Third Person POVAnne set up a table in the corner of the club and waited for Iris and Mike to join her. The mood in the club was charged; everyone seemed excited except for Anne, who looked drained. Iris tapped her hand as she and her husband sat down.“Have you guys booked the conference hall for Ralph’s thank-you speech on Monday?” she asked.Iris and Mike smiled fondly. “We have,” Mike muttered.“Aww, you care so much about him even when he’s being a stubborn goat!” Iris remarked“As stubborn as Ralph is, he’s not like his dad. At least that’s what I kept saying to myself when I saw him sleeping around with all the she-wolves.” Anne remarked. “His father was a big disappointment, lying to me and taking him away from me. Then watching him get maltreated and then abandoning him.”“I still can’t believe you’re his mother,” Mike said. “You could have at least told us?”Anne pursed her lips, let out a growl, “How was I going to say to you that, as a young she-wolf, I tried to break the
Alison POV“Oh, and I forgot to mention that your dad retained his seat. Four more years to do evil. I guess that man will never lose anything in his life.” My mom lamented while I giggled.“I’m glad he won,” I said to her. She didn’t look too pleased with what I said, but it’s true, I’m glad he won. “He will get so power drunk that he will eventually destroy himself. Just leave him alone.”“Girl! I thought we were friends”, Roberta’s voice sounded from the other end of the room. I turned sharply and covered my mouth. “How come I had to hear it on the news with everyone else?”“Sorry,” I whispered when she got closer, “A lot has been going on since I gave birth, as you can see, the babies are in NICU.” I pointed to my pups and gave her a sad puppy face. She gave me a side hug and greeted my mom.The pups had gone to sleep, so we moved back to my ward so we wouldn’t wake them up. My mom excused Roberta and me so we could have some privacy. When she left, I turned to Roberta and wiped
Alison’s POVAfter letting Anne cry on my shoulders, we all watched her leave, and still, Ralph wouldn’t be nice to her. This time, when she tried to leave, no one stopped her. Iris made her way to the exit but turned around to face Ralph.“I know all of this is shocking and painful to hear, but you can’t treat Anne like this, you know, Omegas have little to no say in Belle. You Alphas make all the decisions. I don’t think she had much of a choice, and maybe after leaving, she just couldn’t bring herself to let you know.“But that’s the problem, she watched me try my best to get Lynn to like me, I didn’t understand why my own mother was always distant from me. I got banished at 17, and couldn’t understand why Lynn wouldn’t speak or care to know if I was okay. I felt abandoned, and all along she knew why and never told me. That’s why I’m angry.” Ralph barked.“Ralph, you got a girl pregnant and hid it from all of us, and no one got mad at you when we found out later,” Mike exploded as
Ralph POV With Alison’s hand in mine, we made it to the ward, not sure of what to anticipate; was it going to be a win or a loss? I had no idea, as soon as I re-entered Alison’s ward, talcum powder flew in our faces, followed by confetti, Iris started to blow a vuvuzela, which I had no idea she had brought to he ward.“Congratulations, Ralph,” Mike said, “You are our Alpha again for another 4 years; nobody can wrestle with that.”Alison began to scream and then jumped into my arms. I instinctively held her firmly so she wouldn’t fall. Charlotte fell into the mess and gasped,“You won? Hurray!”“Oh, Ralph, I wish you would be our Alpha forever,” Iris said as she came forward to hug me. Mike moved up to me and patted my shoulder, we did a little group hug, and everyone else was expecting Anne to join, but she stood a few metres away from us with a faint smile on her face.Iris and Alison looked confused. They didn’t understand why we were acting that way, Charlotte didn’t know anything
Ralph POVThe following morning, Alison and I sat in her ward with our eyes glued to the screens, trying to find out who won the elections. Mike and Iris were there with us, and so was Anne. I still wasn’t talking to her and trying my best to avoid her, but I did it in a very subtle way so the others wouldn’t notice.“The competition is so tight, I can’t take the suspense anymore.” Alison moaned.We were all tense; we didn’t expect Garry to mark me so closely. Some years ago, he wasn’t even a competition. Now look, I have Melody to thank for all the mess, and myself too; I can’t give all the blame to others without taking part of it.“Should we go and see our pups?” I asked her as I was getting a bit tense. I don’t know what’s going to happen, but keeping up with the electoral process won’t make me feel any better, so I wheeled Alison to NICU to see our pups. As Alison inserts her hand through the round opening and pats the head of one of our boys,“Ralph, I think they want to go hom
Ralph POVI was by Alison’s side as she fell asleep. I waited till she fully drifted off before I decided to check my phone.I was trying to keep up with the elections and push what Anne had said to me earlier from my mind. I feel like she’s joking, or maybe this is a bad dream that I wasn’t waking up from.I was expecting to see updates of the elections online, but instead, I saw photos of myself in NICU, and a headline that read, “Ralph Vandyke Welcomes Twins with Partner, Alison Quinn.”Damn! Who took these pictures? Was it the other parents in the ward? Why would they post this when people are still voting? I checked the news page to sue them but realized that so many others had reposted the news and it was already too late. I began to hope that this wouldn’t destroy anything for me. Especially after Melody had accused me of cheating on her with Alison, and people believed it.Alison opened her eyes again and asked, “Are the elections over?”I shook my head, “You’ve been asleep fo