Derek *Salvador* My eyes grew wide in shock. I have never had anyone challenge my authority before let alone speak rudely to me in public. How did things get to this point? How did he become so fearless to stand up to me? ‘You don't have any power here.’ His words resounded in my mind as I clenched my fists on the handle of my chair. My eyebrows tilted in anger as I stared at him. “Hector, how dare you speak to your alpha that way?” Daniel immediately yelled at him, but his response even startled me the most. “He is not an alpha,” He said. He pointed at me. “That thing is not my alpha, I will never accept him. Never!” he replied. He tilted his head backward and then looked upon the faces of the betas. “How long will you all linger in fear. How long until you all see what this man is

