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I looked at her cuttingly. “I can’t promise you that.” A tormented expression overtook her features. “But I’ll try to keep it in mind,” I finally added before swooping upon Alistair’s home like an avenging angel in my black pants and black coat.

Chapter 59

“Of all forms of caution, caution in love is perhaps the most fatal to true happiness.” ? Bertrand Russell, The Conquest of Happiness

Aiden's POV

The front door splintered open as I kicked it in.

“ALISTAIIIRRR!!!” I screamed at the top of my lungs, beginning to divest myself of my jacket and shirt. “ALISTAIIIRRR!!!”

Dylan and Tony were waiting nearby and emerged from their hiding spots in the shadows of the vast back lawn. Alistair emerged from the gym he’d made in his own basement.

I glared down at him as he stood at the foot of the basement stairs. Alister looked at me like he was seeing a ghost and thenhe turned his eyes and looked behind me to Lexia with disbelief. Lexia had told me that she promised her dad to keep me away. And if I'd managed to give her the slip, she would have called to inform him. So I knew seeing me standing in front of him was like plunging the knife of betrayal through his evil heart.

“You helped this bastard come here… I can smell his scent on you,” Alister snapped. “Betrayed by my own flesh and blood.” He didn’t wait for Lexia's reply. He turned into his wolf without a moment’s hesitation, bounding from the basement to the floor I was currently toppling expensive china and glass vases on.

Another lamp was thrown to the floor as I yelled Alistair’s name. A glass bowl bought by Lexia’s mother shattered at my feet when I pushed the contents of the coffee table to the floor in my bid to make enough noise for the evil alpha to get riled up. Alistair’s wolf jumped towards me. I pulled back in time, making a beeline for the back lawn where my beta and second alpha stood waiting as witnesses.

Then I broadcast the message to Alistair’s mind while speaking it out loud simultaneously.

“I challenge you, Alistair Evans, for the title of Alpha of the Bloodfire Phoenix Pack and the Silver Creek Pack!”

I was going all in. If I won, I’d take Alistair’s pack too.

Alistair howled in his wolf form in protest while I signalled Dylan and Tony to broadcast the message to both packs. They all shared the same mind-link now since they had the same alpha.

I turned with a snarl, black pants tearing away at the seams and floating to the ground like black feathers of a crow. It didn’t take long for high-ranking members of Alistair’s pack to arrive to witness the fight.

Fueled by a new determination and strength to get back to Rose, I circled Alistair viciously, canines dripping with saliva. Blood lust surged in my eyes along with a determination to claimmy birthright and luna. Alistair could sense I had the advantage this time.

“I’ve tasted your luna,”Alistair taunted me through the mind-link.

I growled. He was doing the only thing he could think of to distract me. And it was working!

“She bears my mark now. Your mate bond has been broken. She’s MINE now!”

NEVER! I pounced, and both of us went tumbling in the dirt, each trying to gain the upper hand.

“Iwonder if she’ll take a little boy after she’s had a MAN!”Alistair crowed gleefully into my brain.

The pain in my heart increased tenfold over what my mate must have endured at this beast’s hands. My attention diverted, it was enough for Alistair to kick me off of him. My wolf skidded on his side against the dirt before gaining purchase with his paws. Lifting myself upright, I breathed and looked at Alister standing in front of me. I had to strategize. I couldn’t make the same mistakes as before and risk losing again. Alistair snarled some more, tongue darting out to lick the blood on his snout I had managed to scratch.

We circled each other again. This time, I waited for Alistair to make the first move. Alistair lunged, and I feinted to the right before landing a blow on Alistair’s side. My claws dug in deep, drawing five slashes which wept crimson tears. The momentary pain was enough to blindside Alistair. My jaw clamped over Alistair’s neck, biting down hard. Alistair howled in pain as blood seeped down his thick fur coat. I kept a firm hold, clawing away down Alistair’s front. My wolf wanted to cut out the sinister alphas heart and eat it. My canines sunk deeper. Alistair bucked and jerked, pawing me desperately as an immense amount of his blood pooled at our feet. I kept going, sinking my canines even deeper, claws digging in more viciously with eachthump against Alistair’s fur until Alistair’s struggles became mere twitches. And I still kept going.

“Please, Aiden,” Lexia finally spoke amongst the silent crowd. She looked horrified at the way I kept mauling the old alpha. “You told me you’d try to spare him.”

I jerked slightly, mouth still around Alistair’s neck. My eyes found Lexia.

“He’s my father,” Lexia pleaded. “I promise you…I swear to you by the Moon Goddess. We’ll leave and never come back.”

I finally relinquished Alistair’s neck. Then began to change into my human form, stopping mid-way. There was a collective gasp as the crowd realized I was suspended mid-change, fur on my entire body but standing upright like a human. If the Silver Creek Pack had doubted their new alpha’s strength, they didn’t anymore. To achieve semi-stasis such as this was a practically unheard of feat. I growled low, extending my paws which had long furry fingers resembling human hands. My wolf-like claws glinted against the setting sun. And with inhumane strength, I dug my claws viciously into Alistair’s mouth, my two claws going straight into the roof of Alistair’s mouth and wrenching out the root of his canines.

Removal of alpha canines was a completely barbaric and ancient form of punishment given to wayward alphas. I had discovered it among the old pack journals when I’d been helping Rose look for Dylan’s cure. I’d been horrified to read about the punishment. Now, I was grimly satisfied to have dealt it.

Lexia screamed; Alistair’s wolf blacked out from the pain. I threw the bloody canines into the grass in disgust before becoming completely human.

“He’ll live but he can never be an alpha again,” I gritted out. I turned to Dylan. “Get rid of those canines.” Then I looked at the Silver Creek Pack members. “Who’s next?”