The Mark Of The Beast

13. Decode POV: Khyzer

I accepted all the challenges from the Alphas that didn't want to hear reason. Only wanted killing and more blood. They lost one by one. The only werewolf to kick my ass at all was MadMax. We were sparring and training some rookie warriors one morning and she put me down on the ground hard. In front of the whole class and every other pack member watching. My dad was watching when she embarrassed the hell out of me.

I didn't let my anger up to my surface instead I decided I just got my money in the back opportunity and that is how MadMax became The Arkanine general. Braidyn is 3rd generation Beta he was born to be my Beta. I couldn't rock Selena to sleep at night, I couldn't watch her sleep knowing she is a part of me, if I didn't do what the Moon Goddess said and make s**t better then we would be extinct one day, and if not my daughter would never be respected or the one in charge when her time comes and without any hope, for a son to take over being Alpha one day, then Selena's bloodline would cease. She would marry and take the last name if her husband they would have pups but they wouldn't be Sparks and Selena's husband would the be Alpha leading the Arkanine and not Selena.

She would be the last of the Sparks and the last of our Mohicans and The Arkanine wouldn't be what my grand and great grandfathers built The Arkanine to be. My Father would be disappointed in my lack of pride and so much worse. Selena Sparks was my whole world. I would kill for her, die for her, protect her till my last breath. I'd do anything to see her smile and make her happy. To make sure she had a happy healthy well-balanced childhood abd future to grow up for. She would be so spoiled always.

To be a father was to know what real unconditional love was. I never felt incomplete without my mate. After I divorced Morgan I was a single dad more than Morgan wanted to be a mom. I didn't date or have time for she-wolves and all that. I will be damned if I was gonna go parading women an up around my kid and dragging different ones in and out of her life.

So If It wasn't serious then no they can't meet my daughter or be around her like that. So Alpha duties and dad duties left no time for me to worry about looking for my mate or any serious relationships other than Being f**k buddies with Layla. So help her if she were to ever slip up and forget herself and do or say some s**t that was anything but platonic in front of my princess.

Now Selena is 16 and she has her mate. Im scared shitless Stirling is gonna get her pregnant. It's possible. Morgan and I both were only 16 when I got Morgan pregnant. My daughter wants me to get a life, a wife, a mate, or something to keep me from smothering her so much. I haven't told anybody that Alexis is my mate. For one if I throw that on top of everything else that human girls mind is trying to process it might scare her or push her over the edge into a nervous breakdown.

It sounds like Alexis has been some hard years in some f****d relationship with that stark raving lunatic f**k boy named James. It's really hard to tell if she is damaged by him. I just know she has to be. The extent of how badly she is s damaged, if it's mental or emotional or what remains a mystery.

She has the walls up and she barricaded inside them. I can't get anywhere near trying to even get comfortable. Well, Im not uncomfortable but Alexis is. My wolf ain't helping by all but stripping her naked and getting at it then He wonders why I don't trust him. I know she is our mate and that means she belongs to me and should be able to just get at it like that. If she was a she-wolf it would be like that but she's a human.

Humans are fragile compared to a werewolf and she dont knows yet that she was made for me and me for her yet. Telling her might not be the best idea right now. We dont even know each other, we just met. There is already a lot for her to adjust to. She's not gonna understand if my wolf keeps trying to just f**k the s**t out of her without warning or getting her consent and then he also wants to just mark her on the spot.

The same way he wants to take her on the spot. She also has no clue I can smell it if she gets slightly aroused. I know it is hard to not just lose it and jump on her when that happens but my wolf can't handle it and it's exhausting to make myself stop what he starts.

She dont put up much fight about it either but that dont mean she understands why her body is reacting to me the way it does. Gotta be careful with the situation or she might wind up rejecting me and regretting me.

But I can't get my mind off her. What her breathless body felt like pressed against mine. I can still hear her moaning. The sexy way she kept biting her bottom lip. I can't stop craving that taste of her kisses. Yummy and soft. She wanted it too. Little miss-hot ass with her p***y on fire and dripping wet. We didn't even take any clothes off and I didn't even stick it but I felt her shiver and I felt her lips throbbing for something to get a grip on. Can't wait till it's my fingers, my c**k, s**t my tongue after she gets off so hard and she was soaked all between her legs I wanted to lick it and taste it.

Fuck if she knew what she does to me. I just get lost in my thoughts thinking about her all the time when Im not near her but I gotta be away or I'll just be all over her and I dont want her to crowd her. I'll go crash out, right before sun up when Im exhausted and can't stay awake any longer. She will be sound asleep. She won't know Im there until she wakes up in the late morning hours.

A gust of wind blew through the trees and I felt something like a droplet land on my forehand then another and then 2 more, pulling me out of my thoughts I've been wandering half-naked and aimless through the woods in the dreary rainy weather. I held out my hand as the sound of raindrops noticeably got louder and more frequent. My hand outstretched with my palm facing up. Raindrops started sprinkling the palm. I rolled my eyes toward the sky and took a deep breath. As the raindrops have gotten bigger and are starting to pour down.

I looked up at them with my head tilted back. I Stayed there letting the rain pour down and wash over me. The cooling raindrops felt cool to my skin but did little to cool me down. "Moon Goddess give me strength or tell me what the hell is going on. Im Ray Charles to this bullshit. I dont want to lose her but I dont know how to keep her?. Im not sure I'll even catch her.."

