Beta Drake
My nose twitched at the smell of the whore between my legs. She smelled like pansies and daffodils, a sweet smell but not the one that enticed me. I forced myself further into her throat as the mere memory of her scent filled my mind, my climax filling the whore's mouth and sliding down her chin.
It had been two years since I had seen the golden-brown haired rogue who filled my sleep. I had felt the pull of the mate-bond as soon as I laid eyes on hers, but the connection wasn't the perfect bond everyone else had. I had sent scouts to her work, to watch her for any sign she had lied to me that day, only to discover she was not as young as I had assumed. A mere 17-year-old she-wolf, she was found to be expertly good at her work at the store. A few rogue packs had fought with her, but she always seemed to make it out without my men's help. A strength I had begun to admire as they continued to report back to me.
Then, almost out of the blue, she was gone. Her scent, ash wood and cherries, no longer traced throughout all No Man's Land. I shook the thought out of my head. Alpha had put up with my distractedness for far too long for me to still be this distracted. Luna Alice had just arrived back from a trip to visit her mother. The half-vampire, half-werewolf still surprised me, but I had begun to get rather used to the idea of a hybrid Luna, something some of the pack had yet to accept. Hybrids were not common, but they did happen.
I paid the lady, grabbed my clothes, and headed back to the pack. Alpha and Luna would be requesting the patrol report soon. Getting in the car, I couldn't help but feel a pang of longing as drove back to the packhouse. Arguing was coming from the Alpha's office, his voice sounding through the house like a beacon. I could tell he was on the phone but couldn't be sure of with who.
"Alpha, all due respect." Alpha Arden growled against the receiver as I entered the office. "I don't believe you understand the definition of borrow. I merely intend to read the books, not keep them."
I couldn't help but sigh as I listened to him argue. Arden's temper was always the first thing to come out unless Luna was around. I chuckled before holding my hand out for the receiver.
"Alpha Flynn has a book on vampires that could help Alice." Arden mind-linked me as he handed it to me, Alpha Flynn's voice still booming through it.
"Alpha Flynn, this is Beta Drake. My apologizes for my Alpha's coldness. He has been under a lot of pressure lately." I spoke, hearing the Alpha shut down for a moment.
"If Alpha Arden thinks he can just request something of that nature of me, without offering anything else in return, he is simply sorely mistaken, Beta Drake." Alpha Flynn spat through the phone before hanging up.
"Well, that... went as well as I thought it would." I told Arden as I handed him the receiver back.
"The vampire caste is getting careless and reckless the longer Alice goes without giving them the heir they were promised." Alpha looked at me from his desk. "I've scored over what information Daria's mother and Liam were able to find. Nicolas was able to get the intel on Alpha Flynn's book, but we don't really know what it entails."
"Well, on the plus side, Patrols have been rather quiet lately. No new reports or sightings. Not even a random rogue has come near our borders." I told him in a smug attempt to cheer him up.
"I mildly appreciate that, yes." Alpha Arden took a deep breath before glancing over at the clock. "And, now I'm late for dinner with my mate."
"Hey, just blame me, I showed up late anyway." I chuckled before heading back out the door. "If you need, we could always spare a few people to go get the book. Although that may take more planning that you have the willingness to wait for."
Arden threw a stress ball at my head, and I ducked before closing the door behind me, letting it bounce down the hall. Alpha Flynn's territory didn't border our own, it would be a trek to get men there and I was certain that his patrols would see us coming. If Arden decided to take the book by force, there would be no surprising them or sneaking in easily.
I made my way down to my own office, moving to the desk before realizing someone was following me. "Arden's really worked up today, huh?" The voice startled me for a moment before I turned to see Alpha Embry leaning against the door frame.
"Alpha Embry. Kind of you to stop by." I replied with a smile and gestured to the couch in the corner. "yes, he is. Nothing he hasn't worked through before."
"And for that, you're a better Beta than he lets on." Embry replied with a smile before sitting down. "you had been tracking a rogue a while back, no?"
I stammered at the question, not sure how to answer. I was almost certain no one but my men knew of it. "Yes, a rogue she-wolf wandered dangerously close to our territory near No Man's Land and so I had her tracked until she disappeared."
"Pity." Embry claimed as he looked down at his fingernails. "Would be a shame if I told you she smelled like a few of Alpha Flynn's men I caught a month ago?"
My jaw dropped open, and Sam howled in my head. "What do you mean, smelled like them?"
"I mean, I have reason enough to believe she was a member of his pack before you saw her." Embry chuckled at my response before standing back up and leaving. "Oh, and no Alpha Flynn won't be seeing his men again."
I gulped at the thought of Embry ordering his men to kill but knew I would too if it came down to another pack's members on our lands.