Filed To Story: Secret with Betas Daughter: Skylar Story Series
“Two years of work. Two years of commitment. I did everything he’s ever asked me to and all you had to do was bat your virgin eyes at him. All these assholes talk and it got back to him exactly how innocent you are. He’s going to take you and break you and then throw you away like the rest.
She’s still throwing lazy punches. She has no idea what she is doing. She never trained to be a Luna, if this is how she fights.
“So you are telling me.”
I finally land a solid punch to her cheek and she falls. “That in two years, he has cheated on you and you stayed committed hoping you would change him, that getting his mark would make you better than everyone. But it never did, did it? No one took you seriously, no one listened to you, everyone saw you for the joke that he made you and your true mate bond. You make me sick, both of you do and I don’t even know who he’ is.
She’s starting to wobble, but her fury is keeping her upright and fighting.
“Of course you know, you’ve been planning this from the moment you got here. And I am not a JOKE!” She screams as she lunges at me.
I don’t even think, I just react. Her lunge is clumsy but forceful and I reach around her, almost in slow motion, grab the nape of her neck with one hand and use the other to propel her naked ass into the trunk of a massive tree face first with all of my strength. She collides with a sickening crunch and then collapses with no other sounds.
I get two breaths in and then I hear it. The painful wail of a heartbreaking howl. I know it came from Tyler, feeling her die. I can’t breathe… I killed someone… I took a life. She would have killed me, the logical part of my brain which is probably my wolf, tells me. But, I took someone’s life. That isn’t my decision to make. My shallow breathing is making my vision go blurry at the edges. I need to get control, now! I close my eyes and breathe deep into my lungs then let it out slowly.
“Well, that was entertaining. I thought she might challenge you after our little tryst earlier, but I wasn’t sure what the outcome would be. You truly are the best choice as my Luna. I’m so glad you fought so hard for me.”
A very familiar, silky deep voice sounds behind me. It has never been this confident before though. Usually joking or energetic, but this version is calculating and cruel. Chills run over my whole body.
I turn slowly and so many things click into place and so many questions rush through my brain all at the same time.
Mike. Mike is the Alpha of this rogue pack. Does that mean he is this Rogue King that everyone is talking about? The happy go lucky goofball that just follows his friends around, this is their leader? I never saw that coming. There are even a few guys I’m not super familiar with that I would have pegged as the leader over him. He’s not a small guy, but he doesn’t come across as a fighter. Maybe like people do to me I underestimated his abilities.
“I know that you want me. I see the way you look at me, you can’t help it or deny it.”
He says in a smooth voice.
“What are you talking about?”
I whisper, so confused about who is standing in front of me right now.
“So shy and innocent. I knew there was a fighter in there somewhere, it just needed the right motivation to come out. I’m glad to know I am that reason for you. THat you will defend your connection to me to the last.
This boy has lost his ever loving mind. Is he really this self absorbed that he can turn Janice’s jealousy into me fighting her for him? No one is that crazy right?
“You were not a reason for anything that I did here. I didn’t even know it was you she was talking about.
“Don’t play coy with me, you already have my attention, you don’t need to play hard to get. I know you could sense my power and you were drawn to me.
“No, I can’t honestly say that is true in any way. I’m not drawn to anyone, least of all you.”
I should really stop talking, but I can’t seem to help myself. Maybe the shock is getting to me, but he might kill me just for insulting him, based on the look that briefly flashed across his face. Before I can get too far into that thought process though a loud growl and snarl come from my left and a large gray and white patched wolf comes barreling towards us.
I jump out of the way ready to shift, my brain fog gone in a flash, ready to fight my next attacker if needed. But the wolf heads straight for Mike and stops right in front of him.
The loud sounds of popping and snapping draw my attention, but I keep Mike in my line of sight not trusting him in any way, stepping away from both of them slowly.
“WHY?! Why did you do it?” Tyler roared at Mike. “You killed her?!”
It was both an accusation and a question. “You chose her, took her from me, why would you kill her? You could have just given her back to me.
“I didn’t kill her, friend. I never actually would have killed her. She was easy and fun to have around. Always willing to show me how devoted and dedicated she was to me.”
Mike closed his eyes and licked his lips. Gross. “Even after I chose my Luna I would have kept her around for variety. And she would have stayed too. She never would have gone back to you, she always had the choice.”
His eyes were now challenging and calculating, but I don’t know if it was directed at Tyler or me. He’s a snake and knows how to use his words, that is how he’s gotten this far. “Your new little toy here was jealous and wanted me all to herself, apparently she doesn’t like to share. She’s the one who killed your mate.
Tyler turned to me menacingly. The man I knew was gone. His wolf is feral with grief and Tyler no longer has control. He starts to stalk towards me slowly, hesitating, like he’s having a fight with himself. Maybe he is. His human side who knows me and knows I wouldn’t just kill his mate for no reason versus the wolf part that can’t live without his mate.
“What the f*ck?! You are crazy! She attacked me and you know it.”
I point at Mike, but don’t take my eyes off Tyler. “Tyler, you know I wouldn’t kill someone out of spite. I didn’t even know she was your mate or the crazy b*tch that left you for this tool.”
I’m pissed, because I see what Mike is doing now. He is tying up loose ends and Tyler is a loose end now that he is mateless and out of control. He’s no longer a good soldier.
I have to divide my attention between the two of them. One is taunting to see who will come out the victor and one is so out of control that he will kill me or I will kill him and either way it will break one of us in the end.
New Book: Returned To Make Them Pay
On her wedding anniversary, Alicia is drugged and stumbles into the wrong room—straight into the arms of the powerful Caden Ward, a man rumored never to touch women. Their night of passion shocks even him, especially when he discovers she’s still a virgin after two years of marriage to Joshua Yates.