Fleeing With The Alpha's Heir

AN ALPHA’S FURY

KATE

Alpha Kincaid was by my side in a flash, his brown eyes burning in righteous indignation.

“Are you okay, Omega?”

Omega?

Now that was a new one.

I had been called all sorts of names; Mudblood, Pack rat, Pack slave… but no one bothered to call me what I was—or at least what I should have been if I actually had my wolf.

Omega.

The Alpha helped me sit up on the grass that had been my bed for the night, and I tried so freaking hard not to shudder at the weird tingle I felt where his arm touched my body.

I managed a weak nod in response to his question, tuning out of my head just in time to catch Shauna running to the Luna.

She fell at her feet, her actions filled with distress and mortification.

“Oh Luna Silvana, I apologize that you had to walk in on this. Shauna whimpered, her voice trembling with fear. “This... this girl—she attacked me, tried to kill me last night, and when I confronted her this morning, she—”

“Enough,” Alpha Kincaid’s voice cut through her rambling like a sharp blade. He didn’t raise his voice, but the authority in it silenced everyone instantly.

I flinched at the sudden change in his tone, but kept my gaze steady, refusing to look away from the ground.

My scalp still throbbed from where Shauna had yanked my hair, but I wasn’t going to give her the satisfaction of seeing how much she’d hurt me.

“What exactly is going on here?” Luna Silvana asked, her voice calm but with an edge that could cut through steel.

It was the first time I had heard her use that icy tone on someone who wasn’t me.

Her gaze flicked from Shauna, who was groveling at her feet, to Melody and Shane, who stood a few paces away, looking guilty and uncomfortable. “Someone better start talking now.”

“Luna, this girl…” Shauna began again, pointing a trembling finger at me, “You know very well how I have tried so hard to be nothing but the perfect mother for her… but she is an ungrateful one… a disgrace to the pack…”

“You will stop with the name calling immediately,” Alpha Kincaid ordered sharply, instantly reducing Shauna to silence, “Whatever she may have done does not f*****g justify this kind of violence in my pack. I will not tolerate anything of this sort. Maybe I should use you all as examples to deter others.” He mused menacingly. “You don’t deserve to be a part of us after all… not after what you’ve done.”

Fuck, he was going to banish them. Or worse!

Shane and Melody quickly fell on their knees too, their hands clasped together in supplication as they begged for mercy. “Please, Alpha… please spare us, I implore you…” Shane started, but Alpha Kincaid held up a hand, stopping him. “You. You are the biggest disgrace to this Pack, Campbell…” He hissed scornfully, “You allow this to happen in your house?” He asked, his voice filled with contempt. “You stand by and let your daughter be treated like this? Or do you not consider her yours just because she does not carry your blood?”

Shane tried so hard to answer to the Alpha, but everything he uttered was a stuttering mess.

Alpha Kincaid brushed him off, his frightening gaze turning to Melody, “And you,” He hissed, “You think you can treat someone like this and get away with it?”

The tears were freely streaming down Melody’s face now, and as usual, she glanced at her mother, hoping that the wicked woman would come to her aid like she normally did,

But this time, things were different.

This time they had more than met their match.

“You all are going to pay for this,” The Alpha started to say, but his mother held on to him, “Alpha, let me handle them while you take care of the girl. She’s our priority now.”

Her words had the Alpha rushing over to me without a moment’s thought, his gaze softening as he looked down at me.

In that moment, as we stared into each other’s eyes, I momentarily forgot about my pathetic life, about all the pain I had endured today. I could see it all in his eyes—the concern, the anger at the people who hurt me… hell, there was even a little guilt in there.

I guess he felt bad because he didn’t know the extent of my suffering, but perhaps, I was just being delirious.

Luca Kincaid crouched down beside me, his voice gentle, a very sharp contrast to the furious state it was in just seconds ago. “Katherina, right?” He asked me softly, and I nodded in response.

Goddess… he remembered my name.

Mentally, I should have been dancing for joy, but I was so beaten and bruised that I couldn’t even bring myself to.

“Can you stand, Katherina?” He started to ask, but then he cursed softly, ignoring his own question and scooping me up in his arms instead.

It was a good thing he did, because I really wasn’t sure I could.

Every movement hurt like hell, and yet the soft cocoon of his arms around me and the warmth that emanated from him soothed it all away until all I could feel was him.

“Shauna, Shane… I am really disappointed in your behavior today.” The Luna voiced out her disapproval one more time, “By the power vested in me as the current Luna of the Pack, I summon you to the Packhouse for a hearing. Be there by noon.”

Alpha Kincaid walked away from my troubled family with me still in his arms, barely breaking a sweat, almost as though I weighed nothing.

His mother and the rest of their entourage followed after us, and we all got into the five cars that had parked right in front of our house.

I couldn’t help but wonder why they had all showed up at our place when they did.

The Alpha rarely paid pack members a visit.

They were almost always summoned to the Packhouse, so why were they there?

Perhaps, as a new Alpha, this was one of the new changes he wanted to effect?

I snapped out of my thoughts as soon as I realized that only the Alpha and I and his driver were in one car.

With the two of us in the backseat, the small space felt even tinier with his huge intimidating frame so close to mine.

He didn’t say a word to me, thankfully, but his absent-mindedness gave me the perfect chance to steal glances at him, noting the way his jaw clenched and the tell-tale signs that he was still pissed.

Wow.

He really seemed to be strongly against bullying.

But was it possible that there was something more?

Some…something like he was starting to…to care for me?

No.

No, no, no.

I wasn’t going to allow myself to think about that.

To think thoughts that would just end up breaking my heart.

I was going to view this for what it was.

An act of kindness, and nothing more.

Because let’s face facts, the Alpha was a good man, and chances were he’d do the same thing for anyone else he found in the same predicament.

The reasoning was enough to cold drench the rapidly growing affection that had started to burn in my heart for him.

With that warmth gone, the pain returned with a vengeance, growing and growing until I eventually gave in to the darkness and the temporary relief it promised.