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cillab42Fic title: The Horseman's confrontation
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cillab42
Genre: J2
Pairing: Jared/Jensen
Rating: R
Word count: 3954
Disclaimer: As far as I know this didn't happen, it's pure fiction.
Warnings: m/m, violence, mpreg
beta:masja_17
Summary: After a spell has been cast on his mate, Jared has to fight Jensen in order to breed him.
previous
Once again, early morning found Jared on the terrace overlooking the pack grounds. There is a cool nip in the air and the beginning of orange colored leaves on the trees that tell him cooler weather will be here soon. It will probably arrive when the pups do.
He took a deep breath and wondered how long he will get to enjoy mornings like this. Not that he’s enjoying this morning anyway. The Alpha’s thoughts run along the lines that he might not even be on this plane for much longer, not if Jeff has his way.
Jared knew that the former Alpha was somewhere in his pack lands with the help of one of his council members with the goal to dethrone him.
There was no mistake that Jeff wanted nothing less than Jared’s head on a platter and Jensen in his bed. What the man does not know is that Jared will fight harder to keep Jensen than he will for his own life.
Jeff and his steadily growing group have managed to keep themselves hidden by sight and by scent. The latter was throwing everything they knew off balance. How could they hunt what they could not track? He has consulted Sam, but she has nothing to counter the magic that Jeff has somehow found.
He should have killed him when the chance had been presented to him.
“Finish me boy,” Jeff had growled as Jared’s teeth had clamped against the older man’s throat. “Finish me or I promise you that I will have Jensen and it will be my name he calls when he comes. That it will be me that he calls Alpha!”
Jared remembered that moment very clearly. He had been young and tempestuous and the only thing on his mind was saving Jensen. He never thought about becoming pack Alpha until after the adrenaline rush had worn off.
When Jeff had announced to the pack that it was his intention to mate and claim Jensen, his Jensen, he didn’t think he just acted and defeated him. He could not believe that even though he was down, Jeff was still spouting off about claiming his mate.
Jared let his youthful need for revenge sway him into letting Jeff live. He could not taunt the other man if he was dead.
A week later, he wished that he had killed the other man. Challengers from both outside and inside the pack sprang forth daily because they thought him weak for letting Jeff live. No challenger since had had his or her life spared.
Now his only worry was his mate and he was ready for anyone who threatened him because if Jared lost, there was no doubt that Jensen would be claimed, and his pups killed. No Alpha wanted the offspring of their former rival coming back to claim their fathers spot. It did not matter if they were alpha, beta or omega they were dead.
As a gift from Luna to those life bearers who bore the lycanthrope gene, gestation was only three months, a month longer that a true wolf with the last month spent in wolf form. It is really a short time, but even shorter when an enemy has entered your home at the invitation of a family member who knew all of the best places to hide.
Almost two months have passed since the day Amell challenged him, two months he should have been enjoying the changes in his beautiful Omega’s body.
That thought alone brought a smile to his face. Even though there was a serious threat to his household did not mean that he did not get to indulge when the chance presented itself. Like last night.
His mouth salivated as he remembered feasting on nipples so sensitive that the first touch of his tongue made Jensen’s hard cock drip precome. Jared closed his eyes and he could hear the soft moaning in his ears and Jensen begging for more.
“Pleeease, Alpha,” the Omega had begged and he canted his hips trying to get some kind of friction to ease the ache that Jared had created.
Jared had kept his body slightly out of reach because he had wanted it to last. Once satisfied with torturing Jensen’s nipples, Jared kissed his way down his pregnant mate’s body, loving the mound that was his pups and proof of their claim on each other.
He kissed and petted the protrusion until Jensen’s drooling cock bumped his chin and suddenly he had become overwhelmed by the smell of his Omega. The intoxicating smell was a combination of the two of them and not just Jared’s scent on Jensen, and it made him lightheaded.
Jared was so overcome by the scent the he didn’t know what he wanted to do first; should he take the leaking cock into his mouth or slide his tongue into that spasming pink hole that was begging just as prettily as Jensen’s mouth.
In the end, he compromised and slid his mouth down Jensen’s length while he filled the begging hole with two large fingers.
As he sucked and pumped, Jensen became a writhing mess and the sounds he made was so beautiful and loud, that Jared would not be surprised if the entire pack had heard them.
Had Jeff heard them?
He hoped so because there was nothing the man could do to make Jared’s Omega respond like that.
“What has you so deep in thought?” Jensen asked as he walked up behind Jared and wrapped his arms around his waist.
