The Alpha King Call Boy – Chapter 111

Alexander

Fiona’s windchime alarm woke me from an anxious half-sleep.

I’d been in and out of vivid dreams all night, startling awake every hour in the middle of clear and precise thoughts, all of which revolved around the two things that were troubling me in my waking life.

with Iris was one of these things. The problems brewing within my pack were the other.

ona by the wrist before she could slip out of bed and pulled her back to me. Her phone

from disuse and a touch of dehydration.

buried her face against my neck. “One minute only though.”

ted to calm my anxious mind.

eck, cradling one side while lightly kissing the other. I felt her first two fingers find a pulse point and pause there. She notice

asked gently, sitting up.

m fi

cepting this answer.

I added. I took her hand and brought it to my mouth, kissed her palm and then pressed it against

reat, either. Strange dreams.”

mares I’d fallen into last night. I certainly hoped not.

need to get up.” She patted my cheek.

“Yes?”

ot brewing while you shower.”

“Okay.”

ndress you.”

Alright. You put some clothes on, too,

ck an amused smile.

he bed, and started the coffee.

drifted quickly into a swarm of busy thoughts.

ation last night.

first. But then, as soon as I was done with my tale, he told me he actually had more bad news.

, a couple members of our pack got into some trouble wh

ible, but finally Kayden happened to overhear a few of them talking about the incident.

right with the pack the day after we returned from the moors. But thus far the only information I had was that several of my men were under-performing at regular drills and lagging in their reaction times.

ach man’s performance. Attempting to pinpoint the team’s weak spots and plan for an intervention.

fective, though, unless I understood the so

Now I did.

le troublemakers in the pack that were stirring up distraction and division.

rust between even two members could quickly spread to disunity amongst the pack as a whole.

ged from her dressing room.

he took the mug I handed to her and closed her eyes while taking a big inhale of the fragrant steam.

ying to see a smile on her face and know I’d put it there.

mildly impressed expression.

”

Tastes like… cinnamon? Something else, too?”

of my coffee, then reclined back in my chair. “If I told you that, what would you need to keep me around for?”

brows went up. “H

d you?”

blowing lightly over the surface of the steaming liquid to cool it.

I said, shifting my weight forward and resting my forearms on the table. “When you’ve got more than five minutes to give me afterward.”

fee composedly, keeping her eyes on mine, and nodded slightly.

er glancing at her watch, letting her know I was not going to fight her on leaving.

a small stretch.

moved in and kissed her neck. She melted into me just a little. My lips trailed up to her cheek and hovered there.

like waking up like this…”

side coffee service? Or… with my mouth on you?” Like she needed a demonstration, I

heard a low purrin

ently pushed me away, smirking.

s and yes,” she answered. “Let’s do more of both tomorrow. I’ll, uh… work it into my sc

g her mouth.

laugh. She didn’t do it very often.

field and found he was awake.

t for morning training. We’d need to move pretty fast.

nd one of the rose gardens. We looted it for pickaxes and shovels.

It sloped upward gently from the palace-facing side, but led to a sharp incline on the other side that dropped down steeply to the edge of the forest.

makers today and bring an end to their negative impact on pack morale. Once the source of the pack’s probl

ul with our balance while we worked on the incline-side of the hill, and dug until sunrise.

r side of the hill.

was a trap.