Twice Tempted: Between Two Alphas (Mia and Cameron) novel Chapter 19

Chapter Nineteen

I scream.

My knees skid across the wood beams, taking skin with them. My face slams into the ground.

“Don’t hurt her!” Jace roars.

“I didn’t mean to!” Michail yells. But he’s a second away from shifting and he’s a fierce wolf, his instincts would’ve been triggered by the chase.

“I’m sorry,” he tells me as he drags me to my feet.

“Let me go!”

Tyler grabs my other arm.

“Don’t do this, Jace! Don’t.”

He looks physically pained. “You’re bleeding again.”

“Yeah. I know. I was hurt before you all showed up, and Michail just ground me into the railway.”

“I said I’m sorry!” Michail protests. “Shift and heal, damn it!”

I glance sharply at him. “Did you not notice my other wounds earlier? I can’t heal right now, you asshole!”

He blanches.

“Get her into the jet and back to packlands,” Jace orders.

“NO. Get your hands off me. I’m not going back!”

Jace talks over me. “Sedate her if you have to, but don’t let her hurt herself any worse.”

“I didn’t hurt myself, you asshole–he tackled me!”

I stop. This arguing and bickering, falling back into old roles. “I’m not subservient to you or your pack or anyone else. Not anymore. Do you understand?”

Jace freezes.

“I’ve always thought of you as my brother.” A tear slides down my cheek. “If you do this…I’ll never forgive you. Never. You’ll be dead to me.”

He pales. He reaches to touch my cheek and then his hand falls away. “I’m sorry,” he says.

“No! Damn it! Nooo!!!” The guys lift me off the ground. Each holding a limb so I can’t gain enough leverage to do anything. They pull my arms and limbs apart so I’m stretched like a sheet and can’t get close to any one of them. “Let me go!”

Jace looks gutted. But that doesn’t stop him. “Hurry!” he says.

They move over the rough terrain and into the forest. I wrench my arms and legs and shift, but even hurling my body from side to side, I can’t get close enough to bite them.

I retract to human so I can speak. “Jace… I have to protect my kids.”

“You mean Cameron’s kids. My kin. I’ll take care of them,” he tells me.

I thrash harder, shifting fully and mauling Tyler, then lunging at Liam before Declan throws his wolf form on top of me.

A second later I feel a pinch in my flank.

Michail holds a syringe. He shakes his head.