Begging for survival

Chapter 29 - Alexandria is home

Derek POV

We are in the SUVs heading to the location that Max’s people told him the subs would be. Apparently, it’s some kind of temporary location they use before transferring to another location or until they hand over their cargo to whoever hired them.

There is a market for collectors of rare items and creatures, such as werewolves, and this time the cargo is my mate and I believe I know the buyer. They’ll all be dead soon.

It’s been an hour and there is still an hour to go. Max and his friend Noah, who came with Adam, somehow ended up with us in the car, and they won’t shut up about their past adventures or the fact Noah was there when Max first saw Leila, but they skip the part where he killed her parents, convenient.

“Hey Max, I know it’s been a while since you saw your friend and all, but SHUT UP”, they are giving me a headache.

“It’s how we hype each other before a mission, Derek, we remember how we were successful in…” Max trails off looking uncomfortable.

“In killing werewolves?” I finish his sentence.

“We also killed vampires, few witches, a couple of dark faies, even a dragon once” his friend starts ranting.

Dean, who is sitting behind them, shove his head between them and say to that Noah person

“Hey buddy, it would be good for you to remember that you are sitting in a car full of supernatural creatures like the ones you’ve killed and one of them is a very pissed off alpha, who might tolerate Max because he is his Luna’s best friend and all, but he most definitely won’t tolerate you, so, like he said, SHUT UP” Dean growls the last part and sits back.

That thankfully does it and we spend the rest of the ride anxiously silent.

We finally arrive at the location and it’s a well kept farmhouse, with friendly warm vibes, f*****g psychos.

Not far from the house we can see a barn, a heavily secured barn. If they have her or any other werewolf, it would be there.

“Okay, we will take the barn, you take the house”, I tell Adam, who for the first time in his life, agrees with a werewolf.

He heads to the back of the house with his men and few of mine, while the rest of us, Max, included head to the barn.

I won’t bore you with the gruesome details, I’ll just say that we tore through them, I’ll admit, they weren’t as easy as I expected to take down with their f*****g guns and silver weapons, but easy nonetheless , even the couple of rogue vampires and werewolves they had went down in a second, they even had a f*****g witch, she is dead as well.

I finally catch my mate’s scent and it leads to a basement beneath the barn. I dart through the halls following her scent.

There are a lot of rooms, more like cells, full with every supernatural creature you might think of, these guys aren’t hunters for a cause, they are scavengers for a cost.

My men and I free as many as we find while I still follow Alexandria’s scent, which leads me to a room with the door wide open. I enter but she is not there, there is only a broken chair and some chains next to scattered food on the floor.

Where are you, Alexandria?

That’s when I hear her voice, her melodic angelic voice,

“I warned you mother fucker, I warned you” I hear my mate say between groans.

I follow her voice and scent into another room at the end of the hall. I enter to find a scared werewolf girl in her late teens with her cloth torn, whimpering in the corner while my mate is on top of a man with a severed hand.

“Alexandria?” I say after I shift back to my human form.

“Just a second honey, almost done” She says, shoving the man’s severed hand down his throat until he takes his last breath choking on it. That’s my mate alright.

She finally stands up, and turns to me and with a sigh of relief, she flies to my arms, wrapping her legs around my waist and I just hold her tight. I’m complete again.

“Took you long enough, it’s been a week” she says, laying her head on my shoulder.

“It’s only been a day, love”,

“Oh… then all is forgiven, now feed me” she commands, and I laugh, oh I’ve missed her.

“Oh f**k Derek, didn’t need to see your d**k too” Max comes to the room acting like he has been blinded by my d**k. I guess he only likes Dean’s d**k.

“Come here Max, I’ve missed your stupid face” Alexandria says, she is acting like she’s been here for an eternity,

“It felt like it to us” Rex says, all calm and happy now, no more grumpy, moody alpha wolf and I couldn’t agree more.

Ria tries to get down to give Max a hug but I hold her even tighter. f**k him, he is not getting a hug, or so I thought, because we end up in a very awkward group hug… yeah, I need to wear some shorts.

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We are back at my office. Alexandria refuses to go to the hospital, insisting that she is fine and all doctor Martin does is bring bad memories.

So we are now sitting on the couch with her straddling me. Yes, I haven’t let go since I found her, and she seems perfectly fine with me carrying her around like a toddler. It was a challenge putting the shorts on but I managed, it got a little hairy with her eating her sandwich while hanging from my neck, but I didn’t mind, we even ignored her father’s disapproving glares and constant throat cleaning.

“You have to let them go” Alexandria says.

“No, I don’t”,

“Derek, I promised her brother, plus, can’t you see where she is coming from” she tries to convince me.

“I don’t give a s**t Alexandria, she put you in danger”, I knew this was going to happen.

“I’m perfectly fine and it’s only been a day, and why keep her boyfriend and his brother too? They did nothing wrong”,

“They were starting trouble” I answer with my reason.

“Derek, please, she’s been through enough, that messed up her head, yes, she made a mistake, but what has been done to her is much worse, she deserves a break” she says with those beautiful doe eyes of hers pouring into mine.

“Oh goddess, how did I get such an angel as a mate, an angel who was choking a man to death with his own hand just a couple of hours ago, what was that about?” I ask, really curious.

“Nothing, just keeping a promise” she says with a smirk.

“We need to talk” Adam says, coming into the office without even knocking.

“What about?” I ask annoyed because he ruined our moment.

“Max’s mate situation, it’s bigger than you think” Adam says with that look of worry in his eyes, that alone worries me, he is the coldest son of b***h I ever met.

“What are you talking about?” Alexandria asks.

“Can you get off his lab first lex- Alexandria?” Adam says, glaring at us… again.

“Fine” she says, finally separating from me, f*****g asshole.

“So what is it?” I ask.

“Didn’t you find another pure hunter werewolf mate bond to be at least strange?” Adam asks apprehensively.

“Well, I had two, so I guess the moon goddess is mixing it up” Alexandria answers.

“You are already, rare darling, with your own premonition revolving around you and your mate, the chances of another pure hunter having the same is astronomical to say the least” Adam stats.

“What are you saying exactly?” I ask, it doesn’t look good.

“Well, it’s written in the hunters’ ancient books, there will be a time when not one, but two pure hunters, who will be mated to their enemy... and death, will follow, close to their heart to even the balance” Adam says with a dark tone.

“What?” Alexandria asks, I can hear her heart beating so loudly.

“Yes, and Alexandria, I don’t know how it works or which one of you it will affect, maybe even the both of you” Adam says with the same look in his eyes that he had before, Fear.

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Hello guys, who do you think we will lose :( ?