Rogue State

by Courtney West

  I nod at them as I finish cleaning one blade, picking up another, continuing the ritual. My pack link starts going off as people hear of the Alpha sitting in my living room. They are all so freaking nosy. I shut it off before Sophie or Miranda pipes in. Finally I look at the men sitting there. Brandon grins as he jabs his elbow into Snow’s ribs.

  Snow glares at Brandon then takes a deep breath, like he is trying not to kill someone. “Sorry, but yeah about sixty different rogues have been plaguing my people for about a month now. I would take care of it but I don’t have that many people willing to fight again. We are a slightly smaller pack but we were told to come see you by your dad I believe.” He fidgets with the zippers on his pockets. He stares at me for a little bit as I try to digest what he just said. I know what my dad is trying to pull but I don’t know if Snow has figured it out yet. My dad is trying to set us up as mates. My wolf is still just staring at them all, staying quiet. I guess she is reserving judgement. Even though I can still feel her excitement. I am about to tell Snow as I hear Sophie pound on the door before barging in. I glare at her for a second as she tries to start yelling at me for closing off my link. I growl softly trying not to let my dominance out.

  I really think she forgets who the Alpha is. She is my second in command and my best friend, but she needs to learn not to just run in acting crazy in front of other Alphas. Sophie finally realizes that she is acting out in front of a group of men and another Alpha. Her face is full blown red as she looks quickly down to the floor in embarrassment. I guess no one warned her they were in here.

  “Sorry Alpha, I knew people were here but not in your house. Umm I think I am just gonna…. wait outside, maybe.” She says with a squeak at the end looking down at the floor. I think I should mention that she sucks at talking in front of extremely hot men. Her brain practically shuts down. I have no idea why. She should know by now that she is hot by anyone’s standards. She is the same height as me but she has bigger boobs and ass. Her hair is blond, for now, but her eyes are such a dark blue, they look violet. I nod my head as my eyes start to feel like sandpaper had been rubbing against them.

  “Sophie please get two people to come in here and clean out all of the guest rooms. They are staying with me while we plan a way to get this shit handled. Oh…. and food please you sexy beast.” I say grinning as she bites down on her lip to keep from growling at me. I know how to cook but I love annoying her. I swear she reminds me of a growling chihuahua when I piss her off. Sophie turns and runs out of the room as I open my mind link back up.

  “Bitch there will be pay back.” She says as she growls at the two men outside. I don’t have many men in my pack but the few I do are mates to someone here. Except these two. They are my only male enforcers. They come running in to start cleaning as I smile brightly at the men on my couch. They all watch the men cleaning my house, cocking their heads to the side.

  “Ok we will eat and rest tonight then tomorrow we should plan. Count on being here for about two days. Maybe three if we have any problems planning.” I say getting up to take my guitar outside, trying to hide my nervous rambling. The guys get up to follow me. When we walk outside my lips stretch into a giant grin as I take in the backyard. I try to see it from their point of view.

  There is a huge cement fire pit with chairs all around it, right in the center, followed by a brick oven/grill set up over towards the pool area. My pool is almost Olympic sized and butts up against the side fence. Then a gigantic hot tub set at the end of the wooden porch, that’s attached to my house, so I don’t have to walk on the grass. I love the yard so much, I spent a lot of money fixing it up. I have a whole three acres reserved just for my garden. I personally live on a twenty acre spot. My people have their own stretches of land but know I am the boss. There is a gym back in the woods where we train. I turn back towards the guys and stop to admire my house.

  It is a two story house with seven bedrooms and eight bathrooms, each bedroom has its own bathroom and one downstairs for guests. It also has a six car garage, a big open kitchen and my favorite, the entertainment room. The guest house is behind my garden, it needs work.

  The porch runs right up to the French doors at the back that lead into the house. It’s a big house just for me but I hope one day that my mate or mates, if I find them, will move here with me. Until then I will continue working and providing for my pack. I sit down in my hammock that is attached to my house and porch, watching the guys look at all of my stuff. I don’t know why but I feel I can trust them. They seem impressed as they take it all in. Their eyes flicking quickly over everything before they look at me. My wolf is still watching all of them.

