Alpha’s Hidden Obsession By Misha K
Chapter 135 So-Called Rogues (Poppy POV)
Dealing with rogues wasn’t difficult because they were low in strength. They were usually very thin and their wolves were also not so strong. I had heard that some rogues couldn’t even shift.
I took binoculars from Jose and scanned the clearing in the area where the rogues were. Usually rogues moved alone and at the most there were no more than three to four in a group. They had no allegiance and they were like rabid dogs who just looted other packs to survive. But this pack of rogues consisted of fifteen rogues. And that was odd as hell.
“Where have they come from?” I asked Jose.
“I don’t know but most likely from the north,” he replied, his voice and demeanor tense.
“Have they ever attacked earlier?” My eyes drifted to their encampment. Why was it that their tents looked new? Also some of them seemed well-nourished while the others were quite like… rogues. Those who looked like rogues were looking up to those who appeared stronger with fear and awe. Very peculiar behavior and a very unusual mix of rogues.
“Not in that many numbers,” he said.
I was surprised to notice that they had a lot of meat being roasted on the skewers. Some of them were even wearing nice clothes. That was pretty strange. Either they had recently looted a large bounty or were they-? My body went stiff and a vision flashed across my mind. Of a very familiar figure h*anding them money.
“Alpha Poppy!” Jose said worriedly when I blacked out for a moment and stumbled back. He gripped me tight from my forearms. Others came behind me to help me.
I cleared my mind of the vision that flashed. “This is all staged!” I rasped.
Jose’s brows furrowed. “What do you mean?” he asked, his neck muscles going taut.
“This is not the usual rogue attack. Rogues do not attack in such large numbers. They are usually only three or four. This rogue pack out there-” I waved at them. “They are minions of someone else. They are here to distract us from something very ominous!”
Jose’s eyes went wide with shock. He snapped his head in their direction. “So, what you do want us to do?” he asked me.
“Get a group of thirty warriors and attack them. Let two warriors take one of them. I want them destroyed so bad that no rogue thinks of coming and attacking my pack even in their dreams!” I ordered. “Make sure that you kill all of them!”
A crease formed in between his forehead and I knew that he had a lot of questions, but Jose was smart enough not to ask them. “Yes Alpha!” he breathed.
We all came back to my pack where Jose gathered thirty warriors. When he started to go with them, I stopped him. “No, you stay here. These thirty would be good enough to deal with the so-called rogues.”
“Why?” His agitation was palpable because he also wanted to go and kill those bastards.
I gestured with my chin for the warriors to leave. I wanted to talk to him in private. As soon as the warriors left, I said, “I want you to send spies to the Umbra pack and the Howlers pack. I want to know what is going on out there.”
“Is there something that I am missing?” Jose asked, totally not understanding my orders.
“Just do as I ask,” I pushed him. “Remember that they only have to get the information of what is happening in the pack and under no circumstance will they be provoked and fight them. If they are caught, then we will deny that they were sent by us. Do you understand?”
Jose was totally confused. He blinked at me as if trying to comprehend what I was meaning to say. “Is there anything specific that you would like for them to spy?” he probed me.
I walked to the table and picked up my phone. Then I opened my photo gallery and showed him a picture. “I want your people to know about this person in the Howlers pack. Is that understood?” When he nodded with a hard expression, I added. “Your spies will not do anything other than just know about this person.”
“Yes Alpha!” he rasped. “They will be able to gather information before the sunrise. Jose opened the door and with one last look at me, he closed it softly behind him. I began pacing the room trying to put things together. I had I these puzzle pieces that were not fitting. Why would there be so many rogues camping at my borders? Was it a ploy of something bigger? Or was it a distraction?
All of a sudden, my stomach grumbled for all the wrong reasons. I rushed to the bathroom and vomited the contents of my dinner.
“Goddess!” I let out a shaky breath. Was I really pregnant? Over the last week, apart from thinking about Damon which occupied all my time, I was also reading books on pregnancy. My symptoms were pretty similar to those mentioned in the book. But I remembered that Mary had asked me to confirm about it two weeks later. So, I was waiting for two weeks to end.
It was 1 AM and I was still pacing the room. A loud noise on the outside made me rush out of my room. The warriors who had gone to tackle the rogues had returned with smiles on their faces. Jose was congratulating them.
“They are all dead!” he informed me with victory written all over his face. “And you were right. Some of them weren’t rogues!”
I knew! “Great!” I couldn’t help grinning. This was a beginning to something very large. “Any information from the spies?”
He shook his head. “But any time now.” He gave me a knowing look.
I went back to my room and let the warriors celebrate their small victory. I couldn’t say who was the person who hired those assassins who disguised as rogues because then it would be a declaration of war. And I had to deal with it very carefully because my pack had a smaller number of warriors.
Jose came in after two hours. He sounded extremely nervous when he said, “Alpha George is dead! His niece, Monica, killed him!”
The next order I gave him made him jerk his head back.