Scarred Alphas

Chapter 44

“The problem here is that to get to him, we would need to go through these other two packs that are in between him and us. The river packs.”

“Then do it,” I say.

Garret shakes his head as he

explains. “It’s not that simple. First of all, these two packs

are in very close proximity, only divided by a river. The moment one is having

trouble, the others will come to help. We would need to

take both of them at the

same time. Not to mention

what comes after. All other

packs will turn their eyes on us.”

I am annoyed. “They can try. Don’t we have a bigger army? And we have Alpha Oliver and his pack —the Crescent Moon Pack–backing us. So

what is the problem? And I don’t understand why you

haven’t done this already.

You have been at war with

Ezra’s pack for so long.”

“We don’t have The Crescent

Moon Pack’s full support just

yet and there are rules that

need to be followed. We’ve

been poking here and there

because we need to be

careful. We are not mindless

idiots. The plan was to slowly

instill fear-”

I cut Garret off. “You’ve been

instilling fear for years and that’s it,” I say cutting him off. “That is all you have

done.”

“Because actively going after every pack will cause them to band together against us. Over the course of five years, we’ve taken over three packs.

It has been done slowly and

with lies and deceit.”

Colt speaks. “Mh, I heard that one of these packs

attacked you in the middle of the night, so you retaliated.”

“Exactly…that was a lie. We

said that we defended

ourselves…” He air quotes. “…and retaliated over this attack.” He air quotes again. “Just like Colt here. They

were close to our pack but

not close enough that an

attack on them would be

permitted, yet we did it

anyway and lied. Said that he

was in our pack’s borders. Of course, his pack didn’t

believe it but all the other

packs did. Deceit and lies.”

“Then lie again,” I say.

“The lies have to be

believable, Cass. I get that

you are upset and want

results now but we are good

at what we do. These kinds

of things take time-

Π

“Not this time,” Warrick says surprising everyone. “Let’s

wipe these two packs out.”

“But…” Garrets tries to

complain but Warrick is not

having it.

“We have cause for it. Alpha

Ezra has actively declared

war on us. These packs are

the casualties of war.”

Warrick says.

“Yes! Let’s do it.” I say with

conviction.

“Cass…” Colt whispers and looks at me with worry.

Warrick gives me a pointed

look. “You do understand

that we are the bad guys, right?”

“But we aren’t. We are

getting rid of a tyrant.” I

reply to him.

“No. We are taking over

other packs. It is what we have been doing for years and we’ve always been seen as the bad guys. The villains.”

“Then fine. We are the bad

guys. I won’t argue it if it gets me what I want.” I say.

“Cass…please think about

what you are saying,” Colt

says.

“Do you want your brother

dead or not?”

“Yes but…if we do this…we

are killing many innocent

people to get what we want. This shouldn’t be a good thing to you and it is nothing to cheer about.” He says.

“I want him dead… Colt. I

want him dead no matter the

cost.”

Colt shakes his head in

disappointment.

Warrick smiles. “Spoken like

a true villain.‘

”

He almost seems proud but I just roll my eyes.

“Unfortunately we still have

to wait until he makes a

move first,” Garret says and

Warrick nods agreeing.

“Why?!”

“Because we need to know

what he is up to. We could be walking into a damn trap for all we know. Maybe they want us to rush in and try to

take them down.”

“He’s right. We still have to be careful here.” Warrick says agreeing. “And you need to train that power of yours more. We are going to need

it.”

I don’t like it. I hate that we

can’t just go now.

“Cass, they are right,” Colt whispers behind me. “There is nothing more I want to do than go to my brother right now and kill him myself but

that is reckless. Slow and

steady wins the war.”

“It’s race.” I correct him.

“I know. It’s a play of words to make a point.”

I sigh.

Deep inside I know they are right. They all have years of experience and I don’t. But it is so hard to just sit back and

wait.

The meeting continues for hours. It is exhausting but not once do I get distracted. I pay close attention to every single word that is said.

After having a meal and refueling, we continue the meeting until late afternoon when finally we are done for

the day with the meeting. Colt and I spend some time together before I have to

train with my father.

We sit in front of the lake

that is inside the pack’s

territory. I haven’t been here

until now. It seems that

many kids spend their day here. We watch them play in

the distance.

“Am I being too much, Colt?”

“Mh? What do you mean?”

“Pushing to kill Ezra. Being

reckless.”

He takes a deep breath. “You are trying to rush things but

I think that with what he has

done, he deserves what is

coming for him. However…I

don’t like…Cass…this is

war…many are going to die. Don’t let this anger take over

you. Don’t let it change you.”

“I am not…” I mutter and bury my face in his chest. “I can’t believe she is gone. She

didn’t deserve that. She was

good. She was the best thing in that pack.”

Colt holds me and rubs my back, trying to comfort me.

“She deserved happiness and

to have a chance with her

baby. That was all she wanted. She finally was

going to get it but it was all taken away from her. This

wasn’t fair.”

“I know. I am sorry that… that it was my flesh and

blood who did this.”

I shake my head. “Your

father didn’t deserve this

either.”

He nods. “He wasn’t perfect but…yeah, he didn’t deserve to go like that.”

I hug him. “I hope the rest of your family is okay.”

“Me too.” He whispers.

“Hey…do you really think

that…I…we…are the villains.

Are we doing all this wrong?”

“I honestly don’t know, Cass. We are doing what we think

is right.”

