Fated To The Alpha by Jessica Hall Chapter 197
Andrei POV
I sent Sage to bed after we showered, going downstairs I head to my office. Zane and Malik were already waiting for me, having let themselves in.
“How’s Nora?” I ask Zane.
“Scared, she said she has had run ins with that particular camp before, she recognised one the bodies and said it was definitely one of the Reaper Wolves”
“Reaper Wolves?” I ask Zane and he nods, dropping some paperwork in front of me.
“Found these online and printed them while you were in the shower” He tells me and I glance down at the printed pieces of paper. Fuck! Here we were thinking they were just a normal rogue camp but turns out they were part of some criminal organisation that even the human population knew about for their crimes. By the looks of it they dabbled in drugs and trafficking which I was surprised to find Rogues willing to put that much attention on themselves with the human media.
Some humans were aware of our kind and smaller local towns had suspicions but with Dominic being involved with human politics and high ups most of this sort of stuff was swept under the rug or covered up. All packs pay monthly contributions to Dominic and he in turns pays off the human governing areas to turn a blind eye and keep people out of the werewolf communities in this area. It wasn’t in our best interests to be known widely to the public. We could be hunted down and experimented on or just hunted. Humans had a tendency to panic and knowledge of werewolves existing may cause widespread panic and hysteria which is not good for anyone.
“What a stupid name to call yourself, Reaper wolves” Malik says reading over the paper. I just put down when I found an old newspaper article with Dominic’s picture. He appeared in the background and was shaking the mayor’s hand. While the main picture was of a few men sitting in the gutter being arrested with their heads down, human police behind them but I knew they never would have made it to human prisons and it would probably explain why Dominic was in the background of the picture.
“That’s Dominic, do you think he had something to do with the attack?” Zane asks, leaning over my shoulder. Malik moves around my desk and looks over my shoulder to read the article as well.
“No, Idea” I tell him, before grabbing my mobile. I look for Ezra’s number and ring him. The phone rings a few times before he answers.
“Hello?” His voice sounds rather strained through the phone.
“Bad time?” I ask him, wondering why he was breathing so hard, was he working out?
“Ah depends, is it important?”
“Kind of, we were attacked tonight. I wanted to ask you a question” I tell him when I hear Kat in the background ask who he is talking to but he doesn’t answer.
“Is everyone alright?”
“Yeah we are now, but have you heard of Reaper wolves?” Ezra groans and I pull the phone away from my ear thinking it was a strange response and look at the screen.
“Ah what was the question again?” He asks.
“ If it is a bad time I can call back, clearly you are distracted by something”
“No, I am just fucking your sister, it’s fine I can multitask” He chuckles. I growl before going to hang up.
“Joking, I am joking, ” Ezra says. “She is actually sucking my dick” “Fucking prick, when I see you”
“You will high five me” He says and I growl.
“Fine, fine. Mateo, stay with Kat, I will be back in a second, I have Andrei on the phone” Ezra says and I hear Kat start going off in the background about being on the phone to me and not telling her.
“I don’t know what’s more disturbing knowing my father is in the house with you and listening to that or you groaning in my fucking ear like some porn star” I tell hïm.
“Derrick isn’t home, he went to his storage locker to retrieve something, so be quick because I have a date with your sister’s vagina” Ezra tells me and I hear Malik and Zane snort while listening to him. I glare at them both and they put their hands up before sitting on the edge desk and pretending not to listen.
“So what did you want to know?”
“Reaper wolves, have you heard of them?”
“That’s the rogue gang, a bunch of pussies if you ask me. I have had a few run-ins with them when they stepped over my borders. Our governments have been tracking them, but they move around too much and no one knows where they are permanently based. I know a while back a heap of them were arrested and Dominic had them killed, so why are you asking about them?”
“They are the ones that attacked us, the rogue camp that is joining my pack was having issues with them and we had a run in with them this morning, then tonight they attacked my pack, so Alpha Dominic is aware of them?”
“Yeah, do you not listen in meetings?” He asks but I don’t remember hearing anything of this rogue gang.
“Must have missed it, plus I missed heaps when mum was sick” I tell him and he sighs.
“I probably shouldn’t tell you this but it may help. If you need men just ask I will send some over, but honestly if you want help with them, ask Dominic. You could be Dominic’s worst enemy but when it comes to Reaper Wolves he will back you”
“Why is that?”
“That’s how he found his mate, they had her working a corner in the City when Dominic stumbled across her, she was beaten pretty badly by her pimp and she stumbled into his Casino looking for help, they laced her with wolfsbane and she nearly died unable to heal from her injuries. Security was called and Dominic went to investigate why when he saw her. He hunted every member of the Reaper Wolves in the city and killed them for her, including one of the bosses which was quite shocking” Ezra tells me.
“Why would it be shocking?” I asked him.
“Because the head boss was actually a woman, she started it and her mate helped her, Dominic has been hunting her mate ever since ” Ezra explains.
We chat for a while longer before hanging up. “So what do you want to do?” Zane asks me.
“ Speak to Dominic tomorrow about them, see if his pack is willing to help us. In the morning I will ring a bus company and see if we can hire a bus to get out to the camping grounds”
“ Sounds good, I will handle the bus if you want. I will ring when I wake up in the morning” Zane tells me and I nod.
“Fine, you both might as well get some sleep. I need to go check on patrols” I tell them.
“No need. The entire pack is on border patrol, none could sleep afterwards and I think it has dragged up old memories for a few” Malik tells me.
“Casen and Vince?” I ask him.
“They wanted to go but I said no, they settled for going to watch over Nora’s siblings” Malik tells me.
“And you two?”
“Borders once done here” Zane answers and I shake my head.
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