Chapter three

Lillias POV continued

‘MATE MATE MATE’

That voice again, I was starting to think that it was in my head, ‘I am in your head Lillias, my names Scarlett I’m your wolf’. My wolf, she’s appeared, ‘nice to meet you Scarle….’ My wolf seems on the giddy side, ‘we can speak properly later I smell our mate!’ My nose started sniffing, my feet moved on their own. I found myself in front of a very tall, roughly six foot nine male, with eyes as green as jade, shoulder length brown wavey hair, I start looking down to his shoulders, they are very wide with muscles stretching his already stretched light blue short sleeved shirt. His peaks visibly noticeable. This man is absolutely beautiful, the most incredible male I have ever seen.

“MATE”

A low husky voice growls, this makes me jump, Scarlett is purring in my head while running around in circles, she’s making me dizzy. I can feel everyone’s eyes on me but I can’t see them, the only thing I see is the man stood in front of me. Taking in his appearance more, his pointed nose, strong jaw covered with a short brown beard in the form of an extended goatee and his eyes, I could stare into these all day.

“Mate”

I announce, I hear my father gasp, he sounds worried, my mother mind-links me, ‘sweety are you sure this man is your mate?’ I can only nod as a reply, he has my full attention.

Silas POV

I’m stood watching this girl dance with all these soon to be alphas, in case one is her mate. I’ve been looking for mine since I was twenty-one, its been four sad years but Luke my beta insists one last ball before I pick a chosen mate.

She’s the daughter of the king and queen of alphas, Angus and Isla, she twirls past me when her scent hits me, donuts, cinnamon and sage. This has Sax my wolf going crazy, he’s bouncing about like a pup, we have to let the moron she’s currently dancing with know she’s ours, so we growl.

“MATE”

She jumps slightly, our eyes meet and she’s stood there checking me out, while I do the same to her. She’s different, her white hair is pinned up and curly, its whiter then snow, looking into her eyes, they are just as white. Is my mate ill? Why is she so white? Suddenly I see a deep purple flash in her eyes then they go back to white, I’m guessing her wolf has only just appeared to her as her face looks shocked. I move my eyes down to her plump pink perfect lips, my eyes keep traveling down, to her perky breasts. Her dress hugs her figure but by hell does she look amazing.

“MATE”

Her voice is soft but firm, her aura is strong, I suddenly see everyone bow around us, she has all the other alphas on their knees in submission except for me. Alpha Angus and Luna Isla come to stand at her side, shocked at her aura as much as I am.

“Lillias, sweetheart you need to let everyone stand” alpha Angus tells her, she blinks while looking up at him then looks around, even she seems shocked.

“rise” she commands and everyone does so, “I’m sorry about that everyone, I didn’t realise I could do that” her angelic voice apologises, a slight pink staining her cheeks. Lillias looks back at me just as she opens her mouth to speak, Angus interrupts “are you going to accept her or reject her alpha Silas?” why is he even asking this, is he stupid, she’s stunning and Jax will never forgive me if I reject her, we’ve both waiting long enough and now we know why.

“I Silas Steel alpha of the Red Waterfall pack, accept you Lillias Robertson Princess of alphas, daughter of Angus King of alphas and the alpha of the Leven Mountain Pack as my mate”

Now I’m begging the moon goddess that she doesn’t reject me, I have waited so long for my mate, in that time I’ve earnt myself a reputation as the fearless alpha of the north.

“I Lillias Robertson, Princess of alphas, daughter of Angus King of alphas and alpha of the Leven Mountain Pack, accept you Silas Steel alpha of the Red Waterfall pack as my mate”

Her words have me on my knees thanking her, fuck, what the hell is wrong with me. I stand holding my hand out hoping she takes it, as if she reads my mind she slips her hand in mine as we both audibly gasp, it feels like little electric shocks running between my hand and my cock. This must be the mate bond everyone talks about. Alpha Angus doesn’t look impressed and my eyes meet his, ‘fuck him’ Jax growls ‘she’s ours’, he was right and I wasn’t going to let my goddess given mate go that easy, I don’t give a fuck who her father is, or who her ancestors are, Lillias is mine! I will mate and mark her as soon as I can, until then she has her duty to do and I must not stand in her way or I may upset her, I will lay my life down for her.

