"Does Jayk have people to help with the new additions?" I ask him.
"Yes, Leelie and a handful of the other guys will be taking on the newly shifted. We're kind of hoping your friend lives up to the resumes she sent us,"
"What did she send?"
"Here," he takes the tablet and opens up a couple of files before offering it to me.
There is a list of people she's preparing to send here. Not just anyone. Men and women who kicked out of their homes simply because they didn't qualify to be part of the pack's rank system. Wolves born from former humans. Half-human. Potential beta candidates who can't fully shift into a wolf the way the rest of us can.
Their resumes are interesting. Arthur starts exploiting his pack members from a young age. To teach them to get into places not just anyone would go. The thing with that strategy is that he's taught them to be reliant on him and his betas. He treats the lesser wolves as his pawn
"That's actually a good idea," Jayk says when Miles tells him what I said about the cotton. "We can put a border around it. I was thinking of using it as a hideaway for the other omegas, but this is better," "You can't isolate them," Lydia taps my head. "Their wolves can't handle that," "Anyone get anything good out of Cutler?" he asks, ignoring her. She glances my way and then averts her gaze. "You mean how you're alpha Luther's son?" I ask. There was no other way for me to bring that up and since he's being a fucking asshole anyway. I might as well add extra wood to the fire. Make it bigger. Everyone looks at me and then at him for confirmation. Everyone except for Leelie. "That's not important," he tries to brush me off. "Wait, wait," Micca stops him. "That is really fucking important. What the fuck do you mean?" "Jayk, if that gets out, we can get the pack back. Our lands. Our people. Tha
They locked me in a cell next to Every. I have to stay in here until the full moon is over. To make things worse, the little omega girl next to me is going into heat and I can smell the gross sweet scent of her slick from my cot. Lydia has been bringing our food because the guys can't be around this thing. Jet was relocated to one of the villas. After calming down, I threw up the chunk of skin that I bit off my mate. Not only did I mark him without his consent, I took a mouthful of him. The sick part is that the asshole enjoyed every second of it. I can hear it in my head. It's all he thinks about. His thoughts are ridiculous. I'm finding it difficult to keep him out the way I do my brother. It may not have been consentual but he's all for it. The bond is taking. Until he marks me though, this is a one way broadcast. "You look like hell," Lydia says opening the cell to bring me a change of clothes and my phone. "About yesterday," "Leelie's allegiance is to Jayk, just like yours.
I can't believe it's been an entire month since I first shifted. It feels like a lot longer than that. I've been trying to find as much information as I can on the betas Jayk assigned me. They're just a bunch of rich guys who pay tribute to their alpha. They do a really good job at keeping everything together in their sectors. Perhaps looking for something to exploit them with isn't the best strategy. I mean don't get me wrong, I'm still going to do that, but maybe I can find a less dramatic way to get them to cooperate with us. The last thing we want is to make the target we already have on our backs worse. Some of the sectors around our continent are fully exposed to the outlands. Territories claimed by other supernaturals. Vampires are the biggest threat. There are more of them than there is anything else on the planet combined. If there is anything that Warheads are good at, is ripping those fucking leeches apart. Shadow wolves were designed specifically to infiltrate covens
"Your brother is picky," Nolan says as she hands out snacks to the smaller kids. "He didn't take any of the kids," "He's trying to establish the hierarchy. It's safer for them to be here than in the villas with the betas and deltas. You know how wolves get when they're trying to impress the alpha," "Okay," she nods. "What do you need?" "I'm putting together a team to help me get some intel on some Betas," "Where?" "Everywhere," "To secure Jayk's alpha position once Arthur is out," she nods. "That's smart," "I don't want to use the shadows. If the betas get a whiff of them, they'll know we're around," "Let's go to my office," she waves one of the older girls over and hands her the box of snacks. "I have names and contacts all over. Places like ours that need help. If you're willing to pay, you've got some foot guys. With that said, you have to be careful. You know how it is
It's early in the morning when I open my eyes again. There is an arm locked around my waist. When I look up, I find Micca asleep with his hands tucked under his head. He's facing me. He doesn't have a shirt on and I can see the gauze on his chest where I bit him. It's not red so I reach for it and gently pull it down to reveal the nasty scar and bruising. I can't see the one on his neck because his hands are covering it. "It's four in the morning. Go back to sleep," Miles murmurs into the back of my neck. My body shivers from how close he is to my mark. "Bathroom," I croak. He places a kiss on his mark making me tremble and then releases me so he can turn away. I sit up looking around the room. I feel different somehow, but nothing has changed. Not really. I slowly crawl off the bed and make my way to the bathroom. The first thing I do is look at Miles's mark. The two crescent marks are completely healed. I look down at my marks to find hi
It's more than clear that this isn't the first time he's been hunted. I break the row to find that his heat signature has gone up in smoke and with the thick morning fog his scent is almost non-existent. He forgot one little detail, which is nuts because it's the little detail that had brought us to this point. I lower my body to the ground listening to my surroundings. The morning is silent it's almost peaceful. All except for the erratic thump of the wolf trying to take deep breaths to calm the fear turned excitement. It's hard to pinpoint because mine sounds exactly the same. I crawl over to the edge of the row to find it clear. I roll under the orange tree and take a deep breath. Slowly I make my way toward the direction the heartbeat is coming from. He's actually doing an amazing job at trying to calm himself. I smile when the sound of him shifting back into his skin meets my ears. The sound of his feet pressing down into the soft damp dirt is in the next
Jayk and Leelie have been making arrangements for the intel on the Betas. I have officially been kicked out of the project. So, I am currently hunting down something to do. Anything. And I've brought the tiny Omega with me.Lydia yelled at us after having spent some time with her. Her argument was: Look at her. Where is she going to go with the Shadows at our borders? It's a solid one in my opinion. Jayk also wants them to see her in case anyone shows up to take her. Those who have taken the oath will do anything to prevent that from happening."Wow, this is a neat idea to use sulfur this way. Do you-" she looks up at me with her big annoyingly innocent eyes. "Do you think I can have one?""Take as many as you want," I shrug. She screams and jumps up and down clapping her hands.If I'm being honest, Every's naive nature is kind of refreshing. She holds onto everything we say. Anyone. Gwen made up all kinds of stupid shit and when s
A part of me badly wanted her to choose to help out. We'll all have difficulty training her properly with my brother's stupid alpha instinct to protect her. For, now I'm happy to help whip her into shape. It's been a while since I've done proper workouts. Jayk doesn't have a routine. His excuse is that out in the field, there is no routine. That might work for him, but I need to have some order in my life, and it's starting to look like this might be the only thing I have control over. "Don't try to keep up with me. Go at your own pace," I say and start a jog for her. She nods and begins her walk. I start slow as well. Not as slow as her but with caution. Since shifting, my movements have been slower. Tighter. The phantom pain of the shift has me guarded. I have to learn how to be in my skin again. As I work my way into a quick mile, the twins appear and start making their way over to me. Micca looks at my settings and adjusts them. He hangs