Luka
I woke up at four am and went hunting before everyone woke up. But it seemed that I was not the only one, the girl was training. I stood there for a while watching her train. She is good but she could improve on a few things. I got tired of just watching and went to her. “You have speed, but you are not using it well. Come train with me and I will show you.” I said when I got behind her.
She stiffened when she heard my voice then turned slowly. She is a short little thing but fierce at the same time. I do not know why she fears me so much and why it makes me angry. She is not the first to fear me and fear fuels me. But her fear makes me sick, it makes me feel like a monster and I never minded that before she came along.
“Are you just going to stand there or are we going to train.” I am angry, she is shaking like a leaf being blown by the wind. Why the hell is she so scared of me? I don’t have scars on my face, I am just huge, so people say, and I am not ugly either. Why do I scare her so much? I snap my fingers in front of her and she jumps then takes her fighting stance.
“Good stance but you have to work on that, your stance alone tells me that you are weak.” She smirks, okay, she might not be as scared as I thought she was then if she can smirk at me like I just said something stupid. “That is the whole point alpha, you see when my opponent looks at me like you now, they think I am weak and an easy target. Which works in my favor in the fight.”
Element of surprise, she is a warrior indeed, “Good point.” I say but do not give her a chance to say anything else as a lunge at her. I see the surprise in her eyes, but she dodges just in time and moves to the side. “Always expect the unexpected,” I tell her, but she does not answer and instead she lunges at me, but I block her just in time before her fist comes into contact with my cheek.
“Good but you are not fast enough, you are short, and you have speed. Use that to your advantage, don’t give your opponent enough time to predict your next move, your attacks must come one after the other, that will make your opponent lose focus and you can get them that way.” She nods and we go again. I see her applying what I just told her and is doing it well.
I smiled a bit pleased with her progress, she is good, and I think training is the only time she forgets her fear of me. It is a pity that I am leaving today, I would have loved to train her more. ‘Since when do you train people.?’ My beta’s voice rings in my head. ‘I am not.’ He chuckles. ‘Yes, alpha, I see that you are not.’ He teased. Why in the Goddess’s name am I even wasting my time training her?
She is not even a member of my pack and yet here I am training her. I stopped abruptly then turn and walked to my beta without looking back. my heart says I must tell her that I am leaving today but my mind says I should not bother. I followed my mind and kept my mouth shut. Who the hell is she for me to be reporting my movements too?
“How was your hunt this morning alpha?” asked JP with a smirk on his face, I glared at him and he chuckles. “My apologies alpha, I forgot that you didn’t go hunting today but because you were busy training strangers. How was training then alpha?” he can be a pain sometimes. “Don’t you have anything better to do?” I asked him annoyed by his presence. No, it is not his presence that is annoying me but his questions.
I do not have an answer to them, and it is frustrating. “Oh, I do, I came to get the girl.” I snap my head and look at him. I feel my anger rising and I clenched my fists to suppress it. “Why do you want her?” he raises his eyebrow before answering. “It’s time for her to go help make breakfast, not unless you still want to go hunting. But I will not eat cereal again not after tasting her food. I would rather go buy breakfast.” He says with a frown on his face.
It is funny because he did not have a problem with the breakfast served in the pack until yesterday. “You do know that she will have to go back to her pack sooner or later, right?” he frowns, and his eyes lit up again. “Then I will make sure that Liza and the others learn to make the kind of food she does so that when she is gone, we can still have good food.” He tells me with a wide smile like he just came up with an idea to save the world.
“Good plan JP,” I tell him as I walked away, I stop in my tracks when I hear laughter then turned and looked back. JP and the girl are laughing together. What could he have told her that made her laugh like that? I frowned not liking that they were being friendly that way. I walked away again after shaking my head trying to get back to my senses.
I need to leave after breakfast, right now I need to put a distance between me and this girl. I am regretting bringing her here. Getting upstairs I shower then after I went and stood on the balcony looking at the mountain. It looks like there is smoke coming out of there, but I know it is only fog. I need to get there before my pack leaves.
I wonder how old the pups are. I still remember the first time I wet them, it was one of the very cold winters, winter that year was very cruel, it almost killed me. I tried to find a warm place, but I could not escape the cold, my fingers were so cold that I thought they were going to fall off. I do not know what happened but when I woke up, I was warm and when I looked, I was laying on a wolf.
