From Rogue To Alpha

Chapter 2

Apollo POV

Every since we were kids, Samson has always felt the need to protect me, and not to say that I don’t appreciate it, but he doesn’t have to coddle me like that. Standing outside the tent, I stumbled upon his and Dakota’s conversation, not to say that I’m not thankful both of them are in my life, but I don’t want to feel like a burden to anyone: I have a little over two months until I finally get my wolf. But to think my brother and Dakota don’t think I can handle myself enough that they’ll stay in this place they hate so much just to try and protect and prepare me for life on the move as a rogue. I rub my hands through my hair and over my face, the two of them always coddling me. It isn’t even the worst part to think that that bastard Tyler tried attacking my mom, sending me over the edge past irritated to pissed off. Why and the f**k wouldn’t Sam or Dakota tell me something like that? The fucker Tyler is always smiling and laughing in my face like he’s some type of mentor when, instead, he’s some type of sick pervert. I mean I’ve heard stories from people in camp but wasn’t quick to believe them, but I know Dakota and my brother have no reason to lie about something like that. I can’t let them deal with this on their own. I’m gonna kill this f*****g ingrate!

Tyler POV

I’ve come a long way in the eight years since I took over this encampment. First thing I had to do was get rid of that worthless s**t, Damien. The man had no aspirations nor leadership skills; poisoning him and making it look like a natural death took a lot of preparation and time. But it was so worth it in the end! Second was getting these nimrods in the camp to trust me to make the decisions for them, and expand my power and dominance over the area. Now with the moves I’ve been making, I have as much power as any alpha in the area without all the rules and regulations of pack laws. Life is good but there’s entirely too much idiocy underneath me, that dope Dylan is a world-class f**k up and Jonah isn’t any better, only if those two young wolves, Dakota and Samson, would bend to the way things are around here and join me. Maybe I would’ve had more success if I hadn’t tried to force myself on Sam’s mom. I’m just glad no one was around to see the beating those two gave me. I’ll never forget that ass whupping. I laugh at myself.

Dakota POV

After leaving Sam’s, it seems that we’re on the same page about this s**t hole of an encampment, and this loser, Tyler. It’s still pouring out and I decide to let Bain take over and go for a run. Looking at the world through Bain’s eyes is always a wonderful experience. Bain is a beautiful wolf with light brown fur with dark chocolate eyes and he's abnormally big for me to be born a rogue. As I sweep around the western sector of the encampment, Bain picks up the scent of blood and diverts toward it, “careful Bain, we might be stumbling upon a dead body or a fight. We need to move in with caution.” As we approach through the brush towards the smell of blood there are clear signs of a fight and a struggle. What we see causes Bain to stop dead in his tracks. It’s a female wolf, but not just any wolf from her scent. She is clearly ranked. The question that immediately pops into my mind is what and why is she here and so close to the encampment? As we move closer, we can see that she is breathing very slowly, but non the less she is alive. As Bain gives me back control, I move slowly towards her. The cuts and wounds she got from whoever she fought aimed completely at her most vulnerable points and a few minor scratches along her chin and arms. She must’ve put up a hell of a fight! As I quickly got dressed and looked for something to wrap her up with, I came up with nothing, so I took off my shirt and covered her with it. Trying to come up with a quick plan, knowing that camp was out of the equation, I headed east towards the water. I just hope this works!

Kaden POV

This storm has been brutal, but I’m sure my protection charm will keep the wind from doing damage to my herb garden. This new blend of tea I created is probably the best one so far. The herbs I blended to get this taste plus the healing properties should sell quickly. I think to myself counting the money I’ll be adding to my back account soon. A loud thudding on the door stirs me from my thoughts. Who the hell would be out in this hell storm and pounding on my f*****g door nonetheless! “Whose is there? I yelled. “It’s Dakota Kaden, can you please open up”. Oh, to my surprise, it’s the young hunky werewolf I’ve been dying to wrap my legs around and f**k his brains out! I move with a little purpose to see him in all of his sexy glory, only to my dismay to see that he’s carrying a woman over his shoulder, and from the look she’s in really bad shape. What the hell are you doing, Dakota bringing a dead body to my f*****g house! “Please just let me explain, he says as he rushes past me into the house”. I was leaving Samson’s and decided to let Bain out for a run, since it had been awhile, and we caught the smell of blood and went to investigate and found her like this. She’s alive but barely, is there anything that you can do to help her? I didn’t know anywhere else to take her, please Kaden.” The concern on his face is heart wrenching, such a gentleman and to be as sexy as he is, has a pool forming between my thighs, isn’t hard for me to see that he senses my arousal. OK, Dakota, get that duvet over there and put it on the floor and place her on top of it, I’ll grab a few healing herbs from my cupboard and see what I can do. As he races in one direction and myself into my store room to find supplies. From just a glance, she has multiple s***h wounds. How deep they go will be the issue. I should grab a few healing pastes as well to help as well. As I walked back in the living room with my collection of supplies, I saw the full extent of her injuries and my first thought was this was going to take more than what I'd brought out of the cupboards! Dakota who the hell is she and who was she fighting with? “I have no clue to either of those questions, Kaden, but from her scent I can tell that she’s an alpha daughter, which is why I couldn’t let her die. When I found her, she was entirely too close to the encampment, which would’ve put everybody’s life in danger. There is no telling what her father would’ve done.” Sexy and smart just increases my attraction to this Adonis of a young man. If she’d died there, an alpha would’ve had no problem burning the encampment to the ground, killing everyone there as well.

Dakota Pov

Watching Kaden work is always a wonderful thing to witness. The herbs and the magic that she uses always seem to surprise me. Although Kaden being a water witch is very peculiar to me because I've always thought that witches lived in a coven or some sort of colony. Kaden is a very secretive person, she only lets you see what she deems fit for you to see inside of her life. I've questioned her before about why she's out here all alone with no friends or family. She just smiles and says that she can take care of herself and that her family are a need to know basis of her whereabouts. The sweat that is beading on Kaden's forehead and the concentration that she has in her eyes and on her face, I can tell she's having to work extremely hard to make sure that this girl does not die. The more pressing thing though, is what the hell happened to her? And how did she end up that close to the encampment? I know that Tyler keeps guards on the perimeter. So her being that close is very weird. Could one of those i***t guards have done this to her? I need to call Sam and fill him in on what is going on. And ask him to go out and see who is on patrol in that area of the encampment. "Yo Kota, what's up? You just left like an hour ago. You can't tell me that you need to talk again already. Samson laughed. No you big damn dope, I have something important to tell you. "Well, color me intrigued,. Then Sam responded." You know, after I left the tent I decided to go and let Bain out for a run. While we were out, we stumbled onto a female all clawed up and looked like she had got into a hell of a fight. And was left for dead not too far outside of the camp. "OK, so where the hell are you now? And who the hell would get into some type of fight with a woman and just leave her for dead? Well, I took her to Kaden's place since I didn't know where else to go, since the encampment was a no go, but that wasn't the difficult part. When I found her, I could sense that she was a ranked female from some surrounding pack. "OK, this is bad if she's a mated female or if she comes from a family that runs a pack, they'll burn the damn encampment down and kill everyone inside of it. Does it look like Kaden is going to be able to heal her?" All of the claw wounds are healed but she clearly lost a lot of blood, but it looks like Kaden has gotten her through the most difficult part. I need you to find out which one of Tyler's goons was in charge of that area tonight, and if they didn't do this, did they see anything? "OK, I'll get on that and then I'll make my way to Kaden's see you in a few." Whatever happened before she wakes up we need to have some type of answers.