The Shadow Alpha novel Chapter 13

Deciding that I’d seen enough, I hurdled over the stream which gained the attention of the four black eyed devils who were now snarling at me. I studied their posture and noticed that the ginger coloured wolf to the far left had a slight limp, the dirt brown one next to him had an ugly scratch across his stomach which looked like a fairly recent injury, the darker brown wolf had a slight twitch which told me his reflexes weren’t too good and lastly the dirty cream wolf stood turned slightly to his right in a protective stance and from that I gathered that he had an injury on his right.

Just as I expected all four snarling wolves charged at me all together, they were feral, which made them dangerous, but careless at the same time. The dirty brown one leapt off its feet and came down hard on my shoulders with his two front paws in an attempt to knock me off my feet; I stumbled under his weight, but swiftly delivered a hard punch to his stomach. The wolf howled in pain as I shoved him off me, his body soared through the air and his back made contact with a tree, the sound off bones breaking permeated the air causing me to cringe.

In a spilt second the other three were on me successfully knocking me off my feet, which pissed me off greatly. I didn’t hold back as I grabbed one by the skin on his neck and hurled it into another rogue. The last one was the one with the slow reflexes, before it could realise what happened, I grabbed its head behind the ears and twisted its neck till a sickening crack was heard.

By the time I turned around, the other two had recovered from heir collision and was almost able to jump me from behind. I ducked away from one causing it to crash into the ground behind me and allowed the other one’s weight to slam into my fist, having the air knocked out of it, I didn’t waste time in flinging its body into a tree, rendering the creature unconscious.

I turned back to face the rogue that slammed into the ground, half expecting to find it getting up to fight, instead I was met with the sight of one shewolf with her teeth sunk into its neck.

“It’s dead.” She glanced at me before dropping the body and walking towards the stream with blood dripping from her canines.

That’s what you get when my reflexes take charge.

I dusted myself off and turned to the two women lying a few feet away. Their bodies were scratched and blood oozed from various dirt matted bruises. When a wolf is injured and fall unconscious they automatically shift back to their human form, since the human form takes longer to heal it requires far less energy to breath and for the heart to pump so the shift is involuntary and a natural instinct to keep the body alive.

‘Jake, Dris?’ I called through mind link

‘Yes Alpha?’ They answered immediately

‘I had an encounter with rogues across the stream on the East border; bring me three blankets and inform Dr Winters that there are three shewolves who need treatment. Come along with a few warriors to sort out this mess please.’

I turned around only to find that the last shewolf, still in wolf form was passed out on the bank of the stream. She looked exhausted, her fur was matted with dirt and blood and by the way her ribs jutted from her form, it was evident that they hadn’t eaten properly in a while.

While I waited for them to arrive, I crossed the stream to find a few oversized shirts to slip over the women’s bodies before the guys arrived, still keeping an eye on the one unconscious rogue.

When Jake reached the stream his eyes widened and he fumbled to open the blankets he’d brought. Just as he kneeled down to place the blanket over one of the young women his eyes glazed over

“Mate.” He whispered and pulled her body into his arms.

He looked up at me with panic, “Go Jake, take her back to the infirmary and have a doctor take a look at her.” I encouraged and he sped off with her limp body in his arms.

I turned to Dristan who stood frozen watching us; I frowned at his behaviour, but didn’t give it much thought as the women all desperately needed medical attention.

“Dris take care of this; I am going to go back with them and help Sasha and Lexi.” He nodded slightly distracted, but once again I brushed it off and followed behind the two pack worriers who were carrying the other two unconscious women.

When we reached the infirmary Jake was pacing outside the room looking agitated, “It’s going to be okay Jake, I will go in and see if they need any help.” I patted his shoulder before going into the room where the three women were being treated. “Sasha, is there anything I can do?” she glanced at me and smiled slightly.

“Thank you Alpha, but we are fine; they are not too badly bashed up just very weak. I don’t know how much longer their bodies would have handled the bleeding and lack of proper nutrition.” I nodded and stepped out of the room.