Not My Alpha

Chapter 20 ‘Wolf in the Woods’

Keira’s POV

Over the next few days, Talia and I get back into our work routine. Everyone in the pack is really nice, and business is going great. But I can feel Harper getting antsy again. After I get off work, I walk back out to the woods. I need to let Harper out to let off some steam. I walk until I’m deep enough into the woods that no one will see me. I get undressed and shift into Harper. She stretches out and darts off into the forrest, letting the wind run through her fur. I can tell how happy this makes her. She runs until we reach a small stream, Harper stops to take a sip of water.

“We need to do this more often. Being cooped up all the time isn’t good for me. And you don’t train anymore. We need to do some drills.” Harper tells me. She is such a warrior.

“Yeah I’ll be sure to put that in my calendar right next to sleeping.”

“You’ve gotten so lazy.” She huffs. Then she takes off running again. She chases a rabbit for awhile before giving up. She winds her way through the trees, before stopping by the stream again to take another drink. Then we hear a branch break. Harper lifts her head and sees another wolf across the water standing on top of a boulder. The wolf is big and light brown with traces of white laced through its fur.

“We’ve been seen. What should I do?” Harper asks me.

“We need to lose him. We can’t be made out.” I tell her. The wolf doesn’t move or approach me. Harper takes a step back.

“Who are you?” The wolf mind links me.

“Don’t answer!” I tell her. If we answer he’ll know for sure I’m in his pack. He can probably already tell from my scent I’m in his pack, but at this distance there’s a chance he’s not good with his nose. I wonder if I know who he is?

“Run Harper.” I tell her. She takes off into the trees. She barrels swiftly through them. I look back and see the wolf behind us.

“We have to move faster.” I say. She bears down and pushes herself to run even faster. But the other wolf is keeping up. He’s not attacking though, he’s just following.

“We need to make some moves.” I say. Harper does a hard left and weaves through the trees. The turn slowing down the wolf, but he’s still in pursuit. I look around and see some rocks that could slow him down.

“Harper, the rocks.” She turns and heads for the rocks. Then I notice it’s actually a cliff. There’s a gap.

“We have to jump.” I tell her, we’re going to fast to stop.

“I can make it.” Harper says. We run and jump. In the air it feels like it takes a lifetime before Harpers paws land on the other side. We skid to a stop and look behind. The wolf on the other side is just watching us. Our eyes meet.

“Who are you?” He mindlinks me again.

“Let’s get out of here.” I tell Harper. We make our way back into the woods.

“That was close. We need to be more careful.” I say.

“Who was that? He was so fast.” Harper asks.

“I don’t know. But he has my scent, now We need to be more careful.” I tell her. We finally make it back to our clothes and I shift back. I get dressed and head back into town.

Theo’s POV

I walk into the pack house slightly annoyed.

“Hey Alpha, how was your run?” Beta Shepherd asks.

“Do we have any warriors in that area of the woods right now?” I ask him.

“No, just boarder patrol. Why?” He asks.

“Let’s talk in my office.” I head to my office and Shepard follows behind me.

“What’s going on Alpha.” Shepherd asks once we close the door.

“There was a wolf out there.” I tell him.

“One of ours?” He asks.

“Yes, but they were pretending not to be.”

“Why would they do that?”

“I’m not sure. I’ve never seen this wolf before.”

“Hmm, a wolf you’ve never seen before. And you’re sure it was apart of our pack?”

”Yes!”

“Did it attack you?” He takes a seat in front of me.

“No, they just ran.”

“Must be your Alpha presence.” He leans back in his chair.

“No, they were just as big as me.”

“You’re saying there’s an Alpha in our pack and we don’t know it.”

“Yeah, well maybe.. They were at least a beta. And they didn’t want me to know about it. How could we not know about someone so powerful. They were fast, I could barely keep up.”

“How do you want to handle this?” Shepherd asks.

“We need to figure out their motive, but until then we need to assume it’s not good.” I say.