Unleash The Moon (The Preternaturals Book 6) by Zoe Winters Page B

like someone she’d want to
take a ruling backseat to. But someone new, someone with power?
Maybe. Though, despite her desire for Noah, there was also some
truth to her words. She wanted to be the alpha, not second string
of an alpha pair. And if she’d back the hell off, he would happily
get out of her space and let her carry on as the queen or however
she saw herself.
    “ Rafe,” Shira
said over the music in the bar. “My room. Now.”
    Rafe perked up at that and practically raced out of
the bar. They’d all watched Noah turn her down, so now she had to
prove she could still make any one of those wolves jump into her
bed on cue. And most likely she could. She certainly had her
charms.
    Noah stayed where he was, irritated that they were
no closer to getting the things he needed to get Sydney out of
here. He’d wanted to leave the following evening as soon as she
rose. They were still far too close to the facility they’d been
held captive in for his comfort. But the possibility of getting out
at sunset was beginning to seem less realistic.
    His nostrils flared when he smelled Sydney in the
lobby. He’d told her to stay in their room. He stalked out of the
bar, livid that she hadn’t listened to him when he was trying to
keep her safe. He could have thrown her down and marked her the
second he had her. It would have protected her, but he was trying
not to be a monster about it. What could she be thinking in this
place with all these strange wolves? This wasn’t his dad’s
well-behaved pack.
    When he reached the lobby, he stopped dead in his
tracks. The heavy metal screaming through the speakers that once
were used for train announcements, made it hard for him to
concentrate. All he could do was growl.
    Two of the male wolves had dragged Sydney down here.
He wasn’t sure if she’d left her room on her own, but the smell of
fear on her made him somehow doubt it.
    “ What is the
meaning of this?” Shira said, but her act wasn’t fooling Noah. He
could tell by the way her body went rigid that she’d orchestrated
it. She’d thought things would go a different direction and had
forgotten to call off her dogs.
    “ But Shira, you
said…”
    “ Release her
this instant,” the alpha said.
    Noah tensed, every instinct telling him to rip them
all apart. But even if he thought there was some small chance he
could do that, or at least could take out enough of them to
intimidate the rest, it was too risky. Maybe this could be diffused
another way. Maybe the cheery robotic voice had given him a sense
of diplomacy over the years, no matter how artificial. If he’d used
it once before to survive, he could use it now.
    Sydney’s eyes glowed red and her fangs descended.
She growled low in her throat. It was a menacing sound Noah never
thought he would hear from her. She spun on one of her captors,
hauled back, and landed a hard punch to his jaw. He reeled
back.
    Sydney stared at her fist, stunned. “I-I don’t know
where that came from.”
    The wolf she’d punched advanced on her and
growled.
    That was Noah’s cue. He shifted and pounced on top
of the guy. The other wolf shifted as he got thrown to the ground
and the two of them rolled around on the floor, snapping and
snarling, blood flying out from the fight until the other wolf let
out a horrible wail and became very still.
    Noah was about to shift back to normal when Shira
shifted and jumped on him. It wasn’t the fight he’d asked for or
the fight he wanted, but it was the one he had. She was tougher
than the male he’d just killed, and he knew without doubt as they
fought, that she’d been strong enough to lead this pack. But she
wasn’t strong enough to beat Noah.
    His fangs dug into her as she shifted back, and he
let go. She scrambled away, clutching at her throat, but it was
obvious from the look in her eyes that she knew it was too late for
her.
    Noah shifted back and wiped the blood off his mouth.
“You should have let us be on our way without the