Chapter 35

Are you there?

(Fraction)

If I go by the wolfbane doses they have been shoving into me, I think we have been down here for

three days. Each day they take me upstairs, tie me to a chair and beat me to just the point of death.

Leo. works overtime to try and heal me, he’s careful to only heal the internal stuff as I don’t want them

knowing he’s awake. I’m waiting for the pack, once they give me the go ahead, I’ll let Leo out. I’m not

sure how Leo is awake, he should be knocked out with all the wolfsbane, I can’t say I’m overly

concerned about that right now though.

They haven’t touched Anna since they brought her back down. She’s refused all food and water, me

and Eliza have tried talking to her, but she won’t make a sound. Leo told me he’s tried talking to Winter

but he can’t reach her. He can feel her, he told me she’s in pain. Whatever they did to her damaged her

and Winter.

‘Alpha?‘ I hear the voice I’ve been waiting for. James sounds over our mind link, ‘Alpha you there?‘.

‘I’m here.‘ I tell James.

‘I have Rick and the warriors about two miles out from you. We are waiting for nightfall and Darryl and

his warriors and then we will attack. Where in the house are you?”

‘I’m in the basement, there are a lot of females down here. We need to get them all out. Anna is hurt,

no one is to touch her but you or Rick. I won’t be able to carry her out by myself.‘ I let the venom

towards our attackers bleed into my statement to James.

‘We will protect her with our lives.‘ James responds, “I have Doctor Lee waiting here so he can treat

anyone who needs emergency attention.”

‘Is Darryl the only one who answered your calls?‘ I’m mad that the other Aiphas’s arent here.

‘No but we can discuss that later.‘ Interesting, I wonder what I’ve missed. ‘Is Leo awake? They haven’t

drugged you?‘

‘He is awake.‘ I don’t tell them about the wolfsbane, I’m not sure what it means yet.

‘I’ll tell you when we are going to hit.‘ James closes the link.

‘Anna the pack is here.‘ I try to tell her over the mind link, ‘Anna?”

‘No one is coming.‘ She finally responds to me.

‘Anna they are here, soon we will be out of here.‘ I’m met with silence.

“Eliza?” I whisper her name.

“Yes?” She responds in a small voice..

“Be ready, my pack is here.”

“Yes, Alpha.” Her voice is so small. Looking at the woman I can tell. she was once a beauty but now

she’s a wisp of a girl. Starved, beaten and raped to the point she’s barely even here anymore. I hope

we can help her. I hope we can help them all.

After a while I hear James over our mind link, saying ‘Incoming, in 10, 9, 8, 7, 6…5…‘ he counts down.

On one I hear multiple smashes above us, loud bangs of wolves and bodies hitting the floor. The air is

filled. with snarls and howls, the smell of blood is even stronger than it was. The door to the basement

opens and I see James, Rick and Darryl all

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coming down in shorts carrying a blanket each.

“Darryl let Fraction down, I’ll get Anna.” James orders. I watch as Darryl takes a key out his pocket and

shoves it in the padlock above my head and as soon as I’m free I let Leo take over. We pad over to

Anna’s cell and watch as James opens it, he crawls in and lays the blanket over her n*ked form.

Carefully as he can he picks her up and holds her to him, with her head on his shoulder. He lowers

himself down allowing Leo to snill Anna, after a lick to the face James takes Anna and runs up the

stairs. He will get her to safety.

‘Rick, get the rest out of here.‘ I tell Rick over the mind link as I bound up the stairs. I feel every step as

a shooting pain, but I ignore it.

‘On it. Alpha.‘ Rick responds.

When I hit the first room, the one they always sat me in for my beatings, I can see the carnage left

behind by the two warrior packs. There isn’t a single rogue still in one piece, the bodies have been

ripped apart. I couldn’t tell you where one started and the other ended. I follow my nose outside where I

see warriors surrounding six people, these ones are very much alive. I walk over to Lewis who nods his

head as a sign of respect.

“Alpha Fraction. Here is John, Eve and four others who surrendered to us.” His voice is clear and

carries across the crowd of warriors.

“No one gets to surrender, they all die.” James says behind me, this is why he’s my Beta, he knows

exactly what I want. “Eve is our pack’s female. She will come with us.”

‘With all due respect Beta James, we found the female slicing into the emale dead in the back room.” I

become still at Lewis’s words. Eve vas helping them.

Tell him to bring her back to the pack, I will deal with her at home.

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John is mine.” I tell James over the mindlink.

James repeats my words to Lewis and the warriors move in, two restrain Eve and inject her with

wolfsbane and lead her over to the trucks and cars in the distance. They are not careful in how they

treat her and I can’t say I care too much. John is moved to the side and the other four are killed

execution style by those in wolf form. They all have their throats ripped out. It’s faster than they deserve

but I have more important things to deal with.

I watch as the warriors move into a circle around John, all looking inwards and looking like an

immovable wall. I watch as Alpha Darryl moves to the centre of the pack, he holds up a key and shouts

out; “I, Alpha Darryl of the Grey Pack, Head Alpha of America, find you John guilty of murder, rape,

assault and false imprisonment of Pack females. and one Pack Alpha. Do you have anything to say

before your sentence is handed down?” John just stares at me, he knows his time has come. He

doesn’t say anything in his defence, no one would listen anyway. “Alright then. your sentence is; Death

by Alpha!” The crowd of warriors roar, howling and woop into the night. “Alpha Fraction will hand out

the sentencing, before he begins. Does anyone have any objections?” No one would object but he has

to ask. it’s part of our laws. If we don’t follow our laws then we are no better than the rogues

we kill.

When no one speaks up, Darryl unlocks John’s handcuffs and then walks out of the circle. I start

walking a circle around my prey, I soak in the rage vibrating off all the warriors around me. They are

angry for the females they found and for the ones they didn’t. They all want a piece of John but they will

follow Darryl’s words and watch instead. I wish I could shift to tell John everything I want but right now I

am too weak in my human form so Leo will have to take justice for our mate. I want to be able to fight

John and really make him suffer but Leo and I both want to get to Anna, so I make it much faster than

he deserves.

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Leo gets to the front of John and with a howl he drags his claws down his chest, his intestines fall to the

floor in front of him. Leo grabs them and pulls until they are in a pile next to him, Leo waits for John to

fully soak in what has happened to him and then just before he dies he lunges and rips his throat out.

We watch as the light goes out in John’s eyes and then run out of the circle. The warriors are all

howling and cheering, they will deal with all the bodies, I need to get to Anna.

I follow my nose to Anna and find her in the back of a red truck with Doctor Lee, Leo jumps up into the

truck bed and lies next to her.

“She’s going to be ok. Alpha.” Doctor Lee says after strapping some bandages to her leg. “she’s not

woken up yet but her vitals are strong. When we get back to Swiftmane Land I will check you both in

full.” Doctor Lee adjusts the blue blanket over her and leaves the truck bed.

I let Leo sniff and lick Anna; he needs the reassurance she is here. I smell the blanket but all I smell is

me, Anna and my mother. I’m glad someone thought to grab a blanket without a male scent on it, I

don’t think Leo could handle more male scents on Anna at the moment. I slowly drift off next to Anna as

she winds her fingers into Leo’s fur and holds on with a death grip. I vaguely recall a blanket being put

over both of us and the truck starting, I stay where I am. I refuse to leave Anna. I won’t let her out of my

sight again.

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