Chapter 2 - How Lucky

Lee

“Take her to the truck,” the king stood up, pulling me up by my collar. What? This is not burning him? These silver chains and collar are even more pure than the ones I just got off. They are burning me. I can feel them. I glared with hatred at the guy with the cold, lifeless light blue eyes. He was just looking at me as if I was nothing. 

“How many surrendered?” The king guy asked as we all walked back to the buildings. I can’t help but cough at the moment. That was a hard grab to my neck too. Even breathing air into my lungs is painful. I think a rib or two are broken. “I am struggling to heal it,” Suaco let me know and I knew why. The bloody chains and collar.

As we got pulled to our feet, they tied rope around my wrists with the chains. They are making sure that I can’t escape again. Why do they want a rogue anyway? We did not bother anyone before. We hunted in the no man lands and no one dared to attack us, not even other rogues. 

“Yeah, you will. This bloody silver is burning our skin,” I responded and I heard her growl about it. This caused me to growl out loud. 

“All of the families surrendered. No one gave us a fight. Not even the warriors. We had to kill the top ranks,” Delta troy reported as he looked at his tablet while we were walking between the buildings. 

I only noticed them at this moment. There are 15 black bus-like trucks standing near the pack house. People are getting inside them. “Alpha!!” Sandy suddenly made herself fall into his arm and he growled at her, pushing her to the side. This made her lose balance and fall.

“Don’t pull this stupid stunt again. This is your last warning. I will terminate your job contract next time,” he growled as we walked past her. She had tears forming in her eyes last I saw her face. Poor girl. Technically, she is not a girl. She is a woman. She has blond hair and green eyes. She is about 6 ft, maybe a little shorter. She is definitely taller than me.

I am short for a werewolf. I am about 5.3 ft and turning 18 soon. Our wolf form is not as short as me though. Suaco is big. She is as big as an Alpha and faster than an alpha. We are built for hunting and stealth. We can usually move past packs without them even knowing we were there. 

We reached a bus and I saw a blond girl with blue eyes being treated at it. They brought medics too? Did the king guy plan to take over this pack or destroy it? Will this part of the land become part of the no man's land? “Lee! You are alright!” Emily’s voice came from the girl. Her face lit up even. Oh, so this is what Emily looks like? I didn’t even notice her hair color before I tried to escape. 

“Make sure this one is tied to the chair,” the king guy gave an order as I was handed to another guy close to the door of the bus. I looked at Emily and she gave a sympathetic smile before experiencing pain as they were stitching her up. Wow, this pack did a number on her. Why did they do this to one of their own?

I got on the bus and was placed behind a cage in this bus with other rogues that were only moments ago in silver cages themselves. They have the same collar and chains on them too. We  all looked at each other and one of them recognised me, since I am recognising him. 

I think his name was Dante Sire. He was made rogue by his previous alpha or something like that. He has brown short messy hair with brown eyes. His right arm has a scar that I cansee from the back of his shoulder to the top of his hand, almost reaching his middle finger.

I was busy skinning my prey when he decided to attack me. He did not know how skilled I was with a blade in my human form and he thus got the scar. It was a silver blade so his wolf couldn’t heal so quickly. I believe he is deformed from that day onwards. He lost the ability to use his right arm properly. 

“Hey, Dante. You too, huh?” I wanted to say, but nothing but an open mouth mumble came out. None of the others had the rope in their mouth. So, they surrendered pretty quickly. “Hey, Lee,” Dante greeted me as I was placed in the chair next to him with the space for walking between us. I gave him a nod in response this time. 

My chains were bound to the chair and I noticed that they were guiding Emily to another bus. She told them she doesn’t have a wolf. Good for her. Now she will be riding with others instead of us that are being treated as criminals.

“They are gonna force us to join the pack,” a guy suddenly said as soon as the guy that brought me left the bus. That is probably true. Why else would they capture us and bring us with them?

“Yeah, I heard the rumor about that,” a lady responded and I took a deep breath in. 

“I would join,” Dante said and I looked at him. I looked over his scar. Yeah, I would too if I had that.

“Of course you will. You need a pack to protect you. And they have even placed you next to the one who gave that to you,” the lady burst out laughing. 

I must add, I am not finding this funny. If Dante hadn’t attacked that day, I would have shared my meal. In the rogue world it's kill or be killed. I can’t blame him for attacking since that is how life is out there. I did share my meal with him after that.

