The Kings Series #2 His Silver Hand novel Chapter 27

-Fuck!- There were too many of them. Wide-eyed, fear rolling in waves all over her body, she trembled.

"Lucas." She mumbled. Her throat was parched from the overwhelming scene below her. Alexander's wolves were being eaten by the hideous creatures. They were writhing and crying out in pain.

What could she do to help them?

Her sisters. The pups!

-Be brave, my queen. He needs you.-

Her dragon spirit. She was his heart and his strength. He needed her. Just like she needed him. And she was no longer an ordinary human.

It was so freaking hard but she commanded herself to relax. A herculean task. Taking deep and slow breaths, the beating of her heart began to slow.

Anna Marie felt her strength arising. Energy. The source came from deep within her. Channeling her power to her beast, her round thighs tightened on his back, arching her torso, ramrod straight, her small hands gripped the protruding ivory horns near his leathery flapping ears.

Heat permitted in between her legs. It was from him. In rhythm, her body pliant and soft, as one, they dove. Swooping. Striking.

His sharp nails ripping through flesh. Severing bodies.

Gusts of hot air and fire were spitting from his massive maws. Burning the enemies emerging from the black soil.

Flying up and gliding down, they continued to burn. From both their sides, she saw two more dragons, one in black, the other in silver-gray, with warrior riders, joined the fight.

Her Dracon decided to up the ante on the battle by landing on the shaking ground. Roaring and roasting anyone coming for them.

-We will fucking kill them all.-

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Alexie

The Royal Beta

"Quickly. Hide the pups to our vaults! Anna, go!" Her task was to make sure the heirs and the Lycan Queen was secure. A sworn duty.

Her queen snarled in protest. Her wolf on the surface. Alexie tilted her head in submission.

"If you ever think I will leave you to fight alone, think again, sister." Anna's voice was guttural. Ready to shift. "Baxter, bring our strongest warriors with you and guard our pups with your life. Now!" A different side of her queen she had never seen before. Ferocious and tough.

"At once, mia regina." Their ever-loyal butler bowed before them and with urgency brought by the command, he guided their precious babies to the secret room. The nannies bringing enough supplies to last for days.

"Anna, I can't let you fight. Please." Alexie pleaded. Shouts and screams could be heard outside their walls. A constant banging on the steel enforced doors. Any moment, the lycan mansion will be breached.

"We will fight together, Lex, and protect what is ours. Just like our mates. Are you with me?" She reached for her trembling hands and squeezed them in reassurance.

"Always, sister. Always."

Descending the grand staircase, they reached the foyer lined with shifted and massive wolves, teeth bared, in attack formation.

From the corner of her gray eyes, she watched Anna transformed into her snow-white wolf, growling, and snarling. Circling her territory.

The lycan king had taught her well.

Following her lead, Alexandria called forth her wolf and shifted, crouching, ready to leap at the enemies.

-Protect your home. Protect our kingdom.-

Those were Anna May's last words before they heard a loud explosion.

Then mayhem began.

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Anna Marie

"Lucas?" Smoke filled the air and an eerie silence ensued. Deeming it safe to go down, she jumped from his back and landed on the burnt grass.

"Rie," he growled his warning. Finally shifting into his human form, he stood behind her protectively, naked, chest heaving, he was a sight to behold.

Not the time for eye-fucking. She shook her head. "Something is not right, Luc."

She could sense it. The royal packhouse. Her sisters. Her nephews and niece.

Moments later two massive lycans emerged from the trees, their furs covered in blood. She took a step back. Unsure.

"It's okay, sweetheart. It's Alexander and Michael." He wrapped his arm around her waist, pulling her closer.

The slightly smaller of the two creatures shifted. It was Michael. He grimaced at his nakedness, more for her sake than theirs.

Rie paid him no mind and pointedly looked at his face and nowhere else.

"Thank you for the reinforcement, Your Majesties." He bowed. "Xander is still in a warrior zone. It will take a few minutes for him to be able to shift." The beta gestured with his hand.

Rie's brown eyes went to Xander. Fuck! This was the first time she was seeing him in his lycan form. He was as big as her dragon king. And his maw had long sharp teeth, swordlike and gleaming too. His eyes blood red like the liquid dripping from his fur.

"Xander, we need to call the council. Esmeralda and Lucifer should be alerted. And where is Xavier?" Lucas's voice was grave.

Rie scowled. What happened to Mish and the Vampire King? Some caring sister she was forgetting Anna Michelle.

"Where is Mish?" Though the question was directed to Alexander, she couldn't look him in the eye. He was too intimidating.

"Sweetheart," her own mate hesitated.

She was about to ask again when a deafening blast broke the silence around them.