"What the hell are you doing here?" Kat asked, her anger rising at his persistency. He did not understand the word No, it seemed. "How many times am I supposed to tell you to leave me alone?"

"Don't you get it, Sweetheart? I'll never leave you alone." Peter promised wickedly as he abruptly grabbed the front of her dress and pulled her closer to him.

Shoving against his chest instantly, Kat seethed. "You do not give up, do you?!"

"Not on you." Stepping even closer, Peter pushed her against the bed hard enough for her to fall with a yelp before he trapped her body between his and the mattress. The new proximity had Kat's heart pounding in fear, and her stomach knotting in disgust. Even his scent was suffocating her.

"Get the hell off me!" She yelled, squirming beneath him to get away and using her hands to push against his shoulders, only he wouldn't budge. Her anger towards him was strong, fueling the fire inside her, but so was her fear. Peter was stronger than she wanted to admit. He was an Alpha's son after all, and despite how much stronger Zach was, she wasn't sure she could say the same about herself. "Zach will kill you. Get off, now!"

"That fucker will never have you, Kat." Peter grabbed both her struggling hands and held them above her head with one big palm, so tightly that she feard her wrists might snap. "I'm gonna mark you, and then the mating bond between you will be broken, and you'll be mine forever."

"You're insane! Let me go!" Kat screamed as she felt his disgusting mouth latch onto the skin of her neck in a sloppy kiss. Despite trembling in fear, Kat promised herself never to let that fear consume her to the point of paralyzing her again like it had done before. Peter was insane and he was truly about to bite her; there was no room for fear now. "Get off me!"

"Stop fighting me!" Peter snapped his deadly black eyes to hers, his fangs taking shape, as threatening as he meant for them to be. Kat's heartbeats rang loudly in her ears. "I don't have much time. Now, stay still!"

Pressing his body harder on top of hers, Peter tried to stop her from moving so he could sink his fangs into her soft skin, but he had once again underestimated how stubborn Katie was, when he suddenly winced at the loud scream she managed to get out. "Zach!"

Her eyes filled with tears and her body shook, but she never stopped struggling, never was going to. Not until Zach saved her, and she knew he was going to. He had promised her and she trusted him, but that didn't mean she wouldn't fight with everything she has got until then.

"Shut the fuck up!" Peter growled loudly and moved his free hand to clench around her delicate neck, hard enough to cut her breath short and tight enough to tilt her head to the side. He was running out of time, dammit. Pulling his head up, Peter sharpened his fangs as far as he possibly could before moving his head down.

****

Zach was securing their luggage in the trunk of his car when a feminine hand clenched onto his muscled arm. Looking at its owner, Zach groaned in displeasure. "I'm so not in the mood. Piss off right now, Lucy."

"Come on, Zach." Lucy frowned, her eyes shining with a desperate glow he had never seen before. "Just give me a damn chance. I'll make you the happiest male on the planet, I swear."

Zach shut the trunk and pulled his arm away from her grasp. "I already am." He truly was the happiest he could ever be with Kat, and the last thing he needed now was for her to catch Lucy making a move on him again.

"But you're not. You think you are, but I know you, Zach." Lucy stepped closer, her hands traveling to his chest, but he only pushed her away.

"For fuck's sake." Zach growled, hating how redundant this was getting. She had never been this persistent. "You know nothing. I will never be with you. Get it through your head. What we have done is a mistake, and I want nothing more than to forget about it."

Lucy fumed. "You're lying. Just give me a damn chance! I love you!"

"And I love her!" Zach growled in anger. There. He said it.

Lucy took a step back in shock. "You don't mean that."

"The fuck I don't." He was truly angry now. "Fuck off before she comes, or you'll have her to deal with."

"She's not coming." Lucy said, shaking her head out of her shocked state and painting a sickening smirk on her lips.

Zach started shaking with anger. "What the fuck do you mean?"

