She laughed at her mother’s ideas. “What have you done with my mother?”
Charlotte opened the door and came to a stop. Brandon from the Eagle pack stood in front of her. She remembered the way he’d groped her and the way he’d threatened her.
“Hello, princess. Well, you’ve grown up, haven’t you?” Charlotte tried to slam the door shut, but he wedged it open. His grip threw the door wide, and in the next breath, he slammed her against the wall. She lost her footing and fell against him. In the next moment she saw the gun in his hand. “I’m taking the little lady with me. I’ve a message for Micah. Tell him it’s payback.”#p#分页标题#e#
Charlotte screamed when the bullet hit her mother’s side. She watched her mother slump to the floor, and then Brandon was grabbing her. Charlotte fought him, but his strength was far superior to hers. He picked her up and threw her over his shoulder as if she didn’t weigh anything.
Brandon threw her in the back of the truck. All of the large men she recalled from the night she became a mate stared at her. She heard him slam the door and get in the front.
“She smells so fucking good. Can I have a taste?”
“She’s a mated alpha, and, boys, we’re about to claim her for the Eagle clan.”
Darkness swam before her vision. From their words, it sounded like they were going to rape her. She felt panicked, scared, and in need of her mate. If she hadn’t left Micah, this wouldn’t be happening.
Micah.
Charlotte was about to die, and Micah wouldn’t even know how she felt.
Micah.
Chapter Eighteen
Micah got into the house, surprised to see most of his pack waiting in the main foyer, some sitting on the stairwell. Men and women of his pack stood looking at him.
“Where is she?” Cade asked him.
“She’s not coming back. Why are you all here?” He placed his coat on the hanger and stared out at his pack.
“But she’s pack. She’s ours. We’ve got to get her back.”
“Yeah, she’s the only one who makes decent pancakes. Cade’s are shit,” one of the male members called from the back.
Micah couldn’t help it. He chuckled.
“Well, I fucked up, and she isn’t coming.”
“So you’re just going to give up?” Cade came forward, arms folded across his chest.
“She doesn’t want us, Cade.”
“Bullshit. You selfish bastard!” Cade shouted. Micah tensed sensing the impending argument.
“Are you squaring up to me?” Micah demanded.
“You’re just a fucking coward. You fucked up and sent Charlotte packing. She’s the best thing that ever happened to you. What’s the problem, alpha, too much hard work?” Cade sneered at him.
Micah noticed all the other pack members had stepped back. Only Cade was confronting him.
“What the fuck is this? A show of leadership? You wanna take my pack away from me?” Never one to back down from a fight, he pushed all of his power through, showing Cade through his connection to the pack what kind of shit storm he was bringing down on himself. The connection had passed from each alpha through generations. An aura that flowed within them that allowed them the ability to gain authority over other members not worthy of his crown. He was the alpha, he was the strongest member of his pack, and he would not let another member tell him what to do.
Cade growled instead of backing down. “Charlotte deserved better than you.”
Hearing his words and knowing in his head Cade was probably right, Micah slammed his fist against his best friend’s face.
“What was she to you?” Cade got up from the floor. He didn’t fight back, but he kept coming back for more. “A cunt for you to screw?”
Micah lashed out, two punches to the face and one under the chin. Sweat broke out along his skin. The moon was calling to him to bring forth his wolf form and to settle the fight as the beasts they were. Inside his human skin, he couldn’t unleash the beast he wanted. Micah thirsted for blood. He wanted to rid himself of the pain of Charlotte’s loss and to exert the dominance of his position.
“Stay down!” he roared. Micah was amazed to see Cade fight his hold. Cade got up sporting a bloody split lip and swollen eye from his struggles.#p#分页标题#e#
“Or maybe she was a little bit of fun. Somewhere to dump your load every once in a while. Is that it? Did it make you feel like a man fucking a human?”
Micah saw red. He didn’t know why Cade was insulting his mate and him, but it was bringing fire out from inside him. The need to silence him or get him to take back his insults was strong.