I remember how I relaxed thinking that I was back in the pack and safe. I went back to sleep again only to wake up and find out that I was in a cave with my head laying on a wolf's stomach. I was scared but her pure eyes made him relax; I called Alice my mother because she took care of me and protected me when other wolves wanted me dead.
I had to learn to survive in the jungle fast and stay in my wolf form more often. I grew stronger as the years went by and I was bigger than the other and more vicious than them as well. Soon I was the alpha of the pack because of my strength, ability to protect them, and my skills in finding better ways to escape the cold and avoid trouble.
They became my family and they looked after me better than my own father and pack ever did. When I was nineteen three years ago, I decided to come back and make things right. All that time they're sitting and learning to survive I was waiting for my father to come for me. To get me home but as years went by, I knew that he was not coming.
That maybe he thinks that I died a long time ago. I came back only for him to ask why I did not just die in the evil mountain when he said that I lost it and killed him then took over the pack. That day a lot of things became clear to me, one of them being that my father never wanted me and that he left on that mountain to die.
I also understood that he did not need a reason to leave me there, he was just cruel and heartless. I do not know what I was thinking believing that he was trying to make me stronger by leaving me there. But what did I know? I was only a kid and naïve. The man killed his mate with his bare hands for nothing at all, I saw him, and he told the pack she died in her sleep.
He saw me standing at the door looking at him while he was strangling her, and he smirked at me. When he was done, he came to me and told me that women were evil and that they did not deserve to live. He made me believe that my mother was evil and wanted me dead. He said he killed her to protect me, and I believed him.
That was one of the reasons I never told anyone what he had done to her. ‘Breakfast is ready and today we have an even wider spread. I mean there are lots and lots of different delicious foods here you must come down and taste it. oh, I think I am going to ask her to be my chosen mate.’ My beta rumbles in my head, I did not mind what he was saying until he mentioned taking her as his chosen mate.
A growl ripped through my chest coming out of my mouth more vicious than I intended. ‘You will do no such thing.’ I tell him then cut the l**k. Why in the hell will he want her as his chosen mate? And since when does he care about a mate anyway? If he wants a mate, he can go look for his true mate, but he is not taking her
LukaAfter breakfast, which was delicious by the way, JP walked me out. We spoke about things that needed to be taken care of in the pack while am away then I shifted into my wolf form and ran into the forest. My wolf is more than happy to be out as he did not get a chance to come out in morning because I was busy training her.His large paws left prints wherever we step, he sniffed the air the let out a howl. After that we started running at high speed, we were both anxious to get there and see the pack. We both missed the pups and our mother. My friend Xander, he was one wolf that accepted me from the moment he saw me, while others wanted me dead.They grew to love me though, trust and depend on me. I had more ways to protect the pack than any of them did and that is because of my human side. Now they do not see my human side as a weakness but a strength. I started to feel the change in the air the closer we got to the mountain and that seemed to fuel my wolf
Zoe woke on early as usual and went for a run. When she came back, she went to the training grounds and started training. She spent an hour and a half training. She missed her friends so much, by now Mason would be teasing her and provoking her until she agrees to spar with him. They would go on while Lizzy played the couch, a bias one at that and she would always win. Then go to her home or Lizzy’s for breakfast before going on patrol.Oh, how she missed doing patrols at the borders of her pack, alpha Zane, and how friendly he is. He also missed their cook and her food. She missed everything about her pack and could not wait to go back. this place was draining her energy, but it was better now that the devil alpha was not around, at least the remaining people were not that bad, JP as well was not as bad as she thought he was when she first met him.After training, Zoe went back to the packhouse to take a well-deserved shower then went to the kitchen to start bre
