Filed To Story: Their Bullied and Broken Mate by Teri Petry
BANG!BANG!BANG! “Alphas!!! Wake up!! We are being attacked!!” I was startled out of my sleep by Jason pounding on the door and yelling we were under attack. FUCK! I shook Liam until he was finally awake and told him what was going on. I could hear screaming outside the house and I hurried to get dressed. “MEL! YOU HAVE TO WAKE UP!” I called to her. She started to stir, but Liam just scooped her up out of bed. We didn’t have time to waste and needed to get her to safety.
We opened the door and Jason, Rebecca and the kids were standing outside waiting for us. Running down the hallway to the safety bunker, Rebecca slipped on something and fell. Jason bent over to pick her up and she realized she had slipped on someone’s blood. She started to panic but Jason kept her running. Mel was fully awake now and was confused by what was going on. Liam told her he would let Rebecca explain once she was inside and safe. She started to fight to get down, saying she wasn’t staying in the bunker. She wanted to stay with us, and wouldn’t listen to reason. Liam forced her into the bunker with the guards and shut the door. Setting the locks, he turned to me and said, “She may be mad now, but she will realize it was for the best.” I was shocked that he made her do something against her will. I know it was for her safety, but forcing her was only going to make things worse for him when she got out of there. Liam took off running and Jason and I followed.
Outside, it was utter chaos. There were bodies everywhere and buildings were burning. It was hard to see who was who through the smoke. We finally found Nick and he told us that Rico had taken a group of warriors and were heading towards the cell house. I told him to stay there and help keep anyone from entering the house. The three of us shifted and ran towards the cell house, and once we arrived we found the guards posted outside dead. Their throats had been ripped out, and their bodies laid lifeless in a pool of blood. Inside it wasn’t any better. The three of us ripped apart anyone we came across that wasn’t part of our pack, and when we got to the end of the hallway where Scott and Lisa were being held, there stood the three we were looking for with 2 other gentlemen. “Ah, Alpha Liam, Alpha Loki, I am Alpha Callum Star. I have come for my new pack member’s family, and my mate,” he stated.
I spoke up and said, “Who do you think you are waltzing in here attacking us and thinking you can just take our prisoners. You are out of your fucking mind! As far as our ‘mate’, I don’t know which one you are referring to, but you are welcome to join them in a cell.” The youngest of the boys stepped forward and shifted. I assume this is Alpha Scott’s son. As he jumps for the attack, I extend my claws and grab him by the throat. Sinking my claws in deeper, I shake him until I have blood dripping from my hand. I heard his neck snap, and I dropped him to the ground. Extending my fangs, and ready to shift, I looked at the rest standing before me. “If you are ready to dance, strike up the band, mother fuckers! I’m done playing!”
Ultimatums
*Liam POV*
“If you are ready to dance, strike up the band, mother fuckers! I’m done playing!” I heard Loki say. He was as fed up as I was, and I was just as ready. “Alpha Callum, you are outnumbered here, will you really risk your life for people who don’t even concern you? What are you hoping to even gain from being so arrogant and stupid?” I asked.
“The lot of you have done pushed my brother over the edge, and as you can see, his wolf, Zeus, is ready to join us and destroy you. It’s taking everything Loki has to hold him at bay so he doesn’t finish this shift. If he shifts, I shift, then my brother-in-law shifts, as well as my higher-ranked men, and then you are all completely fucked. Surrender now, and live. Allow us to shift and kiss your ass goodbye. What will it be?” I continued. His breathing was rapid and heavy. His nostrils flared and the tips of his ears were blood red from anger. Jed and Kyle looked at each other before looking at their uncle for guidance.
