“We are turning eighteen in two weeks and I can’t wait to find my mate.” My friend Lizzy says excitedly, I understand how she feels, and I feel the same way. “Who do you think your mate would be if he is in our pack?” I have been looking at all the unmated wolves in our pack and wondering if my mate was among them. “I really don’t care who he is, as long as he doesn’t reject me then I will be happy.”
Rejection is another thing we must consider. In our pack, more and more wolves were rejecting their mates because they, for whatever reason, believe that their mates will weaken them. Yes, we are a pack of warriors, both men and women. Our pack has the best warriors, strong, skilled, and good warriors. But I do not think rejecting our mates strengthens us, in fact, it makes us weaker.
I have seen those who rejected their mates, and the rejected looking weaker than they were before. Their fighting skills are no longer the same and they always have this distant and sad look in their eyes. I do not know if I am the only one who sees it or the alpha is just turning a blind eye to it on purpose. “What about you, do you think your mate is here?” I shook my head.
“No, I don’t think he is here because I don’t feel any connection to anyone,” I tell her, and she rolls her eyes at me with her hands on her waist. “Duh! How are you supposed to feel connections when you are not eighteen yet?” she looks at me like am the most stupid she-wolf she has ever met. “I know, but shouldn’t there be some kind of connection?” I know that most people say they felt nothing for their mates until they come of age and discovered that they are mates.
“You are being silly as usual Zoe, now let’s go back it’s almost time for training.” I stood up and dusted my bum to remove and dirt that might have stuck on my jeans when I sat. Our pack trains twice a day, once in the morning and in the evenings before dinner. “I heard that the devil alpha is coming here,” Lizzy says, and I froze in place wondering what he wants from our pack.
“Why is he coming here?” she stops then looks at me again like am the most stupid she-wolves to ever exist. “Tell me, Zoe, am I a beta, a gamma, or maybe a Luna of this pack?” I raised an eyebrow at her, wondering what that has to do with anything. “No,” I answered anyway, wanting to see where she was going with her questions.
“Then if that’s the case, how would I know what the devil alpha is doing here?” I clique my tongue, looking at her, annoyed. “Then why did you feel the need to share the news if you don’t have all the answers?” she rolls her eyes then walks, and I followed behind. “Because, my friend, I want to keep you informed. You know me being a good friend and all.”
I stop in my tracks and look at her. ‘why does she think this is even useful information?’ I shook my head and started walking again. The devil alpha is the alpha of our neighboring pack. There is only one word to describe alpha Deluca. Evil! They say that his father, the former alpha that he killed, took him away when he was only nine years old.
They say he went up the mountains and left him there to fend for himself. For ten years he was there on his own and only came back three years ago. They say the first thing he did when he came back was killing his father then took over the pack and from thereon. That pack became the scariest. They kill without reason, and not even rogues’ trespass on their lands.
They are not allied with any pack, which makes me wonder what he wants with our pack. I have never seen him, only a few have, and they do not have good things to say about him. Now, why would our alpha invite someone like that into our pack? They also kill mates in that pack which makes us better because our people only reject their mates, they do not kill them.
This is not so different if you ask me because they say the pain of losing your mate is equal to death and can make a wolf lose its mind. “What are you thinking about?” Lizzy snaps me out of my thoughts. “Just thinking about the devil alpha and what he wants from us,” I tell her, and she frowns. “As long as I don’t see him then I will be fine.”
I do not want to see him either but that may be difficult, seeing that we live close to the packhouse and the alpha always has my father with them when they have meetings.
“Let’s hope that we won’t have to see him,” I tell her and when we get in front of the packhouse we stop. “Do you think what they say about him is true, though?” she asks, and I think about it.
Most people who have seen the alpha say the same thing, ruthless, scary, and so are his pack members. So, if all these people are saying the same thing, then it must be true. “I don’t know if it’s true or not, but I believe that there is some truth to the rumors.” The frown on her face deepens. And I know if we do not stop talking about this. She will start panicking for no reason.
“Look, we don’t have to talk about this because we won’t have to…” her expression changed, and her eyes went wide then I stopped talking wondering what has gotten into her. “Liz,” I call out her name, but she does not respond and seems to be frozen in place. “Liz!” she jumped and her hands trembled. “He’s here.” She says with a whispering voice and her hands have not stopped trembling.
I looked at her worriedly. “Liz, talk to me who is here?” I asked her, but her eyes are now fixed behind me. I turned slowly to look and there are three cars coming over and they are just a few feet away from us. The cars are those big old land rovers. I look back at her, then realization hit me, and my eyes widen. I pulled a frozen Lizzy. “Let’s get inside, now!” I tell her as I drag her along with me and she snaps out of it when we are going up the stairs in the packhouse.
“He is really here.” She says like she does not believe it. Before I could answer our alpha, my dad, gamma, and the beta of the pack emerge at the top of the stairs and I stop in my tracks. “Aaah! Zoe, Lizzy, it’s good that you are both here. Go help aunty Nora in the kitchen we have guests.” Alpha Zane says and I frowned. “The other omegas are their alpha.” Answers Lizzy.
