Stand Tall, Mate

THREE

AXEL

I couldn't see the woman's face but the pain that spread across my warriors was enough for me to take a step forward. I growl threateningly as I feel Grey try to surface at the imminent threat. 

"I wouldn't do that, buddy." The most melodic voice I have ever heard, sounds from behind my warrior's body. I freeze immediately, not wanting to put my warrior in anymore danger. 

"How about you let him go, and we can talk. No violence needed." I negotiate, holding my hands up.
My warrior, Brad, is pushed roughly towards me. He lands on his hands and knees at my feet. I squat down and scan him quickly, nodding my approval of there being no signs of injury.

My other men quickly stand in front of Brad and I, baring their canines at the woman. I sigh, "Stand down, I'll take it from here gentlemen."

My men huff and stand aside, to reveal the woman I thought I would never meet.

"I thought you would be broader," she states nonchalantly and demonstrates with her arms how broad she expected I would be. She pushed her chest out and has her arms lifted at her sides, as if she were broad herself. 

I cross my arms over my chest and raise an eyebrow as I sniff the air discreetly, confirming my suspicions.
"Avery, I take it?" I meet her strikingly blue eyes as she stops demonstrating. 

"She is me, I am she. How can I help, Alpha?" She bows lazily and spits out my title. My wolf stirs in annoyance but sits back down, gawking at her. Grey is always such a hassle to tame but he's being surprisingly obedient. 
"Axel, Alpha Axel. You have been causing quite a stir within the region, pup." I try to insult her, get a spark of anger out of her to have a ground to take her in, but she doesn't react.

Avery crosses her arms over her chest, mimicking me. I couldn't help but glance at her chest as she crosses her arms, pushing her breasts up a bit. It's then that I notice how tight her full body suit is. A raging hard on threatens to start but I quickly suppress my thoughts. 

"Is that so?" I nod, disapprovingly toward her. She scoffs and starts to walk towards me. My men immediately ark up and tell her to stop. I raise a hand, telling them to be quiet. I never let my eyes leave her as she stalks toward me. 

Avery continues to walk towards me, her hips swaying side to side as she does. Instead of stopping in front of me, she walks behind me.
I turn to follow her direction but she's right in front of me. I look down to her, as I tower above her a few heads. She looks up at me curiously, her blue eyes scanning my face as I do hers. Her eyebrows were neatly maintained as her full lips parted to let out a breath. I was mesmerised. 

"What does this feel like to you?" She asks suddenly as she touches my cheek with her pointer finger. Sharp, addictive tingles spread across my cheek as she holds her finger there. I swallow and stare at her.

"Sharp tingles, why?" I grab her arm and move it away slowly. "What does it feel like for you?" I ask in return.
She shrugs and pulls her arm out of my grip, "same thing I suppose."

She turns again and starts to walk away, I do nothing to stop her, completely forgetting the reason we were here in the first place. 
"Alpha, is she your mate?" Brad questions quietly in my ear, a bit of disgust laced in his words.

"That depends on if he's a dick or not," Avery shouts over her shoulder, continuing to walk away. I shake my head and take a few steps towards her, and she stops. I stop my movements as well and study her.
Her skin-tight, black body suit hugged every delicious curve she had and I noticed the zip all the way up her back, disappearing behind the black corset that hugged her torso. Two gun holsters were strapped to each leg with a weapon clipped securely into each. Another holster was strapped to her right calf, a black handle peaked out of the top and I assumed it was a knife. Black combat boots hugged her feet as she turned to look at me again. Her deep black hair a contrast to her pale skin. A light bit of colour caught my attention as I looked at her neck. The beginning of a tattoo peaked out from just below the collar. Interesting, how far does it go? 

"Are you quite finished?" I snap back to reality and see that Avery was glaring holes into me and had her hands on her hips. 

"Just admiring what's soon to be mine," I lick my own lips at the thought and smirk at her.

AVERY

I roll my eyes and stay where I stood.
"No offence, Alpha Axel, but I best be off. Things to do, people to see." I turn towards Alpha Corbin's pack lands and start toward it. The slight anger that emitted from behind me being ignored.

"You are not to leave my side from here on out, do you understand?" A rough hand grabs my upper arm and pulls me to face them. Judging by the tingles I could feel through my suit, I could only guess who it was. 

I look up at Axel and cock my head to the side, "let go of me before I break that hand. Mate or not."
I count to three in my head, waiting for him to let go, keeping eye contact. After three, I grab his hand and twist. Hard.

The sound of a pop then a slight crunch resonates around us. I watch as his eyes betray him and pain settles ever so slightly in them, his face contorts the smallest bit but as soon as it's there, it's gone.

His men grab their guns that had once been concealed on their backs and aim them at my head. I don't let go of Axel's hand, instead, I twist even further and push his arm up behind his back, putting him between the line of fire and myself. 
Axel brings his foot down into my foot, attempted to anyway. I reef his arm further up his back until his shoulder gives way. A snarl rips through the Alpha, and I let go. Letting him turn toward me as he popped his shoulder back in himself. Anger poured out of him like lava from a volcano and I couldn't help but smile. 

This is gonna be fun, I think to myself.
I twist my body away as Axel lunges toward me, missing me by all but a fraction. I grip his dark brown hair in my hand as I pull back with his momentum of going forward, creating more pain for himself. His head snaps back and a shot rings out. I step to the side a bit, keeping my hand firmly in the Alpha's hair. The bullet plants itself into the thigh of Axel and he growls deeply. 

I look to the person who fired and see a man no more than 6 feet, staring at his Alpha with so much fear. I smile and let go of Axel's hair. I sprint toward the man and watch as his fear laced eyes shift to me. He yells out as he starts shooting aimlessly around me, missing me every single time. 

Once I get close enough, I grab his wrist that has the gun aimed towards me and twist it outwards, grabbing the gun off him. I twist his arm behind his back, making him kneel in front of me and point the gun to his head as I look at the rest of them.

"First things first, I belong to no one. Secondly, you just made yourself out to be a dick Mr. Alpha Man, congratulations," I aim the gun down to the leg of the man kneeling and shoot. He screams out in pain, and I let him fall forward, clutching his leg. I smirk as I realise they were silver bullets loaded. I aim the gun towards the fallen mans head.

"Besides, who would want someone like me?"