Alpha Jones turned and walked away, leaving me alone with the group. I hoped they weren’t like Jones. No amount of beauty could make up for being deplorable. “Pleasure to meet you, Alpha Ledger,” the triplet with a crew cut said, extending his hand. “I’m Alpha Alaric Valko.” “The pleasure is mine,
ALPHA STOLL’S POV: Goddess. What a nightmare. A meeting of Alphas was just one more in a long list of things I didn’t want to do. I already had too much on my plate. I didn’t need a bunch of Alphas judging me. I didn’t want to have to prove that I belonged among the Alphas. Especially when I didn’
ALPHA LEDGER’S POV: “Mate,” Thaddeus repeated inside my head. Wait. That man is our mate? Our mate is a man? Another Alpha at that? I didn’t think it was possible. I had always thought I would have to learn to be attracted to a woman when I found my mate. So many emotions flowed through me. Shock
“You’re an Alpha. Tell him what he needs,” Thaddeus growled. “He’s an Alpha too. Don’t you see how delicate this is?” “What’s delicate about the will of the goddess?” “Stand down, Thaddeus,” I commanded in a stern tone. I was done with this conversation. He growled, huffed, then sulked, but he s
ALPHA STOLL’S POV: The old timers were waiting in the common room of the pack house when I returned to Nearside. It wasn’t unusual. They tended to hang out in the pack house, scaring everyone else away. They were bullies and the main source of conflict in my life. They undermined me at every opport
I lunged forward as soon as the barrier was in place and punched Adam in the face with all the emotion I had been holding inside for the past several hours. My hit knocked him out, and he dropped to the floor like a bag of dirt. I dropped to my knees, straddling his motionless body, and continued p
“But that shouldn’t be the focus.” “True.” If I wanted the respect of my pack, if I wanted to be worthy of the title and position, I needed to act like an Alpha. I needed to take care of my pack. I didn’t know if I had forgotten that, or if I never had the opportunity to think about it because I
“Are you going to implement capital punishment?” Donovan, one of the younger warriors, asked. His shoulder-length red hair was tied back in a ponytail. “There are laws and punishments in place already, including banishment and death for the worst crimes. Or I’ll make new laws and punishments, depen