All Chapters of The Alpha My Sister Wanted: Chapter 1 - Chapter 10

My father did not come to collect me from the airport.Neither did my sister.After seven years away from Black Moon Ridge, I should have expected that. Still, as the taxi pulled away and left me standing alone outside the black iron gates with one suitcase and a heart full of stupid hope, something inside me cracked.It was only a small crack, but it was enough to remind me why I had stopped hoping in the first place.The gates loomed above me, twisted metal shaped into wolves and crescent moons. Beyond them, the pack road curved through thick pine forest towards the house I had once called home.Black Moon Ridge.The place where I was born, the place I had been sent away from, and the place that had never once asked me to come back.I stepped through the open gates.The air smelled of rain, pine, damp earth and wolf. My wolf stirred faintly beneath my skin, weak and restless, as though she had been asleep for too long.I was three weeks from my eighteenth birthday and still had not s

My old room had not changed, and somehow that was worse.The narrow bed still sat beneath the window. Pale curtains were tied back with faded ribbons. The dresser still carried the small scratch near the handle from the day I dropped one of Vivian’s music boxes and she cried for an hour, even though it had not broken.The only obvious difference was the empty shelves.My books were gone.I stood in the doorway longer than I should have, one hand wrapped around the knob. It felt childish to care so much, but the books had been the only part of this room that ever truly belonged to me.Of course they had packed them away.Maybe no one had expected me to want them when I came home.Maybe no one had expected me to come home at all.Behind me, Luca’s footsteps faded down the hall.Don’t let it.I wanted to believe him.But standing there brought back the eleven-year-old girl Victor had sent away, quiet, apologetic and always trying to take up less space.I could feel that version of me sett

A growl rose inside me before I understood it was mine.It never reached my throat, but I felt it move through my bones, a warning from a wolf who had spent years asleep and picked the worst possible dinner to wake.Victor's command pressed harder.Sit.Be still.Obey.My knees shook. For one horrible second, I thought I would collapse in front of the whole room, in front of Ezra.Then my wolf shoved back.The command's grip cracked with a snap behind my ribs, like thread giving way.Victor felt it too. His eyes widened just enough for me to see.The hall went quiet.I was still standing.That was the problem.I stood before the Alpha, the Luna, the Beta, my sister, the future Alpha everyone expected beside her, and half the important wolves in Black Moon Ridge.And I had not obeyed.Victor rose slowly."Aurora."He said my name softly. Victor had never needed volume to make a warning clear.My hands curled at my sides."I'm sorry," I whispered, though I did not know what I was apologi

I did not sleep.How could I?Every time I closed my eyes, I saw Victor’s face.Not the cold mask he wore for the pack. Not the disappointment he had dressed me in since childhood.Fear.One flash of it.One crack in the stone.And somehow that frightened me more than his anger ever had.Victor Vale was afraid of me.The thought should have been impossible. I was the daughter he barely tolerated. The late bloomer. The unshifted girl. The family disappointment wrapped in Vivian’s hand-me-down kindness.But he had looked at me like I was dangerous.I lay in my narrow bed with the moonlight spilling across my old room and listened to Black Moon Ridge breathe around me.The house creaked softly.Wolves moved somewhere below.Wind dragged tree branches against the window like fingernails.And under all of it, my wolf paced.Not sleeping.Not hiding.Awake.I pressed a hand to my ribs.What are you?No answer came.Of course it didn’t.My wolf had waited almost eighteen years to wake. Appare

The growl rolled across the training field.Low.Raw.Mine.For one frozen heartbeat, no one moved.Not Mara.Not Vivian.Not Bianca.Not even Victor.I stood in the centre of the training mat with my knees shaking and my breath trapped somewhere behind my ribs.My wolf pressed against my skin.Close.Too close.Every sensible part of me wanted to run.Something deeper wanted me to stay exactly where I was.Victor’s face had gone pale.Only slightly.Only enough that I knew I had not imagined it.Whispers broke around the field.“She growled at the Beta.”“She hasn’t even shifted.”“Did you feel that?”“That wasn’t normal.”Normal.Apparently Black Moon Ridge had decided I was finished disappointing them and had moved on to impossible.Ezra stepped onto the field.Victor turned sharply. “This does not concern you.”Ezra kept walking.“It does when you use a command on an unshifted wolf in front of the pack.”Victor’s expression hardened. “Aurora is my daughter.”Again, something inside