“I love you too, Abel. Please, I am begging you, don’t do this. Don’t go out there to them.”
“I’m going to end this once and for all. I will not have you afraid of them, and there’s no fucking way that I’ll ever let them take my pack.” He slammed his lips down on hers, and she melted against him as he held her tightly.
He had to do this.
For a long time, he’d been waiting, and now was his time.
“Jessica, stay with her. Don’t let anything happen to her,” he said, leaving the room. With Cassie’s scent all over him, he left the dungeon and found his home filled with his pack.
“We’re not going to let you do this alone, alpha,” Richard said.
“We’re all here, by your side.”
Abel felt an overwhelming sense of love swamp him as he looked at his pack, the people he had come to love more than anything in the world. To everyone else they were flawed. No one wanted them, but to him they were perfect. They were his pack, and he would do everything in his power to keep them safe.
“Cassie needs us,” he said. “She needs all of us.”
One by one, they stood beside him.
Looking over his men, he divided them and sent them out of the house to keep guard while he took several men with him.
Leaving the house, he spotted David, Cassie’s mother, and another man who he assumed was her father. They were close and looked startled to see so many men and women with him.
“Give us Cassie, and this will not have to end this way,” David said.
“That’s my mate.” Abel smiled when he saw the shock on their faces. “There’s no way you’re getting my woman from me. I hope you’re ready to take your last breath.”
“That’s not a woman,” her mother said. “That’s a fucking monster. A fat, ugly, disgusting monster.”
His wolf pounced, and Abel stared at each one of them, his parents’ love ringing in his head. No one had ever loved Cassie.
She’d spent her whole life believing there was something wrong with her, and he intended to change that.
His woman would only know love by the time he was through.
Rushing forward, he felt his pack join him as he went straight for David. The other alpha showed fear for a split second, but that was all Abel needed for his attack.
Grabbing David around the neck, he slammed him to the ground, crushing his windpipe.
The other alpha wouldn’t go down so easily. With a quick twist, Abel was thrown in the air, and he landed quickly on his feet.
David rushed toward him as the growls of death filled the air. Abel didn’t focus on that. When his opponent slammed into him, he brought the full force of his hands down on the man’s back, slamming David to the earth.
Twisting around, he was about to pounce on him when three wolves attacked him, pushing him to the ground, their teeth sinking into his flesh, making him growl.
David got up with a smirk, and through the wolves on him, Abel saw the cheater and the truth. David was not really an alpha. He was just a man that got other people to do his work for him.
He was strong, and probably had alpha instincts, but he was a coward.
When Abel slammed his fist against one wolf, another came at him, and it just kept happening. His pack were still fighting out there.
He couldn’t let them down.
His wolf knew this wasn’t his fight though.
The only way to end this was to let his woman handle this. Throwing off each wolf, he could go at this for hours without even batting an eye. They were nothing to him. More wolves came at him, and he kept on pushing them away with ease. They were not strong compared to him.
Three wolves once again surrounded him and lashed together, attacking him at the same time, their teeth biting down into his flesh. The pain rushed through his body at the sharpness of their bite.
All of a sudden, a force slammed into all three wolves, throwing them back, giving him time to get to his feet.
A feminine growl erupted, making even the hairs on his arms stand on end.
Cassie was out, and as she crouched on the ground, she looked absolutely beautiful. Her red hair cascaded all around her. Her green eyes were now amber, flashing her wolf.
“You don’t belong here,” she said.
Her old pack took a step back, and as they did, he saw that all of his pack were there now. The fight had stopped, and he saw several bodies on the ground.
“You’re all abominations.”
Cassie stood up and stepped closer. “You!” Her voice was filled with hatred as she looked toward David. “We end this now.”
Abel went to step forward, but Jessica took his arm. “She has to finish this, alpha. She wants to finish this. For the pack, for you, for herself. She has to do this.”