I made sure to keep him safe while he healed. It took longer since it was silver but he healed. We moved around together after that. He hunted as best as he could and I helped to fight off other rogues. Luckily my reputation made that part easier. Most of the rogues knew that I was deadly in a fight even if they attacked in a group.

We went our separate ways a few years back. Word got around that he was deadly too and thus he got the idea that we can start doing our own thing. 

“I thought you were far away in safer lands?” I tried to ask and Dante laughed as he heard me speak. I have not said any decent word with this rope in my mouth.

“I heard the game here was a lot,” Dante responded with a smile. That makes sense. We as rogues will always go to the spots where we can find food. 

*****

Zurig

I looked at her through the window. I could see her while Troy was busy giving the seating for our men. When I grabbed her by the neck and smashed her against the ground, her scent caught me off guard for a moment.

She doesn’t have the normal rogue scent. She smelled like a rainforest. The rogue scent was not near her. Her scent made me experience calmness just like my brother’s mate did for me, Caroline. That was the reason why I couldn’t just kill her. She reminded me of the love I can never have.

Even after my brother mated and marked Caroline, I still felt the pull to her. I still don’t understand why. It should have disappeared the moment she was mated to him, marked. I narrowed my eyes at Lee as she tried to speak with the rope in her mouth. She was trying so hard to escape me.

Now she is causing a guy to laugh. What is she? Right, I have her knives! I took them out of my jeans' back pockets and looked at them. They are so small in my hands. Perfectly made for her though. She is so tiny, skinny and quick. If it wasn’t for the training that Troy gave me since I was a child, I might have had one of these or even both of them in me. Lying on the ground, dying. 

It seemed like she knew exactly where to strike. “She is an amazing fighter,” I heard Troy speak and I looked up at him. He was looking at her too right now. “I can only imagine why she can fight this way. She must have been very young when she became a rogue,” Troy added and I could see the emotions in his eyes.

He was always one to show his emotions quickly and easily. After two of my mates died at the hands of rogues, I haven't felt anything. Except when I am around Caroline. She makes me feel things I thought were gone. The only reason I am not killing all of them is because Caroline asked me to be merciful with those that are not being hostile.

That was the reason why I would have killed Lee. If her scent didn’t cause me peace, she would have been dead now. “I can’t imagine that life,” I responded and Troy smiled. He has seen many things, so it is not surprising that he might know that life by just seeing it.

My pack has four top ranks. Me, as the alpha. I have a Beta, Gamma and Delta that would be Troy. Our Delta handles the army we have with the spies/ninjas and assassins we have trained. My Beta is at the pack, handling things for the time being with my Gamma.

My Gamma has the most work since he is making sure that the kingdom is running smoothly with everything. He makes sure that there is enough food for everyone and that everyone is safe and secure. He has leaders under him to help him cope with everything. 

“We are ready, Father,” Roy drew our attention from Lee and we looked at him. He looks like a younger Troy with no scar over his left side of his face and eye. Troy smiled at him. Roy is being trained to be my next Delta and so far he is doing a great job at this.

“Make sure to keep a good eye on that one,” Troy pointed at Lee and Roy nodded with seriousness on his face. I will be riding in this bus too since it would seem that I am the only one capable of restraining her. Apparently she moved between my men as if they were nothing to her when she escaped from them. 

We made sure that everyone else got into the buses before we entered ours. We were the last to go. “We will have the builders here tomorrow to demolish this place and get it ready for farming,” Troy looked at his tablet as he spoke about what we said we are going to do with the land of this pack.

We are in need of farms and Sandy that decided to be a brat. She made us move our over take plan up. I can’t believe she is a 25 year old she-wolf who acted like a brat just because I swapped her with another girl last night. I can’t handle that.

I thought she would be more mature than this when I gave her this job. I have 7 girls that I use at night. One girl, one night. Or sometimes, I don’t want to use any one of them. They are getting paid for this. I don’t see the use of having a serious relationship after everything that has happened in the past with my mates. 

“Thank the Goddess. I got this rope off!” I heard an unfamiliar, sweet voice and looked to the back. The rope that was inside Lee’s mouth just fell to the ground and she was licking her lips. Yes, that is another thing I have noticed about her.

She can control her wolf limps like an alpha can. I noticed her teeth had gotten sharp as she tried to bite Troy when he placed the rope in her mouth. I also saw her nails getting sharp. That is the reason why I changed my grip on her wrists when I pinned her to the ground.