Alpha Dom and His Human Surrogate

Chapter 330 – Protecting my Own

Sinclair

I growl down at the man before me, who is younger than I thought he would be, for one with

such power. He has thick black hair and a day’s worth of stubble on his thin cheeks. The man

glares up at me with dark, angry eyes and opens his mouth to speak but before he can, I slap him

– hard with an open palm.

–

The man gasps with surprise and pain, his eyes going wide as he stares down at the floor, and I

smirk. I doubt this man has been slapped anytime recently, if ever. He has the smug look of

someone used to being in charge.

But he’s in my house now.

“You’ll speak when we tell you to speak,” I growl, and then I turn to the head of my

–

reconnaissance team, who is standing against the wall, his hands on his knees, panting a little.

Craig isn’t a small man to see him so undone by the efforts suggests that this diminutive priest

is, indeed, powerful in other ways.

“How did you catch him?” I snap. Craig looks up at me and does his best to straighten up.

“We followed the leads, sir,” he replies, looking me in the eyes, “that we gleaned from the

conversation with the other priest, who wished to remain anonymous. They were…fruitful. We

found this one’s lair, for lack of a better word. It was actually in a sewer -in an abandoned

maintenance room. He was living there doing…” Craig hesitates and then shrugs. “Forgive me, Sir,

for the dramatic language, but ‘arcane magics‘ are the only words coming to my mind now. Lizard

skins…and and snail shells, in jars – he had a cauldron –”

“Thank you,” I say, interrupting and nodding towards the head of my investigative team. “You.

will give your details to Alastair, as soon as you can. For now, though I want everyone here for

the interrogation.” I lean forward towards the priest, who watches me with wary eyes and a

clenched jaw.

interrogation,” I continue, lowering my voice and slowing my words, “will be

if need be.”

himself a brave man, then, by baring his teeth at me in a little

which makes him faulter. And then I step away, secretly grateful for

my muscles are tensed, ready to rip this man’s head off. Roger

crossed as he looks down at

people

Roger, a too–wide expression that shows all of his teeth.

in his voice now. Roger stares at him blandly for

behind the priest who whips forward a taser

it swiftly against

priest’s body, making him shriek and twist in pain, but my

goes a little slack in his

Roger says, kicking the leg of the chair to get the priest’s attention. “What

people want with

though, as the priest looks up at Roger again and just huffs a

shaking his head and holding his gaze. “Because,”

his face. “You are

really, truly laugh, as a

upstairs –

my heart stops as I recognize it,

Ella

tense, in my rocking chair by Rafe’s

quietly as he falls asleep when

–

heard a little tapping sound at the glass

towards it curiously, expecting a little bird – maybe a squirrel

terror flooded me when I saw a black–masked face calmly tapping

I froze, as he quietly

coming for

–

fast – the man pulled back his arm, and made a fist, and

the window –

he did it – it should have broken his hand – Sinclair paid to have

body, head–first, into the room through the hole he made with his fist, the rest

the window cracking and shattering

–

hit the floor, only half an instant

my child’s rolling basinet behind

chair away and back into the corner now, Rafe in his

man gets to his feet at the foot of the window. As he stands, my heart jumps when I see that

–

–

behind him, working their way up to

fast

lead is on his feet now, grinning at me,