CHAPTER 3

19 Year Ago

ALPHA JACKSON

“I hope we have seen the last of these damn rogues. Still nothing on their leader?” We were in my office, still bloodied from the fight with the rogues. The attacks started when I started asking questions about the land near my pack.

It was undeveloped and was used for many things. Pack youth when they wanted to rebel, they went there to party. But recently, about a month ago, murders started occurring in that region, it was close to my pack and the Silver Sands pack led by alpha Nathan.

But he didn’t care about the deaths, though some of the people who died there were from his pack. I wanted to do something about it and asked the council to give it me. I was willing to buy it and make it a part of my territory.

Suddenly, all the alphas wanted it. of course, I couldn’t allow that. Why would I allow another alpha to buy land that close to my territory? It was not good, they saw it as an opportunity to spy on my pack, look for weaknesses and attack when it was convenient to them.

Since then, my pack had been attacked four times by rogues. They were coordinated and fought like they were trained. We captured a few but they were not talking. The bastards would rather die than talk.

“No alpha, even the one we caught hasn’t said a word. They are not breaking, I don’t know what that so called leader of theirs promised them or how he is controlling then but he has their loyalty. This is deep alpha.”

I felt the same way, there was no way rogues could behave that way. Someone was behind them, and they feared that person. I tried to think of the most feared alphas around. I was one of them and the other two were alphas Lucien and alpha Morphius.

None of them said anything about the land though, they didn’t show interest in it at all, and it was understandable since their territories were so far away and there was no reason for them to buy that land.

“We have to find out what it is going on here, Tylor. It’s only a matter of time before they find a weakness in our defences and get into the pack. We can’t let that happen.” I had gathered that whomever it was behind the attacks.

Wanted to test our defences, look for weaknesses and then attack on the larger scale. What I had noticed from the previous attacks was their numbers, they increased with each attack even though we killed most of them each time they attacked.

Which told me they were many of them, an army ready to cause chaos and I couldn’t allow that. whoever was doing that was going to regret it the moment I find them. “Alpha, we are needed downstairs, the warriors found something.”

Without question, I stood and hurried out of my office with Tylor tailing behind. I hoped they found something useful, something we could use to figure out who the hell was behind those stinking rogues.

When we got downstairs, two of my warriors were standing there. One of them was carrying a bundle of clothes. I raised an eyebrow. “Alpha, we found it while searching for more rogues. It was close to our border that we think one of them left it.”

He kept saying it and I kept looking trying to figure out what the “It” was. “Out with it already, I don’t have all day!” I was getting tired of them beating around the bush. The one carrying the bundle opened it, revealing a beautiful chubby baby.

She looked about a month old. “What is this, who does it belong to?” A baby, I tried to recall but no one in my pack had been reported to be pregnant, I knew for a fact we had no pregnant she-wolves in the pack so, where did that thing come from.

“Oh, my! Whose baby is that, oh, she looks so cute, so beautiful. Oh, those chubby cheeks, I can just bite them.” She cooed, my mother. Taking the baby from the warrior and started walking away. She was frustrating.

“Ma! Where are you going with that thing, we don’t know where it belongs, and it might be a trap.” She turned and glared at me. “What kind of threat could an innocent baby like this be?” she asked glaring at me hard.

“Stop being incompetent Jackson and find out who has been holding you by the balls these past months and leave an innocent baby alone.” My mother was going to be the death of us all. “At least check if it has something on it to tell us about it, anything.” She placed the baby on the dining table.

My beta and I went to check. The baby had nothing besides the clothes on her back, the baby blanket and a note. “Her name is Victoria. Please, take good care of her.” that was all.

But there was something strange about the note though, the paper it was written on was old, the kind of paper that was used in the eighteen hundreds. No one had that sort of paper anymore and, ink was used to write the note.

Not an ink from a pen but the actual ink that was used in that time as well. I started getting weary of that baby. “Mom, you say an innocent baby can’t be a threat, correct?” she even dared to say someone was pulling me by my balls. Mothers!

“I stand by what I said, you can see the note, her mother probably can’t take care of her and left her here and I am keeping her. I finally get to have the daughter I always wanted.” I looked at her in disbelief.

Didn’t she see the note and the ink? Also, her appearing out of nowhere was suspicious. “Mom please, you can’t keep that baby, we don’t know where it came from. Look at the note, its suspicious as well. Nothing good will come of us keeping her.”

I tried to reason with her but who was I kidding. When my mother’s mind was made up there was no changing it. “I am keeping her.” she turned to leave. “Mom, be reasonable!”

I called after her. “Fuck off Jackson, this is not one of your rogues but an innocent baby. Find out whomever dared to attack this pack and if you can’t, tell me. I will find him myself!”