Becoming the Alpha (Amethyst Pack BK2)

“What’s going on?” I murmur as Lucien seems to notice it too, following me as we open the door.

“We’re under attack!” Oliver calls through as I notice the first vampire flitting across the grounds.

“Daniel take Carla and Craig down to the basement! Keep her safe!” I shout.

“Yes alpha,” Daniel says as Carla looks towards me, fear flooding her eyes.

“Go, we’ll be ok. Do not come out until we get you” I say as she nods.

The others shift with me as we join in the battle as I take down a vampire which had pinned Liv down.

“What happened?!” I call out.

“I have no idea. It happened so quick we didn’t have time to react!” Liv says as we fight back to back.

I take in my surroundings, it seemed like most of the damage was to the vampires, they seemed to be newborn, untrained, we were taking them down too easily.

I watched as Alex tore through three of them at the same time, blood dripping from his canines, before I noticed one coming from behind him quietly, I leapt into action as I pounce over him and on to the vampire, my paws hitting Alex’s back as I tumbled to the ground with the vampire, tearing its head from its shoulders.

I nuzzled into him quickly as he licks my muzzle before tearing off after another who was about to attack Liv yet again, but she noticed just before I got to her as she and David tore it to pieces, they were a powerful mated couple, he had her well protected and she had his back too.

The pack seemed to have everything under control as Lucien led my fathers’ pack to finish off the last of them while I checked on my wolves.

“Who was on patrol?!” I growl as the battle died down.

“Monty” Oliver answered as he licked his wounds.

“Call Olivia here to see to the wounded, where is Monty?” I snarl.

“I haven’t seen him in hours alpha” Eric, one of the other members of the pack answered.

“I want a new patrol on the borders, but I want it doubled up, no single person is allowed to patrol,” I ordered.

“Yes alpha!” They replied.

“Find Monty!” I add as Alex nods at me and takes off quickly.

“This seems so sudden, like they were waiting for you to return,” Liv says by my side.

“Because they probably wanted to see how strong the pack was. I have a feeling Yusif and the others are testing us, seeing where our weak spots are, they are playing with us” I answer.

“SERENA!” Alex calls through the bond as I dart off towards him.

“Oh my!” Liv gasps as we find him standing beside Monty’s body, covered in wolfsbane and silver, torn across the gut as I almost gag.

“This was in his neck,” Alex said as he passed me a dart as I hiss from pain at contact.

“She’s too new!” Oliver growls at him as he comes up behind us.

Alex takes the dart back from me, the silver in it affecting me more because I hadn’t been a wolf for as long as he had. We seemed to work a tolerance up to it as we got older and stronger.

He takes my hand and licks my wounds as they begin to close before he kisses me quickly.

“I’m sorry, I forgot how young your wolf is” He sighs.

“I’m ok” I smile reassuringly.

“That’s a hunter dart…” Liv says as she eyes it.

“We need to get my father here” I sigh.

“Can we trust Calvin though? This is a hunter dart in one of OUR wolves” Liv says.

“My father trusts him, I trust him. I don’t, however, trust all his hunters. But the one person who will know who could have done this is them,” I answer.

“Dad?” I push through the link.

“Serena? What is it?” He replies.

“We were attacked at the packhouse. We need you and Calvin. Our patrol warrior was covered in wolfsbane and silver, gutted and had a dart from the hunters in his neck” I answer.

“We’re on our way” he replies quickly.

“Don’t touch the body any more than you have Alex. Liv go and check that Carla is safe. Oliver, I want you to keep an eye on the patrols, I don’t want this happening again” I order.

“Yes alpha” they murmur.

“Is it bad that watching you tear those creatures apart turned me on” Alex mumbles.

“Not the time Alex…But I feel the same” I murmur as I hear his deep chuckle as it sends a chill through my body as I bite my lip.

“All in good time sweetheart,” He says.

“Serena!” I hear Carla shout as she’s running towards me, her eyes looking around in shock at the blood and gore on the ground.

“You don’t want to see this!” I run to her before she gets to Monty’s body, his was much worse than those of the vampires, which were already turning grey and into ash.

“If I’m going to be a wolf, I have to see this,” She says.

“No, you don’t” I shake my head.

“I’m not weak Serena, you of all people should know that” She snaps.

“I know you aren’t weak Carla, but even I nearly gagged at the sight,” I say as she looks in my eyes, she knew that it took a whole lot to make me gag.

“Ok” She nods as she backs away and curls into Daniels side.

“How bad is it? What happened?” Daniel asks.

