Maven
It’s been a month since I brought Amelia into our pack. My meeting with the council is coming up soon and I need to inform them I plan to give her the option to become an official member of the pack.She currently is still a rogue. She’s just been in the pack as my slave, but now that I see how well she’s doing here and I know she’s not a threat to us, I want to make her an official member. The council won’t like this decision, but I don’t care. I need her to know that she matters and that she’s done well around here.Honestly, she’s thriving. She does everything asked of her perfectly and after that first day, she’s never been late again. Maggie only has good things to say about her, she’s nice to every pack member she comes by even if they aren’t nice to her, and she has kept her distance from me just like I requested in the beginning… I love that she listened to my insMavenI detest the days that training runs late. It throws my entire day off schedule.Of course, I could leave early if I truly wanted to. But I respect our head trainer, Dustin, and I will not be the first to skip out. These group trainings are a great way to boost morale within the pack. They would see me as weak if I was the first one to leave.Maggie sees me from the kitchen and grabs a water bottle for me and tosses it to me. I mutter a thank you to her before I walk towards the stairs and take them two at a time all the way up.I huff as I open the door to my office, and I freeze in the doorway and watch as Kaden’s body stiffens, and he stops moving.I move my head around him and see Amelia quivering on the ground as blood pours from her nose. Her eyes flicker towards me and I maintain eye contact with her as I ask, “What’s going on here?”Kaden speaks, “Amelia tripped and fell when delivering your food, Alpha. I was just about to help her stand up.”At that moment, I noticed t
AmeliaMaggie knew something happened to me, but she respected me enough not to ask about it and to just give me lighter duties for the rest of the day. By the end of the day, she told me to go get some rest.In the morning my nose was still swollen, and I had bruising on my face. I take a deep breath, cursing the fact that I have a weak wolf that caused my healing process to be much slower than others. I want to act like yesterday never happened.I walk to the kitchen and start making breakfast. Maggie surprises me when she says, “Oh dear, I was going to take care of the Alpha’s breakfast.”I glance up at her and tilt my head to the side as I ask, “Why would you make his breakfast? It’s my responsibility.”She purses her lips and says, “I didn’t know if you’d feel up to it, Amelia.”“I’m fine. Let’s just move on.”She nods, “If you say so, miss. But if you need to talk… just know I’m here.”I close my eyes, taking in her words, and whisper, “Thank you, Maggie.”I continue on like nor
MavenI’ve wanted to initiate Amelia into our pack, but this isn’t the way I planned to go about it. I wanted Amelia to want to be a part of the pack. And now I feel like I’ve taken her choice away from her now and that is the exact opposite of what I wanted to do. But… Veronica made my blood boil, and she was out of line.I’m having so many issues between her and her father right now and it is making me feel incredibly on edge. My wolf was annoyed by them and temperamental, he wanted me to just kick them out of the pack, but I can't do that.We get into my office, and I close the door behind me. I notice when I walk past Amelia and raise my hand up to run it through my hair that she winced. I look at her confused for why she did that. Does she really think that I would hurt her?I know I haven’t been the kindest man toward her, but I didn’t think she thought I was that cruel. I ask, “Are you okay, Amelia?”Her eyes flicker towards me and she gives a tightlipped smile as she nods, “Ye
MavenAmelia and I tear apart, and I look towards the door and see Beta Kaden. A small part of me feels relieved that we were interrupted, but seeing the angry look on his face, I know that this will not be a pleasant conversation. He’s insanely protective of Veronica. I’m sure he’s not happy that I chewed her out. But he has pampered her too much and allowed her to believe that she can treat anyone any way she wants to, and I will not accept this behavior. Our pack needs a change.Honestly, with Amelia’s kindness and sincerity, she has shown me what kind of Alpha I want to be and how I want our pack to look like to others. I want to be kind to our members and treat them well. I want people to wish that they were a part of our pack. Kaden’s eyes burn with anger as they flicker between us, and I ask him, “What do you need, Beta?”His eyes focus on me, and he says, “Alpha, I heard you were initiating Amelia into the pack? Don’t you think that’s a risky id-”I cut him off, “I just initi
KadenI can’t believe that Alpha Maven accepted that mutt into our pack like it was no big deal. He had her as a slave and that was bad enough, especially considering he never did anything to her to strike fear into her heart so that she wouldn’t betray our pack.But now, she’s an official freaking member. Why is that? Alpha Maven has always hated exiled wolves as much as anyone else. Something is different about her; I just don’t know what it is.I walk up towards his office and I’m happy to see that he isn’t in here. I must be careful because he can show up at any moment, but I’m sure there. Is something here that will explain why Amelia can stay? Maybe she’s some distant relative that he’s ashamed of or something.I walk around his office and peek in his drawers, searching for any type of hint about her. But I’m surprised to open a drawer and see, sitting on top, a paper that says some of our top warriors’ names and some of their qualifications.What the hell do they need these qua
(Trigger Warning! First half of this chapter has a detailed attempted rape scene. Please skip if this makes you uncomfortable)AmeliaKaden stalks towards me and says in a low voice, “You will stay quiet if you know what’s good for you.”My eyes flicker between his face and the belt in his hands. I don’t know whether to run or scream or what. My mind is running with a thousand different scenarios of what I could do, but my body doesn’t move.Why won’t my body move? Doesn’t it know how much danger that it’s in?!Every second, every step he takes, he gets closer to me being in his grasp. But I can’t move. He wraps his belt around my neck, pulling it tightly. His face is directly in front of mine, and I can feel his breath fan my face as he says, “If you dare to scream, I will choke you out. Do you understand, mutt?”He doesn’t give me a chance to respond before he turns me around and pushes the top half of my body against the washing machine. I breathe heavily, on the brink of hypervent
AmeliaAs Maven carries me up the stairs my mind starts going haywire. Where are we going?I realize that he is bringing me into his room, a place I’ve never been to alone with him. Normally if I came in here, it was to clean something quickly and then leave.Tears prickle my eyes as I wonder what he’s doing. I want to believe that he’s different from the monster he just rescued me from… but why else would we be going to his bedroom?I close my eyes and turn towards his chest as he carries me. When I hear water running my eyebrows furrow and I look up towards him. He tells me, “Wash up.”He sets me down and my body sways, surprised to be on my own two feet. He grabs onto my waist to steady me and my eyes flicker to his.He looks concerned about me; he looks like he truly cares for me.Once he knows I’m steadied he takes a step back and crosses his arms, but his eyes never stray from my body. I gulp as I realize he expects me to strip in front of him. I slowly take off each article of
AmeliaI wake up and stretch out as I yawn. My eyes flutter open and I don’t immediately recognize my surroundings. I sit up in bed and look around and realize that I’m still in Alpha Maven’s bedroom. My eyes flicker to the bedroom door and I’m relieved to see it still locked.I check the time and jump out of bed and rush out the door to my room so I can get dressed and get breakfast started. I didn’t realize how long I slept, and this means that I will be late bringing Maven his breakfast.His bed was so comfortable, I swear I just had the best night sleep. I go into my room and quickly pick out an outfit before rushing to the kitchen. I get his food ready and rush up the stairs to his office. I walk in ready to thank him for his kindness last night, but I see he’s on the phone. He nods towards me in a silent greeting, and I set the tray in front of him.I find a post it note and write on there: Thanks for everything!He smirks after reading my note and I left him as I started on the