The King's Rejection

A planned assassination

Alexandria's POV

I am glad our first big fight went so well. I am delighted that the pack women and rebels were willing to fight for their freedom as well. It shows more and more of these packs that are living by the rule of the wolf is willing to break with that tradition. It shows they are tired of the old ways of living. Some packs will never be willing to break with their way of living as it is brutal, and it is in their blood to believe the strongest rule. I know my old pack is like that, and even the she-wolves like being handled rough. They do not complain and does not care if the male wolves have more than one mate. It was the way they were brought up, but there is one girl in my pack that is not a fan of my father, and she is our spy in that pack. I hope my father never finds out about her as her fate will be the same as mine was. At least she has a wolf, and if something happens to her, she can call me for help. 

Our spies are now aware that they can contact me by mind-link as I have that unique ability to talk to any wolf I desire to talk to, and I can hear their calls for help through the mind-link. I still do not know why I have that ability, but maybe one day I will find my answers. I take wolfbane every day, and it does not hurt my wolf or me anymore. The silver still hurts a bit and slows us down, but it does not affect me like other wolves. I bite on my teeth as I am put in silver cuffs by the witches, but soon I break them, and my hands, although burned, does not have deep scares like when I started doing it.

"You will never be totally immune against silver, but when someone catches you and put you in silver cuffs, you will be able to escape, silver through your heart can still kill you and silver in your blood will slow you down, but it will not slow you down as other normal wolves," Selene as I call her now tells me in my head.

"I kind of figure it out as no werewolf will be immune against silver," I say back to her.

"You are very special to me. The rule of the wolf was never part of my plan for my children, and the Alphas that created this way of living is cruel. They want to destroy the mate-bond essential for my children as every wolf has its fated mate. Wolves do not like to be without their fated mate, which is mainly why there are rogues. I design my wolves to complete each other and be faithful to each other. I want my wolves to understand loyalty to their mates, and by destroying this concept, they create ruthless wolves as the wolf whose fated mate is with another feels deep pain. They become brutal and violent due to constantly living in pain when the Alpha or any other wolf they mate have to mate with. Aiden is a powerful king, and he will need a powerful Queen. Aiden knows his abilities, as his wolf is strong, soon you two will fight side by side against the biggest threat against the Kingdom, but first, you have to take out the enemy from within," Selene explains to me.

"What am I? Why do I have special abilities like the mind-link thing? Do I have other skills?" I dare to ask Selene again.

"You are impatient, little one. Give it time. I will explain to you all you need to know with time," Selene says and then she is gone out of my head. Blizzard laughs in my head.

"What is so funny?" I ask Blizzard.

"I have a feeling we will meet out mate soon, and then we may get some of our answers," Blizzard says.

After training for the day, I run to a forest near my father's pack. I like to spy on them from time to time as my spy in the pack can not always be near my father. She is but an omega and helps to clean the packhouse and cook. The only time she can be near my father is when she is cleaning his office. I go and stand in the tallest tree in the woods near my father's pack. Blizzard hides out scent as she can do that. She learned it from Lana's wolf. I saw my father sneak out, and he is heading my way. I stand in the tree as I see three men coming out of the woods near where I am standing in the tree. They are hunters, I can tell by their smell. Are they here to kill my father? I don't know, and I am sure as hell not going to help my father. My father sneaks nearer and comes to a stand just underneath the tree I am standing in. Luckily it is high, and the leaves are many. He can not see me even if he looks up and my smell is hidden. The three hunters walk to the tree as if they do not fear that the pack patrol will pick up their scent.

"What took you so long?" My father asks as the hunters come walking to him.

"You can be glad we did not kill you yet, old wolf! The only reason we did not kill you and your pack yet, is because you promised us the King. When will he be coming to your pack?" They ask my father. I can kill all four of them now, but I know I can not do it as the patrol will hear the commotion and come running to my father's rescue. His pack is big and too big for me to take on alone.

