𝐓𝐰𝐢𝐬𝐭𝐞𝐝 𝐅𝐚𝐭𝐞 ⸙

1.57𓆩ᥫ᭡𓆪

At once, everyone glanced at each other with a swell of gasps bouncing through the room.

"Dead?" Zayn asked, stepping forwards and pushing Niall towards Liam in the process. Zayn never touched anyone unless he punched them, or they were Liam, or he really liked their company, which was rare.

Niall got the message and slowly backed away until he was next to Liam by the window.

"Yes. Alpha's orders." The Beta's lopsided smile still pointed to Liam cowering in the back. If he was just after a human, he would be looking at Harry too, but Liam was the easy catch, and the catch with the biggest prize.

"Junes ordered you to kill him?" Zayn asked, counting how many wolves were behind the Beta. Only ten stood in their human form, but he sensed wolf forms too.

"No. My Alpha requested it. The one sitting in your home right now. The Beta wolf was nothing short of arrogant. right now."

Zayn growled lowly. "Fucking southern wolves," he muttered. "So you were never Junes' Beta?"

"No, just how Jaden was never your father's Beta, and how the Shadow Pack's Beta was never Thea's  Beta, and many more in packs all across the North."

Zayn felt Louis' eyes burning the side of his face. The Southern wolves plan was deeper than Zayn thought.

"You've planted Betas in packs in the North? What the fuck for?"

"For this moment. As we speak, Beta's across the North are turning on their Alpha's. Soon, we'll have the whole North in our hands."

Zayn eyed his mother, surrounded by his Omega's, in a protective circle. Baela was right next to Zayn, ready to defend him when the moment comes.

"Well that's a shit plan." Zayn stood tall and took a step towards the Beta whose confidence wavered. " Do you really think the rest of the packs will fall under a traitor Beta's commands?The North will never surrender to this. Do you understand?" Zayn's eyes were on the brink of pulsing red.

"Beta's are next in command. The packs have to listen to us."

"No they don't. If Jaiden killed me, my Delta would have done everything to get the pack under his control. Nobody would side with a Beta from the South." Zayn made eye contact with Niall, and he nodded to assure Zayn that if anything happened to him and Baela,  he would die protecting the pack too."So you killed Junes while the rest of the pack were sleeping. And who are they behind you, wolves that are on your side, or worried to avenge Junes because of what's yet to come?"

The werewolves behind the Beta were older, mostly in their fifties, but they were fit and experienced fighters.

As Zayn stared at them, they avoided his eyes. They were scared.

The Beta checked his watch and grinned again. "It's time to put that anger of yours to good use. I hope you've all had your breakfast this morning." The Beta stepped into the room, and Zayn held his head higher.

"I killed Jaiden, easily. What's stopping all the other Alpha's from killing your traitor Beta's too?" Zayn asked.

"Jaiden was weak from being away from our Alpha."

"No, Jaiden was just weak, and so is your Alpha now that he's lost his wolf."

The Beta wolf didn't like that. His eyes pulsed unnatural green, illuminating brightly under the dull lights. Claws protruded from his fingers.

"It's pathetic of you to take pride in killing an old man. Junes trusted you." Zayn's eyes were pulsing red. Again, he had no time to turn into his wolf, but he could hear the cracking of bones behind him as his own pack transformed to protect him.