Chapter 2 - Blake

I don't see why you should go, you can just as well send any other person in the pack to go instead”

My Beta, Zayne questioned as I filled my bag with a few clothes and essentials that I would need.

“Firstly, this is very important for my career. I need this if I want to actualize my dreams, I have to go there and maybe while I am there I could keep an eye on things by myself”

“No, you know that you do not. You are already so popular that attending some stupid seminar would not change anything, it is just bringing alot of publicity your way and endangering the pack

My back turned to him, I gritted my teeth in anger .

It was always the pack, the pack the pack. Don't get me wrong , I loved my pack, I was the freaking Alpha but for once, I needed to do something for myself and not just for the pack.

All my life, I was raised with that statement being resounded in my head every few minutes.

‘The pack comes first, no matter what happened.

And , yes, I agreed that the pack always came first but that statement had also made me lose everything I held dear to in life.

It robbed me of my happiness and yet I had no other choice but to just continue, continue in the same footsteps that ruined me.

“I know how you feel…”

“No, you don't. You know nothing of how I fell, so don't act like you do “

I growled under my breath, trying to reign in the anger that was simmering just beneath my skin.

“Look man, people are talking, they don't think the publicity is worth it. That's all “

“People? Or you? “

I asked, my eyebrow up on question as I stared at him.

Before, I trusted Zayne with my whole life, I could literally put my life in his hands. He was my Beta and my best friend.

But at the same time, he was the first to jump at the ruins of my life to devour it.

“ I won't lie, I don't think it is a good idea. We both know that you might be recruited if you attend this seminar”

“And?”

I asked as I threw more things into my bag.

“You would be in the spotlight, and that is not where you should be, if you're there, it would just be a matter of time before people start to notice things, to ask questions.”

“Did this occur to you when you accepted to be part of the big hockey leagues?”

I heard him suck in a harsh breath.

“That does not concern this.”

“Really? I mean, if not for the injury on your shoulder, and people asking questions on how such an injury would've healed, would you have left the team?”

I paused everything I was doing, my gaze searching his face as the silence in the room became deafening.

“I thought as much”

I zipped up my bag and began leaving the room, my shoulder hitting his.

“You know why I had to do that, why I had to go join the leagues”

“Don't” I growled

“You don't want to hear it? You don't want to accept it?”

“Zayne!”

I growled even louder

“You don't want to hear about how I am a nothing because of your existence”

“I did nothing to cause that”

“Your mere existence is the cause of every disaster that has occured”

My heart clenched in pain

“You don't mean that..”

“Is that what you think?”

I could hear the smirk that I was sure was plastered on his face

He knew just how much I sought his validation, how much I looked up to him.

“I never asked to be written into any stupid prophecy”

“Then walk away!!”

My breath caught,bye knew what walking away would mean for me, for the pack, for everyone.

He knew that , that would be the cause of my death.

I began walking away then I stopped on my tracks, unwilling to leave without putting him in his place and letting him know that I was no longer that young boy from before that sought his validation in everything that I did.

“For so long, you have coveted what does not belong to you. It seems you forget that I am the Alpha, the rightful Alpha and my decision is final and can not be opposed. It would be in your good interest if you try to remember that the next time you challenge me Beta. Remember your place, brother”

I said with my Alpha voice and from the corner of my eyes I saw him struggle not to cower.

A smile appeared on my lips when I saw his head go down in submission despite his will. I was his Alpha , no matter what he felt, that did not change the truth.

As I say in the car driving me to the airport all I could wonder was if I was making the right decision.

The pack all thought I was going in search of the child from the prophecy , the one that was meant to unite with me to defeat the enemy but how I could go in search of her if I did not believe in that prophecy.

From birth I had known I was the other person who was spoke of in the prophecy and I hated the fact that , that was what I was known as, the prophecy child.

No one saw me for who I actually was, Blake Del Monté, I was just the Del Monté son from the prophecy , the son that took his elder brother's spot as the alpha because he was the prophecy child.

Pushing all those thoughts to my head, I had no idea what I was doing these days but at least I was sure of this one.

Once, I had let my duties that had been drilled into me since birth rule my every actions but for once I was going to be Blake Del Monté, the latest recruit of the country's hockey team and not the Alpha of the Blood moon pack.

With that thought ,I blocked the pack link and let it all fade behind me as I got closer to my dreams