Page 47 of My Bad Boy Alpha

“We’ll find someone,” Sina said, disappearing with Maxine into the forest.

I hadn’t seen or heard them prior to this very moment, but as I looked around, I spotted more warriors than were in Stone’s pack.Four wolves to my left, beat up and bruised.Xorgor to my right, standing with Carve.They had come.

Stone coughed again and grabbed his chest, the blood thick between his fingers.“Zuri.”

“We’re going to get you help.Hold on.”

“Look me in the eyes, Zuri.”

“Stone, this can wait.You’re bleeding out.We need to get you to?—”

He grabbed my chin and forced me to look into his eyes.And in the reflection of his black pupils, I saw mine glowing a bright white against his darker ones, blazing as brightly as the Moon Goddess’s eyes always did in my dreams.

“I told you,” he whispered, his wound healing on its own now, “you are stronger than you realize.”

CHAPTERTHIRTY-ONE

ZURI

My gaze dartedbetween Stone’s eyes and the wound healing quickly.Wh-what was happening?Why … why were my eyes glowing inside of his pupils?They were … white.Why were they white?!

“What’s going on?”I whispered, hands shaking and mouth dry.“Why are my eyes?—”

“Calm down,” Stone said, his wound closing completely.

I opened and closed my mouth a handful of times, scrambling to my feet and slowly backing away from him.My heart raced, and I rubbed my eyes with the heels of my palms, hoping that it’d go away.

Stone pushed himself to his feet, gaze on me.“Zuri, you’re okay.”

Though my packmates whispered to each other, their voices rushing through my head loudly.There were so many voices that I couldn’t even decipher any of them, except Stone’s—which soothed me, only to an extent.

When Sina and Maxine finally returned with a doctor—who didn’t need to help Stone, but all his other warriors instead—Sina walked over to me, brow furrowed.

She lifted my chin with her fingers.“Let me see.”

“No,” I whispered, squeezing my eyes closed.

“Please.”

After a deep breath, I finally lifted my gaze to meet hers.She squinted for a moment, as if she hadn’t expected them to be so bright, then smiled softly.Maxine bounced over to us and gazed over her shoulder at me.

“Is she a Paragon?”Maxine whispered.

“A Paragon?”I repeated.“Wh-what’s that?”

While I had heard of many species that resided in Durnbone, I had never heard of a Paragon.Granted, my old pack didn’t have many books in our pack library, so I couldn’t have known about them if there were many.

“I’m a Paragon,” Sina said, pursing her lips.“I … don’t tell many people this, but I have powers almost as strong as a god.Though my species is a dying one right now.If there are more of us, we need to know.”

“Have you … noticed any powers?Any strengths?”Maxine asked.

“Like what?”I asked.

“Visions maybe?”Sina said.

“No.”

“I thought that you saw the Moon Goddess,” James—who I had almost killed—called.

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