The Wannabe Warrior
Chapter 81

Zane POV

For the first time in I don’t know how long, I slept in, it was a loud knock on our door that woke me up startled, and without waiting for me to say enter, in walked my dad, his face beaming with pride, that he had caught me still asleep. That was a rare occasion and one I am sure dad will not let me forget anytime soon.

‘Son, you had me worried.’ Dad said with a smirk.

‘Why is that dad,’ I asked, confused.

‘It is seven o’clock, you are an hour late for our meeting, and you are never late, so I thought maybe you were sick?’ he said, still smirking at me.

Madison sat up in surprise, when dad’s voice woke her, and her breasts were revealed as the sheet dropped, revealing the love bites I had put on her last night.

Dad’s eyes glanced at them briefly and his grin seemed to grow even more. His glance was so quick, you would not have noticed, but I was watching my dad at that moment, wondering if it really was that late in the morning. We never sleep in, and I know him very well, and saw that he noticed the bites and his grin grew. I knew I was in for a whole lot of pain when Madison was not around to hear him having fun at my expense.

‘Oh, I see why you are late, get dressed, the others are waiting.’ He laughed, as he turned and left the bedroom, closing the door softly behind him.

Madison looked down and looked at her breast and her cheeks turned red, as she realised all her love bites all over her breasts and she had just flashed them at Zane’s dad, and I burst out laughing at the whole scene, she was so cute.

‘Don’t laugh, I just gave your dad a look at my breasts covered in your bites. Wait, why should I be concerned; it is not the first time he has seen my breasts?’ she said as she climbed out of bed and headed to the bathroom, her nudity not an issue anymore.

‘Do we have time for a shower?’ she calls from the bathroom.

‘No, dad said others are already in his office and they are waiting for us to arrive, so they can start the meeting.’ I reply, as I pull on my pants from last night and the shirts, then go hunting for where Madison threw my socks after she removed my shoes.

‘Hey,’ I just thought of what Madison had said.

‘What do you mean it is not the first time dad has seen your breasts?’

‘Well, we are werewolves and we do shift in front of each other, and.’

‘Stop, I got it. Have me worried for a moment there.’ I said, turning red as I saw her catching on with what I meant.

‘Don’t you ever think I could be romantically involved with anyone but you! DO YOU HEAR ME?’ she growls at me, horrified at the thoughts of where my head had gone.

‘Got cha.’ I said, feeling a bit guilty for even thinking such a thought.

We made it to dad’s office, and found no one there.

I mind-link dad.

‘Where are you?’

‘Large meeting room, too many of us now to meet in my office.’ Dad replies.

In the large meeting room were all the Alpha’s that came to help fight, as well as a few warriors and other people dad thought should be in the meeting.

‘Ah, good, you made it at last, son. Grab some food and sit down, we can start now you are here.’

Along the wall a table with food and drink was placed. Everyone was eating breakfast.

I sat Madison down at the table and told her I would make her a plate and bring her coffee, and proceeded to the side table to make her a plate and a coffee.

I am lucky she is not a finicky eater.

The table was talking about the rogues and the way they had died, and though we were going to kill them anyway, the way they died was the worst anyone would wish on another wolf. It was a terrible way to die. At least in a fight your suffering would have been quick.

They were all pleased, however. That the advisor was dead and that he did suffer, he had made so many people live in fear and killed a lot of innocent lives and not in a nice way, the stories we had heard about some of the slow deaths he had caused and torture he had inflicted. He was terrifying and he had a lot of packs. He had threatened to cause harm or wipe them out if they did not comply with whatever he had wanted. This man got worse as the years went by, and sitting at the table listening to these men talk about some of the things he had done, and when the call came that we were going to attack the advisor and his rogues, they jumped at the chance to join them. They refused to be under that man’s threats any longer. And would be happy to die, if it meant that the advisor was no longer a threat.

The stories about the atrocities the advisor had done, went on for the whole time we ate, and none of the stories were nice.

Even Madison’s dad and Daniel added to the conversation, talking about how their mates had died, and how Madison was the reason that the advisor was identified and the rogue leader.

Dad was sad, that none of the people who were threatened by the advisor, felt they could come to him and tell him of what was happening, but he understood that they lived in fear and fear was a powerful weapon.

‘Dad, I was thinking about the rogues and how they all died. Could the advisor have thought of using water as a weapon? The scent of the person infected disappears almost instantly. Ryan’s group was attacked by rogues with no scent. Maybe he got everyone to bath in the water to remove their scent, not knowing they had caused the beginning of the end?’

‘That would explain why they are all dead and not just a few. Plus, if any had drunk some of the water while bathing would explain why some are decayed more than others, they would have died days earlier.’

‘Sounds like something the advisor would do.’

‘I asked Alpha Alex, if handling the dead, like we did, could cause us to be infected. Not all of us wore gloves. Apparently, the contagion is what causes the yellow phosphorus that glows in the water. Once it is out of the water, it is no longer viable. When the person is in the water, the contagion enters the body through the pores of the skin and mutates, hence the loss of scent, and it is the mutation that causes the death, and if they stupidly drink the water, death is surely to follow, but a lot quicker.’