Page 83 of Alpha Brock
“He’s obsessed with alpha blood,” Kara grumbles, still on her little rant. “That’s part of the reason he was so intent on finding you. I mean yeah, he wants to use your psychic abilities to gain a tactical advantage in continuing his takeover, but he also he thinks the two of you will have superbabies or something.”
“I’ll never have his pups,” I mumble under my breath as I apply eyeshadow to my lids.
Kara’s pretty face twists into a scowl, jealousy practically seeping from her pores. “You’d be lucky to carry his pups,” she spits, shaking her head. “Ungrateful whore.”
“That’sLuna whore, to you,” I snap, dropping the eyeshadow back into the bag and staring at her in the mirror. Baiting her. If she lashes out and leaves a mark, she’ll have to wait for it to heal so I look presentable for Xavier, which’ll buy me more time.
She almost falls for it, springing forward in her chair, her face flushing red- but she’s got better control than I thought. She clenches her jaw, slumping back again. She looks away and doesn’t speak to me for several minutes, until I’m almost finished with the makeup. I usually don’t wear much makeup, but I’m trying to take my sweet ass time tonight. Stalling.
“Do you feel your wolf yet?” Kara asks, watching me apply mascara to my lashes.
“Huh?” I ask absently, swiping the mascara wand.
She heaves an annoyed sigh, folding her arms over her chest. “We need to make sure the wolfsbane is working its way out of your system so you can shift. I’m not getting blamed for it if you can’t.”
My wolf has been suppressed for days now, so I was surprised when I felt my animal side stir earlier. But Kara doesn’t need to know that. Maybe this’ll buy me time.
I look to her, giving a little shake of my head. “Not yet.”
Her icy blue eyes focus on me, narrowing. Calculating. Then her brow furrows, her lips tipping up into a smirk. “Liar.”
Damnit. Thought I had her for a second, but I’m a terrible liar. I look away, screwing the mascara wand back into the tube and dropping it into the makeup bag.
“Don’t even think about trying anything,” Kara warns. “You may be able to shift, but after three days on wolfsbane your wolf will be weak as hell.”
I meet her eyes in the mirror. “Bet she’d still be strong enough to take a bite out of you.”
I’m still trying to goad her, unafraid of her retribution. Whatever punishment Kara doles out will pale in comparison to the hell of mating with Xavier. I see her jaw twitch, but again, she doesn’t take the bait.
“Come on, it’s time to go,” she says brusquely, standing up and stalking over to me. She reaches out and grabs my arm roughly, yanking me up. Leaning over and putting her face right in mine as her lips twist into a cruel smirk. “You’d better hope he breaks you in easy.”
Panic grips me as she pulls me out the door. I’ve tried every tactic I could think of up until now, but I’m officially out of time.
“You’re hurting me,” I grit out, wincing in Kara’s grasp.
“Tough shit.” She keeps pulling me roughly down the dimly lit hallway, too fast for me to get a real beat on my surroundings. We pass a few other doors, but they’re closed and I can’t see the rooms inside. This place feels like a maze- if I was able to get away, I’m not sure how I’d escape. Maybe I could shift and make a run for it, see how far I get…
Just as that thought is occurring to me, Kara takes a sharp left, pushing a door open and shoving inside.I’m out of time.She pulls me in with her.
Alpha Xavier is standing inside the room- I can feel the bad vibes emanating off of him before I even lay eyes on the man. The room is dark on the edges, but there’s a skylight above that casts moonlight into the center of the room- so I guess this is how he’s getting around that whole ‘under the light of the full moon’ part of the mating ritual while staying inside. There’s nothing in the room except a dingy mattress on the floor off to one side, and the sight of it makes me sick to my stomach knowing what he likely intends to use it for after we’ve sealed the bond.
Xavier’s back is turned to us as we enter, his hands clasped together behind him. He’s in slacks and a black dress shirt with the sleeves rolled up to his elbows. Not sure why he bothered dressing us up like we’re on a fucking date or something, but then again, nothing makes sense when it comes to this lunatic. He’s got more than a few screws loose and this plan of his is half-baked, at best.
Upon hearing us enter, Xavier turns around slowly, a sick grin spreading across his face when he sees me. “Leave us,” he barks out to Kara, and she finally relinquishes her grip on my arm, stepping away from me and exiting through the door we came in. I hear the latch click into place, and a shiver travels up my spine as I realize that I’m all alone with a cold-blooded psychopath in this dark, damp room.
He holds out a hand, crooking a finger to beckon me closer. Still feigning compliance as my mind races for a way out of this mess, I take a deep breath and a tentative step forward. The light from above falls upon me, and Xavier rakes his eyes up and down my body as a chill settles in my bones. All I can feel radiating off of him right now is the worst of intentions, and my time’s up.
He licks his lips, grinning, as bile crawls up my throat. I can’t have this man’s hands on me. I’d rather meet the same end as Chris. My intuition is feeding me pure darkness from Xavier; unredeemable evil. I try to push away the heavy feeling of it, but just as I start to, my intuition suddenly picks up on something else.Someone else.
I get the now familiar sensation of full-body tingles, and hope blooms in my chest.
He came for me. Brock’s here.
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Brock
“You should be rolling up to a gate right about now,” Brooke says, her voice coming through the speakers in the large van we’re traveling in.