The Supreme Alpha - Chapter 133

Author’s note: this is from Duke’s point of view

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The second car was a bigger challenge. It was the same Volvo SUV as the first car, but there were two people and I needed to take care of them without giving them a chance to alert others of my presence.

One guy was leaning on the side of the car, and one person was in the back seat.

Tinted windows combined with the darkness of the night obstructed my view, but I could see that the head of the person inside the car was low, like he was napping. If that were true, it would make my task easier.

I decided to deal with the person outside the car first.

It didn’t seem like anyone was in the middle row or at the front of the car.

I made a wide circle in order to approach the guy from the back.

I moved swiftly. My left hand went over his mouth and my right arm circled around his neck. I gave him a squeeze and I held him tightly from the back as his arms flailed around in an attempt to grab me. The guy’s arms slowed down after a minute and then he slid on the ground unmoving. Done. Serina will be proud. This one was just unconscious and ready for interrogation.

The fact that the person from inside the car didn’t make a move, confirmed that he was sleeping.

I opened the door slowly. I didn’t want to wake him up. Taking him down in sleep will be the best. If I can knock him out, that will be perfect.

My hands froze mid-air when I realized that my target was not a man.

It was a little girl, no more than ten years old. She had two braids, one over each of her shoulders. She had a perky nose, tiny mouth, with perfect skin and adorable features, resembling a porcelain doll. Even her frilly pink skirt decorated with white lace matched the image of a doll, the expensive ones that collectors would bleed money for.

Her most exquisite feature were two dark doe-like eyes directed at me. Was she afraid? I know I would be.

But she smiled a little, obviously relieved that I came to rescue her.

A delicate child like that didn’t belong in this gruesome place. These rogues were trading hearts that were beating inside people just a while ago!

A thought crossed my mind, who was she? Was she a daughter of the organ traders and the guy in front was a guard? Or was she a prisoner?

‘Watch out!’, Nox screamed in my head and my otherworldly reflexes helped me jerk backward to avoid the little hand that swatted my way.

I glanced down to see my shirt in tatters, and there were four thin strips across my chest from where blood started dripping. What the hell? Did she have five knives in her hand?

I looked up at the doll-girl to see that her tiny mouth opened so widely that it nearly reached her ears, and I could see shark-like teeth hidden behind as she grinned at me. Or maybe that was not a grin as she went toward me for a bite. What the hell!?

I scrambled out of the car backward, and I tripped on the guy I just knocked out.

I fell on my ass. What a clutz!

‘Focus!’, Nox warned me, and the girl jumped on me so quickly, that I barely had any time to react.

I grabbed her shoulders and held her above me and with one glance I estimated at least a hundred razor-sharp teeth in her mouth. She definitely wanted to bite me. And not just bite, but probably eat me.

This was bizarre. She was an adorable girl just moments ago!

Why can’t bad guys be ugly men with scars and eyepatches? I can go against a woman also if the need arises, but this was an adorable girl who invoke in me the desire to protect her and buy her stuff like plush toys!

‘Adorable, adorable…’, Nox grumbled in my head. ‘All up to the point when she tears our heart out. Watch how Serina will scold us for incompetence. Next time, she will leave us at home and come for these missions on her own. With Lazarus.’

I knew Nox was right, but I was too busy to think about anything else other than how to handle the girl that was set on chomping down a piece of me.

What the hell was she? Obviously, some shapeshifter as her nails were elongated and super-sharp. I was lucky that only my shirt was ruined.

‘Does it matter what she is? Snap her neck!’, Nox shouted in panic as the girl’s nails dug into my forearm. Damn it!

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I gathered my wits and rolled us over.

I blocked her next hit with my arm, earning another set of cuts and then I jabbed my elbow in her throat and I applied pressure.

Even with me choking her, the girl was still moving her unobstructed limbs vigorously, and then it happened.

‘Eeeeee!!!’

She released an otherworldly high-pitch scream that made me dizzy and for the first time in my life, I regretted having good hearing.

Fuck! Everyone heard this. So much for sticking to the plan.

I failed and I got Serina in danger.

Right. Serina!

Without thinking, my head whipped to the right, and I met Serina’s horrified gaze directed at me.

‘That’s it. She will not let us out. Ever!’, Nox whined, and I wondered if him being asleep for two decades affected his reasoning. This was NOT the time for snarky comments!

Searing pain on my right told me that the wretched creature under me got my ribs, and this time, her nails reached my bones and I could feel them sinking deeper. But even with all that, I was more concerned about the fact that she made noise, yet no one else came at me. It was just me and the shark-tooth girl and that meant the other rogues were going at Serina.

I didn’t just mess up, but I messed up big time!

I realized that my body felt weightless. Was I dead?

No. Death would come without pain, and my whole body was on fire. Did the girl poison me?

‘Stop resisting!’, Nox shouted in my mind, and I felt like someone yanked me backward, but that didn’t lessen the pain, not even a little bit. Actually, everything felt more vivid, pain included.

With a series of rapid cracks, my vision blurred, and I thought I will pass out from the sensation of my insides rearranging and every bone cracking. This time, I wished for death to come quickly so that this stops. I thought that I endured my portion of pain during hellish training over the years, but nothing compared to this.

I knew that it didn’t last more than a few seconds, probably less, but it felt like a few eternities.

Everything around me moved in slow motion, including the girl below me. She stared at me in horror like she was looking at a monster and I could smell fear. She was afraid of me. What happened with her brazenly trying to eat me up? It didn’t matter.

The pain stopped and was replaced with an immense power that rolled through every cell of my body, and I knew that my wounds were closing rapidly.

I moved toward her neck and in one swift move, I yanked a chunk of it off.

I held the creature down as I watched the blood flowing from what was left of her neck. The metallic taste filled my mouth and nostrils, yet I didn’t hate it.

Her arms fell limply on her sides, and her unfocused eyes still stared at me. Somehow, I knew she was dead.

‘If she is alive after this, we should run.’, Nox said, and I could feel his anxiousness rippling through me.

Serina. I need to get to Serina.

But… why was my perspective so low? Was I on my knees?

I looked on my right, and I could see in the car a reflection of a massive black wolf staring back at me.

Well, this was unexpected.

‘Hello, beautiful!’, Nox exclaimed in my head. Or was it his head now?

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