My Female Alpha

Chapter 12- King of the Shadows

(Callum's POV)

The ringing of my phone jostled me awake. It was midday but I had been up all night planning our next steps. They had been stronger than I had predicted last night and I was disappointed that not one of my rogues had made it home. 

It wasn't that I was upset at the loss of my men, the opposite actually, good riddance to the weak but obviously I wasn't training them hard enough. 

I also hadn't expected any of the neighbouring packs to come to their aid. It had made me realize that I had a little work to do before we really left the shadows and attacked. 

Taking the time to disrupt and tarnish these ridiculous bonds needed to be a priority. The alliance between the packs, had always been something unnatural and it was time for it to come to an end. 

It was just a matter of planting seeds of discord between the packs. If they were working together it made them stronger. What I needed was for them to be fighting amongst themselves, so that they would self sabotage, ruining themselves from the inside out. 

Then we would strike once they had weakened themselves. I planned on killing each of the packs Alphas, preferably Kenzie first. Then their packs would be given the choice, appoint me their Alpha (although I preferred King) and bow to my rule or die by my hand.

I answered the phone with a gruff "hello". It was one of our rogues from the high school. "My King, you know how you wanted to be apprised if anything happened with Kenzie? I wanted to tell you what happened here today. 

At lunch Quinton Silver approached Kenzie and they left together. Everyone's talking about the fact that two Alphas are together, I gotta go but just thought you'd want to know." 

I was left with silence and a little shiver of delight. 

How perfect, Kenzie was unknowingly giving me the keys to her Kingdom. Who would actually be okay with two Alphas getting together? It would be easy to paint a picture of irresponsible leadership.

I thought back to the day that she had killed my dad. He had never been okay with a female Alpha and had started planning for my rule as soon as she was born. How anyone could think a woman could rule a pack is beyond me. We had always been  planning on overthrowing her and me taking over. 

It was unfortunate that my dad had lost it when it had been announced that Izzy was going to be her beta. All his careful plans had been destroyed because of his lack of control. 

Her announcement had pushed him over the edge but it had taught me a valuable lesson. I knew that I couldn't make the same mistakes as he did. It was giving in 

to emotions and feelings that caused one to be weak. I tried to make sure that I was always under the utmost control. 

My dad had always recognized that I was meant for more, but he had dreamt small. Kenzie kicking my mom and I out had been a blessing of sorts. He had believed that I was meant to rule over ThunderRun. I now knew I was meant to rule over all werewolves. 

Our plans were two fold, I was going to slowly replace our current useless king. I would be King of all werewolves. It wouldn’t happen all at once but slowly, first taking over the packs in this area and then we would spread out, gaining more power. I would obviously avenge my dads death as well but now my purpose was larger. 

I could just imagine how impressed he would be of our new plans, how proud he would be if he knew just how big my reach had gotten and how big I planned on getting. I got out of bed with a smile, I knew exactly how to start sowing the seeds of hate. Thank you for being a little slut Kenzie, I thought, excitement rushing through my limbs! 

(Ashley's POV)

I slammed my locker and headed to the parking lot. My day had completely sucked donkey balls from the moment it had begun. I had looked at my phone this morning and felt absolutely defeated when my sexts to Quinton were left unanswered. 

I knew he kept ending things but for whatever reason this time, I felt like he really meant it. I had tried to talk to him this morning and he had growled at me to leave him the f**k alone. 

Yesterday I had felt so foolish when Kenzie Thunder had put me in my place. I had known I was out of line but I hated that Quinton seemed to be slipping away from me. 

I got out into the parking lot and looked around, noticing with relief how empty it already was. I was feeling a little lost and hated that I had given Quinton this kind of power l, when I knew that we weren’t mates and never would be.

I kicked at a rock as I walked. Just another way my day had sucked, my history teacher had asked me to stay back because I was at risk of failing and now I was the only one here. F! As I walked across to my car, I dug around in my purse for my keys and was surprised when I raised my head, keys in hand. 

There in front of me was a dark haired, green eyed stunner. He had straight white teeth and tan skin and was leaning against my car. I took a deep breath in, Oh my, he smelt even better then he looked. My day was getting a little bit better. 

"Hey, Ashley right??" I nodded, holy s**t he knew who I was. I took another deep breath/sniff as he reached out his hand and rubbed my arm. He said "Hey, I'm Callum. I've seen you around, was wondering if you wanted to get a coffee?" 

I smiled for the first time today and nodded shyly. His beaming smile blinded me and I couldn't help thinking, Quinton who????