Took a breath in and shoved that tinge of pain touching her chest down and away. Not to be thought about, not ours anymore. She reminded herself.
Avalon turned up for her final fitting and adjustment, she was happy with her gown, and out of her office within 45 minutes, all good. Piper headed out the way she came in, via the back entrance to her courtyard.
She was headed to the carpark when she heard a muffled cry of pain and fear. It was female. She stopped at the sound of men laughing, closed her eyes, hated these alleyways sometimes, and the dumb-a*s men that thought it was okay to drag girls into them for what they believed was a fun time. Only to them, not to the woman or girls.
Took a breath in and smelled 4 distinct male scents, frowned not humans, wolves, and rogues at that. Took another breath in and found the female was a she-wolf, her nose actually crinkled instantly at the scent she was smelling. Piper heard Harper snort in annoyance, they knew that scent.
Did not want to get involved, the girl was not their problem, but… 4 rogues and 1 she-wolf, regardless of who that she-wolf was, it was not a fair fight. Turned down the alleyway and saw two of the rogues just standing back smiling all lecherously watching on, while one was holding the young she-wolf shoved up against the wall, a hand over her mouth, and the fourth one was touching her all menacingly and plucking at her clothes, tormenting the girl about what was to come she supposed.
Stupid girl, obviously out without her escort, she was pinned to the wall with a hand around her throat, a hand over her mouth to muffle her cries and a knee jammed between her thighs.
Harper snarled right at them. None of them smelled her coming but they were all looking at her now. Saw the big guy holding the she-wolf, laugh right at her, “More fun boys,” he stated, and she watched as the two standing back came towards her.
The idiots thought she was a human. Well, she was not and she was well trained. Unbeknownst to them, it was going to shock them greatly. She punched that first guy at full wolf speed and strength, right in his face, busted that nose of his, and he fell backwards, completely caught off guard by her speed and strength. Spun a round house kick right into that second guy as he stood shocked by the attack on his buddy, slammed him right into the dumpster, heard both of them swear.
Saw that big guy raise an eyebrow at her and then try to smell her, he would smell nothing just like every other damned otherworldly creature would.
“Fight Hadley, I know you can.” she snapped at the girl who was just standing there, looking terrified about the situation she found herself in. Surely she had training, was an Alpha female. It had not escaped her sense of smell the day she had walked into her store. She had also noted the girl was fit like she trained as well. Didn’t want to say the girls name out loud, not ever, but had to.
Was taking on two rogues at the same time down the ally from her, as both those men had gotten back up and come at her together now, she had trained for this, but it was years ago, and she’d not actually had to hit a wolf in near a decade, mostly humans and they were easy to take down, one punch at wolf strength and they generally got the message and ran off.
Not this lot, fists were flying, and so were her feet. In her attempt to fight them, at one point she was grabbed by the third rogue, from behind, he’d managed to snag her and pin her arms to her sides, which only left her to use her feet.
Her claws were out suddenly, and Harper was aiding her, hadn’t seen their claws in years, dug them into the man’s thighs and gouged him til he was crying out in pain, moved her head to the side when she saw one of them coming to punch her in the face likely trying to knock her unconscious, he hit his own buddy right in the face.
That man let her go and as he gasped out in pain she took chunks of flesh from his legs with her as she stepped away from him, dragged her claws through his legs and shot off the mark to tear into the next guy. Could finally hear actual fighting going on behind her, seems the girl had decided to fight back, about bloody time.
Turned on the rogue who had a busted nose and dodged out of the way of his hit, feinted at him and then slammed her elbow right in between his shoulder blades and sent him sprawling on the ground, kicked him between his legs as hard as she could while he was trying to get up and heard him howl in pain and watched with satisfaction as he grabbed his balls and curled up in pain, Harper had lent all her strength on that one.
Turned around, two down, two to go, though the smaller of the two men was now looking at her quite wearily “Come here you dumb a*s, I’m going to rip your balls off.” she snarled right at him and just to add to her threat and make it more menacing, reached her clawed hand out and snapped it shut, made a yanking motion as though she was showing him what she was going to do to him.
