Filed to story: Secret with Betas Daughter: Skylar Story Series
In the end we decide that she should be up when I leave so he can see she’s watching me too, but that I should go alone to see if there is anything else I can get out of him, before sh*t hits the fan tomorrow night.
I didn’t sleep well in the few hours that I did try. I am restless and if I am being honest with myself, I am eager. We have been at this for months now, almost a year, and we finally have information to move on and take action. I would be lying if I said I wasn’t excited that we were finally going to move tomorrow. I could feel it in the house last night as the team was making plans and gearing up, many of them have been at this for years, they want to wrap this up, find this rogue king and either kill him or take a step towards killing him. He’s enslaving people, kidnapping women, forcefully taking over packs and all for the small gain of becoming the King of our territory.
There are so many Alpha Kings, because the world is too big to have just one. There are wolves everywhere and by nature need a strong leader and to be part of a pack. We naturally gravitate towards a hierarchy and as long as everyone does their part we live well. But there is always someone who sees being a leader as being in power or having ultimate power. Those are the people that are never chosen to be a leader, because they miss the point completely. Leaders are subject to making hard decisions that benefit the many, not just what they want personally. It’s not about having slaves or people to order around. It’s about keeping everyone safe and happy and healthy, putting the whole pack and our race above your own needs. Not all people who want to be leaders should lead, because they don’t understand this.
If Alpha Reggie is right and this rogue king is a descendant of the royal line who has been taught to be bitter about the birth order and whatever privileges he thinks he’s missing out on he is going to be hard to defeat. His bloodline alone will make it difficult to fight him if we meet up with him, but also a lifetime of hatred and vengeance can make people do crazy things. That’s something that warrior training really focused on. Many of the people we will fight believe with every fiber of their being that they are right and that what they are fighting for is right and the rest of the world at large is out to get them. It’s almost like a disorder and as much as you can’t get sucked into their bullsh*t, you also have to understand where they are coming from to find a crack in their armor that will bring them down.
Mina and I got up slowly. She doesn’t seem to have slept any better than me.
“I still hate your schedule. Do any of your friends enjoy this part?
“Nope,”
I laugh at her, getting ready like I do every morning. She’s just following me around looking like a zombie. I’m tired, but my adrenaline is already going in anticipation. “No one likes it and everyone complains. Sometimes, I think that’s how I know I am doing something right.”
She shakes her head and laughs with me.
“I need coffee and carbs, bring me something back from the diner.”
She says as I get to the door and open it up. I turn around to give her a hug and then step out onto the porch. “Hi Tyler. You don’t have to hide, you know. We don’t hate you, you know.”
She almost shouts into the yard.
“Well, you don’t know me very well then.”
He steps out from the same spot he did yesterday.
“That’s too bad. I’m kind of over all the guessing games.”
She replies with a good amount of sass.
“Is that why you stopped hanging out with Mike?”
He moves closer, hands in his pockets like he’s trying to keep them to himself.
“Yes and no, but more no. He just seemed distracted and like something else had his full attention.
“Someone and something both have his full attention. So you aren’t wrong.”
That glimmer of irritation flashes in his eyes again, but he schools it quickly before turning fully to me. “You ready, I had a long night, but I couldn’t sleep. I just need to move.
“Yeah. I’ll bring you something from the diner Mina. See you in a couple hours.
“Bye, Thanks.”
She heads back inside and latches the door before we even take off.
As we jog I am trying to figure out what to say to Tyler. I mean the more information I can get before tonight, the better, but I also don’t want him to shut down on me or shut me out and he seems to be on the verge of that all the time right now.
“Do you want to talk about why you have been so different around me lately? Don’t act like you haven’t.”
I say as his eyebrows shoot up and his mouth opens with, I’m sure, a denial about to fall out of his mouth.
“I told you it’s complicated.
“What about the Luna thing? No one knows who the next Luna will be, until an Alpha finds his or her mate. But, you seem very sure that I will be one and sooner rather than later. I don’t understand.
“It’s complicated, but you have to notice that you have gained a lot of attention and not just from me.”
I roll my eyes.
“I have not had any more than Mina or any of the other girls that run with us. So if you are going to sidestep that question, how about this one? What do you and your friends get up to in the woods? Are you smuggling drugs or something?
It’s his turn to roll his eyes. “Or something.”
Is all he says. “Let’s just workout so I don’t get in any more trouble over you.
