Kai still snarled and flung out his fists on my right, and I stared blankly at the door as my world collapsed.
“Brandy, it’s just the bite! Fucking focus! You need to get to Sin!” Kai yelled.
A huge hand landed on my shoulder, and I flinched, wrestling out of his grasp. But the leather alpha dug his thick fingers in, and he yanked me back as he laughed.
“We just need to keep you two apart long enough for your bond to break,” he said. “The sooner you cleave from Caspian, the better it will be for everyone.”
I fell back on my ass, my hair blocking my view.
My heart sank as I felt another blow to my head.
One of Caspian’s dads had come back to the room, and Kai and Sin were still fighting.
Just when I thought something good happened, bonding with them was turned on its head.
“Fuck. You,” I snarled, kicking out, aiming the point of my heel at his shin.
I groaned as I struck him; the impact travelling up my leg.
“You bitch!” he cried out, leaping at me. I kicked out again, but he was too fast and dodged as I edged back over the floor.
“You’ve already used that trick,” he laughed as he shot forward, grabbing my wrists and yanking me towards him.
If I were a fighter, I might have head-butted him or punched him or done anything but pitch forward so he could pin my wrists to the floor under one huge hand, squeezing me hard enough that I was scared he’d snap them.
My aim had been to piss Zania off by biting Caspian, but I didn’t realise she would go this far. I thought if I shared a bite with him, she would leave us alone. It seemed every day that I understood more and more how naïve 1I had been.
There was a sudden crack and a yell from my right, and I gasped, terrified that Sin had been hurt. But another one of Zania’s mates tumbled to the ground in front of him.
He calmly adjusted his lapels before tucking his right hand into his jacket.
Sin’s cool gaze flicked to me, but he didn’t show he was bothered that I was being held down by an alpha twice my size.
“Gentlemen, if we could please calm yourselves. I would rather not make this any messier than it has to be.”
Panic burst through me as Sin pulled a gun from his jacket. He lifted it and aimed, but in that second, the alpha under him shot his hand upwards, smacking away the gun. It skidded across the floor, and Sin instantly reacted, grabbing the arm, twisting it enough for the man to scream, before dropping his knee straight onto his chest.
“I was going to use that,” he said simply, and I would have laughed had the alpha above me not suddenly growled, pressing even harder on the back of my neck.
I would never have thought that they practically raised Sin from how easily he took the alpha down.
Kai used the distraction to snarl and scratch at the alpha subdued him. He was like a raging cat, spitting and hissing at the alpha to reach me. But the alpha reacted too quickly.
I moaned, nausea hitting me as a fist flew into Kai’s face and pain exploded through us. He slipped backwards, tumbling to the floor, and horror plunged through me.
I couldn’t think, I couldn’t breathe, I just needed to get to my mate.
Throwing my head back, I surprised the alpha as his nose crunched and my skull bloomed with pain. He lost his balance with a yell as he fell hard onto his side.
I shot forward, scrabbling across the floor, but it wasn’t enough.
A yelp rang from me as a foot suddenly sailed into my stomach, and I was hurled across the floor. Red-hot pain burned through my body, so intense my vision went white, and I gasped as I tried to focus.
“Brandy! Fucking hell!” Kai shouted, dragging himself up, and he rushed towards me.
Out of the corner of my eye, Sin smirked as he pressed his knee even harder into the alpha’s chest. I’d never seen him make an expression like that before.
Darkness filled his face as Sin shifted his weight. I wanted to watch him sink deeper into that, to see how he would change the further he pressed down with his foot.
