Slamming my shoulder against the pack house door it shudders and jolts with the impact but doesn't fully break. The locks are made of tough reinforced iron for maximum security that won't be easily broken. Cursing, I charge at it again, determined to rip it off its hinges, but the grand old door refuses to yield.

"Fuck!" I yell as I kick at the door, desperation taking over to get inside. My mind running wild on what Jay is doing to Alice.

"Cole. Move." Growls a voice behind me.

Looking over my shoulder, I grin when I see the Alpha twins standing side by side wielding an axe and a hammer in each hand. I jump out of the way as they unleash all their raw strength on the oak door, reigning blow after blow until the thick wooden panels finally splinter and crack then are fully thrown from their frames.

I race forward to storm the pack house when a large hand grabs my arm and I look back to see it's Drake that's got a hold of me.

"We stick to the plan. Hit the prison cells together to find the girls." Commands Drake.

"No, Jay already has Alice! I've just seen them on the top floor." I bark at him as I tug my arm free.

"Fine, you find Alice." Agrees Drake.

"Ezra's here, my men told me he was behind the convoy attack. I'm going to hunt him down." Snarls Lucas. "You OK to find Allannah on your own and get her to safety?" He says to Drake with a hard pat to the shoulder.

Drakes wolf eyes shine, happily accepting his task. "Let's end this." He smiles evilly. Oh, I'd hate to be the prison guards who try and block his path to Allannah right now.

We all nod at each other in understanding as we agree on our tasks and race off in different directions. My heart is literally in my throat as I bound up three to four steps at a time to reach the higher levels of the pack house. As a Gamma, I'm trained to deal with high risk and dangerous situations, but this is just another level. The anxiety of hearing Alice scream my name a few moments ago is still bubbling in my stomach. I must find her; I can't let her get away from me again.

As I reach the top floor, I come to a halt and let me wolf take over. For the first time in months my wolf and I are on the same page. He's not thrashing in my head to force a shift, knowing that running rampage across the pack house would not help Alice. Instead, he's heightening all my senses to help, I close my eyes to concentrate when I smell delicious Cherries and Apple Orchards close by. My mouth salivates from the scent, it's even more enticing than I remembered it to be. I quietly proceed down the dark hallway, keeping to the shadows, trying to hear anything that will indicate where Jay has Alice captive. However, the noise from the fighting outside and the rain is making it hard for me to focus until I hear Alice scream my name once more making my eyes grow wide.

Fuck being stealth like, my wolf and I are now on full attack mode.

Sprinting down the hallway I yank open the door where I'm sure the scream came from to find it leads to another staircase that goes to the roof. Alice's scent it strong here, anger surges through me as I see her blooded hand and claw marks on the wall showing where she put up a fight as Jay has dragged her up the stairs.

As soon as I get to the top stairs, I throw the outer door open with such force that the door comes clean off and crashes to the roof top floor with a loud clatter. The wind and rain are strong up here, the only light coming from the moon above. Scrunching my eyes up I search the roof top desperately for Alice and Jay until something silver sails past my face and I dodge away from it just in time. The silver blade barely misses hitting me directly in the face.

Spinning around I see Jay with Alice in his arms and another silver blade to her throat. The rain has made Alice's clothing completely see through making me seethe with anger that Jay has his dirty hands around what's mine. How Alice is slumped in his arms makes me guess that he's shot her with a dose of wolfsbane to stop her running, that fucking prick has poisoned her.

"Cole." Alice sobs out, but it's barely a whisper due to Jay raising the silver blade to her neck higher and leaves scorch marks on her delicate skin.

I growl enraged and stalk forward. My knuckles turn white from being coiled up so tight. "Let her go."

"Stay where you are Gamma." Jay spits out.

Growling loudly, I hold my position and do as he asks when I see Alice wince in pain from the silver against her skin.

"I told you she was off limits. I told you that Alice was not your fucking concern. You should've fucking listened!" Screams Jay.

Shaking my head in disgust at him, I yell over the din of the storm and the fighting din from below so that Jay can hear me clearly. "I challenge you on your claim for Alice. Let her go and fight me." My claws elongate and wolf eyes shine gold as I get into an attack position.

"She's mine." I yell, but this time I directly say it to Alice who manages a small smile back.

Jay bares his teeth snarling. "Never!" Before he spins her around and slams his lips onto hers.

Gasping, I watch in horror as Alice tries to fight him off but to no avail, it's all I can fucking take. I run at him at full force and slam into him, so he gets thrown off Alice and I land on top of him, the silver blade skids across the floor as Jay drops it from his hands on impact.

"Never." Punch.

"Touch." Punch.

"Her." Punch.

"Again!" Punch.

I scream in Jays face as I land blow after blow.

Like a snake, Jay strikes back in surprising speed and power with a head butt so hard to my face that I momentarily fall-back giving Jay the chance to roll away from my grip.

I quickly jump to my feet and side glance to the right to see Alice curled up on the floor trying to shuffle away, even with her hair whipping around her face from the rainstorm I can see fear across her face.

I see red, growling with fury, I charge at Jay once more landing a nice hard jab to his stomach but at the same time he slashes my back with his claws making me hiss with the pain. Once again, we throw each other off and start to circle one another. Jay has a smirk on his lips that makes we want claw it right off his face.

