Chapter 21

TRICIAFor a few seconds, none of it felt real. I was still in awe of the presence of my mothers spirit…But I knew enough when Blake told me himself…There were thirty rogues at the pack's borders and Tristan was behind them.From that moment on..I saw a different version of Blake I had never seen.A spine chilling and scarier one…He didn’t snap out or run as he would on first knowledge of a coming war... He just stood in the garden..taking it all in. Then he spoke. His voice was low, but it carried a certain edge that chilled me to the bones—“Pull every available wolf to the north perimeter. Now.”Then he turned to me and gave one order. "Vault. Close it."I looked at the open chamber behind me and at the white wolf standing in the center, its gold eyes still fixed on me.This was really my mother's consciousness.. I knew it wouldn’t be like her being here in the flesh, but still..it provided a little bit of comfort.Slowly, I walked forward and mouthed the words. "I will come

Chapter 22

BLAKEI did not sleep all night…I sat in the chair by the bedroom window, watching the dark, running the next twelve hours through my head.Thinking of every angle.. every contingency and every single way this could go wrong. The trap we had set for Tristan and for the traitor in our midst.Rector.Even now the name felt wrong.Fifteen years of loyalty and of trust between us…and now I was feeding him false information, watching him take the bait, preparing to destroy him.I should have felt something. Anger. Grief. Betrayal. Instead, I just felt tired.Tricia was asleep on her side of the bed. She had fallen asleep sitting up, still in her clothes, with her shoes on…She couldn’t even get undressed before she slept…I guess that told me everything about how exhausted she actually was under all that front she was trying to put up.She had been through more in the past few days than most wolves endured in a lifetime, and she was still standing and fighting.I should look away, ignore

Chapter 23

TRICIAThere was no time to process the phone call.Blake stared at his phone for four seconds max. I watched how his face went pale and dry for a few seconds as he looked stunned.Then, his gaze sharpened again as he put it in his pocket and said, "Later."I wanted to say something. The questions were piling up in my brain, a mountain of confusion and fear. His mother.Was she alive too? And then what she said to him too…not to trust Gerald. What did it mean? What did it change?But the look on Blake's face told me that he was doing a lot of heavy lifting right now, and I let it go. There would be time for answers later. Right now, we had a claiming to complete.The real claiming happened in the Vault garden just before sunrise.There were no guests, no ceremony and no pack watching on…Only three people were here… Blake, me and our one witness. The only person we could trust enough for this…Gerald. He was acting as the required witness under old law.Gerald stepped forward be

Chapter 24

BLAKEA deafening silence fell in the room after that.No one spoke.No one seemed capable of itMe? I was stunned… Tricia was an Alpha. Not any Alpha…the Alpha of all Alphas.How..?I looked at my father. Then my gaze moved to the mark on Tricia's neck and then at Tricia.Suddenly, it made sense.I could recognize that mark…The Seal of the First Alpha. The original ruler before the bloodlines split.So that meant…the woman I had spent four days treating like a liability had just become the most powerful being in our world.Crazy would be a very big understatement…At this point, no one still had spoken. Then, Tricia looked at Gerald, then at me, then back at Gerald and finally, she spoke, her voice was flat and almost annoyed."I want everyone to be very clear that I did not ask for any of this."“Look.. I need to make this a little simpler for you.”Gerald started again, turning to me, as his words spilled out in a rush, desperate and defensive."The Seal of the First Alpha is no

Chapter 25

TRICIAI stood frozen as wolf after wolf dropped to their knees.The sight of it was overwhelming... Wolves who had looked through me like I was air, nothing more than a human.Some of them in this very room laughed when Charlotte poured hot tea on my arm, And now..they were on their knees, their heads bowed in submission…to me.For a long while, more than a minute even, I did not move or speak…Heck, I didn’t even know what to do with my hands. I looked at Blake beside me. He pulled his eyes from Rector finally…I thought he was going to stare at him to death.Then he looked around the room..at the wolves, his expression gave nothing away.I couldn’t quite read it…he wasn’t surprised by the reaction I got, neither was he exactly proud…It was like a fine line between those two. If something like that existed.Xavier was still on both knees at the front, his head down. For a man who had called me a diseased animal four days ago, this was almost funny..I leaned slightly toward Blak

Alle Kapitel von The Alpha’s human mate: Kapitel 21 – Kapitel 25

Chapter 21

Chapter 22

Chapter 23

Chapter 24

Chapter 25