Saw him look past her to his two injured friends, then just turn and bolt away down the alley in the other direction, didn’t want to take her on it seemed. Her eyes moved to the big man, he had Hadley pulled up against him a hand around her throat. She was tiny for an Alpha female, barely 5 feet tall.
Huffed in annoyance, his other arm was around her waist, and she was completely lifted up off the ground, had no leverage to get herself free, was still struggling against the man, had several bruises and there were claw marks ripped through her shirt, she was bleeding in several places.
As was he, her eyes said it all. She needed help. The woman that was taking her place, was now begging with her eyes for Piper to help her, to save her life. She didn’t like it, but couldn’t let her be taken away by this S.O.B. who would brutalise her, likely r**e her for goddess only knew how long, before passing her off to his friends and then selling her off when he was done with her.
“Put her down.” she snarled at the S.O.B. “I’m a better choice.”
“You’re nothing.” he laughed “She’s Alpha-blooded, she’ll sell for a real good price.”
Saw as Hadley’s eyes went really wide, fear in them now.
“Not on my watch. I know her pack and you, you’re a dead man.” she shot off the mark, regardless of the fact that he was using Hadley as a shield. The woman’s wolf would heal her injuries, if she sustained any.
Saw the rogue’s eyes go wide as he realised holding on to Hadley was not going to stop her from attacking him. He threw the girl against the wall to his left and Piper was on him all claws out, ripping into his side, managed to snag just one claw right between two of his ribs and right into his lung, heard it collapse the second her claw was out, she took a knee to her own ribs felt two of them c***k and hissed in pain, as she turned on him, and put a full front kick right into his abdomen and then a knee to his face as he fell down.
Thankfully, Hadley had already wounded him and that collapsed lung helped a lot, so he was easier to take down than the others, saw him lying there on the ground now unconscious, lifted her eyes to the other two who were getting up off the ground and snarled right at them loudly and aggressively, didn’t need nor want to fight them again, but they were not looking at her, but at their leader, finally their eyes moved to hers, she feinted at them and they both turned and ran off.
Groaned and held on to her side, where her cracked ribs were, it was paining her, wiped the blood from her split lip and muttered “just freaking great.” turned to look at Hadley, the girl was still laying on the ground, seemed to be dazed, had a head wound that was bleeding from where she’d hit the wall.
Couldn’t just leave her there, if that big bastard on the ground woke up first, or his men came back, they’d just pick her up and take her like they had originally planned to in the first place.
Great what to do? Sighed and hauled the girl up, she could half walk in her half dazed state, made her way down the alley in the opposite direction that the rogues had gone, and flagged down a passing taxi. The driver looked very shocked at the state of the two of them, both had bloody wounds on their bodies. “Take her to the hospital.” she told him and took all the cash she had in her wallet and shoved it into his hand.
He looked at it, it was more than enough. “I’ll get there on my own.” she put a still dazed Hadley into the back seat of his taxi. She was flopped down on the back seat, then closed the door. “I mean it, straight to the hospital.” she pointed a finger at him and snapped a photo of him, making her point.
“What about you?” he asked, glancing over her wounded state.
“I’ll make my own way there.” she told him again. Saw the man get back in his taxi, snapped the number plate and committed his face to memory in case the girl didn’t make it to the hospital. He looked trustworthy, she hoped he was.
Then went right to her car and left, headed home. She had to get cleaned up and hopefully healed up before Brandon got home from school.
Looked at herself in the bathroom mirror and sighed, she had a split lip, a gash through her right eyebrow and a nice sized bruise on her cheekbone. Bloody knuckles and a massive bruise where her ribs were broken, multiple claw marks on her arms and across her abdomen, a couple on her lower back. They were not out to seriously injure her, subdue her more likely. They wanted her alive, could only presume to be taken and treated as they would the other girl.
To be sold off at some otherworldly black market, not a nice thought. Unfortunately, alone and unprotected, it did happen. Those four now knew she was not human, hopefully weren’t locals to the area.
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