The Day Temperance and Sebastian turn 13….
“Happy Birthday, my teenager!” Janice smiles at Temperance.“I’m 13,” Temperance shrugs.Janice narrows her eyes and frowns. “Sweetheart, what is wrong?”“I’m feeling different,” Temperance tells her. “Like something is fighting inside of me.”“ZACH!” Janice yells. “Tempe, honey, don’t fight it.”Janice starts leading Temperance outside.“What is happening?” Zachary asks, running after his mate and his daughter.“She is fighting inside, her shift!” Janice is excited.“What is with the yelling?” Sebastian asks.“Tempe is about to shift,” Janice says excitedly. She stops as they all get outside and turns to Sebastian. “Sorry, Happy Birthday, my teenager!”Janice hugs her son tightly.“Thanks, Mom. What is happening to Tempe?” Sebastian looks over at Temperance.She is sweating and breathing in heaves.“Tempe, you have to let it happen,” Janice coaches her, leaving Sebastian behind her. “Don’t fight it.”CAM- Hey, Temperance, it’s me, your wolf. My name is Cam. Just let go and let me take over.Temperance- Why does it hurt so much?CAM- It only hurts this first time. Breathe.Temperance takes a deep breathe. Sebastian looks at her and his heart pings.Cole- Hey, man, it’s me, your wolf. She is amazing, right?Sebastian- Am I about shift too?Cole- We are going to give our Alpha the spotlight first, then it’s our show.Sebastian- She was born first too.Cole- She is our Alpha.Sebastian- If we try really hard, we can be Alpha.Cole- We are Betas.Sebastian- She looks like it's really painful.Cole- She is fighting it.Sebastian- That is Temperance, total control freak.Cole- Alpha.Temperance lets out a scream that draws the attention of everyone in the dining hall for breakfast. The Elders are there too; to see what happens too.Sebastian- Can we help her?Cole- You want to take her Alpha title, but you can’t stand to see her go through pain?Sebastian- What is your point?Cole- I’m just saying, if you want to take her Alpha title, maybe be less concerned with her pain. Losing her title is going to be very painful.Sebastian- You’re right. I need to steel myself against her pain.Cole- Or just go over, hold her hand, and remind her to breathe.Sebastian watches as Temperance continues to struggle. He fights with himself to try and ignore the pain she is going through. But his heart starts to hurt too.“Breathe, Tempe,” Sebastian reaches and takes her hand.Finally, a large gray and white wolf with dark outlines and a serious expression stands where Temperance was laying.“Hi, Tempe is going to be pissed when she realizes her favorite shirt and jeans are ripped,” Sebastian attempts to pet Cam, who pulls away and growls at him. “Oh, so you hate me as much as your human. Good to know.”Cole- Ready to show off?Sebastian takes off his jacket and tee shirt.Sebastian- How do I start?Cole- Just let me take over.Sebastian- Ok.Sebastian closes his eyes. The pain shoots through him as he falls to his knees. Cam licks his hand and uses her nose, until his hand is on top of her hand.Sebastian’s back breaks and hair grows all over him. Then, the wolf that appears has everyone staring.“How are we supposed to tell them apart?” Janice asks as she looks at the identical wolves.Cam keeps her serious expression, while Cole smirks. The wolf actually smirks.“Sebastian’s wolf smirks like he does,” Zachary smiles. “Reminds me of Bolt.”Clay, Zachary’s wolf, whimpers at the mention of his friend Bolt, Terry’s wolf.“Yeah, he does.” Janice smiles but doesn’t have long before the two new wolves are scraping at each other. “You two, knock it off.”Cam and Cole are snarling at each other, their fur on their backs is standing up. Cam snaps at Cole and Cole lunges for Cam. Cam dodges but grabs his ear and pulls him to the ground.“ENOUGH!” Zachary orders, using Alpha tone.“He has a very strong wolf,” Elder Abner smiles, seeing one wolf having pinned the other by the ear.“Temperance is pinning Sebastian. Not the other way around,” Zachary tells him.Elder Abner steps back before Zachary and Janice saw the scowl on his face. He resolves then, increase the training with Sebastian and now, his wolf.Cam releases Cole, who now has an ear that is barely attached.“There is another difference now,” Zachary tries to hold back his laugh.“Zach,” Janice hisses at her mate.“Sorry, not sorry. She is an Alpha,” Zachary smirks. “He will heal.”“Not the point,” Janice says as Zachary pulls her close for a kiss.“They are going to shift back and be naked,” Zachary warns her.Janice brings them tee shirts and shorts before they shift back.Both dresses quickly, before they face each other.“You bitch,” Sebastian says, touching his ear, which does have a nick in it.“You told your wolf you could take over,” Temperance yells at him.“Yeah, because I can. I’m going to be the next Alpha of Biczi Pack. So, get over it. I’m the Alpha’s son as chosen by the moon goddess. Cole and I are going to make you and Cam sorry you were ever born,” Sebastian stands at his full height, towering over Temperance.“Bring it on,” Temperance knees him in the crouch and watches him knell over.“Temperance Nicole Biczi,” Zachary scolds her.“Sorry, go ahead and pick up your son,” Temperance gives Cam control back and runs for the woods.A small smirk forms on Elder Abner’s face. All Abner could think was someone finally called Sebastian the Alpha’s son.