The Shadow Alpha
CHAPTER FORTY-SEVEN

Have you ever looked into someone's eyes and felt a shiver run down your spine by the pure evilthat you see in them?

Till now the idea of a revolution was somewhat abstract, right now it felt real.

I could feel the power radiating off him in waves, the smirk that he had plastered on his face madethe whole situation even more bone chilling. His creepy mahogany eyes surveyed the pack housethat stood behind us and with an impressed nod in my direction he opened his filthy mouth.“Allison, how lovely to finally meet you. I have heard so much about you, I feel like I already knowyou.” he spoke smugly with a hint of familiarity which only served to disgust me; he made hispresence on my land seem like a reunion between old friends.

"Who are you?” I questioned sternly, not interested in hearing anymore of his pointless drama. Aman I would have under other circumstances considered handsome, had it not been for the disgusthis presence caused to form in my stomach; threw his head back and laughed heartily.

"Oh please pardon my bad manners, I forgot to introduce myself.” His dimpled smile irked me moreas he faked politeness; there were low growls behind me despite my constant inner chant foreveryone to remain calm.

“Drop the act and tell us who the hell you are!” Devin burst out letting his control slip; his fists wereballed up as he stood to the right of me with a vein pulsing in his forehead. I grabbed hold of thehand closest to me and pried his hand open to thread my fingers through them; his body stilled atthe gesture and calmed slightly.

The nameless man stood watching the exchange with a look of amusement and annoyance, “Well ifit isn’t the good for nothing Alpha Devin Summers, couldn't protect your own pack so you camerunning into the arms of your rejected mate to do it for you.” he mocked and Devin's handtightened around mine in an effort to hold himself back.

I could feel my own temper rising as several warning growls echoed behind us. He was getting thebetter of us and I refused for that to happen. My left hand lifted in the air and the crowdimmediately abided my silent order.

“I don't know what you think of yourself and frankly I don't care much, if at all. What I would reallylike for you to do is for you to take your sorry, nameless ass and your bunch of dirty mutts andsashay off my land quietly, before I make sure none of you leave with your heads attached to yourbodies.” I vowed flatly.

I stopped the smirk from appearing on my face when I saw the vein in his neck pulse and his jawtighten into a fake smile, his rogue army seemed to have taken offense to my statement too as theygrowled in warning, some needing to be held back as they bared their brown canines at me.“You're too confident for your own good Allie Cat.” He tsked with the fake smile still plastered on hislips and leaned back leisurely with his hands in his pocket as if they hadn't entered my land to kill usall. “That attitude might cost you your life.” He gave me a knowing look and sent a slight smirk inDevin's direction as if they shared an inside joke.

A warning bell went off in my head, but I was too preoccupied to pay it any heed, “Or perhaps itmight cost you someone else's life.” He leered at the members of my pack that stood flanking me.His threat was blatantly obvious and took several ounces of self-control not to pounce and rip hishead off.

“Rule no. 1: IN BATTLE, NEVER MAKE THE FIRST MOVE.’ I reminded everyone through mind link.The aim was to rile them up enough to have them pounce first. You'd be surprised as to how manyblood baths actually began like this.

"Humour me, which traitor happens to be your favourite?” I questioned with slight interest, expertlyignoring his snide comments and obvious threat. He seemed impressed by something, whether myself-restraint or my conversational skills I could not tell. He lightly tapped his chin as if deep inthought.

“Don’t let him get to you, just stay calm!” I mind linked Devin, knowing that the next words from theidiot's mouth would put Devin completely on edge. He was our weakest link and the smug bastardknew it all too well.

“Personally I quite enjoyed April, a feisty one I tell you, especially in bed with her husband and matewatching.”

Such a vile creature should never be allowed to walk the earth freely, he deserved to be ripped topieces for all the things he has done. His words riled the Full Moon pack members up, they knewher as their former Luna, they didn't know of her deceit.

"Of course, what else can we expect from a lowlife?” I smirked nonchalantly, not giving him thesatisfaction of seeing the anger that was bubbling like a raging volcano within me. My wordsseemed to have struck a nerve and his jaw ticked, but as fast as it came it disappeared into anothermalicious smirk.

“Bet you'd be a tigress in bed too.” He commented, his eyes sweeping my body as any of the rogueshummed in agreement. A collective growl sounded behind me as I tightened my grip on Devin'strembling hand.

“Now I know you didn’t come here to have such a pleasant conversation.” I smirked sarcastically andhe chuckled once more, but before the next word could escape his lips a dirty ginger coloured wolflurched forward with a crazy look in his eyes. He didn’t make it far Hunter before pinned him to theground and broke his neck in a single move.

Just like that all hell broke loose.

The cringe worthy sound of bones breaking filled the air just as the screams and growls becamemore prominent. Devin had long ripped his hand from my hold and was now facing off against twobrown wolves that seemed to be no match for him in his towering wolf form.

I searched through the mess of battling bodies for a certain mahogany eyed man, just as my eyescaught a glimpse of his smirking face behind some trees, a movement to my left caught my eye, justin time for me to turn and pin his muscular torso beneath my left knee taking him down with theswipe of my right foot.

He was one of the few rogues that had not shifted and by the looks of it, he was well trained. His jetblack hair matted to his forehead with sweat was the first thing I saw before he shoved me off himroughly, expecting the move I didn't stumble, instead I retaliated by swinging my fist at his face andrelishing in splashes of blood that flew from his mouth. Not giving him a chance to recover I sent apowerful kick to his ribs which crushed under the pressure, unable to withstand the blow he fell tothe ground and with a snap of the neck he was gone.

I looked in the direction of the man once again, but he was nowhere in sight. I wanted his blood,but these stupid rogues just didn't know when to quit. A black and red wolf snapped its salivaryteeth at me and lunged forward, its attack was weak as it jerked to a stop when my hand came incontact with its neck. The wolf's red eyes widened more and more with each tightening of myfingers around its trachea, seeing its eyes roll to the back of its head I flung the unconscious bodyinto a broken tree.

A pain filled yelp caught my attention as my focus drifted from the lifeless corpse. My eyes snappedto the snarling wolf standing over Taylor.

“SHIFT! The alpha order was immediately recognised as her form shifted, taking the rogue bysurprise, giving her enough time to gain the upper hand and throw him off of her. I knew she washurt, but her wolf form would heal faster and could withstand much more pain than her humanform.

Weapons were discarded across the red tinted grass, most pack members having shifted to theirwolf forms already. The rogues came thinking they had the upper hand, but by the looks of thelifeless bodies splayed outside the pack house, they were somewhat overconfident.

A sharp pain suddenly erupted in my left side and as if they were the poles of a magnet my eyesfound Devin's pained gaze. A rogue wolf had its teeth sunk in the left torso of his wolf as he pinnedanother rather large wolf to the ground. He was struggling to maintain his composure and wouldhave lost it had I not clutched onto the fur of the bloodied wolf with his teeth in Devin and rippedhim away.

Suddenly a group of six huge wolves appeared from the forest and surrounded Devin and I. Devinstepped off of the bloodied body and moved closer to me as his senses heightened at the dangerthat now surrounded us.

A feeling of foreboding washed over me; by the look in their eyes I knew these weren't normalrogue wolves.

The true battle was just beginning.