"I understand why you want her. She tastes so sweet, doesn't she?" Mocks Jay as he flicks his wet hair out of his face and licks his lips.

"I see you have to poison her to be able touch her." I snarl through my teeth as my eyes flick to Alice then back to Jay whose smile has turned to a scowl.

"You disgust her!" I bellow, as I leap forward.

This time I get huge hit to Jays jaw as he jabs at my torso, but I'm unrelenting. My wolf's energy burns through my veins fuelling me to pound down huge savage blows with everything I have on him until he is a bloody mess underneath me. Jay seems shocked when I finally pin him down by his throat, my weight pressing down his other limbs.

"I should hand you to the council for your crimes against the Red River Pack. So, you're locked away for life in a cell made of Silver." I seethe at him as his eyes flare in panic. "But for what you've done too Alice, you don't get to live."

I raise my other arm ready to swipe and cut his throat with my claws when Alice screams my name in terror. I look over my shoulder frowning when suddenly a sharp pain slices into my lower side of my back.

"Cole." Alice sobs out as she try's to reach for me, but Jay has regained some of his strength and throws me off him before kicking the blade further into my torso from where he's lying down.

Like I've always said, Jay fights dirty.

The silver blade lodged in my side burns like molten lava, the pain quickly becomes unbearable as the toxic metal slowly starts to kill me. I yank the blade out and see that it's the one that Jay had earlier that had slid to the floor. My eyes slowly look to the ground where the blade had once lay to see Ezra towering over us with a sadistic grin on his lips.

As I lie panting on the rain drenched floor, I watch Ezra pull Jay up onto his feet. He can barely stand from the damage I have landed on him, but it won't take his wolf long to regenerate him to his full strength, whereas mine is struggling with the Silver that's contaminating my body.

"You fool! Why are you wasting time with this slut? Allannah is the prize now. If we lose her, we lose Red River. Alpha Warren didn't lend us his best warriors from the south so you can fuck Cole's whore! We have debts to repay!" Ezra scorns his son as he holds him up by his shirt collar.

"Enough." Growls Jay back at his dad before pushing him away so he stumbles back a few paces. "Alice is mine!" he spits out before turning back to the woman I love whose cowering on the floor a few feet away.

I look to Alice with panic as she looks back at me longingly from across the roof top with her big doe eyes. The fear of losing her all over again is making my brain fog from the emotions. I try to calm my heart that's pounding so hard in my chest it feels like it will break out. I'm so desperate to think straight and analyse what to do, what's our way out! Think Cole, fucking anything. Something.

Suddenly there's a gurgled scream in the darkness, I dart my eyes from Alice to see Ezra fall to his knees, a large cut has been sliced across his throat.

"Father!" Screams Jay in shock as Ezra's dead body slowly slams to the floor and Alpha Lucas moves from the shadows with a blooded knife in hand and a satisfied grin on his face.

"It's time for retribution Beta. Your father wronged me too many times, attacking the convoy and hurting the person I love was his final mistake." Snarls Lucas, his wolf eyes flaring gold.

"Fuck you! You barely know Allannah." Wince's Jay as he tries to stand up straight.

As quick as a flash Lucas kicks Jay hard in the stomach so he's thrown across the roof top floor as the rain lashes down. "That's not who I'm talking about. You always were a fucking idiot." Screams Lucas. "...and just like your father, you're gonna get what's coming to you."

As Jay flounders on the floor, I see Lucas look at me and my wound with alarm then to Alice who is flopped out on the floor out of my reach. To my surprise Lucas strides over to Alice and pulls her up onto her feet.

"But you know what Jay, I'm not the one to deliver your punishment. I'm gonna leave that to one of my delta's."

Without warning Lucas stabs Alice in the chest with something I can't see and I shout out her name in panic. Lucas turns and winks at me before he leans into Alices ear and growls a command. "Go kick his ass!"

Alice's eyes blaze silver, her posture becomes strong and stable. She snaps her bound hands easily and pounces forward looking down at what looks like a dart that in her chest, she pulls it out looking at it with interest for a moment before she throws it to the floor with her eyes fixed on Jay as she gets into an attack stance.

An antidote.

The dart works like an adrenaline serum.

I'm close to passing out on the floor, but even I can see that Alice has never looked stronger or more dangerous in her life.

"Lucas, help Cole." Alice says firmly, her eyes flicker to me with concern before they fix onto Jay who is finally back on his feet looking stronger himself.

Two strong arms suddenly pull me up as Lucas tries to get me on my feet. "No, I have to stay with Alice." I mutter, as my vision starts to spin, the pain from the silver in my wound making me want to vomit.

"She's got this. If I don't get you to a healer soon, you're gonna bleed out." Grumbles Lucas in my ear as he starts to pull me away towards the staircase.

My wolf whines in my head as Alice glances back momentarily at me, the moonlight on her body and her wolfs silver eyes shining brightly making her look utterly breath-taking. My little wolf has become the warrior she always wanted to be, and pride mixed with fear flows through my heart as she turns to take on Jay.

"Alice." I try to call out, but my voice comes out as a croaky whisper.

"Come back to me little wolf." I beg to her, before I slowly lose consciousness as I'm dragged away from the stormy rooftop.