Defy The Alpha(s) novel Chapter 746

Chapter 746: Run For Your Life

The speed at which public opinion shifted sent a cold shiver down Kelly’s spine.

Aster City had been on edge for weeks now with humans and werewolves snapping at each other over every little thing, and she could feel that tension coiling tight in the air. One moment, the crowd had been thrilled, and entertained by the fight, the next, that feeling had turned deadly.

Their eyes were on Ken.

Kelly knew that look and what came next.

"You all saw what happened!" she shouted, stepping forward before fear could paralyze her. "Noah attacked first, both of them!" Her finger jabbed toward the injured werewolf still writhing on the ground, his bones struggling to knit back together. "Ken didn’t start this!"

She planted herself in front of Ken without thinking, her arms spreading slightly as if her body alone could shield him from the crowd that was beginning to close in.

"It was self-defense!" she declared, her voice shaking but loud. "He had no choice!"

A scoff rose from somewhere in the crowd.

"Self-defense?" a man sneered. "That’s bullshit. He’s a werewolf, that kid was human. All he had to do was take a hit or two."

Another voice chimed in. "Yeah. But he used his full strength."

The ugly murmurs increased.

"And now the boy’s dead," someone said grimly.

Kelly’s stomach dropped.

"This is exactly why these creatures shouldn’t be walking among us," a woman hissed. "They’re dangerous."

"That’s murder!" another person yelled.

The word rippled through the crowd like gasoline on fire and it didn’t help that the

bus pulled in right that moment.

Its brakes hissed loudly, the doors folding open with a mechanical sigh. Instead of dispersing, more people spilled out, drawn by the noise and the tension like moths to flame.

"What’s going on?" a passenger asked.

"Some Werewolf killed a human," someone answered immediately.

"What?"

The driver leaned out of his seat, eyes narrowing as he took in the scene. "Hey, what the hell happened here?"

"Call it in," another voice urged. "Get the authorities."

Kelly’s heart slammed violently against her ribs. This was quickly getting out of control.

She felt Ken shift behind her, probably trying to defend himself. Kelly turned her head just enough to whisper. "Ken, don’t. You need to run. Now."

"Run?" he whispered back, disbelief in his tone. "I didn’t do anything wrong."

"I know," she said. "But that doesn’t matter anymore. Not to them."

"I am not—" Ken started, anger bleeding into his voice only for a collective gasp to ripple through the crowd.

They turned just in time to see Noah pushing himself upright.

Cuts littered his body with blood soaking into his clothes. One arm hung at a wrong angle, the bone clearly broken, but he didn’t even flinch. Almost as if he didn’t feel it at all.

His eyes lifted, and there was nothing human in them anymore. A wild, unhinged gleam burned there, hungry with violence. The crowd sensed it too and some of them backed away instinctively.

How was he still standing? That shouldn’t be possible.

"Ken..." Kelly whispered, her voice slightly trembling. "You need to run. Now."

Ken didn’t move.

Noah’s lips peeled back, a low snarl tearing from his throat, raw and animalistic.

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