Page 175 of Caged Between the Beta & Alpha
“Damon.” He paused, glancing back at me.
“Yeah?”
“I may have wanted her all for myself, but never once did I think that I deserved her more than you because my rank was higher than yours. I’ve always loved her since I was young, that was all I could think of. That I loved her first... it was never because I was an alpha, and you weren’t,” I said quietly. I needed him to know that.
“Isn’t it the same thing?” He asked quietly. I didn’t reply, unable to.
If anything were to happen to me... maybe they could be together. Maybe that was why she was given two mates? I watched him walk off, thinking he’d once said he’d die for me...Didn’t he realise I’d do the same for him, too?
“Liam?” Raven asked, coming over and holding a plate piled high with two, no, three, large slices of cake.
“Yes, beautiful?” I asked softly as she caressed my face with her free hand.
“Are you okay?” I nodded.
“That’s a lot of cake for one bite-sized she-wolf,” I teased. She pouted.
“One was for you,” she said. I raised an eyebrow.
“Was it? Or were you planning on taking my share?” I asked.
“Not at all… I mean, you should offer it to me because I need to eat lots to grow… but that wasn’t the plan,”she said, blinking up at me.
Oh, it was definitely the plan. When it came to sweet treats, Raven could eat lots. I chuckled.
“Depends on what I get in return?” I asked.
“And now you’re bartering. Shouldn’t mates be willing to give up everything for the other?” She complained, sounding cute.
“I still want something in return.” I wrapped my arm around her as she did her best to keep her plate upright, and it was at that moment that I felt a wave of coldness wash over me.
Something wasn’t right.
I may not have had the ability to foresee like Kiara... but I had always been very intuitive. It was the same when we had pinpointed where the witch Endora was trying to resurrect was buried. I just… felt it.
I looked around sharply, the sound of Raven’s voice fading away, my eyes burning a magnetic blue. I could see the kids playing together… Azura in Mom’s lap…No, it’s not…I turned, scanning the crowd, watching Damon walk back towards the wall where we had been not long ago… and it was then that I saw it.
The flash of something out there, hiding in the trees, metres beyond the wall. My heart thundered in my chest as I saw the glint of metal, and I realised what it was…
Time seemed to slow down, my heart thundering in my ears as my eyes homed in on the man who was holding one of the deadly assault rifles we had designed only to use on the wendigos years ago… weapons that were meant to be locked away.
A weapon that was pointed towards us, with Damon being in its first line of range, eating his cake, unsuspecting.
My instincts kicked in and I pushed Raven to the ground.
“Get down!”I shouted as I rushed towards Damon in a flash, spinning him around and shielding him with my body as I heard the shots go off. Screams erupted in the air, and pain ripped through me, knocking the breath from me.
Pain, suffocating pain…
My entire back was screaming in burning agony, spreading through my entire body.
I couldn’t breathe, I couldn’t….
The growls of wolves filled the air as Damon turned, his eyes wide in shock as he stared at me, catching me before I fell.
I said I’d die for you too…
My eyes stung as I realised this was it…
