Alphas Don’t Beg

Chapter 17 - Collapse

Zander POV

I miss my mate, even after the events of yesterday, she is all I think about.

So, as usual, I tracked her scent, which led me somewhere in the middle of the woods.

She is in her wolf form and Jax howls in excitement.

Her dark shinny fur, her angry eyes… angry eyes?

She goes behind a tree and comes out in an over-sized shirt and a little too small pants.

“You are the f*****g royal beta!” she screams in my face as soon as she sees me.

“No… but I will be” I defend myself like it’s an accusation.

“Does this mean that the king is your uncle?” she says, the realization hitting her.

This conversation is not going to go well.

“And my godfather” I add.

“Oh my goddess, I said bad things, horrible things, I’m as good as dead” she says, horrified.

“And who is going to let anyone come near you?!” I say dead serious.

“Leah, why are you that surprised? you knew I’m a royal” I ask confused.

“I thought you are like a distant relative or something, not the godson of the f*****g king himself...I mean the king … not f*****g… just king… his majesty?... Oh, he is going to kill me in a fit of rage” she says, panicking.

“Oh dear goddess, calm down, you can say whatever you want, Leah, and uncle Derek is a very calm man, he rarely has fits of rage” I try to assure her.

“Yeah, a calm man who killed his own father” she snaps.

“Well, his father was a horrible man who used to lock him in a room and torture him half to death… and it wasn’t him who killed his father” I say rubbing the back of my neck awkwardly.

“Oh… I didn’t know that… who killed him then?” she asks, intrigued.

“um… hmm… my father”.

“Great… so the royal beta is the one who is going to kill me in a fit of rage” she says, dryly chuckling.

“For f**k’s sake, no one is going to kill you, no one can even touch you, not when I’m alive, and when I’m dead, your unicorns can take guard” I joke.

“Shut up or I’ll shove my unicorns up your royal ass” she threatens.

“Is that a way for the future royal female beta to talk to her mate?” I tease.

“Oh dear, I just realized… if I accept you… I’ll be a royal myself… that if your father didn’t chop my head off first”.

“Stop overreacting, we are not really monsters that go around killing people” I say annoyed, starting to get fed up with the stereotyping … and she looks scared.

Why is she scared? I didn’t even raise my voice.

“We are under attack; we have to go to the pack house” she says panicked.

Without a second thought, I grab her by the hand, and we run.

We reach the pack house and find Alex and the white rock gamma, Ben, I think is his name, already outside the pack house rushing people in.

I make sure Leah is inside, and go find my alpha.

Gabriel POV

“Are you betraying me, Gabriel?” he accuses me.

“WHAT? How could you think that? I would never do that”.

“We are under attack, everyone to his position” he both says, and sends a mass link.

“It’s rogues… but they have hunters among them” Patrick informs me.

Panic is apparent in his features, then he runs towards his house, to his Luna.

I head to the borders after I make sure that Ben is at his position.

History can’t repeat itself this time. I will not let them in.

I link Leah on the way, and she assures me that she is already at the bunker and that Elijah is on the way.

I reach the border and Maxima is already there, with her high ponytail and daggers out.

Maxima … I love the sound of her name.

“Focus”.

Yes. The attack.

“Hey princess, maybe you should sit that one out” I say worried.

I don’t want anything to happen to her and it’s not her battle… and I do need to focus.

I hear a swooshing sound, and in a split second, Maxima catches an arrow just before it hits my heart.

“Maybe YOU should keep your head in the battle” she says, irritated, and dives into battle.

“That was …” Jake says, standing beside me.

“f*****g hot” I finish his sentence just before I shift.

“Battle time” Phoenix chants excited.

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It’s been what feels like a long while, and the fight is not near finishing.

“They are breaking in from the west border”, Billy, the head of the west border security reports. s**t!

I look around and it looks like we have the upper hand.

“Jake, take over, I’m going to the west border” I link him and he nods, still in wolf form.

I instinctively look for Maxima and she, with her daggers, and Zander in his big ass wolf form, are slaughtering rogues and hunters left and right.

Everything looks seemingly under control, so I head to the other border.

This is all Patrick’s fault; I just know it.

I reach the west border as fast as I can with few guards in tail.

There are other wolves who are not Maxima’s nor ours that are fighting with us.

“Who the hell are those?” I link billy.

“The king’s warriors”, so reinforcements are here. Good.

Maxima POV

These hunters are not subs, they are well trained and experienced.

But why are they here?

“Alpha, we are here. Where do you want us?”, The warriors my father said he'd send arrived at the perfect time.

