Pregnant With Four Alphas' Babies: A Reverse Harem Romance Chapter 126: Everything is Just Fine

*Eli*

Moving a wounded wolf shifter who doesn’t want to go is not easy in human form, and it would be even more difficult in wolf form. Thankfully, I have a large enough team of shifters in my group who are willing to stay in their human form that we are managing to get Emily slowly back to where she should be… with Alpha Stephen.

He seems to be retreating though. Ordinarily, that might be a good thing, but it is taking us forever to get her there. I didn’t want to use a vehicle to alert them of our approach because I thought that might be detrimental to our cause, so we are literally carrying Emily to her demise, strapped to a stretcher, going as fast as the shifters in human form can walk over rough terrain while she screams and bucks and tries to get herself loose.

So far, she’s still stuck to the stretcher, but she’s managed to turn the damn thing over three or four times and landed on her face on the ground each time.

It hasn’t stopped her from continuing to try again….

We trek on.

I have considered sending a messenger ahead to Stephen’s troops to let him know we’re coming, but I don’t know whether or not he’ll accept someone even under the flag of truce, and I don’t want that person to get killed because Alpha Stephen is a douche.

So… the twenty of us are moving on together.

And every time we start to get within a few miles of Alpha Stephen and his warriors, they move.

They aren’t necessarily retreating, I suppose. They are actually just moving about around the same amount of miles from the castle as they were when we started this dance.

I’ve even tried reaching him on the mind-link, but he won’t respond.

It’s almost as if he doesn’t want her back….

“Put me down, you fucking cock suckers! I swear to the Moon Goddess, I will tear you limb from limb and use your own bleeding arms to beat the shit out of you!” Emily screams behind me.

I can’t imagine why her fiancé doesn’t want her….

Finally, after a couple of days of this nonsense, I decide I’ve had enough. While we are camping for a couple of hours, giving everyone a chance to catch their breath, including the screeching banshee tied to the stretcher, I announce my plan.

“I’m going to run on ahead,” I tell them.

I watch everyone’s eyes widen.

I am currently in my human form, wearing a pair of shorts, like everyone else who has shifted back to human and is sitting around, eating and drinking some water to make sure they are able to continue on the journey.

But they all stare at me like I’m nuts.

“Listen, we need to get word to Alpha Stephen that we have her. Whether he wants her or not, he’s taking her.” I see them shaking their heads as I explain.

“It’s too dangerous, Alpha,” Trevor, my Beta, says. “You could get hurt. Not only are Alpha Stephen’s troops running around here, but so are Alpha Kane’s. There could be other rogues and rebels out and about as well. Alpha, sir, with all due respect, I don’t think it’s a good idea.”

“I don’t see any other alternative,” I tell him. “We’ve been trying to catch up to him for a couple of days now, and he won’t wait for her, and he won’t respond to my mind-link messages.”

“Maybe he doesn’t want her back,” Cora, one of my seasoned warriors, says as she takes a bite out of a piece of beef jerky. Still chewing, she says, “I can’t imagine why.”

Emily is situated under a tree a little bit away from where most of us are sitting, but we can definitely hear her. “Fuck off, you assholes! I’m going to rip your dicks off and shove them into each other’s throats!”

“She’s delightful,” Cora finishes.

I have half a mind to just leave Emily here and let Stephen know where she’s at, but then I have a different idea. “We are about twenty miles from Alpha Stephen’s main village. You guys just take her there. Dump her off in the city center if you need to. I don’t care. In the meantime, I’ll go let His Floppiness know that his love interest is being deposited back on his property.”

“But… why don’t you just come with us?” Trevor asks. “It would be safer.”

“I’ll be fine,” I assure them. I think of all of the battles I’ve been through. I can’t even count them all. I’m certainly not afraid of Alpha Stephen, and I’m confident I can outrun anyone else who tries to get in my way.

“Alpha, maybe you should take a few of us with you?” Cora suggests. “There are more than enough of us to make sure the witch gets home.”

