Surrogate For Alpha Dom

Ella

“NO!” I scream, but the word is transferred instantly to a roar as I transition into my wolf, my

but I barely bones and body shifting in a flash. It hurts – less than it did the first time, of course – notice it because I shake myself out of my captor’s hands and am halfway across the room at once, leaping for the man who holds Rafe, my jaws gaping. He goes a little pale, taking a step

backwards and putting out a hand towards me to stop me –

But that hand, it disappears into my mouth. And I snap my teeth down.

The man’s scream pierces my sensitive ears as my teeth meet together around his wrist, as I wrench my head to the side, tossing his torn hand aside, savoring the taste of his blood in my mouth. He screams again as he looks at the bloody stump I’ve left behind, as I prowl another step

forward –

But suddenly, I feel a great blow against my shoulder that sends me staggering sideways

And then, almost at the same instant, I hear what sounds like an explosion behind me – I don’t

turn to it, my eyes fixed on the man who holds my son in his arms – but I know, through the bond,

through some other wolf instinct, that it is Sinclair.

I don’t take my eyes off the man who holds Rafe, instead finding my feet and beginning to prowl

slowly forward towards him again. He backs up, step by step, looking over my shoulders at his

colleagues as they die. I can see the progress of the battle in his expression, in the fear that comes

into his eyes, in the blood that drains from his face as he realizes that he’s not getting out of this.

room. That he’s going to die here, but not until he watches all of his friends die first.

I hear the ripping sounds my mate makes in his gigantic wolf form, the screams of the masked

men as he takes them down, his snarls and his roars, the rending sound of flesh. And each blow

rings through me like a song as I bare my teeth at the man holding my child, as I stare him down.

It doesn’t take long for Sinclair to finish. I didn’t think it would.

—

it was minutes – before I

deep into my fur until they reach my skin. I’m

in this room is

like that.

a growl still resonating in

at him, at my mate, covered in our enemies‘ blood. Something soars in me at the

Our

a moment, and then he sees the determination in me and

so, immediately, blood dripping from his trembling arm, knowing that his cause

his gigantic arms and turns away from the man, from me, walking away from us, shushing our child and

then, it’s just me, and this man, and my murderous

prowl another step forward.

raises his hands towards me, palms out. “Please,” he whispers.

it’s a waste of breath.

coil my limbs and leap for him, my paws hitting him in the chest first and

the wall moments before I sink my teeth into his neck, ripping out his throat.

top of

leaves his eyes.

my mate, who stands

up on one side into a proud smile.

body, standing up, the man’s blood still

my neck. And then, with perfect control, I cross

stare down at my child, who cries his little scared heart out.

I relish every scream that echoes

can hear him, it means that he’s still

done my job.

Sinclair

as Roger bursts

to stay with the priest – to make sure that we kept him, as I

happening up here.

the priest was secure, they

says, his eyes going wide as he looks at the blood all over our bedroom

bedding, all the walls, even the ceiling – and at the bodies scattered almost

“What the – how did you

Ella explains, and I look down at her, a little surprised at

my brother. This is the woman who cried