Angus POV

Why Silas, the son of a bitch, he’s ruthless, his reputation makes my skin crawl. I hear him announce his acceptance of Lil and my wolf growls spilling my aura making the whole marquee bow in submission except this prick. My daughter deserves better. After a couple of seconds to my dismay Lillias accepts him, NO! Blaine is going apeshit in my head, he’s pacing, wanting to shift to ripe this wolf a new arsehole. I hear a growl from Silas’ chest, he knows I’m pissed!

Being the king, I must announce that the dancing with Lil will now finish now she has found her mate, even though I want to ripe his head off, who does he think he is growling at me?

“I apologise to all the wolfs that has not had the chance to dance with Lillias, as you can see she has found her mate and it is now time to complete her first shift, Lillias can you come join me please as we walk to the forest.” Lillias nods as an acknowledgment of my words, it takes her a few moments to start moving her feet towards me. Once she does I look down at my beautiful daughter, not expecting to lose her this soon in life as I was secretly hoping she wouldn’t find her mate tonight.

We all head toward the forest on the pack grounds, its time for Lillias to shift for the first time and we can’t wait to see her wolf, Blaine has been talking to Lillias wolf as she is his pup, he’s told me Ruby, Isla’s wolf has also been talking to her, her name is Scarlett but that’s all Blaine has chose to disclose.

Lillias POV

My father leads us towards to forest near my home, shit, how did I forget about my first shift, my mate that’s how, I can feel his breath on my neck, his deep green eyes, I’m sure they look deep into my soul when he looks into my eyes. “Are you ready my daughter?” my father asks me, I nod. We have spoken about this plenty on times, I know this is going to hurt like hell, my bones are all going to break and rearrange themselves, Scarlett is going to come forward and she’s going to run, she’s going to feel the wind in her fur. Silas is by my side, my mate, I have a mate, its still not sank in, how can this god like man be mine? I get distracting thoughts again, Silas smirks, he knows.

“Lillias is now going to shift, please bare with her,” my father announces.

Silas is by my side “would you like me to shift first my beautiful mate?” he whispers in my ear, I shake my head, I need to do this first.

‘Scarlett, are you ready?’ I ask my wolf, ‘I was born ready, relax, I will take it from here, don’t fight me’

I quickly strip of my clothes and stand there bare to the moon.

I relax my body to let Scarlett take control, ‘I’m sorry Lillias, this is going to hurt’

With that I feel all two hundred and six bones snap, split and reshape.

I feel my skin start to shred and fur starting to spout like new grass but faster. My spine feels like its extending while forming new cartilage.

My mouth starts to extend into a muzzle, my teeth become pointed, canines start to push through my gums. I feel myself fall forward, the pain is agonising, my nails start to extend into claws, they push from deep within my nail beds, I feel my fingers shorten, my hands turn into paws which flex into the soft ground while still spouting fur. I feel my tail bone spout into an actual tail then I feel fur start to form on it. My hips start to reform and it’s the most painful of all the bones up to yet, my pelvis reduces in size to nearly half of what it was, I feel it all, every painful split and reform, every bone extending or reducing in size, hoping it will be over soon, ‘Lillias are okay? We are nearly there, I promise this won’t take much longer.’ Scarletts voice flits through the pain.

As I think the pain is surpassed, I feel my ears sink into my head as my skull reshapes and new ears that feel floppier, my hearing heightens. My muscles start to reform with my tendons reattaching to new bones that have formed from the shift.

‘Well done, Lillias, we did it, I will take it from here’, I take a back seat and try to recover. Our eyes open, hazy at first as our eyes adjust, we can see further now as well as clearer. We look around at our mate, our parents, our pack, they all look at us in fascination, like a rare delicacy, ‘what do we look like Scarlett, I want to see’. “My mate you did amazing, you look.... amazing”, now I defiantly want to see. Everyone looks speechless and I really don’t understand why, I hope that my human appearance hasn’t affected Scarlett. She is by all means an Alpha in her own right as well as a princess, I decide to mind-link my father ‘papa what do we look like?’, I see through Scarlett eyes my father looks so happy he is crying. ‘My darling girl, you will see soon enough, we are in awe by your beauty as always’, why is my father being so cryptic? ‘its time to run Lillias’ Scarlett purrs, flexing her claws into the dirt. She lifts our head to the moon and howls, it’s a howl of power, an howl of authority, ‘lets run Scarlett and please call me Lil’.

