Werewolf Academy Year Three - Jayme Morse Page 0,57

We’re willing to offer you the three million right here. In cash.”

“We’re not interested in your money,” Aiden informed them.

“That’s a shame. We were willing to cooperate with you in exchange for Princess Fallyn. But it seems that you are choosing not to cooperate, so it looks like we’re going to have to take matters into our own hands.”

“If you want to get to Fallyn, that means you’re going to have to get through us first,” Theo threatened.

The blonde guy turned to the guy to his left. “Does he scare you, James?”

“Not in the least.”

“Why don’t we flip a coin? If it’s heads, you get to keep Fallyn. If it’s tails, then she’s ours.” As he spoke the words, James’s eyes lingered on me. I could feel him sizing my body up and down. I glared at him.

“How about we don’t?” Theo asked. “In fact, how about the four of you get the hell out of here?”

“Don’t you know who we are?” The blonde guy asked.

“Don’t you know who we are?” Aiden asked. He glanced from Theo to Colton and Rhys.

They must have somehow spoken with their eyes, because all four of them shifted into their wolf forms, leaving me as the alone Darken still standing.

All four of them, with their dark fur, stood there, growling at the Winston Coven.

I thought it would have been enough to intimidate them, but to my surprise, James let out a laugh.

“If you think we’re afraid of a bunch of growling wolves, you have another thing coming to you. You all look so pathetic now. I could just snap your furry little necks, take Fallyn with us, and call it a day.”

“I wouldn’t go snapping any necks if you know what’s best for you,” a voice said from behind me.

I whirled around to find Kane standing there. “I thought you were going home.”

“Yeah, well, fortunately, I didn’t.” His green eyes held mine for a moment before he turned to the Winston Coven. “You will walk away from Princess Fallyn right now. In fact, you will forget that she even exists. In your memories, she will still be dead, and you will have no reason to want her or her blood. You will leave this property. Right now.”

At first, I didn’t think that Kane’s compulsion was going to work. But then, slowly, the Winston Coven backed away from us and then left the yard.

Relief passed through me as my mates all shifted back into their human forms. The other wolves at the wedding all began to resume what they were doing before the Winston Coven had decided to randomly crash it.

“You guys really thought growling at the Winston Coven was enough to scare them away?” Kane asked, looking around at my mates. “You know vampires don’t scare off easily, and the Winston Coven are some of the deadliest vampires out there.”

“I guess I wasn’t thinking straight. I was just so worried about Raven,” Theo replied quietly.

“Going forward, I can’t have my pack making dumb mistakes like that. You know one fuck up like that could have cost all of you your lives. Raven could have been taken from us.”

“I’m sorry,” Theo apologized, which surprised me. He wasn’t the type to apologize; usually, he just went off on his own to sulk somewhere when he made mistakes.

I was pretty sure that there must have been something about the dynamic between him and Kane that had him apologizing. For some reason, he was willing to say he was sorry just to appease Kane. It was the strangest thing I had ever witnessed, but I supposed that I shouldn’t have been surprised.

I had known all along that Theo and Kane’s relationship was complicated, at best.

“Thankfully for all of you, I just happened to be in the vicinity. Can you imagine what might have happened if I didn’t compel them?”

“I’m sort of confused by that,” Aiden said.

“Yeah, me too. I didn’t think vampires were able be compelled,” Colton said.

“That’s true when it comes to normal werewolves,” Kane agreed with a nod. “But due to what I am, my abilities are stronger than everyone else’s.”

He didn’t need to say what he was for us to all understand.

He was 1/3 of the Triangle, meaning he was stronger than all of us… and them.

If it weren’t for him, my mates probably would have been chopped liver. And that wasn’t even to mention me.

So, once again, Kane had saved my life.

Chapter 22

Kane stayed with us until we returned to the human world after