Chapter 10: Alpha Daniel

Alpha Daniels pov

She lied.

A huge relief flooded my body as I started to tear through the wolfs attacking me and my small entourage consisting of Ben, two of my best warriors, and the rest waiting beyond the border, like I would come here alone, fuck no.

I was a practical guy, if anything else. I knew that fucker wanted my land, and he wasn’t afraid to use my own mate against me, just like I would have done. I almost liked Alpha Rick for that, everyone was a fucking pussy these days, afraid of losing their warriors or territory, and that’s why I was the winner in the end because I was willing to risk everything!

A big smirk had crept over my face as I gently, almost casually walked into the heart of this shitty town, looking around at the detreating buildings and filth that was scattered among the pavement, cursing right out when one of my boots got fucking banana peel under it, was this a fucking joke or what?! A small ratty girl giggled at me before I gave her a hard stare down, making her cry, running away from us, making me feel a little guilty, just a little, not enough to actually feel bad.

That brat was laughing at me, an Alpha. Her mother should have taught her some respect for her elders instead of being a brat.

“Shut the fuck up!” I said it cold over the link, not missing the slight smile of Ben and the warriors, fuck them for smiling at me. I was their Alpha, and we were on a serious fucking mission, getting my mate back, their Luna.

“Sorry, Alpha.” The two warriors nodded slightly in respect back through the link, but Ben's stupid smile was still on his face. He wasn’t sorry for watching me almost slip on a fucking banana peel like a damn cartoon. I thought I would get him when we got back, clenching my jaws, realizing people had started to scatter, females dragging their pups inside, feeling my Alpha aura radiating over them as we lost the causal look, knowing it was no use.

All of us looked more dangerous; with a flick of my wrist, everyone was on their toes, ready to fight. Even Ben had lost his stupid grin, finally focusing on what we came here for, the deal.

The whole city seemed emptied out of civilians, simultaneously making me even more suspicious and relieved.

I was a bastard, yes – a greedy fucking bastard that made small children cry for laughing at me, but I wasn’t a monster. I tried to avoid casualties when it came to battles, war, or whatever you wanted to fucking call it, I was an alpha, and my job was to protect my pack. This area was mine for the taking…

We all stopped right in the middle of the rundown town square with more closed shop windows than open ones. Was this Alpha for real or not? How didn’t he see that his own town, which should be his pride, was a shabby shithole full of weaklings? I sneered at the surroundings, pathetic.

Me in the front and Ben at my right side, slightly behind me with one step in perfect sync, the left one was open because that’s where Allison was supposed to be - with the warriors behind me, fuck I was longing for her, even more, know that we were close again, like a burner that kept sizzling in my skin, a pain that I couldn’t drink or fuck away.

I sensed her, she was close, and she was mad, good. If she was angry, she was alive and pissed off to not let any other lowlife mongrel touch her. She was fucking mine!”

I smirked while standing tall and confident at the gentle rustling of branches from the far side of the road, like the calm before the fucking storm.

The small party of wolves coming in front of us, I sized up the supposed Alpha; I didn’t recognize him. I tilted my head to the side the slightest at the young pup staring at me disrespectfully with those challenging eager eyes. Oh, this was going to be fun!

The greeting party was made up of the young guy. I’m guessing he was the Alpha's son, his beta, and a couple of their warriors. I counted up to six standing behind the young boy. He was about 18, maybe more, maybe less, but I didn’t care.

This was a fucking insult that I, the most significant Alpha of the north, didn’t get the respect I deserved! a low warning growl came threatening from my throat to the serious-looking entourage, making me start to itch to take their hearts out of their bodies while they still were beating in my hand.

“Who the fuck are you? The meeting was supposed to be with the Alpha, not a pup that hasn’t had his first fuck.” I curled my lips, testing how far this kid would take my insult. Knowing alpha nature, I was laughing already at the red color spreading across his young face, every muscle in that lean body teasing as he was almost my height, well, almost… I still had a few good inches on him, feeding my ego a much unnecessary boost.

I was a beast, in more sense than others, making females fall to my feet wherever I walked; even now, I knew there were eyes trained at me, wondering how my dick would feel. I scoffed at my own thoughts, I finally had my mate, and when I did, I would show just exactly what I thought about her running away from me with fucking hard-on I got every time she was around.

The boy had the guts to smirk back at me, standing with his arms crossed against his muscular chest like mine. I could already tell that whatever he said would make me want his blood on my hands.

“Fucked your Luna just fine yesterday...” I didn’t even hesitate as I attacked him. He had fucked my mate!? my fucking mate, my sweet Allison! I was already half-wolf when I slammed his body to the ground snarling at the surprised look on the boy’s face before he viciously turned fast into a wolf and charged me without hesitation. I saw him coming, he was angry and his pride wounded, nothing I couldn’t handle when I still wasn’t a full wolf. I didn’t need to be. He was just a pup trying to fill his father’s boots.

