Chapter Three Hundred and Twenty Nine

Khai's POV

"What is this?" I ask in a tone that I've ceased to use in recent weeks.

It's an alpha aura, my alpha aura.

I haven't heard it so menacingly before but then again I refuse to use it on most occasions.

The young girls smiles my way, her pearly whites like a full wattage moon staring back at me.

"This is their comuppence, they should be dead..." she says with a cackle, pulling Tabitha along with her as she moves to the right of Leo.

He remains standing without moving, his eyes wide, the vein in his face and neck pronounced.

"No, you don't," I demand. Moving myself along with them. I mirror the girls steps, ensuring to stay directly before her and Tabitha.

And whilst I'm watching Tabitha I note her anxiety.

If only I could mind-link her, reassure her I will not stop until this threat is dead at our feet.

But she's a witch, and that ability does not branch out to her species.

Instead, I beg her to look up silently. I will for her eyes to move off of her child and to me.

I want