by J. L. Wilder
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Feral Alphas
Feral Wolves of the Arctic
By: J.L. Wilder
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Table of Contents
Feral Alphas
Prologue
Chapter One
Chapter Two
Chapter Three
Chapter Four
Chapter Five
Chapter Six
Chapter Seven
Chapter Eight
Chapter Nine
Chapter Ten
Chapter Eleven
Chapter Twelve
Chapter Thirteen
Chapter Fourteen
Chapter Fifteen
Chapter Sixteen
Chapter Seventeen
Chapter Eighteen
Chapter Nineteen
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Feral Alphas
Prologue
Branches whipped Dina’s face and shoulders as she ran.
She had never been this far south before. It felt wrong to be this far south. The air was too warm, and the sounds were nothing like what she had grown used to in the forests of the Arctic Circle. The animals were different here.
Everything about her life was going to be different here.
But there was no going back. The life she had once known was over, thanks to those treacherous wolves.
How can they call themselves feral? she thought, not for the first time since the alpha wolves had ordered her out of their territory. They’ve formed a pack, for fuck’s sake.
Packs were taking over everywhere, it seemed.
Packs were the reason Dina had gone north in the first place. There was no place below the sixty-sixth parallel for a beta bear like herself, not unless she wanted to be the property of an alpha. And she did not. The idea of belonging to a pack had never been anything but awful to Dina.
What am I going to do now?
Staying up north hadn’t been an option. The wolves had made that abundantly clear. Any bears who stayed up north would be viewed as enemies. Of course, that was nothing new—feral wolves and feral bears had been enemies for decades. But now the wolves weren’t feral any longer. They were a pack.
That pack had descended on Dina and the temporary allies with whom she had grouped up and had torn them apart as if they were nothing.
We did start it. We kidnapped their omega. Of course they were going to retaliate.
Dina pushed the thought away. They had only kidnapped the omega to try to break the bonds that existed between the men of that pack. If they hadn’t grouped up the way they did, none of it would have been necessary!
But what was done was done. She had been exiled from the north. She could never go home.
And what was there for her here besides pack life? She would never join a pack. She would rather die.
The outlines of a third idea began to take shape in her mind, but before the picture could resolve itself, the forest gave way to a clearing. She found herself staring across what could only be described as a lawn at a massive ranch-style house.
She froze.
She was in bear form. The people who lived here would know only that a bear had appeared on their property. They would be afraid. They would keep their distance.
Unless one of them owns a gun or something. She began to back away slowly.
Then she caught a whiff of the air.
Wolf!
Before she had time to react, the door of the house opened and a man came running out. As she had feared, he had a gun in his hands, and he aimed it in her direction. But the smell of wolf was also pouring off of him so strongly that she knew at once that she had stumbled into a pack of shifters.
She had only a few moments to make a decision.
I don’t stand a chance if I try to fight them. He can’t be the only one. The rest are probably watching from the windows of that big house. Dina was a good fighter, but she didn’t like to enter a fight without knowing the odds were in her favor. That was exactly what had gone wrong with the wolf pack up north, and it had almost resulted in her death.
She considered running. But she couldn’t outrun a bullet, and she had no idea how good a shot this man was. If he managed to hit her, there was no one around who would be able to help her treat the wound. A gunshot, even in the leg or shoulder, could be fatal.
There was only one option that gave her a decent chance at survival. She didn’t like it, but it was the only choice.
Dina shifted into her human form, dropped to her knees, and held up her hands in surrender.
The man stopped running toward her, but he didn’t lower his gun. “Who the hell are you?” he demanded.
“I’m sorry,” she said. “I didn’t know anybody lived here. I don’t mean you any harm. If you’ll let me go on my way, you’ll never see me again, I promise.”
The man frowned. Now that Dina got a good look at him, there was something stupid-looking about his expression. He had heavy eyebrows and a glare that made him look as if he thought he was a lot bigger than he actually was.
“I should take you to Josh,” he decided.
“Who’s Josh?”
“Our alpha.” Now there was a faint note of pride in the man’s voice. “This land belongs to the Vancouver Wolf Pack.”
“Honestly, I didn’t know that,” Dina said. “If you let me go, I promise to leave your land right away.”
The man shook his head. “Josh is going to want to talk to you,” he said. “You’d better come inside.”
“What if I refuse?” Dina asked.
“If you refuse, Josh will probably come outside,” the man said. “He’s watching us now. If he has to come out, there’s going to be a fight, and I doubt you want that.”
Dina didn’t like the way this man was talking to her, but what could she do? He was right. “I don’t,” she agreed. “Put the gun down and I’ll come meet with your alpha.”
The man shook his head. “You don’t call the shots,” he said. He gestured with the barrel of the gun. “This way.”