  “They are all ours. Our mates. Don’t fuck it up.” My wolf says before sitting back to watch them contently. My mind stopped working as soon as she said they were all ours. Did she mean all five of them? Fuck I hope so because they are all just yummier than s’mores. I mean it will be a little harder with five mates but I guess, I always knew I would have more than one. Just look at my house. I bite my lip softly. I also hope they don’t care that I am a virgin.

  “You have made a good life here.” Morgan says with a deep growl in his voice. I grin at him and pat the hammock, next to me, for him to join me. He is about 6’5 and built like a wet dream. He is bulky but not overly so. His muscles firm and his voice is so deep it seems to vibrate my chest. He walks over, carefully sitting down beside me. He looks at all of the other guys as they all grab different chairs to come sit by us.

  “So… my wolf finally said something…. umm did you all know we are mates?” I ask suddenly with a blush working it’s way over my face. I have no filter when I get nervous.

  Chapter Two

  Snow

  This woman is crazy. I am fully committed to that opinion for now. She goes ninety miles an hour and she fidgets a lot while sitting down. She stands up showing off her short frame with long lavender hair and my dick tries to perk up. I growl internally at myself as I watch her walk out the door. My crew getting up to follow her while I smile at my wolf. We both know she is our mate.

  “Guys my wolf is saying she is my mate.” I say through the link and watch as the other guys tense up.

  “Guys what’s wrong?” I ask I as look at all of them. Suddenly they all pipe up through the link.

  “Umm boss she is my mate too.” They all say then stop to look at each other. I glare at them in surprise because I really don’t know what to think. I mean I don’t mind sharing with my best friends. Just didn’t think it would happen.

  We all follow her outside and stop to look around. It is impressive how much work she has put into this place and, from what I’ve seen, this pack. I watch as she sits down on the hammock and pats at her side for Morgan to sit by her. I’m glad Morgan started talking to her first because everyone else is still reeling from learning she is all of our mates. Morgan is a bear of a man in more ways than one. When I hear her ask if we all knew, I think all of our hearts stopped for a second. Morgan nods at her then states “We knew when we came up to the house. Well I did, I don’t know about them.” Then he just starts some weird rumble‍ in his chest. I guess his bear approves. I glare at him for a second but let my face go back into a neutral expression.

  “What he said, but we didn’t know all of us are your mates until right before we came out here.” I growl some as my wolf watches everything quietly. She looks at me and gives the biggest smile I have ever seen. She needs to smile like that all of the time. It just lights her face up from the inside out.

  “So umm how big is your pack?” She asks still looking at me but leaning into Morgan as his bear rumbles around in the mind link. I think for a minute before answering her.

  “It’s us and about forty other males. They are looking for mates and usually don’t want to fight unless provoked. We don’t have women or cubs but not for a lack of trying.” I say sheepishly. “We live in an apartment complex near SilverEdge. It’s a few towns over to the west. We don’t have land except
for the complex. So I really don’t know why the rogues are attacking us. We had to put extra security all over the place and we guard it on shifts. We don’t fight usually. Since we are so close to town. But we have all served in the military, we just got tired of war.”

  I watch as she takes all of this in and absorbs it slowly. Her jaws clenching some as she thinks over everything. She nods as she picks at the guitar, not really playing. Suddenly about ten different females hop over the fence and come towards us. My guys jumping up to surround Olivia. She just smiles and waves the girls over and we all sit back down noticing she knows all of them. Her friend Sophie at the front as they stop a few feet away.

  “Alpha. What do you need?” They all say as they go down on one knee, looking at Olivia.

