The Alpha's Downfall.

Chapter Six

Sneaking a grin at my accomplices, I turn and continue my task on Aston's beautiful eyebrows. The Silver Blood pack has been here for roughly three weeks now, and are settling in perfectly. Meaning new friends. Julian, Theo and Nathalie, as it turns out, were quite the pranksters back in their day. This is why we were doing this now. To get their rebellious streak back.

Through the weak moonlight filtering through the curtain, I see Nathalie smirk at me from the door, and then nodding towards me, then Theo. I look to him, only to see him gesturing wildly at the box of semi-permanent neon green dye.

Yes. We are, in fact, dyeing Aston Paynes' eyebrows green. It's so bright I think I can see it glow slightly in the dark.

What are friends for, right?

I give Theo a quick 'what the hell?' glance, then turn back to my victim. Aston snores lightly and turns his head a little. Stiffening, I lift the toothbrush that I am using to dye his eyebrows away from his face. I only have the end of his left eyebrow to do. If he wakes up now, I'll be immensely frustrated.

After dipping the brush in the bottle again, I stroke it across the end of his brow. Done.

Now, we wait.

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"WHAT THE HELL AMELI?!"

I snort into my pancakes as I hear Ast's enraged voice above my head. I see Theo and Nattie doing the same, and Julian giving us a suspicious glance.

He storms down the stairs, gesturing wildly to his now luminous green eyebrows. The entire dining hall bursts out laughing while Aston stands there, his face bright red, arms crossed and foot tapping impatiently. I can practically see smoke coming out of his ears. Luke and Mike are rolling around on the floor laughing, and Julian and Ann are sniggering into their heaped breakfast plates.

"I'm still waiting for an explanation."

"Wait..." I heave with mirth as I try to formulate sentence. "Okay... Okay I'm done.." After pausing for a few seconds I manage to bottle up my giggles, then promptly burst out laughing again. Nattie is the one who explains to him what actually happened.

"We... May or may not have..... Dyed your eyebrows...." Ash rolls his eyes.

"Of course you did Nattie, how dumb do you think I am? I can kinda tell you dyed my eyebrows. My question is WHY?"

We kinda sober up at that. Why did we dye his eyebrows?

Theo puts on a fake Essex accent "Well darlin' we thought, you know, brown isn't your colour, so like, we decided to change it... Whaddaya think, Ames?"

I play along with his charade. "Ohmigod, like, totally! We were like, green is totally his colour!"

He blushes and I feel bad. We just dyed his eyebrows green for no reason! I would be mad if someone did that to me. I would actually be murdering me if I was in his position. But then again I wouldn't, because I am my alpha and challenging me would lead to my death.

Whaaaat?

"Ah, look Ash I'm sorry. How about we make it up to you?"

Ash's face immediately brightens and a hint of a sadistic smile works its way onto his face, strangely contrasting with his new glowing eyebrows.

I may regret this.

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Clawing at the floorboards to try to find way of escape, I carry the dull objects around Ast's room. This was torture. Asking Ast if we could make it up to him was a really, really, really bad idea. I am currently tidying his hellhole of a room under his watchful gaze as Nattie is scrubbing at his grimy bedroom window and Theo is hand washing Ast 's laundry, wearing a bitter expression. Picking up his gross, sweaty t-shirt I chuck it over to the accumulating pile of soiled clothes. As I wipe my cootie-covered hands on my jeans, I immediately stiffen. A wave of anxiety washes over me via the pack link and Mikes voice resonates in my head.

"Rogues just landed in Edinburgh from Toronto on the 13:45 flight."

I curse under my breath. We have contacts and people from our pack working in all Scottish airports and ferry harbors so they can alert us when threats like this arise. Sighing, I turn to Ast, who is looking at me curiously. Without another word, I stroll out of the door. Ignoring his indignant cries, I run through the oak corridors and burst into the meeting room, Ast, Theo and Nattie hot on my heels. What I see in there is not what I was expecting . I thought I would find Luke, Mike, Julian and Ann stood there, a map spread out on the table and chairs pushed to the side as they study it. But no. Oh no. It was so much worse.

My two best friends had decided to sit down in the chairs. Or should I say chair. And kiss, in a very heated manner.

Procrastination at its finest.

Crossing my arms, I force a serious look on my face. "Well you two? Was there a rogue problem or were you just daydreaming, Mike?" Ann quickly jumps off him, as if he was burning hot and a red blush covers her cheeks. She straightens her disheveled top and Mike runs a hand through his crazily mussed up hair and smiles sheepishly.

"I got distracted."

"I can see that" I roll my eyes and sigh. As I turn to Ann I walk over to the map on the table. "So, Annie. Where are they headed? Do we have identities? How many of them are there?" I turn to Nathalie and Theo "Have you told Julian?"

They nod in agreement as Ann focuses for a moment.

"We have George and Lia tracking them from the airport." I grin. Those two are the best trackers we've had ever since I can remember. There's no way that the Rogues will shake them off. "So far they've spotted three - hang on - four groups, headed for the backlands."

"Groups of how many?" A new, gruff voice questions. Julian had entered the room with his Beta, Radley, without any of us noticing.

Mike steps in. "There are three groups of seven and one group of eight. They are all apparently clothed like they are here for a business trip, so they blend in quite well. We also now have identities of the leaders from passport control. The person who seems to be the leader is called Kain..... Uh..."

He frowns then looks uncertainly at me. I make a 'go on' gesture with my hands and he shakes his head

"Drawstein."

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