A week had passed, and Luka led his family back home to the pack. Zoe was going out the back to throw away the trash when he appeared on the tree lines leading the pack of wolves, fear was the first that crept into her mind and she was paralyzed on the spot. The fear she had was the kind that paralyzed you, the kind that made you forget everything and just succumb to it, and the kind that made you lose all your senses, and the only thing you can focus on is how afraid you are.Today was her birthday and she had asked beta JP if she could go home for the day and spend it with her friends and family. He had promised her after breakfast that he was going to take her home after finishing the paperwork he was busy with and now this man was back. She did not expect him to be back so soon, and she wondered If he would let her go home. Luka smelled the scent of her fear from afar and snapped his head in her direction.But it seemed that there was something more pulling him and
Zoe heard footsteps coming towards her room and her beat boomed in her chest. She was scared that Luka has come back once again, she curled herself into a ball burying her head on her chest and when JP walked in, he found her in that position making him feel sorry for her. He stood where he was not wanting to scare her even more than she already was. “Hey Zoe, I thought I was taking you home for your birthday, or did you change your mind?” he asked her hoping that she would respond, and she did.She lifted her head and looked in his direction. “But your alpha said that I couldn’t go.” She told him still with tears running down her cheeks, she did not want to defy him, Goddess knows what he would do if anyone defied him. “He agreed for me to take you there, come on am sure your friends and family are waiting for you.” He smiled at her, she jumped out of bed and swore her shoes. “Am ready.” She wanted to get out of there as
Her mother smelled her scent even before they could appear at the door and went to meet them. She hurried over when she saw her mate carrying their daughter; she thought she was injured. “What happened to my baby?” she asked checking her to see if she was injured. “I don’t know.” Her mate told her as he placed Zoe on the couch. Her mother sat next to her and wiped her tears. “What’s wrong baby?” she asked worriedly.“Oh mom,” more tears fell from her eyes, it hurt her mother to see her like that and she could tell that she was hurting. “What happened Zoe? tell us,” Zoe sniffed and tried to compose herself. “I found my mate mom.” Her mother broke into an enormous smile. “What’s wonderful baby, you found him at the devil’s pack?” Zoe nodded. “Then why are you crying? You should be happy you found him so soon, not everyone is that lucky. It took me almost a year befo
“This is not good Mason; this is not good at all and no wonder she was such a mass when she arrived,” Lizzy said concerned about her friend, she knew how scared Zoe was of the Devil’s alpha and now she mated to him. “I know but there is nothing either of us can do for her and am sure that she is just there to get her stuff. Tell her parents and leave.” Mason said, the news extremely disappointed him. “I should have known that something was up when she arrived accompanied by the beta.” Said Lizzy.Mason did not reply. “Let us say our goodbyes to her, we don’t know when we will get to see her again. That is if we ever see her again.” Said Mason absent-minded. “Can we pass by my house? I want to get her gift; it is still her birthday after all.” Lizzy said standing up. “Sure, we can pass by the pack house as well and get mine.” Nodding they walked side by side heading to the pack house since it w
Alpha Zane suggested they look for them and everyone went out of the house and started searching. Beta JP caught her scent right behind the house and alerted others. They followed it to the woods but lost it in there; they took different directions looking for them and alpha Zane mind linked the border patrol to find out if they had crossed the border by any chance, but the results were futile, and it was getting late so JP had no choice but to call Luka.He took out his phone and reluctantly dialed his number. The call connected soon as if he was waiting for him to call. “JP.” Answered Luka. “Alpha.” He said then kept quiet not know how to break the news to him. “John Paul, you better tell me the reason for this call now.” Luka was on his feet on the other side this call made him nervous. “Alpha I have lost her,” reported JP with the most respectful voice he could muster.“What does that supposed to mean JP?”
ZoeI looked at Mason and found him looking pale as if blood has been drained from his face. Then I looked at my mate and the only thing I could see is dead from his eyes. What am I going to do, how am I going to stop him from hurting Mason? While I was still standing there, not knowing what to do, he growled moving toward Mason fast.Goddess! How can a huge thing like him move that fast? “No!” someone said, and I looked around. Everyone was looking at me, even my friends. Oh, I said that, and he stopped. “Don’t hurt him, he is my friend nothing more, and I was only saying goodbye to the both of them.” Okay now he is looking at me and I feel my fear returning.‘Don’t be afraid Zoe, he is our mate, and he won’t hurt us.’ Oh, Goddess, how I missed that voice, my wolf, Nikki. ‘Breathe Zoe, breathe.’ I took a deep breath then continued. “Please, lets go home and leave my friends