Ella’s POV
We didn’t waste any time running in the direction of the screaming and growling. The closer we got the angrier the growling had gotten.
My heart was pounding wildly in my chest as we broke through the clearing and saw Jazzy standing before a large black beast with piercing red eyes. Hazel was standing between them, and she was the one screaming at the black wolf to stand down; tears were streaming from her eyes.
Jazzy looked messy; her long black hair was no longer in a tight bun at the nape of her neck, it was let down and loosely around her shoulders. She had dirt all over her face and her clothes were torn. She had scratches on her pale legs and arms and her eyes were dark with fury.
She no longer had darkness swirling around her and I noticed the sky was back to normal and no longer swirling with darkness.
What happened to the dark curse?
Had it been broken?
A large black beast was towering over Jazzy and Hazel and growling angrily at them.
“Alpha, what is going on?” My father said, stepping toward the black wolf who I knew was Alpha Jonathan.
“Get out of my way, witch,” Jonathan’s wolf sneered as drool dripped off his large white canines.
“She is powerless,” Hazel cried. “You can’t do anything more to her. She’s mortal now. Please.”
“She tried to kill my daughter,” Jonathan hissed. “I will have her head for that!”
“Alpha Jonathan, stand down,” my father ordered.
“We are on MY territory,” Jonathan growled, his voice booming across the forest and causing my skin to crawl. “You have no control over me here.”
“As head of the Alpha Committee, I order you to stand down,” my father said firmly, using his Alpha voice, which didn’t seem to phase Alpha Jonathan in the least.
His red eyes were fixed on Jazzy who was sneering at him in return.
Without thinking, I ran toward them. Colton tried to grab my arm to keep me by his side, but I was too quick for him to grasp me and the next thing I knew, I was standing beside Hazel in between Jazzy and Alpha Jonathan.
“You don’t want to do this, Alpha,” I said breathlessly, staring into the eyes of his beast.
“Get out of my way,” he growled through his teeth, still fixing his eyes on Jazzy.
“If you take her life, you will never come back from that,” I told him, trying to keep my voice as calm as I could manage.
“I’ve taken lives for a lot less,” he scoffed.
My stomach tightened at his words.
“Alpha, Jazzy has done a lot wrong. Death would be an easy way out for her,” I said, trying a different approach.
Jonathan had fallen silent upon hearing my words and for a second, I thought I saw his body freezing.
“She deserves a lot worse than death. She hurt a lot of people and killed many in her path. She conjured darkness and tried to wipe out an entire race of wolves. Death would be too good,” I said firmly, folding my arms across my chest.
He stared at Jazzy for a moment longer and then his eyes flashed to me.
“She tried to kill your daughter, but she didn’t succeed. She tried to kill me and all the other Volanas in the world, but she failed to do so. She tried to take over this entire nation using darkness as her ally, and she failed. She is the cause of many deaths and now she must live with the fact that she was unable to avenge the death of her parents—”
“You fucking bitch!!” Jazzy hissed.
I turned in time to see Jazzy lunging at me, but Hazel was too quick and used her powers to freeze Jazzy in her spot.
I had Alpha Jonathan where I wanted him, but that one thing caused his attention to return to Jazzy and he growled loudly at her. His eyes were venomous, making a chill creep up my spine.
Colton was quick to be by my side, protectively hovering over me.
“She’s right…” sounded a weak and familiar voice in the distance.I turned to see Sarah, being held by Brody who looked worn out.
Sarah was incredibly pale, and her face looked almost lifeless. She had blood on her face from when her nose bled after she used her abilities to get rid of some of the rogues earlier in the fight. She was holding onto her stomach as if it pained her and I noticed beads of sweat forming on her forehead and dampening her hairline.
“Sarah…” I breathed, my heart squeezing painfully in my chest.
Her eyes weren’t on me though; they were on her father.
“Jazzy tried to kill me… but she didn’t,” Sarah breathed. “Dad… I’m alive… for right now.”
Her voice faded once she spoke that last sentence and it snapped Alpha Jonathan’s eyes to his daughter.
I could tell speaking hurt her; she was sounding breathless, and her voice was nothing more than a whisper.
“Please don’t kill her because of me…” Sarah continued after a short pause.Alpha Jonathan finally stepped back away from Jazzy and turned fully to face his daughter. Within the eyes of his wolf, I could see the pure sadness and it broke my heart entirely.
“I’m really sorry…” Sarah whispered as she shut her eyes and allowed her body to go limp in Brody’s arms.
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