(Discontinued) The Alphas (bxb)

Chapter Twenty Four

Chapter Twenty Four

Kyler's POV

I woke up wrapped in warm, snugly blankets and delighted, I nuzzled into them.

This was when I realized that there was this very faint rise and falling movement and partially opened one eye.

Holy Cow!

I was startled to see that there was an especially delicious grown man fast asleep and that I was currently using him as my body-pillow.

Then it hit me, like a hybrid bulldozer going fifty miles per hour, he was mine.

And I was his too but that didn't really matter.

I was fully awake now, shifting my head, which was resting on Dalton's finely-haired chest, meaning he wasn't a man-bear and he also wasn't completely hairless like a baby's bottom, and gazed up at him with nothing but admiration and a little bit of lust.

Admiration for that godly jaw of his and his scent like a fresh forest in the sunrise with leaves and morning dew and well, you get the picture.

I guess Dalton was a light sleeper as that tiny action of angling my head caused him to stir.

I watched as he blinked open his eyes groggily, tightening his grip around me.

We met each other's eyes for a second or two before Dalton mumbled something about "ten more minutes" and buried his face into my neck, pulling me as close as possible to him and affectionately coddling me into him or vise versa.

Suddenly the door to our bedroom was thrown wide open and I jerked up, ignoring Dalton's tired protest. I braced myself as Vin and Roman's son, Rhein, came bounding into the room, like a ball of energy on sugar high.

"Mornin' Mister and Mister!" he yipped as he jumped and landed on the edge of our bed.

I shot him a small smile, rubbing at my eyes as he shuffled closer to Dalton's sleeping form and myself.

"Hey there, little man. Why you up so early?" I asked as Rhein beamed, "Daddy was trying to get me to turn into my animal!"

Ah. Rhein was a shapeshifter and most shapeshifters usually got their transformation somewhere along when they hit puberty. For some powerful shapeshifters though, they experienced their change early in their childhood, sometimes even being born into their animal form.

I had never really met a shapeshifter before, I had only heard of them during one of the Supernatural Home Tuition Lessons, which by the way, were a complete waste of time.

I guess I could be considered under some characteristics of being a shapeshifter but there was a fine line between us and them.

I didn't really remember what the difference was since halfway through the lesson Rick had convinced Gabe and I to sneak out to get smoothies.

Rick and Gabe. I wonder how they're doing now.

Ever since the few weeks leading up to the coronation that never happened, I had been distancing myself from my friends, too caught up in pack business.

I'm a bad friend.

"Mister? Did you fall back asleep?" I was brought back down to earth by Rhein getting right in my face and poking my cheeks.

"Why don't you run along downstairs and disturb- I mean find your Dad? I bet they want to teach you more about your soul... animal... thing," Dalton snorted and I pinched him on the arm, making him grumble and tighten his grip around my waist.

"I wanna be a wolf! Like you!" Rhein exclaimed happily and I smiled. I loved children, they were so innocent... and so soft.

"That's really creepy," Dalton spoke up from where his face was hidden in my neck-shoulder region.

I pinched him again and he delivered a light but still painful kick to my shin.

"Don't worry, you'll be that perverted uncle that no one talks about."

"Hey!" I gave his deadweight body a shove and to my delight, he rolled off the bed and straight onto the floor.

"Hey Rhein! Let's play get the big black wolf because he's a bad man!"

Rhein howled and pounced on Dalton's squirming form on the ground while I stood aside laughing at my mate's struggle.

"Rhein! Where were you! We were supposed to have started fifteen minutes ago!" a very displeased Vin burst into the room and Rhein whimpered, ducking low as he tried cling onto Dalton.

"But it's boring! I don't want to go for lessons today, Dad! I wanna play with the uncles!" Rhein pouted, sticking out his lower lip as he glanced up at his father with big pitiful eyes.

"How can you say no to that little face," Roman appeared behind Vin, an arm going around his waist but Vin simply glared harshly at his husband and son before replying with a curt, "No."

Roman shrugged, pulling his husband into his chest as Rhein attempted to make a run for it.

However, Vin, with the speed of a striking cobra, snagged his young son by the shoulder, dashing his hopes of getting away.

"Learning to shapeshift is important, don't you want to experience your first shift. After your shift you can join your uncles to play or whatever you guys even do," with that, Vin dragged a very unhappy Rhein out of the room.

Roman raised an eyebrow at us, Dalton half dead on the floor and me probably resembling some kind of drunkard.

"We have to discuss battle plans, I've done a detailed run through of our enemy and I'd have to say... they're quite the challenge."

I nodded, "They're the Grand Wolf Council. They're feared because of the wolves they recruit. Each of them has a certain power that the rest of the wolves, me included, fail to possess. They use that extra advantage to terrorize us and form the werewolf community into what they want it to be."

Dalton cleared his throat, chipping in as well, "They're after my blood. They want to rid me from this world because I'm what currently prevents them from achieving their 'ideal world' or whatever. With my mate, the rest of the werewolves have a fighting chance against them since my powers will be at it's peak and maybe I can make things right."

"It's not going to be a breeze but I do have a suggestion. I can summon vampires to fight alongside us, given my ranking," I nodded, Roman Pari was a well known name in both vampire and werewolf realms. He was an original... in a sense he was their king. "The rest of the originals won't have it but I can try to do some convincing."

"Thank you for that, in this time of crisis we're going to need all the help we can possibly get." Dalton smiled.

We have a thin sliver of hope now.