“Well, to welcome my granddaughter to my home for one. Welcome, Michaela,” he said, but his words were insincere. “You two can help me achieve my goals of being the most powerful Alpha in the world.”
Emily swallowed as she said, “We cannot help you. Our powers do not work on command.” Just like in her vision, he was across the room before she could blink. She was able to release Michaela before he backhanded her across the room. She groaned as she hit the wall.
“Take my granddaughter up to her room,” he ordered. “I will talk to this human here.”
“Emily,” Michaela cried out, and Emily opened her eyes to watch as she was dragged from the room. She felt tears fall from her eyes for she wished she were stronger to help her. Jay help Michaela she screamed in her head as she started to blackout.
“Humans are so weak,” she heard him mutter before she lost consciousness, but before she passed out completely she saw Jay’s green eyes, and she heard his voice we are coming. She passed out thinking that it was her imagination not knowing that in her fear and anxiety she had actually connected with Jay.
Jay was running along side his father and brother when he heard Emily’s voice.
Jay help Michaela and he skidded to a stop.
Jay what is wrong? Keep running his father ordered, and Jay shook his head then started running again.
What was that he asked his wolf, and he could feel that his wolf was just as confused as he was for Emily should not have been able to send him messages. Jay cleared his mind for he needed his wits about him if they were going to save his mate and niece.
They reached the outskirts of the house that the maid told them about, and Jay looked at the place with his green eyes hard.
I feel Michaela Mark said, and she is scared.
Michaela Jay said softly.
Uncle Jay, he hit Emily she sobbed. Jay’s wolf wanted to attack now but Jay was able to bring him under control for they needed cool heads if they wanted to get them out alive.
We are coming baby girl so be a good girl and hide until it is over Stan told his granddaughter.
Okay she said, and then the link closed.
Stan looked at all the wolves standing next to him, and behind him. Then he lifted his head and howled, the howl echoed across the ground to travel into the pack house.
The man inside froze, and then he laughed as he shifted were he stood. His wolf eyes looked over at the woman lying where she had fallen after he hit her. She was a great prize, and after this was over, he might just mark her so that she would never be able to leave. Her gift would be his, and he howled to accept the challenge thrown his way.
Emily stirred as she heard the howling, and she knew that Jay was here.
She opened her eyes slowly for her body ached from hitting the wall although she did not think anything was broken. She started slowly to get to her feet for she wanted to be out of the way before the wolves came into the pack house.
Then she froze as another vision came upon her.
She heard the pounding of paws as wolves came from the hallway to her left, and then the doors burst open. More wolves stood in the doorway, and she pushed herself in to the corner as they growled and launched at each other. The wolves were fighting closer to her as she made herself as small as possible in the corner. One wolf looked at her quickly his green eyes piercing her soul with his love and concern before he turned his attention back to his opponent. His grayish-brown fur shimmered as he moved quickly to avoid the bite from the wolf that attacked him. Emily kept her eyes on him as she watched him defeat his opponent and go for another. She looked around at the wolves who were fighting, and she knew that some of the wolves lying on the ground bleeding where from their pack, and the tears slipped down her face. She turned back to Jay, and then she saw him, the brown wolf who snuck behind Jay, and was about to attack.
“NO,” she screamed as she run forward.
He would have hit Jay but she blocked his path and his claws tore into her skin. Her eyes widened at the pain before she slumped to the ground. She heard Jay’s howl of pain before she passed out.
Before she blacked out, she sent one thing to him “I love you, Jay.”
Emily gasped as the pain hit her hard. She looked around as she felt the tears began to drift down her face for the lost that they were about to suffer. She needed to find a way to intervene before it was too late. She heard the pounding as in her vision, and she looked to the left to see an open hallway. She watched as the wolves poured out; they must be the backup, she thought to herself. Emily looked around the room, and suddenly she spotted it, a bow. She looked around quickly hoping that with the bow came arrows and she finally spotted them as the doors burst open. She rushed quickly across the room ignoring the pain as she snatched up the bow and grabbed the arrows. Her eyes narrowed for she was not going to let her pack members die because of one man’s greed. She was able to distinguish her pack from Michaela’s sadistic grandfathers’ pack for his wolves were uglier and less groomed. She lifted the first arrow as the wolves growled and she let it lose the minute they attacked. She did not stop to think but lifted another arrow. The wolves attacked each other but she continued firing the arrows taking out every wolf that she hit. If she was going to die today, she was going to make sure to take out as many as these wolves with her as possible.
Jay watched as his mate fired arrow after arrow into the wolves coming from the hidden hallway. For one moment, he froze and as if she knew he was looking at her, she turned to him. He looked at her with love and concern, and she mirrored his emotions as his wolf howled that they found their mate. He turned back to his opponent as his wolf wanted his mate, but his wolf understood that they needed to eliminate the threat first before they could hold their mate. He dodged his opponent’s attack, and then attacked himself tearing his throat out. He swung around as his next opponent came forward and growled as he attacked. He had just finished with him when he heard it, her scream.
