Can't Get Near The Alpha King novel Chapter 16

"What are you doing on my land?" I say in a cold voice, letting my Alpha side take over. They squirm under my authority but one speaks up after a while.

"We were asked to check out the place and you." He replies, if an Alpha uses their tone on you then your wolf automatically submits unless you are also of Alpha status. If you are of the pack from that Alpha then you submit immediately but if you aren't then it has a lesser effect.

"And who is your master?" I ask, growing impatient. None reply to my question, I take a step towards them and growl out, "I said who is your bloody master?" My wolf getting antsy and wanting answers - not liking the threat towards us and the pack.

"You're going to have to kill us, none of us are spilling a word." One says.

That's it, my wolf is out. My claws elongate and grab the man's neck with no compassion, he looks at me in the eyes with fear swirling within them. I growl menacingly my bare and sharpened canines on show making the man trying to push me away but he is like a flea.

"Tell me or this man dies." I growl looking at the others and they look wearily at each other before back at the man then to me.

They take their time to decide so I choose to do the opposite and tighten my hands round his neck, his hands now hurriedly clawing at my arms for release.

"Around 45 seconds from now this man will pass so I suggest you choose quickly." I say.

"Let him go and we will tell you." One finally stutters and looks hopelessly at the man in my hold.

I reluctantly release him and he falls onto his knees and coughs vehemently from the lack of air supply to his body - another man helps him up and supports the poor man.

"Our master is anonymous, he only reveals his identity to those higher up, we are just regular workers who are getting paid a ton to come and do this.

All he has asked anyone like us to do is either enter your land like this or just prowl round your territory; he uses us about three times then hires new people - not wanting to cause too much suspicion but rogues do chat and wonder what he's upto." He says and I growl at his words and massage my temple, trying to decipher what this person is trying to do.

"So you have no idea what this man wants or who he is?" Ashton asks from beside me.

"No, he never tells us what he plans on doing. Just the fact that he wants to us to do these little trips and report back to him what happened." The same man replies.

"Is he forcing you to do this or are you wanting to join a pack and he is promising you that, is he an Alpha?" Ashton also asks, wanting answers just like me.

'Well they haven't tried to attack where they could have on many occasions and they've now seen a bit of your land, but not too much as your prison is far off to the main pack land.' He replies.

'Yeah I guess so, I don't want to make a big deal to the pack either though about these little visits from outsiders.' I reply, thinking about the welfare of my pack.

'We could allow them into the pack, we could do tests on them to ensure their loyalty as they said they wanted pack life.' Ashton suggests hesitantly as it's still officially my pack.

I look at him and then back to the men, they are still looking between Ashton and I's interaction, they know we have mindlinked as our eyes would've glazed over a little.

"We've come to a decision." I say in a professional voice, I then carry on and say, "You may stay in our pack but only after certain events."

"What do you mean by events?" One asks politely.

"We will test you on physical abilities, we will also test you on your mental - this will show your loyalty and honesty. Your physical side will show your strength and advantage to my pack or the threat if we find out you're lying. If you are we won't hesitate to put you in a cell, torture you and then kill you.