Alpha’s Hybrid Cinderella – Chapter 57

The line crackled. It was terrible, trying to hear Raf properly on the other side, but who knew when we would have another chance to speak? Seventy percent of the city had been evacuated already, all the civilians taken out in trucks with only their most essential belongings. Scarlet pack werewolves alternated between fighting off the enemy and escorting civilians to safety from the shelters, and almost no one had had rest in the last forty-eight hours. Most of them were only Deltas, whether trained or not. Things wouldn’t last much longer if they went on like this.

But at least I could hear Raf’s voice one more time before they transported her, too. She and Leon huddled by whatever landline phone they had been given since the last of the cell towers were destroyed in the last day.

“We couldn’t find you!” she cried. “We took the car and drove over but they had the road blockaded. You were attacked!”

here hasn’t been a werecat attack in decades I heard, but there’s been a confirmed sighting of a lion shifter and a tiger shifter somewhere in the city.”

You have to come with us. Evan will want you t

eventually he’s going to take me out of the city, and then he’ll come back and make sure the place is cleaned up.”

n’t mention anything of it at all. Evan had told me the existence of it was top-secret, and that since only the manor had been att

was that the toxin must have been of limited quantity. There was no reason not to use it against the Scarlet pack wolves in other locations, too, at least before the fighting had gone down and both sides began to cross over into the other’

idn’t want Evan in the fighting at all, so they wouldn’t have to deal with that possibility. To force the Scarlet werewolves to fight in unshifted form would mean an automatic loss. Weapons alone weren’t enough to overpower the enemy shifters.

u call us and we’ll come to get you.”

will. Don’t worry

worry. And of course I was going to worry too.

ore than here.

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perfect sense given Scarlet’s reputation. Before Evan had come to power, the pack had been strong but never quite so legendary as when he became Alpha. And after that, he had spent all his time conquering other packs one by one, two by two, as fast as they could fall.

original members suspected the satellite packs’ loyalties, since they had been absorbed into the Scarlet but weren’t originally among them. Absorbed enemy packs were also suspect.

ger before. More dangerous than the rogues and enemy shifters was the doubt infecting everyone.

hout the head Alpha taking proper command, this wasn’t going to end well.

y fear wasn’t reason enough to abandon everyone. Not truly. Evan might be willing to give them all up for me, but I had t

me, both of us stripped out of our clothes. Normally, this would be erotic, making me blush from head to toe under his watchful eyes, but nothing about the situation we were in was erotic at all. “I’ll be okay,

e signal to give me.”

on of helplessness would drown me and never let go.

y as snowfall.

d to join me, jet-black body as large as life and more powerful than I’d ever seen him.

lieved only danger followed him and that staying together would bring me harm.

redict, much less control.

transgressions or something else entirely, he was a different man from before. The weight he carried was the burden of the man he used to be, s

n the entire city who could still save it.

ing vehicles. From here on out, all our enemies would be on foot. And so would we.

only fight to his utmost if he didn’t have to worry about protecting me, too.

But there were no enemies in the five mile run to the line. We avoided the hot spots and be

p on their mindlinking with my mindreading ability

ha! He’s… dead.