Chapter 87

Oliver’s POV

Walking down the stairs, I could feel the shift in the air. Something was off, I wasn't sure if it was because I was calm, but I didn’t like it.

“Alpha Oliver Stone at least we meet again.” a dark voice growled.

I turned to face the voice, it was none other than Alpha Drake, I hated him. He was the reason I never wanted a mate, everyone I thought was my mate would mark and destroy any connection to her, and I still wanted to see him dead. I wanted to be the one to wrap my claws around his neck and tear his head off.

“You!” I growled my claws were coming out, and Micah put his hand on my shoulder as a distraction but it wasn't working the way he wanted. “I told you if you stepped on my pack lands again I would kill you.” I snapped.

He laughed, “And I told you, when you want to challenge for pack lands I would be open, but it would be to the death.” he smirked. “I didn’t come to start anything, when your brother Micah sent word about the Lycans being in our world and taking our women, I knew I had to come. They cannot take our women,” he said looking at Micah. “But she is Lycan why should we help?”

“Can you save these questions for when the other Alpha’s are here, I don’t want to repeat my answers?” I snapped. I knew he was just pushing for answers so he could try and make me look like a fool in front of everyone else. I still had my claws out.

“Can you put your wolf away, I don’t want to fight you, at least not right now,” he smirked. “When will this meeting take place, I did tell my pack I would only be gone for the day?”

“Soon,” Micah said before I could. “Why don’t you take a run with your wolves, I will have one of the Omega’s show you where you can shower.”

“I’ve already been on my run, I just want to get this over with,” he said looking back at me. “Seeing that Oliver is still as unstable as he has been, I could already tell how this is going to go and I am not sure he’s going to live to see his mate, so I’ll be here as her comfort.” he smiled again before leaving me standing there.

“Come, Oliver, we need to sit down and talk,” Micah said nudging me to get my attention away from the vacant space.

I couldn’t believe he was here, I didn’t tell Micah who not to call, but he knew about our bad blood. I wasn't going to let him take Soma away from me, no one in this world would do that, and if they tried I would make sure they died. I was getting angry again but knew getting something in my stomach and with Micah and his annoying jokes would help too.

“Yeah, I guess,” I said as the claws in my fingers finally disappeared.

We walked to the kitchen, Micah had mind-linked the girls to prepare some lunch for us. We would give the Alpha’s food while they waited for this meeting, I wanted to get it over and done with so I could see who is on my side and who I could call an enemy. Anyone that backed away from me today isn't going to have my blessings anymore and they would have to learn to defend themselves when the vampires wanted to attack.

“Here you are Alpha,” Anna said smiling asset the plate of food in front of me. It smelled great and I was starving. I knew taking Drew outside would make me hungry, after this, we would go and meet with the Alphas and start to plan our attack.

Looking down at the plate of food, she made my favorite, pasta with shells and garlic bread. My stomach whined for me to take the first bite, Micah sat there watching me staring at the food.

“Are you going to eat it, or are you going to pretend like you’re fucking it?” he laughed taking his first bite.

“Shut up.” I snapped, I just wanted to enjoy it for a minute before it was gone. You know me I’ll eat it in one bite.” I said picking up the fork and taking the first bite. I closed my eyes and enjoyed the taste, I couldn’t believe food did this to me, it was an amazing feeling. I was already feeling better and confident about my upcoming meeting, it would go the way I wanted and everyone would want to help without issues, even Alpha Drake. I knew I would have to watch him close with my mate, but she would choose me over him.

“So how are you going to approach this?” Micah asked while we ate. “I mean you cannot tell them she is Lycan right away even though I have a feeling some of them already know about her and they are still here to help.”

“I am going to be straight to the point with things, I don’t need a long meeting. Either they are going to help us or they are not. I don’t have time to mess around, we need to go to the Council first, and then we will see how they react when I tell them I am taking London by force.”

“I don’t know if you want to go to the Council like that, but continue, you are always reckless when it comes to things like this. You might even get her killed.” he snapped.

“Why are you so fucking negative?” I growled, now I was getting upset and it was Micah that was able to push my buttons, and that wasn't a good thing.

“I am just trying to get you to see that you cannot go like that. You have to approach the Council carefully otherwise they are going to give King Gideon the heads up and we’re not going to go far when it comes to attacking.”

“You think they are going to tell him we’re coming for my mate?” I questioned. I knew the answer was yes, but I didn’t want to accept it. I knew my friend in the Council had to side with his peers but he could at least help maybe. I needed to speak with him without the other Council there, but I knew that wasn't likely.

“Yeah of course because you are going to cause a war and you know how the Council hates wars,” he said shaking his head.

“And here I was thinking they wanted us to wipe each other out. They’ve always talked down to us, so why don’t we give them what they want.” I snapped.

“Because they are going to win and someone or a lot of someone are going to be the losing people. We are already low on numbers, and here you don’t even care. We have to be careful with this Oliver and you know that. Even though you are plagued by anger and demons, you know in your heart we don’t want a war.”

“Fine,” I growled. “We don’t want a war, and I lost my mate so why don’t I just fucking kill myself and you can become a peaceful Alpha that will get an attack. Please tell me what would you do if the vampires came here and started killing our pack, would you feel scared about war because you’ve killed a few of those damn demons?” I slammed my hand on the table. “Come on Micah you know just as well as I do we have to do this, otherwise the Lycan King could come and take our women and call them Lycan’s, and the damn Council will stand down like they always do.”

“You know he has a point.” a voice spoke from the shadows.

“Alpha Drake, why are you here?” Micah said standing up, he stood in between us. “You should have food provided for you.”

“Well,” he said walking the rest of the way into the kitchen. “With Olive’s voice, you might as well tell the Lycan’s we’re coming. He has some work ahead of him otherwise he’s going to lose his mate.”

I growled standing up, my claws out again. I knew I was losing control, I closed my eyes and thought about Soma it slowly calmed me down.

“Again I ask why are you here?” Micah pressed the issue.

“As I said we’ve all heard him yelling, so I wanted to come in here and tell you what I think of your plan. One of two things, the Council isn't going to help, and they will betray you,” he said looking at me. “And two we should kill the Council and then attack the Lycans, get your mate, and call on someone else to take on their King. We should put them in their place when they are weak.”

“He has a point,” I said finally opening my eyes. “I guess we should go and speak with the rest of the Alpha’s, even if all of them are not here. They need to know what we’re getting ourselves into and hope we make it out alive.”

“Well make it out alive.” Alpha Drake said moving out of the way so I could go through the door. I was glad he wasn’t being his natural dick self.