Chapter 94

What did she mean it could have been me? I could have asked her but I had no time to waste. I had to get to the small town in the pack to control the situation. It has been a week since we had such an attack.

Eventually I do get to the place that had werewolves gathered everywhere. News does certainly travel fast. But the one thing that I don't understand is how this came to be. I thought we had things under control. It was time I got to the bottom of this.

Making a path for myself through the crowd, I find myself to the point where four bodies were lying on the ground. The sight was gruesome and full of gore. Their skin was written into, by the looks of it was a curving knife.

The writings were a bunch of letters that put together didn't make any sense. "Sir, this note was found on top of them when they were found." A person to my right tell me. I look at the forded paper he is presenting me. It was addressed to the Alpha of the pack.

I look at the bloody paper and contemplate if I wanted to read it. But did it matter if I wanted to read it or not? I think it did not. I was the alpha after all, I couldn't avoid the issue as much as I wanted.

I take the paper and study it for a while. From the note, the humans didn't know that I was the alpha they were addressing. In the note they had written that next time it was going to be me and my family. Funny, since when did they start threatening, I thought they just wanted to wipe us all out?

That is when it dawned on me. Claire. She said she was the one behind all this, said she had allies with the humans. But how, she was werewolf as much as I was. How did she pass for an ally? My head had to be spinning by now.

I look around and notice the bodies, there was something about the situation that didn't sit well. Of course it was a family, it was sad that they all had to die in such a way. Looking at the scene for the last time I take myself to a more quiet place to think properly. The pack members expected me to come up with something to solve this, we did solve it temporarily where we agreed not to show our faces to them.

Then a bell rings in my head. The family, it had four members. The father and mother with a couple of children. Like my own. This incident happened when Claire told me that I would regret taking my wife home. Looking back at how she acted, this was in fact a ploy to get me to behave.

Of all people Claire had to be the first one to know that she could not tame me. Did she think being cruel to her fellow werewolves was going to make me like her? she was seriously delusional and I was starting to question my sanity my letting her interfere with my life like she did. But it couldn't be helped.

According to the note, the humans didn't know where my pack was or who was who. Of course it wasn't written down but being a person in power you had to learn how to read in between lines. And by the show of things it was Claire who was the master mind. She told them everything, or in this case she told them what she wanted to tell them. But this was all speculation from my part.

There was only one way to find out. I had to play along while investigating as well. Not to raise suspicions, everything had to go the way they were supposed to. We will still be importing our supplies and we will still send out people to learn how to fend for ourselves. It was a good investment after all.

One thing had to be straight though, I needed proof that the humans didn't really know us and that they were being hinted. I set orders for a person to go out for a walk around town tomorrow. People were scared to volunteer, they should, I didn't tell them of my plans yet. I wanted to make sure that Claire did not have anyone working from the inside.

Now my job was done for the time being, I had to go home and find a way to get rid of the she devil that invited itself to my house.

When I do get home I find her sitting in the same seat I had found her sitting in earlier. Her mood seemed dark, but I was too tired to acknowledge it. Today there are a lot of things that went on. I had just lost my wife and pups, there was another attack in what seemed like a week after the last one. And I had to fix everything, I was but a mortal being who needed rest and time off.

I pass her and go straight to bed, as soon as my head hit the pillow, all the weight of everything that happened sinks in on my shoulders. As far as I was determined to fix the problem I couldn't help but feel loss and pain.

Claire did follow me to the room, I hadn't thought about her wanting to share my bed but that should have been obvious. Thinking back to that time she almost had me in her mouth, I should have slapped her then save being a gentle man.

She comes up behind me and wraps her arms around my middle. By instinct I flinch away. She chuckles under her breath and says "With time you will get used to me" she turns and switches off the lamp leaving me in the dark wondering my own dark.