All Chapters of Alpha Team - The First To Fall: Chapter 1 - Chapter 10

Phoenix’ POVI could almost feel the sweat beading on my brow and running down my nose before dripping onto her perfectly pale skin, as if it’s really happening. Her chest moving rapidly, her tight nipples grazing my pecks and her otherworldly sapphire eyes gazing up at me. Her breaths are deep and gasping as a dive into her warm, velvety depths, sinking deeper and deeper with every thrust but never feeling like I truly own her, not on the level my soul cries out for. I need to own her completely, she is mine.I push myself harder, my toes digging into the mattress, my hands wrapped in her silky auburn hair as I try to anchor myself and keep her here, under me, right where she belongs, but I know I’m chasing an end that will never come. Even in my dreams, I can’t have her. My Rose, my little flower, she is far too precious to be tainted by the likes of me, I’m a monster.It’s the fifth time in as many days, that I have woken up with a stiff cock and sinking feeling deep in my gut that

Rose’s POV The last time Phoenix visited was almost two years ago, but I knew he would show up around my birthday. It’s not every day a girl turns sixteen after all. He turned up in the evening after being away ‘on a job’ he said, and I ran right at him and into his arms when I saw him at the bottom of the steps. It had felt like forever, and something had changed in that time. I didn’t get the warm, safe embrace I had become accustomed to and looked forward to more than I realised.Instead of loving smiles, scooping me up and spinning with me in his arms before ruffling my hair and giving me the biggest bear hug, he was tense. His eyes were cold and hard, and in a clipped tone I had never heard from him before he told me to ‘wait for me’, then turned around and stalked away. He didn’t even look back. My chest felt heavy, like the world had come crashing down and landed right on top of me, and I sobbed in granny’s arms for hours that evening. It was my first taste of heartbreak, and

Phoenix’ POVLast night, she called out my name in between heartbreaking sobs. I managed to crawl from what had become my spot on the floor at the foot of her bed, right up onto the mattress next to her. My heart was pounding in my ears the whole time, just in case she woke and found me there, like some kind of creepy stalker.Tonight is bound to be no different, I don’t want it to be different. Now that I have laid next to her once, I want to do it again and again. ‘Claim her. Yes. Claim little Rose, then she will be all ours every night. Nobody can take her, and she can never leave. She will be safe, she will be ours’ My wolf grins devilishly inside me as he pulls every string he can think of to entice me into action. He is a sly fucker, more like a fox than a wolf, or maybe the wolf that ate granny in that kids story. He has been pushing me to claim her ever since that day I saw her when she was only sixteen, but she was too young then. Not legally perhaps, but to me.‘She isn’t

Phoenix’ POV Ranger and Ryder arrived only seconds after Antonellia’s muppets, sorry, puppets, came around the corner and onto the beach. They are as grotesque as they are stupid, with beer bellies, scraggly hair, and gnarly teeth. These fuckers have been on our radar for months, and from what we have seen so far, I’m surprised they survived infancy. So much for the theory of natural selection. Rage descends like a red mist and I give myself over to my wolf. He erupts, shifting in mid air ready to rip the throats out of anyone who would be stupid enough to square off with him. His roar makes the three idiots in front of us pause, give each other a hesitant sideways look, then without any semblance of self preservation they run right at us. Two of them pull knives from their back and the runt pulls a gun.Ranger and Ryder follow suit and shift, their identical grey wolves each lunging for one of Antonellia’s men. The last one tries to get past me and the only reason he would do that

Phoenix’ POV We have searched the entire pier, under it, the arcades, every coffee shop, nook and cranny, twice. Rose is nowhere to be found. Wherever she is, she is barely dressed and probably freezing and confused. Why did I have to drag her out of bed? I can’t think clearly around her, and it shows. She would have been safer locked in the house, not running down the beach half naked and scared. I could have kept them out. My brothers were close by. I should have known they would be there in moments to have my back, they always are, it’s what we do.“Let’s go back to the house and check again, we might have missed her,” Jackson suggests, most likely aware of all the attention I was drawing to us with my raised voice and the rumble emanating from my chest. My other brothers, Jackson and Braydon, joined the search after we couldn’t find her where I told her to wait, and they felt my panic over our link.“Where the fuck is she? I told her, hide under the pier. I couldn’t have been any