บททั้งหมดของ Fated to the Alpha: บทที่ 1 - บทที่ 10

AliceThe very air inside the diner spelled disaster. And that, too, in the middle of the week. I’d only been in Rapid Falls a week and had only started this job two days ago, but even I knew the diner, which normally hosted truckers and lumberjacks as its main patrons, was never this empty. Not at eight P.M.My heart began racing in my chest. I turned around, hoping Estelle, the diner manager, would be there, making some semi-racist remark about it being hard times due to this or that. But Estelle wasn’t there. What’s worse was that the backdoor was locked. Reason failed me as fear started seeping in from every pore. From the window, I could make out the outlines of the burly figures standing in wait, but not much else. Not the shape of the passing colors, not the lush conifers that rose along the slopes of the hill, and not the sight of the moon either.Black shadows against a blacker nothingness. They stood there menacingly, ambushing the front of the diner. My gut told me that the

The bond of fated mates.I was getting ahead of myself. Right now, I was surrounded by an entire rival pack right at the brink of the reservation. I couldn’t let them go anywhere near my home, where my family, the Creed of the Wolf, lived. That was sacred ground. It was forbidden for blood to be spilled there.Yet, I was not able to fight the wolves alone. It was sheer madness to think that I could take on thirteen of the angriest, rowdiest, and blood thirstiest werewolves all by myself.The moon strengthened me. The spirit of Briar Wolf, the strongest of our kind, looked over me. I knew it. Whenever I felt alone and overpowered, I remembered Briar Wolf, the most courageous wolf ever. I could feel him in my veins. I could feel the power surging through my being.I looked up at the moon and howled, hoping against hope that my pack would respond.“That was folly, kindred. You let our prey escape. You foil us, youngling. You’ve come in our way for the last time,” their alpha, a grizzly w

3AliceThat night, fear introduced itself to me by a new name. Its name was Rapid River. At first, I was unable to see anything from under the tarp.After five minutes of the boat bobbing and lurching, I finally peeked my head out from under the tarp to make sense of where I was. As it happened, the moon had gone back behind the thick velvet of rain clouds, casting total darkness everywhere. Panic, thy name was Alice.In the middle of all this falling-off-the-hill and being-thrown-into-a-boat business, I had completely forgotten the revelation that werewolves existed. I’d only seen it for a split second, but there was no doubt in my mind that I had seen Brandon transform into a beast. And Estelle. Oh, God. Meek and mild Estelle who had pitied me and given me a job, even though it was minimum wage and involved pouring sweaty and smelly lumberjacks gallons of coffee.As the boat turned in the riverbend, the moon finally revealed itself. I looked back and saw the gushing white waters th

I could only imagine what last night must have been like for her. For me, things couldn’t have gone more perfectly. I had finally met with her face to face, rather than lurking in the corners, hoping to get a chance to talk to her. I got to put Terror Trevor in his place and drive out the Howls from the town. A place free from the violent werewolves, now wasn’t that the dream?Last night, I walked the Path of the Creed. When a pack such as mine found itself without an alpha, Providence made it such that a new alpha would rise from the ranks by facing challenges and overcoming them. Everything that had happened, from me rescuing Alice to me battling Trevor was Providence’s way of conducting a trial to see if I was worthy or not. So said Father Thomas and the rest of the elders in the ceremony.I hadn’t anticipated becoming an alpha. Ever since I was little, the alpha had been someone strong, wise, and old. I might be strong, but I came up short on the wise and old front. I had posed th

I screamed, closing my eyes, bringing my hands up to my face. Even in death, I did not want those bullets to graze my face.“Alice!”I fell backward, my head colliding with something sharp, jagged, and painful.“Alice!”I opened my eyes to find Brandon bent over my body, holding me by my shoulders. His face looked as pale as death. The dreadful vision had ended. I was back in the land of reality. For now.“Alice, oh God, are you okay?” Brandon panted as he tried to lift me up off the floor. I felt like a ton of bricks, unable to move from the cold cove floor.“Leave me alone!” I yelled. It was a reflex reaction. In my defense, I just had one of my visions. I wasn’t myself. I was still reeling from it. These visions had been the bane of my existence ever since I could remember. They would come, warning me of some danger or the other, and when they would end, I would feel hollow, as if my life force had been drawn out as a toll for the vision I had. These visions were always of the futu