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All Chapters of My Alpha Thought I’d Always Follow: Chapter 1 - Chapter 10

10 Chapters

Chapter 1

I pressed Confirm.The words Royal Court Direct Commander Program turned gray. A new line appeared beneath them.Your place has been confirmed. Reporting instructions will follow separately.Lucas pushed open the door just as I closed my laptop.“Finished applying?”He set an iced Americano beside Mia. His other hand came to rest naturally on the back of her chair.This apartment belonged to Lucas and me, yet Mia’s slippers now sat in the entryway. Her mug had appeared in our kitchen. Even the cushions on the sofa had been replaced with the pale yellow ones she liked.“I’m finished,” I said.Lucas visibly relaxed. “I asked about late transfers into the Western Camp. With your scores, it shouldn’t be a problem. Check everyone’s missing documents tonight so nothing delays registration.”He did not ask which camp I had chosen.As far as he was concerned, whatever I put on the form, I would eventually follow him.Mia held her coffee in both hands. “Erin, I’m still missing a recommendation

Chapter 2

The next morning, Caleb sent a message to the group.Eleven o’clock. Departure photo in the square. Don’t be late.By the time I reached the steps of the pack council hall, the four of them were already there.The three men wore white shirts. Mia wore a white dress with a matching bow in her hair.I alone wore navy blue.Mia blinked when she saw me. “Erin, why aren’t you wearing white?”I searched the group messages. No one had mentioned coordinating our clothes.Caleb slapped his forehead. “We decided last night. Forgot to put it in the main chat.”I locked my phone.Once again, they had made a shared decision in the group that excluded me.Lucas glanced at my dress. “Forget it. You can stand at the side.”As the photographer called us into position, the wind pulled the bow from Mia’s hair. Out of habit, I opened my bag and took out a hairpin.Lucas accepted it and leaned down to secure her hair. “Erin always thinks of everything.”Jace held out a hand. “Do you have wet wipes? Mia scu

Chapter 3

Halfway through lunch, Caleb pushed his phone across the table.“The Western Camp sent its registration notice. Decide when we should leave.”The screen also showed several places Mia had selected. She wanted to arrive two days early to visit the nearby lake and forest.I did not take the phone. “The notice includes the route. Decide for yourselves.”Jace looked up. “You know the details better than any of us. Just take a look.”“I have my own things to handle.”Mia quickly pulled the phone back. “It’s all right. I’ll figure it out. I’ve never traveled that far, though. I’m worried I’ll make everyone late.”“Ask me whenever you don’t know something.” Lucas cut her steak into smaller pieces. “You don’t have to be so careful.”They spent the rest of lunch discussing her trip. When Mia asked whether the West was cold, Jace opened the forecast. When she worried that she had packed too much, Caleb promised to carry her bags.I finished my meal in silence.On the drive home, Mia sat in the f

Chapter 4

The next morning, I began packing.Two suitcases of clothes. Several professional textbooks. The jewelry box my mother had left me.A handwritten reminder sheet still hung on the refrigerator. Lucas needed stomach medicine before council meetings. Caleb had to replace part of his patrol gear. Jace’s old injury was due for examination the following week.The final note read: Mia cannot drink cold milk.A month earlier, Lucas had asked me to add it. She had only recently returned to the pack, he said. I should take better care of her.I pulled down the sheet and dropped it into the trash.My phone kept lighting up. Caleb wanted the housing arrangements. Jace could not find his medical report. Mia asked if I would accompany her to collect her travel permit.I sorted their documents into separate folders and placed them in the second drawer of the study.Then I sent one reply.Your papers are in the second drawer. Keep track of them yourselves from now on.I closed my suitcases.The mate r

Chapter 5

Once the vehicle had crossed the border, I switched off my phone and placed it inside the security pouch.The Royal Court officer sealed it. “No private contact with the outside world for six months.”“Understood.”In the rearview mirror, the territory where I had spent more than twenty years grew smaller and smaller. I watched until it vanished completely, then turned away.When the call ended, Lucas was still standing outside the barbecue restaurant.The pain of the broken mate bond ripped through his chest. He made a strangled sound, bent over against the wall, and dropped his phone onto the pavement.Caleb’s expression changed. “Lucas, what happened?”Lucas did not answer. He pressed a hand over his heart, cold sweat appearing across his forehead. The pull that had existed since the Moon Goddess revealed us as fated mates was gone.Completely gone.Nothing remained.Jace understood first. “Erin rejected the bond?”Lucas snatched up his phone and called me again. It was turned off.

