Sassy Ever After: Bonnie Sass (Kindle Worlds Novella) by Erika Masten

Author:Erika Masten [Masten, Erika]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Kindle Worlds
Published: 2016-08-29T18:30:00+00:00

Chapter Six

By midnight, the alphas, seconds, and most powerful hunters from the Highlands and Las Vegas wolf packs had converged in the suite. The new Vegas alpha, after the now late Grady Harris had unwisely tangled with the widely respected Wolfe pack, was Paul Ramos. Black-haired, dark-eyed, and particularly stoic for a shifter who made his home in Vegas, Ramos looked the part of a man who drew his shifter blood from Native American wolf lineage.

With the two alphas alone on the balcony while their packs prepared and paced behind them in the suite and their scouts ran the streets of the city, Calum said, “My pack has followed protocol to the letter by advising you of this shifter incident in your territory.” He didn’t say on your watch, but it was implied, and the Vegas alpha winced so slightly it would have been imperceptible to human eyes. “Now we are calling for your leave to hunt the wolves who have taken our females.”

“Asking?” Ramos said, still sounding unruffled, “or telling?”

Calum turned from the city view to face the Vegas alpha. The Highlander had about four inches and a few pounds of muscle over Ramos, but Calum knew not to underestimate the fighting skill and blood fury of a leaner, fast man or wolf. “It has to happen, with or without your leave. Even if you assure me your pack can find my sister and my mate and rescue them, I canna leave it to you. They are mine to protect, to the death, no matter who I have to fight to that end.”

Ramos nodded, understanding. “It will not be my pack you fight. We’ll stand with you. This was an attack on our territory and on our guests. My scouts are coordinating with yours to pick up the scent. When they have it, and it’s time to take back your females and put down the rogue wolves, our wolves will run with yours.”

“Something you said….” Calum paused and considered the man. “Rogues. You assume this was rogue wolves and not a pack with some reason to strike at me and mine.”

“Not without reason. After Grady’s death, there was a wolf who exiled himself from the Vegas pack—probably because he knew his behavior was going to get him killed sooner rather than later. Probably by us. Scruffy bastard by the name of Joel Ballard. We hear he has a few more rogues loosely banded together with him. Could be quite a few.”

“To what end?” Calum asked.

Ramos sighed, but with a growl under his breath that betrayed a quiet anger beginning to roil beneath the still surface of his demeanor. “Trouble for trouble’s sake is an end to a rogue, but…. I think Joel does have a specific outcome in mind. The end of stability and peace between the packs? Pit us against one another? Make us violate territorial boundaries? Make us even more distrustful of other packs than our animal instincts already do? Maybe this is even a power play to weaken and attack my pack and replace us with his own in Vegas.

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