The Black Alder Series (Books 1-3)

King Damon Pov

I feel someone linking my mind. It’s my beta.

Sir, two vampires are requesting to speak with you.

Send them away. I’m busy

Sir, they are looking for her as well.

I jumped up at that, already knowing who he was referring to. I hate vamps, but I have been building an army to storm the Black Alder Packhouse and take my special girl back with me, killing her mates in the process.

Send them up.

Right away, sir.

10 minutes later, two pale men enter, one with black hair and one with pale blonde hair. Both are dressed in all black. Both have blood-red eyes. They bow, and I nod.

“I am called Admen,” the one with black hair says.

“I am called Romero,” the blonde man says.

“What business do you have with my girl?” I demanded.

“We followed her trail here after we found some wolves throwing us off her scent. Our master looks for only her blood. We have told her blood is special,” Admen says.

“What do you mean special?” I asked them.

“Sire, she is the last pureblood elemental of the Wingoro Pack,” Romero says. I remember the stories my mom told me about them. Having the ability to control the elements. I knew my little omega was a special girl.

“She never exhibited any powers while she was here. What makes you think you have the right girl?” I asked them cautiously.

“Our seer saw her here, sire, beside you, cleaning for you,” Romero says, narrowing his eyes.

“She isn’t here, but I can help you get here if you can help me take down an enemy,” I told them.

“Why would we concern ourselves with your enemy?” Admen spits.

“She is in enemy packland, mated to three annoying but powerful alphas. If you plan to take her, I can help. I have spies inside who are simply biding time until I strike. I do not care about you draining her of blood as long as she remains alive for my personal needs. The vamps seemed to think about it. They stick their hands out, and we shake.

“Tell us more about this Black Alder Pack,” Romero asks as they take a seat, and we plan. Meanwhile, my mind drifts.

They want to take my girl. They are mistaken. After I use them to get her, I’ll rip their hearts out. They can do away with those three fucking alphas in the process. I call this a win-win. Arabella Pov

It’s been a week since I came into full power. I have been training with Camilla nonstop, which keeps me away from my friends. It’s not a bad thing, though, because ever since the recent slaughter of a small human city not too far away from the packhouse, they have been working nonstop, sending out fighters to help their fathers.

Right now, it’s nighttime. Camilla likes to practice in the dark. Oomph. Camilla just kicked me in the stomach since I got lost in my head. She has been hard on me since I almost lost it to Briana, who, thankfully, has been staying out of my way. I feel like she is planning something, and I’m sure it’s not the last time I will be punishing her.

I just dodged Camilla’s jump kick.

“Stop getting lost in your thoughts. In a fight, it only takes one second for your life to end.” She yells, landing punches on my shoulder. I block her punch to my face, but she spins around and kicks my leg out, making me fall. Ugh.

“Use your powers,” she demands as I roll off the ground and into a defensive position. The thing is, I’m terrified of using my powers. I almost lost it on Briana, and I really could have killed her. I am pretty good at controlling them daily, but I’m afraid of what I’ll do if I have to use them against an enemy. What if I use them and they consume me, turning me evil?

Camilla runs to me, and I try to punch her, but she slides underneath me and kicks me from behind.

“Powers NOW,” she commands. She lifts her foot to stomp on my stomach, but I use my air element, and it pushes her back. She falls, but backflips and gets back up, attacking me again. This time I was focused on deflecting her hits, and I focused on pushing her to the defense. I draw water from the air, and it creates a wall of ice around her. She kicks her way out and jumps at me.

“Your wall needs to be stronger,” she demands as she lands, blowing into my stomach again, and I end up on the ground. She stops attacking.

“Your elements are only as strong as your emotions and your will,” she says, helping me up. “The wall of ice was easily breakable because you only pictured ice. You didn’t picture the thickness or make it unbreakable. You need to concentrate on details and be quick.” I nodded at her, sitting down and drinking water.

“Princess,” I heard from behind me. I see my friends coming towards me. Do they get sexier every day or something? Damn!

YES

I laughed at Royal.

“Hi, my guys,” I tell them as they each kiss me.

“Adonis, Ash, may I speak with you for a moment?” Camilla asked. They look at me, and I shrug. They follow Camilla to talk, and Ares grabs my attention.