  “Prepare for war. The rogues are heading for us. I don’t have a time frame but we need to set up border patrols. Call and put the word out with the other supernaturals. Do it in shifts. The mates and cubs need to come to the safe house and make sure the humans know to stay inside at night. We need to make sure we have very few casualties.” She growls. “The guys and I are going to fetch his crew then come back. We will be about four hours. Sophie if we aren’t back by then you know the drill.” She says in a commanding tone. She gets up and hands the guitar to Sophie. Before turning and heading inside. The guys look at me as I shrug and get up to follow. The girls already gone.

  “Why are we going to pick up my guys? Won’t they just keep attacking us? Why do you think they are headed this way?” I fire off questions as I walk inside after her, watching as she slides on black leather pants and a matching leather vest. Her hands flying as they strap on weapons left and right.

  “I’ll make this simple. You know people call me to come and fix issues with rogues. Well I do that all over the world. I’ve made more enemies than I care to count. I own the fifty square miles surrounding my home. That stops a few miles away from SilverEdge. So if they are there, that means they are headed this way. I have a big pack of about two hundred people. Humans around here know what’s going on and seek shelter and safety with us. So yeah, let’s stop talking and go get the guys. Call or text them to be ready. I’m going to go grab Gus.” She says rapidly as she picks up a set of keys and walks outside. My mind is blown that she runs that big of an area. But with a pack this size, she needs it. I call the guys at home and tell them to be ready. We run after her and stop as she drives up in an old tour bus that’s been modified.

  My eyes roam over the bus and grin. Apparently the cubs here get her to watch super monsters on Netflix. She literally has the Gus bus. It has a teal colored body and dark purple highlights on the trim. She even has the fangs on the grill. I laugh slightly. Thank god my nieces and nephews made me watch that show. I need to call my sister at some point to tell her what’s happening. She hasn’t heard from me in a while. I climb into the bus with the guys hot on my heels and sit down at the front. I watch as she backs down the driveway. Then as she starts down the street, her foot slams down, sending all of us into our seats. I swear she is going at least a hundred. Thank god everyone knows her or we would get pulled over. I look out of the window watching as people of all ages run getting everything ready. But my brow furrows as I notice it’s mostly women in her pack. I see about ten men and about twenty children running for, what I guess, is the safe house.

  “Where are all of the men?” I ask not surprised at how skeptical I sound. I cringe as I see her eyes narrow, glaring at me through the rear view mirror. I keep fucking this up. I need to keep my mouth closed.

  “I didn’t mean it like that. Just you have such a huge pack. I thought there would be more men…” My voice tapering off as Morgan coughs covering up a laugh. Brandon and Chase just laugh out right at my discomfort . Zeldin watching everything silently while letting no emotion show how he really feels. She speeds down the expressway heading towards SilverEdge. My phone lights up as all of the guys start texting me, wondering what’s going on. I text them all back just to be packed and ready. Zeldin comes up suddenly to sit by me. His eyes never leaving Olivia. So it seems something can rattle his cage.

  I look around and all of us are watching her speed like she is in Mario kart. My fingers crossing as I make a wish for her not to crash. I’m used to being the one to drive. I have no idea why we didn’t drive to see her. I guess we all needed to run. Morgan is a big Kodiak bear. I am a gigantic, grey and white wolf along with Brandon, who is red like a fox. Chase is a falcon and well Zeldin is a huge ass African lion. I don’t know how we make it work being in the same pack, but we do.

  “Alright guys we will be pulling up in about five minutes. We have about an hour to pack whatever you need. Grab your cars or motorcycles. Y’all can follow me back.” She says sounding excited. I guess she is an adrenaline monster. It’s ok though, so are we. I didn’t even notice that we were so close to the complex. I stand up as she skids to a stop in front of the building, jumping out, we run inside and go to the elevator. She stands outside to wait. Brandon runs to an intercom over on the wall.

