Possessing the Alpha_A Wolf Shifter Romance by C. J. Beaumont

Author:C. J. Beaumont [Beaumont, C. J.]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Supernatural South Books
Published: 2019-07-04T05:00:00+00:00

Chapter 12

I gasped and struggled to breathe as Maddox pushed to his feet and bolted away with a bloody switchblade in his hand. I should have expected something like this from that conniving coyote, but he’d blindsided me. Maybe it was my own fault for thinking for even one second that he would actually fight fair. I’d watched him murder my father, and yet I’d let my guard down because it had never once crossed my mind that any shifter would so blatantly violate the accepted rules of a challenge when surrounded by nearly two dozen witnesses. My pack would never tolerate an Alpha who had gained that title through such a dishonorable act. So then, what had Maddox really hoped to achieve by knifing me? Or did he have something even worse planned to ensure the pack’s compliance?

The outer circle of wolves broke in slow motion as Maddox swiped at them with the blade stained red with my blood. But he didn’t look as though he intended to fight them all, rather he was trying to slip past them and escape retribution. He was too much of a coward to stick around when the odds were no longer in his favor.

One blink later, everything exploded. People were shouting things I couldn’t quite make out as the rush of blood pounding in my ears drowned out other sounds. The scene in front of me was chaos and motion, a dizzying whirl of colors.

I felt too vulnerable and exposed just lying here. I tried to push up onto my hands and knees and a fresh wave of pain engulfed me. I collapsed back to the ground.

Someone was whimpering. Maybe me. I couldn’t tell.

Brandon ran toward me and Charlie hauled ass after Maddox. I saw through a tableau of moving bodies that Charlie managed to tackle Maddox to the ground before he reached the treeline. I only had a single moment to feel satisfaction before people started shifting as a dozen coyotes sprang from the trees to protect Maddox. They rushed to attack Charlie. My pack leapt to Charlie’s defense, and I smiled when he slammed Maddox’s hand against the ground, knocking the blade out of his grip. My hearing was coming back into focus.

“I’m gonna kill you, you dirty, cheating motherfucker!” Charlie roared.

Despite the fact that Charlie was pinning him down, Maddox laughed in his face. Brandon pressed his hands to the wound in my side, trying to stem the flow of blood. I cried out at the way the pain seemed to lance all the way back to my spine, and Maddox laughed harder.

“This is why I’m taking your pack, bitch!” Maddox yelled at me as he landed a hard right hook to Charlie’s jaw. “Your pack is weak and vulnerable, just like you!”

Charlie’s head had snapped back with the force of the punch, but he lunged forward, intent on getting even with Maddox. Whether for the insult to me and our pack or in retaliation for the right hook, I wasn’t sure.

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