Chapter 33
Chapter Thirty-Three
~Harlow~
Rhen snarls and slams his hands against my chest, knocking me into the brick wall behind me.
His fingers lock around my throat and I watch in horror as his canines extend from his bottom and top gums. He snarls, pressing his face closer while I smash my fists against his chest and shoulders, trying to shove his weight off.
Me slapping him challenged him, and I can tell he wants me to submit as he fights for control over his instincts.
I am beginning to see that control is something they don't really have much of. Howls ring out loudly in the distance as my heat-ravaged body floods the air with pheromones. Fear coils and writhes inside me, and his Alpha dominance is only fueling it, making my scent even more potent. My body wants to give in to the demands of the Alpha holding me, if only to ease the discomfort. Luckily, however, I’m not in full-blown heat yet, so I have some control over my own baser instincts before submitting to him.
I gasp, choking as his fingers dig in, his aura obliterating my self-preservation and what resistance I have left.
"I am trying to fucking help you," he growls, inches off my face, looking more like a monster than a man.
He doesn’t understand. I’m drowning in so much de-scenter that he can’t pick up the sickly sweet scent of my virginity.
I sure as shit don't plan on losing it next to a stinking dumpster where homeless people sleep—where I had slept before.
I know how much spit and god knows what else is on this ground.
Rhen shoves me, letting me go. My legs buckle and I catch myself against the bin.
My fingers grip it feebly as I fight to remain standing under the intensity of his aura. He growls, glaring down at me.
"I am not rejecting you or challenging you," I breathe out, trying to catch my breath. I'm not stupid. I know Omegas need Alphas just as much as they need us.
"Fucking looks like it," he snarls as I catch my breath. "I tried, but you're too far gone. You don't want my help. Fine. You're on your own. Good luck fighting them off," Rhen snaps, turning away from me.
Panic courses through me at his words. Would he really abandon me here, leave me for whoever may stumble across me?
I can feel them getting closer, and the air feels hotter, thicker as I breathe the pheromones they project back at me as they seek out the source of my pheromones.
Rhen takes a step away, and fear has me moving. I clutch his shirt.
"Don't leave me," I stammer, and he stops, prying my hands from his button-down shirt.
He growls, walking off when I hear a thud further up the alleyway.
My heart hammers in my chest and I twist my head, spotting fluorescent eyes gleaming back at me before hearing another thud.
Another Alpha wolf jumped off the balcony above the shop and onto the dumpster below.
Rhen shakes his head, about to walk off and leave me to fend for myself. I cringe, knowing I have no way to escape this without him.
"I'm a virgin," I murmur, and he stops. He turns, looking back at me. "I am not rejecting you. I just don't want to lose my virginity against a dumpster," I tell him before whimpering as another Alpha aura reaches me from the way we came in. I am effectively blocked off, and now I am prey.
"Bullshit!" Rhen snarls. Tears burn my eyes and spill over when the two Alphas in their wolf forms start fighting each other over who will get me.
"I swear, Rhen. Please, you can't leave me here," I tell him, jumping when they smash into the dumpster I’m cowering behind.
Rhen snarls, stalking toward me, and I shriek, thinking he is going to attack me when he grabs the front of my blouse, jerking me closer.
He buries his face in my neck and snarls.
"All I can smell is your heat and de-scenter," he snaps.
"I'm not lying," I squeal as he goes to shove me away. I clutch his shirt in panic as the other Alpha joins the fray. How Rhen is able to hold himself together while remaining so close to me is shocking. Maybe because he has a pack, and packs generally share.
Rhen curses before jamming his hand inside my pants.
I squeal as he forces his finger inside me, which slowly turns into a moan as tingles spread across my flesh.
He jerks his hand back, making me look at him.
I wonder if he felt the tingles too. He must have because he has to shake himself.
He gives me a strange look before staring at his fingers.
"How did you do that? Only mates—" he shakes his head before he jams the finger he shoved inside me in his mouth. I feel all the blood rush to my face in mortification. Gross! Though he doesn't seem to think so.