I shake my head. “I need you guys to protect the warriors in human form. They won’t be able to shift that quickly if someone comes out of the shadows and attacks, especially not while they’re carrying that holy terror.” One of the shifters guarding Emily tries to give her some water, but she spits it all over him.

Yeah, I am seriously considering leaving her here… in the forest… with these giant ants crawling all over the ground… with honey spread all over her body.

“I know you’re an intelligent Alpha, sir, and I don’t mean to be disrespectful,” Trevor continues, “but I think you might not be thinking clearly right now because you want so badly to get away from her.”

I laugh. “I do want to get away from her, but that’s not why I’m doing this. Trust me. I’ll be fine.” Thoughts of Rose and my unborn child come to mind. I wouldn’t do anything to jeopardize my chance at seeing my baby or of spending time back in Rose’s arms.

I can’t convince them, and I don’t need to. I grab my bag with a few supplies in it, including some protein bars and water, and tell them, “I’ll be in touch via the mind-link. Just head to the village.”

“Yes, Alpha,” Cora says, but she’s shaking her head.

“You two are in charge,” I add, looking at Cora and Trevor, and they both acknowledge my command with the sign of respect.

With that, I step deeper into the woods, take my shorts off and put them in my bag. Then, I shift and work the bag onto my back.

Ready to go, I set off in the direction I know Alpha Stephen’s troops are located in because I can pick up their scent.

It seems to me that I can run full speed over to them and deliver my message quickly enough that I can meet back up with my warriors and actually be there when they take Emily to the village. I don’t think that Stephen is more than five or ten miles off in the opposite direction.

I lope along as the sun begins to descend, and even though I can tell by the scent that Alpha Stephen’s troops are shifting again, they can’t detect me as easily as they could my entire entourage, and I can adjust where I’m going more easily than they can because there’s just one of me.

After a few hours, I see them come into view in the distance. I see guards at their post, doing their best to protect the camp that still seems fairly mobile at the moment.

“I need to speak to Alpha Stephen,” I say from a distance.

“Halt!” the guards bark in my head. “Alpha Stephen isn’t taking guests.”

“I have his fiancée,” I tell them, “and I’m taking her to his village. I need to tell him that himself. I am an Alpha, and you will show me respect.”

The guards cower slightly. They can’t help it, even if I am their enemy at present.

“Wait there!” one of them shouts.

I have no reason to argue with him, so I do.

I wait. And wait. And wait some more.

Almost an hour passes before I see Stephen in the distance. He is in his human form, with large wolves on either side of him. Standing a good twenty yards away from me, he shouts. “I don’t want her!”

I almost laugh because no one seems to want her. “Well, I’m dumping her in your village, so you do whatever the fuck you want to with her, but I’m not keeping her. And by the way, you do know you’re on the wrong side of this war, right?”

“Don’t you dare dump her!”

I have delivered my message, and he hasn’t responded to the part he should have, the part about switching sides. I decide I’ve done what I can, and I turn around and take off at full sprint through the forest, heading toward Stephen’s primary village.

An hour or so into my run, I sense that Alpha Kane has troops nearby. I can tell by the scent and the way the air has shifted in the distance. I can’t really explain it, but I decide to change my course slightly.

I run through a small meadow and out the other side when a strange smell hits my lungs.

It’s skunk–and a lot of it.

It smells like a group of skunks had a stink-sack squeezing orgy, and it makes me want to vomit.

“What the hell?” I think to myself.

Running out of there as quickly as possible seems like a good idea.

I sprint between two large pine trees and see a strange sight in front of me. It looks like a trap that’s sprung, and inside of it is some sort of a large animal, struggling to get out.

I find the entire situation odd, so I slow down to try to evaluate it.

That’s when I feel a rush of wind on my left followed by a sharp prick in my shoulder.

Looking back at my own body, I see a red dart sticking out of my upper arm. “What the fuuuu–”

Everything goes black.