He was trying to get closer but his distended belly prevented him, and Jared chuckled at the Omega’s sigh of frustration.
“You,” Jared stated.
Jensen’s harrumph told Jared the smaller man was not buying it, but he did not pressure.
The past few weeks have been hard on the pack. There have been more pack members leaving in the middle of the night and destroying pack belongings. Most members lay in dens or had small homes made of earth and mud to resemble them. When they left, fires were set to these homes and by another pack member as a way of goodbye.
Everyone was on edge because no one knew whom to trust. Danneel’s den had been set on fire because she did not leave when Chris Pine and his mate did. They did not understand why she would want to stay after Jared had killed her mate.
She was the one whose hatred Jared would understand but there was no hate in her. Each time someone left and tried to make her leave as well, they left her homeless, so Jensen offered her refuge in their den until things were settled.
Jared hoped that it was soon because even though Amell challenged him, each time he looked at Amell’s pups he felt guilty.
Today was a hunt day. The hunt was necessary because they were running out of meat for the pack. Most of the wolves did some of their own hunting in the nearby woods for small game such as rabbit and wild turkeys, but the Alphas and sometimes betas took the horses to the plains above the pack lands to do the big game hunting.
Sometimes Jensen would participate but this time he couldn’t. Jared wanted to get this out of the way to make sure his mate was safe for the next month when he would be shifted. He was terrified to leave him, but the pack depended on Jared and he couldn’t let them down even though he wasn’t sure they believed in him any longer.
Each time he greeted them or had to settle a dispute, if the decision was not in their favor, Jared wondered if they would turn on him as Misha and Idris had.
When he made love to his mate last night, he did it with the knowledge that it could be his last time. Jared wanted to leave Jensen with good memories of him in the event that he didn’t make it back.
“Stop worrying, I’ll be okay, Alpha,” Jensen tried to reassure him. “No matter how much you believe me to be, I am not helpless.”
Jared smiled and turned to face his mate, “It’s not you that I doubt, Jensen,” the Alpha told him as he leaned in and kissed his Omega goodbye.
If he could not feel it over the bond, the kiss should have told him that this was not an I’ll see you later goodbye kiss, this was as though it were permanent.
“You know that I don’t feel good about this hunting trip, but it is a necessity. If I don’t come back…”
“No!” Jensen interrupted, “no goodbye speeches. Promise me Jared. Promise me that you’ll come back.”
Jared looked down at Jensen and felt a tightening in his chest at the worry and fear that he saw there. It tightened more because he knew that the only way to take that away was to make a promise he was not sure he could keep.
They both knew that there was danger each time Jared left, but hiding in his den with his Omega was not going to make it disappear. Jared placed his hand on Jensen’s now protruding belly and said, “You know that I can’t promise you that Jen, but I can promise you that I will do everything in my power to return to you. I know you want me to stay and it would be so easy to do, but with the unrest, I can’t risk a total revolt because my pack no longer respected me.”
The beautiful thing about their bond was the ability to feel and share every emotion and the bad thing about their bond was their ability to feel and share every emotion.
His beautiful mate was crying now, and his every emotion flowed through their bond and stabbed Jared in the heart.
Jared removed his hand from his pups and used it to wipe the tears from Jensen’s face.
“I’ve given you the only promise I could, but I now need one from you as well. Shhh,” he quieted as Jensen made to speak. “If you feel our bond sever, leave. Run as fast as you can, Jensen. Take the secret exit and get as close to the entrance of the valley, because Jeff will come for you as soon as I take my last breath. Go to the Whitfield Pack and Charles will take you in.”
Jensen said nothing in response.
“Promise me Jensen!” Jared demanded. “I will always fight to win, but this time the gods may not be on my side. If I am to take my last breath, please let it be with the knowledge that you and the pups are safe.”
“I promise,” Jensen whispered.
The sound of the neighing horses told him that it was time to go. Jared began to walk down the hill before he stopped and said, “If I don’t come back, know that I love you and Chad will find you and give you the rest of my instructions.”
He did not demand a response this time nor did he turn to look at Jensen. He could hear the soft cries and he was afraid that if he turned around he would weaken and give in to the temptation to stay with his mate.
Only after he mounted his horse he did allow himself one last look at Jensen and was pleased when Steve and Chris came and stood beside him. Chris was not yet ready for the rigors of hunting, but he would be good protection for Jensen. They would not protect Jensen as well as Jared would, but he was satisfied that they would try.