“NO,” he heard and his wolf swung around to see her run in front him as the brown wolf launched at him. His claws ripped into her skin and her eyes widened as she collapsed to the ground. Jay threw back his head and howled as she started bleeding.
I love you Jay he heard as she lay still.
He launched at the brown wolf without thinking, and the wolf tossed him over his head. He landed on his back, but he was quickly up again. He bared his teeth as the brown wolf looked at him with crazy eyes, and he knew that he was the Alpha, the man who had his own son tortured and destroyed Emily’s parents for greed and power.
My mate his wolf growled in pain. With narrowed eyes, they watched the Alpha in front of them. He would die by them for hurting their mate and taking their niece. The brown wolf launched, but Jay was ready. His wolf leaped at him, and with a swipe of his paw knocked him to the ground. His wolf landed on his hunches then spun around to face him again. The Alpha was not looking so mighty now, and Jay so focused on the battle that he did not know that his pack had taken out most of the rogue wolves. The pack doctor they brought with them was looking over the injured wolves, and was heading for Emily. Mark had used his link to find Michaela, and he had already rushed upstairs to get her. Jay was oblivious to all this for he was focused on the wolf who destroyed so many lives because of his madness and hunger for power.
We will show him power his wolf proclaimed. The brown wolf growled at him crouching low before he launched at him again. This time, Jay allowed him to pin him to the ground, and the wolf howled in triumphant before his eyes widened in disbelief. Jay had opened his mouth, and as the Alpha had leaned down to bite him, he had closed his canines around his neck and bit down hard. He tore his throat open while he dug his claws from his paws into his fur as if to hold on to him digging them in as deep as his wolf could go before pushing him off. His fur matted with blood as Jay staggered to his feet, but he stood on his four legs looking down on
the Alpha as his blood drained out of him. He tried to come to his feet, but he kept collapsing causing him to bleed faster, and then the wolf took a gasping breath before his eyes closed and his breathing stopped completely.
They all watched, as he died then one of his own pack members lifted a torch that was along one wall, and threw it on him.
“He deserves to die as a wolf, not as a human,” the man spat. Stan looked at him for most of them head shifted back as they watched Jay and the Alpha fight. Stan looked around the room and saw that there were more members of his pack standing than the Shadow Pack members. He looked at all the bodies on the floor, and he raised his brows at the wolves that had arrows in them.
“We need to get her back to the pack house,” the doctor said. Jay shifted into his human form as he ran over to the doctor and Emily. He knelt down to his mate and lightly pushed her brown hair off her face. She was so pale and he could tell that she was bleeding heavily.
“Jay we need to get going,” Stan said putting his hand on his son’s shoulder. Jay nodded his head, but before he went to lift her, “Is it okay?”
The doctor heard the worry in his voice, he put a hand on his arm, and “We need to get her out of here. It will have to be so we can get her back to the pack house.”
Jay lifted her up and he could feel the blood run down his arms for although the doctor bandaged her wounds tightly she was bleeding badly.
“Uncle Jay,” Michaela whimpered from Mark’s arms. Jay gave her a weak smile as they walked out of the pack house.
Stan looked around at the remaining members, “What you do is left to you.” His words were spoken in a hard voice that they understood what he meant. They nodded their head and Stan walked out of the pack house. He shifted into wolf form, as did the other members heading home. Jay and the doctor took one of the vehicles in the yard, and Stan would make sure that it went back. Once he started running for home, he felt the shiver go through him that they fought one of the fiercest packs and almost all of his members were going home. The odds of that happening were so unlikely when they started out that he felt as if they had been blessed. The few that they did lose he made sure that their bodies were taken back with them. He was not leaving any pack member on this land if he could help it.
Chapter 14
Jay rushed into the pack house with the doctor behind him. Cass, Stacy and Sasha came out of the living room as he rushed by with Emily in his arms.
“Oh, my baby,” Stacy cried as Sasha collapsed onto the carpet. Jay could not worry about them now as he rushed up the stairs to their room to lay her down on the bed. The doctor pushed him to the side as he started to get rid of her clothes and Jay felt his wolf growl at another male wolf touching his mate, but Jay calmed him down with the fact that he was helping her and he already had a mate.
“We need to find a way to stop the bleeding,” the doctor said. “She probably is going to need a transfusion to replenish the blood she has lost.” Jay did not like the sound of that but he helped the doctor finish getting her undressed. He began stitching her up where the claws had ripped through her and Jay knew that there would be scars but he did not care as long as she lived.
After he finished stitching up the wounds, he stepped back. Emily’s breathing was ragged and her heart rate was very low that the doctor did not hold out hope but he told Jay, “We need to find out what blood type she is so we can find someone to give her a transfusion.” Jay nodded his head as he sat next to her on the bed. The doctor sighed and walked out of the room.
The rest of the pack had come back and he checked each of the members although most had healed already.
“How is Emily?” Stan asked as he sat next to Cass who was holding Michaela in her arms.
“She needs a transfusion,” the doctor said bluntly. “We need to know what her blood type is so I can get the blood for the transfusion.”
