Prologue
The day was like any other day where clear blue skies and sunshine made you want to come outside and enjoy the fresh air. Beautiful some may call it, but for the Silvercrest Pack, it was haunting.
Alpha King Loren and his Luna Tessa had just recently announced to their kingdom that they were expecting their first baby.
Everyone in the pack was excited to finally hear the good news, as this meant they could start expanding their families as well. While most werewolves had children at any given rate, in the Silvercrest Pack it was a sign of respect to hold off on mating until the Luna conceived. If she did, It was a sign from the Old One that he had blessed their pack and those in leadership.
However, all good things came to an end when the Rogues attacked. Their leader was Byron, who was once in line for the crown of Werewolf king. There was even a time when he was betrothed to the current queen. All that was put to a stop when the council chose Alpha Loren over Byron because he was stronger and less rash when it came to deciding the fate of all werewolves.
As time went on, Byron was stripped of titles and made rogue due to the Jealousy over Alpha King Loren, and since he had no pack to belong to he began to lose his mind. Over time he started rounding up the other rogues and started to create his own pack and called himself the rogue king. He took a mate and together they put terror into the world.
After the announcement of the King and Queen's pregnancy, Alpha King Loren knew he needed to do something about the rogue problem so he could keep his family and pack safe. So he put together a task force, the very best he could ask for. His top ten warriors all volunteered to take out the rogues that threatened his kingdom, with his brother Aaron leading the group.
Aaron and the task force were very successful when it came to wiping out the rogues. One by one they start to fall and before you knew it, they had enough information to take on the rogue king.
So they planned an attack to take out Byron. Little did they know that the information they received was a trap. Byron was expecting them and as soon as they arrived Aaron and the task force were met with a flurry of attacks by the rogue wolves. But that didn't stop them. Again Aaron and his men held their ground and fought back and soon they found themselves at the enemy's door.
As Aaron searched for the rogue king, the others on the task force Searched for his mate. The moment Byron saw that his trap failed he fled so he was never captured, however his mate Jane was. Since there was no sign of Byron, Aaron and the men took their prisoner back home to publicly execute her.
Loren was so proud to see how well his brother Aaron was doing that he bestowed him the opportunity to personally execute the rogue queen himself. Aaron, not knowing the chain of events this would cause gladly accepted and soon the world was rid of one more rogue wolf.
Byron felt the moment his mate's life force faded. The mad wolf became deranged and the next thing you knew he did the most haunting thing the wolves never could imagine. He came into the pack-lands on that clear sunny day and took his revenge. Starting with the man who took his mate, Byron dug his claws into his torso and released a silver toxin into his bloodstream. Doing such an act would ruin any chance for him to be one with his wolf. Aaron would never be able to transform again.
Once Byron was done with him he set his path toward the king. Loren may have done nothing wrong towards him intentionally but he did take everything from him. First his kingdom, then his woman, and now his mate is dead because of his werewolf strike force. He had nothing left thanks to him so he was going to take everything he held dear from him. Byron made his way through the castle and found what he was looking for. Tessa was fast asleep in her bed, napping while her mate was away on business she knew not of. Byron crept close to her as he stared down at her sleeping body thinking to himself how sorry he was that it had to come down to this, as Tessa still held a special place in his heart. He thought of how to go about what he needed to do and the only way he could go through with it was to show mercy to her.
He killed her in her sleep by ripping her heart out. He waited a few seconds as he listened for the heartbeat of the unborn child in her womb to die out.
When he was content with all he had done he silently left the pack-lands undetected and waited for King Loren to discover what he had done. The looming howl in the night made him smile. His work was finished for now as Loren's kingdom would decline. All he had to do now was wait.
When Aaron woke up after the attack on his body he couldn't live knowing he had failed his brother. Now that he couldn't shift he decided that his presence in the kingdom was unneeded. He left without saying goodbye taking an arsenal with him to live out his days to hunt down the one who ruined it all.