Normally the ride to the hunting grounds were loud and boisterous, with each or all of them bragging about who would fell the biggest elk, but not today. Today they were silent and pensive, all knowing that this ride could change their future forever.
Despite the things that were happening in the pack lands and the way people were defecting, Jared had nothing but his gut to tell him that something major was happening today. His gut was never wrong and the feeling made him hyper-vigilant today.
“I can tell that you think something is going to happen, what makes you think that?” Chad asked as his horse pulled up next to the pensive man.
“I’m not sure Chad,” Jared answered honestly,” but since last night I have had this ominous feeling that makes me itch with anticipation. I feel this so strongly that it made me say goodbye to my mate.”
“Jared…” was all Chad could get past his lips.
“I’ve had this conversation with Jensen, and as I promised him, I will do my best, but Chad, one moment of distraction or a miscalculation and it could be over. You are my second Chad, just make sure that everyone sticks to the plan and get to Whitfield’s pack lands. He is a good man and will treat you fairly and more importantly he will protect all who seek refuge.”
“What about Jensen?” Chad asked his voice still shaken.
“Promise me that you will mate him.”
“You’re being a little dramatic, don’t you think?” Chad growled.
“Where you see dramatics, I see practicality. A good Alpha plans for all circumstances and that includes the bad ones as well. Promise me this Chad. You’re the only one I trust… like that with him.”
Chad nodded his head in agreement. The rest of the ride was made in silence, but Jared was content. He had a plan in place and his family would be taken care of. Now if he had to, he could die with honor and in peace.
When they reached the hunting grounds, Jared was surprised at what he found there; a herd of elk and that was all. He spent the entire ride there expecting to be attacked as soon as the horse’s hooves hit the flat ground and he was disappointed.
He threw a wicked grin at Chad, dug his heels into the horses flank, and began the hunt. As Jared chased after the largest elk, he realized that he had not felt this free since he kissed the green-eyed Omega he had been lusting after for the first time.
In the end, they kill four elk, the largest of which was felled by Megalyn. This was only her second hunt and she’s bagging the big game already. The animals were field dressed and placed on the packhorses and they turned to head back down into the valley. Just as they began the trip home, they were suddenly surrounded.
Jeffery Dean Morgan.
“Jared,” he greeted with a smile that read he was greeting a long lost friend rather than the man who over threw him and took all of his prizes. “Is this what you’ve come to, a wolf hunting on a horse? No wonder you couldn’t keep your people, wolves need to run, feel the wind in their faces.”
“Yeah, and people need to eat.”
Jared climbed down from his horse and walked the short distance to face his enemy. Jeff was a big man and an even bigger wolf, but Jared was bigger. He had scared many of his opponents with his size alone. He was dressed in his hunting gear of leather pants and his leather harness that was held together with a metal ‘O’ ring in the center of his chest and he looked formidable.
When there was no one on the hunting grounds when they had first arrived, Jared was worried and relieved. It was the first time that gut feeling had disappointed him, but he was glad because this meant that he could get back to Jensen and avoid this confrontation. Now there was no avoiding it.
“I’m ready to end this, Jeff,” Jared told the older man.
“If you can be civilized and ride horses to hunt I can be civilized as well. You have done me the courtesy of returning one of my daughters to me,” he said as he reached around Idris and pulled Sandy to stand beside him. “Today, I’ve just come for the other, and besides I’ve got you out numbered.”
Jared watched in shock as Jeff pulled Sandy closer with one arm as he reached for Megalyn with the other. The gasps from the people behind him let him know that he was not the only one shocked. Even though they tried to cover it up, some of the people who stood with Jeff were equally as thrown by this revelation.
As he registered their surprise, Jared noticed the people standing with Jeff; most noticeable were Idris, Misha and his mate Matt.
“Where did you think that they were going when they left you?” Jeff smirked as he gestured to Megalyn. “Come on Megalyn, it time to bring you into the fold.”
“They can’t be your- your daughters,” Jared reasoned, “you- you were never mated.”
“For a short time I was Jared, to both Sam and Loretta,” he grinned as he noticed the younger man find her among his people. “The best thing about shaman is that they can break a bond, and they did just for me.”
“Why would you do something so vile,” Jared asked.
“I needed the leverage to have them both on my side. A mother will do anything for her child, isn’t that right Loretta?” he asked the dark-skinned woman. “It wasn’t until Sam was pregnant that I learned that Loretta was the more powerful of the two and she’s the one I really needed. In exchange for letting her keep her brat, she broke our bond and using the same advantage, I let Loretta’s live if she came with me. It’s genius if you think about it.”
