goes up in smoke,”

He was ruthless now. He found out where they hiding, and he was ready to raze it to the ground.

His mercy for those we faced had vanished he was the shark who smelt blood in the water.

Now when he fought his punches weren’t pulled, he put them in the ground for good. The prisoners wetook grew smaller and smaller. Half of them I knew wouldn’t survive the trip back.

But I would not tell him to stop. My sister lay at home carrying the one thing she’d dreamed of herwhole life. My sister has always put others before herself. I let the rabid beast off of his leash andwatched him run.

She’d never asked him if the things he did and when he came home Anna would still look at him thesame.

She’d not care about the blood on his hands he was her mate. She was his wife and she loved himunconditionally.

The envy that I felt for them burned. My sister was in the boat worse than mine and she’d foundsomeone.

Here I stand defending that love, for her and I know when I leave here I will have to go home and bindto someone I’ll never have met.

I could tell my family I don’t want to marry an alpha female but what good would that be? I have goldenblood, I have 6 generations of pure alpha blood in me and what happens when that’s gone whatbecomes of my people? What becomes of my family?

So I’ll stay here in the thick of this mess and live vicariously through my sister as she gets all shedeserves.

Then I’ll go home and marry a woman I do not love and continue my bloodline and know every day thatif I came home to her after my worst she’d have to force herself to stay.

We moved down the countryside taking their camps down and working our way slowly toward them.

We now surveilled their camp with stealth teams and cameras. Grayson was right they stayed out.

They’d done their best in defenses. They were putting up a steel wall and adding electric lines. Theyhad put out some land mines. Very primitive.

They knew nothing could save them. Even if it killed him he’d make sure Anna was safe. Even if it killedme id make sure he’d got home to her.

Mother will have a fit if that scars,” I turned and inspected my baby brother’s face.

Someone had taken a silver knife to him but only got one haphazard slash along his jaw.

“It will,” he didn’t seem bothered by it. “But girls like that sort of thing.” he smirked.

“Idiot,” I chuckled back.

“You’ve got a few deeper wounds. You want that little she–wolf to come and look after you?” Heenquirer.

I whipped my head around. “What are you talking about?”

He let out the first real laugh I’d heard in a while from him. “Goddess Charlie hide it a little better,”

I relaxed my shoulders. “Don’t say a word Jamie I mean it,”

He shook his head. “Like I’m stupid enough to say anything. It’s fine Charlie I know what’s expected ofyou,” he gave me a pitying look.

I felt a great urge to break his nose. My wolf Aziel rose and I knew my eyes flashed.

My brother slammed one fist into the middle of my chest. “Hey!” He growled. “I’m not goading you I’magreeing, it

isn’t fair,”

He knocked the sense back into me with one punch.

“You think I don’t know my own brother?” He scoffed before walking out of our tent.

I wiped the blood from the battle we’d left off of me and put on a new shirt.

I walked to the main tent Grayson waiting for me.

“Glad you could join us,” Grayson still bleeding from a wound on his arm.

“Sorry I got cleaned up,” I shot back at him.

He was impatient I got it but this no–nonsense, aggressive, bull–headed behavior was hard to bearound.

“Well, it’s not the time. Tomorrow is the big day. We’re about ten miles away from their camps almost alltheir smaller holds are gone, or they are on the land of an Alpha who’s willing to kick them out,” heexplained.

“We take them down tomorrow and then we go home,” he finished again.

He set out to explain to us the plan for the next day’s multiple points of attack. Different weapons theywould expect. Poison–laced arrowheads. Silver bullets. Silver nets.

“We can expect they’ll have much of the same,” he sighed. “So I want everyone well rested andfocused watched them tomorrow be ready,”

Tomorrow.

I turned and as I did the regular gut punch hit me. She wasn’t my fated mate she wasn’t an alpha andstill, she was the most beautiful thing I’d ever seen.

Her name was Ella she had been one of the people to be kind to my sister when she h was also theone who’d been attacked by that sigma.

had become the new Luna. She

My blood boiled at the thought. She was not my mate, and I was a dope around her. I wanted to tell herthat she should go home and I’d fight this battle for her, but I didn’t know her.

