He is the one who should have been more careful! I growled through the mind-link.
I could see the packhouse already.
I am here, Daisy. I continued. I am here!
I could see our warriors who surrounded the packhouse. I could see their eyes widen when they noticed me. I could see Jake running toward me.
I could see Anna and Amy among them. I could see the shock on their faces.
I didn’t care about any of that. I needed to get to Daisy.
I burst through the packhouse door and ran to the storage room. I needed to shift and put something on. Logan was right behind me. He already shifted. He rummaged through one of the closets and grabbed a pair of sweats for himself and a large shirt for me.
I shifted back, took it from him, and pulled it over my head.
“Emma, you need to be careful.” Logan said as I ran out of the storage room and up the stairs.
I ignored him. I didn’t have time for this. I needed to get to my office.
I could smell Alpha Nathan’s scent, but it only angered me. It didn’t make me want him like it used to. It made my rage worse. It made my need to kill him worse.
I growled and ran into my office.
He was standing at the far end of the room. Daisy was in front of him. He was really holding a claw under her neck. He was really holding a claw under her belly.
A part of me was hoping that it wasn’t true.
Daisy looked so scared. My heart broke.
“Emma!” Alpha Nathan said happily. “You are here!”
I growled.
“You are glowing!” he exclaimed. “Is it your magic?”
He looked me up and down and frowned.
“I don’t like that shirt, Emma.” he said. “I don’t like other males seeing your legs. Go change into something appropriate so we can go.”
Was he serious?! My rage exploded.
“Let her the fuck go!” I shouted as I approached him.
Alpha Nathan looked surprised. Why the fuck was he surprised?!
“There is no need to be this angry, Emma.” he said, shaking his head disapprovingly. “I won’t hurt her if you come with me.”
I felt my blood boil. My body warmed up. I felt electricity at my fingertips.
“Let her go.” I said slowly. “I won’t repeat myself.”
I didn’t know what was going on around me. I knew that Logan was behind me. I knew that Andrew was standing to my right.
The only one I saw was him. The only thing I felt was rage.
My Goddess-given mate wouldn’t do this. My Goddess-given mate wouldn’t want to hurt me like that. My Goddess-given mate would never hurt my family. My Goddess-given mate would never threaten an unborn child.
Alpha Nathan was my cursed mate.
I knew it.
My heart knew it.
This was the proof I needed.
I looked at his claws and wished they would disappear. I could imagine them retracting back into his skin. I could imagine them disappearing.
He gasped and looked down at his hands.
He clenched and unclenched his fists, turning his hands and looking at them with a shocked expression on his face.
Someone pulled Daisy away from him.
Someone tried to pull me back.
I didn’t let them.
My magic expanded. It wasn’t only inside my body anymore. I could feel it on my skin. I could feel it around me.
I could feel someone behind me trying to approach me, but they couldn’t. I didn’t want them to. I needed to deal with him on my own.
I could hear them screaming something, but I didn’t hear what. I didn’t need to hear them. I was going to do this on my own.
I took a step closer to him. He looked up at me wide-eyed.
“What did you do?!” he shouted. “What did you do, Emma?!”
I could feel the magic pulsing inside me.
He tried to hurt Daisy. He tried to hurt my brother’s son. He tried to hurt my brother.
“I am not going anywhere with you.” I said coldly. “You aren’t my Goddess-given mate. My Goddess-given mate would never try to hurt my family. My Goddess-given mate would never do this to me. You are a curse, Nathan. You are a curse, and I’m done being tied to you.”
Rage flashed in his eyes. He growled and clenched his fists.
“If you won’t go willingly, I will take you forcefully.” he said as he grabbed me and pulled me to himself.
I let him take me. I wanted him to. I wanted to fight him.
I pushed him back toward the window. Our bodies slammed against it. The window broke, and we were falling to the ground.
Logan POV
My throat hurt from screaming. My body hurt from trying to break this shield around her.
I was so fucking terrified.
“EMMA!” Andrew screamed again as he slammed his body against the glowing wall around her.
“Lower it down!” I shouted at her.
The fear almost made me throw up.
She didn’t shield herself from him. She shielded herself from us. There was no magic wall between her and him. He could get to her. We couldn’t.
I couldn’t feel my heart. I couldn’t feel my body. The only thing I felt was fear.
“If you won’t go willingly, I will take you forcefully.” he said as he grabbed her and pulled her to himself.
NO!
“EMMA!” I screamed, trying to break the shield again.
I watched as she slammed her body against his. I watched as she pushed him through the window. I watched as the window broke and they both fell to the ground.
My heart wasn’t working. It wasn’t fucking working!
“No!” Andrew screamed as he ran to the window.
The shield disappeared along with her.
I forced my body to move. I ran to the window and looked down.
They were on the ground. The fucker was on top of her, trying to pin her hands down.
I saw fucking red. I was going to kill him!
I jumped through the window and landed close to them.
A blast threw me back. My body slammed against the wall.
Fuck!
I looked at Emma.
She wasn’t on the ground anymore. She was standing up, facing the fucker. Her body was glowing. Electric sparks kept flying from her skin.
“Get everyone out of here!” Emma screamed.
The shield around Emma was back. I couldn’t get to her. I couldn’t help her.
She didn’t shield herself from him, though. Why? If she could shield herself from us, why didn’t she shield herself from him?
Protect yourself from him, Emma! I screamed through the mind-link. Lower the shield between us, and let me help you! Raise it in front of yourself!
No. She mind-linked me back. Something is telling me that I have to do this. I have to fight him, Logan. If we just throw him out of the pack, he will come back with an army or rogues.
My heart started beating painfully fast.
I need to do it. Emma continued. This is my battle. This is my war. I need to do it alone.
My stomach turned.
If he hurt her…
Someone ran toward me. It was Anna.
“She doesn’t know how to control it!” she yelled. “She could hurt someone!”
I looked around and saw our warriors and pack members gathering around us.
Andrew jumped down and started running toward the crowd, waving and screaming at them to move.
New Book: Back Home to Marry Off Myself
Loredana’s father left the family for his mistress, leaving them to fend for themselves abroad. When life was at its toughest, her father showed up with “good news” after 8 years of absence: To marry off Loredana to a paralyzed son of the wealthy Mendelsohn family.