“No, they are not. They are busy helping with the cleaning of the new hospital. Only aunty Nora is here, now help her out.” I want to protest, but my dad gives me a look, and I lowered my head. “Yes alpha.” I turned, then go down the stairs. “But…” I hear Liz trying to protest behind me, but alpha Zane cut her off.
“No buts Lizzy, go!” his voice is stern, and I can tell that he is on edge. Lizzy soon joins me in the kitchen. “I don’t have time to make you something to eat now. We have guests, and I am alone. Make something for yourselves babies.” Aunt Nora says as soon as we get into the kitchen. She knows that every time we come into this kitchen, it is only. Food! Liz and I love food.
It does not help that Aunt Nora is an excellent cook. “Alpha sent here us to help,” I tell her. “Oh! Thank the Goddess! I was panicking. Quickly put those on a tray, we must take them to the conference room. Lizzy takes out the juice while I sort out the tea.” She instructs and we get busy. “Why do we have to prepare tea in this heat? There is juice why must there be tea as well?”
Lizzy questions, and Aunt Nora shakes her head. “It’s because we don’t know what our guests prefer, little one, so we must have everything ready so that they choose what they want.” Explains aunt Nora putting everything on trays then looks at us. “Right! Zoe, take this one and Lizzy take this. Follow me.” We each take a tray and we follow behind her.
On the way, I pray we do not meet the devil alpha, that by chance they are still in the lounge and not the conference room. But as we get close, I smell unfamiliar scents and my heart sinks. ‘They are here.’ My wolf whispers, but I do not have time to entertain her. I know they are here, I can smell their scents. When we get to the door, the temperature drops.
We can feel that whoever is behind those doors is no ordinary wolf. Aunt Nora knocks once, and we hear a ‘come in’ as she twists the doorknob and pushes the door open. She walks in first and we follow, but I do not lift my head to look at the people. My heart booms in my chest, beating like an African drum, and my palms are sweating. I place the tray on the table, then move back.
I hear a gasp next to me and a tray falling. I feel something splash my feet and I look to see what it is. It is the juice; the tray Lizzy was holding with juice and glasses is on the floor. I lift my head to look at her and she had a look I have never seen before. Her eyes are wide open, and her hands clamp her mouth shut as if she is afraid of making a noise.
She is staring at something or someone behind me; I know who it is, but I turn to look, anyway. My bottom lip trembles, and beads of sweat form on my forehead. I cannot talk, I cannot move, and I can’t look away either. ‘The Devil Alpha.’ My wolf, Nikki says in my head, and I nod, trying to confirm what she said.
“Get your dogs out of here Zane and try to train them well next time.” The devil alpha says without even looking at us. Alpha Zane gave Aunt Nora a look and she pulled us out of the room closing the door behind us. She drags us all the way to the kitchen before letting go of our arms. “Do you two understand how much trouble you have just put me in?” she asks but none of us answer.I am shaking with fear and Lizzy is no different. She sighs then move to the other side of the counter then open the cupboard and took out two cups. She fills both with water then add sugar. “Here, drink this, it will help with the shock.” She hands us the cups and we took them and drank then gave her the empty cups when we are done.“Come let’s go to the lounge.” We do not say anything but follow her to the lounge and sat. Lizzy is next to me while she is sitting opposite us. “How are you feeling now?” she asked, and I sighed
I closed my eyes trying to think about something else other than where I am. I do not want to trigger the devil alpha and my fear of him will be a trigger as he already told me, and I do not want to find out what he will do when he is triggered. I mean the man already said that he does not care if I died, and I do not want to die at least not yet. I have dreams that I still want to fulfil.My mind takes me back to the pack, to Liz and Mason. Our lazy afternoons by the river and our walks to school. I find myself smiling at the memories, then my mind drifts off to my mom, sigh, she is going to be very heartbroken, I just hope that I do not die so that I can see her again and this alpha did not even give me a chance to pack a few things. What the hell am I going to wear when I get there?I do not think that he will be generous enough to buy me clothes while am there. He might just let me stay in these clothes for however long he will keep me. Sigh, I will look like a hom
The next morning Zoe woke up early around four in the morning then went out to find somewhere to train. Just because she was here it did not mean she can slack and not train. She is a warrior and warriors trained every day. She found the training grounds easily and was glad there was no one else around. She trained for about an hour then stopped and went back to the room she was given.She showered then went to the kitchen to prepare breakfast, there was no one in the kitchen yet so she started on her own. She took out the ingredients and started making the muffins aunt Nora used to make for them. Blueberry and chocolate muffin. Then she made pan cakes, eggs, beacon, toast, sliced cucumber, tomatoes, some fruits then made freshly squeezed orange juice.The two other omegas came in while she was looking for plates to set the huge table. “Sorry we are late, we overslept.” The other one apologized. “Smells so good in here, did you make all th
LukaI 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, s
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