Claimed by the Alpha's Love (Tori and Lucas) novel Chapter 26

Chapter 26

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I’d tried to back away, but Noah was faster.

His hand shot out, gripping my wrist with bruising force and yanking me side. The door slammed behind me with a finality that still haunts my nightmares

“Where’s Floma? I’d asked, my voice small, already knowing I’d been betrayed.

Noah’s laugh had been cold, cruel. “Fiona? She thought we’d enjoy your company more than she would tonight. Don’t worry, she sends her regards.”

1 looked around desperately, seeing no escape. Several dangerous males, all from prominent families, all staring at me like I was prey.

In my pre-shift state, with my body already weakened and struggling with the imminent transformation, I was completely defenseless against them.

“Please, I’d begged, let me go. I need to-”

“You need to learn your place, Omega.” Noah had snarled, shoving me toward the center of the room.

I’d stumbled. nearly falling, while the others laughed.

What happened next was a blur of hands grabbing at me, voices taunting me.

1 fought as hard as I could, but I was outnumbered and overpowered.

Just as Noah pinned me against a wall, his face inches from mine, the front door had crashed open.

“Ryan,” I gasped now, tears welling in my eyes.

He d burst in like an avenging angel, his face contorted with rage.

“Get your hands off my sister! he d roared, launching himself at Noah.

The fight was brutal. Furniture splintered, glass shattered. Ryan landed several powerful blows, but soon they had him surrounded.

Noah, already bleeding from a cut on his cheek where Ryan had struck him circled my brother with hatred in his eyes.

“I’ve been wanting to teach you a lesson for a long time,’ Noah had growled. “Always interfering when I try to talk to your sister.”

“Talk?” Ryan had spat blood onto the floor, his eyes burning with rage.

“You sick bastard I know exactly what you were planning to do to my sister. Too pathetic to find someone whod actually want you? Everyone knows what you are, Noah-a coward who can only feel powerful when huing someone weaker.

Nala pyes had flickered something starker.

The all in the room shifted as his control slipped, his rege taking over.

I watched in futur as he began to transform, bones cracking face long into a smarting mile.

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“Ryan, run!” I’d screamed, but it was too late.

Noah lunged, jaws snapping, and caught my brother’s throat in his teeth.

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There was a terrible sound-a wet, tearing noise that will haunt me until y dying day-and then blood, so much blood, spraying across the

hardwood floors, across my face and clothes.

Ryan fell, his eyes finding mine in his final moments, filled with apology and unwilling before the light in them dimmed forever.

The room erupted into chaos.

The other guys scrambled over each other in their desperation to escape, hocking over furniture and shattering glasses in their panic.

I crawled to Ryan, my hands slipping in his blood, cradling his head in my lap as sobs wracked my body. Beside us, Noah shifted back to human form, looking down at us with no remorse in his eyes.

“Unfortunate,” he’d said coldly. “But he attacked me first. It was self-defense.”

I looked up at him through my tears, feeling something inside me crack and break.

The grief, the rage, the betrayal-it all converged into a single point of blinding fury.

The shift I’d been so afraid of rushed through me in a wave of fire and pain.

My bones broke and reformed. My skin stretched and sprouted silver-gray fur. My vision sharpened, colors fading as scents intensified.

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