Ryder ~ Wolf Dominion

Volume 2 Chapter 34

The wounded arrive back to the small camp in a surrender late that night. A hundred soldiers.

They walk back along a broken highway – cleared of foliage.

I'm surprised any of they make it back at all. I've followed them, and before they reached the camp before me, I made sure to get to Orrin's side first, so I had a representative.

I stand outside Elder Orrin's house with his son Orrin, and the rest of their family.

The soldiers walk into the camp, right up to their Elder, while Orrin jnr. does the headcount.

The one in charge of the small army, approaches to report.

This one is a graceful warrior – larger than the rest. Still skinny and starved, but still strong and tall.

Orrin tells me, "This is our Commander Valen–"

Valen notices my height difference and the general look of me.

He knows.

Instantly.

Enemy.

He comes for me before he's even introduced properly. But if it's a fight he wants – he wasn't going to win. I'd teach him a lesson or two.

I go to defend myself with my hands, but he goes straight for the gun at his side.

I launch toward him before he can aim, but he uses his foot to kick out my ankle, and then knees my stomach and shoves his arm against my throat – pressing the gun to my head. He gets the upper hand through experience and having absolutely no fear.

"You fight just like them," Valen snarls – distraught and traumatised by the battle he just fought, and again with facing me. I'm just shell shocked he out manoeuvred me.

Valen moves to press the trigger but Elder Orrin yells out, "NO – you don't know who she is!"

"She's an Alpha," Orrin jnr. calls out, sheepish.

"Luna," I hiss, while Valen's eyes spark.

"Skye's past lover," Elder Orrin speaks even more slowly – and I see that light really start to fire up in Valen's eyes. Being important to Skye was hope to Orrin and the weak – but to Valen... I see it. It's his chance for revenge.

I feel the nerves in my leg scream at the memory of such a rage when I had seen such fury ignite from humans before.

I wait to see what Valen would do – and I know in this second I might just get a bullet through my b –

He steps back.

"Past lover? Of the Dominator?" Valen asks me, his voice dripping with venom, "And where did you come from, did you just drop out of the sky? You're a spy."

"I'm actually not," I answer huskily, feeling all eyes on us, "I crawled out of an Incinerator. They think I'm dead. Skye thinks he ended me."

"Why. Why would he try to kill one of his own –" Valen is in disbelief.

"Because he never saw me as one of his own. He thought I was human. He enslaved me and tortured me, into who I am now. I had no thoughts. Other than loyalty to Wolf Dominion. I had nothing but brain washing and mind fucking and being fucked – and now I'm watching him burn the human race to the ground. I'm done with being fucked."

"Ha," Valen can't quite believe me, and he turns to Orrin to report, "They stopped playing fair today. Used a fucking flame thrower to burn the first line. They all watch like they're cooking food for their Beasts. Dinner time."