“She is type O positive,” Stacy said softly tears running down her face as Jacob pulled her close. Jacob had been there but unfortunately he gotten held up outside. By the time, he made it into the pack house the only thing he saw was his daughter throwing herself in front of Jay.
“Then I need to get to the hospital to do a cross-match to see what donor can give her blood,” he said getting up.
“Jay is O negative. Can you cross-match his blood too?” Cass said. The doctor nodded his head, but he hesitated for a second before he said, “The chances of her surviving are slim. If she was mated to a werewolf, maybe, or if she was a werewolf herself, but being human, this is going to play havoc with her system. If she survives, I will be truly shocked.” With those words, he headed back up stairs to get a sample from Jay.
Sasha leaned into Mark and cried as Stacy leaned heavily onto Jacob.
“If only he had marked her, but he wanted to wait for her birthday,” Mark said sadly. Sasha closed her eyes as she whispered, “Today is her birthday.”
Cass looked down at the sleeping Michaela knowing that she should put her to bed, but she was unwillingly to let her go just yet.
“Stan, do you think marking her now would help?” Cass asked as she lifted her head to him her eyes sad.
“She must accept the mark, honey,” Stan said sadly.
Sasha opened her eyes and sat up at this, “Does that mean that she must be awake for it?”
Stan frowned, “I do not know. This has never happened before, but she needs to give him permission to mark her and she is not awake to do that.”
“Emily gave her permission the night she was taken. That was the last thing she told me, she wanted me to tell him that she loved him and that she would let him mark her no matter what happened.”
Stan looked at her and his eyes started to glow with understanding. He was already standing up when he had to make sure, “Are you positive Sasha that she gave her permission?”
Sasha nodded her head, “Yes, I am positive that is what she signed to me.”
Stan was already out of the room after she said yes. He went running up the stairs taking them three at a time. He met the doctor coming down, but he did not stop to say anything but gave him a quick nod. The doctor looked at him in confusion before shaking his head, and headed out the door hoping that Jay’s blood sample would be the cross-match for the young woman to accept.
“Jay,” Stan said going into the room where he stood still for a second. Jay was lying on the bed next to Emily whose brown hair spread out on the pillow and her skin was so pale that it was creepy.
“Yes, Dad,” Jay said not looking up from where he was gently running his fingers through her hair.
“Sasha said that she told you that Emily gave her consent for you to mark her,” Stan said snapping out of his daze.
“Yes, she told me so in the library before we started discussing the attack,” Jay confirmed. He lifted his head to look at his father, “Why?”
“If she gave her consent, then you should be able to mark her even though she is not awake,” Stan explained.
Jay’s eyes widened but he said, “You said that the process could be very painful and the chances of success are slim at best, but in this condition, would she be able to even handle it at all?”
“I do not know,” Stan admitted softly.
“Dad, I do not want to lose her before I had the chance to really love her. I have not even told her yet that I do love her; not while she was awake to hear it,” Jay admitted and Stan could see the unshed tears in son’s face. To see those tears broke Stan’s heart for Jay was one of the strongest man and wolf he knew, and that was not just the father biased speaking, either.
“What do you want to do?” Stan asked him quietly.
Jay sat there for a moment looking at his father. Then he sighed, “The doctor took a sample of my blood, and he is going to cross-match it to make sure that she will not reject it. If she can accept it, I am going to go ahead with the trans
fusion although I do not know what they will do to her since it will be werewolf blood.”
Stan saw the look that Jay threw at him and he just shrugged for he did not know what it would do either.
“I want to wait until then,” Jay said. “Then if all else fails, I will mark her.” Then he said so softly that Stan almost missed it, “I wanted to mark her with her looking at me, and not like this.”
Stan understood, “Of course, Jay. However, please do not wait long. You never know what may happen.”
Jay nodded his head as he turned his attention back to Emily, and Stan sighed quietly walking out of the room. Going back downstairs, he explained what Jay told him and although Stacy and Jacob were upset of why he was hesitating once he explained the reasons, they left it alone.
The doctor arrived the next day with the transfusion equipment for Jay’s blood sample provided a good cross-match, and he wanted to start the transfusion right away.
“I cannot guarantee this will work, Jay,” he stated quietly on the third day as they continued the transfusion.
“I understand,” Jay, said quietly moving back to the bed to lie next to her. The doctor shook his head as he left the room hoping against hope that this would work.
For three days, Emily received blood transfusions until the doctor was satisfied that she had been giving enough to sustain her and to increase her body systems. Still she did not wake her, and her heart rate was still low although her blood pressure was starting to stabilize.
Chapter 15
It was a week later as Jay lay next to Emily on the bed that he knew he was going to have to attempt the marking. He lay next to her playing with her hair and whispering, “Baby, please wake up for me. I miss you. I never got the chance to tell you I love you. Your sister is going crazy without you although Mark is doing his best to keep her occupied. Your mom and dad are devastated, and Michaela feels as if it is her fault. We all need you so you need to wake up for us. Please, baby.” He began to cry softly as he fell asleep.
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