Katya
Dominic smiles like he is excited about the challenge, and I drop all my guards. The moment I do, so do Ezra and Mateo.
His smile falters. Dominic’s face twists in a weird grimace of shock. I can’t help, but smile at the expression. My eyes burn brightly as I feel my power rush over me. I shiver at the sensation, finally able to relish in the feeling only this type of power could grant – raw, wild and free.
Quickly, I steal a moment to look at Mateo and Ezra. Everyone shifts away from them, giving them more room. It is evident that they are too scared to get close. Everyone except Andrei.
Andrei walks between them, drops his arms across their shoulders, and flashes me the widest shit-eating grin I have ever seen. His eyes spark deviously, a clear indicator that my brother is enjoying this way too much.
“Smell that, my brothers?” Andrei asks so loudly that everyone can hear the question. In fact, as Mateo chuckles, his words echo around us. “Pretty sure they all pissed in their overpriced shoes. No amount of cleaning will get that stink out.”
Andrei chuckles as his eyes scan the faces of the Alphas who shift further away from my mates. The same Alphas who were laughing at me and my family just moments ago. Oh, how the fucking tables have turned, haven’t they?
Andrei sniffs the air exaggeratedly. “Pretty sure Alpha Cedric shit in his,” Andrei adds.
To add more salt to the wound, my brother makes a show of sniffing the surrounding air. An older man, who stands closest to my brother, looks away and Andrei takes an extra whiff of him. “Bet you’re feeling a little uncomfortable now, little Alpha?” Andrei takes that as his cue to burst out in throaty laughter.
Once I turn my attention back to the asshole of assholes, I notice Dominic appears to be hesitant. I can see the glow of my aura spread around me on the thick, lush lawn. It glows golden, becoming brighter with each second passing, especially as I push it out further as I slowly test its strength.
All this time, I thought my aura was invisible to everyone but me and my mates. But as I notice how Dominic looks down wide-eyed and steps back when it nearly touches his feet, I realize he can see it too. Not to mention the fact that his eyes keep frantically scanning over it.
“I may have underestimated you,” he murmurs, his eyes lifting from my aura to meet mine. “That won’t happen next time,” he says as pure hatred drips from his words.
I pull my aura, taking it back in, and he looks at me, cocking his head to the side. I watch him flex his fingers. “But I believe you underestimated me too, little Gemini,” he chuckles as darkness envelopes his hands and his eyes burn as bright as rubies. His canines slip from his gums. The darkness wraps around him, and I mind-link Ezra and Mateo.
“Do you see it? Do you see the darkness around him?” I ask.
“What are you talking about?” My mates ask in unison.
Alright, so now I know they can’t see the dark, sickening aura that surrounds this bastard. But also, there is something that nearly haunts me, screams in my ear that this is no blessing from the Moon Goddess. This is something much darker and more dangerous. Something forbidden. A curse from the gods, something darker, sinister, something I have not encountered before.
“Now, let’s see what you have got,” Dominic snarls at me.
There isn’t much that changes about him. Even with the dark aura, he still is the same damn prick. I am blasted with the power of his aura before I can react.
My feet tear up the grass as his power pushes me back. Both Mateo and Ezra appear to be in shock, but I already know that I had to expect something like this the moment I saw what my mates couldn’t. Dominic, no matter what he truly is, doesn’t surprise me.
He laughs sadistically. “Is this what you expected?” he keeps laughing as if he is the clown of the century. In fact, he is.
The initial shock of his blast, which still tries to force me to my knees, has faded. It disappears like a word, whispered in a raging storm. Dominic’s power, although very potent, is nothing near as strong as the pure power I feel boiling in my veins and rising to the challenge.
I chuckle and force my feet forward, stepping into the darkness and letting it cover me. I can see in his eyes that he expects fear and submission, and yet, I find some sick comfort in the very darkness Dominic controls.
The darkness won’t hurt me since I am a Gemini. I am not only the light, but also the dark. I am two halves of a whole, merged into one. “Do you know what a Gemini Wolf is, Dominic?”
Although I know he most likely does not know what I am talking about, I still ask, mainly to get on his nerves and make him crash harder than he imagines it might be.
The thing about Dominic is that it’s so clear he thinks he is the very embodiment of power. He refuses to believe and accept that there could be anything stronger than him. Hence why he doesn’t answer the simple question. “A Gemini is gifted with the kiss of life and the bite of death. Light and dark coexisting, merging, and residing in me.” I tell him as I step through his aura.
The very power he is trying to use against me splits in half. As if it’s but a piece of butter, cut through with a blazing knife. The shadows don’t touch, they just split around me and gently caress my power.
Dominic grits his teeth, forcing more out and blasting me with another wave of his power. His aura makes some people in the crowd cry out and whimper, some even beg for him to drop it.
“Hmm, is that all you got?” I ask, feeling the darkness slip over me. It felt cold to touch, and I could feel it entwining with my power, feel the darkness creeping in and making the darkness in me rise, morphing and twisting with his. It tickled my insides.
“Because if it is, you are in a world of trouble, Alpha,” I spit the title at him and smile, feeling my darkness rippling through my veins before I let it out. I let it burst out of me with a force so strong even I am shocked by the pure weight behind it as it smashes into Dominic, throwing him across the field. His body bounced and rolled across the ground.
He gets to his hands and knees, and I clutch my knees, catching my breath, not realizing the energy it took to do that. Dominic gets up, dusting himself off, and stalks towards me in a blaze of anger. Standing upright, I let him get close and could feel Ezra watching me nervously, getting ready to step in.