But the words wouldn’t come and my body wouldn’t move.
As usual words would not speak from my lips. I felt a cloud settle over me, felt what little energy I had regained fade and then darkness surround me once more. I didn’t know why Alpha Jaxon had cared so much about me, all I knew what that I wanted to wake up and see his face the next time I did. If I lived, it would be thanks to him, but where would I go? I couldn’t stay here if my pack merged with his could I? I fell into a deep sleep, my thoughts dissipating completely.
Alpha Jaxon POV
We were ready. All of us poised to attack. They didn’t see us coming, even though by now they should have sensed something was wrong. We sprang into action, our wolves racing into the Crescent Moon Pack territory, our focus on taking them down as quickly as possible with minimum bloodshed. My men were under strict orders not to attack the elderly, innocent women, or children. To defend themselves and to fight against the warriors only. I was not some coward who took pleasure in pillaging villages or raping women. I had my own set of ethics and rules to live by.They hardly put up a decent fight. I expected more than the pathetic attempt that was given. My men easily herded the warriors into the pack grounds, while the rest of the pack members were closely grouped together not much further away so that they could hear and see everything with their own eyes. We had killed fifteen of their warriors and they had surrendered after that. I had no casualties.
All of us shifted back to human form, my pack and theirs. Although it would not be theirs for much longer. The warriors were weak and miserable-looking. Their heads stared down at the ground as they sat, awaiting what they thought would no doubt be an execution. The sounds of crying from the women and children reached my ears.”I am Alpha Jaxon of the Blood Moon Pack” I declared, the crescent moon pack looking at me with tear-filled eyes “I have forcibly taken over your pack. It is mine now to do with whatever I desire. Fifteen of your own men have already been killed” I growled “I do not wish to add to that number unless it becomes necessary.”
I could see the shock on their faces. “Where is our Alpha?” one of the men dared to ask, biting his lip.
“Alpha Maxwell is in my dungeon awaiting his own punishment for attempting to poison me. Where is his Beta and Gamma?” I queried.
Confused expressions as the warriors and pack members glanced at each other.
“Well?” I growled impatiently.
Every pack had a Beta and Gamma, didn’t they? How else would this pack have run without it?
“We don’t have any” a warrior stammered “Alpha Maxwell was always paranoid that if he gave somebody the title for those positions they might try and overtake him.”
My men looked at the pack warriors in disbelief. “No wonder your pack is so badly organized,” Callu said in disgust, shaking his head “A pack needs a Beta and Gamma to run smoothly.”
The warriors remained silent. “I guess I don’t have to execute the Beta or Gamma then” I exhaled with a shrug.
“What about us?” the women shouted, the children still crying.
I gave them a sharp glance, causing them to stiffen. “Here’s what’s going to happen. One by one, you are going to walk to me, single file, kneel down, and sever your bond to the Crescent Moon Pack. You are then going to accept me as your Alpha and my pack as your own before merging with my lands. Anybody who disagrees with this request” I glanced around at the pack who was quiet “will be killed immediately. You forget I can tell when somebody is not being truthful as they say the words.”
Uneasy glances at each other. “What about the children that can’t speak?” a mother asked concerned.
“They of course are exempt,” I said “I can’t expect them to do that and they will simply have to accept me when they are older.”
She looked relieved.
“What if we don’t want to? What’s to stop us from running right now and becoming rogue instead?” a man demanded heatedly.
I made a gesture towards the forest “be my guest. You won’t make it more than twenty steps before my men take you down. By all means, a quick death at my hands is more merciful than dying slowly of starvation as a rogue” I said warningly “you would do well to remember that.”
“How do we know that your pack will be any better than this one?”
“You don’t. But you don’t have many options” I growled “it’s death or merge. Now who is going to be first?”
I glanced at the warriors.
They looked mutinous. It was a woman instead, with long flowing dark hair and a child in one hand who came over, looking slightly hesitant, dropping to her knees, while the child hugged her, her little body trembling all over.
“I hereby sever my bond with Crescent Moon Pack” she began loudly, wincing as the bond severed “and pledge my allegiance to my new Alpha, Alpha Jaxon of the Blood Moon Pack.”
As easily as that it was done. I helped her back to her feet as the woman looked at me.
“What’s your name?” I asked her.
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