The Shadow Alpha
CHAPTER SEVENTEEN

"Are you okay?" Tatiana nodded despite the discomfort on her face.

“Now that everyone is acquainted; we can get this meeting underway.” Without giving anyone timeto react I rolled out the map on the table and immediately everyone's eyes focused on it. “Tatiana, isit safe to assume that the rogue prison in which you were is to the east of us?” she looked up at meand nodded curtly, I marked the east border with an X before continuing.

“Devin, the attack on your territory; where did they enter from?” Devin and Hunter shared a lookbefore he met mine.

“It was an all-round attack.” My eyebrows shot up in shock and gasps were heard around the room.“How is that possible? How weak was your border control that they were able to access yourterritory from all sides?” Dad asked, a deep frown marring his face. Devin ran a hand through hisbeautiful chocolate hair.

“That's what I've been asking myself since the attack occurred, there were twenty wolves spreadacross the borders at the time and none of them reported any rogues around the borders, it's likethey were invisible till they were standing outside the pack house. I didn’t know of their presenceuntil the attack.” Everyone was deep in thought trying to figure out how they were able to pull it offand the gears in my own head were turning.

According to my own research I had done when trying to formulate a scent mask, the best way tomask a wolf's scent is by using the blood of an alpha mixed with wolfsbane injected into thebloodstream. This knowledge was not much of a secret since I myself had come across it in a historybook that I had found in the Alpha library.

The potion was said to last longer based on how much was injected, but since the mixturecontained wolfsbane it also weakened the wolf making it easier to kill them. The reason for it beingmixed with alpha blood was because Alphas had a higher tolerance against wolfsbane than aregular wolf thus slightly neutralising the wolfsbane enough to enable them to shift.

"Scent mask.” I voiced aloud and all eyes focused on me with curiosity burning in them. “It's an age-old potion of Wolfsbane and Alpha Blood that creates a higher tolerance towards the wolfsbanewhen injected into the bloodstream of a normal wolf. It does still weaken the wolf's abilities butdoesn't impair it completely since Alphas’ have a higher immunity against wolfsbane.” They noddedin understanding seeming to agree.

"Where did they get alpha blood though?” Hunter's voice sent a pang to my heart, but I ignored thefeeling.

“There are many prisoners of Alpha descent that were kidnapped by the rogues.” I noticed howTatiana glanced at Dris and Jake when she spoke confirming my suspicions that their mates were infact used for this very experiment due to them being daughters of an Alpha blood.

"How many rogues were there?” I directed the question at the three Full Moon pack members."Approximately sixty wolves. They didn't attack with the intention to kill though, apart from the fewrebellious killing machines the rest were basically out to destroy our pack land, they set things onfire and simply aimed at breaking and destroying anything in their path.” Devin answered with afrown.

Would it be wrong if I called this cliché?

I was almost sure that my theory was correct and by this time I needed just one answer to confirmit.

"What made you call us to assist you? There are so many other packs that you could have called,why us?” the guys gave me curious looks wondering why I would ask such a question when theanswer was obvious.

“The Blue Moon pack is the most powerful pack in the country, no other pack would have theresources necessary to help us either way.” His handsome face was set in a deep frown making mewant to smooth away the contours.

I locked eyes with Devin and smirked secretly, “Yeah. It is obvious, isn't it?" I said which earned aseries of baffled looks from everyone around me. I wasn't the type to be smug unless the situationabsolutely called for it and I suppose that's what it seemed like to them.

I shook my head dismissively, not reacting to their looks and a grim look settled on my face, “Here'sa list of telephone numbers of surrounding packs. Jake, Hunter, Papa J and Dad; you're going to calleach of these numbers and get reports on where exactly each of their rogue activity around theirborders have been in the past week as well as any other information they have been able to extractfrom captured wolves.” The four men nodded and moved to one end of the room to carry out theirorders.

“Shadow, you know what to do." Shadow complied as usual and almost immediately I saw as thelight formed around the three men in the room. Devin was surrounded by a beautiful blue light; thatcould possibly pass as the most magnificent shade of blue I had ever seen I could hardly tear myeyes from him. The light seemed to make him even more breath-taking than normal.

When am I going to catch a break?

I could feel everyone watching me as I blatantly stared at Devin which was the only motivation I hadto tear my eyes from him and observe Justin who stood to the right of him.

The moment my eyes landed on him I wished I hadn't looked away from Devin. Dread began to setin as I took in the deep emerald colour that surrounded Justin, under any other circumstances Iwould have found the colour beautiful, but now it only served to agitate me. Just when I thought itcouldn't get worse my eyes fell on the light specks of red that were darkening by the second as hefocused on his surroundings, he hadn't even realised that I was staring at him

I glanced over at Hunter and was both satisfied and relieved to replace that his aura was pure blue. Ifocused my eyes on the map where Brad was explaining to Devin what the markings on it means,but my mind was on Justin seated beside Devin. I studied him closely, he seemed to be absorbingevery little detail he could replace about our plans and discoveries.

I had to take care of him, he couldn't be trusted. I concentrated hard and I placed a weak wall upblocking him from communicating with anyone and possibly sharing the information he gathered,my wall would hold out long enough for me to figure out how to stop him and him from proddingat it to break it down.

The block was almost like cutting off his mind link, but instead it made it undetectable in his mindfor a little while. His unsuspecting stance made it a tiny bit easier to do without him fighting the lossand I figured that the longer I kept him here the more time I had before he noticed his inability tocommunicate through the link. The invasion made my own head ache slightly but I dismissed thepain. Even with all the training my mind underwent to control my gifts, using them still made meweak and I had a nagging feeling that it always would.