Page 99 of Ruthless Alpha Beast
“You really think you can threaten me?” He challenges me, taking another step closer. This time, Ihaveto move back, all the way against a nearby tree. “Do you know how quickly I could snap your little spine, human? It’d be as quick and easy as breathing.”
Now, I am scared.
He could tear me apart, and what’s stopping him? No one saw me come out here; for all anyone knows, I could have just run away.
“What do you want?” I ask him.
“Nothingfrom you.”
“Then let me go,” I demand.
I swallow hard, every instinct inside me urging my legs to move, but instead they lock in place.
“You don’t belong here,” he says finally. “Some people around here may have forgotten that, but plenty of us haven’t.”
“Funny,” I shoot back. “How the Alpha leading you completely disagrees.”
He growls. “You don’t know what’s good for our pack. All you are is a weak, fragile little hu—"
Suddenly, a roar cuts through the air.
One that’s familiar, but everything happens so quick. The hairs on the back of my neck stand for half a second, and the shifter’s head snaps toward the sound.
In a flash, a large wolf leaps through the trees, growling as he tackles the shifter to the ground beside me.
I step back, but there’s nowhere else to go.
Instead, I move to the side, my breath coming out in rapid, light, rasps.
The moonstone-colored eyes confirm who the wolf is.
I’m both grateful and in shock.
Jasper has the shifter pinned to the floor beneath his paws.
He growls at him first, snarling and spitting out through his teeth as the shifter avoids his eyes.
The rebalance of power feels so primal. Jasper’s Alphaship couldn’t be more apparent.
He shifts back into his human form and stops to look at me for a second before gazing back at the bully.
He snarls. “Get up.”
The shifter obliges, trembling faintly as he attempts to mask his fear.
His head is down, shoulders tight, every inch of him in submission to the Alpha he was so carelessly dismissing only moments before.
Jasper’s glaring, angrier than I’ve ever seen.
“Care to repeat any of what you just said?”
The shifter swallows, silent.
Jasper presses on. “You think you can threaten my wife? You think you can go directly against my orders and nothing will happen?”
“No Alpha, sorry Alpha,” he mutters.
“Look me in the eye.”
