Page 40 of Prey for Me

I’m not sure if it’s a code, or a person, but everyone, including my remaining pack mates, seem on the verge of going feral. Between their combined pheremones and Nakao’s, my nose starts bleeding. I wipe at it, dizzy and boarding on faint. I look up and over and frown.Shit!She’s bleeding too, and that can’t be good for a pregnant woman.

Nadège tenses beside me, leaning away from me and into her apex, Emilio’s, arms, who strokes her head. She reaches out, and grabs hold of her loyal beta, Aaron, and slowly the rest of her pack envelopes her.

I want to hold onto something, and someone, and suddenly Rapahel is there, holding my hand, and Leo is resting his head on mine. But it’s not enough. I feel like I’m going to die under the stren of Nakao’s power.

“Who else knows where the Blue Fox’s den is?” Nakoa asks, breathing so hard his chest rumbles.

“No…ahhhhh…”Serge convulses in his bindings, the ropes digging into his flesh as he flops on the ground like a fish. I wonder if his mind is collapsing like a black hole behind his rolling eyes?

“Who is Noah?” Nakoa shouts and a wave of energy pierces me and the crowd. I nearly topple over from the force.

“No one,”I clarify because the last sound was just a groan, not a name, and Nakoa is going to kill us from the force of his invisble rage. “He said no one else knows where the Blue Fox’s den is.”

Satisfied with this, slowly, the poisons retreats that has so thoroughly seeped into the air, and permeated my flesh.

“Good girl,” Nakao says with a truly manic grin, his eyes wide, dull gray disc, nose bleeding profusely.

He turns to the apex alpha he’s been interrogating and whisper, “I’m done with you.”

I can’t tear my eyes away as he turns his head ever so slightly, and the wolf bashes his skull against the bricks. He lifts his head up, and down, up, and down, up, down, up, down, down, down, down,crack!

“Haah!” I gasp as Serge’s head splits and then he goes limp.Dead.

Nakoa, my alpha who has faked his bond, forced him to kill himself. I look down at my trembling hands.Ihelped him make that man commit suicide.

Now I know why Nakoa carries virtually no scars out here.

“Pack Bravo and Delta, you’ll take over night patrol. Charlie and Echo? You’ll be in charge of preparing our way to investigate this new signal. Everyone else, get to work stacking weapons, medical equipment, and ancillary supplies. Next month, we taken the northern half of South Shore.”

Leo grins the same unhinged grin and Raphael just… stares at me like he doesn’t know what to do with me anymore.

Nakoa comes closer and closer and then he reaches up and grabs my neck. I say my prays, but then I hear a satifisying snap. But it’s not my bones nor my final release onto death.

He’s releases me from my shock collar.

“My sweet omega. You’re not just a good girl anymore. You are the best thing to ever happen to me, and to us.”

Nakoa waves his hand over the crowd and shouts with enough for to make my ears ring, “She is worthy! With this information, we have all that we need. We will not raid the North or take a section. We will rule from coast to coast!”

The shout is deafening and this time I do reach up to shield my ears as Nakoa grasps my bare neck with his left hand. I peer up as Raphael hesitantly covers my hands with his own, mufflingthe crowd further. Nakoa, still sporting his manic grin, reaches for Leo and wraps his arm around his neck, kissing his head.

“Our pack princess saved Leo, and made that bastard give us the location of Blue Fox!” he adds as they cheer and cheer.

“Rammed this dagger right into the bastards throat!” Leo shouts, and he’s lying because I barely cut his hand before freaking out, but I appreciate him embellishing the truth since it sets the crowd on fire with louder cheers.

“You deserve to be free, no, when without you, we would all still be in chains.!

He looks meaningfully at nadege and then back at me.

“Pack princess.

“Warrior princess!”

Leo smothers me with kisses after he lifts me up, catching me by surprise so I can’t stop him, before running his tongue against the side of my neck.

“My fierce warrior princess. My fated mate.”

Well, I guess I succeeded in winning Leo over to my side.

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