Page 43 of The Werewolf Cowboy
“Oh yeah? Could’ve fool me. I saw that trunk filled with Viagra so you could get it up with the ladies.” Chase winked at a few watching females.
The diversion worked, for Chase’s distraction gave Grayson time to regain his strength. When Cedric turned back, Grayson had shifted back to Skin. But as the alpha charged, Grayson did not attack. Instead, a shimmering purple light glowed on his opened palms, bright as the sun. Katy could barely look at it.
Cedric flipped out his hands, but only two small globes of grayish power hovered above his palms. The pack murmured as the twin globes flickered and then winked out. For a moment, Katy almost felt sorry for him.
The alpha looked at Katy, his expression anguished. “My power is waning. Please help me.”
Help him, when he nearly killed Grayson, and had her kidnapped, wanted to kill her? Katy backed away.
“Your time here in the Dark Kingdom is over, Cedric. I’m sorry,” Grayson told him.
Then he flung out his hands, releasing his light. It poured over Cedric as he howled and screamed. Katy shuddered, but did not look away. Grayson did this for her, to protect her, and keep her from that lunatic, whose mind had aged into madness.
They watched the alpha dissolve into a puddle of bones and blood, and then the earth siphoned it away until there was nothing.
Silence fell over the pack. Cedric had liquefied before their eyes, and yet she sensed no anger or fear. Just sadness and resignation.
Sienna knelt down, touched the earth where Cedric had once stood. “Sleep in serenity, dear alpha,” she murmured, and then the others did the same, one by one.
Grayson was the last to do so. When he arose, dusting off his hands, the rest of the pack bowed their heads.
“Welcome back, alpha,” Chase murmured.
Dismay filled her, but she knew what had happened. It worked the same here as the Skin world. Grayson was now their new pack leader.
An alpha’s duty was to his pack. Aiden had demonstrated this time and again. But what did that mean for her?
Did he plan to make her his mate and keep her here, forever?
