Born For The Alpha

“She needs to graduate. The least you can do is allow her finish school. Then she can face her destiny.” The Elder responded.

“It was easier to wait when she was focused on her studies. But now, she is open to love. I cannot explain how much that annoys me. The more she socializes, the higher the risk of exposing her identity to the enemy packs.”

“I know. Still, there’s a stronger reason why you need to wait.”

Gillow gave him a knowing look. “Cain and his agenda.”

“He will kill the moon child to fulfill it. He will do anything to fulfill it. They know about the prophecy. They will be alert once they hear you’ve taken a mate. She will be in danger.”

“I want to challenge him.”

The Elder adjusted his balance on the stick. “The enemy packs need to be kept in the dark about her existence, otherwise, the reason for keeping her hidden all these years would be futile.”

“I said that I want to challenge him.” Gillow deliberately ignored the wise man’s words. He was impatient.

“It is not time. The gods have not permitted it.”

Gillow rose up, towering over the man. “My patience has grown thin. With all due respect, speak with the gods and tell them that if their silence remains, I will start making decisions. I grow weary of having my mate alone out there. They have until the next full moon.”

The Elder quickly cleared his throat. “No one has ever given the gods an ultimatum.”

“I just did.”

The man bowed and turned to go while Gillow’s eyes returned to Arda’s image inside the book. He really could not wait to claim her.

***

The next day, Arda lived her life like it was normal. She set her concerns aside and went about her business.

In the house with her family, she performed chores, aided her mother in the kitchen and went hunting with her father and sister at night.

The moon was out and half full and the forest behind their home was alive with the night sounds of nature.

Twilight thrushes sang and owls called back and forth to their young. Insects and frogs took over where the daylight songbirds had left off while crickets chirped incessantly in the background.

father were dressed in clothes that covered their bodies fully so

any kind of harsh sounds. The three held local guns and backpacks rested

by a tree in the forest and looking around the

the wolf cries?”

“Fear baby.”

“Shut up, Mabel.”

how she and her sister had come to

loved her and would always love her whether she liked it or not. Arda had spoken in

thought Mabel’s behavior was borne out of a grudge about sharing her parents. Mabel admitted instead that she was hurt by the knowledge that they weren’t blood sisters. Her constant show of antagonism was merely an unhealthy

girls joking around as they made breakfast together. The girls had simply smiled at them with a simple chorused explanation. “We made up,”

mind returned

smiling,

her father. “Seriously

are normal. If their cries have increased, it only

what happens if we find any?”

are afraid of humans.

with relief.

You already know the

you encounter trouble.” Arda and Mabel

that awaits

smiled broadly and they separated, the three going in separate

walked forward, the grasses scrunching beneath her booted foot. It took her a few yards before she came upon a grassy clearing dotted by clutters of wood against a backdrop

a tree, she saw a single pig feeding on rape. She could not see any piglets but a single

first kill on the hunt. This was why they were here. Arda aimed her gun

the wood a couple of yards adjacent the pig. It meant that something was probably going to come out. Her attention was divided at the moment. Even the pig

the rustling spot. They were not too big and were roughly about the same size. There

would take down and finally decided on the one she had first seen which had returned to its meal.

pull the trigger when she heard a gunshot and saw a bullet

trees. Her eyes fell on the figure of a hunter who was positioned on the sturdy branch of a tree

almost her kill and the situation upset her. To add to her anger, the other pigs turned and hastened back into the woods, no doubt

wore a hat and his hair flowed underneath it. Where had she seen long hair on a tall and sinewy guy recently? She wondered and started marching

its foot. He switched on the