"Last time he was here, he made me kill my daughter by rejecting her! I want him dead. I will create a dispute with the nearby pack and make sure the King and his grandfather come here to resolve it. It should be in the next two weeks or so. You can stay at the newly build hut I let my daughter stayed in when she was still alive. I tried to keep her as far away from the pack as possible so they would not know she had no wolf, but before I could move her there, he rejected her and I had no choice to let her die. It the rule of the wolf!" I almost snorted as I hear my father's lies. I know he built that hut, but it was not to help me hide the fact that I had no wolf. He thought I would never get a mate, and by letting me live all alone in the woods, it would be easy for him and his men to kill me as I was an embarrassment to him. Then he got his reason to get rid of me and kill me when my mate rejected me.

"Well, daddy, dearest, you don't know I have become your worst nightmare," I think to myself.

"I hear there is a roque she-wolf that goes after packs like yours. I also hear the King has regretted he rejected his mate and is now looking for her. If he finds out that you have killed her, I don't want to be you. The King might even work with that rogue to take you and your pack out," The hunter taunts my father.

"I am not afraid of a she-wolf. My pack is big, and she can not take my men and me on by herself and the King we will fight together. We will set up an ambush for him and kill him and his grandfather. After that, I will take care of the rogue she-wolf. Don't worry about her. I am not afraid of a mere she-wolf with no army. She has only killed small packs anyway," I hear my father say.

"I see you did not hear about your friend, the alpha of the Red River Pack. He was her latest victim, and his pack is almost as big as yours," The hunter says, and my father goes quiet for a bit.

"She must have had help, maybe some spies in his pack? I will make sure I have no spies, and my people are happy with the way I run this pack,"  My father says, full of confidence.

"Yeah, or maybe she does have an army you are not aware of. Anyway, we are on our way to the hut. The rest of the hunters are waiting there, and we are waiting for your message of when the ambush will take place," The hunter says.

I wait until my father and the hunters disappear, then I mind-link Lana.

"They are planning an ambush for The King and your husband, grandma. My father is behind it. He will create a dispute with the neighbouring pack and make sure the King and his grandfather come here to resolve the issue. He has a lot of hunters working with him. What shall I do?" I ask Lana.

"How do you know, and why did you say here, my dear?" She mind-link me back.

"I came to spy on my father's pack, and I overheard them talking," I link her.

"Well, get the hell out of there, and we will think of something," Lana answers me.

I quickly run back to Sofia's house and tells her and the witches as well of what I just heard. At first, they scout at me for going scouting on my own, but then they realise the danger our King and his grandfather is. I look at them as they start talking about a counter plan. It is obvious I will not be able to fight the hunters and my father's pack on my own.

"We will need the help of the Kingdom, the loyal ones and the ones that will never betray the King," Sofia says.

"Can we go to the King and warn him?" One of the white witches asks.

"He will not listen. He is a great King, but he believes the wolves in his kingdom are loyal, and like his grandfather, he does not think any one of them has a reason to want to kill them, as the Kingdom is prosperous under his rule. The packs are well-fed and thriving. No pack is poor, and everyone benefits from being ruled by King Aiden. It will be too hard to convince him, and he is very head-headed as his grandfather is. They would not even listen to Lana when she tried to tell them that some of the pack that live by the rule of the wolf are not happy to be under his rule as they want all packs to live by the rule of the wolf. Besides, some of the bigger packs that live by the rule of the wolf may even join your father to try and kill our King, my Queen," Sofia says, and I nod.

"I will mind-link all the packs we helped so far and all our spies to see how much help I can get us. Then we need to ambush their ambush so the King and his men can fight them from the inside while we attack from the outside. The king and his men will fight once they know they are being ambushed. Also, I will mind-link the King and warn him about hunters in the area of my father's pack that will make him take more warriors of the kingdom's army with him," I say, and Sofia smiles. I mind-link Lana again and tell her what we are planning. I then mind-link all the spies and the pack we helped. They are all willing to fight for our King and Kingdom and me their Queen. I am happy as I hear that, and we all mind-link to start making our plan. We need the King to see he can not blindly trust all the packs in his Kingdom and the only way we can do it is by letting this ambush happen. We can take out the hunters in the meantime, and we are debating whether to do it or not, but in the end, we want King Aiden to see how far there will go to get rid of him. I pray to the Moon Goddess, and she answers me.

"During the attack, go to your mate together the two of you can fight off this threat," Selene tells me, and I know what to do during the ambush. I will fight side by side with my mate for the first time!