“We lost a wolf tonight” I sigh.

“Who?” Daniel asks as I notice a couple of cars turn up the drive.

“Monty” I answer.

“He was a good kid…” Daniel sighs. Monty was one of the youngest rogues we had join us, he was just sixteen.

I shift into my wolf as she takes over, howling at the loss of one of our pack as others begin to join in.

“Serena” Calvin and Dad walk up to us swiftly as Calvin greets me and nods to the others as I shift back.

Alex comes out of the treeline as he growls towards Calvin.

“What do you think you are doing?” My father growls back before I stand between them, his eyes glare into mine as I stand tall, feeling my wolf bristle with energy suddenly.

“We were attacked by young vampires they are all dead, but I lost a member of MY pack today and this dart was in their neck, silver and wolfsbane covers his body too. Where the fuck did it come from if not YOUR men, Calvin?” I growl.

“Show me the dart,” He says as I turn to Alex and gesture for him to give him the dart as my dad walks around us heading into the trees.

“Keep an eye on Calvin” I link to Alex as I follow Dad, he nods at me.

“My god” Dad mutters as he sees the damage done to Monty.

“Do you trust the hunters? One hundred per cent dad” I say as he frowns turning to me.

“I trust Calvin with my life” He answers.

“That’s not what I asked” I state as he sighs.

“There are a few hunters that could have done this…However, I know if Calvin finds out who that was, he will deal with it” Dad says as he faces me.

“My pack, my kill, my revenge. I should be the first to know who did this!” I growl.

“Do not growl at me young lady” He snaps at me shifting into his wolf as he comes towards me, I back of slightly as we come out of the treeline.

Do not submit! You are an alpha!

“I am not a child! This is MY pack. I am an alpha in my own right, do not treat me like a low-rank omega!” I growl as I shift, fur bristling in anger as we snarl at each other.

Alex jumps to my aid as he stands between us in his wolf form as I growl loudly and nip him, causing him to yip and back off. His eyes never leave me as he doesn’t go too far.

“Your pack is weak Serena, a pack of rogues who don’t want to be controlled by a female alpha, you’re as weak as your pack!” Dad snaps at me.

“Grayson enough!” Mum comes running to us with Vance, Tony, and Pauline in tow as they watch in shock.

“I am not weak!” I snarl.

“I need to get to him, something’s not right, there is another power in play here” Pauline whispers.

“Grayson, sweetheart, stand down,” Mum walks forward cautiously but he snaps angrily at her and she backs off in shock.

“What is going on with him?” Calvin exclaims in shock as he watches my father almost look rabid in anger as he begins to pace in front of me, his eyes glaring into mine.

“Daniel take Carla back into the house,” I order as they back away slowly.

“What’s happening?” Lucien walks up as he frowns at my father.

“Has he been anywhere apart from the headquarters?” Mum asks.

“He went with Christopher to another base,” Calvin says as he looks between the dart in his hand and my dad.

“Dad, will you let Pauline touch you for just a moment?” I ask, trying to push back the want to fight him alpha to alpha.

“No!” He snarls and snaps his teeth at me before bounding towards me, swiping at me as my wolf takes over completely, fighting against him as our teeth and claws tear at each other.

“Grayson! No! Serena! Someone stop them!” Mum screams.

I kept dodging my dad as he tried to get me with everything he had, he knew I was getting tired as he got closer and closer to getting me. He was a powerful alpha, much stronger than me due to age and training, I couldn’t win this, but something inside me just kept pushing my wolf to keep going, getting angrier.

“SERENA!” Alex shouts before he crashes into us as my dad clamps down on my leg taking a chunk out of my flesh and I howl in pain.

I’m sent rolling across the ground as I land with a thud on my side beside the trees, unable to move one of my legs from blinding pain.

“Get him pinned!” Pauline cries out as she tries to use her magic, but he was an old and powerful alpha, I was lucky I was even alive right now. The pack descends on my dad, my mum whimpering in horror as they struggle to pin him.

“This isn’t my Grayson, something is wrong, he wouldn’t do this” She blubs.

I watch as Calvin walks up to dad with a small gun from his pocket as I leap up in pain and pounce on him, knocking him down to the ground, growling in warning.

“He will not kill my father” I growl to the pack.

“It’s a sedative! I swear Serena!” He says as I sniff at it.

“Let me see” Lucien snatches it, sniffing the gun as he nods at me, taking a shot at dad through the gaps of the wolves pinning him, as I lift off Calvin, limping with my one paw off the ground, whimpering.

