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106 | MAGIC ISN'T WHAT IT USED TO BE
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Alpha Enzo 107 | EVERY LAST ONE
Scarlett’s POVEnzo had told me about the too good to be true trail they’d found. He’d also told me that he’d wanted to rush ahead, and would’ve gone alone if he’d had to, had Davin not stumbled through the portal at that exact moment.Despite the distant heartache I felt for the fallen wolves, abject relief cut through me. Enzo hadn’t gone. If he had, I…How had I been ready to give up on him, on us, yesterday? I already felt more at home here than I ever had at Desert Oak. This, I knew now, was where I was supposed to be. “All of them?” asked Enzo, his voice raspy and hoarse.The woman in the doorway nodded. “Yes, Alpha. Every last one.”“We have to go out there,” he said, leaping up and starting to pace. “We can’t let this go unpunished. We need to wipe every rogue from our woods.”I watched him, my mouth going dry. He was so worried about me – would he still allow me to go with this new information? It didn’t matter what he said – I was going out there and helping regardless of h
Alpha Enzo 108 | BETRAYED
Enzo’s POV“Isaak said he could be pretty scary–”No. It couldn’t be true. Isaak couldn’t be the traitor. I’d thought it, dreaded it, not been able to believe it – and here was proof that my worst fears had been realised. Sweet, young Isaak, who I’d taken under my wing, who I’d let help my wolves, who I’d let look after my mate, had betrayed me.Unless it was a coincidence. Isaak was a reasonably common name among werewolves. Please, God, let it be a coincidence…But I knew, deep down, that it wasn’t.I flinched. Scarlett was flung from my back. Shit. My eyes widened; I shifted back into my human body and rushed over to her, the blood draining from my face. “Scar?” I whispered, lifting her gently, “are you okay?I hoped nobody had heard the thump of her flying off my back and landing in the undergrowth. ‘Marla, edge forward and keep watch,’ I mindlinked to her. ‘Davin, do the same but behind.’“I’m fine,” Scarlett whispered, her voice so quiet I could barely hear it. A small cut lin
Alpha Enzo 109 | UNCERTAIN TIMES AHEAD
Scarlett’s POVI woke up in Enzo’s bed. I felt stiff and strange, my body placed flat on my back, my hands resting limply at my sides. I blinked blearily at the ceiling, confused when I saw the pale light of a spring dawn streaming in through the cracks in the curtains.What had happened? I remembered the giant, the portals, riding on Enzo’s back… My brow furrowed. With a trembling hand, I reached up and touched my forehead. The bedframe creaked with my movement; something shifted in my peripheral vision a second later.“Scarlett,” breathed Enzo. “You’re all right.”“Never better,” I joked weakly, squinting against even the dim light to meet his worried gaze.“You were out for a long time. I thought…” I didn’t interrupt. I just let us sit in the slightly uncomfortable silence that followed. Enzo coughed. “I thought you weren’t all right, is all. I’m glad you are. I’ll get Emila to check you over at once.”“No.” I bit my lip. “No, please, not yet.”“Okay. All right.” His eyes dipped t
Alpha Enzo 110 | RISING TIDE
Enzo’s POV“I’ve sent out my scouts to find Isaak,” I said, pacing back and forth across my office. Scarlett’s eyes followed me. “I can’t risk not having my Warrior Wolves here, not if Alpha Ryker is coming. Who knows when that will be, though?”“It sounded soon.” Scarlett knotted her hands together and nibbled on her full lower lip. It distracted me for a moment; I wanted to kiss her deeply. “Bennett wouldn’t have woken up like that to tell us he was coming in a year’s time, now, would he?”My brow pulled taut. I paused. “I don’t think he woke up at all. Emila induced a coma, Scar. He shouldn’t have been able to talk. I think it was his gift that spoke to us, if such a thing is even possible.”“You think it could be,” she said. It wasn’t a question.“Hell – I don’t know.” I shrugged and resumed my pacing. “I was turned into a woman, then – I don’t even know what after that.” I shuddered at the memory. “We travelled in ways that shouldn’t be possible. Then your magic turned me back. W
