Filed To Story: Falling for the Alpha As a Student Novel
Did she somehow lose her abilities?
Most of the witches that were helping Jazzy were already dead. I’m sure Alpha Jonathan had something to do with that.
Nobody seemed to have noticed me breaking through the clearing and running toward the battle.
My eyes scanned the area until they landed on him.
Enzo.
He was lying on the ground, and I could tell from a distance that he was covered in blood.
My heart shattered in my chest, and I wasted no time getting to him.
I ran as fast as I could until I was by his side. I shifted back into my human form and stared down at his body.
He had a gaping hole in his stomach.
He was also pale as a ghost, and he wasn’t breathing.
“Oh, my goddess…”
I gasped, not realizing I was crying until I spoke, and my voice cracked as a sob escaped my lips. “Enzo!!”
I sobbed.
I placed my hands on each side of his face.
“Please… you can’t be dead…”
I sobbed, not caring about anything else that was going on around us. “Please…”
I cried.
I shook his shoulders trying to get him to open his eyes.
My fingers trembled violently as I felt a pulse around the nape of his neck.
“Lila!!”
My mother yelled. “You need to get out of here. It’s not safe.”
Lightning shot out of her claws as she zapped a rogue dead. Shadows emerged from the ground and began to fight around her, shielding her from more rogue attacks. She positioned the shadows to cover me and Enzo, protecting us from onlookers.
She had her abilities back too.
I would have been thrilled if I wasn’t so broken. My entire body felt numb as I kept my eyes on Enzo’s still body.
The curse must have been broken.
But how?
“Enzo… please…”
I whimpered. “I need you to be alive… We need you to be alive….”
I grabbed his hand and placed it on my belly. My entire body trembled as more sobs escaped my lips.
In just moments, my entire world had crumbled around me.
In my mind’s eye, I saw my wolf lowering her head and curling up in agony as she mourned the loss of our mate.“I can’t do this without you, Enzo…I’m pregnant with our pups…”
I whispered to him through my tears. “You can’t leave us… I love you….”
Nothing was ever going to be okay again.
“Lila, we need to get you out of here! Where’s Xander?”
My mother shouted through the noise of the battle.
I couldn’t bring myself to stand. I couldn’t leave Enzo.
I lowered my head as the shadows closed in around us, protecting us from the ongoing battle.
I buried my face in his chest and allowed myself to break. I wrapped my arms around him, sobbing into him and whispering to him about how much I truly loved him.
“Lila…”
I heard my name being spoken and a hand on my back, making me tense. The voice was familiar was voice and soft. “We have to—”
Her voice broke off as she gasped, dropping her hand from my back. I knew it was Sarah and I also knew Brody wasn’t far from her. She sounded tired and I knew it was because life was draining from her rapidly after she used her abilities so much this evening.
“Oh, my goddess…”
she breathed. “Lila, you need to look at what’s happening.”
I knew she wanted me to get up, but I couldn’t even think about moving from where I was. Not without Enzo.
“Lila, she’s right. It’s Enzo…”
Brody’s voice cut through my thoughts, making my eyes shoot open.
I lifted my head a little too quickly. Dizziness washed over me, but not before I saw what they were talking about.
Enzo was glowing!
Actually… his wound was glowing.
Shards of light were pouring into him from the moon. Or maybe his wound was pouring light into the moon. I couldn’t tell, but something was happening.
“His wound is closing…”
Sarah breathed, astonished.
My mother had joined us as well, wafting away the shadows that covered us.
I had no idea what was going on, but Sarah was right. His wound was healing.
“Oh, my goddess…”
my mother whispered.
The ground began to rumble like an earthquake and the battle around us began to lessen. Not only were most of the rogues and witches dead, but the remaining ones were now distracted by the sudden earthquake and the fact that Enzo was glowing.
But my mother’s eyes were fixed on the horizon and a small smile appeared on her lips. I followed her gaze to see whatever she was looking at.
More wolves were approaching over the horizon line. Rays of moonlight shining down on them and guiding them toward the battle, lighting up their path.
There were dozens of them.
“Are those…?”
Brody began to ask.
“Volana wolves…”
I finished for him.
Just as the wolf leading Volana pack began to howl, making the others howl in response, Enzo’s eyes flew open.
Enzo’s POV
I was stabbed deep by one of those snake tendril things. I felt pain for the first couple of seconds and watched as blood soaked my entire body and dropped to the ground below me. Lila was released and she fell to the ground.
Thankfully, Bastien was running toward her and caught her.
I saw a faint slight and a gust of wind whooshing over us, knocking most of them off their feet. When I looked below me, I saw Selene running as fast as she could toward Bastien and Lila.
Her eyes were back to their normal purple and blue color.
She got her abilities back.
I knew the only thing holding me together was the fact that the tendril was still inside of me. Pain seared through my body, and I found it difficult to hold onto my consciousness. I wanted to get to Lila, but if I moved, I would bleed out for sure.
Bastien was handing an unconscious Lila to Xander, telling him to get her to safety.
I was wondering why the snake things weren’t doing anything and why Zagreus had gotten quiet. I saw that he was staring at me with utter horror while Jazzy kept demanding him to finish the job.
Soon, I was blinded by this intense ray of light, unsure of where it was coming from. Just as the light whooshed over me, the tendril was yanked out of my body, and pain shot through me. I felt blood gushing out of me.