Chapter 5

Julius POV

I watched as Maia sauntered out of my office and down the hall, her wide hips swaying as she turned a corner, disappearing from sight. I focused my attention back on my Beta.

“Deano?” I questioned, surprised that he had let her give him a nickname in the first place.

“Don’t fucking start.” He groaned, running his hands along his face.

The two of us had been friends since we were pups, and his father had been my fathers Beta for well over two decades before I took over the alpha-ship. We had gone through life together, from the highest highs to the lowest lows, Dean had been there through it all.

“Why is she here? I thought there was a kill-on-sight order when it came to trespassers.” He huffed as he slumped into the armchair Maia had just been sitting in.

“She was unarmed and alone, would hardly have been a respectable kill.”I said, resting my hands behind my head. “But I also want to see if we can use her.”

“Oh?” Deans interest was piqued.

“She said she’d been living in the area for the past 6 months or so - in the human town of all places - which is roughly when the rogue attacks started ramping up.”

“So you’d like to see if she could be useful in helping us identifying the rogue leader, am I right?” A smirk spread across my face, Dean was a man who got straight to the point, a quality I admired.

“And that’s why you’re my Beta. Do some digging, find out what you can about her history.” Dean nodded and stood from his chair, walking out of my office without another word.

I stared down at the hundreds of pages of treaty agreements I was yet to read through before my meeting this afternoon, unable to concentrate on any of them.

What I hadn’t told Dean, was that there was another reason I didn’t kill Maia the moment I saw her. Her wolf form was large for a female, her fur so dark in the night it nearly looked black, she was impressive to say the least. But her eyes were what stopped my wolf in his tracks, they were white, almost completely void of colour in a way we had never seen before.

“You need to bring her into the pack.” He had said, “I think we’re going to need her.” What he thought she would be useful for, I had no clue, I’m not even sure he knew, but I had long ago learned that my wolf’s instincts were infallible, and so I did as he said.

What I did not anticipate, was her complete lack of respect for authority.

“She’s going to be fucking infuriating.” I groaned.

“Dean will find something in her family history, trust me, it’ll be worth it.” Thanatos murmured.

Now that was going to be interesting. I would be lying to myself if I said I wasn’t curious about her past, the scars littering her toned back told me that it would be anything but ordinary.

I shook my head, erasing all thoughts of Maia as I did so, and turned to the papers on my desk. I had a meeting to prepare for.