“I do.” I stared at the man down. “It’s like a soft little tickle on my toes.” I took a step as he stumbled away. “But I will tell you the same thing I told a girl earlier. If you touch me again without my permission, I’ll kill you.” I let my eyes flash and fangs descend. Losing a slight grip on my control.
Gamma Charles walked over to me. “That’s enough, young lady.” I felt his command wash over me like a gentle river on my calves. “Sit down while I call the dean.” He turned and walked back to his desk, but I wasn’t done.
“Or what?” I put my fist under my chin as he whirled on me.
“My command…”
“As gentle as a babbling brook.” I smiled with my fangs and the unranked wolves turned away. Caleb got to his feet, determination and arrogance on his face. I slowly turned to facehim and tsked. “And here I thought we were going to be friends, Caleb.”
“Oh, we still can be.” He smiled at me. “Or more.” He waggled his eyebrows at me and cracked open his power. “Now be a good girl and sit.”
I gagged and leaned my face on my hand. “No, thank you.” His brows furrowed as I spun in a circle. “I think I’d rather stand.” I turned back to Charles. “Now that I have withstood everyone’s command here, can we just get back to class? We are here to learn math, are we not?”
“I said sit.” Caleb’s power pushed harder on my body, but it was still so weak.
I turned to face him and growled. “I said no.” I watched as everyone else in the room slowly sank into their chairs, his command becoming too strong for anyone else in the room to withstand.
“I think that’s enough.” Gamma Charles called out, but Caleb, well, his ego was hurt. “Caleb, stop.” He called out as the unranked wolves hit the ground, laying flat. His command was started to hurt the less powerful wolves and there were a few whimpers. But still he pushed his power.
If you don’t step in, he will hurt them.Nix called out.
“Caleb, please.” All the Gammas had hit the ground.
“Enough.” I slammed my power out, dropping Caleb to the ground.
I looked over the room and every one of these men on their bellies. “What the fuck?” I heard a whisper, but I growled. These fucking men pushed me to the point of losing my control. Now they had to deal with the repercussions.
“Alpha Amy…” Gamma Charles started, but I turned on him and stomped to the front. I wasn’t even using all of my power. And I was making sure they weren’t in any pain, but I was almost past caring.
“Gamma Charles, I’m going to need you to be quiet for a minute. Please and thank you.” I pulled back my power enough that everyone could sit back on their heels. “Now.” I turned to face the class like I was the teacher. I leaned against the table and clenched my fists. “I was trying to be nice, but you pushed it too far.”
One guy stammered out an apology. “Please forgive us.”
But I just shook my head. “We are past that now, Greg.” I finally turned to Caleb, who was glaring at me. “Have something to say, Caleb?”
“No.” He bit out. I could see his ego was hurt. I was trying to avoid this, but could they let it go? No. Now it was their reckoning.
I felt Nix step closer to the surface, eyes shifting. “No, what?” Caleb tried to fight my power. He tried his best to hold it back, but I just looked at my nails. “You know what? I really wanted to avoid this, but I should have figured I would have to do this.”
“Do what?” Gamma Charles hesitantly asked, and I cut my eyes to his.
“What happens when an Alpha comes into a new pack, Charles?”
He furrowed his brows. “Nothing…”
I turned to face the rest of the class. “Does anyone know what an Alpha wolf does when he encounters a new pack that he wishes to integrate into?”
The smallest guy there, a weak wolf named Steven, called out. “They fight.”
“Right.” I spun towards the board. “A natural wolf will establish their dominance by attacking the standing Alpha. In our structure, they will either fight, try to command the other, or just release all of their power and see if anyone can withstand it.” I turned back to face everyone. “Like what you all tried to do with me?”
“I’m sorry.” Gamma Charles started. “I just didn’t think you were an Alpha.”
They insulted us.Nix snarled.
“And I would normally let this go, but I just started shifting and my wolf is nearly rabid with it. Keeping her at bay is a full-time job and if you would’ve just taken our word, we would have forgiven the insult.” I opened my hands and raised my brows. “But you hammered home that you think us weak. That you were better than us. In my father’s pack, the ranked wolves treat everyone with respect. But none of you showed your unranked members in this class with anything but thinly veiled contempt. Fuck,” I pointed at Steven. “When he got up, some of you snickered. One even threw a piece of paper at him and you did nothing, Charles. Why is that?”
“You think you are better than us?” Caleb’s voice was cold, low, calculating.
