The Alpha's Virgin Witch by Sam Crescent

true mated couple.
    “He will die for you,” Clarissa said, moving away.
    “I don’t understand. Why are you two dead? I thought
you had left me near a lake or something to be taken.”
    Clarissa sighed, and Lucy watched Andrew move behind
his woman. “Your birth was a lot more complicated than we thought.”
    ****
    Caleb paced up and down the creek. He’d tied Patricia
to the nearest tree, and was waiting for Bianca and Guy to come back with his
parents and Lucy’s. She was gone, and the only scents he made out were his own,
Guy’s, Bianca’s, and Patricia’s. His wolf was going crazy. He needed his mate
back.
    She’s in danger.
    We must protect her.
    She’s ours to protect.
    Pacing back and forward, he gripped the back of his
head, trying to find some reasonable explanation for what happened.
    “Your father should have her killed,” Patricia said,
croaking out the words.
    “Shut the fuck up!” This was his fault. He should have
put Patricia in her place years ago. Instead, he’d let her get away with
hurting his mate, and now he was the one paying the price for waiting.
    He was so damn angry with himself, and with Patricia.
    “No wolf should ever be allowed to live after she
attacked me the way she did.”
    “You deserved it. You’re lucky that you’re still
alive. Something stopped her.” He’d not seen who touched her arm, but someone
had. Someone had stopped Lucy from killing. He hadn’t been able to reach her
time. Everything had happened so fast. He’d seen the darkness consuming her,
taking her away from him, and he’d not reacted in time.
    Her hair had gone from her golden blonde to black.
He’d seen the darkness eating away at her, and he’d been frightened for his
mate.
    “Nothing stopped her. She chickened out. I told you
she was weak, and you mated her.”
    Kill her.
    His wolf wanted this woman killed. She had taken his mate
away, and he was going to kill her if she didn’t shut the hell up.
    “I suggest you be quiet, Patricia. You try my
patience, and even your mother wants you banished,” Emma said, coming out of
the thick trees.
    His father, Lucy’s parents, Guy, and Bianca were
there.
    “She just disappeared, Dad,” he said.
    He was panicking, needing to get to his mate, to find out
if she was okay.
    “Tell me everything that has happened,” Matthew said.
    Caleb didn’t leave anything out. He told his father
about the mating, and what happened afterward to Patricia coming after them,
and what they said.
    “She just seemed to stop, to listen to something.”
    He reached down and grabbed the book that had been
left behind. He flicked it open and closed it.
    “There’s nothing here to tell us where she went. What
happened to her?” He was panicking, losing focus, and he was nothing without
his mate.
    “She was turning evil,” Matthew said.
    “They warned us about this.” Adele covered her mouth
with her hand, sobbing.
    “What did they warn you?” Caleb asked.
    “They told us that when a witch starts using her
magic, she can be drawn to the darkness. A new witch can be easily
manipulated.”
    “What makes her turn dark?” Caleb had an idea, but he
needed to know it first-hand.
    “Her first real kill by an act that doesn’t deserve
it.” Kyle spoke this time as Adele was crying.
    “Someone stopped her,” Caleb said.
    “We saw it,” Bianca said. “She was about to kill
Patricia, and something or someone joined with Caleb to stop her.”
    Matthew moved to the point where she disappeared.
    Caleb watched as his father inhaled. The heightened
senses of the Alpha were even superior to his.
    “Someone was here,” he said. “They’ve been dead, but
they were guardians. Lucy’s real parents told us that they could visit her if
given the chance, but only if it was needed to save her from making the wrong
choice.”
    “I’ve never heard of anything like that,” Caleb said.
    “That’s because we can only appear in rare
circumstances.”
    He turned to find two