My Alphas: The Complete Series by Emily Cantore Page B

walked beside her on the way to the den, reciting the names of different packs and what had happened to them. Cass, absorbed with formulating an escape plan, wasn’t listening much but there was one overriding common theme in the end of werewolf packs: the Alpha died and then the pack was destroyed.
    “Then Suncer died and it looked like they would be destroyed but his son Navcer took over. When he dies then Carcer will be Alpha.”
    “So they didn’t get mercilessly butchered, every werewolf in the pack put to death like those other ones?”
    “Oh no,” Nia answered seriously. “They’re still going very strong. Turo pack is one of our biggest threats. If anything they will come here to kill us all. Except for you. If you’re pregnant with cubs they will wait until they’re born and then bash their heads in. Then their Alpha will mate with you to sire more cubs. So… you will get to have cubs but not with Edon or Rey.”
    “Hooray for me,” Cass said dryly.
    “Greetings Pack Mate,” said a voice from behind them.
    Nia whirled around, her nostrils flaring and hands clenched.
    “Shut up Kale!” she yelled.
    Kale walked up to Cass, ignoring Nia.
    “You should choose better companions Pack Mate. Nia didn’t even hear me following you.”
    “That is because you’re the stench that comes off rotting feces. I didn’t hear you but I smelt you.”
    “I am a much better companion,” Kale continued, unperturbed. “I can teach your cubs to hunt and howl and how to pass as human when they need to. I have also been in this pack much longer than others and can help you obtain other better companions.”
    Before Cass could answer, Nia launched herself at Kale and they went down into the dirt. Cass hastily stepped back as the two werewolves shifted and snapped at each other. Although she felt a slight touch of fear at them fighting it was not the same as the battle that had occurred this morning. Nia and Kale circled and snapped until Nia shoved Kale over and fastened her teeth around her throat. Kale kicked at her before submitting. As soon as she did, Nia let go and shifted back to human. Kale stood up, shifted back to human and stalked off into the forest.
    When she was out of sight, Nia turned to Cass.
    “She is a blood-slug, like the ones in the river. Don’t choose her to help raise your cubs.”
    As alarmed as she was that everyone assumed her being Pack Mate was a done deal, Cass felt more terrified at the idea of blood-slugs.
    “Do you mean leeches? Are there leeches in the spring?”
    “No. It is too warm there. But further down, yes.”
    “Remind me not to swim down there then.”
    Nia clasped her by the arms and looked solemnly into her eyes.
    “Don’t swim in the river,” she said.
    Cass smiled at her, realizing some werewolves had no concept of sarcasm.
    “Greetings Pack Mate,” came a deep voice from behind them.
    Cass and Nia whirled as one.
    It was Edon.
    *
    As Edon descended toward the den he felt the weariness glued to him lift away. It was replaced with excitement. He would find Cass, tell her of their plan to share her and then he would mate with her. Then the next time they saw Rey, they would mate with her together.
    When her fertile time came they would both mate with her and fate would decide whose cubs she bore first.
    It was a solution - maybe not perfect and perhaps as full of holes as Swiss cheese and considering what happened to Eos and Trammell probably driving them to certain disaster but it was the best they had.
    Although, Edon considered, as he came closer to the den, it would only work if he and Rey could keep their heads.
    Edon had tested out imagining he and Rey both mating with Cass and he’d felt the blinding rage rising up at the thought of Rey touching her. The cold wind up on the mountainside had pulled him back to reality. What would it be like when they tried to mate with her together? One would touch her and the other would push his hand away and five seconds