Book1 Chapter4
Grayson
‘Alpha, come quick. There’s a rogue on the eastern border’ my beta Levi mind links me.
‘Why do I need to come and see a rogue? You know how to handle rogues’ I groan back, frustrated at him for interrupting me. ‘They trespassed so just kill them’.
‘No Grayson. I think you’ll want to see this.’
I groan again, rolling my eyes. What could possibly be so important as to disturb my work?
‘What makes them so special then huh?’
‘I don’t know. She just smells different to the usual ones. She’s acting differently too. Not fighting us’.
‘It’s a woman?’
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‘Yes. Small scruffy wee thing, with big green eyes. Super skinny, there’s nothing to her’.
‘Oh, I mean we’ve dealt with female rogues like her before. She still trespassed. You have to just follow through.’ I reply, running my hand through my hair as I stare down at my paperwork. A tiny shed of guilt runs through me but it’s gone as
soon as it came.
She trespassed, she broke the rules. There’s nothing I can do. She did this to herself. She would have smelt the boundary and not cared enough to go around.
‘I know man, but, I don’t know. Something’s off. I don’t think I can do it.’
‘Well then get Bentley or Noah to do it then, you baby’.
‘Bentley and Noah are here now too. Neither of them want to do it either, Alpha’.
Goddammit. Absolute babies those three are. We kill rogues all the time but now they chicken out over a girl. I growl and chuck my pen across the room as I stand up from my chair.
‘Fine then.’ I growl at Levi, now thoroughly annoyed. ‘I’ll come and do it myself. I’ll be there soon.’ I pull off my shirt and chuck in on my chair before heading out of my office. I quickly make my way downstairs and head out the door, not bothering to tell anyone that I’m going out before shifting and running into the forest.
God, it feels good to go for a run. I’ve been so busy with Alpha duties that I haven’t been out for a run in a while. Come to think of it, I haven’t done anything for myself in a while. Maybe tonight I’ll have to do something about that.
I run for a couple of minutes before finding the guys, who are standing in a tiny clearing talking to each other. I make my way out into the clearing still in my wolf form and walk over to them.
I can see the wolf out of the corner of my eye, causing me to shiver slightly but I ignore it and turn my attention to the guys.
“I don’t get it. Every single rogue we’ve ever come across has tried to fight us back, kill us even” Bentley, my Gamma wolf says, confusion laced into his words.
“I know right. Or at the very least, they try to stand their ground” Levi adds, frowning.
“Maybe she’s never been trained? Doesn’t know how to defend herself” Noah says, glancing at her again.
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I ponder their conversation for a moment. What Noah said makes sense, I mean if that’s what he thinks is the case, then it’s probably correct. He would know, he is my chief warrior after all.
I listen to their conversation for another moment before heading behind a tree to shift.
I quickly change back to my human form and chuck on some of the conveniently stashed clothes we have hidden in the trees throughout our territory before heading back over to the guys.
“Is that her?” I ask, not bothering to look at her. Levi nods and I think for a moment. I smell the air and instantly know she
isn’t a bad rogue.
In fact, she smells heavenly. Something in me flutters and Dante whines, catching me off guard but I choose to ignore
that for the moment too.
“How’d she get here?” I ask, bringing my attention back to Levi.
“I don’t know” he starts. “I was on patrol and then all of a sudden I saw her running through our territory so I started to follow her. She slowed down for a moment but she must’ve seen me so she started running again and I tackled her because she trespassed, you know, just the following protocol. But something felt off about her. She just whimpered and didn’t struggle or fight back or anything which is really weird. So I got off her and mind-linked you”.
I nod and take in the information, trying to piece together why this wolf is acting the way she is.
“All three of us then watched her as she got up and proceeded to back herself up against the tree in fear causing her to
lose her balance and fall over and she hasn’t gotten back up since” Noah adds, a frown appearing on his lips too.
Interesting.
From what I can smell, I know she’s not a bad rogue so that’s a good sign. I turn and look at her and instantly my wolf
takes over. Warmth rushes through my body, causing me to shiver as I stare at her.
Oh god.
“Mate,” Dante, my inner wolf, says aloud happily.
Shit. Just my luck. My mate is a rogue.
I hear the boys chuckle and I turn back to glare at them, instantly causing them to stop.
Turning my attention back to the wolf, I start to walk toward her when suddenly she howls and starts to shake in fear.
I stop and hold my hands in surrender and watch as she tries to move further backwards. I turn and look at the guys, a
little annoyed.
“Why is she scared of me? She’s my mate” I say, starting to get pissed off.
What the hell? Why is she scared of me? This is not how the whole mate thing is meant to go. I turn back and look at her
and see she is still shaking.
“Why are you scared of me?” Dante asks her, still in full control of my voice, causing my Alpha power to come through. I
wait for an answer.
Nothing.
“Why are you ignoring me?” he booms, pissed off at this point. I begin to walk towards her again and she seems to zone
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I continue to walk towards her until I am right in front of her, causing her to snap out of it. She jumps and lets out a wolf
cry.
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