As Alpha of the Alphas, its Luka Stanislavs duty to hunt down and eliminate rogue werewolves that have been turned into zombies by an insidious virus. His task becomes infinitely more difficult when alluring Guild officer Marijka Zolinski arrives to investigate the death of her partner.
An irresistible wave of desire draws him to Marijka, and their overwhelming passion signals that Luka has found his true mate at last. But gypsy blood flows hot in her veinsand a bond between wolf and gypsy can never be. Still, after one night of ecstasy, Luka cant stop thinking of claiming Marijka as his own....
Claimed by the Alpha
Saranna DeWylde
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Contents
Chapter One
Chapter Two
Chapter Three
Chapter Four
Chapter Five
Chapter Six
Epilogue
Copyright
Chapter One
Weve got a Guild infestation, Stanislav. What are you going to do about it? Senator Kenneth Bardot demanded.
Luka shifted the phone with his shoulderhe still had blood on his hands from the most recent den of infected werewolves hed put down. It clung to his fingers, stained his nails, a scarlet letter of accusation. But hed had to do it because theyd become like mad dogs.
What am I going to do about it? He kept his tone carefully modulated, but it was more for his own control than the Aeternali Senators comfort. Bardot, youre on the Guild Oversight Committee. One would think you could manage to keep your own house clean. The Guild Oversight Committee was supposed to make sure the supernatural police force continued to protect and serve without abusing their power, but more often than not, it was the Aeternali that abused that power. They disgusted Luka, but dealing with them now was the only way hed be able to save his people and stop the infection before it was pandemic.
One would think, Luka. One would most certainly think, he drawled. You know how these cops are. One of the female cops is down with Van Brunts body now. I want you to take care of it. The cop had been bitten and there were even odds on whether Van Brunt would stay dead, or rise...infected. There shouldnt have been anything for this woman to find.
Where are you on locating Gevaudan and his benefactor? My Beta is still missing and displeased doesnt begin to cover my state of mind. He kept the facade of civility, but the threat was clear. Luka, if properly motivated, could tear Senator Bardot apart like a rag doll. The only thing keeping him from being so motivated was finding Ian Gevaudan, the source of the virus that had already claimed so many of his people.
These things take time. Finesse. You cant just barge in and
Oh, but I can. The growl started low in the back of his throat, almost like a purr. And I will, if hes not found.
You know Konstantins been infected.
As if that mattered to Luka. If Kon had to be put down, hed be the one to do ithonorably for his Beta. But Luka believed to his core that the virus affected him differently. He was still the Konstantin hed entrusted with his life and the lives of their people. I also know the virus was engineered to bond with his DNA and I know the Aeternali think they have a new weapon. Find him, retrieve him, or Ill do it and war be damned.
Yes, Luka would go to war. He was ready to do so now, regardless of how the situation played out. The Aeternali might be a council of supernaturals, much like the UN, but they had wronged him, violated those who depended on him.
Luka would not and could not let that go unanswered. Neither would the beast inside of him allow him to do so. Already, his teeth elongated in his mouth, the change hovered so near.
You may want to rethink that, Kenneth Bardot said, as if he had some information Luka did not.
And you may want to start thinking. You ever have to put down your own, Bardot? Noble members of your race who dont remember who they are, what they are? Instead these members are scrounging in the filth, mindless of everything but the next belly full of flesh? Gnawing on their own bodies with no more viable food sources available to them?
Luka, I know this hard for you, but His tone changed, softer now.
You know nothing, he snarled. I feel all of their pain, the fear. The black moment of death. But mostly its this terrible emptiness, like starving for a thousand years. Every life I end, even as a mercy, pushes me closer to the Abyss. To the dark things you want inside no Alpha of Alphas. Ill take care of your Guild problem, theres no love lost there, but youve got three days to find my Beta. Or Ill go to war against Gevaudan, the Aeternali and you. Youre either with me or against me on this one. It was even odds on what the Senator would sayLuka had yet to determine his motivations for getting involved, but so far, his information had been reliable.
Thats madness, Stanislav.
Madness was signing the Aeternali treaty to begin with. In exchange for granting the Aeternali certain powers, the treaty was supposed to guarantee peace for his people. It had been a pretty lie. He tossed the phone on the bed and tried again to wipe off the blood that seemed to permanently stain his hands. But it was better that he end their suffering rather than some exterminator. Better the Alpha of Alphas who could bear witness to their indignities and the wrong done to them. Better him who would pass down the memory of the atrocity to be recorded in their histories so it would never be forgotten or hidden with some Aeternali cover-up like this village. After hed finished exterminating the last of the infected people here, Aynkava would be nothing but dust and ash when he and the rest of the cleanup crew left. Abandoned, the villages ground would be stained red by the blood that had been spilled there. The Czechoslovakians would never know what happened and it would become fodder for urban legends and stories told to make children quake in their beds rather than the very real horror it was.