The Alpha's Desire 5 by Willow Brooks Read Free Book Online

with your strong magic in human form, or your strength and speed in wolf form, you’ll be unbeatable. But, you have to work on your mind. Stop beating yourself up for letting Daniel go last time. The fact you couldn’t kill makes me love you even more,” Lex offered in my ear as we took a seat on the couch, the one we’d dared make love on several months ago on the flight here when we’d had the cabin alone and all the world seemed hopeful.
     
    “I know. I just can’t not think this my fault. If I had killed him, we would not be going to the States. All of those with us would not be in danger. Not to mention all who have already lost their lives to his current vendetta.”
     
    “But, as Catherine pointed out, you can’t take responsibility for his deranged thoughts and violent actions. You shouldn’t have to kill to make someone behave. Every bit of this is on him. All I think when it comes to him is that he could have just asked for help in the first place, and that pisses me off enough to go after him. It is the only fact I focus on where he is concerned. He could have asked, and you would have never been in danger. Vivian and Riker would have been living it up with us on the island. I could go on and on, but you get my point. This is all his fault. Only his fault.”
     
    “He’s absolutely right,” a Royal seated beside me named Josh said. “Sorry to eavesdrop, but this is a bit of a confined space with so many bodies in it at once. Besides, with our connection, I’ve been feeling your guilt and thinking the same. Not to gang up on you, but I wanted you to know that we all think the same. We don’t blame you in any way. We can’t even get there in our minds. Just hoped a man saying it outside of the one that loves you might help hammer it home.”
     
    Lex thanked him before I could open my mouth. Josh and I had found we had a special connection, like brother and sister in the pack during my training. Just one of those things between wolves, a myriad of connections between us within each pack. Though I had a connection with each of them, with Josh it had been different, and in battle, we would use that to our advantage.
     
    Once Josh settled back, closed his eyes, I settled in against Lex as the engines roared to life, giving me a little zip of adrenaline my nerves didn’t need. They were on edge enough already, so with my heart beating fast, it added only to my shakiness. I did have to do some mental work, and I had this plane flight to do it. None of the ten of us seated in the cabin looked much in the mood to talk anyway, and some like Josh looked ready to attempt to get some sleep.
     
    I did gather some small comfort from being in more urban wear again. Though the clothes had just been flown in last night, the black jeans and t-shirt made me feel myself, as I hadn’t since leaving. Not that it had been a bad thing by any measure to wear flowing gowns, or my wolf hide, or even special attire to train in, but this outfit somehow prepared me for battle in the mean streets of New York.
     
    Funny, all my life I’d been taught the dangers of New York. The criminals, the unsavory element that hid in the shadows, went after the unsuspecting going about their lives. Yet, I’d had no idea, had never been told, about the paranormal element, both good and bad at all. Not that my father had probably even known, but even if he had been aware, would he have warned me? This was the stuff even adult nightmares were made of.
     
    I looked over the crew of Royals in their street clothes, having never seen some of them in anything like these. I found it interesting that we all had basically the same thing on. While more to hide us in the night, we would look like a band of common thieves to anyone else. An intimidating bunch in stature anyway, let alone the all-black articles of clothing, but still, we probably didn’t look menacing to Daniel and his new pack of terror-causing werewolves.
     
    Outside of the