The Alpha let go of Carly and the two males growled at one another. Kira’s gaze flickered between the two before alighting on the deathly still Omega. Suddenly it dawned on her why she was so still. It was Carly who was doing this! Carly was manipulating the two wolves’ emotions. She was playing on the small feelings of resentment and uneasiness that resided in the two males and amplifying them to provoke an extreme reaction. Yikes, never get on Carly’s bad side!
The Alpha squared his shoulders. “For years I’ve cleaned up your messes and I’ve had it! You’re weak. You can’t even keep your own mate in line. No wonder she left you. You allowed a female to make a fool out of you.”
Joseph shook with the effort to remain in his skin form. “Fuck you! This never would have happened if we’d just taken Lilah when I told you too.”
“And done what? Killed the other female? The Alpha would have come after us in a second.”
Kira realized they must have been talking about Jolene. And yes she had no doubt that Adam wouldn’t have hesitated in retaliating if Jolene had been killed defending Lilah.
“So what? You fucking wimp! I could have beaten him and taken over this pack.”
The Alpha snorted derisively. “Arrogant little prick. I’ve met Adam Grey, he would have ground you into dust.”
Joseph howled and shifted to his wolf launching at his father. He landed on top of him with a bone crunching thud. The Alpha shimmered and shifted too. The large wolves began snapping and swiping at one another. The crashed into furniture destroying anything in their tumbling path.
The shifter and the wolf that had been guarding the door rushed inside and froze at the sight of their leaders brawling. The wolf swiftly shifted to human.
“Ooof!” The shifter with the bloody arm gurgled and collapsed on the floor.
Deanna stood behind him triumphantly waving a heavy duty frying pan and training her gun on the two shifters who had started creeping to the door. “Don’t even think about it wolfys.”
Kira tackled Carly out the way of the struggling wolves. Joseph the younger, faster wolf roared and ripped the throat out of his father. With a strangled sob the older wolf fell to the floor as Joseph howled out his triumph.
Joseph’s razor sharp fangs dripped with blood as he swung his attention round to Carly and Kira. Joseph made a lunge toward them and Deanna promptly fired three rounds into the huge wolf. With a wretched whine he nose-dived and slumped to the floor.
The two she-wolves stared at him in shock. The remaining members of Joseph’s pack fled from the Diner running smack into the Alpha, the Beta and Gabe.
Chapter Fifteen
Joseph and Joseph Sr were both dead. The two other wolves shot by Deanna were hurt but they’d live. The rest of the Charming pack wolves were easily subdued, including the wolf bitten by Deanna who whined incessantly about a tetanus shot. Deanna told him to shut up or she really was going to show him just how sharp her fangs were.
The incident was reported to the Council of Shifters (CoS) who, mindful of the impending bad weather, hurried to clean up and take away the Charming wolves. Both dead and alive.
Kira and Gabe clutched each other tightly and smothered one another with kisses. Kira phoned her sister just to make sure she was okay. Lilah said she was fine, she was a little dazed to learn of Joseph’s death but Mac, Jolene and Felicity were there if she needed them.
Alec tried to calm the nerves of his agitated Deputy and commended her for her bravery. Adam was completely pissed to find Carly there.
“What the hell is Carly doing here?” Hissed Adam, glowering at Gabe. “Did you ask Carly to come here?”
Adam disliked putting members of his pack above others, but Carly was the weakest member of the pack. He would no sooner send a pup into a dangerous situation than he would Carly. She was the Omega, they needed her safe and sound for the emotional wellbeing of the rest of the pack.
Carly thoroughly felt like a naughty child and bristled at her Alpha’s tone. Although there was no way in hell she was going to call him on it. “He didn’t, I was just here and wanted to make sure Kira was okay. I figured something was going on because of the ban on going out into the woods.”
“What happened?” Asked Kira.
Gabe stroked a thumb over her cheek. “Someone, I’m guessing Joseph and his father, set loads of bear traps out through the woods. They covered them in wolfsbane. We figure they did it to distract us so they could grab Lilah. Guess they thought it was easier to get you first.”
Kira smiled triumphantly. “Yeah well they were wrong.”
Adam huffed. “You could have been hurt Carly.”
Mindful of the Alpha’s bad mood Kira bared her neck before speaking. “If Carly weren’t here we would have been hurt.”