The Alpha & Beta’s Regret – Chapter 1

Rafe POV

He had men defending two different borders, both the west and southern borders, had rogues pushing at his men, they had come in waves over the past 12 hours, someone had to be behind it. They knew it was coming, had been having random attacks over the past year and a bit.

He was on the western border with Ian his Delta, and Jack his Beta was with Allen, their Gamma down on the southern border. His men were getting tired, twelve hours of attacks and simultaneously at that, with barely 30 minutes between waves of rogues.

rom coming into the territory too far. It did happen sometimes, not often, and most were escorted out with a word about this being private property.

ck but were testing the packs’ battle responses. His Warrior status was one of the largest around, and nothing was getting past or into the territory that he knew of.

He’d heard Jack send 50 warriors to boost the eastern border from those rogues that were now off to surround that side of the pack.

bloody critters were vicious but not stupid. They knew how to survive, likely also knew that most packs would rather divert them away than get into a full-blown battle with them.

d out. Deal with the problem, swiftly and harshly at that.

l clear of him, which meant that their master must know about his three Mates and the protection spell that they had on him. Though a few had turned into a red-bloodied mist, not so many, that it was helping with deterring them. This battle had started at two in the morning, and no-one had been prepared for it. Most of the pack had been asleep.

linking to him about incoming rogues and lots of them, along both borders.

idn’t go far.

h his warriors were lined up in ranks to match waves of attacks, so that they could rest, and new ones could step in. This had been going on for twelve hours now, even he was tired, hadn’t gone to bed till nearly midnight and been woken after just t

em to hold the border, then the battle was on, and it was a bloodied mess of wolves on wolves for a solid 20 minutes and then the rogues that were injured or still fighting simply retreated and fled away in all directions.

died. His border patrols mostly, they’d been unable to defend against such large incoming numbers at the start of the battle. They had tried their best to deter and kill or injure to protect their pack. Their loved ones.

olar his wolf shifted him back to stand and survey the dead and dying. He had ple

d seen the rogues flee in all directions, he stayed put for another hour with three quarters of his warriors to make sure the attack was over. The rest helped the injured to the pack hospital.

.

w it was open at his command that the battle was over.

s to what was going on. Shook his head but did tell her he’d managed to get one alive and would extract answers from it after a shower and food. Probably should get sleep as well, he was tired just like all his men

the hot water of his shower and closed his eyes. Whoever was behind all of this, was insane, to trust that many rogues to do their bidding, it was a risk. He only knew a handful of Alpha’s crazy enough to use Rogues in mass numbers, but mos

son wanted something. But what?

downstairs to get food, found Jack, Allen and Ian already there, along with several of his ranked warriors. Most would go on home to be w

new exactly what he was talking about. From the protective charm of his Mates.

d packs would be stupid enough to hit us, they’re all smaller in number and need us.”

ybe we offended someone.

in much the same way.

ve you alone. Find someone else to get what they wanted or do what they wanted. He and Jack did try their best not to offend. Hell, they did their best not to associate at all with those who were notorious and steeped in blood. Tried to always

ike the last two, who said nothing, were practically starving and were half crazed, they just rambled a lot, mostly. Had fed the bloody things in order to try and gain trust, that hadn’t worked either.

ad a master and would only talk to him, possibly under some sort of order, but getting an Alpha Order on a rogue was damned near impossible unless they wer

ches; most would walk on by and not know it was even here.

guards were sitting chatting about their families at the bottom of the stairs, stood up and greeted him “Alpha.”

ty.

d shook his head, “Hasn’t bloody shut up from what I can tell.”

cells down here. Some of them had their own men in them, they looked hung over, had been hauled in for drunken fighting, there were three of them, Rafe shook his head, regulars to his cells, he noted. Two more of his guards on this side of the door nodded to him.

d to each other.

miled right up at Rafe.

l?”

y nice piece of a*s,” heard the man snort in amusement.

he now?”

mett chuckled a moment later.

there, Emmett?”

ry strong, can hang on to him one-handed. I can.”

r up.” Rafe

g him, hadn’t said a single word since he’d walked in, so much for chatty, was handed a silver blade, on his way in, saw it back up a step as he and his

“Who’s your master?”

t one,” it shot back. “Rogue’s don’t got no masters.”

d you then?”

him.

t a name?”

elf.”

es to Emmett questioningly.

ikes, real good.”

of course. Who knew.