I feel something touch my wound as I howl in pain and nip at the person. Oliver bares his neck in submission as I snarl, he backs away slowly from me.

Something didn’t feel right at all, I tried to shift back to my human form, but I couldn’t. My dad was down on the ground, now unconscious as Pauline used her magic over him.

“It’s just like before with Craig, his mind has been taken over. Calvin, I believe one of your hunters is no longer on our side, the visions, they are blurry but I can see the vampires in charge of the attack and the hunter helping them” She says, she looks at me curiously as all eyes turn to me.

“Serena, why haven’t you shifted? Everyone else has” Vance asks.

“I can’t shift” I whimper through the link to Vance.

“What do you mean you can’t shift!” He exclaims rushing to my side.

“I can’t shift! What don’t you get?” I growl.

“The wound, it must be prohibiting her from shifting, he tore at her leg deeply. We need to get her to a healer, right now” Calvin looks at the wound on my leg as I growl in warning and he backs off.

“Come with me Serena, we need to get you to Olivia” Alex goes to help me as he shifts next to me, but I snap at him too before he gets too close.

“I’ve never seen her snap so much” Liv murmurs.

“Someone’s cranky,” Alex says as I nip at his leg.

“It hurts!” I snarl.

“Then let me help you!” Alex growls back.

“I’m not weak!” I snap as I begin to limp back to the house.

“I never said you were, you just fought with your father, who has more years of training and experience than you have lived in years. You did well to even come out this well” Alex nuzzles into my side, ignoring the growl coming from me.

“Fine, someone needs to sort out Monty’s body,” I say as he helps prop me up as we walk slowly to the house.

“I’ll have Monty’s body readied for a pack funeral,” Oliver says through the link.

“Good, make sure the pack is on high alert. If someone is toying with minds via magic I want to make sure we’re doing everything we can to be alerted as soon as possible” I order.

“Yes alpha” Liv and Oliver say.

“Stop ordering people about and get your ass to the packhouse,” Alex says as I glare at him.

“I’ve got it from here Serena,” Lucien says as I nod to him.

Alex had to go into the house and grab Olivia himself as I couldn’t go into the house in my wolf state as I was too big to go inside without wrecking the house.

I plopped my body on the ground as I licked at my wound, hoping it would help heal it, but it just made me whine in pain.

“That’s a nasty bite” Craig comes out the house as he grimaces at my wound.

“Could have been worse” I try to link to him, but it doesn’t work.

“Ignoring me now, are you? Great I thought we could be friends, maybe get back on track…” Craig raises a brow as I cock my head to the side, confused.

I try and try again to find some sort of link to him, but I can’t find any at all. I whimper at the pain in my head.

“Serena?” Alex walks out with the twins, Carla, and Olivia in tow.

“Something isn’t right. Can you tell Craig I’m not ignoring him…I can’t find any link to him at all” I try to link to Alex.

“Nothing at all?” He replies as I sigh in relief.

“Nothing” I repeat.

“I’ve heard you’ve snapped at everyone who has gone near your wound Serena, please don’t do that to me” Olivia kneels beside me as I nudge her with my nose and nod as she begins working on the wound as I growl in pain which makes her flinch, but I keep my head away from her and placed it under one of my front paws to show I was not going to harm her and she continued.

“Craig, Serena said she’s tried to talk via a link to you, but it’s not working” Alex states as he paces beside me, watching Olivia’s every move.

“So not only have we lost our mate link, our child, and my memories, we can’t even talk as wolves?!” Craig snarls.

Alex growls possessively as he comes closer to me, standing between us as he glares at Craig.

“YOU’RE HER MATE!” Carla exclaims as I roll my eyes before yelping at the sting of whatever Olivia put on my wounds. Alex’s eyes turn to mine as he looks at me with worry.

“I need you to try and shift Serena, it’s going to hurt but I have to make sure it stays together,” Olivia says as I groan and concentrate.

Searing pain floods my body, I begin to scream and howl at the same time as I shift, bones crunching painfully slow, while Alex watches on as if he wanted to take every single bit of the pain away from me as I slowly turn human once more.

“Woah…I’ve never seen someone shift so slowly…That was so weird” Daniel murmurs.

“I don’t recommend it either” I cry as Alex moves to my side, lifting me into his lap his mouth on my neck as he tried to help as much as he could to settle me, but due to not having our marks yet, it wasn’t much help. Olivia finishes with my wound quickly.

“It’s not going to be a pretty, it will leave a scar, but it will heal soon” Olivia nods at her work.

“Thank you, Olivia,” I say as she smiles at me.