The Alpha's Doll || #wattys2023

Chapter 13

Luke walked across the crowd and grabbed my hand, pulling me away from Jacob, I had looked away for just a second and Damon had darted up into the air, landing as a fully shifted massive pitch black wolf. The crowd separated even further, falling back against tables, making room for the wolf that was far too large to be inside. I gasped out as well, letting Luke drag me out of the way. Seconds later, Jacob had shifted too into a dirty brown wolf that was slightly smaller than Damon's.

"What's going on?" I screamed at Luke who was still dragging me away.

"They're going to perform a death battle."

"What does that mean?"

"Jacob wants to be alpha, he's been threatening for weeks that he's going to challenge Damon for the spot-"

"He's going to kill Damon?"

"He's going to try, the last one standing is the alpha."

Luke did not get to further explain because the first strike had been summoned by Jacob himself who leaped up towards a chandelier and bit it off its hinges. He used the large instrument to throw it at Damon who fell under the force of the heavy object. I felt hope that Jacob would indeed kill Damon, but I didn't know if he would be worse than him.
He clearly hates humans too, quite possibly more than Damon.
The human race would be demolished by either leaders, it would need to be a human that kills Damon to show the rest of them what we are capable of and if Jacob were to kill Damon today, then Evan and I will no longer have easy access to killing the werewolf alpha.
He can't die, not today at the hands of another wolf.

"Cant you help him? He's your alpha after all!" I screamed at Luke who flinched as the two wolves destroyed a nearby table.

"This is tradition, if I interfere now, it will make Damon look like a coward."

"But he's drunk! He's going to get killed-"

"What's wrong? Falling in love with him already?"

I didn't answer, instead I watched with horror as the two wolves bit into each other, rolling across blood stained marble floors and slamming into the bar in the corner of the room. There was a moment where all that could be seen were pieces of shattered glass. Damon stood to his feet and bit an empty bottle of whiskey out from his shoulders. I gasped out as the blood exploded and he didn't waste a minute attacking Jacob who was still struggling to stand with glass sticking out from different angles under his paws.
Damon finally had the upper hand, he opened his mouth as far as it would go and buried Jacobs head in it.
For a moment, everything was silent. Jacobs' body struggled under his hidden head. Damon clamped his mouth further down on his neck and Jacob let out a muffled howl that still somehow shook the room. Jacob's wolf went limp, Damon took a step back slowly and the crowd gasped all at once. Jacob's head was still in between Damon's fangs, he had completely beheaded him and carried it like a bleeding trophy.
Luke let out an amused chuckle," never doubted him."

I felt a wave of relief.
Damon shifted shortly afterwards. They rushed him atop a stretcher while others were already getting started on cleaning up the mess.
Luke was standing by Damons stretcher," I'll take care of things here until you're all better boss."

"There will be others like Jacob," Damon groaned," make sure to have extra patrols, he should have never gotten inside."

"I got it, and i'll take care of her for you too, she was pretty stressed out you were going to die, I told her not to doubt it."

I felt my face flush red when Damon looked at me. He seemed surprised that I was scared for his death. He hardly managed a nod and we watched as the medics took him away.

Bullet took me home that night and the first thing I did was rush back to the phone and tell Evan, He didn't pick up and so I went to bed, wondering if I could trust Maria  with the information he'd given me.

The next day, Damon was still in the hospital. Maria was in the kitchen by the phone, I figured that she would find out one way or another and so I decided to tell her.

"Did you know that as soon as Damon gets enough votes, hes going to order that every human is killed in every single prison camp?" I casually mumbled over a coffee with her. She raised her eyes from the newspaper that she was reading.

"What?"

"Did you know-

"Stop, I heard you!" she peered around as if afraid someone was listening," who told you?"

"Evan, in Akbur Hills-"

"Don't you dare tell anyone else!"

"So you know?"

"Of course I know, I get his mail! He needs one more vote, last night during the gala, he got a message from Africa, they're still thinking."

"So that means that all he needs is one more alpha to sign off and he can make the order."
"Don't worry, you'll be safe, at least until you deliver his baby, unless he keeps you around until he makes more-"

"He'll kill my father, he'll kill you and Tessa."
She stayed silent and continued to read, and so I continued.

"Evan has a plan."

She hardly made an indication to show her interest but her eyes fluttered the slightest.
"Evan says if we kill their Alpha, they'll know what we're capable of if they tried to get rid of us."

Maria snorted," do you have any idea how difficult it would be to kill an Alpha?"

I had a sudden flashback of last night," Evan knows someone in Akbur Hills, a woman who can make a poison."

Marias eyes met mine," I knew her, and her poison took months to make, not to mention you need silver, and the wolves have destroyed any that they can find-"

"We can do it, Evan will get the recipe from the lady in Akbur Hills, he can make the poison here, well get supplies from town-"

"And how do you plan on getting back to Akbur Hills to give him the supplies? It's guarded with dozens of werewolves."

"Not if Evan comes to us, you said you were looking for a gardener."

She took a moment to think, finally she said," I'm going to recruit someone tomorrow. Do you have a way of getting in contact with him?"

I nodded desperately," I have his telephone number."