Alpha’s Choice

But Wait

Jaxon POV

UGH, why am I here? Another night, another party, Nate and Kai, my beta and gamma, dragged me here. Something about me being grumpy when in reality, all I care about is keeping my pack safe and strong. With 700 wolves in our territory, we no longer received threats from outside packs because, in my pack, everyone is required to train from the ages of 12 to 18 to make sure they can defend themselves if needed. After 18, they can decide if they want to stay on and be a warrior or serve pack another capacity. So far, we have 400 well-trained warriors and 100 junior warriors, which is a category we created for those 12-18. The remaining wolves are older and old other responsibilities in the pack. I am very proud of my pack, and I work hard to be feared. We have any business, including a large construction company and development company that many of the pack works at. We have a small number of members that decided to live away from the pack, but they show up for pack functions, meetings, and any other time that I call. So my pack is fortified and thriving. Everyone should be happy, but they are not. I have been alpha for 10 years, without a luna. I could careless about a luna, because I run my pack the way I want, my members are happy cared for, and my favorite part is that no one telling me how to run MY pack. UGH, but after 10 years, I can sense some of the members are getting restless about not having a luna, they would not dare tell me this to my face, but I know they talk about it.

One of our businesses is this shifter club; it’s near ack territory without being on parklands. Any shifter is welcome as long as they follow the rules, and the most important rule of this club is ZERO FIGHTING. You fight, you get to deal with my beta; I have to say this man is built like a damn werebear. So it's usually a peaceful night unless someone thinks they want to lose a few teeth. When I come here, I usually enter the back door and go straight upstairs to the manager's viewing lounge. It has large two-way mirror facing the outside; inside, on one side here’s an oak desk that takes most of the corner. There is a sofa and loveseat seating area, a closet, and an ensuite on the other side. There is a wall with large TV screens with images from the cameras covering every inch of the club, allowing us to see everything that happens in here. Yes, no one is stupid enough to try anything, but it doesn’t mean they don’t try.

A few days ago, my old delta’s daughter called and told me she was bringing some friends to the club, and it’s one of their birthdays, so we saved her and her friends one of our VIP sections. Closed off section, with couches and personal waitress. I am not sure why but since that call, my wolf Alistair has been on edge, which is strange because not much ever bothers him. Yet here we are today outside of the club, and again his winning in my mind.

Would you calm down?

Watch how you talk to me, boy?

You’re driving me crazy with all of this whining! I tried to push him back

It’s bad enough I am here. I just want to get inside and go upstairs and wait for this miserable night to end. He pushes back, no we will wait here.

No, we are going inside; with that, I take off inside with Alistair still at the front of my mind. This is gonna be a long night, I know it.

Jane’s POV

At the door, the bouncers recognize me as a ranked member of the pack and let us in inside I see Nate. He’s our beta. He is a big guy. I am not intimidated by much, but this wolf intimidates me, and I’ve known him all my life. He walks over, and I introduce him to the girls, and he takes us to our VIP section, where a bottle of champagne is waiting. I see Eva looking at him strangely, like she was sniffing the air, “control yourself, girl.”

“You don’t smell that?”

“Smell what?”

“Nothing, I think I might be drunk already.”

“Yes, Eva, we all know you’re a lightweight.”

“Who are you calling a lightweight?”

“YOU, medical school has destroyed my once party girl,” says Molly.

She was right, I used to drink with the best of them, but now, I am done for after a few glasses of wine. “Yeah, who am I kidding? You guys are gonna have to carry me home after this.”

“US? No, that fione beta will.” Laughs Molly. We start laughing as we follow him into our reserved spot. We sat down; he filled our glasses and turned to leave. “Save me a dance,” he says to Molly, “maybe,” she replies. He smiles and walks out.

“I think it’s fair to say that the beta is single” I laughed and closed the curtains, shielding our section off from prying eyes.

We start drinking and dancing in our area, but Molly and I want to join the fun on the dance floor. Against her protests, we drag Eva along.

Molly and I start dancing with the warriors/guards and Eva just dances alongside us, moving her body, saying her hair.

I looked and saw a werewolf making his way towards us and heading straight for Eva. she was so cut up in the music that when he placed his hand on her waist and started dancing on her, she didn’t stop him. Molly and I exchanged a look, and we looked at her, and she seemed to be enjoying herself, so we kept dancing.