The wind blew harder this time. Rocking tree branches back and forth. Making an eerie whispering sound as it blew. There is no moon out yet. It's still daytime it's just cloudy and rainy, but I might as well set the mood, and thank mother nature for the rain anyway. I sent a long howl up to the sky as rain poured down over my body my jeans are sopping wet by now as I ran my fingers through my dripping wet hair.

A howl from the other side of the pack land brakes through the sounds of rain and whispering wind blowing through the tree branches. Followed by another howl from the packhouse and 2 more howls from way over by the lake. Then howls from all the pack land boundaries. I listened to the howls from all my pack members. Then I opened a mind link to check-in. "Other than all the rain how is the day going. There haven't been any reports of anything so I assume everything is running smooth?"

The response came through mind link from Layla "It's so dead. So far so dead."

A response from Knoxville came through "Yea, yea. ain't s**t happening out here, but there is a Manila envelope on your desk in your office. I put it there before the parole shift started. You might wanna take check it out first thing in the morning, Alpha Khy."

Oh good finally something about the Abernathy Estate where Alexis said she felt like she was dying a painful death when she went unconscious. Hopefully, something turned up. Alexis said she didn't summon Dahlia but it sounds like the Abernathy place is where Dahlia jumped into her body. So somebody had to be up to something there. I had Knoxville and Jerrica grab a couple of others and go question the staff since there are probably plenty of maids and all that who may know something.

They also most likely spent their time having fun with it. Like they were playing life-size clue or some s**t. Sneaking around pretending to be the help. As long they got the job done is all I care about.

"Alright. That's good to hear. Thank's guys. Great job with that time frame. That was quicker than I was expecting really."

Multiple responses from Knoxville and Jerricah and a couple of other's bombard the mind link with, Thank you's and your welcome's. Followed by someone remembering to ask if about a meeting before lunch or not.

"I'll look at what Knoxville put on my desk in the morning and I'll probably meet with MadMax and Braidyn sometime before lunch tomorrow. We will let you know what time the team should meet. And before we go any further does anyone have a time that just doesn't work for them...Lady's?"

I git hella responses from all the lady's and it's sounding like it'll be an evening team meeting tomorrow. I don't know what they do with their time really but they always busy and the only I can account for being busy is MadMax. Well, Jerricah always gets her hair done a lot and it takes forever anthem it's always crazy color or something.

I guess I should head to the house. I'm not sure what time it is but I probably should check in on Selena and chat with her and make sure she's Copasetic, See how the school is. I got to remind her to.call her mom so her mom will stop calling me.

I kicked off my jeans and with some bone-cracking sounds, I shifted into the warform in a flash. I grabbed my soaking wet jeans. Clenched them in the mouth between my teeth and took off in the direction of the packhouse. I splashed through puddles and jumped over downed trees that laid stretched out in the pathway. I jumped and swung from a couple of branches. Dodged around a couple of trees

It didn't take long before I reached the edge of the tree line. Since I was in warform and only had wolf vision. I stop at the edge of the tree's still vivid in some shadows. I peered up over my balcony rail, the curtains were open on the sliding glass doors.

Alexis was sitting on the side edge of my bed, it looks like she's folding her clothes and putting them back in her duffle bag that whoever ended up jacking from her room at her parent's house. She picked up a pair of folded pair of jeans and held them out at arm's length in front of her and let the unfold while she looked at them and bobbed her while she dipped her shoulder abd tapped her foot.

I wonder if that means she had somebody find her ipod. I said" here is my phone, it has YouTube, can you please stop panicking?" After she looked at the pair of jeans front and back she bounced up from the bed and stood on not feet with her back to me the sliding doors. She had on a black T-shirt that didn't really reach the length passed her lower back to her hips. Leaving her as cheeks bare of no underwear tempting me to bend her over and hit it bareback. As she bounced on one foot sliding her other in her pant leg. Then switching to balance on her other foot she slid her leg in her other pant leg. Then she struggled to pull the jeans over her thighs as she wiggled till they stretched up below her ass cheeks. Which took a little wriggling and a good bounce before the denim finally stretches up over her ass looking painted on.

She grabbed up her bad went out of sight for a second before coming back in the view of the other side of the sliding glass balcony door and plopped on the bed sitting a pair of rain boots beside the and unmating a pair of socks she starts putting on her feet. Then sticking her feet in the rain boots and she walks out of sight again but doesn't return to the bedside view of the balcony doors. I wonder what she is doing.

I make a mad dash toward to back of the packhouse. When I get close enough to the back brick wall of I side jump with my toward the wall. Using the one foot that I put flat against to push off the in an upward motion toward the balcony. Swinging one arm up to catch the bottom edge of the balcony railing.

As I pulled myself up with my hand I had hanging on to the bottom of the railing, I grabbed the top of the balcony railing and swung my leg up to the ledge of the balcony for propping my doot on the ledge and pushing up while I swung my free leg on the top of the rail me hopped over the rail on to the balcony. I hung my dripping jeans over the rail and shifted back into my naked human form and open the sliding doors and stepped inside my room grabbing a pair of ball shorts from a draw inside the closet and going in the bathroom and turning a hot shower. No sign of Alexis. I hopped in the shower to relieve some of the little tension and then wash up.

To be continued...