Despite this, the effect is instantaneous. His pupils dilate, removing all color, and his nostrils flare. The lewd groan that leaves him makes my knees weak. Slick further drenches my thighs at his reaction when he is suddenly ripped away from me and thrown across the pavement.
My scream is deafening as the wolf shifts back to the man.
A very naked man. His savage look makes me cower as he sucks in a deep breath.
His chest rises and falls heavily with his harsh breaths.
His canines protrude, and his eyes reflect my terrified face as I stare into the onyx gleam.
I try to press behind the dumpster when one of the other wolves attacks him.
I see Rhen shake himself while I back up further, cornered in the tight spot I am trapped in.
A brown wolf lunges at me when Rhen attacks it.
He shifts instantly and starts ripping into him.
Fur and blood spray everywhere, coating the concrete.
I hear the other two wolves stop their fight before circling around Rhen, whose aura easily outweighs all of theirs.
The wolf Rhen attacked shifts back, and the other two circle him before he speaks.
"Help me take this fucker out and I will share her," the Alpha says. Rhen snarls at him before his eyes flick to me and glaze over. I can tell he is mind-linking before the color returns.
"Stay down. Help is coming," Rhen tells me before all three lunge at him. I scream, dropping to the ground as they fight.
Blood drenches me, and I see one wolf drop.
Yet, my pheromones are only growing stronger.
More wolves stalk into the alley, joining the fight to take down Rhen.
A loud snapping crack makes me look up to find Rhen encircled.
Another wolf steps in where the other had fallen, his neck broken.
I look to Rhen and I can tell he is too injured to shift.
Rhen, also noticing this, looks at me. "Run!
" he says, and I take off, only to feel teeth wrap around my ankle as one of the Alphas pounces on me.
My hands and face hit the ground painfully.
I clench my eyes shut, feeling fur brush my back before it is replaced with skin.
The fighting gets louder than ever behind me, while I am trapped under a brooding male who shreds my shirt and rips at the back of my pants.
Fight-or-flight kicks in, and I thrash to escape him.
I try to roll over, only for him to flip me back onto my stomach when he presses his knees onto the backs of my thighs.
I swallow, knowing I am about to witness Rhen’s murder before getting raped, when a thunderous growl rings out loudly.
It echoes off the brick walls and sends a chill straight up my spine.
I look to the end of the alley to see a giant black wolf with a grey patch over half his face.
Every hair on my body rises, and I sense his aura like a tidal wave.
It is clear this mammoth of a wolf is from an Alpha Pack; he oozes Alpha-of-Alpha male dominance.
Just the sheer size of his paws on the ground are bigger than my head.
This is why Alpha Packs are so feared; Alpha Packs are more dangerous.
They trump all. Many Alphas can't live together, it takes strength and control for an Alpha to make other Alphas submit to him.
It's something most Alphas refuse to do, yet those who manage it, and come to terms with being able to live with each other, have an advantage; because the Alpha-of-Alphas grows substantially bigger than their brethren and is more potent, deadly. Impossibly powerful.
I watch as the monster snaps its jaws and growls menacingly.
The man above me freezes when the beast snarls, charging straight at us.
I have no doubt the monster will win, and I just pray he doesn't kill Rhen. Sparks brush across my exposed back, and I gasp before I am drenched in my attacker’s blood.
The scent makes me heave, and the warm liquid coats me as the Alpha tears into the man's throat before flinging him off me.
I shake beneath the beast, making sure to breathe through my mouth and not inhale his scent as it stands over me.
I am too scared to move as the wolf bends down to sniff my face, only to sneeze from the de-scenter still cloying to me.
He shakes his head. I am paralyzed by fear.
When I hear the other wolves whimper, I turn my gaze back to the fight, praying Rhen is alright.
Three more wolves jump down from the rooftops and balconies that overlook the alley.
I suck in a breath when I see Rhen get to his feet.
He is coated in blood. Yet he still moves toward the Alpha above me.
My eyes widened in horror when the beast moves, stepping over me, and I roll on my back to clutch his fur.
"Don't hurt him!" I shriek in panic before I get a whiff of his scent.
Thane!