Chapter 16

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Minutes trickled by.

Evelyn sat in eerie silence inside the SUV and the men from the convoy had stepped out and surrounded it.

Nothing had happened, there were no wolves jumping out. Wasn't that supposed to happen during an ambush? Her breathing heart finally started to slow down.

Maybe Alex had been wrong? For an ambush there was hell lot of nothing happing for sure.

"You hear that?" one of the men standing at the end of the convoy asked.

"What?" the other guy asked.

"That" he indicated to the ear, asking him to pay attention and listen.

And the other guy heard it too. And together in shock they looked down the road where it curved over half a mile down.

The radio's in base one and base two crackled from the convoy.

"What the fuck...?!?!."

***

The group was huddled over the map again.

Crawford had reviewed the plan again.

"Remember we are dealing with professionals who are trained to look at all possibilities. There is a very good reason that they would smell something wrong right away. Once they spot the tree, they would expect an imminent attack. So we will not do what they expect. We will instead camp three miles down from the road block. The moment the convoy passes us we need to start preparing for it to turn back and return and we attack on their way back."

"Crawford how do we get them out of the vehicles. The chance is they will be driving back with maximum speed and we are no match for a speeding vehicle, especially the ones they guys are driving"

No werewolf could match the torque of a Mercedes AMG G63, they would have no chance. If they had to inflict damage they needed to do two things, one stop the vehicles and two have the wolves get out of them. The vehicle would give the Roma wolves good cover.

"Your concern is valid" Crawford said and spoke to one of the men "Boyd, did you procure what we wanted?"

Boyd nodded in confirmation and smiled.

Crawford looked back to the group "Boyd will ensure that the convoy is stopped and the wolves pile out of their cars in a fucking hurry."

Everyone looked at Boyd skeptically.

"How?" one of them asked in doubt.

"Guys, guys" Crawford said getting everyone's focus back to him "did I ever let you guys down?" he asked as they remained silent "Trust me when I say this, the convoy will be decimated and you will have disoriented wolves on the road ripe for picking." He reassured.

He grinned and added "Besides, I don't want to spoil the surprise, do we Boyd?"

"Absolutely not boss" Boyd grinned back, the group was curious but satisfied, as Crawford said he had not let them down till now and they were sure he would deliver on his plan and it looked like Boyd and Crawford cooked up something devious, they couldn't wait to see.

"All right. Rest up folks, we start at midnight" he dismissed his gang.

***

"What the fuck is that?" Someone yelled in horror as they saw a heavy duty Mack garbage truck barring down the road in full speed.

"Get off the road!" another guy yelled.

The door of the SUV flew open and Alex grabbed Evelyn and scrambled away from the vehicle and in that hurry he lost balance and both of them rolled off the road. He roughly pulled her behind him in a protective gesture as other Roma men surrounded them.

The Roma scampered out of the way.

By the seconds the truck barreled closer to the abandoned vehicles.

"Shoot the fucking tires!" Alex hollered to anyone who was willing to listen.

Gunfire erupted as the truck barreled closer to the convoy. One of its tiers blew in a massive explosion, buckling under the gunfire but the truck maintained momentum and impacted the first SUV, crushing one side of it to pulp but the SUV instead of sliding off the road was stuck under the front of the truck and was dragged along the road and impacted with the second SUV.

Simultaneously, one of the Roma wolves noticed the window of the driver's cab of the truck open and promptly lobbed a grenade. The truck swirled widely as the driver lost control, most probably as he saw the grenade. A moment later the grenade exploded in the cab shattering a window and splattering the other with blood.

The grenade blew the driver to pulp. The truck swiveled over the road missing the last two cars entirely and tipped sideways and fell off the road and the inertia dragging it in to the forest surrounding the road as it felled trees on impact and finally came to stop.

After a stunned minute of silence "Headcount" Alex yelled getting his bearings back.

***

Crawford knew that things had gone horribly wrong.

From his vantage point he saw through a pair of binoculars that unlike they thought the convoy actually stopped and waited near the fallen tree. He just had a couple of wolves hiding in the woods here just in case but the bulk of his men were waiting three miles down waiting for this convoy to return.

He cursed the Roma wolves for their stupidity, seriously? Who would wait around for a potential ambush?

He picked up his phone and dialed and was immediately picked up.

"Boss?" the other end responded.

"These miserable fucks are standing here like they are having a fucking picnic!!" and they didn't look like they were about to leave "Get the fuck here!"

"Sure boss!" the other end agreed and yelled out "let's move, the convoy is holding out at the roadblock...." He suddenly stopped and spoke in to the phone in panic "Fuck boss, a garbage truck just barreled down the road!"

"Fuck! Fuck! Fuck! That was Boyd...go,go,fucking go!!!!!" Crawford screamed in to the phone.

Everything was shot to fuck!

The plan was to have the truck meet the convoy on their way to return and as it rammed through the convoy the survivors would be disoriented enough to be picked easily. The plan was to have his men around when the truck rammed in to the convoy and now instead they had to catch up to it. Giving the Roma wolves a chance to regroup.

Fuck! He cursed for the hundredth time and he peeped back in to the binoculars to look at the Roma men surrounding the convoy. The only hope he had was the truck would somehow crush those fuckers out.

***

They barely had time to regroup when the first wolf attacked one of the men on, his teeth sank in to his arm and he yelled in pain. Luckily for him the wolf had bitten in to his left arm. He pulled out the gun with his right arm. Put it under the torso of the wolf and fired.

The rounds exploded in the wolf's torso as it released his arm in pain and other men aimed at it and fired at the wolf killing it.

The wolves came from all directions.

"Fall back to the cars" Alex yelled.

