Twisting Her Fate
Chapter 161

**2 years after separation**

Lance looks around the half moon pack, Jameson and Ryan are together and are running the training. Women are made to train. Now they are treated with respect and Ryan is friendly with every single one of them.

Lance has not seen him touch a single woman. There is nothing about this pack that is going in the direction he thought it was. He thought that Gabriel was such a mess up, but looking at Ryan and all that he is bringing in a wolf pack is not meant to care about women's rights and is not meant to be a nice and friendly place. Lance firmly believing that a wolfpack needs to be led with an iron fist.

Women are never meant to be friends and only meant to be used.

Lance looks over as Ryan laughs, crouching down on the ground as a group of four ten-year-old pups run up and jump on him. Ryan gathers them all up in his arms and starts running around the training rings at full speed. The children grip it on to him tightly squealing in delight.

This is not the half moon pack that Lance envisaged, this is not the half moon pack that the Hutchins family has raised for so many years. Everything has flown out the window. Everything has changed. Lance has tried all sorts of things to try and sway Ryan's decision.

He has tried to tempt him with girls, dr*gs, alc*hol. He has tried taking Ryan to the twentieth floor. Ryan took one look at it, turned around disgusted and walked out.

Ryan has not taken Lance as a father at all. He doesn't listen to him like Lance thought was going to happen. Lance thought he would have control of the younger man. But Ryan is very much his own person and has been raised with morals and strong conviction. He has been raised to trust his own opinion and, with the support of Jameson, they have changed the whole pack and the whole pack's way of thinking.

The pack is actually running smoother than ever before. But it is all work and no play. The Half moon pack was never meant to change like this.

Of course, Ryan has already noticed his father. He looks at Jameson and rolls his eyes and Jameson covers a smile. Ryan's bio father has been travelling a lot, which suits Ryan just fine. Ryan doesn't want to be anywhere near the man and it takes a lot of time to forget all Lance's awful teachings every time he comes back and tries to load him up with a load of bull cr*p that got Gabriel in the place he was at. Anyway, the fact that Lance actually thinks he's qualified to teach anyone is beyond a joke. Lance waves Ryan over and Ryan looks directly at him, then ignores him and continues on with what he is doing.

Lance sometimes feels like this is Adrian's revenge on him, giving him this disobedient son, ruining his son to the point where he doesn't even listen to Lance at all.

Lance breathes deeply before walking over to Ryan's location. Trying hard not to emanate the anger that he feels inside.

"I have to speak to you Ryan"

Ryan nods without even looking at the man.

"That is fine, just make an appointment with Jameson and I will talk to you then"

Lance looks at Ryan with wide eyes. Disbelief turns to anger as Ryan has still not even stopped his movements. He hasn't stopped setting up for the pups training at all. Just going through his daily routine as if he isn't even talking to anyone important. "What do you mean I have to make an appointment to see my own son? You are standing right here doing nothing"

Ryan finally glares at the man.

"I'm sorry to you that it may look like I'm doing nothing, but to me, I'm bettering my pack. If I say to make an appointment, that is exactly what I mean. I will see you when I have time" Ryan's voice is as vicious as Lance has ever heard before.

"Ryan, I do not like the way you're running this pack. I don't think you are ready or capable of running this pack. I regret my decision to bringing you back here. You have no idea how to run a pack properly and it is just going to be destroyed under you" "Look here old man, I regret a lot of things. Coming to this pack is not one of them, this is my pack now, the half moon pack is running well under me and that is how it will stay...."

Ryan takes an aggressive step forward, his icy blue eyes are radiating coldness. Jameson, who has been watching the whole thing, is starting to move the pack members away to a safe distance because it has all been brewing for a long time. He has been surprised that a fight hasn't broken out yet.

Ryan takes another step forward and Lance narrows his eyes at the aggressive young man. There has always been something slightly different about Ryan, he has always been mature for his age, but now Lance sees so much wisdom in those eyes that he, himself, feels like he is falling far behind.

"....I do regret you fathering me, I regret you coming into my life, I regret you taking me from my true father...."

Ryan's canines are out and his wolf is pushing to the surface. There is nothing admirable or worthy of respect about this man in front of him. Ryan's human and beast both just want Lance's blood.

"...Look at that, all my regrets centre around you, what the f*ck does that say about the man that donated some sp*rm to make me?"