“So how was training today?” he asks, pulling me in and breathing in my scent.

“Better, but she is still kicking my ass,” I told him.

“Well, she is an Amazonian. She has had years of training. I would be surprised if you ever won against her,” he said, and I punched him softly in the stomach.

“Thanks for the confidence,” I told him, pouting. He laughs that beautiful laugh I love so much. I turned around to my other friends, and they were both looking at me and talking to Camilla at the same time. After a few minutes, they came toward me. Ash is linking with someone, and I realize it’s Ares as Ares goes stiff around me.

Ares lets me go and sits down. I look at my friends who are taking off their shirts, and man, oh man, is that turning me on? But back to my senses:.Contentt bel0ngs to N0ve/lDrâ/ma.O(r)g!

“What is going on?” I asked Camilla, who was sitting down by Ares.

“You’re going to train against your friends this time,” she simply said.

“I am not fighting my friends,” I told her. I see Ash getting into an attack position. I look at Ares, who simply gives me a small smile. I look back at Adonis and Ash.

Ash smiles at me. “Don’t worry, Bella; I won’t defend myself unless I have to. Give me everything you have,” he said. Have they all lost their fucking minds today?

“I can’t,” I tell them, but Ash doesn’t want to hear it. A ball of fire is being created in his hand as part of his powers from his mother, and he shoots at me. Thankfully, I can deflect it with the water I conjure from the air.

“You’re either going to fight us with your powers, Bella, or you’re going to force us to fight you,” Adonis says. He starts spinning his hands in a circle, creating something that resembles a lightning bolt. Oh, HELL NO

He shoots it up at me, and I pull up a chunk of rock from the ground to deflect it. I then smashed the rock out of my way. Fine, if it’s a fight they want, it’s one they will get.

I create a dust cloud that blinds them, but through the earth, I can see them perfectly. I ran to them, creating a path with rocks, and I ran upward over their bodies and right in between them. I kick my leg out, and Ash falls. I was going to do the same to Adonis, but he crept behind me while I focused on Ash and put his arms around me. The dust cloud disappears. I create a wall of ice and run up the wall, flipping behind Adonis, which forces him to let me go, and I kick him in the back after I land behind him.

Both Adonis and Ash get up and smirk, coming towards me in attacking motion, but I run and slide between them before they can get a blow in, and I turn around, focusing on the fire inside, and create whips in each hand made of the fire I conjured. I looked at each hand, wondering for a second how I did it, but I had no time to ponder it. I could see Ares and Camilla with their eyes on me, shocked. The boys looked shocked for a second too, but they smirked and advanced in unison.

I created an air cloud that carried me above them as I slung the whip around Adonis, throwing him to the ground. Ash created more balls of fire, but I used my other whip to block each ball. He then stood still as I wrapped my whip around him and jumped down from my cloud. I knew instantly something was wrong once I hit the ground, but I had no time to ponder it as I felt like I was being electrocuted and I fell to my knees from the voltage and pain. The whips in my hands disappeared.

“THAT’S ENOUGH!” Ares yells, running to me. The voltage wasn’t strong enough to do any damage, but that shit hurt, and I was not prepared at all.

Adonis and Ash were at my side first.

“Are you okay, Bella?” Adonis asked.

“You fucking electrocuted her,” Ash says, growling at Adonis.

“It was a low voltage,” Adonis growls back, and he takes my face in his hand, looking me in the eyes, checking for serious injuries.

“Bella, the pain should be passing now. Find love,” he says, and I can feel the pain starting to die down. I stand up with both of them helping me, and Ares pulls me into him immediately.

“Are you an okay princess?” He asks, and I nod. Camilla came up to us.

“I believe that was the best you have fought when using your powers,” Camilla said, walking up to me extremely proud.

I smile at her. Suddenly, I felt a chill in me, like the back of my hair was standing up. Someone is watching me, but I can’t see anyone.

“Bella, what’s wrong?” Adonis asks, and they all look at me.

“I feel like someone is watching me. Someone that doesn’t belong here,” I told him. They all looked around, but no one was found. Adonis commanded a nearby guard to check for any threats, and the guard left at once.

“Let’s get you inside,” Ash says, and we all hurry back into the packhouse.