“Are you going to be okay?” Alastor asks as he hugs me, and I tell him that it will take time, but that I am already feeling better. “Dad, there’s something else we need to talk about. Did the Elders or the Council send a message about Little Crescent Pack?” I ask him, and he nods.
He hands me the message, and the more I read, the angrier Minerva becomes. “Amarah, what’s going on?” he asks, as everyone can feel the anger radiating from my body. I take a few deep breaths, trying to calm Minerva down.
“The contents of this message are a bunch of lies,” I respond. “Khonsu’s Brother didn’t die in a Rogue attack. Khonsu killed him and tried to forcefully mark Luna Asteria. He also tried to kill her Pup, Inti, but he failed at that as Luna Asteria protected him.
Khonsu always wanted what his Brother had, even as little Pups. When his Brother found his fated Mate, Khonsu tried to seduce Asteria, but she told her Mate about what Khonsu had tried to do, and he removed Khonsu from the Pack-house to protect his Mate.
Luna Asteria managed to escape her Pack’s territory with Inti. She kept running until she was too exhausted to continue and took shelter in the cluster of trees and boulders near our eastern border. She is fully healed now, and she and Inti are doing much better than the night I met them,” I say as I look at my Father.
We discuss the options we have, and Dad decides that I’m right. With Asteria hiding in no-man’s land, we won’t be lying if we say that she is not in our Pack’s territory. Instead of having a meeting in front of the Pack house, Dad links the entire Pack at once and explains the situation.
Everyone is ordered to keep her presence a secret, and with the Alpha command in place, I know Asteria and Inti are safe. I follow Dad out of his office, and I’m surprised to see that an Omega is putting clothes, toys, and other items into a bag.
“Alpha, some of our Pack members have brought supplies for Luna Asteria and Inti. Where would you like me to put them?” she asks, and I smile as Dad tells her to put them in his office. He informs me that he will accompany me tonight.
Our Head Warrior approaches me and Dad to tell us that every Warrior has volunteered to visit them at night and to bring them whatever they need. Happiness and pride fill my heart as I realize that our Pack considers them as one of our own.
That night, I visit Asteria with my Dad, and when we tell her what’s going on in our Pack, she rewards us with a smile. Inti is happy with his toys and clothes; Asteria is happy with the support she’s been given, and she tells me that for the first time since her Mate was killed, she feels calm again.
We have all fallen into a routine that works for all of us. Asteria and Inti have their day and night rhythms reversed-they sleep during the day and are awake at night. Pack members take turns teaching Inti everything he would normally learn in school and helping Asteria with whatever they can.
Khonsu is still searching for her and still sticks to his story, even though most Packs have found inconsistencies with it. The Elders are not eager to give him any information, and so far, no one has shown up on our doorstep to ask about Asteria and Inti.
We received a message from Council member Boaz, stating that Khonsu was still searching for Asteria and that they had questioned him about the events of that night. He had refused to come in, using his search for Asteria as an excuse, but the Council is not giving him much time to dodge them.
Two weeks after Damien rejected me, he informed the Elders that he had found his Mate, and that had set off a new string of sleepless nights for me, while Minerva had once again taken to hunting down Rogues and shredding them to pieces.
Dad had a video conference with the Elders and a Council member the day he found out what happened. When Damien reported finding his Mate, they called Dad to ask what I wanted to do. Dad told them to leave it as it was-that his Pack would feel the consequences one day.
Realizing I needed something to take my mind off Damien, Dad told me he was stepping down, and that gave me enough to keep me busy. I had been trained by Dad for years, and I knew I could handle the job, but I was nervous nonetheless.
Today is the day I will take over from my Father, and we both know that some of our allied Alphas will not agree with him. They may or may not break their alliance with us, but truth be told, I don’t care, and neither does my Father.
Alastor has been over the moon, to say the least. I don’t understand why, as I am becoming Alpha and not him. Alastor once told me and Dad that he was glad Dad didn’t believe only a male could take the position of Alpha. When we asked him why, he smiled and said, “I don’t have the patience to deal with crap.”
Dad and I had laughed our asses off because it’s true that Alastor lacks patience in some areas. Alpha Drew and Luna Jess are the first to arrive. After just one look at me, they both know that I will be taking over instead of Alastor.
When I took over from my Father, a lot of Alphas had been shocked.
Most High-ranking Wolves give their position to their Sons even if they have a first-born Daughter. In the history of my Pack there have been two other females that could take over the Alpha title from their Father, but both decided they didn’t want to.
I on the other hand have always known that I wanted the title when the time came and with my Father’s Beta, Gamma and Deltas also having first born Daughters all our Highest-ranking positions are filled by females.
When my Father stepped down as Alpha and when the Elders had sent out the notification to every Pack some Alphas had torn up the alliance we had with them. It didn’t bother me as it was something my Father and I had expected.
Of the nine alliances we had four that were broken when I took over, but the other five stayed loyal as each of their Alphas had seen me grow up and they knew I would be as good an Alpha as my Father had been. One of those Packs lives to the south of us and together we keep an eye on the no-mans land between our Pack territories.
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