Amber’s POV I woke up alone in bed. Alpha Dale was standing by the floor-to-ceiling window looking out at the lake outside which was now almost entirely covered by morning dew. I took a minute to admire is perfectly sculpted body, reveling in the fact that this perfect, hot male was all mine. I wanted to stay in bed longer but I knew that was going to be impossible. Now that we were done with revolutionary and Derrick’s bullshit, we needed to sort out our lives. I moved towards Alpha Dale like a moth was drawn to flame and circled my small arms around his waist. He leaned into me immediately, nuzzling my cheek. He turned around with my hands around him so that chest was pressing mine and his hand came up to frame my face. “I’ve waited so long for this day/ The day when we will have no worries, no threats to deal with. Just me and you living through each day and making each other happy.” I felt that way too. Like some sort of relief was flooding through me. It was as if I had be
Amber’s POV Alpha Dale looked like an incarnate of death himself as he stood there just after shifting back to his human form. “You cannot kill me. You know you can’t. I will win this fight and, in the end, everything will be mine. I have worked too hard for everything to end like this. That goddess should have been born to me. She should be mine. Alpha Dale squatted in front of Derrick. “You are right, I cannot kill you. No, after everything that you’ve done, killing you will be too much of a mercy. I will make you scream and all your victims will watch.” Derrick’s mouth opened wide, flapping like a fish out of water, but Alpha Dale’s eyes were merciless as he slashed him with his claws. It was not deep enough to kill him, but it was going to keep him immobile for a while. He slashed again and again, Derrick’s screams tearing through the air around us. No one moved to stop him, not even Trent who just stood there and watched as their Lycan King tortured their enemy, giving him
Amber’s POV I allowed Janine and Yeti work their way through the ones who just arrived in the new waves, and focused on emptying out the rest of the area. Building by building, I worked though all of them, but I was also thankful that Silas and his men were wiping out a lot by themselves. Most of the prisoner tents were already emptied out and it gave me some relief. Vehicles kept coming in and out to get our people out of the area before they became casualties of the battle. The fighting was not close to over. Derrick was still nowhere in sight and whether they knew Celia was dead or not was irrelevant. A lot of them had no experience in battle and their loyalty was not great enough to keep them fighting for long. That worked to our advantage as far as I knew. For a minute, I was sure Alpa Dale was set on just guarding me and watching what was going on around us, that was until I heard him curse viciously under his breath, hooking an arm around my waist as he turned me. I felt
Amber’s POV Celia’s face was pulled into a sneer as she saw that she was on her own. She looked around all of us and then at her men lying unconscious at our feet. For a minute, I sensed a small pool of fear in her but it was gone as quickly as it came. “Seriously?” she jeered. “Did you really think you were going to come in here and kill me like that?” I refused to react to her words or the cold and vicious tone her voice took. Long gone was the time when I feared her. Growing up with people who never accepted me had been a traumatic experience for me, but even more traumatic was the maltreatment and punishments Celia and her mother put me through. They were both sociopaths who deserved no mercy. All they cared about was power and how much they could get their hands on. If she could, she would have killed me a long time ago, without question or remorse but just because she wanted to prove that she was higher and better than me in every way/ I took a breath as I perused her crit
Dale’s POV Wrestling my wolf back into the recess of my mind was more difficult than it was supposed to be. Amber’s boost not only made him super strong, it also made him crazy as well and reining him in was becoming more and more harder. I was going to have to tell Amber to tone it down on the power boost or stop it altogether. I didn’t want to know what was going to happen if one day I lost control and he took over completely. “Our aim here is to weaken their defenses in our first wave,” I told them. “We’ve already taken out most of their army of hounds, so, if we can take out other powerful werewolves on their side, they won’t have time to bring in witches with powerful abilities.” Everyone nodded along with me, but it was Amber who spoke. “Is there anyone in particular I should be aiming to take out?” I knew she was just dying to tear Derrick to pieces but I wasn’t sure I could allow her do that. Derrick was a very cunning man and I was afraid of the memories he might dredge
Amber’s POV As soon as our feet hit the hideout area, it was as if we had traveled to a different planet entirely. The place looked nothing like it did when we were here before. Although it was only maybe a week since the last time we were here, it looked as if it may as well have been months. The bodies that were still strewn around, left behind wherever they died were in various states of decomposition. I tried not to gag at the stench and sight of them but that was the hardest thing to do, with my stomach rolling inside of me. Alpha Dale brushed my cheek slightly to relieve some of the sickness pooling in my gut and I was very thankful for it. Once he was sure I wasn’t going to throw up all of my lunch over their shoes, he stepped away from me and began barking orders to disperse everyone. Once his team was in formation, he looked back and gave me a nod. I knew what to do and I let my eyes slip shut as I reached inside for my wolf. “You ready?” I called. “I hope you don’t mi