CHAPTER 3

Luke POV

Standing outside the great hall my heart was pounding in my chest. It felt like I was about to have an anxiety attack when my train of thought was interrupted.

“So, you are really going through with this?” I heard a voice ask as I felt a hand on my shoulder.

It was beta Mathias. He was a great man and warrior and the pack almost respected him more than the alpha of the pack.

I think he was the main reason why people in the pack left me alone.

Being Kate’s dad – he had known me since I was just a few days old and seen me and Kate grow up together. He always treated me with respect and not like the outcast I was. But even he had tried to talk me out of pledging to the supreme alpha – knowing he couldn’t protect me in this.

But when he could see that I was determined to due it anyway, he started training and preparing me for the selection. I trained along side Kate every night and every night I was amazed to see her shift and her wolf emerge. Kate was stronger than she looked. She was so small and tiny but when fighting she was athletic, fast and flexible and it was clear that beta blood was running through her veins.

Her wolf was not big in size either but immensely breathtaking. The color of its fur was the same as her hair color – soft golden and the eyes big round and green just like hers. I liked her wolf. It was always rubbing up against me making me pet it and making Mathias very uncomfortable and Kate embarrassed. Which always made me laugh.

“Yes” I answered shortly. Catching my own breath.

He sighed and then walked in front of me showing me to my place.

There were a lot of people in the great hall. But then again there was people pledging from five different packs. The alphas from the different packs weren’t here yet but the betas was. It was apparently their job to make the pledgers from their packs ready before the selection ceremony.

“All the pledgers will be standing in a line up here at the end of the great hall. The alphas will be up there on the stage before of you guys and the spectators will be seated behind you. When the supreme alpha enters she will walk through the great hall and will be seated up their along side the alphas and in front of all of you. As soon as her entrance and title is announced you will bow down in respect and at no point will you look at her. She will not be choosing any one tonight. Tonight, is just about shoving the pledgers and shoving her our respect. Tomorrow is the real deal where the tests and the actually selection will begin, and you will have the opportunity to show off your worth” Mathias explained.

“Excuse me – did you say her?” one of my classmate Tomas asked in disbelieve.

“Yes the supreme alpha is a female – the first and only one of her kind and like the ones before her she was chosen by the moon goddess and because of that we will show her the same respect as the ones before her” Mathias stated.

“She will never be the supreme alpha! She will be forced to become Luna as soon as she is marked by her mate, and he will become the supreme. But lets all play pretend until then – why don’t we” a rough voice from the back uttered.

“Who said that!?” Mathias yelled out – offended that anyone would have the audacity to speak of the supreme alpha in such a manor.

“Well, it’s the truth!” the voice coming up along side Mathias. He was tall, big, muscular and with scars alongside his body transparent through his shirt. He looked terrifying and I stepped back feeling his wolf just under the surface.

“Alpha Mazon – you’re are here early” Mathias addressed the rough voice without reacting to anything else coming out of the man’s mouth even though it was clear that he was infuriated of the words spoken about the supreme.

“Yes I wanted to see what all the spectacle was about” alpha Mazon answered uninterested.

“You don’t have any pledgers this year” beta Mathias asked getting more annoyed with Mazons attitude. 

 “Hah! No! Why on earth would I want my best warrior to pledge to a woman” he laughed right back in Mathias face.

“You would want them to be honored by being chosen by the supreme alpha” Mathias growled through his teeth.

Mazon looked down at Mathias with an arrogant smile showing his canines.

“I just want to see if this woman is at least worth banging” he said smiling through his teeth.

Mathias almost lost it.

“Gentlemen is there a problem?” a young tall and extremely handsome man spoke.

“Are the pledgers informed and ready. The alphas are ready, and the supreme alpha will be making her entrance in about ten minutes. We would not want to keep her waiting – would we?” he asked with a polite smile.

“Of course, not – pledgers get ready” beta Mathias ordered us.

I didn’t know who the man that interrupted beta Mathias and Alpha Mazon was, but he had this royal aura surrounding him. He was young but walked out of the great hall with a confidence suiting an old and experience alpha.

“Face forward, Luke” Mathias words made me jump a little not realizing I had been trailing the unknown man with my eyes as he left the great hall.

I didn’t get to ask about the unknown man before the five alphas emerge to the stage in front of us taking their place.

Alpha Ezrod from my pack. Alpha Mazon the male chauvinistic asshole. And three other older alphas which name I didn’t know.

I took a deep breath in and stood with my head held high and awaited my destiny.

Silence.

Hearing the doors to the great hall open and then that sound.

“Click” “click” “click” “click”