The Alpha’s Desire 2(39)

 

 

 

“You called my name,” I finally stated, having found air enough to use for a small voice. “Why?”

 

 

 

“I fear that earlier a few of my pack went too far. They paid for that mistake with their lives, unfortunately, and I wanted to come here to apologize for any inconvenience it may have caused you,” black suit asshole stated with a tone in his voice that spoke of boredom or thinly veiled sarcasm.

 

 

 

I went with the latter. Lex only tensed more, if possible, in response.

 

 

 

“Inconvenience? Seriously? Why are you really here?” I demanded, increasing the volume of my voice. “Don’t insult me with games.”

 

 

 

“Ah, you are a fiery one, now aren’t you? I heard you took out one of my pack all on your own,” he said, looking right at me, his green eyes, animal-like, glinting with gold as Lex’s did in human form.

 

 

 

“How would you know that if everyone here died? Did you watch? Do you have spies out there looking into my apartment?”

 

 

 

“Ah, you could say that. You are important to my pack, Christina. So much more important than you will ever know. Come with us, and we will treat you like the Royal you are,” he insisted, though I got the play of his words loud and clear, as Royal blood was hated by their pact.

 

 

 

Who the hell knew, then, how they would treat me if they got their hands on me? That sick roll in my stomach took on a new force as it edged into, merged with, that now pervasive shiver taking control of my ice-cold body. Glancing at my hands, I expected them to be blue regardless of the heat of our magic that swirled there. They appeared quite normal, though, and I berated them for such a thing as my mind fell into the insanity of panic mode. Now I knew how a hunted animal felt when the larger animal played first with its food.

 

 

 

He looked at Lex then, who’d been strangely quiet as I had this little interaction with the man. His fear. My fear. I couldn’t separate the two. Maybe he was using the time to plan out an escape plan. I could only hope, as I didn’t like the way the man looked at me. It made my skin crawl, and the hair on the back of my neck stand up.

 

 

 

“She’s not yours,” Lex finally stated, his voice firm and flat.

 

 

 

“Maybe not in this instant,” suit guy agreed, “but soon. Very soon, we shall have her. If not today, maybe tomorrow. But, mark my words, you can’t kill us all single-handedly there, Lex. You are already clearly outnumbered. So, why not just hand her over, peacefully, and no one gets hurt? You can go off and protect another. Hell, maybe you will get lucky and fall in love with her, as well.”

 

 

 

“I don’t get why we are having such a conversation.” I challenged. “What is the point of it exactly? What is your end game here?”

 

 

 

“Why, you, of course,” he said with a grin before he looked over the wolves around him as if inspecting his crew.

 

 

 

“You can’t have me. I can’t do anything for you. My bloodline is too diluted with human blood now. I’m useless. I can’t shift, and I can’t do magic,” I argued. Pathetic or not, I wanted to buy Lex some time.

 

 

 

I sensed his franticness. Surely, he searched for a plan to save us. So, if the guy wanted to play, then I’d play. After inspecting his wolves, he looked down at his fingernails as if I’d bored him. I wanted to storm over and slap that smug look off of his face, looking as he did like he already knew he’d won the game.

 

 

 

“Do you always play with your food first?” I spat, letting the stupid thought that swam repeatedly through my brain out into the world.

 

 

 

“Oh, I just love you,” he laughed.

 

 

 

Lex’s back literally rumbled.

 

 

 

“You are feisty,” he continued, ignoring Lex. “You think I play? Why, I’m just enjoying this moment and enjoying your pathetic attempt to save yourself with lies.”

 

 

 

“Lies?” I asked, taking on his same know-it-all tone.

 

 

 

“You do have magic. And, I’ve been told by one who practices that it can be nurtured until you grow into a full-fledged sorceress. Then you will be my pack’s salvation. We’ve waited for years for one of your protectors to screw up, to become emotionally attached. Now that he has…”

 

 

 

“Who’s lying now?” I interrupted him. “Lex loving or not loving me has nothing to do with your plan. You are just mean enough to use that against him. Your pack is weak, and for whatever reason, the timing of this has to do with you. You have something now that you didn’t before or you wouldn’t have chanced showing yourself to me, unless you were confident enough to get me or someone else like me. You really think that we don’t know that you attacked on a global scale yesterday. So back off the dumbass remarks about how we feel about each other, you ass,” I spat until my throat burned.