Alpha Enzo 111 | BIGGER PICTURE
Scarlett’s POVEnzo tugged at my clothes, like a starving man clawing at a steaming banquet. I arched up into his every touch, craving it just as much as he craved mine.I wasn’t sure when I’d decided to let myself give in and be happy. Maybe it was when I’d realised how short a time we might have together.Maybe it was when one of my memories had come back. After waking, back from the fight in the woods, it had started to form slowly. When I’d seen Bennett, it had slithered back into place. I’d been too preoccupied by his injury to realise it had come back, but…But now I knew.Enzo nipped at the soft skin below my ear. I ground up against him, my core warm and desperate for contact. He chuckled, the sound dark and teasing, and he sucked a bruise into my neck.“Enz,” I gasped.His mouth travelled down; he yanked my sweater off and groaned when he found no bra beneath it. He grasped my breasts, squeezing and then pulling away, ever so slightly, just enough to brush his fingertips over
Alpha Enzo 112 | AT WHAT COST?
Enzo’s POVI stomped down to the cells, my boot soles slapping hard enough against the stone to send vibrations ricocheting up the walls and echoing back down the sloping hall.I’d known we would be outnumbered no matter what. But this? This was unprecedented. Hell, this wouldn’t even be a battle – this would be a massacre.Unless Scarlett performed some kind of God-damned miracle, we would all die. Because there was no way any of my wolves would bow to Alpha Ryker – I cut myself off. Maybe I was wrong; maybe they would. I was on my way to see a traitor right now. Sure, he’d only helped the rogues – but that was with no prompting. Maybe with a boot to their necks my other wolves would cave, too.A muscle tensed in my jaw. My knuckles were white, the skin pulled taut over bone. I wished I’d brought Scarlett with me, but she’d had a strange look in her eyes as I’d left, and she’d said she had something else, something important, to do. We would reconvene after. I was more than a little
Alpha Enzo 113 | OF MAGIC UNTOLD
Scarlett’s POVGuilt gnawed at my chest as Enzo left to interrogate Isaak alone, but there was something important I had to do. If Alpha Ryker was coming with most of the damned werewolf population at his heels, we needed more manpower than we had. Enzo could try to corral the rest of the Canadian Realm, but I had a horrible feeling that they would be less than eager to sacrifice themselves for him. His reputation preceded him – Hell, they might even think Ryker was a better man to fight for.I had. I was Enzo’s mate, and I’d still fallen for Alpha Ryker’s pretty lies. If not for the mate bond, and the slim trickle of my memories returning to me, I wondered if I would ever have come home.And I worried that some of the Canadian packs had already caved. We hadn’t known about the other Realms, though it made sense – from the gaps in my memory Enzo had filled in, Ryker had been apparently doing nothing, biding his time while he searched for me, for months. Our scouts had reported nothing
Alpha Enzo 114 | DAMAGED GOODS
Enzo’s POVScarlett told me what Bennett had said. I relayed back the information I’d got from Isaak, and we headed back down to the cells together, determined to work out who this mysterious she was – and whether she was really one of the rogues at all.It took me a while to gather myself first, though. I’d lost myself to panic, my chest tight, my heart hollow, and seeing Scarlett, alive and well, had shattered and rebuilt me all at once. As I took her in, running my hands over her beautiful body, making sure no part of her was harmed, I realised that I needed help. Emila hadn’t said anything about her being hurt; I’d heard he words medical centre and assumed, and panicked. Losing Scar so many times, in so many different ways, had damaged me. Both of us avoided the elephant in the room. Bennett had said she’d have to make the ultimate sacrifice to stop Alpha Ryker. That considered, a tiny, traitorous part of me wondered if living under his rule would really be so bad…Then I remembe
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