Adam POV
I sat in my father's chair only 25 years old still having no clue how to run my father's pack. I felt like I was failing and letting everyone in the pack down. After another half an hour of paper work and other pack duties, I decided to take a break from the office and I feel my wolf Shane growing weaker. I could feel his anger building up inside me before he burst out through our mind link. Shane began to whimper before he asked, more like yell........ "WHEN WILL WE FIND MY MATE! I WANT MY MATE NOW!" Only time will tell, but I hope soon.
I replied. Sitting back into my chair I began to wonder what it would be like to have a mate. I have only heard some stories from some of the older pack members who were older friends of my father. They helped my dad raise me especially after mom died. I Sorely wished my mother and father could be here. I wished I could have gotten to meet her, I have only seen a few pictures of when she got to hold me for a little bit of her so I have only seen photos of her. Instead of risking my life she told doctors to save mine if at all necessary before she died from complications with child birth.
After my father passed away 8 years ago it was just me. I was only 17 when I took over with the alpha responsibilities. I was the Youngest Alpha in a 500 mile radius to become an Alpha. This was due to a pack called the Woodlin. My father tried to make peace with the alpha of the Woodlin pack, but instead it became a war with them. Since we were supposed to have peace with them, only for my father to sacrifice himself to save our pack for no reason.
I have never known the reason why they did what they did and I don't know if I want to know, as far as I was concerned thier was no reason for killing my father. He was a great Alpha of the Redwood pack. He was fair, kind, and just Alpha. He helped so many of our people in so many ways and always told them they would be welcomed back if something happened to their mates. We were one big family in this wolf pack and that's how he wanted it. I wanted to continue on his legacy and I also wanted to make sure all my pack members knew if you did wrong yes you will have consequences just like my father did.
When I got asked what would stay the same and what would be different when it came to rules and laws for our pack. I told them for now they would stay the same until they needed necessary changes. The pack gave me the first year to go over the rules and laws for our pack and I kept most of them the same, and tweaked some that needed it. Some of the things I wanted to change was the radius of the peace treaties. I knew this would make my father would probably be turning in his grave if he knew I was working on peace treaties in a 1,000 mile radius. He was a hard working man and he worked so hard to create peace with any wolf clan within a 500 mile radius.
I intend to live those peace treaties out to my dying days and have my children Carry them on if I could. I really want to make a peace treaty with the Woodlin pack, but now I'm not sure.... How am I supposed to feel about all of the wrong that they did to my family and pack. Their Alpha slaughtered my father even though he sacrificed himself to save our pack in the end. I felt like my fathers death was my fault because I was allergic to some of the mint plants and another plant they had. When we visited the Woodlin Pack it was to deliver gifts for their twin babies they were expecting and I had to leave the land early and use my epee-pens.
My father asked if we could move somewhere away from the plants I was allergic to, but I knew the Luna of the Woodlin pack just a bit and I saw in her eyes that she was doing this on purpose. All I ever want was to help keep everyone safe in my pack and I also wanted that peace treaty to go through to. Now I'll be D***** if we digress instead of progress. Just as my thoughts continue to rattle around in my mind and I come back to reality I get a knock on my now new office door that had just been replaced. "Come in" I yelled. In came my best friend also my Beta Joe panting out of breath.
He held up his hand to give him a moment to breathe. He never ever had to do that unless it was really bad. After a few moments he spoke............ "Alpha we have a problem..... There are two she- wolves fighting for the rank of Luna." he said. Getting up from my chair not even realizing how fast I pushed past him I was out the door and down the stairs before I realized my wolf took control hearing that two women are trying to claim Luna when I haven't even picked my Luna. My wolf Shane came out when I got downstairs and out to the field when he began shouting "NO ONE IS MY MATE STOP FIGHTING!!" Everyone that had gathered to watch suddenly dropped to their knees and the two she wolves that started to fight over the Luna Rank now lay paralyzed, nude, with bloody wounds all over them slowly beginning to heal.
They laid there on the ground whimpering from the strength of my wolf radiating throughout the area. Everyone else is kneeling in front of me I stood with my arms crossed as I bellowed out to the ladies Put your clothes back on and everyone got back to work. Get out of my sight I yelled more gruffly than I intended to at everyone. They all scrambled to get back to work as the girls scrambled to grab their clothes before take off. While I was still enraged I took off towards the forest, as I mind linked my Beta Joe letting him know I would be gone for about 30 minutes and he was in charge while I was gone. I had no idea what it was till I saw a young woman walking around in the forest. Against the darkness that was starting to set in.
All I could see was her Sapphire eyes glowing in the evening as the forest got dark. I was in my wolf form for my run and she just stood there and stared as if she knew something about me, but I couldn't determine how much she knew. She slowly put her hand out to me to pet me and I let her. I laid my head in her hands as she rubbed my head. She sat down on the ground as my wolf Shane laid his head in her lap, he eventually let me have some control & I began to turn back into my human self till I heard someone calling her in the distance. All this time all I could hear was my wolf saying "mate" repeatedly.
I walked slowly behind her as she outstretched an arm again to let me sniff her hand as if I was a wild animal. I just turned my head to the side all at once thinking what she was doing out here all by herself anyways. She looked tiny and frail. I knew better though, because she smelled of Alpha blood. I mink linked my Beta Joe to let him know I was going for a run and that he was in charge till I got back for about thirty minutes and that time was coming near. The smell of wild strawberry and cream with a hint of vanilla still lingered and it made it so hard to leave, but made me want to find her sooner.