Royals

Chapter Four

Alyssa couldn't help the smirk on her face. Aria was fighting it but this was all Alyssa knew.

She rarely had happiness and she rarely had nights where she slept.

But what she did have...was the thrill of the fight.

After breaking eye contact with her mate, she turned and ran for the tree tops.

Her work was done here anyway. Beta was dead and the warriors were killed. Now all she had to do was just not get caught.

Usually it was simple but at least this time she'd have some fun.

Using a branch as leverage Alyssa hoisted herself into the nearly empty tree.

The tree trunk itself ended about five feet below where the branches did, giving Alyssa a good area to run in. The trees were clustered together making it easy to jump from tree to tree and the cover of the branches stopped 99% of incoming arrows.

She had briefly heard her mate say not to kill her which would make it much easier to escape if she didn't have a death threat.

When Alyssa landed on one of the branches it snapped under her weight causing her to fall. She quickly shifted and landed on her paws with a painful thud.

She shifted back with a whimper but continued to run anyway. She hardly felt pain anymore.

Alyssa could hear the shouts coming closer to her and eventually, with Aria's slight warning, got tackled.

She could feel the tingles running up and down her arm signaling it was her mate that tackled her.

She rolled over and kicked him off of her. She quickly got up and began to run again only to find she was surrounded by Royal Warriors.

Alyssa rolled her eyes and took up a fighting stance. One brave wolf charged first and Alyssa easily side stepped and tripped him so he fell face first into the dirt.

The next warrior that came at her threw a roundhouse kick and Alyssa caught it without even trying.

One warrior shift before coming at her but after a quick kick to the muzzle he backed off.

Then they all came at Alyssa, at once.

She fought them off as best as she could but got pinned by three warriors, when another howl rose to the moon.

Xavier Wilder came bounding in his wolf form and killed two of the warriors on top of Alyssa and she easily took the other one.

The pair started fighting off the Royal Warriors until Xavier's whimper caught Alyssa off guard.

Xavier was now in human form and a warrior held him pinned so that he could easily snap his neck if the warrior so chose.

Alyssa's eyes darkened in rage and fear and Aria's voice came out when she spoke, it was cold and harsh,

"Let. Him. Go."

Many of the warriors flinched and her mate's face lit up with an idea. He approached her cautiously and said,

"If you come with us, we'll let him go." It sounded forced, like he didn't want to say it.

Alyssa's eyes darted between Xavier and her mate before Aria's voice came out again,

"Fine."

Her mate nodded to the warrior and the warrior let Xavier go.

Xavier looked conflicted but Alyssa nodded to him and he shifted before running off.

Alyssa howled in pain as she watched her brother, and best friend run off.

Her eyes were almost pitch black and said,

"Are you gonna tie me up?"

One warrior came with gloved hands and a wet rope and asked Alyssa's mate,

"Wolfsbane rope, my King?"

Alyssa's eyes widened when the warrior said, 'my King'.

"Great." Alyssa muttered and the King shot her a glance and said,

"We use them for every rogue, don't we?"

The warrior bound Alyssa and they all stared in shock when she didn't flinch.

Alyssa's mate took and pair of gloves and tightened the wolfsbane rope, hoping to get a reaction and when he didn't he whispered to her so quietly she could barely hear him,

"Let's go, My Queen."

Alyssa visibly rolled her eyes and began walking. They only made it about 30 feet before Alyssa threw her head back into the warrior's nose. She also kicked the one in front of her in the knees causing him to fall.

She took off at a dead sprint but stopped when she felt wolfsbane spread throughout her body. On anyone else it would have knocked them out but for her she kept running causing gasps from several warriors.

She felt two more shots of wolfsbane before falling into her mate's arms and seeing only black.