Alpha Scent (Amber Woods Shifters) (10 page)

“That was amazing Brianna, a pleasure for me to witness and taste. Tonight you will have me inside of you, in my bed, feeling my hard cock take you. So rest easy baby. I am going to make you breakfast, I guess you will be starving even more now”

Brianna stared after him as he got up to leave, noticing the huge bulging erection in his jeans. He caught her gaze.

“Can I take care of that for you?”

His eyes blazed as a feral grin spread on his lips.

“Oh you will get a taste baby later, but not yet”

“How can you just walk away when it’s obvious you are in need of some sort of release” she shouted.

Laughing he turned to the door.

“Control baby, and lots of it!”

Brianna laughed hard as she heard the door close. Yep it was going to be an interesting night.

After showering, she dressed in her work uniform and headed toward the delicious smell of food. She was not just going to sit around all day resting, that would be one day further away to finding the women. Marcus was nowhere I sight but the table was already set with food and coffee. Hearing a noise she turned to see Lizzy setting up her laptop grinning.

“What are you smirking about?”

“Nothing, how do you feel? Hell Bri, you scared the crap out of us all last night that was some scary shit”

“
I know tell me about it, I was lucky to have a healer like Michael, he really knows his stuff”

“Yes, so did Marcus by the sound of it!”

Brianna picked a cushion up and threw it at her friend, the edge skimmed the top of her chair.

“Ok, let’s be mature about this, yes I had the most fantastic orgasm ever this morning, is that what you wanted to hear?”

Lizzy just nodded enthusiastically.

“Your mate had to go out to the pack house for a meeting, but he said that you had to eat all of the food so that you get your strength back”

Brianna looked at the table, how did he know how to cook her eggs exactly how she liked them? Scrambled, with a sprinkling of chives. Looking back at Lizzy she raised an eyebrow.

“Oh ok, he asked what you liked to eat! Your mate is very attentive”

Brianna threw her hands up in the air.

“
I am so confused, my wolf recognises her mate and hell, sparks fly every time we touch but you know why I cannot mate”

Lizzie jumped up and wrapped her arms around her friend.

“You cannot let the memories of the past haunt you Bri, the wolves that attacked your pack were nothing more than thugs who took an opportunity. Separating a life mate is fatal and I am so sorry for what happened, but that will not happen to you”

Brianna wiped away a stray tear, a ghos
t of a smile on her face. Lizzy guided her to the table.

“Now eat, I will be in trouble if you don’t finish it honey!”

The food was delicious and Brianna had not realised how hungry she was until she was scraping the plate with her cutlery. Taking a long sip of coffee she stood walking over to Lizzy.

“Where is Luke?”

“Over at the meeting as well”

“Why was I not invited? Is this about the search?”

Lizzy rolled her eyes.

“Yes honey, it is but Marcus gave me strict instructions for you to rest today”

“Oh he did? We will see about that”

Dominating, fuckin alpha wolf! If there was a meeting she needed to be there. Growling she stormed out the house in search of the pack house.

Marcus had listened to his enforcers for the past half hour and they were going around in circles. This whole mess needed to be resolved, the pack was on edge and that made his wolf grouchy. Rubbing his neck he tuned in to what Connor was saying.

“There has to be a clear plan in place, we cannot just keep searching the same areas over and over.”

“I agree, there should be a clear plan”

All eyes turned toward the door as Brianna breezed in. Luke looked at her, rolling his eyes at the situation. Marcus jumped out of his seat, walking with a determined stride to get to her. Pulling her into his arms, aware of every one of his enforcers watching, he inhaled her scent to calm his nerves.

“What are you doing here baby, we agreed that you would rest today”

Brianna snorted, shaking her head.

“Oh no you agreed Marcus not me, I am here to work and help you find your female wolves and time is running out”

Stepping around him he watched in amazement as some of her alpha blood flooded through her system.

“Ok so from the beginning, these three women, do they have any enemies or did they have any disagreements with anyone before they disappeared?”

“No none, they are the kindest females, they would never hurt anyone”

Brianna nodded.

“What about partners, relationships?”

“Two were due to be mated, the other had recently joined the pack” Tristan spoke.

Luke tilted his head, acknowledging her control of the situation.

Marcus stepped beside her. He wanted to take her back to the safety of the house, let her rest, after what she endured yesterday she needed time to heal fully. But, as he looked down at the determination on her face
, he was proud to know he would be mating with her. She was showing true strength, true alpha female status.

“Did any of the women say anything the day before they vanished, any clue?”

Rhett stepped forward, planting his hands on the table. His glare was fixed on her.

“No offense miss, but I have already gone over all of those questions and we came up with nothing
, so you might want to listen to your alpha and rest”

Marcus was on him in a flash, throwing him against the wall.

“I warned you Rhett, you do not speak to my mate like that ever, she is trying to help, now you will fuckin listen to every damn word she has to say, do I make myself clear?”

Rhett looked at Brianna then his alpha.

“Yes my alpha, I apologise to you and your mate”

Marcus held him pinned against the wall for a while longer, before slowly releasing him. Brianna was impressed that he had fought her corner, but a little angry that he thought she needed defending. Pulling her hand through her hair she paced the room, aware of everyone watching her.
There were ten male wolves, which she assumed were all enforcers.

