Chapter 2

Preparations were being put in place for the new Alpha's arrival, and my pack, though calm on the outside, was anxiously waiting for him to get here so that we could get back to pack business.

In the meantime, I was preparing my pack for what to do when he arrived.

"He will probably bring about 10 warrior wolves with him, but not his Beta, who will be looking after his pack back home, usually this wouldn't be a threat but as we have no history with this pack we need to be prepared." I checked to make sure everyone was listening.

I nodded, satisfied that they were giving me their full attention and continued, "Do not let them into the buildings without consulting me or Sky first, you should never find yourself alone with one of the wolves, if it is a warrior you will need 3 of you with them, despite your title, if it is the alpha then it is 5, and if any of them try anything you will mind link me immediately, understood?" I asked.

My pack gave confirming nods.

"Good, now this pack is a potential alley, so make them feel welcome, but not to the point where they think they can walk all over us, show them we are strong, and willing to fight if the need to arises."

I looked towards Sky to see if he wanted to add anything and he gave me a slight shake of the head.

"That will be all, now can all of the over 30s please go and help clear a path from the west side of the pack by the frozen lake to the main pack entrance, make it narrow, only enough for one wolf or two humans to get by at a time to prevent attack."

The 15 or so wolves went out to go through with my orders while me and Blaine decided to run the perimeter.

Shifting into our wolves, I noticed how much Sky's fur had changed since he joined a pack, as a rogue his fur colour was a muddy brown, but now it glistened a beautiful deep red that greatly contrasted with my white fur.

I didn't fight much in wolf form, I found that it was easier to be in control in human, and although I loved the thrill of fighting in wolf form, sometimes you could win just by having a bit of control. Fortunately I was good at keeping control.

But the absolute rush that I got from just running in wolf form was enough to make the breath get knocked out of me.

I worked well with Sky, we had learnt our best skills off of each other so of course we would work well as partners, a part of me had wanted us to be mates, back when I was younger, hadn't really understood how much a mate could hold you back.

I'm glad we didn't turn out to be mates, it would have made our relationship so much more complicated.

We were very close, and yes, we had 'benefited' from each other's presence in the past, but it meant nothing to either of us. Nothing at all.

Back when it was only a few months after my pack had died, I had still been fairly innocent. Sky said I needed to be stronger, to lose my innocence. I was 16, he was 24. But it worked for us.

He helped me become stronger. Human laws didn't apply to us. I knew that if I wanted to become stronger I had to lose the little girl part of me. I had to break past it. Neither of us had found our mates. I knew that Sky hoped too, he had never wanted the rogue life, he had always yearned to be in a pack, he didn't care about position, that was why he was perfect for beta. I knew he would never try to overthrow me because he simply didn't care enough to want to be alpha.

Now don't get me wrong, he is very devoted to the pack, but loyal to me. He would never take my title from me, not that he could. Being alpha could be tough. It wasn't all it was made out to be, being alpha didn't make everyone instantly respect you, it took hard work to get everyone to respect you enough to form a pack.

Fortunately, everyone respected me, a female alpha was exceedingly rare, and coupled with being a white wolf made it almost impossible for them to not respect me as alpha.

The wind rushed past my face, I had sped up ahead of Sky, and he was too far behind me to have a hope of catching up. I slowed down, breathing in the calming scents of the forest.

The fresh scent of the crystal water infront of me, the musky smell emitted from the rough bark of the tree's surrounding me.

Suddenly it dawned on me that I wasn't alone. The strong scent of a female rogue passed by me, I knew it was right behind me. I listed cautiously, waiting for it to make the first move.

Soon enough it did, lunging forwards as I rolled backwards, shifting into human form. I rolled along the floor to dodge the rogues next attack, and sprung up, shifting mid air to land perfectly with my jaws around the rogue's neck until I felt the body go slack underneath my hold.

I scowled and shifted back into human form. Inspecting the rogue, I noticed that it's coat glistened, as if it had been washed in human form, as if it had only just come from a packed life.

I took another deep sniff of the wolfs tracks, noticing that there was the slight hint of a warrior wolf mixed in along with it. What warrior wolf would let their mate leave the pack and go to my pack of all places?

I was fully nude, and honestly I didn't care. My pack had seen it all before. I walked back through the woods, slowly, every few steps checking my senses, just making sure nothing would sneak up on me again.

As i walked through the pack's land, I looked down at my pale, porcelain skin. My skin was smooth, hardly anything to tarnish the surface. . .Everything except my scars.

Faded, jagged scars from wolves that had attacked me and had been dealt with.

More prominent white scars that ran down my left arm. The wolf jumped at me, I hadn't seen it coming. We had been rogues for a week, I didn't know where I was going.

I wasn't intune with my wolf, I couldn't tell what was packed land and what wasn't. The alpha of the pack jumped, slashing its paw down my arm, I didn't have time to shift into my wolf. Not before it struck.

I knew I had to shift if I had any hope of the scars healing. Once shifted into my white wolf. I heard the alpha give a loud gasp.

"Female white wolf!" The power that came with the unspoken words left me confused, what was I hearing?

Immediately another 10 or so wolves had joined their alpha, and were attempting to fight me.

"Pin her down from the back!"

Immediately I spun around to lunge at the wolf about to jump on me from behind. I had no idea why they were shouting their commands out loud... or how.

My alpha had certainly never done that.

"What's going on? How did she do that?"

"I don't know! I don't know!"

"What do we do!"

"What's happening!"

Suddenly I shifted back to human form and let out a piercing shriek. I don't know what I was doing, I just wanted the voices to stop.

I kept shrieking, screaming until my throat went dry. I stopped eventually. I stopped when I noticed the wolves bodies slack on the floor.

Only now had Jay decided to grace me with his presence.

"Woah. . . what did you do?"

"I just wanted the voices to stop, they wouldn't stop," I mumbled.

"Voices?" he questioned.

"The-they were shouting out orders to each other. . ."

"In wolf form?" He sounded mesmerised.

"I-it was like a pack link... like they were talking to each other... I just wanted it to stop..."

There was silence for a moment, "Veronica, I think you were hearing their pack link."

There was a deafening silence that followed, I couldn't speak. Why was I able to hear it? I shook my head at the memory, that was when I found that I could hear what the pack was saying to each other.

It was certainly handy in combat.

The shrieking I had never been able to do again. Somehow the noise I had made was able to knock out 10 wolves with barely any effort.

I don't know how I did it. But I did.

Finally getting back to the pack house, I walked straight to my room, ignoring the looks of my pack as they saw me walking naked through their home.

When I got to my room, I put on my clothes and did nothing but lye on my bed, waiting for the nightmares to come.