I look around for Gabriel to inform him, and he is nowhere to be around.

All the white rock warriors are in wolf form, of course, and I can’t link them.

I cut the throat of one of the hunters who is fighting a white rock wolf, and he drops dead.

“Shift” I order, and he obeys.

“Yes, your highness”.

“Where is your beta?”.

“They are attacking the west border, he went to them”, s**t!

“Go to the west borders, now” I order my father's men.

“Yes, Alpha”.

I’m breaking a rogue’s jaw when I hear one hunter order another.

“If you can’t take him down, then find his Luna. There aren’t many warriors left to protect her, they are all busy at the borders”. f**k!

I don’t need to say that this hunter is dead now.

“Zander Take over” is all I link before I bolt to Patrick’s house with a couple of my warriors.

We reach Patrick’s house … it’s not looking good.

I see him fighting 2 wolves and a hunter on his own … his warriors are out numbered as well.

I see 3 hunters go inside the house, so we follow them.

“Down here” another hunter shouts and they head downstairs, not even noticing that we are behind them.

They are standing in-front of a broken-down door that looks like it had to be blown up or something to open.

One of them is grabbing a very fragile looking woman... She looks like she is about to faint from fear.

“What to do with her now?” the man asks.

“You hand her over to us before we have to slaughter you all” I say clutching my daggers.

“Ah, the princess, we’ll be taking you too” a huge man, and I mean huge, says.

“I’d like to see you try” I say before I throw my dagger straight into the neck of the man who is holding the Luna.

Mom taught me that move. She called it Uncle Max’s special move.

“Oops, slippery hands I guess” I mock before charging toward the man with the threats.

He pulls out a couple of silver daggers as well and fights back.

What the hell is going on here?

Since when does pure hunters fight with rogues?

And what the f**k do they want with white rock?

“I’m not that easy to kill Princess” he says with a grin, blocking my attack.

I hear my warriors fighting with his in the background, and we seem to have a battle of our own.

“Neither am I, hunter, but I’m also an alpha. guess this is not your lucky day” I say aiming for his throat.

“No, you are a pure hunter, a rare one” he says blocking that move and smiles like he just won the lottery.

What the f**k?

I’m fighting with one dagger and that mother fucker is good.

I look at Lauren who is whimpering in the corner near the dead hunter that has my dagger in his neck.

“Hey, Lauren, I really need that dagger, it will burn a little but you have to throw it to me” I tell her dodging a foot that was aiming for my rips but f*****g Lauren just whimpers more. Great.

“Listen Princess, I don’t want to kill you, so give it up before you get hurt” the smug son of b***h says, catching his breath.

“Lauren… Please” I say gritting my teeth.

I know that they tortured her and she is traumatized and all... But I need my f*****g dagger.

I see that my men are overnumbered and it looks like we are not coming out of this victorious.

I see one of the hunters going towards Lauren, his intentions are clear with his dagger tight in his hands.

Just before his dagger touches her, I throw my other dagger at him and he falls dead.

Great, but I’m now dagger less and the fucker I’m fighting is fully equipped.

“That was not a smart move” he says amused.

“I still have my hands asshole and it’s all I need” I say punching him straight in the nose, and that’s an Alexandria Salvatore special move… especially on dad.

“you werewolf loving w***e” he says charging with his daggers slicing through my forearms as I defend myself.

“Lauren, the daggers”, she is a lost cause.

I mange to knock one of the daggers out of his hands and deliver a powerful kick to his leg, breaking it.

That manages to piss him off to the point that he stands on that f*****g broken leg like it's nothing, although I can see the agonizing pain on his face.

Why won’t he just go down?

I’m bleeding, bruised and out of breath, it’s f*****g easier killing 10 werewolves than fighting just that one man.

He grabs me by the throat and pins me to the wall, so naturally... I grab his balls, which seems to piss him off even more.

“Well, he said bring her alive, but didn’t say in what condition” he says, then digs his dagger into my torso so deep, I feel like it’s going to come out from the other side.

It hurts and burns, and I have never felt this pain before, it's so painful I can’t even scream.

I think I hear my name being called, but I can’t really focus on anything but the dagger inside me.

The mother fucker is almost foaming from the mouth with pure rage and gloat, when a clawed hand reaches from behind him and claws his throat out.

With another hit of the same hand, his head is fully decapitated.

“Maxima”, Gabriel appears from behind the falling corpus of the asshole who just stabbed me with pure panic on his face.

“No one tell my father” I say before I collapse into his arms.

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Hey guys, sorry for being late, life happened... but here is a long chapter. Hope you enjoy it.

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