Chapter 2

"Excuse me, but what is going to be easy?" Vivian asked

The leader walked closer to Vivian and began looking her up and down. "Well, you are a beautiful creature. I think I will keep you around." Vivian and Gabriel's whole pack began laughing. "What is so funny?"

Bucky spoke up "We think it's funny you think you will keep Vivian."

"Ah so her name is Vivian huh, well why is it funny that I should keep her for myself."

Vivian stepped in front of Bucky "They think it's funny because there is no way in hell you will EVER touch me. I will die first. I suggest you leave before my mate comes because I swear if you are still here he will kill you."

It was the strangers turn to laugh "I love your defense of this meager pack. My name is Liam; I suggest you remember it for you will be screaming it later." He nodded and a member of his pack leapt for the pups over with Jennie.

"No!" Vivian only had time to scream the one word before she had changed and plowed into the strange gray wolf going after the pups.

Gabriel had his phone in his mouth and was hearing everything. He was only about 5 minutes away when he heard Vivian scream and the snarls of a fight. He picked up the pace. He made it there within 3 minutes and saw his entire pack in a vicious battle. He scanned for Vivian and found her in a fight with 3 females trying to protect the pups including his sisters. He saw his mother lying about 4 feet from the fight looking pretty bad. Just then a male jumped onto Vivian's back and she was immediately swarmed. Gabriel ran over and jerked the male off of her snapping his neck and started getting the females off her. Once she was free she jumped up limping a little. He nuzzled her neck to make sure she was ok; when she nuzzled back he took a deep breath then ran to Bucky who was presumably fighting Liam. He wanted to kill him himself. He stepped up in front of Bucky to get his teeth into Liam.

Vivian had never been so glad to see someone as she was to see Gabriel. Vivian moved all the pups back along with Jennie and Gabriel's mom (Rebecca) to a safe spot in a clearing of the park. When she returned to the fight she saw that Gabriel was circling and snapping at Liam. Vivian scanned and found Esme fighting with another female and she was slowing down. She ran to her and plowed into her, knocking her into the ground. Esme was able to recover and stood over her holding her down. Vivian ran to a few others to help out and then started watching Gabriel fight. He was very methodical and was watching everything the other man was doing and anticipating his moves.

Gabriel was watching the other wolf move and he couldn't believe that this wolf was a leader. The Stanger was quick but he had already had him down a few times but had to go help a few members of his pack so he hadn't been able to finish it yet. Gabriel had locked onto the other male's throat just as he saw a blur of brown fur fly towards Vivian. She saw him coming and jumped out of the way of the leveling hit. She turned as the new wolf ran at her. She bit into his shoulder hard enough to draw blood but just then he caught her with his back legs, kicking her into a tree. Gabriel saw red when he heard her howl in pain. He bit down crushing the throat of the male he was fighting. He ran to the other male and plowed into his side. They circled and Gabriel knew without a doubt this was Liam; the other male was the second in command. Gabriel wanted to check on Vivian but knew better than to take his eyes off of the other male.

Vivian was hurt bad and she knew it. She watched from next to the tree as Gabriel and the male circled each other and snapped, biting each other. She was standing on her feet when she saw another wolf headed to the clearing with the pups. She ran after the strange wolf wanting to protect the helpless at all costs.

Gabriel was sick of this game and waited for his opening that came a few minutes into the waiting game. The male turned to check on something and Gabriel struck; He leapt in the air coming down on the stranger's back. He snatched a hold of the true Liam's neck and shook until he heard a snap. Liam collapsed to the ground as a human. All the fighting seemed to stop when the leader fell. Gabriel stood over him for a second before turning to look for Vivian. He didn't see her at the tree so he began circling trying to find any sign of his beautiful white mate. Just then he heard more growling and howling. He knew one of them was Vivian and he took off. When he got to the clearing he couldn't believe his eyes Vivian was coated in blood but was protecting one of his sisters to the death.

Vivian knew this wolf was after the pups when he came thru the trees. She threw herself at him with as much force as her injured body could manage. She knocked him down but he rolled to his feet and jump at the triplets. Vivian leapt in front of them taking a bite to her shoulder. She let out a howl in hopes that Gabriel would come. She knew she had to hold this stranger off until Gabriel could get there. When she finally heard the pack coming she almost collapsed then and there.

Gabriel jumped in front of Vivian and charged at the male knocking him into Bucky. Gabriel nodded to Bucky to let him and the other males take care of him. He turned to see Vivian checking on the pups, trying to get them back further. He nudged her to let her know that it was taken care of; she looked at him and collapsed. Only then did Gabriel notice the hole in her abdomen, bleeding profusely.