Blaine: A Wolf's Second Sight (8 page)

Kira smiled and then crouched down and put her hands up, getting in a typical defensive stance like her instructor taught her. Thank the Gods this is where she did pay attention in the survival lessons. Of course, her instructor made it pretty hard not to pay attention. The four foot sprite loved to flash behind her and knock her to the ground when she spaced off even for a second. Kira knew the basics, but she never said she was graceful.

It was the one thing her instructor harped on her about time and time again.

Coordination and focus. That is what she lacked. At this point though she did not care what she looked like, as long as she got away. The man smirked at her, and then moved his hand in a circular motion, as if to tell her to hurry up. Her form may not be the best, but she had proved that she could kick ass when she needed to.

“Oh, you are so going to be sorry.” Kira muttered and then struck with her foot. „SING", she thought and then ran through the acronym. Solar Plexus, instep, nose, and groin.

She hit every single one of her targets while she muttered the meaning behind her word, and the first man fell to the ground rolling around moaning. The other three stood with a shocked look on their face.

“Dude, I think she had a seizure and took him out at the same time.” One of them whispered and looked at her. “See? Look at the way her leg is twitching.”

“Bastard.” Kira said and went for the man who spoke and did the same thing.

“Nope, not a seizure. Though I think she could be having a muscle spasm.” Another one said and Kira rolled her eyes. Men, everything had to be perfect or it was not right, she thought and then moved around a little so the men she had already dropped were not in her way.

“Maybe you just want to take your guys and leave. Then I won"t have to embarrass you, like I did your friends.” Kira said softly and then smiled at them again.

“Listen lady, I have no idea what the Master wants with you and I don"t really care. I just need you to come calmly with me and no one will get hurt.” The man tried to reason with her.

“Wait, let me think. Go with a bunch of scum sucking assholes, or kick their ass and leave on my own. I chose door number two please.” Kira said and kicked the man who had rolled in front of her in the head.

“I really wish you would have chosen differently.” The man said and pulled out a long stick that he hit on the ground and it shot sparks. Crap, they had a stunning wand. It was used for animals at the zoo, but people who knew about shifters knew the stun wand was one of the few things that could take them down.

“Zap the bitch.” One of the big guys on the ground groaned.

“Hey.” She yelled. “That is just rude. You have been chasing me, I just responded. I don"t think it"s fair that you pull out a stun wand now. In fact, I think it"s against the rules or something.”

“Seriously? You are arguing about rules of kidnapping?” Kira heard another voice from down the alley say.

Kira stepped back, wondered for a brief moment if she had made the wrong choice to fight. More of the big scary guys had snuck up on her when she was focused on the shitheads in front of her. Oh, what she would not give for a two-by-four and duct tape right now!

“Hey fuck heads, you are not going to sneak up on me. I will do to you what I did to your friends.” She growled hoping that she sounded at least a little tough.

“Don"t know them, don"t really care. But you are not going to hurt me.” The voice said with confidence and Kira rolled her eyes because she had to see who the dumbass was that thought she was going to go down without a fight.

Keeping her eye on the last two standing attackers that were in her sight, she backed slowly toward the opening at the end of the alley. She gasped when she realized it was the same one in her dream. Damn it, why had she not realized this a few minutes ago?

She would have known this was where she was supposed to be. Her vision showed her running toward her mates right down this alley. Now was maybe a good time to make that actual vision come true. She did not want to fight anymore and she was certain the two men that were left standing were not planning on being nice.

Kira grabbed her bags from the corner and ran without saying another thing until she felt the strong arms of one of her mates wrap around her. He smiled down at her and then pushed her behind him and said to the other one. “Now what?”

“I need to know what they want.” Her taller mate said and growled a little before walking slowly down the alley toward the four men that had recovered and now stood waiting for them.

“Sweetheart, I need you to stand here and wait for a few minutes okay? I have to go and help dunderhead over there before he gets his pretty face bashed in.” Her smaller mate said and kissed her on the cheek.

Kira laughed at the way that they were calmly facing the wolves that had surrounded her. She smiled and leaned against the stone wall of the hotel and watched as her mates confronted the men who had tried to take her.

“So, I am just wondering why you were tracking down my mate, boys. I really don"t think it is a good idea to try to take someone"s mate from them. You know as well as I do, mates are off limits. So give me a real good reason before I get even more pissed off, as to why you are trying to us a stun wand on my mate.” Her large mate growled.

One of the men who had tried to corner her held up his hands like he was going to try and reason with her mates but instead threw a knife at him. It would have been a very good shot if her mate had not been ready for it. She giggled when his hand caught the knife easily, flipped it around and threw it back in a smooth motion. The knife struck the man between the eyes and he fell silently to the ground.

“I am pretty sure that you have figured out by now that this is not something that you want to do. Maybe you are a little afraid of returning to your leader empty-handed.

Maybe you are too stupid to understand that if you chose to try to fight me, you will lose.

Either way, you have about ten seconds to tell me what I want to know, or else you will be joining your friend in hell.” Her mate growled and stepped a little closer to the men who tried to kidnap her. One of them still held the stun wand and he looked like he was weighing his options.

“The Master will not be very happy if we do not bring her back, so it does not matter one way or another what you think you are going to do, I am taking her.” The man with the stun wand said.

“We are going to have to agree to disagree on that.” Her mate muttered. She looked at her other mate who had gone and positioned himself next to their mate. Kira took a deep breath and then jumped when someone touched her arm.

“Don"t be afraid. I am with them. We all are.” A tall handsome man whispered to her.

She looked around him to see about fifteen shifters standing at the entrance to the alley on their side. When she turned to look, there were as many on the other side of the alley. The men who had tried to take her were trapped; they just had not realized it yet.

