Filed To Story: Falling for the Alpha As a Student Novel
I assured her. “We got through the clearing. Release the barrier.”
I felt the tension lessen and I knew the shield was no longer intact. I let out a breath of air.
“I think I found something,”
Ethan said through the mindlink, drawing all of our attention down a long and dark hallway.
My mother’s scent grew potent as I went down the hallway, which only made me run to Ethan’s location that much faster. Ethan stood in front of a large wooden doorway with a worried expression on his face.
“It’s locked,”
Ethan said. “But it reeks like rogue.”
“This whole place reeks like rogue,”
Jack said, scrunching his nose.
I tuned them out and ran with all my force and speed toward the door. I slammed the shoulder of my wolf into the door, ignoring the pain I felt in my body. I ran again and slammed into the door.
The third time I ran into the door, Ethan and Jack ran with me. All three of us ran into the door and the door broke off its hinges and went tumbling down a long flight of stairs. I would have fallen down the stairs myself if Ethan hadn’t grabbed my arm to keep me steady.
“Let’s go,”
I ordered my gammas who were quick to run down the stairs.
There were more rogues we had to take care of but we soon found the holding cell they were keeping my mother.
“Where’s Paul?”
Ethan asked, looking around the underground dungeon.
I smelled the air, only picking up the heavy smell of rogues and then a faint smell of Volana wolves. He’s had other Volanas here besides my mother.
The thought of him keeping Lila here made my stomach uneasy.
My mother lay on the ground; her breathing was shallow, and she was badly beaten.
“I think I found the keys,”
Jack said from the desk across the room.
He dangled a set of keys in the air and tossed them to me. I grabbed them in the air and went to unlock the cell my mother was in.
It took a couple of tries to find the correct key, but soon, the cell door was open, and my gamma was running into the cell.
“We need to get her to the pack doctor,”
one of them said, checking for a pulse. “She has a very light pulse and she’s breathing. But barely.”
“Get her to safety,”
I ordered.
He nodded and lifted her off the ground, securing her on the back of his wolf. Her head dangled over, and her body was completely limp. I hated seeing her this way; my heart shattered at the thought of what she must have gone through.
I should have been there to protect her, but I wasn’t.
“We should get out of here too, Alpha,”
Ethan said, stepping beside me. “I’m getting a bad feeling. A lot of the rogues took off quickly and Paul is nowhere to be seen.”
I sent a mindlink to the warriors who remained outside with Lila.
“How’s Lila”
I asked as we sealed the dungeon cell and made our way back up the stairs.
“She’s in pain, Alpha. I’m not sure what happened. But she needs medical attention.”
My heart fell into my stomach. All the attacks on my body, Lila must have felt. I glanced down at my arm which was healing slowly. It would have healed faster but it was a silver dagger.
As we got back upstairs, I froze when I heard something clattering to the ground. Before I could fully grasp what, it was, I heard Ethan and Jack screaming at the same time, “ENZO!!! RUN!!!”
It was a grenade.
I wasted no time in running towards the doorway with all the speed I could musk.
As soon as I reached the door: KABOOM!
Enzo’s POV
My hearing was gone; all I could hear was a loud pitched sound and all I could see was smoke. I wasn’t even sure if I was breathing or not. My entire body had gone numb, and I was pretty sure I was pressed against the ground, covered in rubble from the rogue hideout.
I lifted my head only to be met with more smoke; I couldn’t see any of my warriors and I’m not sure who made it out alive.
Soon, I saw the worried eyes of Ethan emerging from the smoke. He was covered in soot, and he was breathing heavily. He covered his mouth to keep from inhaling any more smoke.
He was saying something to me, but I couldn’t hear him.
Jack was next to appear and together they grabbed each side of me, trying to get me to my feet. It wasn’t until I moaned that I started to feel the pain my body endured. I growled loudly as I stood to my feet.
Max was working hard at healing me, but I knew he was exhausted.
The rogues threw a grenade into their own hideout in a last attempt to kill us.
“Enzo, can you hear me?”
Ethan’s voice finally cut through my damaged eardrums, and I managed to nod my head.
“Lila…”
I said through gasps of air.
“They were able to move her out of the way,”
Ethan assured me.
“And my mother?”
“Already on her way to the pack hospital,”
Jack was next to answer. “She’s sustained a lot of injuries that will need to be cared for right away.”
I nodded as we continued to make our way out of the smoke.
Once I was able to see again, I scanned the scene around me. I had warriors sitting on the ground with open wounds from silver weapons. Their wolves weren’t healing them which meant some of these weapons must have been laced in wolf’s bane.
I looked down at my arm which hadn’t healed yet either and sighed.
“Everyone needs to get looked at by the pack doctors,”
I ordered. “Return there now.”
“What about Paul?”
Jack asked, raising his brows. “He’s still out there. He’s not going to stop until Lila is in his custody.”
I stared over in the far distance where I knew Lila was. One of my warriors was holding her unconscious body in his arms. Her head was leaning against his chest, and she looked incredibly cozy, curled up with this warrior.
A low growl escaped my throat as Max grew uneasy. He didn’t like other men touching our mate.
“First thing first is making sure everybody is okay. Then, we will go after Paul,”
I said, walking toward Lila.
The warrior holding Lila saw me coming and I could see the color draining from his face. it was probably the way I was glaring at him. However, I said nothing to him.
I wrapped my arms around Lila pulled her out of his arms and cradled her in mine.
I was more than relieved to see that she was breathing and seemingly unharmed. She was just exhausted. Using that much power took a lot out of her.
She rested her head on my chest and took a deep breath, taking in my scent just as I took in hers.
Her eyes fluttered open, and I saw the concern in her gaze as she stared at my face.
“You’re okay…”
she whispered, tears welling in her eyes. “I thought I lost you…”
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