Hadn’t spoken a single word because every time I tried I just kept thinking that girl who looks like thathad nothing to

say to me.

Dainty and ethereal as she was even with all that I had inherited to my name I was not able to form af**king

sentence.

Any girl would be lucky to have me that were the general words I’ve been told because I had also hadblood pure alpha. blood and what the hell is that worth if all I can say to the girl is I have alpha blood?

“Charlie,” Grayson clapped me on the back.

Ella scattered off.

F*** you. I glared at him.

“I want you prepared tomorrow I don’t want to go home to my wife with anyone maimed,” he lookedover his shoulder to the blonde walking away. “If she’s an issue tell me now,” he whispered.

I stopped in my tracks.

“What?” I couldn’t believe both James and my brother–in–law both knew I had feelings for this girl.

He sighed deeply. “Charles you cannot even blink when she’s near you I think it’s obvious,”

“F***,” I covered my eyes in the deep deep shame of being a complete moron.

“It’s fine. It’s fine I’m sure she doesn’t know,” he rolled his eyes..

“Right because I believe the man who couldn’t even trust the goddess with romance,” I growled.

“I will hit you,” he furrowed his brows and clenched his jaw.

1 rubbed my face.

“Stop it,” he placed a hand on my shoulder. “It’s no good worrying about it now you are going into battletomorrow and so is she. I need you to focus if she’s an issue tell me now I’ll send her home to lookafter Annette,”

“No!” I sputtered. “No. If I’ve learned anything from you it’s not to make decisions for a girl without heropinion. She wants to fight, let her do what she wants,”

Seriously I will hit you,” he clenched his fist. “Now come on,” He walked me toward his personal tent.

He pulled out the sat phone. He must be calling her.

After a second her voice crackled across the waves. “Grayson?” Her voice came worried and rushed.

“Netta,” he breathed in relief.

“Is everything alright?”

“Yes, we’re attacking the final camp tomorrow their camp, the one their alpha is at,” he told her.

Silence.

“You’ll come home to me right?” she asked him and knew my sister well enough to know that she wastrying to be brave.

“Yes,” he was deadly serious in his tone.

“Are my brothers there?” She continued.

“Yes yeah Charlie’s here,” he turned to me.

“Charlie!” She sounded relieved to know I was there and breathing.

“Anna,” I spoke up. “I’m alright don’t worry stress isn’t good for the baby,”

“F*** that. You come home too. You and Jamie I want To be safe,” she cut off a bit.

“We’re all safe he’s right don’t stress,” he pressed her.

“The babe is fine the mothers won’t let me lift a finger,” she whined.

Grayson laughed. “I’m sure they won’t,”

“But you’ll be home, Soon,7” She faltered in her bravado.

“Yes,” again he was resounding in his response.

“Then finish this,” she sniffled. She must be crying by now. “And then make good on what you’ve toldme. I miss you…all of you,”

“Of course, I miss you as well,” he gulped in the air.

“We’ll see you

“We’ll see you, Anna,” I called to her

“Anna?” James asked behind me.

“James,” Anna whispered,

He wasn’t allowed to speak to her, I moved him back.

“Is everything good with her,” he asked me.

“Yeah, we let her know we will be home soon, I told him.

He picked up a lantern and chucked it hard against the polyester ripping a hole in Grayson’s tent.

“Go,”

“Yeah,” he shook his head.

We’ll

I’ve soon. I’ll see my sister safe and happy. I won’t be able to form a sentence to Ella in any span oftime. Then

I’ll go and marry some girl I don’t know.

As long as this will end. Tomorrow it is.

Hello the next chapter is Graysons POV the final battle chapter.

Chapter Comments

Chelsea Hoyle

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gutted if we don’t get the ending to this book. Its been such a good book. such delays. and waits forchapters.

Kate Kelly

any more chapters coming soon, it feels like forver simce the last one. I know work, life and whateverelse can get in the way, just me being an addicted reader just needing

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