The Merciless Alpha(erotica)

“I’ll get a team together and get on it,” he said. “This could take a while.”

“Start with Todd,” I said. Sally set down food for them, and they dug in while we talked. “I’m going to go find out what Jarrod has found out overnight.” They had put Eduardo on the computer trails of the rogues, and Jarrod was interrogating Todd. Just a look from the vampire was enough to get him talking again. I got up, giving Sally and the girls in the kitchen my thanks, and walked across to the building that housed our cells underneath. I acknowledge the guard, who let me in the secure doors leading downstairs.

“Good morning, Jarrod,” I said as I walked down the stairs. “I would have thought you’d be back in the safe room by now.”

He just laughed. “You werewolves and humans think we’ll turn to ash if the sun hits us, but that takes sustained exposure over hours. We wear thick UV-resistant clothing, cover our heads and hands and wear UV-resistant sunglasses, and we can walk in the sun long enough to move around,” he said. “SPF 100 sunblock helps too, even if it is uncomfortable to be out there, we can recover from the damage of a short exposure. It doesn’t mean we like it, though. It’s easier to stay underground during the day.”

I did not know that, and it made me feel good to see how he would trust me with something that could be used against his kind. “How is our guest?”

“Sleeping. I got everything I could from him. He has balls, I’ll give him that. He showed up at the Council, alone, and worked out a deal. The Council wanted me as a blood bank, and they told him he could have Talia as his mate if he came through.”

Wait a second. “So Talia was to be taken alive?”

“Yep. He’s had a hardon for her ever since he kicked her out, no other she-wolf does it for him now. I don’t think for a minute the Council was going to follow through with it. They were using him, knowing that attacking my Coven would mean war.”

It was true. The Vampire Council would never allow a Master to be held captive by werewolves, for good reason. “Why would the Council risk this?”

“What three things drive a man, Brent?”

I thought about it. “Power, obviously. Procreation, that’s instinctual.” I thought about it for a while. “Staying alive.”

“Exactly. For the Council, Talia and I are the trifecta. With my blood, they would gain power greater than any other werewolves. Procreation, it’s instinctual for a male to seek the strongest female to reproduce with, to give them the strongest children. We don’t know if hybrids can breed, none have been allowed to exist long enough to find out. The ones I knew of from vampire history were male, so Talia is a first. I have no doubts Chairman Wolfe planned to take her for his own.”

“She’s already mated, with Randall.”

“To them, Randall is an inconvenience, just like your Pack is. You have to be destroyed, because you know their secrets, you defied them, and you have some control over her. They will wipe you all out, especially her mate, so he can take her and use the mating bond to control her.”

I just laughed at the idea, Talia was so dominant she controlled Randall, not the other way around. Then it hit me. “Immortality.”

“Yes. Vampires are the living dead; we never age from the time we are changed. We exist until we are killed, which only happens if our head and heart are separated or one is destroyed. We can even regrow limbs if damaged. Werewolves live longer than humans, but you still face death. The hybrids gained our strength, our speed and our healing, but what if they gain the power we have for healing and eternal life? What WOULDN’T the Council do to have that?”

“They would do anything, they would be in power forever.”

He nodded. “And that is why the Vampire Council is so resistant to the hybrids existing. Two of the five wanted Talia destroyed just for existing. If she had not proven her loyalty to me and her usefulness to the Council, she’d already be dead.”

“Three to two, huh? That’s like the Supreme Court. One person dies and it could flip the whole balance of power.”

“And now you know my problem. I do not regret changing the three, but I must be careful. If one of them starts behaving badly, Vampires and Werewolves will unite to destroy them all, because both Councils fear them.”

We talked for a while longer, working through the options, until I had my plan. I left him to go back to my office and started to make phone calls.

The first was to the La Crosse Pack and Alpha Clark. I filled him in on all that had happened and what it meant. “Those BASTARDS,” he said. “I want blood on my teeth!”

“I have a plan, meanwhile, we have Todd in custody and the girls will have their revenge,” I said. “Jarrod pointed out that our two Packs are in danger, since both of us know about the hybrids and both have family ties to them. Stay on a war footing, protect yourselves just in case they rally other Packs against you.”

“Again.” He let out a sigh. “I have plenty of allies after what Todd did. Let Talia know that Justin died last night, alone and in pain. His mate wouldn’t even look at him. I gave her some money to move on and she’s gone now, headed off to human life.”

“Will she be a problem?”

“I put a tracker inside her neck and we’ll have a warrior following her. I made her record a statement about her involvement in the kidnapping and rape of Tania. If she becomes a problem, we kill her or release the video to the authorities, and she spends the rest of her life in jail. She signed the paperwork for Phillip, that’s in a Fedex envelope heading your way now.”

“Good. I’m going to call an Alpha Conference at two in the afternoon,” I said. “Tania and Bobby will be giving their statement to the FBI then, but I have other information. Todd is singing like a canary, and their Chief Enforcer, Jacque Jones, is disgusted enough to help. He was the liaison to the rogues and they won’t be able to discount what he says like they will Todd.”NôvelDrama.Org content.

“I’ll follow your lead. Email me the conference number and I’ll start calling Alphas. I’ll take last names starting with L, you get those from A to K. This is going to be fun, Brent.”

“We’ll have fun after the danger is over,” I said. “Keep you Pack safe.” I hung up and sent an email to the Council and all Alphas with the request for the video call at 2 pm Central time, along with login details. I went down at eleven, catching the last of the brunch, then joined my mate and my children at the pool. Phillip was a good swimmer for his age, and he was screaming as he was tossed into the air by Bobby before plunging back in.

“How are they doing?”

“Good. She’s losing her self-consciousness about the scars on her body; nobody is staring or saying anything, and you know a wolf has no issue being naked.” Werewolves found no need for swimsuits. We didn’t have human body consciousness, and it allowed us to shift in the pool if we wanted. The biggest pool problem we had was fur, which is why we had extra filtration installed when it was built. I watched as Phillip was tossed twenty feet horizontally, shifting into his little wolf in the air and dog paddling back to his Mom before shifting back. They weren’t the only ones at the huge backyard pool; some of the younger adults were playing basketball, while a bunch of adults were talking at the swim-up bar area we had.

My mate looked over at me, she could see the stress. “Go play with the kids, relax a bit. The afternoon will be bad enough as it is.”

“Come with me then,” I said. We left our clothes on the table by our chairs and I shifted, howling before I took off running for the deep end. I landed so my body splashed the young kids, who squealed in glee before coming after me. Soon I was shifted back to human in the three-foot area with a half-dozen kids trying to pull their Alpha down. “There are too many,” I said as I lifted my arms up, four kids hanging from them while the others hung from my neck.

“Deal with it, love,” Patty said as she swam away. I was looking at her and didn’t see the attack coming from underwater. My legs were knocked out from under me and I was pulled down backwards. I lost half the kids in the fall, and I stood back up and shook the water out of my hair. Bobby was laughing his ass off by his Mom, he must have done it. I glared at him before turning my attention back to the kids, who were laughing as they went after me again.

Tania and Bobby had to leave, but Phillip wanted to keep swimming. We stayed in the pool for an hour, just enjoying time with my Pack. She took him to shower and change while I went to the office. I asked Dusty and Bear to join me for the broadcast, mainly to help keep me calm since Patty wouldn’t be here. The 80″ hi-def screen in the conference room was being used, and the camera would only show me. I set the computer up, there were some things I was going to show them all and I got them ready. The software we used would allow photos and documents to be displayed for all.