Jared stared at the man with anger on his face. He did not understand how he could be so evil and still have these people follow him.
“You still don’t get it do you, Jared?” Jeff laughed. “You don’t know how special Jensen really is. When you have two young and beautiful shamans vying for your attention, they do their best to impress you. Both of these women told me the same thing, a story about and omega that was born into our pack, one with green eyes and freckles that would one day bear the most powerful Alpha and Omega ever. That this pair would be blessed by all of the gods on Olympus and would become gods, now who could pass that up?”
“You didn’t count on me did you?” Jared queried.
“No, you were never part of my plan, but don’t worry, you won’t be a problem for much longer. I know that Jensen is going to have your pups, but don’t worry about that either because anything that Jensen whelps will be mine.”
“Oh, god, you plan to kill Jensen as well don’t you,” Jared realized. “It’s just about the pups.”
“Now you understand. I don’t need a righteous Omega that will instill virtuous qualities in gods that I fully intend to corrupt. By the time they are fully grown I will use their powers to rule all pack lands, not just mine. Don’t worry about what’s left of your pack, because by that time both you and Jensen will be a distant memory.”
Jared was furious with both himself and with the excrement standing in front of him. He could understand wanting Jensen so much that you would wreck heaven and earth to have him, but to want to destroy something so beautiful that it seemed as though Luna had designed herself was incomprehensible.
He himself had been willing to die to protect Jensen, but he needed to live to protect his mate and their family.
He looked at Misha, standing so proudly next to Jeff while Sandy and Loretta seemed to be quaking in their boots.
“Misha,” Jared addressed the blue-eyed man. “You knew. You knew what Jeff wanted and what he was going to do and you still chose to follow him. Why?”
“He was my mates Alpha,” Misha explained. “Everything you do revolves around your mate, well it’s the same for me. I had to follow my mate.”
“You’re an alpha, Misha, but you followed the whims of a pup omega?” Jared asked incredulously. “What about me, Misha? I was your littermate and Alpha why didn’t you convince him to follow me?”
“It doesn’t matter,” Misha shrugged as he moved closer to his young mate and smiled down at him, “look around you Jared, you’ve been chasing your tail trying to find Idris when he’s been right under your nose this entire time. You’re going to die, so in the end I chose right.”
“See Jared, I inspire loyalty even in your friends,” Jeff chided
“Is that why Amell tried to challenge me and whomever the three you sent for Jensen tried to claim him? Is that what you call loyal? It seems to me that you need to check your ranks.”
The momentary slip of Jeff’s smile told him that Jeff was not aware of that information, that there was a crack in Jeff’s ranks he just had to find it.
“Enough!” Jeff demanded as he held out his hand and softened his voice, “Meggie, sweetheart come with me. Come, meet your real mom, and learn who you really are and all of your abilities. You and Sandy can catch up braid each other’s hair. It will be like old times before things became complicated.”
Jared knew that Megalyn had wanted to know about the mother that birthed her but no one would discuss her because she had chosen Jeff over the pack. Even though it still hurt as deeply as Sandy and Misha’s, this is one defection that would not surprise him.
He could fight against Jeff, but there was no weapon in his arsenal that would stop a child from joining her mother perhaps except said mother. Had he not been looking at her, Jared would have missed it. The slight shake both Sandy and Loretta gave the young pup.
Megalyn must have seen it as well, because she stepped back into Ty’s arms, making a choice and an enemy.
“You’re gonna regret that sweetheart,” Jeff promised before turning his attention back to Jared. “Today is not a day for fighting, Jared but trust me it will be soon and unexpected. I know that you have and escape plan for Jensen, but know that I would wrest him from Charles’s bosom as well. Until next time, Jared.”
The wolves that had been surrounding the hunting party broke their ranks and moved to join their brethren. Once in place, Loretta spoke a few words and the entire group disappeared.
“That’s why we haven’t been able to sense them my mo… the shaman has been cloaking them, covering their scent.”
Jared looked at the place where the large group had stood, and there was nothing. His eyes could find no footprints and his nose could pick up no scent, but his mind did process something.
Jeff told him something that he should not know, that Jensen was going to escape was a given, but the fact that he was going to the Whitfield pack, he should not have that information.
He quickly disrobed and shifted. He could make it back to the den faster on his own four legs than his horses.
Jared ran as though Luna had given him wings, and he did not stop until he reached his den, but once inside he knew that he was too late, Jensen was gone.
