The Supreme Alpha

Alexandra POV

“My aching head,” I winced.

Wait? I’m alive? I blinked a few times, and the familiar setting of my bedroom in my modest studio came into view.

“How did I get here?”

The last thing I recalled was the icy, dark blue waters of the moon pool welcoming me into its menacing arms.

I hauled my ass out of bed and walked to the mirror.

The cuts on my face and neck were nearly gone. Any ache in my body was manageable. Someone must have found me and pulled me out.

But who?

For a second, I wished they hadn’t.

This was only going to happen again. I had a class at the university, and no doubt last night’s incident would be on everyone’s lips, not to mention my humiliating rejection.

My phone rang on my nightstand.

It must be Emmie. However, it was my godmother, Ellis.

“Hello?”

“Be at the house in twenty minutes. Not a second late.” She hung up.

A lump formed in my throat. I’m screwed.

I got changed and hurried to my godmother’s house. I’d lived with my godmother since I was sixteen. She found me living in a group home in the human world. She never offered up an explanation of how she found me or who my parents were.

She hated that subject, but she never told me she didn’t know who they were. I arrived at her three-story mansion with over a dozen bedrooms and bathrooms. She was a member of the Supreme Council. The Supreme Council governed matters that affected the entire shifter region. She lived alone, never married, nor had any children. I was the closest thing she had to family.

I knocked on the front door and held my breath.

The door rolled inwards.

“Enter,” her deep, menacing voice said.

I stepped inside, and my anxiety spiked. She was normally cryptic, but her tone worried me.

“Tell me it isn’t so, Alexandra,” she demanded.

I cringed. She knew about the rejection.

“Alexandra, how did it happen?!” Her small body trembled with rage.

“He cheated on me!” I groaned.

Ellis ran a hand down her face and shook her head. “That was your ticket to a better life in the shifter region.” She paused. “Where’s the celestial ring he gave you?”

“He took it back,” I said quietly.

She shut her eyes. No doubt she was trying to keep her temper under control.

“That was your only real source of protection, Alex.”

“Ellis, stop. He cheated on me, and I don’t know how many more times he’s done it since he got caught. Being mated to an Alpha isn’t worth that much trouble.”

“Oh, yes, it is! Alex… I fought tooth and nail to get you into the shifter region so you could be among your kind. Many people didn’t like that. There are shifters who will go to extreme lengths to show their disdain for you. I can only protect you so far.”

I couldn’t look her in the eyes anymore. Last night’s incident only proved her point.

The doorbell rang. Ellis and I shared a look.

“I’m not expecting anyone,” she grumbled. “Go to the living room.”

I nodded and marched into the warm living room. It wasn’t beyond Ellis to make me get back together with Xavier. What if I had no choice?

He’d make me grovel and beg him to take me back. It would be more humiliating than the rejection.

Laughter came from the hall, and I paused. Ellis barely laughed with anyone.

Minutes later, Ellis and her unknown guest came into the living room. Time stood still as I took in the man who towered over Ellis and me. A six-foot-four demi-god with firm, broad shoulders, a right arm covered in tattoos and muscles that could make anyone do a double-take. His commanding aura told me he was an Alpha.

I just didn’t know which pack. My pack was run by a Luna.

“Alpha Enzo, this is my goddaughter, Alexandra. She lives alone and barely visits me anymore.”

Heat rushed to my cheeks. Alpha Enzo? As in the Supreme Alpha of the shifter region. He was a scares man. He never left his pack, the Onyx pack. He was everything a Supreme Alpha should be. A man to be feared and desired.

Whoa, where did that come from? He had to be nearly twenty years older than me.

Enzo took me in with a look that pinned me to the spot and rendered me speechless.

“Alpha Enzo doesn’t come to the River Pack anymore. Of course, his visit must be of paramount importance. We have to cut this meeting short, Alexandra.”

I blinked a few times and nodded. “Right, yes, I’ll go.”

“No, wait,” Enzo said.

My heart slammed into my chest, and panic settled in. Why was he here? The Supreme Alpha had more serious things to worry about, like rogue packs trying to attack us, famine and disease control. He shouldn’t be standing in my godmother’s mansion unless it was really important.

“My visit isn’t that important. I’m here for the forest report I should have received a week ago. I don’t need to stay long.”

“Oh, I thought I sent that days ago! I’ll check my office upstairs.” Ellis hurried out of the living room, leaving me with the intimidating Alpha.

He turned his attention to me. He didn’t stop staring at me, even when I focused on the old fireplace.

“How’s life in the shifter region been?” Enzo asked.

I cleared my throat. “Alright, I guess.”

“Do you have a boyfriend?” He asked.

I met his eyes, surprise and panic written all over my face. “What? No, well… I’m single right now.”

He crossed his arms, and I noticed the series of tattoos on his skin.

“So there was someone.” He raised his brow. “Who is he?”

I exhaled deeply. “I know it’s against the law to date humans. Which is why I haven’t done it much.”

He clenched his jaw. The way his eyes pinned me to the spot made me feel he was mad at me.

“Humans, not half-humans.”

I chuckled nervously. “You know I don’t have a wolf, right?”

I might have imagined it, but the corners of his mouth twitched.

“Has that caused problems for you?” He stepped closer.

I stepped back instinctively. “No…”

“No one gives you a hard time about it?” Another step.

“Where are you going with this?” I rasped.

“Who gave you that scar?” He asked, softly yet firmly.

“No one!” I slapped a hand on my neck instantly.

“I meant the one on your forehead, Alexandra. It’s so faint it’s almost not there.”

I thought I was fully healed.

Damn it.

“Who did it, Alexandra?”

The way he said my name made my insides warm, and heat rushed to my cheeks.

“Why do you want to know?” I whispered.

“I can’t find that damn report. I’ll have to issue another one, Alpha Enzo.”

Enzo stepped back to create a safe distance as my godmother walked in.

“Don’t worry, Ellis. I’ll just have to check my office again.”

Ellis smiled. “It’s my fault completely! I’m sorry you had to come all this way.”

Enzo eyed me while he replied to Ellis.

“No worries, it was a pleasure. Maybe I’ll come to the River Pack more often.”

A shiver ran through me under his intense green eyed gaze.