Filed To Story: Falling for the Alpha As a Student Novel
“What?”
She managed to ask, her heart racing in her chest.
“She could die, and all of this would have been for nothing,”
Hannah continued. “Now open this cage so I can get her into my clinic and save her life!”
Jazzy didn’t hesitate to get the cage open and as soon as she did, Hannah ran into the cage and knelt beside Lila, feeling for a pulse.
“She’s still alive but she won’t be for long,”
Hannah announced. “We need to get her to my clinic so I can get the Starlight out of her.”
Jazzy turned away and easily summoned Zagreus to her. Zag was the easiest solution to transporting Lila to the clinic without causing any more damage. He was busy casting the curse that Jazzy had created, but he should be just about finished.
He appeared in front of her, looking confused by the interruption.
“The curse has been cast, but I wanted to watch it in its work,”
he complained. “Why have you summoned me?”“There’s no time. We need you to bring Lila to the clinic upstairs,”
Jazzy said urgently.
She stepped aside so Zag could see Lila lying on the ground, barely hanging onto life.
“What happened?”
He asked, furrowing his brows together.
“No time to explain,”
Hannah breathed, panic clear in her tone. “Just help me get her upstairs.”
Zag stepped toward her and swiped his hand over Lila’s body; darkness swirled around him and melted to the ground like shadowy smoke. It swirled around his feet and slithered over to Lila like a bunch of snakes.
It wrapped around her body, swallowing her whole. It lingered for a short while and then it slithered back to Zagreus and melted back into his body.
“She’s there now,”
he told Hannah.
She jumped to her feet and ran as fast as she could up the stairs and to her clinic on the second floor of the warehouse.Zagreus and Jazzy stared after her for a short while before Zag looked at Jazzy with a curious look in his eyes.
“What is going on?”
He asked again.
Before she could answer, the two rogues responsible for this appeared in the doorway. They were staring wide-eyed at the cage, clearly confused about what was happening.
Anger filled Jazzy as she stared at the pathetic rogues in front of her. She hated rogue wolves; she hated almost all wolves but especially rogues. They were only here because they were working for Alpha Jonathan. She never wanted them here but because they were here, she figured they could be useful to her.
There were tons of rogues lurking around and acting as if they were helping when they were only making things worse.
“Did we mess up?”
The one holding the gun asked.
Jazzy stepped toward him and slapped him across the face, using her nails as extra leverage to make claw marks across his cheek. Blood trickled down the side of his face and he stared at her with shock.
The other one was shaking in his skin, terrified about what Jazzy was about to do.
She used the force of her magic to grab his neck and lift him off the ground without even touching him.
He couldn’t breathe.
He was choking and gagging, trying to get a breath of fresh air, but just as he was about to pass out from loss of oxygen, Jazzy twisted her hand and snapped his neck, killing him instantly.
The one who was holding the gun dropped the gun and looked as if he was about to run away. But Jazzy used her force of magic to stop him and keep him frozen in place.
Darkness swirled around him as he struggled to move.
She stepped even closer to him and smiled almost sweetly. He continued to shake in his skin and whimper pathetically. She shoved her entire hand into his chest, making him gasp and then whimper in pain; she gripped his heart, watching as pain and agony clouded his vision. She wanted his death to be slow and painful after what he had done.
She squeezed his heart, making blood pour out of his mouth as the life drained from him.
She didn’t stop squeezing until his heart was nothing more but goo in her hands.
Enzos POV
As quickly as that dark cloud of smoke came, it disappeared, leaving us speechless in the middle of Hazel’s kitchen. We all looked at one another with large eyes and rapidly beating hearts.
My mother had jumped from her seat and wrapped her arms around me as soon as she saw the darkness leaking in through the window.
“Is everybody okay?”
I asked after a few minutes of stunned silence had passed.
Selene glanced down at her body with a brown; she raised her hands in front of her eyes. She first examined her palms, and then the back of her hand. She was quiet and her face had gone pale almost immediately after darkness had passed through.
There was something else different that I couldn’t figure out.
“Selene…”
my mother breathed, staring at her with dismay written all over her face. “Your eyes… they’re brown…”
My mother was right; Selene, who had one purple and one blue eye like Lila, now had two brown eyes.
“What does that mean?”
I asked, looking at my mother and then at Hazel who was also looking rather pale.
“It means her Volana abilities are completely gone,”
Hazel answered. “My powers are gone too… I can’t feel them.”
My heart sank deep into my stomach as I stared at Hazel.
“She had actually done it… Jazzy created a dark curse that makes everybody powerless, including witches.”
My mother stood.
“I’m going to make sure everybody is okay,”
my mother said as she turned and quickly left the house.
“If I don’t have my abilities, how am I going to fight and get my daughter back?”
Selene asked, glancing at me and then at Hazel.
“Everything is still going as planned,”
Xander, who was standing in the corner of the kitchen said as he unfolded his arms and walked toward the table. “The curse has been placed just like Eloise’s vision.”
“What else did Eloise see?”
Hazel asked, staring up at Xander curiously.
“She saw a war that everyone was fighting in. I wasn’t in her vision fighting in the war, but I will be there this time. Lila is a little more prepared for a battle as well. She’s a better fighter than she was. It’s to be assumed that she doesn’t have her wolf, so she will have to fight in her human form.”
“But in Eloise’s vision, she saw Lila die, no?”
Hazel asked.
Xander nodded.
“As long as we make sure she doesn’t die, that vessel will never be born,”
Xander explained. “That’s our main focus. Making sure she stays alive.”
Max began to growl inside of me at the mention of our mate. There was no way in hell that we were going to allow anything to happen to her. But we had to find her first.
I looked at Hazel who was staring down at her bowl.
“We have to figure out where Lila is being held,”
I said, trying to keep Max under control.
Hazel lifted her gaze and met my eyes.