Eva’s POV

We started dancing, the ladies and the warriors were dancing, and I was having a good time just dancing near then, but then The Weeknd came on, and I lost my mind; I love The Weeknd, his last album is nothing short of genius! I start swaying to the music, and a tall shifter comes up behind me and starts grinding on me. I see the concern on my friend's faces, but I smile at them, I do not usually dance with random guys, but it's my birthday after all. So I am going to have a good time. He smells nice; he doesn’t smell like that divine scent I smelled earlier, but he’s a good dancer; we might keep him for the night. My wolf Priya starts to whine again about dancing with this guy. “It’s just dancing. We are here to have fun.” She whines and retreats. Just great now that she’s gone. I am definitely gonna be drunk tonight. I am dancing, and the guy puts his hands on my hips, grinding on the floor, like everyone else. But I can feel like someone is watching me. I turn my head looking for the eyes that I can feel on me only to come up empty. I turn and face the guy, put my hands around his neck and notice a large mirror on the other side of the club. I try to enjoy myself, but I cannot shake this feeling of being watched,

Jaxon’s POV

“Man, you need to go down there and meet Jane’s friends they are gorgeous! The blonde and I will definitely be seeing each other later.” Nate says as he walks into the office. “Oh yeah, let me guess are they like your usual “fans”, that you’re gonna take home and then I’m gonna me and Dave are gonna have to spend all week lying to them because they’ve turned into a stalker and won’t leave the packhouse?” He laughs, “no man these girls are different, alpha and gamma born, but still unmated.” Great more mated females to drive his horn dog wolves crazy, “what’s that smell?” I ask him, “what are you talking about, man” I turn and look out onto the dance floor, and I see a pretty little thing in a red dress dancing with some guy; even from here, I can tell she’s beautiful. Let go to her, my wolf says.

We don’t even know her.

Move your stupid feet, human; we need to go to her.

I cannot take my eyes off of her, she’s been dancing this guy for 3 songs, and he’s holding her very close to his body. Go you ass, Alistair growls. Groaning, I walk downstairs, Nate following close behind. We walk towards the group on the dance floor, and her back is to me. I smell the most delightful scent, honeysuckle and vanilla, as I approach. I need more of that scent. My wolf is basically howling now. I can see her long curly hair bouncing while she dances, and I want to run my finger through it. The guy she’s dancing with sees me and stops. He looks at me and says, “alpha” I nod, and he backs away from her, even though I can tell he didn’t want to, but I know he doesn’t want to fight, and alpha today. She turns around, and she is small, maybe 5’3”. I see the top of her head. My wolf is doing a happy dance. Oh no! f**k! f**k! f**k! She looked up at me through thick eyelashes; I saw one brown and one blue eye. She’s the most beautiful person I have ever seen, and my wolf said the one I was dreading, MATE!

Eva’s POV

The guy I was dancing with slowly backed away. I saw the conflict on his face. He left me standing there, then I smelled that scent again; it smells like the earth after a rain shower, clean and crisp; I turn, and all I see is the chest of some big guy. I am mean; I know I’m short, but even with my 5-inch stiletto pumps, I still only reach this dude's chest, which is total bullshit. I can feel that he was probably trying to intimidate me. But he didn’t say anything, and I noticed the source of that scent; oh my gee, is he? Did I really find him? MATE Priya screams in my mind. Yup, we have found our mate. Oh my gee, My mind is spinning, and I m pretty sure I stopped breathing; wait, I know he’s my mate, which means he knows he is my mate. Why isn’t he saying something? Why is he just standing there? I take a step towards him, and he turns around and just leaves me to stand there. WAIT, maybe he's human and doesn’t know about mate, but know this is a club strictly for shifters; he knows very well I am his mate, and he just talked aways. My heart stopped, my heart had literally stopped, I fell to my knees, and my friends rushed to me. Christ lifts me up, carries me back to our section, and draws all the curtains. He places me on one of the sofas, and my girls sit on either side.

“Evie, what just happened?” Molly asked; she only called me that when she was worried

“Are you okay?” Chris hands me a bottle of water,

All I could think was he hates me, he does not want me, how could my mate that I have waited so long for see me and just walk away. How can the Moon Goddess pair me with him? This night is over, and all I want is to go home and curl up in my bed.

“Eva, you have to tell us what is going”

“He’s my mate.”

“Who is? My the alpha?” Questions Jane

Of course, he's an alpha! Why couldn’t he be just a random pack member? Ugh, my watch dings, indicating it's 11, well, “happy freaking birthday to me.”

“I am gonna f*****g kill him,” Eva says as he gets up and leaves.

“SURPRISE!” Screams my brother, Daniel, as we walk into the VIP section. He looks at Chris, looks at me, and immediately goes into defense mode. "What happened?" He kneeled in front of me.

“She met her mate,” Molly explains the whole thing.

“He rejected her?”

“Well, no, they didn’t even talk. He just walked out. “

“I’m gonna break his face. Who is it?”

“Apparently, it’s the alpha of Darkwoods.”

“Of course it is. Who else would have the nerve to reject my sister? Drink your water; I’m taking you back home.”