Author name:
cillab42Genre: J2
Pairing: Jared/Jensen
Rating: R
Word count: 3954
Disclaimer: As far as I know this didn't happen, it's pure fiction.
Warnings: m/m, violence, mpreg
beta:
masja_17Summary: After a spell has been cast on his mate, Jared has to fight Jensen in order to breed him.
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Once again, early morning found Jared on the terrace overlooking the pack grounds. There is a cool nip in the air and the beginning of orange colored leaves on the trees that tell him cooler weather will be here soon. It will probably arrive when the pups do.
He took a deep breath and wondered how long he will get to enjoy mornings like this. Not that he’s enjoying this morning anyway. The Alpha’s thoughts run along the lines that he might not even be on this plane for much longer, not if Jeff has his way.
Jared knew that the former Alpha was somewhere in his pack lands with the help of one of his council members with the goal to dethrone him.
There was no mistake that Jeff wanted nothing less than Jared’s head on a platter and Jensen in his bed. What the man does not know is that Jared will fight harder to keep Jensen than he will for his own life.
Jeff and his steadily growing group have managed to keep themselves hidden by sight and by scent. The latter was throwing everything they knew off balance. How could they hunt what they could not track? He has consulted Sam, but she has nothing to counter the magic that Jeff has somehow found.
He should have killed him when the chance had been presented to him.
“Finish me boy,” Jeff had growled as Jared’s teeth had clamped against the older man’s throat. “Finish me or I promise you that I will have Jensen and it will be my name he calls when he comes. That it will be me that he calls Alpha!”
Jared remembered that moment very clearly. He had been young and tempestuous and the only thing on his mind was saving Jensen. He never thought about becoming pack Alpha until after the adrenaline rush had worn off.
When Jeff had announced to the pack that it was his intention to mate and claim Jensen, his Jensen, he didn’t think he just acted and defeated him. He could not believe that even though he was down, Jeff was still spouting off about claiming his mate.
Jared let his youthful need for revenge sway him into letting Jeff live. He could not taunt the other man if he was dead.
A week later, he wished that he had killed the other man. Challengers from both outside and inside the pack sprang forth daily because they thought him weak for letting Jeff live. No challenger since had had his or her life spared.
Now his only worry was his mate and he was ready for anyone who threatened him because if Jared lost, there was no doubt that Jensen would be claimed, and his pups killed. No Alpha wanted the offspring of their former rival coming back to claim their fathers spot. It did not matter if they were alpha, beta or omega they were dead.
As a gift from Luna to those life bearers who bore the lycanthrope gene, gestation was only three months, a month longer that a true wolf with the last month spent in wolf form. It is really a short time, but even shorter when an enemy has entered your home at the invitation of a family member who knew all of the best places to hide.
Almost two months have passed since the day Amell challenged him, two months he should have been enjoying the changes in his beautiful Omega’s body.
That thought alone brought a smile to his face. Even though there was a serious threat to his household did not mean that he did not get to indulge when the chance presented itself. Like last night.
His mouth salivated as he remembered feasting on nipples so sensitive that the first touch of his tongue made Jensen’s hard cock drip precome. Jared closed his eyes and he could hear the soft moaning in his ears and Jensen begging for more.
“Pleeease, Alpha,” the Omega had begged and he canted his hips trying to get some kind of friction to ease the ache that Jared had created.
Jared had kept his body slightly out of reach because he had wanted it to last. Once satisfied with torturing Jensen’s nipples, Jared kissed his way down his pregnant mate’s body, loving the mound that was his pups and proof of their claim on each other.
He kissed and petted the protrusion until Jensen’s drooling cock bumped his chin and suddenly he had become overwhelmed by the smell of his Omega. The intoxicating smell was a combination of the two of them and not just Jared’s scent on Jensen, and it made him lightheaded.
Jared was so overcome by the scent the he didn’t know what he wanted to do first; should he take the leaking cock into his mouth or slide his tongue into that spasming pink hole that was begging just as prettily as Jensen’s mouth.
In the end, he compromised and slid his mouth down Jensen’s length while he filled the begging hole with two large fingers.
As he sucked and pumped, Jensen became a writhing mess and the sounds he made was so beautiful and loud, that Jared would not be surprised if the entire pack had heard them.
Had Jeff heard them?
He hoped so because there was nothing the man could do to make Jared’s Omega respond like that.
“What has you so deep in thought?” Jensen asked as he walked up behind Jared and wrapped his arms around his waist.
