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The new alpha blood that courses through my veins rears up to this. I almost blurt out that we don’tneedto join his pack, thank you very much, because I am in charge now… but something stops those words from leaving my mouth. I don’t know why, but I’m not quite ready for him to know everything about me. He might think that he’s the most powerful man in the city, but that power comes from knowledge. This is something he doesn’t need to know. Not yet anyway… not while he’s in this mood.
“I don’t know if my pack even wants to stay here,” I lie with my chin jutted out. He isn’t going to push me down, no way. “Chicago might be too dangerous a city for us. If we can all be slaughtered once, who’s to say it won’t happen again? Especially if we don’t know who’s done it. It isn’t going to be easy for any of us…”
“You can’t go anywhere,” Mason growls with irritation. “You’re my mate. I already told you that. It’s not right for you to go anywhere.”
“Well, I don’t know…” I offer him a blasé shrug. “We’ll just have to see what happens. Hopefully one day, someone will be secure enough to confess.”
I hope he knows what I’m telling him. That I know, and that it doesn’t necessarily have to change things for the worse if he just tells me already.
I stand, moving out of his grip. If Mason Thompson wants to play games with me, then he’s going to feel what it’s like to be toyed with. With this glowing necklace warming up my chest and letting me know it’s here with me, supporting me the whole way, I can do anything. I can show Mason Thompson that he isn’t the top dog. Not anymore.
“Anyway, I better get going.” I flick my hair over my shoulder. “I have business to attend to. You know how it is. It was good to see you, Mason Thompson.”
I stalk out of the house, feeling an intense power surging through my veins. That showed him! Maybe only for a moment, but that’ll do for the time being. That’s something.
“Hey,” Mason calls out the front door before I can make it to the end of the driveway. “I thought that you wanted to talk, that you wanted to spend time together.”
“Sorry for the short stay,” I call back, without even bothering to turn around. I know that will drive him crazy. “I’ll be back soon. Maybe.”
I keep walking, feeling a sense of power overcoming me with every step. I really am a different person now, a better, stronger version of me.
It might be weird that I didn’t tell Mason I’m the alpha now. I maybe should also consider his offer to join his pack because there really is strength in numbers. I don’t know how we’ll survive the big wide world as we are. But I’m not going to just give in to him—not on the first ask. He’ll have to prove that he wants us first, really wants us.
I will also have to work out what the hell I’m going to do about this whole mating thing, if I do decide to go anywhere near Mason again. With the chemistry between me and Cain, then Adam too, that is some seriously complicated shit.
Maybe it would be easier for us to just go. Get the hell away from Chicago and all of this mess. Start again. That way, we can forget all about this and move on with our lives…
I don’t know. I don’t want to make rash decisions like that. Even as the alpha, it doesn’t mean I want to throw my weight around. That will never be me.
I shift into my wolf form, loving how my whole body feels as an animal now. There is definitely something new to me. If Brian felt this way, too, then why wasn’t he stronger? Why wasn’t he a better alpha to us all? One thing I know for sure, it’s that I would never die a coward’s death, leaving my pack to fight for themselves.
I get back to camp, seeing an impressive level of work has been done today. Things are almost looking back to how they were as if our pack was never attacked at all… well, aside from the lack of wolves here. The diminished numbers are really hard to process.
“How did it go?” Daniella asks me quietly as she stands by my side, resting her hand on my shoulder to remind me she’s here with me. “With you know who?”
I sigh heavily before gritting my teeth together. “He’s a stubborn asshole, keeping a lot to himself. But then I kept my new identity to myself as well.”
“Why did you do that?” Daniella gasps in shock.
“Because he was talking about us joining his pack, basically being his subordinates. I guess that was Mason’s plan the whole time. Kill off our main fighters, or the men in their eyes, and leave us defenseless so we have to join him. Maybe that’s why his pack is so big and why he’s so powerful. It has to be something they do a lot.”
Daniella huffs with irritation. “Yeah, maybe. That fucking sucks, but it might be how things are done here. I don’t know if people want to stay in Chicago now. They’re jumpy. But of course, we’ll do whatever you command of us, alpha.”
She smiles at me, and I glare back playfully. I’m not so mad at her now, but I don’t know what we’re going to do. I really don’t want to make the wrong move, that’s for sure. I’m going to have to take some time to think things through.
“We’ll figure it out together,” I reassure her. “But it would be a shame to leave this place now, right when it’s all been sorted out again. I don’t think we should do anything rash. We have to get used to how things are now before we react. You know how it is.”
Daniella nods and agrees with me, thankfully, because I do not want to admit how much of my decision might be based on my feelings for Mason and the other guys as well. That’s way too embarrassing for words, and probably not the way an alpha should behave. But I am pretty convinced there’s no more danger here. Not for the time being, anyway. Mason has done what he set out to do. There’s nothing else to achieve.
7
ADAM
The fact that Cain ordered me to watch the pack we attacked, and not Mason, has me a little anxious. But I’m doing it because I do agree with Cain that we need to be aware that retaliation might come. If that happens, I want us to be prepared for it.
I also need a distraction from my mind at the moment. All my wrong doing is painfully circling around my brain, making me feel like utter shit. I shouldnothave gotten carried away with myself like I did. I can’t believe I got so caught up in Clara Davies that I didn’t eventhinkabout Mason. I know he wants her, he’s been calling her his mate, and I dothat?
It’s so wrong, and if I ever get found out, it could fracture our pack forever.