“Ok, I agree with Connor you cannot
keep searching the same area. We are missing something”

“
What about the time of the incidents?” Luke asked.

“All three disappeared on the same day, they were noted to be missing after lunch” Marcus said

“It was two months ago right?” Brianna questioned.

“Yes in July” Tristan offered.

Marcus watched as his mate paced the room, he could practically hear the cogs turning in her head. Finally she turned to Luke.

“You thinking ritual?” he spoke quietly.

“Maybe, what if it is linked with the lunar cycle of a blood moon at the end of September?”

“Excuse me but can we be in on this, what has the lunar cycle got to do with this?” Tristan asked.

Brianna turned around to speak to the group. Felling an ache in her side she rubbed her skin, before feeling Marcus pull out a chair for her, standing behind her, placing his hands on her shoulders for support.

“It’s just a theory, but the blood moon will be upon us on the last day of September, which is
one week away. There is an ancient branch of wolf shifters that have used this event to perform certain rituals. A blood moon was sometimes seen as the end of days, but the
night watchers
believe they can harness its energy on this night to make a male wolf very powerful and virile. The last ritual was over hundred years ago, where a gathering of male wolves took unmated females from their packs and forced them to breed with them, creating a super breed of wolf”

“You fuckin what?” Marcus yelled.

Brianna winced at his tone.

“Look I know it sounds crazy but
we have to consider the possibility. I am sure Anna has told you that the man that chased her tried to inject her with a loaded syringe. The smell is toxic and so unusual but laced with chemicals. The women disappeared without a trail right? What if the syringe is designed to somehow mask their scent so that they could not be followed?”

“Shit, that’s fucking messed up
” Connor shouted.

Brianna pushed away from the table, being pulled back against Marcus chest,

“I want the guard doubled on the women in the pack house and the perimeter, send out enforcers beyond the pack boundaries and into town, see if anyone has heard anything. Nobody gets in or out of here without my permission, do I make myself clear”

Brianna turned in his arms.

“That protects the women here, but we only have one week to find where the others are being held”

“So what do you suggest baby?”

“We need to lure them out, give them the bait”

The roar of his enforcers behind deafened her ears
, she heard alpha female and theirs to protect but right now her gaze was fixed on Marcus.

“Not a fuckin chance baby, no way, forget it, not happening”

“Marcus, I am the only one that can do this.  I am alpha in blood Marcus, your women in the pack house are submissive, we need someone who can fight when the time comes. The fact that they have took women from this pack means they are watching, so they are closer than you think”

She pulled out of his arms to address the group again.

“As I said, the last recorded was over a hundred years ago, but it failed when the packs of the surrounding area ambushed them killing all the perpetrators. What we do know from archive records is that the women began to disappear about two-three months before the ritual was due to take place. The reason unclear.”

Luke walked away from his position against the wall, where he had been silently standing, arms crossed.

“Holy shit Brianna, you think the Mckenzie case is linked?”

“It’s possible Luke, but we need to check in with headquarters to see if they are any further forward”.

“What is the Mckenzie case?” Connor asked.

“The case we were working on before we were relocated to this one. Similar circumstances but only one femal
e taken, again no trace. The only difference is that there was no toxic scent on any of the trails, they may be linked or not but it’s worth checking in”

Marcus walked amongst his enforcers, his mind reeling with information. It was sickening to think that may be dealing with a bunch of sadistic wolves that had reinvented an ancient cult.

“I want every possible resource used on this guys, I want our women found and bring the bastards that did this to justice”

The room filled with testosterone, snarling and tension prominent and deadly. Brianna wrinkled her nose at the scent, one thing about a tracker, your sense of smell was ten times more powerful.

“Look, if I am right, we have one week to find them, which is not a lot of time. I think I can get us a lead but I will need to run some checks”

“What do you need Brianna?” Connor asked.

She was aware that Marcus was watching her intently, almost waiting for her answer, but to hell with it, she was brought in to do a job and she was bloody well going to see it through.

“
On our way up here yesterday I accidently bumped into a shifter in the service station. The same scent that lead me to Anna was all over him, at the time it just had my wolf curious, which is why I followed him, I memorized his vehicle and licence plate. I was just going to do a routine check but I am nearly hundred percent sure that he is linked. Once we have his details, we need some enforcers to track him”

“
That can be arranged, we can keep a safe distance and once we know the location we can have other enforcers watch the area, learning the layout etc” Connor answered.

“I will also need to get a hold of one of the syringes they had been using, we
need someone to check the mixture so we know exactly what is in it and more importantly if there is any side-effects to the women”

Marcus sat on the table in front of her, long legs crossed, his arms matching.

“Michael can run analysis on it at the hospital and let us know exactly what we are dealing with”

“Good
, and once we have our location and drugs used then I can lure them to me in the hope they will try to add me to their list of females”

Marcus pushed off the table so fast she took two steps back.

“Like I said before baby, not a fuckin chance, when that time comes you stay here where I know you are safe, my men and I will take the place down”

“Oh and do what?
run in there ripping throats out blindly? Marcus, as soon as they see you attack they will slaughter your females without even thinking about it, and be damned with ritual, because fuckers like that have no honour or loyalty, they act on pure instinct, and to hell with the consequences. It does not matter if it’s someone’s mate or child, they exist to cause pain to those we love”