“Rose and I will go after her,” Janice runs to the tree line, before undressing and shifting.Sebastian breathes heavy and catches Zachary staring at him with a cold hard expression.“My office, young man,” Zachary says as he steps over the boy, still in pain from Temperance’s knee.Sebastian manages to get to the Alpha Office and sit in a chair.“When the moon goddess gave me a daughter, I always assumed she would also give me a son as she has always given the Alphas in our family. Then, she took Nova from me. She gave me your mother, but so far, we have not had any more children. So, it would appear that you and Temperance are the only children to be born to this generation. You were born a Beta, to a great Beta line. Temperance, while female, is still born an Alpha, of a great Alpha line. Just because the goddess made you my son, does not mean she means to bypass Temperance,” Zachary scolds him.Abner now has it. He almost skips down the hall. Thanking the moon goddess Sebastian didn’t close the door all the way.“Tempe agreed! She agreed to a challenge on our 18th birthday. We will challenge each other, and the winner is Alpha, the loser is Beta,” Sebastian throws his arms out akimbo as he explains.“Based on what I just saw, she and her wolf are going to eat you and yours alive,” Zachary says. “Who will be the judge of this contest?”“We haven’t picked them yet.” Sebastian slouches and looks at the ground.“Your mother and I will be the judge. Wolf and human forms, so train hard. Temperance is not going to give up easily,” Zachary gets up and leaves Sebastian sitting there. Never has Zachary been more disappointed in Sebastian and Temperance.Meanwhile in the woods, Rose finds Cam sitting by a stream.Rose- Hello.Cam- Hello.Rose- You nearly took off his ear.Cam- Nearly is not all the way.Rose- What did he do?Cam- Have you come to defend him?Rose- No, I have come to find out what offense my pup could have committed for his Alpha to bite him so.Cam- He plans to overthrow me, as Alpha, I must punish such behavior.Rose- Agreed, but how about you let Janice and Zach do it for a while. Take a break.Cam- Do I offend you?Rose- It’s just a suggestion.Cam- I will allow it for now. But he will need to learn his place, or he will break the Beta line his forefathers built. He will break the bonds of the pack.Rose- You think he will break mate bonds.Cam- I do not know the future, only the present. And right now, he is defying all bonds. Teach your pup to be better.Rose- Yes, Alpha.With that, Cam takes off to explore the borders of Biczi. She will be gone for all her summers from now on. Time to train to be Alpha.“Alpha Temperance?” Jasper Justice meets her car at the front of his pack house.“Yes,” Temperance shakes his hand.“Welcome to Justice Pack. My wife and Luna, Mora,” Jasper introduces the lovely woman behind him.“We are going to be friends,” Mora smiles at her.While Temperance is learning, building an Alliance, Sebastian is getting a different kind of training.“Seb, you are a handsome boy, just like your dad. I think you should be exploring your abilities with females,” Abner tells him.“I’m 13, what females are going to be interested in me?” Sebastian asks.Cole- I don’t like this guy.“Oh, come now, you should have a girlfriend. Kimberley Anderson seems very interested in you,” Abner tell him.“Kim is like Temperance’s best friend. She isn’t going to be interested in me,” Sebastian shakes his head.“Every girl will be interested once they know you are the next Alpha,” Abner tells him.“How am I the next Alpha? Temperance can still beat me,” Sebastian says.“But Temperance is not
“I'm so happy for you both!” Janice smiles at her children.“Congratulations,” Zachary also smiles.Temperance looks up at her mate with a small smile. But he doesn’t smile back. Instead, Sebastian looks at her with hard, cold eyes.“We need to talk,” Sebastian pulls Temperance away from the crowd.“Aren’t you happy?” Temperance asks. “We don't have to fight over Alpha now.”“You can’t be serious,” Sebastian spits at her. “You can’t honestly think that we should accept this.”“Seb, of course I do we are mates,” Temperance smiles.“Temperance, NO, I hate you,” Sebastian stares into her eyes. He sees he might hurt her, and his heart tightens.“But you held my hand when I shifted, you talk to me, you and I share stories, we joke, I thought,” Temperance is not breathing normally.Cam- Calm down, he can’t reject us for two years.Temperance- It will break me. I can’t be a strong Alpha without by fated mate.Cam- Then, let the asshole reject us so we can get a second chance.Temperance- I h
“I asked what the hell is going on here,” Zachary asks again.“Alpha, I am just encouraging our future Alpha, your son,” Abner answers, with a smile. “Didn’t you say only a few years ago that the goddess made him your son?”Zachary steps closer and squints his eyes at Abner. “I said that in a private conversation in my office with the door closed. Sebastian maybe easily influenced, but I doubt he would say I said that.”“I didn’t Zach, I swear, I didn’t,” Sebastian is trembling at the aura his stepfather is putting off.“I know you didn’t Seb, you need to sit over there while you heal,” Zachary directs Sebastian while staring directly into Abner’s playful eyes. “You have been the one putting the ideas in his head. All the problems in my house are because of you. You created the monster and I have two years to fix it. You wanted to rob my daughter of her fated mate. Weaken my pack.”“I’m an Elder, no one will believe you,” Abner jokes.“Sebastian, has Abner here been the one to put you
