Page 11 of The Alpha’s Heir

Trish still hadn’t come back from Amarock, not that I was expecting her to find anything so soon, and Morrigan had made herself right at home, delighting in terrorizing the pack with her strange ways.

If she was any indication of what the other gods would be like, I would’ve married whoever they asked to keep them all asleep.

Mom and Aunt Coral had given me a crash course on the humans, but I still couldn’t believe I was physically standing here behind their great walls. The sun was shining above. The breeze was pleasant.

It was such a surreal day.

“It stinks here.” Alec scrunched her nose as she climbed out from the backseat of Mom’s Kia. We’d borrowed it for the trip here, because Kera couldn’t stop growling at Morrigan, and I was trying not to piss off the goddess further.

“It does stink,” Morrigan said as she stood from the passenger side, stretching her arms above her head. Two black crows seemed to materialize from thin air as they perched on top of the vehicle.

Alec gave me a strange look. How did she hear me? I shrugged in response.

The two crows cawed and took off, circling the parking lot above. Human men dressed in black uniforms came marching forward as Kera and Aunt Coral crawled out of Jareth’s armored vehicle with their mates. A few guards positioned on the high wall eyed the birds warily. The nervous tension in the parking lot was thick, making my wolf whine.

What if one of them gets anxious and shoots? Alpha Kera is in the open, unprotected. What if this is a trap?

Protect the pack. Get closer.

Alec’s hand brushed against mine, and she gave me a knowing shake of her head. It didn’t do much to ease my racing thoughts, but it helped a bit.

I hurried to act, moving into position to protect Alpha Kera and Aunt Coral, as Alec stayed to my right. We stepped in sync, having trained for scenarios like this most of our lives.

“Are you sure about this?” Alec seemed to whisper over our pack link. “There’s still time to run.”

Morrigan smirked as she drifted to the front of our little wolf shifter party, heading up the stairs to the building.

I stared at the back of the goddess’s head as the human guards stopped us in front of the heavy glass doors. “I’m seeing this through.”

It’ll be okay, my wolf tried to reassure me. We can always eat the husband if he’s a dick.

Morrigan’s laughter rang out, startling a few of the closest guards and making the crows caw louder overhead. My heart started racing.

Alec’s hand brushed against mine, our pinkies locking for a quick second. A reminder of the past. Of when we were young and carefree and she actually wanted to be around. I glanced at my sister, only to see her snarling at a human guard who approached with a strange device.

“It’s a metal detector,” Ethan was saying. The human man often worked with Uncle Jareth, connecting the city of Ethica with Anubis Pack. “They’re checking for weapons,” Ethan explained.

Alec’s shoulders softened. Barely. She didn’t like most humans, but Ethan had been in and out of our lives for long enough that she tolerated him.

The guards motioned for me to step forward and raise my arms. A wand of sorts passed over my body as I stared ahead, looking at the glass doors.

Morrigan’s patience was wearing thin. She disintegrated right before our eyes and reappeared in full on the other side of the glass doors.

“Okay, that’s kind of cool,” Alec said, just as a human yelled a frantic order.

Then everyone panicked.

Weapons were raised. Guards started pushing in on us. Alec and I acted as one. Our training took over as we moved to neutralize the threat to our Alpha. We pinned the humans on either side of Kera to the walls surrounding the entry stairs, removing their weapons faster than they could comprehend.

“Enough,” Kera commanded.

My sister and I struggled against the alpha bark, looking over our shoulders as more guards came rushing toward the stairs.

But Morrigan pushed open the glass doors, causing us to release the men in our hold.

“Come on,” the goddess said. “We don’t have time to play.”

Mom had told me about the humans. She said the city would be cold. Devoid of nature. This was the colorless world she’d been born to.