The Last Thing I Did

Chapter 8

"I don't know why I should need help killing Benjamin. We're companions", Ross says as he's trying to avoid Rea. "Oh come on Ross! I know that you hate being Benjamin's bitch. Are you really that stubborn that you won't accept help from a woman", Rea asked him, catching up with him and standing in front of him which makes him stop in his tracks. "You won't be able to kill him Rea. He's been alive for millennia do you really believe that you can outsmart him? He's been fighting and killing off your bloodline , why do you think you can stop him if even the Great Upper Alpha Deadlive Wolves couldn't", he asks Rea and she gets lost into her thoughts. She eventually catches up with him again. "You just have to make sure that he doesn't get Amy in his grip, please? You'd buy me some time to come up with a plan", Rea tells him and he sighs. "Fine, but you owe me now", he says and Rea nods understanding and thanks him before leaving his camp.

Ross sighs as he sits down by the campfire. "When I told you to not let anyone near the camp I meant anyone", Ross says to Voss who's also sitting at the campfire. "What do you mean", Voss asked confused which only annoyed Ross even more. "You informed Rea about our situation with Benjamin and now she's asking for help", he explains. "Honestly, I thought she was your soulmate. You never even informed us that Shaddix was dead and that she took over, so you can't blame me", he says , shrugging his shoulders. The HellWolves always keep themselves hidden in the shadows and don't get the news nor rumors about Varcolac. Ross knew because Benjamin told him that Shaddix didn't fit in his plan. "Rea is the Upper Alpha now and the enemy of Benjamin, we can't form any alliance or we end up dead", Ross explained to Voss. "We can secretly exchange information without telling anyone else", Voss suggested then. Ross shakes his head with disapproval, he prefers living and he wouldn't be living if Benjamin would find out. "If I took upon that role and let you out of it then he won't find out. He may be our creator Ross but that doesn't mean we owe him. We'd have more freedom if Benjamin is dead and you know that as well."

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Rea sat beside the hospital bed where her sister was laying. She hoped that Avery survived the transformation because if she wouldn't it would mean that Ross would need to find another victim. If Rea learned to control her gift more she could have control over her sister and it would make it far more easy to outsmart Benjamin, but she feared the worst. "She looks like a corpse", she heard Ross coming in the room. "Did you look like that when you transformed for the first time?" Rea stood up from the chair and looked at her sister before turning to Ross. "I actually died before I transformed, because I'm a Deadwolf. She shouldn't be looking like this, I think you hit one of her veins in the process", Rea tells him. He turns to feel Avery's body temperature and his eyes glow orange. 'That doesn't surprise me', Rea thinks to herself. 'Two assholes who both resent me destined to be together.' "She's healing and soon her transformation will start, I need to get her out of here before her transformation starts. You don't want to be anywhere near her the moment she transforms", he says taking out the needles and picking her up to carry in his arms. Before Ross heads out with her she turns to Ross: "Take good care of her.."

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Now the problem of her sister is gone it's time she focused on what to do about Benjamin. Convincing Dakota isn't an option especially since what happened last time when she tried to. She wished that Deadlive helped her a little with the mission she got. Rea finds her life a curse that's been passed on to generations of the Wolves bloodline but there's nothing she can do about it besides succeeding her mission otherwise she has failed the family Wolves.

She heard a knock on her door and her Béta came in: "Upper Alpha, there's a guest for you", he says and Rea gestures that the person should come in. When Dakota walked in she sighed. She wasn't really up to talking with him right now. "Am I interrupting something important", he asked when he heard her sigh. "No, come in", she said gesturing to the chair in front of her. "Well, the wedding is almost there and we still haven't heard anything about the planning. It's stressing us out", he tells her. "I'm sorry..I haven't really had time to get to arranging the wedding, a few problems have emerged on the territory", she explains to him and he looks with narrowed eyes at her. He couldn't help but think that she's not arranging the wedding stuff because she doesn't care about it, or that she's jealous. He kind of hoped that she was jealous and Rea knew that. "Are you really busy , or do you just not care about arranging the wedding", he asked her and she looked up at him with an annoyed look on her face. "I'm a professional Upper Alpha, Dakota. So if you're asking me that I'm not arranging your wedding because I'm pissed at you then the answer is no! The fact that you're even thinking that is insulting me, I am still your Upper Alpha and you shall respect me like you respect any other Alpha", Rea tells him quite pissed off. "I've been dealing with the HellWolves situation and the food shortages and don't forget about ruling all the packs of Varcolac and on top of that I need to arrange a wedding. So I'm sorry that your wedding isn't fully planned yet but the pack's safety is more important."

Dakota loses the arrogant position he had taking in the conversation and looks down in embarrassment. "I'm sorry for disrespecting you..it's just a big day for me and Amelia", he says making up an excuse. "You'd be helping me a lot if you kept Benjamin in a cage surrounded by your guards and monkshood. But I can't even count on you for that", Rea said then and Dakota just stared at her not sure what to say. "Benjamin just helps me heal my pack members, not more and nothing less. It's not because he was an asshole millennium ago that he is an asshole now. I'm sure that Benjamin wouldn't even consider helping people back then", Dakota says standing up ready to leave. "He was the pack doctor of Deadlive's pack when he betrayed her and even you know that but you're too blind to see that he is doing it again", Rea warns him. "Just promise me one thing: whenever Amelia gets pregnant with your child don't tell Benjamin and don't even let him get near her."