He was trying to get closer but his distended belly prevented him, and Jared chuckled at the Omega’s sigh of frustration.
“You,” Jared stated.
Jensen’s harrumph told Jared the smaller man was not buying it, but he did not pressure.
The past few weeks have been hard on the pack. There have been more pack members leaving in the middle of the night and destroying pack belongings. Most members lay in dens or had small homes made of earth and mud to resemble them. When they left, fires were set to these homes and by another pack member as a way of goodbye.
Everyone was on edge because no one knew whom to trust. Danneel’s den had been set on fire because she did not leave when Chris Pine and his mate did. They did not understand why she would want to stay after Jared had killed her mate.
She was the one whose hatred Jared would understand but there was no hate in her. Each time someone left and tried to make her leave as well, they left her homeless, so Jensen offered her refuge in their den until things were settled.
Jared hoped that it was soon because even though Amell challenged him, each time he looked at Amell’s pups he felt guilty.
Today was a hunt day. The hunt was necessary because they were running out of meat for the pack. Most of the wolves did some of their own hunting in the nearby woods for small game such as rabbit and wild turkeys, but the Alphas and sometimes betas took the horses to the plains above the pack lands to do the big game hunting.
Sometimes Jensen would participate but this time he couldn’t. Jared wanted to get this out of the way to make sure his mate was safe for the next month when he would be shifted. He was terrified to leave him, but the pack depended on Jared and he couldn’t let them down even though he wasn’t sure they believed in him any longer.
Each time he greeted them or had to settle a dispute, if the decision was not in their favor, Jared wondered if they would turn on him as Misha and Idris had.
When he made love to his mate last night, he did it with the knowledge that it could be his last time. Jared wanted to leave Jensen with good memories of him in the event that he didn’t make it back.
“Stop worrying, I’ll be okay, Alpha,” Jensen tried to reassure him. “No matter how much you believe me to be, I am not helpless.”
Jared smiled and turned to face his mate, “It’s not you that I doubt, Jensen,” the Alpha told him as he leaned in and kissed his Omega goodbye.
If he could not feel it over the bond, the kiss should have told him that this was not an I’ll see you later goodbye kiss, this was as though it were permanent.
“You know that I don’t feel good about this hunting trip, but it is a necessity. If I don’t come back…”
“No!” Jensen interrupted, “no goodbye speeches. Promise me Jared. Promise me that you’ll come back.”
Jared looked down at Jensen and felt a tightening in his chest at the worry and fear that he saw there. It tightened more because he knew that the only way to take that away was to make a promise he was not sure he could keep.
They both knew that there was danger each time Jared left, but hiding in his den with his Omega was not going to make it disappear. Jared placed his hand on Jensen’s now protruding belly and said, “You know that I can’t promise you that Jen, but I can promise you that I will do everything in my power to return to you. I know you want me to stay and it would be so easy to do, but with the unrest, I can’t risk a total revolt because my pack no longer respected me.”
The beautiful thing about their bond was the ability to feel and share every emotion and the bad thing about their bond was their ability to feel and share every emotion.
His beautiful mate was crying now, and his every emotion flowed through their bond and stabbed Jared in the heart.
Jared removed his hand from his pups and used it to wipe the tears from Jensen’s face.
“I’ve given you the only promise I could, but I now need one from you as well. Shhh,” he quieted as Jensen made to speak. “If you feel our bond sever, leave. Run as fast as you can, Jensen. Take the secret exit and get as close to the entrance of the valley, because Jeff will come for you as soon as I take my last breath. Go to the Whitfield Pack and Charles will take you in.”
Jensen said nothing in response.
“Promise me Jensen!” Jared demanded. “I will always fight to win, but this time the gods may not be on my side. If I am to take my last breath, please let it be with the knowledge that you and the pups are safe.”
“I promise,” Jensen whispered.
The sound of the neighing horses told him that it was time to go. Jared began to walk down the hill before he stopped and said, “If I don’t come back, know that I love you and Chad will find you and give you the rest of my instructions.”
He did not demand a response this time nor did he turn to look at Jensen. He could hear the soft cries and he was afraid that if he turned around he would weaken and give in to the temptation to stay with his mate.
Only after he mounted his horse he did allow himself one last look at Jensen and was pleased when Steve and Chris came and stood beside him. Chris was not yet ready for the rigors of hunting, but he would be good protection for Jensen. They would not protect Jensen as well as Jared would, but he was satisfied that they would try.