So Dina, out of options, allowed herself to be marched across the lawn and into the house at gunpoint, simmering with an unpleasant combination of terror and rage.
The house’s door opened onto the kitchen. Several people were standing back from the windows as if they had just been leaning up against them, taking in the action in the yard. As the door closed behind her, one man stepped forward. “Everybody, go into the den, please,” he said. “Eddie, you stay.”
The man with the gun took a seat at the kitchen table. “You got it, boss.”
“You must be Josh,” Dina reasoned.
“That’s right,” the man said. “Who are you?”
She hesitated. “If we’re going to talk, tell your man to take his gun off me,” she said. “I haven’t done anything to threaten you or your pack.”
“You’re on our land.”
“I didn’t know this was your land,” she said, exasperated. “I told him to let me leave, but he didn’t want to. I’d be just as happy to be nowhere near your land, believe me.”
Josh pondered for a moment. “Put
the gun down, Eddie,” he said.
Eddie looked somewhat disappointed, but he set the gun down on the table. Dina couldn’t help noticing that he kept it within easy reach, in case he wanted to pick it up again.
“Satisfied?” Josh asked.
She wasn’t—she wanted to get out of their house—but she didn’t want a fight with these men, so she nodded.
“Now tell me who you are,” Josh said.
“My name is Dina,” she said.
He waved his hand at that information. “What pack are you with?”
She lifted her chin. “I’m not with any pack,” she said.
Eddie let out a quiet hiss. “She’s feral,” he said.
“Are you?” Josh asked her, his expression darkening.
“I’m on my own, if that’s what you mean,” Dina said. This was hardly the time for pure honesty about what she thought of those who chose to live in packs, but she was surprised by the negative reaction. “That’s good news for you. It means no one else is coming this way just because I did.”
“You have a point,” Josh conceded. “But what brings you in our direction in the first place? I thought all the feral shifters lived much farther north.”
“That might be changing now,” Dina said darkly.
“What do you mean?” Josh demanded.
Dina hesitated. Sharing information with wolves definitely ran counter to her instincts. But on the other hand, it seemed clear that this pack had an unfavorable view of those they considered feral. Maybe they would recognize the danger inherent in what was happening up north.
Maybe the enemy of my enemy is my ally.
“I was run out of the Arctic,” she said. “So were the other bears I had been traveling with.”
“Your pack?” Eddie asked.
“Not my pack,” she said sharply. “We had grouped up for a few weeks, nothing more. That happens sometimes.”
Eddie opened his mouth, perhaps to question her further on that aspect of feral life, but Josh silenced him with a glare.
“Who ran you out?” he asked.
“Wolves,” Dina said bitterly. “And they were a pack.”
Josh and Eddie exchanged glances.
“I thought the north was all feral,” Josh said. “Was it invaded by a pack?”
“No,” Dina said. “It’s worse than that. This is a group that found each other and got together. The north is supposed to be reserved for ferals. It’s our natural territory. But these wolves are of the opinion that everything north of the sixty-sixth ought to belong to them.”
She left out the battle that had occurred between her group of bears and the pack of wolves. If she included that detail, if she revealed the fact that she had been involved in the kidnapping of an omega wolf and that that had been the catalyst for their conflict, she couldn’t be sure which side Josh and his pack would choose. Perhaps they would consider her a greater threat than the northern wolves.
Dina just wanted to be left alone to go on her way.
“I don’t understand,” Josh said. “What would bring a bunch of feral wolves together? Ferals aren’t supposed to be able to adapt to pack life. That’s why they live up north in the first place. They’re too wild to cooperate, too selfish to work together for the benefit of a group.”
Dina refused to get offended. Better to tell them what she knew so that she could get out of there. “They found an omega,” she said. “That brought them together.”
“A feral omega?” Eddie raised his eyebrows. “That’s pretty rare, isn’t it?”
“Fairly rare,” Dina said. “But they found one.”
“But that only explains two wolves getting together,” Josh said. “An omega and an alpha. But not the whole pack. How could that have happened?”
“I don’t know how to explain what I saw,” Dina said. “But it wasn’t just an omega and a single alpha. There were three of them.”
There was silence in the kitchen. Nobody seemed to know what to say for several moments.
“Do you mean three wolves?” Josh asked. “They had a beta with them?”
“No,” Dina said. “I mean they had three alphas. Three alphas, one omega, and a few betas besides.”
“That’s not possible,” Eddie said. “A pack can’t have three alphas. They’d kill each other.”
“Well, I don’t know what to tell you,” Dina said. “But they weren’t killing each other. They were working together.”
“You must have made a mistake,” Eddie said. “That can’t happen.”
Dina looked at Josh. “Do you think I made a mistake?”