He was trying to charge me again, but this time, instead of just dodging the bastard, I went full wolf on him, snatching him by the upper neck with my jaws and slamming him down like the stupid kid he was, insulting my Luna thinking I wouldn’t kill him in a heartbeat if I didn’t need his father, the natural Alpha to strike a deal with me, or at least pretend to do that until the rest of my warriors attacked this shitty town.

I had my paw on his head when my eyes glinted dangerously at the panting wolf still growling at me while squirming under my claws like a fish flapping his last breath, finally starting to realize that I was bigger and stronger than him.

“Enough!”

The booming voice was the real man I was looking for. I scanned the middle age alpha walking forward from the shadows of one of the crummy houses almost falling down on us. It seemed I sneered again at the unforgivable neglect this Alpha seemed to have against his pack. I wasn’t a usurper. I was a fucking savior, it seemed.

“Alpha Daniel.” The older Alpha smiled at me with an openly mocking tone that he didn’t even try to hide as I stepped off his son, that was still growling at me, making me push my paw down again, this time a little harder earning a small wimp from the alpha heir making me satisfied.

The real Alpha of this pack has a stern face hiding that he wanted to tear me limb from limb; wise man.

I stepped off the wolf under me entirely and stayed in my wolf form for a few seconds watching the younger pup turn back to human. He looked like his dad but with black hair and pale green eyes that glared hatefully at me when I finally decided to turn back.

Ben and my two warriors were still in human form when I was standing naked in front of the older Alpha. That didn’t seem to mind. Well, to be honest, nudity wasn’t a big deal for any of us, especially when you shifted as much as I did. I looked fucking good naked.

“You have guts, Alpha Daniel, I give you that. Going in my territory with only your beta and two men? I don’t know if you’re crazy or have the biggest balls I've ever seen.” The older Alpha's eyes never left my face, not even when he talked about my balls, earning a smirk from me. I was definitely not crazy. Still, I did have a big dick to display that I was going to make Allison scream her head off when I fucking plowed her with it.

“Spare me the sweet talk Alpha Rick and just get to the part when I get my mate back.” I actually growled the last part without being able to control myself, which was uncharitable. I always had my shit together, for fuck sake, but Allison and the mate bond did things to me that made me unable to control.

I still wanted to kill that arrogant pup standing clearly grumpy behind his father, everyone just falling in line when the Alpha showed up. I almost respected that.

Alpha Rick was silent, still sizing me up the same way I did it to him. He was older, looking around forty, but I knew better than anyone that he was older with that grey creeping up that black hair that was all ruffled. He looked like he had just woken up and had on a pair of jeans and a flannel shirt of all the fucking things you could put on. I made a face at the lack of care this man obviously didn’t have for himself.

I was almost thirty, but I looked more like I was twenty than my actual number making me very suspicious of that bastard in front of me, still smiling like he believed I was trading half my land for my mate. I loved Allison, but no fucking way was I going to give up on my life’s work, the thing that I had started the day my father was killed and made me Alpha at age seventeen.

“I get the feeling that she doesn’t want to come back.” His eyes were serious suddenly, and I huffed air at the statement. What the fuck did I care about that? She didn’t know that I rejected Sabrina publicly just to chase her down, Allison was mine, and it didn’t matter if she didn’t want to come back with me. She was supposed to belong to me, mine.

“Yeah, sure, she doesn’t, but that’s not the trade we came here to talk about, Alpha,” I said the word dismissive, earning a cold, stern glance from the older Alpha that I shrugged off. What the hell was this guy’s problem? Allison was my mate, not his, and therefore my problem and responsibility, no matter what dickhead was keeping her from me.

“She begged us to kill her when we found her; it can’t be that she’s dreaming of seeing your ugly face again, asshole.” The son started yapping his mouth behind his father, who snapped his head the slighted and scolded his son with his eyes and certainly through the link, making me smile the slightest. Alpha rick didn’t want me to know that for some reason.

As much as I sucked ad made me feel more like the heartless bastard I was from hearing Allison begging these dicks to kill her, I started to get that maybe the endgame here wasn’t my territory, making this meeting even more enjoyable.

“Daniel, I think Alpha Rick wants something more than just a treaty for half.” Ben's voice almost made me roll my eyes as I linked back to him, thanking him for being caption obvious.

“Well, Allison is a drama queen if anything else.” My voice was amused and calm like I didn’t give a damn if she had tried to get herself killed when the truth was that my heart was bleeding at the reality that I was the one that had made her feel that way, a slight clench of my jaw was all that I showed, and I hoped that Alpha dick over here didn’t see it.

