Beauty and The Beta (Bailey)

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Chapter 15 Asher

I looked at the computer displaying the security cameras. This was becoming too much. How can one pack be expected to hold back so many rogues? Wolves from all directions. Rabid wolves… I was sure of it… Where were they all coming from? This random attack had come so unexpectedly, all the wolves had been called to fight. Sending our entire pack into turmoil. We trained for this, yet when it came to it, nobody seemed to remember a thing about the training.

Ash, stay back, we cannot risk you or Caleb my Dad mindlinked.

My Dad was the current Beta of the pack, and I know he was right, but it was an instinct to want to fight. To protect our pack. But I know why he was saying what he was. Caleb would be the next Alpha, they did not want him risking, and me, as the nert Beta, was viewed in much the same way. But, that did not stop me wanting to be out there. We had to protect our people!

“Dad, please. I urged him. We can help.”

‘No. Alpha’s orders. He tells me, and I look across to Caleb, already pacing the office, where we had been instructed to wait,

“Not happening, you know that, right?” Caleb told me as he looked at me, noticing the tell-tale signs of the glazing of a mindlink had faded from my eyes.

“Why do you think I am already moving toward the door?” I grinned at him as I spoke. Neither Caleb or I had ever been good at following instructions, and we had both been keen fighters. Besides, I wanted to get this situation dealt with, I had a new mate I wanted to get home to!

Literally moments before the attack was announced, I had been getting settled in my house with my new- found mate, Isla. I had only just turned 17 a matter of months ago, and I had been visiting a neighboring pack for training, when I came across my mate. A daughter of their lead Warrior. A fiery red-headed warrior queen. A true beauty. And she had blown me away. Some men wait years for their mates, yet I had been lucky enough to find mine within weeks of me shifting and gaining my wolf. And da mn, had I been blessed.

She was currently safely with the women and children within the safe rooms we have within our packlands. Yet, I was so desperate to go to her, already craving her scent and the need to be with her. This da mn rogue issue needed dealing with. It was becoming out of hand. Caleb and I ignored the orders of our fathers and headed out of the door, to join our pack members in defending our pack. We will not leave them fighting

alone.

My wolf pushed forward the moment we left the packhouse doors, my bones twisting and cracking, altering shape and position to form the large and strong shape of my Beta Wolf, Zion. He took off after the strong Alpha wolf of Caleb, Thor, toward the area we knew many of our pack were.

of us. I was desperate to get back to Isla, but I needed to be

full speed with his claws out. Zion fell, but soon steadied himself.

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eyes I had lost sight of Thor. He had to have already gone and joined the others

I told my wolf, desperate now to go and help defend

responds, and with that he is running again,

The

another. It was a free for all by all accounts. rogue wolves we had seen on the security cameras were out to do as much damage and destruction as they could. I could see dead

of Isla. She should be safe in the safe rooms. That is where the women and children went when our pack was

secure.

the scream had not been hers, though I don’t like to think

in.’ She screams, and at that moment I felt like my heart had stopped. Zion turns his back on the pack fighting and speeds toward the packhouse. The speed at which he reaches is likely the fastest I have experienced him run, darting and dodging between the trees and buildings as he moves. A few short sharp kicks to the

needed to save her. As we reach the doors, Zion gives me control back, but the stench of blood is overpowering and my stomach churns with nerves. Zion is still present despite giving me control, his presence rippling beneath my skin, and he is

that moment I was naked. I needed to get to my mate, and I dashed through the underground passage to one of the safe rooms, the safe room I had sent Isla to before going to the offices to meet Caleb. A safe room that I believed would keep

corridor is littered with bodies… the walls stained with blood… I feel tears filling my eyes as I begin to run, stepping

I called. “Isla, where

room, and I saw so many wounded pack members, a mixture of children, elderly, and women all trying to tend to one another. But there were many dead bodies too. The rogues had clearly done their damage and left the room, likely