Chapter 6

On my seventh day at the Royal Court base, I faced my first assessment.Twelve candidates formed a temporary unit. We had six hours to complete a border-defense exercise: plan patrol routes, identify gaps that rogue wolves might use to enter the territory, and guide a supply convoy safely into a mountain valley after communications failed.Our team leader, Ethan Cole, scanned the risk assessment I had prepared.His eyebrows rose. “Twenty-seven contingency plans?”“For unexpected situations.”“This is the first assessment, not the final defense of the realm.”Someone nearby laughed. “You prepared as if an entire pack might have to evacuate overnight.”My fingers paused.I had heard versions of that joke too many times. Lucas used to say that I planned every detail and exhausted myself for no reason.I closed the file. “Fine. We’ll begin with the standard plan.”Two hours later, the main communication channel went dead. The examiners remotely disabled the drones surveying our route. Then

Chapter 7

Without me, Lucas, Caleb, Jace, and Mia still went to the Western Camp.Life there was not as easy as they had expected.No one consolidated their housing paperwork, so the quiet cottage they wanted was reserved by another team. The four of them had to stay in a hotel outside camp and commute almost two hours every day.For the first time, Caleb prepared his own registration forms. At two in the morning, after discovering that he had omitted two equipment certificates, he pushed his laptop away.“How did Erin finish all this?”Jace was checking the documents for his old injury and did not look up. “Stop talking about her.”“I said one thing.”“You’ve said her name eight times today.”Lucas sat on the balcony, calling me again.No answer.Since the mate bond broke, he often woke abruptly in the middle of the night. No matter how far apart we had once been, he could sense that I existed somewhere in the world.Now there was only emptiness.Mia placed a glass of water beside him. “Lucas,

Chapter 8

When the six-month closed-training period ended, my former pack invited me back for its annual commendation ceremony.The project I had joined remained classified. My public introduction contained only one line.Member of the Royal Court Direct Commander Program.Ethan and two other Court officers accompanied me.At the entrance to the council hall, the elder responsible for academy affairs came out to welcome us personally.“Erin, we have finally managed to bring you home.”“There’s no need to be so formal, Elder.”“There certainly is.” He lowered his voice. “The border emergency system your team designed has passed final inspection. You brought great honor to the pack.”As he finished speaking, I saw Lucas.He stood below the steps and looked thinner than before. Caleb and Jace were beside him.The three of them watched me in silence.At last, Caleb forced a crooked smile. “You’re impressive now, Erin.”I nodded. “I’m doing all right.”Jace held out a document envelope. “It contains

Chapter 9

After the ceremony, Lucas’s mother waited outside the reception room.She held the moonstone bracelet in both hands, her smile strained.“Erin, I made a foolish decision. Mia returned the bracelet. It was always meant for you.”She reached for my wrist.I stepped back. “I don’t want it.”“You’re still angry?” She sighed. “You have always taken things too deeply. Lucas knows he was wrong. Give him a chance. You cannot discard more than twenty years as if they meant nothing.”I looked at the bracelet.As a child, I had dreamed about it more than once. I imagined her fastening it around my wrist and smiling as she called me her future Luna.Only after it had rested on Mia’s arm did I understand that I had never wanted a piece of jewelry.I wanted someone to stand before the entire pack and say, without hesitation, that my place belonged only to me.Lucas’s mother could not give me that certainty.Neither could Lucas.“Keep it,” I said. “Whoever you give it to next has nothing to do with m

Chapter 10

One year later, I was formally appointed to the Royal Court Command Center.My new quarters were not large, but they had a window facing south.I adopted a cat—a calico I found outside the base wall.Ethan said her temperament resembled mine. Most of the time she was quiet, but if someone pushed her too far, one swipe could draw blood.I named her Clover.I no longer needed a perfect ending.A little luck that belonged entirely to me was enough.Caleb and Jace emailed me later. They had completed their first year at the Western Camp. Caleb had learned to manage accounts and schedules. Jace no longer waited for someone else to remind him about examinations for his old injury.They did not ask me to return.At the end of the email, they wrote only one sentence.We were bastards for treating everything you did as something we were entitled to.I did not reply.But I no longer hated them.Lucas suspended his Alpha-heir training for six months. His mother said he spent most of his time in t

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