Chapter 1

Lea: 

I stood, waiting for the Alpha to arrive with my father, knowing that the two of them were talking about something that they did not want me to hear. 

I was only glad that the Alpha, Alpha Cosimo, allowed me to go inside the library to check out the books that they had. He didn’t know it, but I had a fetish for reading books, and I couldn’t help but find myself attracted to one of them. Their family history book.

The Wolves of the Medici. 

“Should I even ask what you are doing here, omega?” A woman’s voice said from behind me. “Shouldn’t you be following your father, sweeping something as he spoke to the Alpha?” 

I took a deep breath, choosing to ignore her harsh words, knowing that she would be doing her best to taunt me. She was the Alpha’s girlfriend, and she had her own reputation about how she would be treating women who entered the pack, specifically, new ones.

“Get off my tail, Renata,” I said, turning to face her. She raised an amused eyebrow at me and the puppets, in other words, ‘her friends’ snickered at my response. She glared at them, seeming less amused now, and I couldn’t help but smile knowing that I got under her skin.

“And if I don’t?” She asked, walking toward me. Her body towered over mine, and I took a deep breath, wanting to calm myself. The last thing that I needed was to find myself against the pack’s future Luna. 

I went to walk past her, and she let out a low growl before wrapping her hand around my arm, stopping me. “I asked a question,”

“Let me go,” I said, but she only tightened her grip, letting me know that she wasn’t going to have it. I let out a low warning growl, and she laughed, mocking me before turning me around, forcing me to nearly drop the book before she pinned me against the bookcase. 

“The next time that you think of growling at me, I am going to be sure…”

“Enough, Renata,” I heard his voice, the man who was supposed to be my mate. It was only a shame that it was merely one sided. And though I never heard of something like that, I was the one unlucky person who had a mate that didn’t feel the bond.

“Diego, my love, the two of us were just having fun,” Renata said, letting me go. She walked toward him, and I took a deep breath before turning to face them. Her friends giggled amongst themselves, and I couldn’t help but feel the clench in my chest as I saw her wrapping her arms around him. He wrapped his right one around her then looked at me. 

“I trust that you are well, Lea,” he said, and I nodded. 

“The feeling is mutual, Heir Alpha.” I said, and he nodded in respect before looking down at the book that I was holding onto for dear life. I was about to open my mouth to speak, to explain to him why I was here in the first place when the library door opened, revealing Alpha Cosimo and my father, Bartolomeo. 

“Ah, good, you are all here.” Alpha Cosimo said, and I frowned in confusion as my father walked toward me. He wrapped his arm around my shoulder, and I purred, smiling at him before turning to the Alpha who glared at his son. The Heir Alpha let Renata’s shoulder go, and I watched as they all walked out of the room, leaving the four of us inside.

“Is everything alright, father?” I asked, being the first to speak. Diego crossed his arms over his chest, and his green eyes momentarily met my blue ones before I looked at his father waiting for an explanation to what was going on. My father’s face paled for a second, and I couldn’t help the frown that formed on my lips when I heard his heart racing.

Goosebumps rose over his skin, and as if a building had crumbled, I watched as my father fell to the ground, choking on his own breath.

“Dad?” I called, my eyes widening in surprise. His body shook, and though I tried to approach, arms wrapped around me, Alpha Cosimo’s, stopping me from approaching him. 

“WHAT ARE YOU DOING HERE YOU WORTHLESS MAN? GO AND CALL THE PACK DOCTOR!” He yelled at his son. I tried moving from the Alpha’s arms, but the man wouldn’t budge as he refused to let me go.

“Alpha, please, I have to try and help him.” I begged. He shook his head as I watched his body still. My heart dropped and the library door opened a second later, revealing the heir Alpha as he walked inside followed by a doctor. She ran toward my father but I didn’t need her to put her finger on his neck to tell me that his heart had stopped beating.

“Dad?” I asked, moving from the Alpha’s arms, forcing the doctor away from him. I laid my head on his chest, trying to listen to his heartbeat, the shock too much on me as I refused to believe that he was dead. He was my only family, he couldn’t have left me too.

“Please wake up,” I begged, looking at him. I ran my finger over his face as tears fell freely from my eyes before the Alpha put his hand on my shoulder, squeezing it gently. 

“LET ME GO!” I yelled before I could stop myself. The Alpha froze, and raised both his hands in surrender as I stood to face him. “What was it that you came here to tell us? What was the reason that he…?”

A needle was pushed inside my skin, right in the vain of my neck, and my eyes widened before I turned to look at the doctor as she pulled it out. Her eyes met mine and I put my hand on my neck for a second before my vision blurred as the world went dark. 

The last thing that I remember seeing or feeling was his silver blue eyes, the Alpha’s, and his arms wrapping around me as he prevented my body from hitting the ground. 

“I will explain everything to you, both of you, when you wake up. But for now, you are going to have to calm down, okay, little wolf?”