Josh shook his head. “It shouldn’t be possible,” he said. “But I saw you in bear form just now. No wolf could have taken you on by himself. Not even an alpha. There had to be a group of some kind.”
Dina nodded. “They united to protect their omega,” she said. “That was what brought them together.”
“That’s...unprecedented,” Josh said. “Who was this omega?”
“Nobody I knew,” Dina said. “Not that I keep company with wolves. Some girl called Sophie.”
The two men’s reaction was immediate and dramatic.
“Sophie?” Eddie spat. “Sophie?”
“Stop it, Eddie,” Josh said, but he looked deeply disturbed. “Are you sure, Dina?”
“You know her?” Dina asked.
“I don’t know,” Josh said. “Maybe it’s a different Sophie.”
“Like hell,” Eddie said. “How many feral omega Sophies do you think there are? It’s the same girl, all right.”
“She used to belong to our pack,” Josh explained. “Assuming it’s the same person, that is. We exiled her when we discovered that she was feral.”
“Maybe she wasn’t feral,” Eddie said. “If she was able to go up north and unite a whole pack around herself—”
“Shut up, Eddie,” Josh snapped. “We tried to tame her, remember? I tried to mate with her, and she resisted me. She was feral. That’s the only possible explanation.”
Dina couldn’t help feeling a spark of amusement. So the wolf bitch refused this alpha, and that’s why she was sent away. His ego must be incredibly bruised at the idea that she had submitted to three alphas up north.
Well, that wasn’t her problem. “Can I go?” she asked. “I’ve told you everything I know about what’s going on up north.”
“You’re going to leave our land?” Josh asked.
“Oh, right away,” she said. “I don’t have any interest in being on your land any longer than you force me to be.”
“Where are you going to go?” he asked. “Not back up north.”
“No,” she said. “There’s no life for me there now. I’m going overseas. I’ll try my luck in Scandinavia, or maybe Russia. I don’t know what life is like there for feral shifters, but this pack won’t follow me that far.” She fought to control her anger at the fact that the northern wolf pack had chased her off of her own continent. “I’ll just have to start a new life somewhere else. It’s the best I can do.”
Josh nodded. “All right,” he said. “You and I are natural enemies, but if you’re going so far away, we don’t pose a threat to each other. You’re free to go on your way, and I wish you well. Thank you for the information you’ve given us today.”
He held out his hand to shake hers.
Dina hesitated. The idea of shaking hands with a wolf was strange. But he was letting her go, and that was what mattered. She stood and returned his handshake.
“Best of luck to you and your pack as well,” she said. “I hope you destroy them.”
“Oh, believe me,” Josh said, “we’re going to try.”
“We are?” Eddie said. Dina could hear the barely suppressed glee in his voice.
“We are,” Josh confirmed. “If there’s a pack up north with three alphas, a pack that’s laying claim to all the northern territory, they’re too dangerous to be left intact. We have to do something about them.”
“What about Sophie?”
Eddie asked. “What if she’s really with them?”
The look that came over Josh’s face at the mention of Sophie’s name was frightening.
“Yes,” he agreed. “We’re going to have to do something about her too.”
Chapter One
SOPHIE
The autumn sun shone brightly on Sophie’s shoulders and chest as she allowed her head to fall backward onto Burton’s shoulder.
Her alpha thrust into her rhythmically, his hands gripping her breasts firmly, thumbs playing over her sensitive nipples. “I like you outside,” he murmured in her ear. “We should always do it outside.”
“We—mmm—we can’t always,” she said, though, at this moment, she felt as though she would give him whatever he wanted if it meant he would keep fucking her.
It was only the first day of Sophie’s three-day mating ceremony, and she was surprised by how much she was already enjoying herself. Perhaps it was because of the way things had played out at her last mating ceremony that it felt like such a surprise to be having a good time.
Nowadays, she rarely thought of Josh, the alpha of the pack to which she had once belonged. She seldom thought about the way he had tried to force her into a mating ceremony against her will, in front of the entire pack, and how the incident had resulted in him declaring her feral when she’d refused to submit, exiling her to the north.
If she had thought about those things, she would have been thankful for them. If it hadn’t been for her exile, she would never have met her true family.
It had been a few months since she had given birth to her first litter, and she and her alphas had decided as a unit that it was time for her to become pregnant again. It had been Marco’s idea to make a celebration of it, to hold a mating ceremony, and the men had arranged all the details.
Sophie’s only job was to be fucked. Just the thought of it had had her feeling hot and desperate for days leading up to the event.
They hadn’t touched her for a week. Ordinarily, with three alphas, Sophie never had to go more than a day without sex, but they seemed to have gotten together and made some kind of agreement. “We want you begging for it,” Ryker had said when Sophie had asked him about it. “We want you hungry.”