Jason tried to play on Jed’s emotions and addressed him. “Jed, I know you are angry at me right now, and think I’m a traitor. That isn’t the case. I chose to save my sister, and if you would have seen her after dad, Eric and your mate were done with her this last time, I think you would even have walked away from Todd. If you knew his past, not only with Melly, but others, including me, you would walk away. You are a major prick, don’t get me wrong, but you aren’t as sadistic and evil as my brother. You were mated to him by fate, not choice. You can make a choice now, and walk away from him and maybe live, or you can stand by him and die beside him. Life is full of choices, it’s whether you make the right one that makes the difference between life or death.” Jed spit at Jason and called him a traitor and a liar. Jason took it with a grain of salt and did the honorable thing. He told Jed he respected his decision, even if it was one of the dumbest he could have ever made.
He then came and stood between myself and Rico. Kyle then did something that surprised us, “Alphas, Jason, I want to see my sister. If we are to die, then that is the least you can do for us.” I started to laugh as the words came out of his mouth. Was this kid for real? Did he take us as fools? So naive and egotistical, with a hint of dumbassery. “No, Kyle, no. That isn’t happening. You did get one thing right though, you are both dying today. You can speak to one another in the afterlife. Wherever that may take you, but not here. So, as Loki said, we are tired of playing around with whatever fucked up games you all seem to be playing. It’s surrender or die. There are no other choices. You have until the count of 3 to decide. I watched as they all became tense and started to question one another. Rico started the countdown.
3…….2…….*BOOM!!!*
Before Rico could get to 1, an explosion happened right in front of us. It knocked us to the ground, and filled the room with smoke. “LOKI? RICO? JASON?” I hollered out. I tried to see what was going on around me, and could see some movement. I wasn’t sure who it was, but I tried to make my way to them. After about 6 steps, someone grabbed my ankle. It was Jed, Todd’s mate. “Help me, I’m trapped. Something is on my leg. I think it’s broke,” he cried. I left him lying there in his tears and pain as I pushed forward trying to find my people. I had no intention of helping him or any of his other associates if they were injured.
Once I found who I was searching for, I would be the one to kill them. I heard coughing and my name being called. I rushed to the area it was coming from and saw Jason lying under some rubble. “You OK, Jason? Can you move?” I asked. He said he felt like a ton of bricks was on his chest, and I knew he wasn’t seriously injured if he was making jokes. I helped get off the rock that was lying on him and helped him up. He had a slight limp, but said it was from a cut he obtained when the rocks knocked him down. We both started to look for the others and came upon Kyle’s body. He was definitely dead. That left Uncle Georgie and Alpha Callum.
Jason yelled that he had found Loki and Rico, and that Loki was fine. Rico, however, was unconscious. He was bleeding from his head, and trapped as well by a fallen iron rack. Loki and I removed the rack, and Loki threw him over his shoulder. He took off running with him and I knew he was taking him to the hospital. Jason and I moved through the cell house looking for George and Callum, and came upon open cell doors. Callum had killed Todd and Scott, and taken Lisa. Was Lisa the mate he was referring to? It was possible. I mean, we had killed Thomas, her first mate. Maybe the goddess gave her another for some sick and twisted reason. As much respect I had for her, I was really questioning her sanity at the moment.
Jason and I decided to get out of the cell house and try to locate them, but when we came outside, the scene we walked upon was gruesome. Bodies littered the ground in puddles of blood. Body parts were scattered in the mud. Fires everywhere and warriors from the opposing pack were on their knees with their hands bound.
Standing in front of them proudly was Ruby, Melian’s wolf. Her white fur was stained red with blood. Along with the shock of what we were seeing came another emotion. Heartbreak, because at Ruby’s feet laid the lifeless body of our Gamma, Nick. Ruby growled at anyone who dared to come near him. Jason and I slowly approached her and when her eyes met mine she laid down and placed her head on his chest. Nick was Mel’s friend, her protector when we weren’t around, and now he was gone. I fell on my knees in front of her and started to weep. Jason took a cape off of one of our warriors and held it up for Ruby to shift back to Melian, and wrapped it around her. She ran into my arms and we both laid on the ground mourning our friend.
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