Lucy giggled before literally jumping on Zach and smashing her lips on his. Zach snarled, placing his hands on her waist, and pushed her off him a little harsher than necessary, but he was fucking pissed and fed up with her bullshit. "I'll fucking kill you if you touch me again."

He was so angry, so nervous, he couldn't even understand the intensity of his own emotions, but he knew he was a few seconds away from snapping entirely. "You'll come back to me."

"I never will, but if you so much as put another finger on me, I will make you wish you were fucking dead, Lucy." Yeah, Zach was against ever hitting a female, but suddenly he found himself questioning his morals.

Lucy laughed wholeheartedly, as if he had said nothing but a funny joke. "It's too late, you know? She'll never be yours."

Before Zach could ask her what the fuck she meant by that he felt it. Fear, inside the pit of his stomach, creeping up to his heart, squeezing it like an iron fist. Kat.

Turning towards the house in an instant, Zach ran faster than he had ever done before, yet when he was about to reach the stairs he heard Kat screaming his name loud enough for him to shift on instinct. Rushing to their room on all fours, Zach's wolf roared when he saw Peter on top of his mate, ready to bite her, and he could no longer control himself.

Pushing on his paws, Zach pounced on Peter, sinking his canine teeth into his leg hard enough to pierce his bones, and dragged him off her and to the floor.

Peter whimpered in pain before his wolf took control and he too shifted in his dark brown wolf, not as large as Zach's but big enough to put up a fight.

Kat coughed rapidly as she scattered back on the bed in fear, her hands travelling to her bruised neck to soothe the skin, as she tried to fill her burning lungs with needed air.

"Katie!" Caroline yelled, frozen at the door with a small crowd that had only gathered at the sight of an Alpha running through the mansion on all fours. Her mind was trying to comprehend the scene before her as her eyes scanned the room. Her friend was coughing badly and holding her neck on the bed, her dress torn, her face wet with unstopping tears, while Zach was growling at the wolf opposite to him, whom she assumed was Peter.

With dark eyes promising death, Zach's wolf jumped on Peter's, pushing his back to the floor and bit down on his stomach, hard enough to pull out flesh in his mouth.

Ryan shoved his mate inside the room before shifting instantly in his gray wolf and rushed to Zach's side. His front was turned towards the door as if he was guarding it, his sharp fangs visible through his mouth.

Care ran to Kat and gathered her in her arms before rubbing a hand up and down her back softly. "It's okay. You're okay, Katie. Just breathe."

"He- he tried to bite me." Kat cried in her friend's arms, her breathing still difficult, yet her eyes never moved from Zach's wolf, who kept mercilessly nibbing and bitting every piece of flesh he could get his mouth on. Peter's loud howling had alarmed almost every guard in the mansion, and just like Ryan had assumed, they started rushing into the room.

Ryan's wolf roared in warning, daring a single one of them to come closer to him or Zach, while Zach was too busy shoving two of his paws inside Peter's back. He was torturing him and he was enjoying every whimper that escaped his throat. All he could hear was the hiccups his Kat was having, and they drove him mad with uging need to show everyone what he was capable of when it came to her.

"No!" Lune Sharon shoved her way into the room. "My son! No, let him go!"

Alpha Steven held onto her shoulders, stopping her from getting any closer to the murderous beast that was feasting on his prey. Yet, he knew Alpha Zach would've never done such thing unless Peter had deserved it. They were still in the Alpha's room, with his Luna breaking down on the bed, her clothes torn enough to give everyone an idea what Peter had tried to do. "Sharon, don't!"

"He's killing him! You have to stop him!" Sharon screamed, turning to Zach before falling down to her knees, her tears dropping to the carpet below. "Please. I'm begging you! Don't kill me son! He's all I have. I'm begging you, Alpha!"

Zach's wolf ignored her pleas, and continued tearing Peter apart, not caring that he had already lost consciousness. Zach was blind by his rage, his rush of emotions overwhelming him. He had never felt this mad, this bloodthirsty. He bit down on Peter's neck, ready to end this and snap it in half, wih a roar loud enough that everyone in the room felt the power radiating off him.

