Chapter 2

Liam

Buzz. Buzz. Buzz. I awoke to an annoying buzzing noise. I opened my eyes and looked around the room. Where the hell was I? I tried to move and found a very naked female body partially draped over me. I tried to turn to the other side and noticed another exquisitely nude woman leaving me pinned to contemplate my escape.

Gently, I climbed over the one on the left and looked back, grinning. The brunette with milky white skin stirred and shifted onto her stomach before letting out a little sigh, fading in to sleep once more. The bottle-blonde had her hands tucked under her cheek and was drooling slightly from her plump pink lips.

I wracked my mind, trying to remember their names. Pfft, what does it matter? They only slept with me for one reason, and I wasn’t going to complain when I got the two of them at once…more than once. I grinned to myself again. Perks of being the alpha’s son, I guess.

Buzz! Buzz! Buzz! It started up again. Oh right! I looked around the room and found my black t-shirt and jeans. No underwear, too restrictive. I pulled my jeans off the floor and shoved each leg into the holes in a rush, carefully tucking my dick back before pulling up the zipper. Buzz! Buzz! Buzz! My phone was still going, but thankfully the girls remained asleep so there wouldn’t be any awkward goodbyes. I put my t-shirt on quickly as the phone vibrated against my ass cheek.

I shoved my bare feet into my boots and walked out the door, answering my cell as I did.

“Hi, Dad,” I said.

“Where are you?”

I looked around. “Um, a university hall of residence, by the looks of it.”

“Do I want to know, Liam?”

“Probably not,” I confirmed as I walked down the hallway—my footsteps echoing off the walls.

“What are you doing, Liam?” he grumbled.

“Well, I was sleeping. Now I’m talking to you,” I quipped, redirecting the obvious lecture coming my way. “What do you need?”

“Your brother needs a lift to school.”

“So why are you telling me?” I grumped.

“I thought you could use this time to get some brotherly bonding in.”

“What has the little turd done now?” Ever since my brother turned fifteen, he had become the biggest jackass. All pups went through the same thing when they turned fifteen. Their bodies became rampant with hormones, and until they got their wolf, they were a nightmare to be around. My brother had turned sixteen five months ago and got his wolf, but he still acted like a jackass.

“His buddies got into a fight with Patrick’s boy.”

“Patrick’s boy?” I thought for a second. “Oh, the half-breed.”

“Yeah, some pups decided to make fun of him on his first day of school. Sean didn’t even attempt to stop it. So now he has to show Vincent the ropes of pack life.”

“What’s that got to do with me?”

“There’s some resistance on Sean’s part. I was hoping you could talk to him and make sure he actually attends school.”

Sure, because I’m the best influence on a sixteen-year-old boy. “And no one else could take the idiot to school?”

“No one that he looks up and listens to,” my father responded.

I finally arrived at my rust bucket of a car. “Alright, Dad. I am forty-five minutes out. Tell Sean to be at the end of the driveway. And let him know I expect breakfast.”

My car door whinnied on its hinges as I opened it. You would think being the alpha’s son would give me the perks of a flashy sports car or something, but my dad believed in more of a humble upbringing, so a tiny little Honda Civic is what I drove. And let’s be honest, I would only be driving around in an ostentatious car to pick up the ladies, and if last night was a testament, I didn’t need any help in that department.

Dad wasn’t always alpha of the Blackfern Pack, though. Ten years ago, there was an uprising, an internal coup, to overthrow the malicious alpha that once was our leader. He was a grade-A asshole who refused to take a mate and bear any children, killing any she-wolf that got pregnant with his kin.

My father originally wanted no part in the coup. He was a humble carpenter, raising his two boys in a small house on the outskirts of town. This was where Alpha Jed had put him, as my father was the only one who possibly had the strength to overthrow him. Alpha Jed couldn’t outright exile him, but he did distance him as far away from the pack as he could. Out of sight, out of mind I suppose had been his approach.

