The Alpha’s Fated Choice (Alpha's Fated Encounter Trilogy #1)

Another man is tending to Drew, who is now lying on the ground.

“You need to calm down,” George says, giving me a shake. “You can’t kill Wyatt!”

But I don’t care. Right now, my wolf is beyond agitated. It’s moving within me with a ferocity I’ve never experienced before, desperate to break out of its cage. I can feel my skin ripple as my wolf howls inside me. I’ve never felt such a blood thirst before, and right now, I just want to run, to break free from everything.

“Sophia!” George is trying to get through to me.

“He’s going to kill Tim,” I say fiercely. “He threatened to kill Drew’s son! All of you are the same! Monsters! You can’t bear a single scratch on your own children, but when it comes to others, you’re willing to burn their families to the ground! I don’t know how you live with yourselves!”

George’s face is white as a sheet, and I see something like regret in his eyes.

“Sophia,” he begins, but I shake my head.

“If he does anything to Tim, I’ll rip his heart out!”

On the other side of George, Wyatt is still screeching. “Stop hiding that whore! Dirty-blooded halfling!”

“Shut up, Wyatt!” one of his team member shouts at him.

But Wyatt is out for blood. My blood.

Suddenly, a cool voice washes over us, and everybody freezes, including Wyatt. “What is going on here?”

I look over to see Noah approaching us, his expression impassive. His eyes take in the scene before him, and he raises his brow at George, who still has his hands on me.

“Care to explain?”

Wyatt decides to be the one to speak up, desperate to get the first word.

“It was that bitch!” He points at me using his still-functioning arm. “I asked her where she was coming from at this time of night, and she wouldn’t tell me. Then she attacked me—”

“Liar!” I spit out. “You attacked me! And then you threatened to kill Drew’s son because Drew saved me from you!”

Noah’s expression turns icy. “You attacked her?”

There’s a dangerous edge to his voice that has my wolf’s hackles rising.

Wyatt goes pale, and he immediately denies it. “Of course not, sir! I was trying to get her to tell me what she was doing out so late—”

“And how is that your business?” Noah takes a step toward him. “Why were you questioning her?”

Wyatt’s mouth flaps open like a fish as he tries to gather his wits about him. “She’s been leading you on, sir! It’s four in the morning, and she’s just now coming home? She’s probably fucking somebody—”

Before anybody can blink, Wyatt goes crashing into the trees as a result of one backhanded strike from Noah.

Silence fills the street.

Nobody dares to speak. My wolf is bristling inside me, sensing a new threat. I find myself more than a little disturbed at seeing this side of Noah.

“Bring him back,” Noah instructs one of the men, his voice even.

The man races over to where Wyatt has fallen and drags him back. He dumps Wyatt at Noah’s feet, and Noah looks down at him. “You were saying?”

Wyatt is bleeding from the side of his head. He looks terrified, but his hatred is greater than his fear. “I will never accept a halfling like her as the Alpha Female. She is a whore, just like that mother of hers!”

I’m about to say something, but George clamps his hand over my mouth to stop me. His voice is a hiss. “Do you want to be next?”

I stare at him, and then it hits me. George believes I could share a similar fate as Wyatt.