When the alarm for training started blaring in Temperance’s room, she tried to move but she couldn’t. She is the little spoon in a big, hard body cocoon. Her whole body is sparking and tingling. And she feels safe.SAFE? In the arms of the man who want to overthrow her.Temperance wiggles away, waking Sebastian in the process.“Sorry Tempe for touching,” Sebastian groans, rubbing his face. “But you have to admit for only getting 4 hours of sleep, it was a good 4 hours.”“I’m not admitting anything to you. Unless you are agreeing to me as Alpha,” Temperance raises an eyebrow at him.“You can’t honestly think you would make a better Alpha than I would,” Sebastian is still laying in bed. He is shirtless, which he wasn’t last night.Temperance looks down at herself and she is still dressed at least.“Yes, I do,” Temperance answers him. “It is the role I was born for. I will earn the respect of the pack.”“According to Drek, you have them already,” Sebastian says absentmindedly. He doesn’t
“Eric, can you hear me?” Temperance asks as she rubs his face.“Alpha, did I get him?” Eric asks weakly.Temperance smiles at him. “You did very well. You got Dean, but you were shot twice. But you got the video recording out and we caught Abner and Shirley because you hit the panic button. Do you think you can stand? We need to get you to the hospital?”“Yes, Alpha,” Eric nods at her and she helps him to the stretcher. “I’m proud you will be my Alpha.”“Thank you, Eric,” Temperance gives him a smile as they take him away.“Trouble in the border pack is not good,” Zachary says, looking around.“We should kill the Races now and show both sides we do not tolerate this,” Temperance says, looking at her Dad.“I have Elder approval. Thanks to Eric, we don’t need a trial. He is a hero,” Zachary tells her.“And he should be honored. After the funerals for Doug and Grant,” Temperance says.Sebastian comes down into the cells. “You okay?”Temperance doesn’t look at him, not realizing he was sp
“Thank you, Alpha Temperance,” Doug’s Mother hugs Temperance tightly.“He was someone I looked forward to seeing every morning,” Temperance tells her.“Protecting you was his greatest goal,” Doug’s Mother smiles.Temperance hands her the flag that had been draped over Doug’s coffin.The Biczi Pack flag is silver with glitter radiating from a black howling wolf with Biczi Pack under it. Temperance and Sebastian folded the flags in honor of the fallen. If it had not been such a sobering occasion, watching the two of them avoid touching each other would have been comical.Zachary stood guard of the chained Races, forcing them to watch the young wolves they killed honored, while their own son was burned just as they will be after their deaths. He watched as his children dressed in their Pack uniforms saluted the coffins and folded the flags expertly as they have been trained. Even in this time of sadness, they gave him reason to be proud of them.Temperance, Sebastian, Derk, Janice, and Z
“Tempe,” Alpha Jasper Justice smiles at her. He is 25 and has always supported her becoming Alpha.“Jasper,” Temperance shakes his hand. “How are Mora and the pups?”“Well and sending their love,” Jasper presents her with drawings from his young children and a gift bag. “Mora said you loved her cookies.”“Oh, I do,” Temperance smiles.“I heard Sebastian is your mate, how is that going?” Jasper asks with a smirk.Temperance smiles back at him and nods her head. They both laugh. Jasper’s Beta Lance joins them.“What’s the joke?” Lance asks.“Seb Timberman and Tempe Biczi as mates,” Jasper laughs.“Heard my name,” Sebastian joins them, standing next to Tempe, but not touching her.Both Jasper and Lance look between them before they both narrow their eyes.Temperance closes her eyes and breathes deep, “We are still working through things. We are early mates, not the full-on gross ones yet.”“Oh, yeah, totally,” Lance nods, still eyeing Sebastian with a furrowed brow.Cam- You two will nev
“I understand your pack does not allow humans within 100 miles of your pack borders. That prevision is still in place from before I was born,” Temperance tells him and he nods looking her in the eye, even if he is standing taller than her. Sebastian has taken a step off the wall not liking how close they are to each other. “I believe that clause excludes Reynolds Pack from this new proposal. No one here is too young to remember what your pack suffered. I ask you to remember to whom you speak.”Zachary and Janice can’t stop the pride they feel for their daughter rolling off of them.“Reynolds Pack agrees to the purposal,” Lucius sits down.Milo smirks at Temperance, earning an eye roll from Sebastian. Zachary watches Sebastian, expecting a growl in the least.“I see no issue, I reserve the right to beat the pathetic beast before handing them over,” Jasper smiles and wiggles his eyebrows at Temperance.“Alpha Jasper, we all know you are an artist,” Temperance smiles.The rest of the Alp