All Chapters of Toying Alpha: Chapter 21 - Chapter 30

Jamie slept through breakfast, but that was fine. Her fight with Logan wasn't until the afternoon so she had to eat lunch and even warm up. Her and Valerie didn't bring up what they talked about last night. It wasn't like anything they did could solve it or make it better, or, at least in the moment. The waiting game was killing her, but if Jamie could just expose the Burroughs, then maybe they could finally get rid of the tension between the packs. They were scared because they thought the disease might be transferable, but if they knew it wasn't, then maybe they would be able to return to their packs. At least have the right to visit them! Though Jamie knew she was being too hopeful with this. The Northeastern pack was the only pack not allowed to visit their original packs, there was just too much tension with all the assumptions about what Canis Syndrome was. Urgh, the longer this went on, the more complicated it became. It was a good thing she was fighting someone today. May

Jamie's mother came through, and God, she loved her so so much. Her medical documents had everything she needed to have this whole thing start making sense. Back before she was born, in the developing stages, Mr. and Mrs. Burroughs signed off on three vaccines. Flu, whooping cough, and a third for rabies, except that last one didn't make sense because there was no long-term rabies vaccine. Jamie would know. She had enough lectures from her jaunts in the woods and would've gotten one if it existed. That meant though that they injected whatever strange concoction during the formative period of pregnancy, which is what altered the DNA and RNA, adding an extra letter. Then with the follow up checkup, they gave a 'booster' shot to the baby which was the stabilizer for the DNA. Jamie wasn't quite sure if it was for some sort of incubation or if the results of it just didn't show until the Shifting Ceremony, but either way, she would bet everything that somewhere in everyone else's medi

"I thought all shifters knew how to spar?" sighed Jamie, dodging another punch while Valerie snarled and tried to kick her in the ribs, only for Jamie to catch her leg then hold it, making her wobble. "We get—busy! It's been a while, alright?!" With a growl, Valerie tore her leg free, Jamie letting her stumble a few steps away before getting back into a stance. Jamie held her palms out and then started to catch her punches. Telling Valerie everything she had discovered about Andy and the Burroughs had been freeing and relieving. There was someone in the pack who believed her and someone who was willing to help her. The unfortunate side effect of that was that Valerie was now also filled with a need for murder and just about to have a conniption, hence the sparring.Hopefully, they could burn out some of that rage she was feeling before Andy passed by and she tried to shank him. "Should I be worried your feral energy is infecting my pack?" asked Logan, coming up to the ring they we

What was it that was setting her off about Andy? Uh, everything? What words could she possibly have for that? What could she say that wasn't incriminating? The longer she was silent the more upset Logan looked, but what was she supposed to say? "Are you really not going to say anything?" "Nothing that you want to hear," she whispered. "Nothing you'll hear me out on." "You don't know that!" Logan almost shouted before hearing Valerie shift inside the cabin. "You don't know that," he repeated. "Why won't you tell me? Don't you trust me?" "I…I trust that you mean well but this is…" "Then can't you trust me to not take sides on this?" "No, I actually can't trust you not to do that. Why does it matter so much to you that I get along with Andy?" "Because!" "Because what?" Jamie demanded, baring her teeth and Logan snarled, slamming a hand beside her head, rattling the door. Jamie snarled right back, her hand fisting into his shirt to wrench him down and bite him if necessary. Fo

The next morning, Jamie cornered Logan outside of his office. Probably not the nicest thing to do when they were kind of not being friends, but she hadn't really made the smartest decisions recently. Getting caught, almost destroying their 'more than friendship' thing they had going on, putting way too much focus on a guy who was 'maybe' following his parents' footsteps. It wasn't quite obsessing but maybe Valerie was right with taking a step back. Logan probably didn't want to see her, and she didn't blame him either. But Jamie wasn't the type to wait around and let things fester. She already knew what that did to her, investigating Andy to the point she was very obviously not okay with him. Corning Logan and confronting the problem was the route she decided to go. So, maybe she might've been a bit caught up in the whole secret agent spy thing but her investigation wasn't over, even if Valerie had taken the lead, and Jamie went into a supporting role. Still, maybe she shouldn't h