"No! Luna! I beg you, please stop him! Please." Luna Sharon crawled quickly on her knees to Katie who tucked herself further into Caroline's protective arms. "Don't kill my son! I'll do anything you want, I beg of you!"

"Sharon, enough!" Alpha Steven had tears in his eyes as he saw his Luna on her knees begging. The sight broke his heart, but he could never understand the love she had for Peter. He loved him too, and he too would do everything in his power to save him, but the boy was just fucked up. Years after years he had tried raising him right, to become an honorable strong man and a successful leader, but his Luna had just spoiled him into a brat. And now it was too late.

"Do something!" Luna Sharon cried out, her eyes shooting daggers at her husband.

Alpha Steven looked at Alpha Zach who still had their unconscious son's neck between his jaw. "Nothing I would say would make up for what he has done. But I beg you to listen to my Luna's pleas, even when I know I have no right to ask that of you."

Ryan looked at Zach expectantly, waiting for his response, while Zach moved his angry eyes to his Kat. The state she was in almost had him finish the job he started but he wasn't sure if the monster he had now become was one she'd be fond of. Despite every instinct he had, every bone and muscle in his body, Zach loosened his grip on Peter's neck enough for Kat to register his question. He was asking her what to do.

Alpha Zach who was one of the strongest Alpha's in history, whose pack was one of the strongest in the world, whose wrath everyone just witnessed, was asking her what to do. And she might have fallen for him all over again right that second.

"Please," Luna Sharon whispered, still on her knees at the foot of the bed.

Kat wanted him gone. She wanted the fear he shoved inside her heart to vanish. She wanted the memory of being restrained and wiggling beneath his hard body to dissapear. But all she could see was a mother on her knees, begging her to save her child. All she could hear was a father, fighting with every ounce of alpha power within him to remain at bay, long enough to beg for his son to be spared. As hard as she wanted Peter gone, she believed it didn't necessarily mean death.

Moving her eyes to Zach's, Kat silently shook her head. Zach opened his mouth wide enough for Peter's body to fall helplessly on the floor, before he slowly strode to her. Following suit, Ryan's wolf took careful steps around the bed to reach his mate too.

Kat sniffled softly, wiping her face with her trembling fingers before reached and sank them into Zach's black furn. Letting out a purr, Zach nuzzled his face into her side.

"Oh, thank you! Thank you, so much!" Luna Sharon rushed to her son's side as the guards ran to help him off the floor and carry him quickly to the healers. "God bless you both!"

Pulling a cover off the bed, Kat draped it on Zach's wolf a second before he shifted. Care stood up and grabbed another from the closet before doing the same to Ryan.

Zach wrapped the covers around him tightly before sitting on the bed and gathering Kat onto his lap. "Consider this my farewell. RedShadow is no longer an ally of mine."

"I appreciate your mercy, Alpha. I don't know if I can ever repay such a debt."

With eyes full of shame, Alpha Steven pulled his Luna up and followed the guards out of the room.

"Are you okay, Katie?" Ryan asked as he hugged Caroline tightly, the heat and fury of the whole scene tuggung at both their hearts. Zach's power and anger were still hanging in the air, strong enough for everyone to stiffen, but Ryan and Care knew they were not under a threat.

Kat nodded, her eyes landing on Caroline. "Thank you."

"I did nothing." Care smiled softly, holding her mate's hand.

"You had my back." Zach smiled breifly at Ryan. "Thank you. I really appreciate it."

Ryan nodded his head before pulling Caroline out of the door, leaving Zach and Kat to calm down.

"I'm so fucking sorry I didn't come sooner." Zach apologized, his eyes filling with unshed tears, and Kat flinched at the sight. "I'm sorry."

"You saved me." Is all she said before burying her face in his chest and crying softly.