Chapter 4

Logan POV

Finally Charlie has shifted. Good, about time. Thankfully just in time. Now we can really get things moving, don't know how much longer I could have stalled them. As beta to the winter Alpha, I am his right hand man. His first call for any and everything. This keeps me extremely busy. Thankfully Pauline was actually useful for a change. Now I no longer need to try and hide the fact that my daughter, the future beta was incapable of shifting, but she has, and into an incredible creature, her size and form perfect, for one day taking over my role to the alpha. Our alpha will be pleased. As long as she doesn't fuck it up and stays a good girl. Now the hard work was to begin, I could truly get her ready for what's to come.

Pauline POV

This couldn't be better. I mean bitch, her beast is just amazingly, stunning for fuck sakes and I hate her for it even more. But her unusualness was going to make this even easier to secure the perfect match for me. She's just shown her breeding worth and the bidding war for that was going to be spectacular. This couldn't be better, well apart from Logan's bloody plan for her to be his replacement. I wasn't about to let that happen no sir. I wasn't about to loose what I've worked so hard to make mine. I like the power and status of being Mrs beta. If she becomes beta I'm nothing close to that. So my plan to get rid of her, to force a mate of my choosing, making her think she'll never find one and make her desperate for any small kind of a connection. Even if I have to chemically fake it. I'm good with herds and remedies, I know how to do things with them no-one would think possible, like hide someone from there true mate. Just add the right concoction to one's food or drink and they will be undetectable to their true mate.

She will not fuck this up for me. I just need to find the man with the best benefits for me. I deserve what is rightfully mine. I will not let her be more powerful than me. If faking a mate doesn't work, then I'll have to get her disgraced and I have a few ideas for that, pregnancy for a unmarked female is always an option.

I can hear Logan in his study tapping on his phone and speaking to someone of the other end at the same time. Knowing he is distracted, I start making contact with people of my own. Looking at the list of potential suitors, I send word to Lucas of the forest pack, his son could work, he has a some what messy reputation of mating and bailing. Or Thoran from the dessert pack him or his kid could be a possibility. Thoran himself has been know to take a too young thing on the side before. Plus his home territory is hot and far away. If she was claim by either of them she'd have to move to there, no way they would move here and leave the legacy that family is built over generations or the connections his family has to the alpha. Yes, he is a high contender, plus it could come in handy to be in favour with him. Who else? It's good to have spares and backups.