As the group moved back to the surviving SUV's on the road. A few wolves jumped from behind and bit in to the shoulder of one of the men surrounding Evelyn. Clearly the attacking wolves were targeting her. A few men from the group went to help the guy under attack.

Alex hurriedly dragged Evelyn to the remaining SUV and roughly pushed her inside the back seat "Lock your door!" he yelled at her and slammed the door.

Evelyn was reeling from shock and in horror she saw from her peripheral vision through the window a wolf lunge at Alex as he had just closed the door and was yet to turn back, she screamed in sheer terror. But the windows were one hundred percent black and he did not see her facial expression of horror and neither did he hear her scream. The windows of the SUV's were one way which meant people from inside could look outside but if anyone from outside wanted to peer in they could not do so. But this was what saved Alex's life. On the reflection of the window he saw the wolf pounce, his claws wide and mouth open, aiming for his neck.

He bent down, rolled away pulled his guns and fired in to the wolves.

The FN P90 was one of the most popular personal defense weapon of its kind, capable of nine hundred rounds per minute, it was a favorite of close combat.

The body of the wolf riddled with bullets thumped on the door where a moment ago Alex was standing. As it lay on the concrete of the road just under the door, blood was seeping out of its multiple riddled bullet holes. The special bullets coated with silver ensured the wolf would not heal.

It was barely alive, with twenty rounds of bullets in its body, it was losing blood by the gallons. Alex looked down at the unmoving wolf as blood spread underneath it, he lowered his gun aimed at its head and fired a single shot. No point in wasting good bullets, the wolf's body jerked on impact and went still, never to move again.

He saw a wolf racing towards one of his men and he aimed his gun and fired. The wolf crumbled. His men were quickly gaining ground. Wolves were fast but bullets were faster and deadly.

***

Crawford saw in horrified fascination as the truck that Boyd was driving rammed in to the convoy, but sufficiently warned all those bastards had steered clear. Not only that but someone apparently lobbed an explosive in to the truck as he saw the flash of explosion in the cab and the truck fall sideways.

Two vehicles of the four convoy were intact. He watched in horrified fascination as the Roma wolves used guns to gun down his team, ruthlessly. The bullets were cutting them down.

What madness was this? He knew regular bullets couldn't do much harm to a wolf but whatever these guns fired, were tearing apart his wolves. Fury fueled in him as he saw one after the other his men getting slaughtered, the men he had painstakingly trained to fight and he taught them to fight against tooth and claw but now fucking guns! How was a wolf supposed to fight guns? What kind of honor less, gutless bastards this Roma wolves were!!?

He had to fight every fiber of his being to go down there and try to tear them apart but he know he would fail. Those guns would rip him to shreds before he reached any one of them so he stayed and watched as his gut clenched in agony, he watched because he wanted to remember and he wanted to remember because he wanted to avenge every single one of them.

***

The attacking wolves numbers were dwindling, falling to the bullets of the Roma wolves, most of them were cut down even before they could come anywhere close to them to do real damage, the only wolves that had managed to reach them were the first wave of them.

And to add to their woes reinforcements arrived in the form of Nick's pack and Roma wolves in a convoy of hummers and they jumped out with guns blazing. The few remaining attackers succumbed to the overwhelming opposition.

The moment everything was clear, Alex yanked the door open and pulled a shaking Evelyn out, her eyes were tear stained and she was shivering in shock.

Nick and his wolves came over and surrounded them. Alex looked at Nick's wolf, clearly the largest one and said "Can you guys escort her back to your pack?" Nick's wolf yelped in response.

He yelled to one of the leader of the reinforcements. "Escort her back to the pack land ASAP!"

The guy crisply saluted and gently pulled her arm towards his hummer, she was too shocked to respond so he docilely followed him. He placed her in the back seat of a hummer and he sat in the front of it, his men got in to the other hummers and the convoy turned to sped away to the safety of Nick's land. Nick and his wolves ran alongside the hummers acting as an escort.

As they entered the pack lands which was now being heavily patrolled Nick's men broke away as he instructed them to assist in the patrols as he alone ran alongside the vehicles which reached the pack house.

***

Crawford had seen his last of men fall and it felt like a punch to his gut. They had been his men and he had failed them!

He continued to survey the scene even though there was no body left to fight. The reinforcement had overwhelmed the last few remaining men of his and then he saw Alex pull the girl out, even from here he could see her visibly shaken. He saw as Alex hand her over to one of his men and they bundled her in to their cars and escorted her out, presumably back to Nick's lands.

Crawford paused in confusion, he had been told that this girl was possibly Alex's mate but no mate would hand over his female in distress to someone and let them drive her away, even if they were driving her to safety. He would have snarled and growled if anyone tried to come close to her. Which led to only one logical conclusion. He was not her mate!

But, if he was not her mate, what was he doing with her? And just like that clarity seeped in to his mind.

He was protecting her!

Why would a high ranking Roma wolf be protecting an ordinary female wolf?

And as if to answer his thought another convoy of SUV's appeared, this time from the city and as they barely halted, someone leaped from the door and ran towards the carnage.

Alex had quickly moved to interpret him, his hands up in a non-threating manner. Someone leaped behind the first guy and Crawford immediately identified him as Adrian, Alex's twin.

He focused back on the first guy as he tried to see his face. He took a deep breath as he saw him clearly. His eyes widened and his body went cold.

What the fuck!?!?

Alex was talking animatedly to him as Adrian stepped to his side. The guy fell on his knees and shifted tearing his clothes apart and bolted in the direction of Nicks pack as Adrian shifted behind him and followed.

He acted exactly as a mate should have.

Which meant only one thing....

That female was mated to the Prince of Roma.

F-u-c-k! They had got the whole operations backwards!

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