The Broken Warrior’s Daughter

Chapter 0317

Alarge red wolf runs up beside us and slams into our body sideways, knocking Maia off her feet. When she stands again, we are surrounded. There are six wolves that have us caged in, the largest is the red wolf that took Maia down.

Maia stands panting, waiting to see what is going to happen. The red wolf, who is also panting, begins to shift. When he’s done, he stands, bent over at the waist, breathing heavily before looking up at Maia, smiling possessively. Maia bares her teeth at him, snarling furiously.

He puts his hands up in a surrounding position, but | don’t trust it for a moment. He has us surrounded and he’s been hunting me for days.

“You've given us quite a chase Guardian. But you've lost. My nis Alpha Brody, and | claim you as mine.” If possible, Maia’s snarl is even more ferocious, and she nips the air in between us and Alpha Brody. “Now, now. None of that. I’ve caught you and you can’t get away from me. Be a good girl and shift and letmark you as mine.”

Even more disturbing than him wanting to marksimply because I’m a Guardian, is his body’s obvious reaction to taking me as his mate. His growing erection, while it doesn’t seem to compare to Eli’s, let’sknow that he will force a mating immediately after marking me.

‘Maia, that guy comes close enough’ | start to say before she cutsoff. ‘I'm ripping his dick off.”

Glad we're on the spage, but that doesn’t change things at the moment. We are still surrounded, and | have no idea how to get out of this mess.

“You can make this easy and | can be gentle, or you can make this hard and my pack here will hold you down while | force my mark on you, then mate you. Either way, this is happening. What's it going to be?”

This disgusting excuse for an Alpha is exactly why I’ve been afraid. | should have just let Eli mark me. | would have been better off.

“The hard way it is.” He says before starting to shift. He’s going to mark Maia, make her compliant then force her to shift so he can mark and matein human form.

In a last bit of hope, | send up a howl hoping beyond hope that if Eli is nearby, he’ll hearand get here in time. As the Alpha finishes his shift, his pack pounces on me.

Maia fights back immediately. She’s ripping at anything she can sink her teeth into, fur, flesh, | think she even ripped an ear off. But we’re no match against six full-grown, ranked wolves and warriors.

Eventually, they have her pinned to the ground on her stomach. She continues to al and bare her teeth, but we can’t move. | can feel the Alpha in wolf form walk over top ofbefore laying his weight on me, holding Maia in place.

She turns her head and snaps at his face. The Alpha grabs her by the back of the neck, forcing her head to the ground, growling at her, trying to get her to submit. | can feel his aura pushing out, but it has no effect on us.

| don’t have tto think about what that means because | hear a commotion behindand feel sof the weight lift off me. The Alpha lifts his head and turns to look behind us. Maia takes the opportunity to reach up and grab the side of his neck, biting down and ripping a chunk of his throat out. The Alpha gives a gurgling howl before moving off us. Maia immediately starts to run. She's running full out when the Alpha smashes into her again, blood dripping from the wound in his neck. His teeth are snapping at her neck, trying to bite down on her marking spot when he’s knocked off his feet by a giant black wolf. Louis.

The two begin fighting, Louis putting himself betweenand the Alpha. | know | should run, but | can’t leave Eli. I’m his Guardian, but also, he’s magnificent. | know he toldhe’s descended from a Beta line, but Louis is bigger than this Alpha’s wolf.

Maia already injured the Alpha, so I’m hoping that Eli can finish him off. | watch as they fight to the death over me. The other wolves are now surrounding Eli and Alpha Brody waiting for the battle to end. They won't interfere, this is a battle for dominance and strength. If they were to interfere, it would mean they don’t trust their Alpha to win.

Louis takes sswipes of the claw and bites to his back and flank. This Alpha may not look like much, but he’s an Alpha. In the shifter society, you don’t maintain that rank unless you fight for it and win it. So, he is a strong fighter and is giving as good as he gets until Louis finally manages to bite down on the back

of his neck.

The sound of the Alpha’s spine breaking is loud in the suddenly quiet field. Louis. shakes his head to ensure that the Alpha is dead before dropping his body to the ground. He shifts and Eli is standing in front of me, in all his naked and bloody glory. +15 BONOS

“Mine!” He says, pointing at me. He’s definitely more animal than human right now and it’s the only word that comes out of his mouth before the other five wolves all jump toward me, as if they plan to markas theirs. They are powerful wolves to have chasedthis long, so I’m guessing, they are hoping to seal their position as the new Alpha if they mark me.

Eli jumps at the nearest wolf, turning slightly to me. “Run!”

Maia doesn’t waste any tand takes off. | hear Eli shift back into Louis behindas we run. It’s hard to hear what is happening through all the growls and snarls that | hear behind me.

| feel another nip at my heel, causing us to trip, but Maia gets her footing and continues on. Moments later, we're brought to the ground, the heavy weight pushing us into the ground. In a moment, the weight is pulled off us and she stands ready to run again, when another body lands on top of her, and | feel the sting of canines sinking into her fur at her mating mark.

“NO!” | scream in my mind, as everything aroundbegins to go black. The last thing | remember is trying to cry out for Eli, but the sound is only in my head.

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