Normally the ride to the hunting grounds were loud and boisterous, with each or all of them bragging about who would fell the biggest elk, but not today. Today they were silent and pensive, all knowing that this ride could change their future forever.
Despite the things that were happening in the pack lands and the way people were defecting, Jared had nothing but his gut to tell him that something major was happening today. His gut was never wrong and the feeling made him hyper-vigilant today.
“I can tell that you think something is going to happen, what makes you think that?” Chad asked as his horse pulled up next to the pensive man.
“I’m not sure Chad,” Jared answered honestly,” but since last night I have had this ominous feeling that makes me itch with anticipation. I feel this so strongly that it made me say goodbye to my mate.”
“Jared…” was all Chad could get past his lips.
“I’ve had this conversation with Jensen, and as I promised him, I will do my best, but Chad, one moment of distraction or a miscalculation and it could be over. You are my second Chad, just make sure that everyone sticks to the plan and get to Whitfield’s pack lands. He is a good man and will treat you fairly and more importantly he will protect all who seek refuge.”
“What about Jensen?” Chad asked his voice still shaken.
“Promise me that you will mate him.”
“You’re being a little dramatic, don’t you think?” Chad growled.
“Where you see dramatics, I see practicality. A good Alpha plans for all circumstances and that includes the bad ones as well. Promise me this Chad. You’re the only one I trust… like that with him.”
Chad nodded his head in agreement. The rest of the ride was made in silence, but Jared was content. He had a plan in place and his family would be taken care of. Now if he had to, he could die with honor and in peace.
When they reached the hunting grounds, Jared was surprised at what he found there; a herd of elk and that was all. He spent the entire ride there expecting to be attacked as soon as the horse’s hooves hit the flat ground and he was disappointed.
He threw a wicked grin at Chad, dug his heels into the horses flank, and began the hunt. As Jared chased after the largest elk, he realized that he had not felt this free since he kissed the green-eyed Omega he had been lusting after for the first time.
In the end, they kill four elk, the largest of which was felled by Megalyn. This was only her second hunt and she’s bagging the big game already. The animals were field dressed and placed on the packhorses and they turned to head back down into the valley. Just as they began the trip home, they were suddenly surrounded.
Jeffery Dean Morgan.
“Jared,” he greeted with a smile that read he was greeting a long lost friend rather than the man who over threw him and took all of his prizes. “Is this what you’ve come to, a wolf hunting on a horse? No wonder you couldn’t keep your people, wolves need to run, feel the wind in their faces.”
“Yeah, and people need to eat.”
Jared climbed down from his horse and walked the short distance to face his enemy. Jeff was a big man and an even bigger wolf, but Jared was bigger. He had scared many of his opponents with his size alone. He was dressed in his hunting gear of leather pants and his leather harness that was held together with a metal ‘O’ ring in the center of his chest and he looked formidable.
When there was no one on the hunting grounds when they had first arrived, Jared was worried and relieved. It was the first time that gut feeling had disappointed him, but he was glad because this meant that he could get back to Jensen and avoid this confrontation. Now there was no avoiding it.
“I’m ready to end this, Jeff,” Jared told the older man.
“If you can be civilized and ride horses to hunt I can be civilized as well. You have done me the courtesy of returning one of my daughters to me,” he said as he reached around Idris and pulled Sandy to stand beside him. “Today, I’ve just come for the other, and besides I’ve got you out numbered.”
Jared watched in shock as Jeff pulled Sandy closer with one arm as he reached for Megalyn with the other. The gasps from the people behind him let him know that he was not the only one shocked. Even though they tried to cover it up, some of the people who stood with Jeff were equally as thrown by this revelation.
As he registered their surprise, Jared noticed the people standing with Jeff; most noticeable were Idris, Misha and his mate Matt.
“Where did you think that they were going when they left you?” Jeff smirked as he gestured to Megalyn. “Come on Megalyn, it time to bring you into the fold.”
“They can’t be your- your daughters,” Jared reasoned, “you- you were never mated.”
“For a short time I was Jared, to both Sam and Loretta,” he grinned as he noticed the younger man find her among his people. “The best thing about shaman is that they can break a bond, and they did just for me.”
“Why would you do something so vile,” Jared asked.
“I needed the leverage to have them both on my side. A mother will do anything for her child, isn’t that right Loretta?” he asked the dark-skinned woman. “It wasn’t until Sam was pregnant that I learned that Loretta was the more powerful of the two and she’s the one I really needed. In exchange for letting her keep her brat, she broke our bond and using the same advantage, I let Loretta’s live if she came with me. It’s genius if you think about it.”
