Free Beta’s Challenge by Mildred Trent and Sandra Mitchell

views my mandates as ultimate law. If the pack still refuses to cooperate, things will never change and I fear the pack will die out. Why did things have to come to this?” Mikal stated to Vonn.
    “Alpha, I feel this will show the pack that Gabriel was wrong in his actions and will prove that your mandates are justified,” Vonn stated.
    “I truly hope so, Vonn. I would never admit this to anyone other than you, but having to do to Gabriel what was done ripped out a piece of my heart. We were friends for so long, I never would have imagined we would not be,” Mikal confessed and sighed as the door of his office was flung open with enough force to crack the plaster and become stuck in the wall. It would seem that his beautiful Sasha was finally awake, and highly pissed off.
    Sasha stormed into the room with volcanic fire in her eyes, her gaze locked on Mikal. Seeing the murder in her eyes, Vonn moved to intercept her. Flashing her fangs at the Beta wolf, Sasha continued her forward charge. “Touch me a die, you pathetic lap dog,” Sasha snarled as Vonn stepped in her path and reached to halt her progression.
    Speaking with venom, she asked, “I take it since I am no longer bound to the bed, I am free to go?”
    Mikal motioned for Vonn to leave them. Vonn nodded slightly then turned and headed for the door. Once the door closed, Mikal, still feeling the pain deep within his soul, said, “Yes, Sasha. You are free to leave.” He sat forward in his chair, a stern look on his face. “You now carry my young. You have served your purpose. I do not wish to keep you against your will any longer. But before you go, know this. Sasha, if you so much as think of doing anything that will cause harm to my young or yourself while you carry them, I will kill you. You may never love me again, but you will not deny me my lineage.”
    Sasha, still standing at the door, looked back at Mikal with the same stern look he had displayed on her. “I carry these young for the man I once knew, not the pathetic coward that sits before me right now. You think that you are a leader, Mikal? Don’t make me fucking laugh!”
    Now just as angry as she, Mikal surged to his feet in a fit of rage that made his canine teeth burst forth. “I am the Alpha of this pack and YOU WILL OBEY ME !” he roared, leaning on to his desk. His heavily muscled chest heaved as his rage at having her so openly mock him reach as flash point.
    “There is NOTHING within you that is a leader, Mikal! True Alphas put the good of their pack over their own selfish desires! True Alphas don’t rape and beat women ! You are a monster , and I regret the day I ever laid eyes on you. Yes, these pups may have been sired by you but I will burn in hell before I ever allow you anywhere near them and that is my vow to you.” With that, she turned and walked out the door without a backward glance.
    Sighing again, Mikal sat back in his chair. “Why can’t you love me again the way you once did, Sasha?”

    Ring. Ring. Ring.
    “This better be good. I was having the most erotic dream and was just about to get some,” Tomas said, mad as hell for the interruption.
    “Tomas, I really need to talk. Mikal has lost his mind,” the voice said on the other end of the line.
    “Sasha?” Tomas, now sitting straight up in bed, swung his legs to the side and jumped up like the hounds of hell were on his tail. “What’s happened, Sasha?”
    “I need to get away from here,” Sasha began, every other word coming out a gasping hiccup. “Things have gotten so bad since you three left. Gabriel did have some sway over Mikal but since Gabriel is no longer here, the other males of the pack are too afraid of Mikal to even speak up. The females are being beaten and raped on a daily basis.” Sasha paused for a moment.  “I carry Mikal’s young and it’s only because he tied me to his bed and took me over and over until I became pregnant. It‘s so bad, the males will take the females in human or