  “Everyone downstairs, we leave in ten.” He growls as he bends grabbing a pair of boots out of the bin by the elevator doors. You have to love shifters, random clothes everywhere. Brandon steps into the elevator and we let it shut, hitting the button for the top floor. We all threw money together to buy this six story building. We are working on it slowly but I guess that’s going to have to wait. If we ever come back here... since our mate lives in Shade Valley. The door to the elevator opens and we all step out splitting up to go pack our rooms.

  We don’t have much so it shouldn’t take long. I run into my room and look under my bed. My hand jerks out to latch onto my duffle bag. I kept it from my military days. This thing holds all of my possessions including my gaming system. I love my Xbox. I walk over to my two bookshelves and swipe my hand, throwing all my stuff in the bottom including my Xbox. Before moving to the dresser and shoving all of my clothes in. My closet is empty except for my weapon bag in the bottom. I grab the bag and close the door.

  I move towards my bathroom as the crew starts linking me, telling me they are ready and headed down. I grab my hair stuff and all of my soap and just shove it in the bag with my weapons. I hope they don’t bust. I run back to the elevator, seeing everyone standing there waiting.

  “You have too much hair shit.” Zeldin rumbles out as he punches the button for the elevator. I look him over and see he has changed into his black jeans with a long sleeved Henley. Brandon went with another t-shirt but this one has Batman on the front. Morgan and Chase with black button downs on. I swear those two do everything together. Even though I know they don’t like each other like that. I know I have caught them cuddling up on the couch during movie night, which is cute usually. To be fair Chase will cuddle everyone. He is extremely affectionate.

  “I can’t help that my hair looks better than yours.” I say smiling sarcastically. Zeldin knows his hair is the best. My wolf is wanting to jump up and down in excitement. This is happening faster than we thought it would. We have only been looking for our mate for about a year. We didn’t think we would end up sharing her with our best friends either...good thing I can share. We are both in agreement that we can’t wait to get back to our mate. Finally the door opens and all of us pile back in. We get down in the lobby where our whole pack is moving around agitatedly.

  Their eyes all locked on the badass female in leather and weapons, standing there staring at them all. Her eyes glowing as she takes them all in. Her dominance pouring off her small frame. She steps forward coming towards us. One of the new guys trying to intercept her, thinking she is a threat. She grins softly as his hand closes around her arm. He doesn’t get a chance to do anything else as she drops him to the floor with a kick to his knee, snapping it in half. He screams as the other guys try to help him, but a growl from Morgan stops them all in their tracks. She leans down in the new guy’s face.

  “Look here pup. I’m here to help. But you won’t keep me from w
hat’s mine. Those five are mine. You are coming to my town and my home, you will learn. You may have your own alpha but in my territory I am the Alpha. Now get your shit together and get in the bus. Who ever has cars follow behind Gus.” She growls into his face loud enough for everyone to hear. She stands up, heading to us and grabs me around the neck. She drags my head down towards her. She nips my bottom lip as she rubs right up against the front of my pants. My chest vibrating as a low growl works it’s way up out of my throat. My lips crashing down against hers in a painful kiss. She moans against my lips before releasing me and turning back to the front door. She walks out like a sexy badass. I readjust my dick since it’s pressing right into the zipper.

  “Fuck I think I love her already.” Morgan mutters through the mind link.

  Chapter Three

  Morgan

  I watch as she walks out of the building, my bear wanting to follow her outside and pin her against the bus. He loved that she claimed all of us in front of our crew. I bite my lip to clear my mind as I follow behind her to the monster bus. She stops by it and cocks her hip to the side, listening as our group starts to pile onto the bus. The other guys going to grab our cars. I see Zeldin loading my Harley onto a trailer and hooking it up. I love how they knew I was going to ride with Olivia. I don’t even have to say it. As I am watching Zeldin, the new guy and a friend of his are loading onto the bus. I hear them growl at Olivia. I turn my head fast to get them in line but as I turn. I see her take two knives from the holsters at her hip and place the blades against their throats. Everyone is watching from the bus with wide eyes, surprised at how fast her hands moved. She leans into them letting the blades prick into their skin, blood trickling down their necks slowly.