“Who are you?” She whispered out of the corner of her mouth. She did not want to distract her mates when they were in such a tense situation.

“Well, that"s a funny story. I am the Alpha of the New Council, my name is Quin. So obviously there are some things we have to learn about each other. I mean, a second ago, I was standing in my conference room and then suddenly we were all here. I think we may have to talk to Dalton about projecting his feelings.” He said dryly.

Kira snorted and turned back to watch her two mates take apart the three men who were trying to take her. They did it with ease and seemed to work together like they had been together for years. Kira suddenly became worried about where she was going to fit into the relationship. Were they going to think she was intruding? Crap, her insecurity was going to show and she did not want to start things right off the bat like that.

“Hey, can you see their aura?” The Alpha whispered to her.

“Um, yeah. Why?” She whispered and then smiled when she saw one of her mates begin taunting the last of the men they were fighting. She could not hear what they were saying but the asshole suddenly roared and then ran at her two mates.

“Curious, what does it look like?” Quin said innocently.

“Well, when you look at a regular shifter, like the ones across the alley, they have a dull pale glow about them. Each species is different; they have different hues to them. Now the more powerful the shifter, the stranger their aura. I have never actually seen a Council member but my mother described it for me. They will have very strong golden hues surrounding them. I can see at least five of them right now, and yes, one of my mates has one. The other mate has the same color just not quite as bright yet.” Kira said.

“Probably because they are not fully mated yet. Clearly, Blaine has been waiting for you.

He has seen your mating and knew that you had to be together to get your full powers.

The larger man is Blaine and the other is Dalton. Blaine is a wolf shifter and Dalton is a Sidhe. They found each other just a few weeks ago.” Quin said and then stepped back and pulled her with him. “I suggest we move a little, I think your mates have almost finished and we are going to have to figure out how to get back home.”

“Home?” Kira said looking at the people who were around them. There were at least three other Council members and they were huge men. She wondered if it was a prerequisite for being on the Council to be as big as a house.

“Milliken, Colorado. That is where the New Council Pack headquarters is located. We have a Pack house and members of the New Council will have their own homes built next to the Pack house, so you will each have privacy. Right now, we have found six of the Chosen. We are looking for the remaining seven. That is why we were looking for you. We were told you are the only one who could confirm one of the Chosen. You see, Blaine here seems to think that he is not one of the Chosen. We had no clue you were all mates until a week ago. Then we really started to look for you.” Quin smiled at her.

“Oh... well he is definitely one of the Chosen then.” Kira said looking around at the people who were standing guard for them. Finally, she heard a sickening thud and she knew her mates were done doing what they had to. “Why are these men looking for me?”

Quin sighed and looked around at the men who were standing with him. How did he explain this? He thought, and then relaxed when he felt Blaine and Dalton come up behind him. “My dear, that is a long discussion which we will have as soon as we are all safe and sound.”

Jaden pushed his way forward and slapped Dalton in the back of the head. “Dude, I was just getting ready for my date night with Cami. Seriously? You had to pull us all out?” Dalton laughed and then grinned at the Alpha. “Hey, I did not even know I could do that. It was instinct. I saw Kira surrounded by the Rogues and I reacted. I actually called for the strongest men in the New Council Pack. I am not sure why they sent you.”

“Bastard.” Jaden muttered.

“That"s not what my mom told me, she said I was made from the love of my mom and Da.” Dalton said innocently.

“Boys, I think we should table this ongoing argument and figure out how to get home.

The plane will be landing in a few hours and we will be set to go. Kira, do you have things you need to get before we leave?” Quin said kindly and glared at the men.

Chapter 7

Kira felt like she was in an episode of the Twilight Zone or Romper Room, since they both made sense at this point. Dalton and Jaden continued to egg each other on and at times they bordered on fist fights as Kira led them through the streets of Detroit. She was trying to get back to her apartment without drawing too much attention. That was impossible considering twelve hulking men who looked like they were from the Secret Service surrounded her. All of them towered over her and refused to let her out from in between them.

Blaine was the worst, he had yet to say a word to her, but he held her arm like she was his lifeline. Dalton had humorously threaded his arm in hers at times and skipped alongside her. He was funny, keeping a running commentary on the New Council so she would know who she was with. Quin and Jaden were the Alphas, they were mated with Cami. Devon was the Beta and he was mated to Sid and Casey who were also one of the Chosen. Teagan and Darien were mated to Cloe, the Pack doctor. Levi was mated to Reggie, the twin of Casey and Ruby. The rest of the men were Enforcers and apparently good friends of Blaine. He called them all by name and asked them to watch for suspicious activity around them.

If someone watched them, they would think they were guarding the Queen of England.

At least that is how she felt being in the center of the massive muscle. Kira looked at all of them in appreciation; they could all be centerfold models. One of the best asses she had ever seen was right in front of her; it belonged to her mate, how lucky was she?

“Turn right and it is the third building on the right. I live on the third floor.” Kira said and pointed to her window. Quin nodded and led the way to her building.

The man called Devon ordered four of the Enforcers to stand guard out front. The rest followed her into the building. Devon placed two more Enforcers in the lobby and then more by the elevator. She wanted to remind them that they were going to scare the humans but refrained from doing it when she saw the look of determination on Blaine"s face.

She led them down the hall to her apartment and then paused when she saw the door was cracked open. Damn it, someone had gone inside again.

Blaine pushed her behind him when he saw the crack in the door and motioned for Devon to go first. She watched his horror when he pushed in the door and she saw the inside of her apartment. It was a mess to begin with, she admitted that she was a slob but what she saw was destruction.

“FUCKIN" A!” She cried and pushed herself around her mate to see inside her home, or what was left of her home. Nothing was untouched. Her curtains were shredded; her couch overturned and sliced open, even the content of her refrigerator was thrown throughout the kitchen.