“Oh, she is something, that’s sure, pure spitfire, that one.” Alpha Rick's eyes got something in them for just a second that I didn’t like one fucking bit when I started to growl again, putting Ben and the warriors on edge even more, feeling the pulsing force of my alpha powers being fully unleashed from even seeing that tiny fucking twinkle in that motherfuckers’ dark eyes, he was interested in her, in a way that I would kill him for.

“If you or your fucking nuts have even touched a hair on her head, I will fucking come at you with everything I got! Your fucking shithole will burn!” I was talking in a low, threatening growl, not even caring that I was declaring war on the rival Alpha for everyone to see. I meant every fucking word if Allison was hurt.

His response was a dry laughter that filled the entire square making me and Ben look at the older Alpha and his men. They all seemed to calm, not caring one bit about my threats like the inbreeds they really where!

I squinted my eyes and stared at the still-laughing man in front of me. I wasn’t used to this behavior. Usually, people, Alpha or less, were afraid of me, at least they had respect, but this dirty fucker laughed!?

“Is that a challenge Alpha Daniel?” the man looked unfazed suddenly, making me itchy. Something was definitely wrong with this picture as I nodded sternly back at his stupid face.

“You bet it is Alpha Rick!” I didn’t even try to hide my threats, so why did he want me to say it out loud? He and I seemed to be the same kind of man, making it almost a bit funny for me to hate the asshole. Still, I did hate him standing there with his worn-out rags and looking like he had the upper hand all along and was enjoying every part of it.

“Well then, I don’t want war, and I believe we came here to strike a deal?” a natural face had settled on Alpha Rick's face, not doing much to hide the calculating eyes still staring me down.

“We did, but I’m feeling like the terms of this agreement, or fucking blackmail as it is, should be renegotiated since the odds since to be in my favor at the moment.” A sincere smile played on my lips; it would be easier than I thought to take this raggedy-ass town and Alpha down, who clearly didn’t have the men or resources of my extent looking around the rundown place we were standing at.

Ben was not happy. I could feel him pushing his concern on me as he thought it too. Something was wrong, and I just knew it.

“Yes, I know about your men just outside my boarders, or did you really think that the stench of the north wouldn’t get caught by my patrols?” goddess, I really hated this guy standing there relaxed and looking like he was in complete control along with that bratty pup of his still looking like he meant every word about fucking my mate.

“He’s not making empty threats, Alpha; I can’t feel any of our guys, and none is responding.” Ben was linking me, and by the look on my face when my color was slowly draining my face, oh fuck.

That's why that bastard looked like the cat that swallowed the canary. He knew about my plans all along. I was a sitting fucking duck with two guys and my beta motherfucker.

My shoulders were tense, and my fist was already starting to turn wolf on me when that smirking motherfucker held up his hand like he was my superior. I was the biggest Alpha of the northern part, and this dickhead had seen right through me without me realizing it.

“I’m guessing your beta has informed you that I have your men neatly tied up and awaiting your decision, alpha, the girl, or your land.” The anger rushed over me like a hot stream of lava, making me fight my wolf, trying to claw its way out of me. That bastard was serious, standing there all high and mighty, looking like a fucking bum.

My girl or my land.

Simple as that.

Fuck.

Just that it wasn’t that simple. I had a responsibility to my pack; as much as I needed Allison and loved her, the same people that would be suffering were the wolfs living under the territory of the land that this asshole was trying to make me give up.

“You can’t seriously think I’m going to give up half of my fucking land to you?!” the smile of the Alpha bastard, or Alpha Dick as I had already taken to call him, was making me want to go full fucking wolf on him tearing that stupid smirk right off his head when a small voice was heard above all else as it cut right through the male chatter. I turned around when I sensed her.

Oh fuck.

Allison.

There she was, standing in all her glory. She looked a little thinner than before, making me growl that they hadn’t been feeding her properly.

Goddess, she still looked so fucking hot with that pretty face and her red-brown hair neatly tied up with loose hair falling on her silver eyes that for the moment was furious and hurt, making my heart ache that she was hurting. I was going to kill that Alpha bastard for making her suffer.

“Allie…” I said her name breathlessly, still dumbfounded that she was behind me. I hadn’t sensed her at all; it was almost scary when all I got in reply was a small smile and her eyes shining even more radiant.

She was pissed at me.

Fuck, I just realized that she just heard me saying that I wouldn’t give up my land for her. Oh, fucking fuck, this day just got better and better, it seemed.

I knew that I had played like a damn violin when she walked past me and took a stand with Alpha Dick.

Great.