I feel the power in our legs as Scarlett pushes off the dirt, the night breeze through our fur, the moon shining on us. I can smell damp moss, wet bark, wildflowers, I hear crickets they seem louder then normal, owls that seem to be close but are really miles away, as my ears pull in all the distance sounds the one I take note on the most is the water, it crashes over the rocks and bubbling, I hear the twigs and branches smack into the bends some snapping at the force. Looking around I see everything in such colour even in the darkened forest, the wildflowers show a beautiful shade of lavender and orange, the trees bark with its light and dark browns, I see ever fragmentation, every shade of colour that is cast upon them. Our wolf jumps over a fallen tree, in human form I would have missed that, probably stumbling over it but as a wolf we easily jumped it.

I feel the heat of the pack behind me, enjoying my first run with me, my father to my left and Silas to my right, ‘lets go for a drink Lil, there’s a stream up ahead and we can have a look at our reflection’ Scarlett leads the way as this is as much her run as it is mine.

Silas POV

Walking next to my new mate to the forest edge had me alert, she is a unmarked female and of royalty, not that I give a shit about that, she is the other piece of my soul, I will do anything in my power to protect her. I’m a bit pissed that she has to do her first shift infront of everyone, stupid fucking traditions, the royals like to include everyone, it has been that way since the moon goddess and the sun god themselves. My new Luna walks with strength but I feel her nervousness in the bond “would you like me to shift first my beautiful mate?” I ask through a whisper in her ear, hoping she will say yes. To my dismay she shakes her head then starts to strip becoming bare to the moon, she looks up to the moon, like she was giving a silent prayer to the moon goddess herself.

Remembering my first shift and how painful it was, her little body didn’t seem like it would manage it. I screamed while my dad watched, while sax reassured me told me it was going to be fine. My shift lasted around a hour, which is slow for an future alpha, really slow. Once shifted into sax, I looked at our reflection in a near pond, a huge black wolf with blood red eyes. We ran, felt everything, the breeze, the dirt and grass under our paws. We could smell everything, our eyesight was improved same with our hearing.

After we ran for over a hour, Sax had enjoyed being free, it was time to shift back, we head back to where my father was stood, where my clothes was neatly folded. Sax let me take control, we shift back a lot quicker then shifting into Sax. I quickly get dressed and smile at my father, I was finally of age for my wolf. That night I would kill my father.

I smiled at my him, in return he hit me, punched me straight in the jaw, in front of the whole pack. He started shouting at me, called me a disgrace and spat in my face, told the whole pack he disowned me. My father said I was weak, that I would never be the alpha to the pack. They was the last words Alpha Enzray of the red waterfall pack, I saw red, he called me weak, I stood up feeling taller then before, pushing out my chest and my voice boomed. “I am not a disgrace, I am not week”, my aura radiating outwards, bringing the whole pack to their knees, even my father was visibly shaking trying to ignore my authority. “kneel” I boomed pushing my aura out further, he had no chose, sinking to his knees in front of me, my claws extend, ‘Silas are you sure you wish to do this? He is our father’ Sax asks me, I was done being this man’s punching bag, I was done walking on egg shells around him, he has been like this since my mother died birthing my sister, who died soon after. ‘Yes Sax, he has to go!’ With my extended claw I sliced straight across his throat, then I challenged the rest of the pack. “If you agree with that dead prick over there, come forth and meet you end, you will have the same fate as he”. No-one came forward, they all bowed while baring their necks in submission.

This is how I became the ruthless alpha, anyone or any alpha that got in my way of what I wanted met the same fate as my father and merged their packs into mine, rogues had no chance. The only pack bigger then my own now was the kings himself.