Chapter 4

Alpha Daltons POV

I was running so hard and the anger inside me was so consuming that I missed the trail to Green Cove. I circled back and ran down the trail where I saw my Beta and Gamma sitting on the lake bank behind some large bushes. I skidded to a halt right next to them and lowered myself on to my haunches. “Hey y’all, someone left me another jar on the damn porch again this morning so excuse me if I’m a little late.” Nick growled low and mind linked the both of us, “These mother fuckers are gonna keep on with us and there gonna be a blood bath on their hands.” I huffed in agreement. I kept my eyes trained on the bank of the other side of the lake. I saw the park rangers, forensic teams, and deputies surrounding the body. “I really think they want to expose us. It’s smarter if we wait them out. We are lethal to their kind and they know that. I also think that jack ass Mayor Argent is behind all this.” My gamma Connelly was speaking nothing but the truth. Argent had been trying to infiltrate my pack since I became Alpha and shut him down. I wasn’t going to play is sick games. He was a hunter by nature and that is what scared me for my pack. I would never admit that there was some fear in my heart, but hunters had powers of their own. It took a lot to get to take a hunter down. They were stealth and could sniff out a wolf from a mile away. Argents family went back generations and generations. They had always tried to take us down or enslave us and that just wasn’t going to fly under my rule. That power stopped after my dad fled our pack and I took over. As I was sitting there listening to Nick and Connelly talk, the most delightful smell entered my snout. I smelled candied apples and brown sugar. The glorious scent was coming from across the lake where the body was. As I looked up I saw the most beautiful person I had ever seen in my life. She was squatted down so I had a nice view of her plump round ass. She stood up and turned around to talk to the Game Warden standing in front of her and I got a full view of her beautiful face and body. My Goddess was she beautiful. She has dark hair that had a red tint to it when the sun hit it just right and it was slicked back into a tight bun. Her hair glowed around her like a halo. As my eyes travelled down to her face I lost my breath. Her face was rounded and she had a large peppering of freckles all over it. Her eyes were the brightest green I had ever seen in my life. I was across the lake, but I could smell her perfectly and would do anything to be up close to her. My hands were itching to just get close to her. I needed to be next to and I have no clue why. I have never felt this way in my entire life. I huffed and licked the air loudly. “Dude, you okay? You look like you’ve seen a ghost, but like a very attractive ghost,” Connelly chuckled, “and why are you licking your mouth so much?” I shook my head and turned to him, “That really short female officer over there… I can smell her.” They both snapped their heads towards me. Nick looked me up and down, “You think she could be your mate? I mean, is the smell distinct?” I nodded my head and let out a breath. “I’m not sure, I gotta get close to her, Man. She smells like a candy apple and brown sugar. Her smell is literally making me feel weak.” I stood up on all fours and continued to stare at her. “Making you weak? I have only ever heard of that when two Alpha bloodlines are mated. She is a human. Look what her occupation is.” My mind started moving a million miles per hour. She was clearly a deputy and what I could tell she was a human, but something was off and I needed to know. Her eyes seemed very familiar and that had me wondering about who the beautiful women was and not just about how her body would feel in my hands. One of the good things about being a werewolf was our extreme senses. We could see, hear, and smell what humans couldn’t and that gave us the advantage. I could hear the two deputies talking with the Game Warden and over heard something about human hair mixed with wolf hair. “Did you just hear that?” I basically whispered through the mind link like someone other than us could hear. I’m such an idiot sometimes. Nick’s ears were standing straight up and so was the hair on the back of his shoulders, “yeah, I heard that loud and clear. I mean, I figured the body was one of our own, but our hair goes strictly human after we shift back. I don’t understand.” I turned my head to both of them and before I motioned towards the trail for us to leave I over heard the woman say that she would be back with her partner for a night patrol. If she would be back then so would I. I had to know her. I had to get close to her. “We will come back with patrol tonight. I need to get over there and check out that scene.” I narrowed my eyes and looked back again at other side of the lake. The girl of my dreams was getting on an ATV and I captured a mental picture of her before I ran off with my Beta and Gamma to the pack house.