Broken Alpha by Paulina Vasquez (ebooks online reader TXT) 📕

“Your father wouldn't dare upset his mate. Hell, I don't even want to upset her.” Dimitri laughed.

We went into the kitchen to find my mother helping Elaina with breakfast. Niko, Rocky and Clair were already seated and eating. They had a platter full of delicious looking omelettes ready to be devoured. “Good morning, can you believe all the eggs are fresh from the chicken coop. I got to help gather the eggs this morning.” My mother said enthusiastically, she enjoyed cooking.

“Dumas keeps a lot of chickens on the island for meat and eggs.” Elaina told us.

“Fresh eggs make the best omelettes.” Niko said stuffing his mouth full.

“Where's dad?” I asked.

“He's already had breakfast. Knox and your father went down to a little beach on the western side of the island to train with the sea. I guess it's not the same as training with the water from rivers or lakes.” My mom said.

“Well why didn't I get an invite? If anyone needs more training it's me.” I scoffed.

I don't get it, my dad always did this! He spent more time training with my older brothers and only taught me the easy things. Just because they would both be Alpha's of our two family packs, doesn't mean my training was any less important. For crying out loud, I'm standing in the middle of a shit storm with a deranged mafia boss who wants me dead; but at least I can perform a simple water bubble while my brother learns to part the fucking sea!

I ran out the back door fuming and could hear my mother call out my name. I ignored her, ran into the trees, then I slipped my clothes off and shifted. Rae picked up the dress in her mouth and ran to the only beach on the island.

When I reached the beach, my father and Knox had pushed the ocean back about five yards. They were both using their water element and holding it back like a wall of sea water. Rae let out a bark and they both turned to look at me. They lost their concentration dropping the wall that splashed back up to the shoreline. I went back behind a large bush and put my dress on, then I marched back to the beach to talk to my father.

“You know, Knox and Peter are not your only gifted children. Why do you only show me the easy stuff and they get to learn the big stuff?” I asked.

“Raven, we haven't had much time to develop your gift.” My father told me.

“That's right and yet here you are, training Knox and completely forgot to invite me. Just because I'm not going to be an Alpha of a pack, doesn't mean I don't need the same training. I can do party tricks with water while my brothers can actually kill people with their gift.” I snapped.

“And is that what you want? To kill people?” My dad asked.

“Of course not, but I still need to know how to defend myself and my pack.” I replied.

“Well you have a very strong mate who will protect you now, won't you Alpha?” My father said and I turned around to see Dimitri walking towards us on the beach.

“What's the problem here?” Dimitri asked me.

“My father was just training my brother how to hold the sea back.” I tried not to sound like I was whining. “I haven't had as much—"

A popping noise rang out and Dimitri threw me to the sand before I registered what happened. A whizzing sound flew just over us, and my father roared out. Someone was shooting at us.

“NO, DON'T SHIFT! You'll be an easy big target on this beach. GET DOWN!” Dimitri called out to my father and used his element to lift sand in the air to give us some cover. He also created a trench like ditch in the ground to sink us into with his element.

Dimitri was still laying on top of me and looked out at the ocean. “There’s two boats, wolves and they have silver bullets. Now would be a good time to try the sea wall, high waves or better yet a whirlpool!” Dimitri said.

“Ohhh, I've never tried a whirlpool before.” Knox said with longing in his eyes to try a whirlpool.

“They just tried to shoot someone we all love, with a silver bullet. Focus your angry energy on the water beneath the boat. Picture the water moving in a big vortex, a whirlpool pool that will suck them down.” Dimitri told us.

“Did he just say he loved us?” Rae asked me.

I looked out at the water and did as Dimitri instructed, how the hell did they find us so quickly? A silver bullet would have been deadly to me, and it pissed me off! I thought about what happened to Leo and what they just tried to do to us, rage started to build inside of me. The water started spinning and their boats moved in a circle.

Dimitri floated around a few big boulders, to look like moving shadows. A few more bullets zipped at the floating boulders. These wolves were obviously sent here to kill. Dimitri got angry and sent a massive boulder tumbling down from the cliffs edge at one of the boats and it capsized into the whirlpool.

“Knox, are you making the water spin?” My dad asked.

“No!” Knox replied. They both looked at me with recognition in their eyes.

“Well? Are you going to gawk at me or help?” I said.

My father looked out at the spinning water and channeled his energy into it, the whirlpool started