Stronger

Grayson POV:

The rogue we’d invited in the big one’s name was Vasily he’d been taken and sold as a slave before escaping he didn’t. know where he was and got on a boat and came to North America, he met up with the others after a while.

He’d respected that I had given them a choice and understood what I was doing was for my family. Turns out he was one hell of a warrior he and Brian got on like fish in water. He was already a participant in our methods of learning to take hits. I found myself sparring with him more often than not and he told me.

“Nobody can hit like you,” with a large and happy grin on his face.

After a while, he came to me with a solemn face and sat at my desk. “I haven’t been entirely honest with you but after my few weeks here I believe that you should know,” He swallowed. “I know one more thing,” He confessed.

I set down the papers I’d been reading and hoped it was something on my wife. He looked at me and said “The Savage Paw pack on the Yukon River, they’ve made a deal with the Bane Crescent Pack. They’ll get your land and they may have been surveilling you. He said it was the pack to the south that’s what his man said to the other,”

“And you heard them say this?” I breathed in deeply to keep my calm.

**Were there no good wolves in the world anymore?

followed them for a couple of days they were hanging out in Seattle and I wanted to make sure they wouldn’t hurt one of us,” He further explained.

“Thank you, Vasily,” I stood up and walked out calling for Matt.

“It seems someone is keeping an eye on us,” I grabbed the tablet and a map popped up on the conference room wall and I zoomed in on the Savage Paw pack.

“But we have a treaty with them,” Matt insisted pulling up the treaty on his iPad and looking over the fine print.

We did have a treaty with them, we were not allies and they did not have to go to war with us but we did have a treaty to respect our borders and not interfere with a war if it broke out for either pack. It basically meant to just leave the other pack alone no matter what, it seems they have forgotten this.

“Send out

patrol to the edge of our border with them at the river, and set up a drone surveillance of our sky, shoot down anything that is not ours,” I commanded. “I’ll get in touch,”

“Okay,” Matt nodded then his shot up “Wait get in touch how?” He pleaded.

“Simple,” I went to my office and pulled out a copy of our treaty with the signatures and wax seals of our packs. I sent it over to their Alpha Henery, an older man who was probably thinking i was in over my head. NôvelDrama.Org holds text © rights.

It seems people kept underestimating my pack and it was time to change that, I then sent word to the Lycan Council of the news that we believed they were breaking treaty, as well as association with the fugitive Marcus Cathal and 1 I was requesting a formal inquiry.

All they’d do is send a little note but it should scare that old fuck enough to remind him of his place. On the other side of the river and out of my business, hopefully, he understood.

I didn’t have the time for him if he didn’t there was already one too many people sticking their noses into this mess and the more wolves there were the less I could work to get to my wife.

The next morning while I was doing the four a.m. feed for Christian the phone rang and Brian’s voice came on “Alpha you were right we just shot down a drone, it’s got their insignia,” He told me. “What should we do?”

“The right thing Brian, return their property and leave the arrows in it,” I told him setting the phone down and went back to feeding my son.

“People should mind their own business, keep to yourself and you’ll go far,” I explained to him of course my son was only just over a month old and wouldn’t remember a word of it.

I went to the training hall later that day watching the warriors drill in their forms. They’d formed into official platoons. and battalions, going through vigorous PT. I would stand in when I could and correct them from afar my son in my

arms.

As much as Anna’s scent calmed him, he also seemed at peace in the bustle and shouting of the training hall. He would watch the men and women run, spar, drill, and exercise with lit–up eyes.

We were getting there almost everyone was healed, we had lost at least a tenth of our soldiers during the war. That’s where Vasily came in handy, he’d been a rogue for almost 15 years he knew where all the good rogues were and he knew how to contact them.

There was a tracker that had left his pack after they tried to use him for trafficking he’d turned them in to the council but no other pack would take him in since he’d turned his pack in. No good deed goes unpunished I guess. His name was Elias and he hung around a certain payphone in New York.

Vasily sent for him and he jumped at the chance for a warm meal on a regular basis. He was on his way here, there were a couple of kids on their way with him they were around ten to fourteen apparently Elias looked out for the kids in that neighborhood making sure the young rogues most of whom were orphans didn’t go hungry.

They weren’t soldiers but I wasn’t about to turn them away. There were plenty of homes here and some parents who couldn’t conceive and they were happy to take them in. Adoption wasn’t always available to wolves, some human agencies didn’t trust wolves with human babies or they wouldn’t take wolf babies. I was glad to take them in I could hear her next to me, “they need homes, Grayson.

Mary a wolf in Austin was a doctor who’d gone rogue to help the wolves in hospitals out there who weren’t getting proper care. She was excited to come to a pack but had made me promise to open our clinic to rogues in the area, but I made her understand there’d now be guards in the clinic to protect us from criminals, She understood and would leave in a couple of weeks

We were opening ourselves to the rogues we knew and I wanted it to be in our favor, I was taking a risk but I felt it was something she would do, she would find the good in these people and it would all work out. That was like her superpower getting things to work out in her favor, at least it was.

“Granted our son is safe and that’s what she’d want

I looked down at him, “This will work out,”

“Alpha,” Elizabeth came up next to me holding a letter with the wax seal of the Savage Paw pack.

I traded her the letter for Christian she held him somewhat awkwardly but that’s Elizabeth.

Alpha Grayson,

I am doing what is in the best interest of my pack, we’re growing rapidly in numbers and need more land. From what I can tell you’re in a fight you can’t win, I want the scraps of what’s left for my people to prosper. If you want us to honor the treaty give us a hundred acres and we’ll break our alliance. If you refuse we’ll keep our alliance and take your land by force. Still, I want little to no bloodshed so I propose that to give you a fighting chance we have a duel. If I win I get the land, if you win we leave this affair alone,”

I looked up my jaw set in frustration. “He wants a duel, I stated cooly.

“What an idiot,” James laughed as he walked over and read the paper.

“Well let’s get this over with,”