Free Trapped Between Two Alphas by Sam Crescent Page A

didn’t like
it. Matt stroked her head. The blood on his palm smeared her forehead.
    “She’s
asleep,” Kris said.
    “I
hope so. I wasn’t expecting this today.”
    Matt’s
hands shook as they stared at her. Kris opened his mouth about to speak when
something speared his back. Staring down at what had struck him, Kris saw a
silver dart had pierced his skin. The dart leaked silver into his blood stream.
He screamed with the pain. This couldn’t be happening. How had they not scented
the hunters? Staring around him, Kris saw the human hunters attacking their
pack. Holding Cynthia in his arms, he couldn’t handle what was about to happen.
When he’d turned he had the safety of his family watching his back. Now hunters
surrounded them, and he would have no choice but to put her down. Letting her
go would kill a part of her soul.
    The
pain was excruciating in his back, the silver doing the damage that no other
weapon could. Cynthia lay in his arms changing into a wolf. He couldn’t let her
go. Looking out at the forest he saw the hunters with weapons, silver darts and
guns aimed at them. His pack was under attack. Kris had expected it since the
moment in the town with the Bible. The hunters were going to take down his pack
if he didn’t get up and lead.
    You need to protect Cynthia. She
can’t survive this. Fight.
    “Attack!” Matt yelled, voicing Kris’s
thoughts.
    Men,
hundreds of men, descended on them all at once.
    He
held her tight in his arms.
    “Kris,
we need to fight. If we don’t fight then she could die.”
    “I
can’t let her go. She trusts us, Matt. We can’t let her go.”
    His
arms tightened around her as another bone snapped in her body. She was changing
in his arms. The break made him wince. The bone jutted out of her body and then
thrust back inside.
    “I
can’t protect her without you,” Matt said. “It kills me to put her down, but we
need to leave her to fight for our pack. These men are not going to stop.”
    Glancing
all around them he saw his pack weakening. None of them had been prepared for
an attack. Why had the humans picked now to attack? They had all gone to the
forest to see their woman change.
    “They’re
going to die. They need us.”
    Kris
had no choice but to put Cynthia down and fight. He lowered her to the ground,
kissed her head, and charged at the crowd of men.
    Ignoring
the pain in his back Kris changed into his wolf taking down the three men
shooting at Leonard. All the time he fought, he couldn’t stop thinking about
Cynthia. He didn’t understand why the humans were attacking now and when
Cynthia was about to change.
    When
he’d released Leonard he glanced back to see Cynthia on the ground. Her body
moved with the change. No human had approached her, and for that he was happy.
    I love you, baby. Come back to us.
    He
fought his way through the crowd. None of the men were going to survive when he
was through with them.
    One
of the hunters killed his kind, and Kris stumbled in his attack. The moment one
of his own died he felt it as if he’d been struck with the killing blow.
    Some
of the men started to run away.
    Outraged
by their invasion Kris chased after them, intent on clawing them to pieces.
    ****
    Matt
felt his pack behind him as he charged at the men. The amount of hunters
startled him. He didn’t like the way they’d sneaked up on him. Cynthia’s change
was important to him. What did the humans want? The only way this number of men
would be brave enough to attack was if they had someone working for them.
    He
snarled as a bullet struck his thigh. They had a mixture of silver and normal
bullets. He watched as Kris charged past the clearing. Glancing around him in
wolf form, he saw several of his men laid dead on the ground.
    They
were taking his men from him. Pushing the anger aside he charged after Kris. He
wouldn’t allow his friend to die. Over the hill he saw the nets designed to
catch bears. Kris was wrapped up in one. The humans were better