The Merciless Alpha(erotica)

Chairman Brent’s POV

I sent the update over the link to Patty, both of us were feeling terrible we weren’t there to help. We had our own problems. “This means we are guaranteed to be attacked,” I said.

“What do you mean,” Talia asked.

“The rebels know that if they don’t take out all the members of the Vampire Council, we will end them. Three members are at headquarters, and two are here. It doesn’t hurt that you are here too, along with your father. They are going to try and decapitate both species.”

I could see the anger running through her until she forced it down. “What do we need to do, Dad?”

“Get ready.” I nodded; there wasn’t much more we needed to do. We had already put everyone except the warriors into the safe room in the basement. The remote detonated charges were ready, men roamed the rooftops with silver-core bullets in their rifles. We had two Vampire Masters, one badass hybrid, an Alpha and dozens of experienced werewolf enforcers at our disposal.

I almost felt sorry for them.

The radio blared from the desk in front of me. “Control, this is Jones. We have multiple helicopters inbound our location from the southeast. I can hear them, but no lights. Maybe thirty seconds out.”

I grabbed the radio. “If they are under 500 feet, assume hostile. Blow the barrels in the trees if you can.”

Ten seconds later, I heard the sound of machine guns going off, the rounds slamming into the building as the helicopters approached. Looking at the cameras, I could see three of them flying just above the treetops. Gunners were tethered and hanging out the doors, and four men were sitting on each of the skids. One of the tree-hung barrels exploded, the flames shooting fifty feet in all directions. The timing was perfect, but only one of the helicopters was in the zone. The flames shot upwards in a bright ball, licking the side of the helicopter as the rotor wash swirled it around. The five men on the right side were enveloped in the sticky gasoline mix and kept burning after the fireball was gone. The helicopter tilted hard to the left as the men dropped off into the trees.

My men opened up with everything they had, but they couldn’t compete with machine guns strafing the roof. The cameras showed one after another falling to the heavy guns as the helicopters circled the roof. “SHOOT THE TRANSMISSIONS UNDER THE MAIN ROTOR,” I yelled over the radio. It came too late.

I watched the last man get shot, his body dropping to the flat roof behind the air conditioning unit.

The helicopters dropped down, their cargo jumping to the roof and rolling to a stop. All that preparation for a ground assault was worthless, they went right over the top. “Defend the stairways on the northeast and southwest corners,” I directed. We watched as the attackers opened the doors and dropped into the stairwell.

Our men fired at them, but the vampires were lightning fast. Dropping down a level at a time, they absorbed the rounds but weren’t stopped. Talons extending from their fingers sliced through men’s necks, and fangs bit into shoulders as they stormed forward.

Nikolai looked at me. “Go to the safe room with your men,” he said. “This is our fight.”

“I can’t let you do that, Nikolai. We fight together.”

“There’s no time for this.” I saw a blur of motion to my right before I was picked up over a shoulder. I could barely see as we zipped out the door and down to the entrance to the safe room. As I flew into the opening, I could see Jacque landing next to me. I looked back to see Talia’s face just before she pushed the door closed. “NO!”

“Sorry Dad.” The door closed and automatically locked, the heavy steel mechanism locking itself in place in twelve points. The timer would prevent it from being reopened for at least an hour.

I got to my feet, looking at the camera next to the door as it showed the big room outside. Talia stood in her hybrid form; her claws were longer and straighter than a regular werewolf Alpha should be. Fur had covered her body and her face was a mix of wolf and human, her muzzle extended and filled with sharp teeth. Her canines were almost six inches long and straight like a vampire. The teeth extended over her lower jaws like the wolf version of a saber-tooth and venom dripped from the tips. She was fearsome, as were the two Vampire Masters on either side. They were standing ready, talons extended as they waited for the attackers to enter the room.

Randall’s POV

Outside Manhattan Office Building

Nikolai’s familiar was in contact with their security center, so I was able to keep up on the attack as we drove closer. At this time of night, there wasn’t as much traffic and fewer people. With the battle taking place in the subbasements of a nearly empty office building, and that office building owned and run by the Council, there wasn’t as much chance of humans getting in the crossfire.

That didn’t mean it was easy. The number of attackers they were talking was daunting, they were outnumbered three to one. They had three Vampire Masters to defend, but they had identified Louis and two other Masters in the first wave. There might be more waiting for them.

“Where do you want me, Jarrod?”

He paused for a moment. “There are two choices. The first is you head to the subway and clear the people out of the escape tunnel. There are probably fewer of them, we only saw six before the cameras were taken out.”

I hated tunnels. They were kill zones with nowhere to hide. “They are bound to have booby-trapped the hatch by now. Even if you are successful, all we do is move this fight to another day. All the Masters are on the third sub-basement, right?”

“Yes, we haven’t seen any motion elsewhere. They are still cutting through the door, they have maybe fifteen minutes left until they can enter the stairway.”

“Any other help coming?”

“Not before they get through, no.”

Shit. “What is option two?”

“The shaft of the freight elevator. They used the fire department recall key to move it to the surface and keep it there.”

“How does that help me?”

“The lobby only shows one vampire up there. Take him out and remove the key and you can use the elevator again.”Content © NôvelDrama.Org 2024.

“You want me to come get you?”

“That won’t work, as soon as they see the elevator moving they will push the button and stop you on their floor. Our control only prevents the elevator from going down, we can’t control which floor it goes to.”

I had an idea. “I can get down there if I make it to the elevator in back?”

“Yes, you’ll need the key card your driver has, but you should be able to open the door and remove the fire key, then use it.”

“Good. I’ll call you in a few.” We were only a block away now, and I saw what I was looking for. I gestured for the driver to pull up next to a shuttered-up food truck. Stepping out, I closed the manual valve on the four-foot-tall liquid propane tank and tore the copper hose from it, then pulled back on the upper part of the heavy cylinder. The chain and support snapped as I applied my hybrid strength, and I shoved it in the open back seat of the car. The whole thing took less than fifteen seconds before the door was closed and we were moving again.

“Drive by the alley first and make sure it’s clear,” I said. We didn’t see anything, so he parked in front of the loading dock. I called Jarrod as I got out with the cylinder. “I’m in place, open the door,” I said. There was a click, and I pulled it open. There was a young vampire waiting inside; he looked at me, confused with my scent, before I put a bullet in his head. The shot didn’t kill him, but using my vampire speed I was on him and ripped his head off. I tossed his body into the elevator and went back to get the cylinder.

The fire recall key was still there, and I turned it off and inserted the card. I jumped up, knocking the escape hatch aside, then dropped back down. Pressing the ‘B3’ button, the door closed then the elevator start to move. I waved at the camera, not knowing if this was brave, foolhardy or stupid.

As the elevator came to a stop, I decided the answer was ‘Yes.’ I shifted to my hybrid form, my clothes falling to the floor as I reached my eight-foot height.

As the door opened to the surprise of the vampires, I hurled the large cylinder across the room. The impact on the concrete wall sheared the valve off the end, and the escaping gases shot it across the room like a rocket. I didn’t wait. I jumped straight up through the emergency escape hatch and pulled myself clear of the cab. A few vampires rushed in after me, and I ignored them as I scrambled up the framing of the elevator shaft. My claws scraped on the steel as I moved up.

The rapidly decompressing cylinder wreaked havoc on the vampires as it bounced around the room, at least based on the screams and bangs. It only took a few seconds before the concentration of propane in the atmosphere reached the Lower Explosive Limit, and a second after that before the flammable gas was touched off by the torch cutting through the door.