The Alpha Shifter

Chapter 23 - Ari

Today was the day – Alex and Davin would finally meet. The two days had gone past in quite a blur between all the planning Nardo and I had done.

Heh, Nardo... I giggled to myself. I righted myself before anyone could notice me behaving giggling like a child. Just thinking of the night before had me in giggles. I made my way to Davin's room practically skipping there and taking care to avoid as many confrontations as possible from the rest of the pack.

I lightly knocked on his bedroom door. "Davin!" I said in a sing-song voice. "Up you get sleepy head!" I eased my way into his room not waiting for a reply. What awaited me was a sore sight. His whole room was a complete mess which was totally unlike him. Squatting beside his bed I look at his scruffy sleeping face. Stubble coated his face giving him a gruffer look. I let out a sigh and poked his cheek. "Davin so help me if you don't get out of bed in two minutes you're going to get a face full of water." He let out a grunt before turning over. So he wants to play it this way does he. Walking through his mess of a room I go in search of a makeshift bucket. It was like walking through a treasure trove of junk. I picked up a pair of boxers, taking it between my forefinger and thumb before throwing it over my shoulder. "Ugh." I shuddered before moving on. "Nope... Not that either... What is this meant to be...?" It was long, round and smooth and seemed fairly large. I click a button on the device and find it vibrating in my hands. My eyes go wide in dawning realisation as I let out a sound between a squeal and a yelp dropping the item from my hands before moving on. The item was still vibrating on the floor as I scrounged through more of his items. Finally, I came across a vase. "This'll have to do." Filling the vase to brim with water I stand beside Davin's bed an evil glint in my eye. "Wakey wakey sleeping beauty." I tip the bucket over his head and jump backwards as he himself leaps out of bed. His tired eyes met with mine as he shook out the water from his hair and eyes. "What... the hell is this...?" He asked confusedly.

"This is your wakeup call. You've been moping for a good couple of days. I've organised with Laiyla to take you out shopping." I replied in another sing-song voice. He opened his mouth to object but I beat him to it, putting my hand up to let me finish. "I know we've been through a few misunderstandings these past couple of days but it's time to get over it. Now, you're going to go take a shower and clean up and meet Laiyla at the front door in an hour. Make sure you buy something nice, I'm taking you out tonight." I grinned at him quickly patting his cheek before he could get a word in.

Now all I needed to do was sort out the mess that had started last night. I made my way beneath the pack house to where the cells were located. All those that could not be trusted within the pack grounds were located here. Keil was already down here interrogating a troublesome rogue we'd recently welcomed into our pack. I came to stand in front of the leader of his cell. I eyed the condition he was in, noticing he was still covered in blood and still quite badly bruised from last night.

"Care to tell me why you tried to challenge me for my position in the middle of the night?" My face had hardened, my eyes glaring at him menacing. This was twice now that he had challenged my position. My mind recalled the previous night. It had been long and tiring, my body was still feeling the ache of it all.

"Well Wolf Boy, I'll see you here tomorrow 8pm sharp. Please make sure you bring Alexander and I will make sure Davin is here too. I'm thinking we be mean and ambush them with each other." I laughed and without a reply from him, shifted into my jaguar and took off in the direction of home.

Keil had mind linked me, informing me of trouble with the one of the new rogues who at first refused my authority as Alpha of the pack. Seems as though he was doing it again. Only this time I wasn't there and now the same guy whose ass I beat wanted to fight me... Only now he was challenging me officially in front of the whole pack.