be starting to learn both the enforcer job and what I do today, as well as the rules we follow, but it makes sense to me. Especially if you think you can handle working for me in the pack, while leading me in our family. You are the only other alpha in Chicago.”
I thought about that for a minute. I’d thought I’d be an enforcer under one of the team leads. Power or not to have dominance over them, I had no real experience outside of defending my life a few times when all this craziness started. On the other hand, I could be guided by them in advice and then make the tough calls once I had all the information. I could also go out with all the different teams.
I also didn’t think they’d have a problem with it either. Even shifters that powerful naturally submitted to those with more power, as long as there was respect and common purpose there. Given I’d been taught in the last three weeks, and sparred with all four of them multiple times, the team leads definitely respected my skills and the speed at which I’d conquered the learning curve. In short, no one would be objecting to Ginny putting me in that position, over all the enforcers and teams.
“Alright. I’ll do it, though it will be in training in the beginning.”
Ginny nodded, “I’ll be there too, a lot of the time. The head enforcer and alpha work closely together, that’s another advantage. I’m really excited about that, Sam. Getting to see more of you now in our afternoons. It will also make it easier for you to learn my job, while learning yours on the go. Your fighting is more than good enough right now already, though you’ll get better with sparring. Still, more than good enough to fight another shifter off long enough to bring your magic to bear and end the fight that way.”
I nodded, that was true enough. Unless I was overwhelmed by numbers or surprised, there wouldn’t be many that could take me fast enough to prevent me getting a spell off. I knew a number of spells now, including the privacy spell. I could cast the spell that forced and locked a shifter into human form, and for those I wanted to kill I’d learned how to cast that plasma spell even before my training started.
Ginny said, “Good, I’ll announce it when we discuss and plan taking down Silas this afternoon. It’ll also be damned good to get the hell out of the office. I don’t know how my father did it, sitting on his ass all day long doing nothing but pack and human business, meetings, and crap.”
I didn’t answer that, her father was still a sensitive subject for my petite blonde bombshell, but I suspected it was his bitter prejudice and the loss of the need to protect humanity that let him do it. He’d stopped caring about his true purpose, and he’d only cared about maintaining his power and empire. Fuck, he’d been willing to kill his own daughter, to keep his authority and hide the fact he’d gone around the bend.
Ginny was also right, I couldn’t imagine her being a desk jockey alpha, and not getting involved in the more dangerous takedowns. Most rogues were the more submissive and weaker in power of the shifters, vampires, witches, and sirens. In those cases, a powerful shifter with four forms, and four more team members with three would be overkill and manage the takedown just fine without their alpha’s help.
But a rare threat like Silas, who was a rogue alpha with his own small rogue pack, it was a much larger danger. I imagined fae dangers could be rather large as well, so the three of us would just go out when facing those stronger dangers that our teams weren’t assured to win on their own. After all, like or not, our positions had a lot of political and paperwork bullshit that went along with them. We’d just have to balance that.
Ginny asked, “How about you guys, good day?”
Tiffany grinned, “Yup, our mate wants us barefoot and pregnant.”
I snorted violently, then quipped, “Slippers are totally in the cards for both of you.”
Ginny mock glared at me, and then looked at Tiffany, “You’ll have to explain that, sweetie.”
Tiffany went over her day again, including my new privacy spell and our conversation about children.
Ginny nodded, “Sounds about right. Five to ten years from now, once we’re settled