Eventually, the insane dictatorship of Alpha Jed grew astronomically, and Dad had no choice but to join the secret militia. When I asked him about it years later, he said he just wanted to set a good example for his kids. Humble and soft-hearted was my dad, but that demeanour shouldn’t fool anyone; after all, the man had managed to usurp and kill his brother.

Dad could have used his alpha tone on my brother to make him stay in school, but he rarely used it. He tried to stay away from anything that reminded him of how his brother Jed had run the pack. In his mind, using his alpha tone was just the start.

I honked my horn at the end of the driveway that led up to the pack house. We had moved in here ten years ago, and my mom and dad had spent time fixing it up because it had suffered some damage in the fight between the alphas. The pack house was basically in the middle of Blackfern Valley, but the high school was ten kilometres away from us on the Northern end.

A dirty-blond teenager came running down the driveway with his backpack slung over one shoulder. He opened the passenger door and slumped inside.

“Where’s my breakfast?” I grumbled.

“I ate it.” I smacked him over the head. “Hey, I was kidding, you stupid mutt!” He opened his bag and pulled out a piping-hot breakfast sandwich.

I placed the sandwich in my mouth and shifted the car into drive, spinning the steering wheel and stomping on the gas.

“So, where were you last night?”

“Uni.”

“Yeah, right,” he scoffed.

“Where do you think I was?”

“I’m not stupid, you know. I know the she-wolves lift their tail for you.”

“Do they now?” I mused, smirking at my kid brother.

“So, how was it?”

“How was what?”

“The boning?”

I laughed. “Did you seriously just call it that?”

“What else would you call it?”

“Studying?” He made a scoffing sound again. “So, tell me about this Vincent kid?”

Sean shrugged. “He’s a little awkward, I guess. He doesn’t know about pack hierarchy, and he pissed off Murdoch.”

“Murdoch Evans?”

“Yeah.”

“That kid is a little punk.”

“He’s the Beta’s kid.”

“He’s still a punk. What did Dad say?”

“That I should be leading by example and not beating on half-breeds. Especially a half-breed who has not only grown up without a pack but doesn’t know he has a wolf manifesting.”

“How can the kid function at school if he hasn’t been told about his heritage yet?”

“I dunno. Not my problem. I have to babysit the half-breed and ensure Murdoch doesn’t go for round two.”

“Are you going to tell the kid?”

“Who?”

“Vincent.”

“Am I going to tell him what?”

“About what we are?”

“No, Dad compelled the whole school not to say a word.”

“Dad did what now?” I stopped at a stop sign and looked at Sean to make sure I had heard him correctly. His hazel-brown eyes displayed gentle rings of light gold, indicating that his wolf was making an appearance.

“Dad said it’s not our place to tell Vincent, so he used his alpha tone and compelled everyone not to let it slip. It’s Vinny’s stupid dad who will have to tell him.”

I started driving again. “I’m surprised Dad did that.”

“You and me both. And trust me, his dad will have to tell him soon. Vinny is about to meet his wolf.”

“What makes you think that?”

“When he was fighting, his eyes rimmed with silver.”

“Shit.”

“Silas told me that his wolf will be powerful too.” Silas was Sean’s wolf’s name.

“How does Silas know that?”

“How does Silas know anything? These wolves are fucking weird with their ethereal-cosmos shit.”

I laughed.

We pulled up to the school gate.

“Thanks for the ride.” Sean opened the door.

“Yeah, bro, all good.” I watched for a moment as my brother went to stand by the school gate. I smiled as I saw him attempt to hit on the young she-wolves heading toward the school. I was about to turn away when I spotted Cassie and smiled. I forgot she had just started a job teaching at the local high school. I watched her firm ass straining against her red mini skirt and felt Lucian start to stir. Shit, Cass, you really shouldn’t wear a skirt like that around these teenage boys. My eyes creeped on her for a bit longer, and then I found myself opening the car door.

Maybe I’ll just give Sean some pointers on how it’s done.