“I…don’t think it’s right at all

but…I still want to do this. I

want him dead and I am

willing to do whatever it

takes to make that happen.” I

say.

He looks into the distance

and doesn’t say anything.

am sure he doesn’t know

what to say.

There is silence for a few

minutes. All we hear is the

water, the trees moving with the wind, and children

laughing and playing in the

distance.

“All I know is that I love you and I want to be with you always.” He suddenly says. “I want to make you happy and

right now, you are not happy. It is all because of him. I feel you. I feel the pain that he has caused you. So I want the same as you. I want him gone.”

I close my eyes and hug him. I’d choose this man over my

real mate a thousand times

over. This is what a real mate

is and he is amazing.

“I love you, Colt.”

We hug and spend beautiful

time together just relaxing in

each other’s embrace.

When it is time, we head to my father’s office where he waits for me for training. From now on it is the only

thing I will be focusing on

until I am able to use my

powers right. But when it comes to my father, it is hard to not try to purposely vex

him.

“Okay. First, you need to

learn the difference between

Alpha command and your power, Alpha Ruling. Along

with how to properly use the

Alpha Ruling.”

“Alpha Ruling? Wait, why

didn’t you tell me all of this

before?”

“Because I wanted to see

what you could get by yourself. With Alpha Ruling, you need to use direct eye

contact with your victim’s

eyes.”

“What? I should have been

told this from the

beginning.” I complain.

“Alpha command is different than Alpha Ruling. With

Alpha Command it is your

voice that holds sway. It’s not really commanding them but your voice holds such authority that they will be inclined to do your bidding.

However, someone with a

strong will can resist it. But with Alpha Ruling, you are controlling their minds, you are tapping directly into their brains and there is no

way they can refuse.”

“Does this mean that I can

only control one person at a time?”

“No. You can have multiple

people under your control

but you can only activate it one at a time. Of course, this depends. If you have three people looking straight into

your eyes as you give a command, then you’ll

command them all.

However, it is much more

effective if it is done one by

one.”

“Oh…this suddenly doesn’t seem like such a strong

power anymore.”

“Doesn’t it?”

“Here is an example, every person in this room–except for you–I have used my

power to command them to do my every bidding

without refusing. I activated

this command in them one

by one but because of the

command, they do

everything and anything I tell them and I don’t even

have to activate my power on

them anymore because they already must do everything I

say.”

“Oh…I see…never mind. That

is pretty impressive…and a smart use of your power.”

“I know. Now let’s start.” He

says with impatience.

This man is not humble at

all.

“Okay? Who will I be trying to control this time?” I say. “And like I said before, no

killing.”

“It baffles me how you want to kill Ezra so badly but you have no taste for murder.” He

says.

“It is different! He deserves

it.”

“Right…”

Colt takes a step. “You can

use me.”

“You?!” I squint my eyes at

him.

“Yes.”

I look at Warrick and he

nods, approving.

“You’ve done it before. You

can do it now.” Colt says.

“Fine, but you are not going

to like it.‘

“…Cass…no. Don’t. I am not

slapping you.”

“Slap me.

He sighs. “No.”

“Slap me.”

“Stop. No! Stop.”

I almost want to laugh but I

don’t and even more when I

hear Warrick mutter to one

of his generals. “She’s a bit of

a weirdo sometimes.”

I almost lose my composure holding my laugh in.

“Slap me!”

Colt continues to refuse.

I concentrate and focus on

his eyes.

I spend over twenty times saying it but he does

nothing.

“I don’t get it! I did it before.”

“Ezra cut right through your

sister’s neck and she was

probably still alive, can you imagine how much she

would have screamed?”

Warrick insensitively says

all

of this.

My head slowly turns to

Warrick.

“1

…are…you…SERIOUS

RIGHT NOW!” I scream.

“If you had control of your gift and you were there,

maybe you could have

stopped him.”

“Why the f**k would you say

that!?” I shout.

“To get this.” His hand motions to me. “Now get

back to it!” He snaps at me.

I turn to Colt with so much

anger and look into his eyes.

My fists are clenched and

nails dig into my skin.

my

“SLAP ME!” I scream at Colt.

His hand immediately

makes contact with my

ch*ek.

“UH!” Colt shouts with anger.

“I’m done. I don’t want to do

this anymore!”

I rub my ch*eks and laugh.

The anger I had just a moment ago subsided.

“It’s not funny, Cass. I don’t

want to hurt you. Ask me to do something else!”

“Okay, Punch my father.”

“Don’t you funking dare,

Warrick says and I bust out

laughing.

“You deserve it you prick!

And how fun would it be to

see that…” I mutter.

“You are playing too much. I thought you were going to take this seriously.”

I roll my eyes. “Fine, fine.” I look around. “…punch that

desk,” I tell Colt.

He stares at the desk but

does nothing. Obviously, it

didn’t work.

Why can’t I be consistent

with this?

I take in a deep breath and

concentrate again.

“Punch that desk,” I say and

he immediately does,

leaving a crack in it.

Warrick shakes his head

unapprovingly. “You are all

over the place. One moment

it works, the next one, it

doesn’t.”

I sigh.

“But we do know that when

your emotions run high, they work pretty well.”

I get that he was trying to get me there with what he said

but it was kind of cruel.

“Continue.” He says and I

nod.

I command Colt again and again. Only when I am

getting upset does it

suddenly work. But I know

that I need to learn to use it

not just when I am angry.

Suddenly, my training is interrupted. There is a

commotion outside.