The Shadow Alpha novel Chapter 37

By the end we had gained the attention of most of the pack members, young and old stood watching us dual and everyone cheered us on as we walked into the house hand in hand.

My parents, brothers and friends all stood together, Hunter and Tatiana both had excited smiles on their faces, while the rest just stared on in concern. I sent them a reassuring smile as we passed, I didn’t blame them for glancing between us warily after everything that happened.

“I must give it to you both, I would never be able to lay a hand on my mate let alone have a full blown fight.” Oliver commented from behind us, I just laughed lightly and looked up at Devin affectionately.

“We were friends before we were Mates; it’s just like the good old days when we rolled around in the grass tugging at each other’s hair to determine a winner.” He smiled amusedly at the memory.

“Yeah funnily enough, even back then we couldn’t determine a winner.” Hunter scoffed and grumbled,

“Yeah and even back then I had to stop you both from ripping each other’s hair out.” We all laughed at his faux annoyance and Jo kissed his cheek which made a smile light up his face.

He is so whipped! I cackled internally.

I noticed April staring at us with a soft look in her eyes while Austin's eyes were calculating and it felt like a bucket of ice water over my head. We can have as much fun as we like, but the threat only worsens with time.

We needed to do something about him and fast, but first we had to prepare the attack, because the moment word got out that Austin was out of the picture, the rogues would surely attack.

Back to reality then, I guess. I sighed internally.

‘Soon my dear, we will overcome this and reality will put a smile on your face.’ Shadow comforted and I smiled to myself.

I excused myself and walked to my room to have a shower, still deep in thought about the inevitable war that would soon be upon us. We needed to either be prepared to attack or to be attacked and at this stage I haven’t decided which option is better.

After a warm shower I threw on a pair of light washed jeans and a black tank top with my black converse sneakers and went straight to the dining hall where breakfast was being served. I took my usual seat at the head of the table and Devin slid into the chair to my right a few moments later.

Noticing that everyone was seated, I stood up and clapped my hands to gain their attention.

“Good morning my darlings, just a few little announcements before you all dig in. We will have a pack meeting at 8pm tonight in the back yard and I ask that everyone is present, if someone is not here this morning, please do notify them to be here on time for the meeting. Secondly, I’d like to see my task force in my office after breakfast. Lastly, I will be doing a few spot checks, see how everyone is settling in so please see to it that everyone stays within the territory today.” They all nodded in understanding so I preceded, “Okay great! We thank the Goddess Mother Selene for this lovely meal and may she bless the hands who prepared it. Enjoy.”

As usual everyone chatted merrily throughout breakfast till one by one they dispersed to do whatever it is they planned for the day. As soon as I finished breakfast I went straight to my office with Devin and the others following close behind.

I stood and looked directly into the biometric identification system that was mounted within my wood covered titanium door to unlock it. I usually didn’t lock the office so extensively, but taking chances at a time like this would only prove to be a disadvantage to us.

When the pack house was revamped and the new one built beside it, my office was transformed into a safe room with state of the art security equipment installed so that no one, but specially authorised persons could enter when the system is locked. When unlocked anyone could enter which is why all the drawers and cabinets with important information is sealed shut and can only be accessed with a biometric fingerprint sensor.

My system is so advanced that if anyone tried to force open a door or even snooped around in my office, the sensors will store identification data on the intruder and in case of a full on security breach the system will lock with the culprit inside and an alarm will sound throughout the territory notifying the whole pack of the threat. The system was designed by Jimmy when he was just seventeen years old and it’s brilliant.

Basically it was fool proof and it wasn’t all for nothing, my office held important information about all the packs that I helped train as well as my own and the Shadow wolf, I could not allow anyone to gain access to such information so I had to take extra caution.

Once the system identified me it unlocked and all that could be heard was the swishing of the multiple hydraulic locks pulling back, I caught Hunter’s freaked out look from beside me to which I smirked and wiggled my eyebrows.

“Wow sis, you really are paranoid.” He joked and I smirked once again.