I look at Jack and realise that he may even have a little Alpha blood in him, just by the way he is standing strong and confident in front of me. I may even make him an Alpha of his own pack when he gets older, but for now, he is happy in his current position. Morpheus growls a little in my head at my judgment, but he doesn't elaborate. I shake my head at him and turn my attention back to Jack.I go to say no on the grounds that they are still young, but then change my mind. Depending on what security this boss of the human hunters has on this warehouse, I may be able to use them to get the advantage and get inside. I smile and cut whatever Jasper is about to say to them. "Okay, we will need some quick Intel when we get there. Do you think you three could handle that? We would need to know how many of our females are in there. How many human hunters are walking around inside and outside the walls? And if there is anywhere we can enter with the least amount of both noise and exposure?
"Now that was a good workout, do you think that there would be more at the hotel?" Raphael chuckles along with Zaire. "I have no doubt..." "Are we heading to the hotel Alpha?" "Yes, I think if we wait, if there are any of our females or males there, they may not be there long, especially if they get word that the warehouse failed..." "Where are we going?" "East 2 miles into the city to a hotel called Kinghunter..." "Hey! I know that hotel, it is one that caters exclusively for Hunters... There is no way anyone but a hunter or a hooker is getting inside that hotel, so the pack members will not be inside..." I look over at Hudson with curiosity, "May I ask how you know?" "I hooked up with a hunter one night when he was drunk. He invited me back with him and we had a hell of a time fucking each other...." "Wow, that was probably a little too much information Hudson, but it also means that it was a trap for the ones that either survived the warehouse or were sent to the hotel se
I turn and wrapped my arms around her, pulling her up against me. She looks up at me and smiles but pulls out of my arms and steps always as she says, "But it didn't, it never did. It always belonged to Yasmine..." I look down at the carving again, focusing on the panther as she continues, "Did you know that Morpheus was seeing Yasmine for a couple of years?" I snap my eyes at her and growl, "No!" "So he managed to keep you from knowing that is one smart Lycan you have there..." "Wait, how do you know?" "Morpheus came to me one night after the full moon, he told me that he had found your mate but she was still only young and that the only reason he introduced himself to her was that he had to save her from a young human man that was trying to take more from her then a girl her age should have to deal with, he said she was only around her 13th year. He knew she was special as he could smell it within her, but he also knew that you wouldn't accept her and if you had known you
She just smiles, and as she pulls back, I allow her to step out of my arms. We then continue into the packhouse. I escort her back to the hospital wing and give her a kiss on the temple as I say, "Do what you have to. Do you have enough to go around?" "I'm not sure some may need just a little more than others..." "Okay, I will get in touch with Jade and tell her to send some over. We have plenty in our hospital storage." "Thank you, Alpha." I look at her, confused as to why she was being so formal until I turn and see some of the young pups standing behind me. I smile as one steps hesitantly forward; I crouch down so that I am at his eye level as he asks in a low voice, "Have the bad people gone?" I keep a serious face but I make it soft as I reply, "Most of them, only the ones that were injured, remain. Are you scared of them?" I then have to suppress my chuckle as he takes a deep breath and puffs out his chest as he says, "No, I wasn't scared, but some of the others are..."
I pace a little, moving from the window to the desk and then back to the window. I then remember the conversation I had with Malik before I left... I turn around and face the 3 of them. "Zaire, Malik admitted to me that he had hired, or at least his father had hired Valentino to kill my mate when I found her under the fear of me finding out the truth. Valentino grabbing her in the woods that first time was not a coincidence. He was there on orders to kill her but took her instead… Wanting to make sure she was, in fact, my mate. I think Henry turning up at Malik's was because Valentino now wants her for his own personal reasons, and once Henry saw that she is a white panther, Valentino very resourceful and it wouldn’t have taken him long to figure out who and what she is, and what having her in his possession would bring him." Zaire looks at me, confused once more, as he asks, "Who and what is our Luna?... What truth was he trying to keep from you?" I lower my head and turn back to
I smile as I am still standing with my back to them, knowing that was exactly the answer and reaction I was going to get out of him. Even his wolf coming to the surface isn't a surprise. I then straighten my face once more, becoming the Alpha everyone fears, and turn. I walk up to him and place my hand on his shoulder, as I whisper so only he can hear,"I know, my friend, but I had to check..."I then let my hand fall from his shoulder and move both so that I hold them together behind my back. I walk over so that I am now standing in front of Kai, Aaron, and Colton. I look at each one as they stand in the relaxed attention pose all officers are trained to do when in a meeting with the higher ranks.I then turn around, facing away from them. I take some undetectable deep breaths to calm myself once more before I continue so that I don’t take his head off before I can get some answers,"Jasper, who has the codes for the security system? Or more to the point, who has your codes to the se
I can't control Morpheus anymore, he pushes and makes me do a partial shift, as my hands get bigger, my claws lengthen and my body nearly doubles in size as I lounge at him grabbing his neck and taking him to the floor, I hit his head on the floor once, twice, three times as I growl in his face, "Why Her?"He didn't say anything. I ask him again, "WHY Her?"He doesn't answer again. I punch him once, twice before I ask him in a low, threatening growl, "WHY HER?"He still doesn't answer me. My temper, as well as Morpheus's rage, is getting harder and harder to keep under control the longer he stays silent. I growl one more time, letting out my Royal Alpha aura, this time making him answer, "Why allow them to take your Luna?" He just laughs and spits in my face,“She is not my Luna… She is an abomination!! And if that stupid thing we called a King had stayed out of the way, she would be dead and we wouldn’t be having this conversation…” That does the trick and cuts the last tether
I turn away from him and walk out the door without another word. I head back to the room I was sharing with Yasmine to pack, but as I step into the room, I get a nose full of her scent. I stop dead as I then fight with Morpheus,"Calm down, Morpheus..." "No, you are giving up on our mate!!!""I am not..." "GRR... YOU ARE! GO FIND HER!!" "I am doing what she asked..." "GO FIND HER!!!" "Morpheus, calm down or I will cage you..." "NNNOOO... I will not let you..." I continue to fight him. I end up on my knees as pain floods my body and I fight the shift he is trying to force. A shift that would cage me, allowing him to cease full control. I mentally put up silver bars in my head and slowly surround Morpheus with them, as the bars shrink around him, effectively putting him in a cage. The shift he is trying to force slows and then finally stops. "ZACHARIAH!... Don't you leave me in here!... ZACHARIAH!... Let me out!!!" I ignore him as he bangs on the bars growling at me and I know