The Alpha's scorned Witch

Nerves and journeys

Ashton

 This was a bad idea last time I trusted a witch. I lost my parents, and yet here I am now decorating the pack house to welcome not one but TWO witches. What the hell is wrong with me and, to make it worse, my wolf has been on edge since Jake left to go retrieve them. I've been making the whole pack house miserable, snapping at everyone left to right, and it just makes me angrier that I don't know why I feel this way.

"Maybe you have separation anxiety from Jake", Luke teased, reading my mind. I rolled my eyes. "Yeah right," I said sarcastically. If anything, I was enjoying the break from the biggest pain in my ass besides my little sister.

Between those two I'm surprised I haven't died from stress or at least grown some gray hairs. I was brought out of my thoughts when my phone started buzzing in my pocket. I checked the number and outwardly groaned. It was Stephan, an old member of the council who was obsessed with the fact that I hadn't found a mate yet.

In his eyes, I was unable to rule because my wolf would never meet its full strength without its counterpart. He's been trying to get me to take a chosen mate since my twentieth birthday four years ago. Most wolves find their mates when they turn eighteen, but I'm already twenty-four and there, is still no sign of her. "Hello", I sighed. "Alpha Ashton, did you go over the list of respectable women I gave you?"

"They are all from very wealthy and powerful families and an alliance with one of them will surely benefit our pack." He said through the phone. "No I can't say that I have I've been very busy lately in fact I must go now there's an emergency I have to take care of" I said quickly before hanging up the phone. "Alpha" said one of the pack butlers walking up to me. "The guest rooms have been prepared the cooks are here awaiting your instruction's sir" he said with a little bow "thank you herb I'll be right there" I said with a chuckle he was always so formal.

He was a short, skinny fellow with a very long gray, whimsical mustache and bald head. There was a reason he was head butler and pack advisor. He knew everyone and everything that went on in this pack from the newest baby being born to the amount of dust on the floor. He was a huge help for me when I took over the pack, being just a kid. "Of course, sir," he said as he walked away. I chuckled again. That guy cracks me up.

I know I have a reputation for being cold-hearted and ruthless. But after my parents died, Herb looked after me like I was his own kid and was the only person who I really trusted. I was even suspicious of Luke and Jake for a while. I obviously grew out of that though. The buzzing of my phone took me out of my thoughts. Ugh now what, I thought to myself, but to my surprise it was just Jake probably calling with an update. "Hello". I said on the phone "Hey alpha, it's me. I just wanted to let you know we'd be there sooner than expected". "Things are moving pretty fast here" he said, sounding nervous. "Okay is that all," I asked "yup, that's all" he said quickly before hanging up the phone. Weird

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Jacob

Lexi was freaking out.

As soon as we got onto the private jet, lex went crazy. "I have a bad feeling about this guys i'm serious" she said for the umpteenth time. "yeah you've said that" said Eric who was currently restraining her against her seat. Eric on the other hand was overly excited and I couldn't figure out why.

"Let me go"! She screamed, her eyes turning gold. Oh, no, the plane started shaking and jostling us against our seats. "Lex, calm down. What's wrong with you", Eric shouted. "I won't be able to leave. I just know it". We looked at her confused. "There something waiting for me there and once I see it I won't be able to leave. I don't want to live in a pack" she cried.

"Yeah I'm still confused. How do you know that?" I asked.

"I don't know, I just do" she sighed, "does it really matter? I mean, even if you do have to stay, why is that so bad" asked Eric. "Because wolves hate witches, and I'll have to live in exile or something I don't know. She threw her hands up dramatically. Eric laughed, "just relax. We'll figure it out when we get there."

Alexi

I sat back into my seat and closed my eyes. I was being a little dramatic, but I was really on edge for some reason. I had this feeling in the pit of my stomach that I just couldn't shake. As I sat with my eyes closed, I slowly started to drift off and when I woke we were already at his pack airport.

"Come on sleepy head" said Eric, grabbing my bag from the overhead storage. we got off the plane and a man dressed in all black suit was waiting for us in a slick black van. He walked around and opened the door. The seats wrapped around the back, leaving space in the middle for us all to face each other.

We made it to the packhouse within fifteen minutes. It was huge, like a castle with a moat surrounding it with an actual draw bridge. "Wow" I said, the mountains behind it were covered in green and there was a beautiful green forest, to the side, it looked like a place from a fairytale.

"Beautiful isn't it" said Jake, looking out the window. "I've never seen anything so beautiful" I said in awe. The car stopped in the long spacious driveway. The man in the suit got out and opened the door for us. This time two men came out of the castle to grab Eric's and my bags.

A smaller man with a very long mustache and bald head came to great us "hello, greeting I am Herb and if you need anything simply ask I will be at your device for the duration of your stay" he said with a little bow. "Now if you would follow me the Alpha is waiting for your presence then I'll show you to your rooms".

Eric and I looked at each other and suppressed a laugh. I knew we were thinking the same thing. He's so serious. We followed him into the castle and the inside was even more gorgeous than the outside. I can't believe someone actually lives here.

The castle was decorated in white and gold colors. The floors were marble with a huge chandelier hanging in the middle of the room. It looked like a ballroom with small tables along the sides and one huge table in the middle of the room with a red cloth over it and fancy silverware I'd never seen before.

He led us up the long stairs that seemed like they never ended. geez I'm going to be down a whole dress size if I have to walk up and down these stairs every day. We walked into an office there where already two men in there waiting for us I looked around and realized jake wasn't with us anymore.

I looked at the men the first one was big with rippling mussels and brown hair almost buzzed to his scalp he tall the same height as jake so about six foot. he had a chizaled jaw and dark brown eyes. i turned my head to look at the second guy and gasped he was the most beautiful man i had ever seen he had dark honey skin and was at least six, two he had warm honey eyes that were staring at me intently he has midle lenth shaggy hair that had been slicked back and shaved on the sides.

He continued to stare at me with wide eyes then growled cuasing me to flinch back. "MATE"!!