Of course, Lance isn't about to take the threat lying down, he isn't going to expose his soft underbelly, he isn't about to submit to the man in front of him. Lance takes an aggressive step forward of his own. There is no distance between the two, Jameson is sure that it has all finally come to a head, getting the younger pack members well away from the scene.

"You are not worthy to be alpha, I am going to resend your title"

Ryan actually laughs, the sound is a cross between haunting and frighteningly vicious.

"You crusty old f*ck, the title isn't yours to do with as you please, you can't take it off one son and then give it to another and then take it back when you please, it doesn't work like that, life doesn't work like that" Ryan growls deeply as hatred surges through him. Growing up, he never had an enemy. He never understood the depth of his father's hatred for the man in front of him. Now he understands it all, as he feels it all.

"I, Ryan Hutchins, Alpha of the half moon pack, son of Adrian Hutchins the alpha of the somerset pack, challenge you, ex alpha Lance Hutchins, for the half moon pack"

Ryan knows that Lance feels like he has final say on the title because he handed it over due to succession...Well, no more. Once the title is fought for, then there is no question.

Lance is truly shocked by Ryan's words, he just wanted Ryan to fall in line and understand that he needs to pull the half moon pack back into line with the original teachings. "What are you talking about?"

"Shut the f*ck up and accept the challenge"

Lance does not want to go down this path at all, but he does the only thing he can do once a challenge is issued.

"I accept your challenge"

Ryan turns on his heel, peeling his shirt up and straight over his head, revealing his impressive body, he doesn't want to wait a single moment, he has been warmed up and ready for this for two whole years, since his mother said those words he knew it would eventually come to bl*ws.

Ryan's skin ripples as his muscles flex and Lance has second thoughts. He thought that his age and experience would ensure the fight, but his traveling has involved a lot more good times than actual training, whereas Ryan looks like he is peak condition. Of course, Ryan is in peak condition, he and Jameson spend hours everyday training, because, if he challenges Lance, he wants to be able to succeed. The half moon pack is his home. Of course, he wants to be able to stay, he may not like the circumstances that bought him here. But it doesn't mean he doesn't like the pack. It is turning into his vision of what the pack should be, so there is no way that he wants to let all that go to waste.

"Beta Jameson, please call it"

***

The two alphas stand across from each other in the ring, one visibly more nervous than the other. Jameson yells from the sidelines.

"Fight"

Ryan does not wait, he is not slow and calculated, he unleashes all the fury that he has been bottling up, like a shaken bottle of soda. Once the lid is finally released it is going to spill until there is not a single drop left.

Lance hardly even has a chance to block, he has no chance to evade as the blows rain down on him thick and fast. He needs to get out of the corner. Ryan has him against the ropes with no chance of escape.

Lance tries to shift but that is the exact moment Ryan has been waiting for. He cannot allow Lance to shift. Ryan's alpha wolf is strong, but it is hard to combat the years of experience variance between the two wolves that are of similar size.

Lance takes a moment to ready for the shift and that is the opening that Ryan needs, grabbing the mans arm when he is stationary and pulling it back, dislocating the joint and making it impossible for Lance to shift until Ryan releases the arm, leaving Lance in a compromised position.

Ryan slams Lance down to the ground and there is nothing that Lance can do as Ryan puts more and more pressure on the limb, causing as much pain as possible.

"Concede"

The fight is over so quickly and Lance was annihilated, but there is nothing he can do. He is beat.

"I concede"

Ryan leans down and whispers in Lance's ear.

"This victory is for my father as much as it is for me, it is for the good of the pack as much as it is for me"

Ryan stands without even extending a hand to help the man. Jameson jumps in the ring excitedly, hugging his best friend. Jameson grabs Ryan's hand and extends it above their heads.

"Introducing the true alpha of the half moon pack, Alpha Ryan Hutchins"

Ryan smiles as he looks at the crowd. As soon as everyone heard what was happening, they ran to bear witness. Ryan turns to Lance.

"As for you....I won't banish you, I won't officially make you a rogue. But your trips can last longer. I don't want to see you around here. If you come onto the pack, I don't want to see you, I don't want to hear you, that is my only concession to you" Lance could have easily been banished. Ryan turns around, he doesn't want to see that man for one second longer.