Betrayed Heiress: My Second Chance Mate is A Lycan King

Alexander’s POV

My men readied their weapons while others transformed into their Lycan forms. My senses come to life, and I place Aira safely behind me.

“Do not let any of them get close to her! Protect her at all costs!” I yell at my men, and they all nod.

“Yes, alpha!” they answer in unison, charging at our attackers with blood lust. I look at Aira, who has grown terribly pale, watching the wolves and my lycans rip each other to shreds.

“I am going to create a path; once you see it, I need you to run as fast as you can. Get into the car and drive straight to the palace,” I order, and then suddenly all the fear in her vanishes, and she looks at me with stubbornness in her eyes.

“What? No! There is no way I am going to run away while the rest of you stay here and fight. I want to fight too!” She says it with much determination, and I groan. This is not the time for her to act stubborn!

I glance over my shoulder to find one of the rogues charging towards us, but one of my lycans intercepts them and tears through his throat. I look back at Aira frantically, hoping that she could see reason as soon as possible because we were wasting a hell lot of time sitting here and talking.

I would throw her over my shoulder and take her as far away as possible, but there is no way in hell I would ever abandon my men to the cold hands of death. No, not when I can stand and fight. Aira may be my top priority, but so are my people.

Besides, I doubt they could hold them long enough to get away. I am the only one strong enough to get rid of all these fuckers. And my men were dropping like flies.Property of Nô)(velDr(a)ma.Org.

“Fight? How can you possibly fight these monsters? You don’t have a wolf! They will rip you to shreds!” I snap at her, and she flinches at the harshness of my tone. I sigh, dragging my hand down my face and saying, “Look, I am going to be fine. I can handle these guys. But with you here, I am at a disadvantage. I will come right back home to you, I promise. But right now, I need you to go. Do you understand me?”

Her eyes glaze over, and her Adam’s apple bobs. God, I hated it when she looked at me like that. It tore me apart from the inside out.

She nods, and I smile at her before placing a swift kiss on her forehead. At this point, we are down by seven men; we have only six left. I met Aira’s eyes one last time-the very same eyes that I had fallen for all those months ago and still kept falling for even to this very day. Staring into them gave me more reason to want to protect her.

Even if it costs my own life. Again.

I would die a million times over just to protect her.

“No matter what you hear, once you start running, do not look back. Do you understand me?” I ask her, and tears trickle down her cheeks.

“But Alex-”

“Do you understand me?” I cut her off; there is no time for any of this anymore. She swallows and nods in understanding.

I rise to my feet and stretch out my limbs. Finally, I let the beast I had suppressed for years take over. I never found a reason to let him out because I never saw anyone as much of a threat. But judging by the amount of rogues that were present and Aira was still very much present, there was much of a threat.

My fingers elongate into claws, and hair spews out of my skin. My muscles break a bit as I transform into my Lycan form. My mouth turns into a snout, and my teeth sharpen into canines.

I release a loud howl, and for a moment, all the wolves and Lycans pause their fight. Fear flashes within the eyes of the wolves once they behold my Lycan form. I could feel Aira’s eyes on me as well, but I did not look at her. I couldn’t. Maybe it was because this is the first time she has seen me this way.

A part of me feared that she was currently watching me differently. That should be the least of my concerns right now; the most important thing right now is protecting her. I charge straight at the rogues, releasing another menacing roar as I tackle one to the floor and rip out his throat.

I pin another one down and slam my claws into his chest, ripping out his heart. I keep going until I clear a path for Aira. I look at her briefly over my shoulders, and she takes that as her cue to run. A rogue chases after her, and I go after him, but another one tackles me from the back.

I fling the one on top of me carelessly and throw him loosely across the room, swiping my claws over his face and taking out both of his eyes. His howls of pain fill the air as I sprint towards the rogue, going after Aira.

It nears her, and I pick up my speed. I pounce on the creature, dig my claws into its chest, and pull out its heart. Just when his body collapses to the floor, a wolf pounces on me and buries its canines into my back.

I made the mistake of releasing a howl of pain because it was at that moment that Aira stopped running. She goes against what we had just talked about and turns around. Her eyes fell on the wolf, biting through my back like I was some snack. I struggled to get this one off me due to the angle he was in.

He tears through my flesh, and blood trickles down my back. A pain similar to the one I underwent in the hands of those mad uncles of Aira’s enveloped my back, and I collapsed to my knees.

I managed to catch a glimpse of Aira, and what I saw had both the wolf and me freezing.

Her body glowed with a blue light, and her eyes turned ghostly white. She clenches her fists and teeth, and a chill shoots through my body from the immense power radiating off her.

She lifts her finger and points at the rogues. Then she gave a command; her voice was not hers at all. It sounded like a combination of furious kings and queens across the globe.

“Kill them all.”

At first, I did not know who she was giving that order to. But then something strange happened-something I had never witnessed before in my life. I knew that it happened on the night Aira went up against her family, but I was dead at the time and couldn’t see it for myself.

But now I do.

Both my Lycans and the wolves that lay dead on the floor rose to their feet and began to attack the rogues. The rogues ripped through each other’s flesh, and the most impressive thing about it all was that even when the living rogues managed to kill off the dead ones, they never actually stayed off.

My men, the five left, to be precise, watched the entire thing with amazement. Soon, all the rogues lay dead, and the ones Aira controlled joined them.

“Alex, are you okay?!” I hear Aira screech as she sprints towards me and sits beside me on the blood-stained floor. Slowly, I turn back into my human form; my Lycan was already exhausted.

But the pain became much worse in my human form. As much as I wanted to stay strong and not scare her, the pain was immense. Her gasps fill my ears as she takes a look at my ripped-open back, and a part of me is glad that I cannot see it.

“That was amazing, Luna. I never knew you were capable of doing that,” one of the guards says as he walks up to us. That is when I realized that they had all transformed into their human forms as well.

Their eyes have grown so wide that it looks like they are about to pop out of their heads. It was filled with much wonder and amazement. I would be filled with pride if I wasn’t slowly losing consciousness right now.

“Yes, I did, but you all need to swear that you won’t tell a soul,” Aira says, and all five of them look amongst themselves.

“You saved our lives, Luna. So of course your secret is safe with us.”

My head falls on her shoulders, and her body grows rigid. “Alex? Alex, can you hear me?”

“I feel so tired, Aira.” I draw out, and the last thing I hear are her screams before it all grows dark.