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Neah
My heart is pumping. The adrenaline that's coursing through my body had crept up like a slow burning fire. Igniting something deep within me. I felt powerful and all it took was Jess.
When I had found Jess, she was already trying to get inside a closet.
Her words blur into one another as my own panic seeped in.
Tears flooded her face quicker than she could wipe them away.
I did what Dane asked me to do, to keep her here.
Yet I couldn't help but peek over the window ledge. I had to see what was happening.
The clapping was weird. The Lycans slamming their claws together while staring straight at the Wolves.
'This is all kinds of fucked up.' Nyx mutters
'What are they doing?'
She shrugs her shoulders at me.
I wanted to link Dane. Desperate for him to tell me what was happening but all I could hear was Jess, crying in the closet.
Pulling the closet open, I offer a weak smile. "They are not here for you. They are here for me."
Her arms are holding her legs to her chest, just like the way I did. It was funny, why did we try to make ourselves as small as possible in a time of crisis?
"They....the woman, the one that brought me here, Cassandra, wants me to bring you to them."
She refuses to look at me.
"Is that why you are here? Is that why you tried hiding?" I try to keep the anger out my voice
Jess shakes her head and then taps her temple. "Here, I hear her. It was like a whisper at first and now....." Her soft blue eyes lock with mine. "Now it's a demand." "A demand?"
Her head bobs up and down, "She keeps saying. I am your maker, you will obey me!"
Control, just what Cassandra has always loved and wanted.
"You are going to try and hand me over?" I ask quietly, realising why they had chosen to change a child.
"...I don't want to." She whispers
I sigh, "You can't fight an order. It's ingrained in us to obey those above us."
Jess lets go of her legs. "You make me feel like I can fight it. Like being here with you, I feel a little safer. If you told me not to, I would have to follow you, right? Because you are the Alpha. Because you are my Alpha? Because you are more powerful than she is?" "Dane's...."
"No, you are the Lycans Alpha. If I understand it right, they have to respond to you. that's what Eric told me." She looks towards the window, but closes her eyes. "Her demands are getting louder. I actually feel pain in my chest. That's bad, right?"
"It's because you are not acting on her orders."
"Can you make it stop?"
'Would it work? Dane talked about linking them all, but would this work?'
'There is only one way to find out.' Nyx mutters
"I order you not to take me to Cassandra."
Jess throws her arms around me. "Thank you."
'I think Jess might be on to something.' Nyx muses. 'Let's go take down the whole pack.'
I smile at Jess, "I think you might be right, Jess. And now, I need your help."
My bare feet hit the grass.
Jess stands a little behind me as though she is walking me out.
She was trying so hard to hold it together, just like I was.
It wouldn't have to be for long, just long enough to make Cassandra believe that she was getting what she wanted. I was desperate to look at Dane, but I knew I would break the moment we locked eyes. I had asked Nyx to keep him out of my head, just temporarily while I try to put an end to all this shit.
Two words still got through. "Don't shift." Shifting was not the plan.
Cheers erupt from the Lycans, if you could call it that. It was more like roars and howls of satisfaction. They didn't even have me in their grasp and yet they were celebrating.
As they drop down to silence. Cassandra yells, "You will bring her to me!"
Jess stares through the rows of Wolves. Like me, she was barely tall enough to see. Slowly she reaches a hand out to me, locking it with mine. "You may be my maker, but you are not my Alpha." I feel my heart race. And still, I couldn't believe she was doing this.
"You are a stupid little girl. You know nothing of our world."
"I know enough to know who is wrong!" Jess squeezes my hand as she stares out in front of her. Her eyes are dark in the same way as Dane said mine become. She was close to shifting. "Bring her to me!" She yells and stomps her foot.
The Wolves haven't moved an inch but the Lycans creep closer. Prepared for battle.
'I'm ready when you are.' Nyx mutters
I take a deep breath as the Lycans edge a little closer. If this doesn't work, we were screwed.
'Drop the block.'
My head is quickly filled with mutterings. Words of the Lycans all blurring together to make a constant hum.
"I AM YOUR ALPHA. brING CASSANDRA AND TREY TO ME!" I demand. I'm almost surprised by my own tone as it becomes more authoritative.
The Lycans freeze. I see how they all look at one another. They had likely been told something else about me. Something far from the truth, but if they were feeling the same thing that Jess had felt, they wouldn't be able to refuse.
"NO!! Cassandra screams out. "You don't have that power. You are no one. Trey, tell them!" Her hands ball into fists at her side. She was so used to getting her own way and now she had hundreds of Lycans turning their attention to her and not in a good way. I could see from her eyes that this was something she never saw coming.
'Stupid bitch!' Nyx murmurs
Screams break through the air. Cassandra's shrill voice causes a lot of the Wolves and Lycans to cover their ears. She starts backing away, yet there was nowhere for her to go. Lycan's lined the trees behind her. A wall of Wolves stood in front of her.
"TREY! TREY! Help me!" A single black Lycan backs away into the trees as large claws grab on to Cassandra. No longer caring about her screams
'Bring him to me!' I snap through the link to all of them. Several of them take off running after Trey.
Looking over to Dane, I see him smiling at me. He had been waiting for this. Waiting for me to become who I am supposed to be.
The Lycans start to attack one another, desperate to be the one to bring the screaming bitch to me.
They probably thought that I would spare their lives for their compliance.
I had no intention of doing that.
I didn't want to be an Alpha of a pack that would betray their own. I didn't want those who so easily believed the words of Trey and Cassandra.
Jess's hand is still in mine and I smile at her. She was young and that was Cassandra's downfall. She had chosen to change a girl who was similar to myself. A girl who wasn't interested in being anything more than who she is.
The Wolves part to let two Lycans drag Cassandra to me.
Dane joins me and Jess and slips his hand into mine as he kisses my cheek. He turns his attention to Cassandra. "Well Cassandra, how do you feel?"
"Bastard. You have no idea. Trey will seek revenge if you lay a single hand on me!" She turns her attention to Jess. "And you, you are a stupid, stupid girl! I should have left you to die!"
I rip my hand from Danes, just as claws appear at the tips of my fingers. Plunging them into her stomach, the Lycans let go of her. She screams, her hands lock around my arm, keeping me from retracting my claws.
"You destroyed me!" I mutter to her. "You made me believe you were someone special and then you ruined me and now, I'm going to ruin you!" I pull my hand from Jess's and let the claws appear.
Slowly piercing her skin, I let my claws sink into her kidneys before ripping them across her stomach.
I hated her, she took everything from me!
Turning to look at Dane, I see the evil glint in his eye. "Kill them all." I whisper
The two Lycans that had dragged Cassandra to me, back up, only to be attacked by Roan and several others.
All hell breaks out as Dane gives the order to attack.
Blood creeps out of the corner of Cassandra's lips. Her eyes are wide in fear as they remain on me. I wanted to see the blood pour from her, just like she had made it pour from my parents. "You deserve this and so much more." I whisper as my claws retract from her flesh.
She drops to her knees as tears fall from her eyes. It was the first time that I had seen her weep for anything.
"You are a monster!" She croaks out.
"I am what you made me!"
My claws plunge into her chest, curling around her heart as she chokes. With a tug, I rip it free from her chest, holding it in my hand as it continued to beat for a moment.
Her body sways before hitting the ground and when I look up, I see Roan staring at me. His expression, unreadable.