Jared stared at the man with anger on his face. He did not understand how he could be so evil and still have these people follow him.
“You still don’t get it do you, Jared?” Jeff laughed. “You don’t know how special Jensen really is. When you have two young and beautiful shamans vying for your attention, they do their best to impress you. Both of these women told me the same thing, a story about and omega that was born into our pack, one with green eyes and freckles that would one day bear the most powerful Alpha and Omega ever. That this pair would be blessed by all of the gods on Olympus and would become gods, now who could pass that up?”
“You didn’t count on me did you?” Jared queried.
“No, you were never part of my plan, but don’t worry, you won’t be a problem for much longer. I know that Jensen is going to have your pups, but don’t worry about that either because anything that Jensen whelps will be mine.”
“Oh, god, you plan to kill Jensen as well don’t you,” Jared realized. “It’s just about the pups.”
“Now you understand. I don’t need a righteous Omega that will instill virtuous qualities in gods that I fully intend to corrupt. By the time they are fully grown I will use their powers to rule all pack lands, not just mine. Don’t worry about what’s left of your pack, because by that time both you and Jensen will be a distant memory.”
Jared was furious with both himself and with the excrement standing in front of him. He could understand wanting Jensen so much that you would wreck heaven and earth to have him, but to want to destroy something so beautiful that it seemed as though Luna had designed herself was incomprehensible.
He himself had been willing to die to protect Jensen, but he needed to live to protect his mate and their family.
He looked at Misha, standing so proudly next to Jeff while Sandy and Loretta seemed to be quaking in their boots.
“Misha,” Jared addressed the blue-eyed man. “You knew. You knew what Jeff wanted and what he was going to do and you still chose to follow him. Why?”
“He was my mates Alpha,” Misha explained. “Everything you do revolves around your mate, well it’s the same for me. I had to follow my mate.”
“You’re an alpha, Misha, but you followed the whims of a pup omega?” Jared asked incredulously. “What about me, Misha? I was your littermate and Alpha why didn’t you convince him to follow me?”
“It doesn’t matter,” Misha shrugged as he moved closer to his young mate and smiled down at him, “look around you Jared, you’ve been chasing your tail trying to find Idris when he’s been right under your nose this entire time. You’re going to die, so in the end I chose right.”
“See Jared, I inspire loyalty even in your friends,” Jeff chided
“Is that why Amell tried to challenge me and whomever the three you sent for Jensen tried to claim him? Is that what you call loyal? It seems to me that you need to check your ranks.”
The momentary slip of Jeff’s smile told him that Jeff was not aware of that information, that there was a crack in Jeff’s ranks he just had to find it.
“Enough!” Jeff demanded as he held out his hand and softened his voice, “Meggie, sweetheart come with me. Come, meet your real mom, and learn who you really are and all of your abilities. You and Sandy can catch up braid each other’s hair. It will be like old times before things became complicated.”
Jared knew that Megalyn had wanted to know about the mother that birthed her but no one would discuss her because she had chosen Jeff over the pack. Even though it still hurt as deeply as Sandy and Misha’s, this is one defection that would not surprise him.
He could fight against Jeff, but there was no weapon in his arsenal that would stop a child from joining her mother perhaps except said mother. Had he not been looking at her, Jared would have missed it. The slight shake both Sandy and Loretta gave the young pup.
Megalyn must have seen it as well, because she stepped back into Ty’s arms, making a choice and an enemy.
“You’re gonna regret that sweetheart,” Jeff promised before turning his attention back to Jared. “Today is not a day for fighting, Jared but trust me it will be soon and unexpected. I know that you have and escape plan for Jensen, but know that I would wrest him from Charles’s bosom as well. Until next time, Jared.”
The wolves that had been surrounding the hunting party broke their ranks and moved to join their brethren. Once in place, Loretta spoke a few words and the entire group disappeared.
“That’s why we haven’t been able to sense them my mo… the shaman has been cloaking them, covering their scent.”
Jared looked at the place where the large group had stood, and there was nothing. His eyes could find no footprints and his nose could pick up no scent, but his mind did process something.
Jeff told him something that he should not know, that Jensen was going to escape was a given, but the fact that he was going to the Whitfield pack, he should not have that information.
He quickly disrobed and shifted. He could make it back to the den faster on his own four legs than his horses.
Jared ran as though Luna had given him wings, and he did not stop until he reached his den, but once inside he knew that he was too late, Jensen was gone.
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