Alpha’s Homecoming

LittleMissHumanFled

SEBASTIAN POV

A slow murmur surrounded me, creeping closer, growing louder and more chaotic, like a restless tide refusing to recede. Whoever was making those irritating noises needed to be stopped, and I needed to be the one to silence them.

But my body felt unbearably heavy. My eyes burned as though they had been sealed shut for centuries, and only then did I realize I had actually slept, truly slept and was waking up from something far deeper than simple rest.

With a hard clench of my fists, I felt my body fight the paralyzing weight of being dead to the world for far too long. But many hours I had been gone, I couldn’t guess, and desperate to end the relentless noise buzzing somewhere around me, I forced my eyes open. The pain was sharp, searing, yet strangely satisfying. I had never felt anything so agonizing and so relieving at once.

My first sleep ever.

Since my birth.

“Nuel?”

My voice thundered out before I fully processed it, and my Beta froze, immense relief flickering across his eyes as he awaited permission to speak.

“What’s going on, Nuel?”

The question barely needed an answer, I already knew what the chaos was about.

“George thought you were dead, Alpha,” he said quickly. “Since you’ve never fallen asleep before. He’s throwing tantrums, and I’ve been trying to calm him down.”

“It worked, Nuel. Lucy Ahn might be stupid, but she knows her job.”

His gaze drifted to the bloodstained bedspread, his expression twisted with bewilderment, almost amusement, though I knew him well enough to tell the difference.

“You found a chaste woman in this place?”

There was no doubt in his tone, only disbelief. The same disbelief I’d felt when George, the slow witted wolf I’d put in charge of this club, announced the rare find.

Unwanted, yet unavoidable, the girl’s fragile eyes flashed through my mind. Her sharp little whimpers when I thrust into her. Her soft pleas as I claimed every inch of her, taking more from her small, unnervingly magical body than I should have allowed myself to.

“Yesterday was the special full moon. That’s what I needed. You said you would bring me my remedy, Nuel. So where is she?”

I muttered while pulling on my shirt, still enjoying the disbelief plastered on his face. I made for the door, and Nuel hurried ahead to open it. As I walked down the staircase, I pretended not to notice the lingering trace of her shampoo or the faint aftertaste of mint still haunting my tongue.

“Where are we heading now, Alpha?” Nuel asked, and for the first time in centuries I nearly embarrassed myself with hesitation.

“Let’s go look for Klein.”

I barked it out, reassuring myself that I remained firmly in control of my own thoughts. One night with a human, one foolish, fragile human who had fled before I woke up, was not enough to scramble my mind.

Klein would be the perfect distraction. Klein always was. He’d pull this unwanted girl out of my head with ease.

“Will she be okay, my Alpha?”

The moment he said it, I knew exactly who he meant, and something dark twisted inside me, an anger colder than anything I had ever felt. It made me want to tear the entire place apart.

“I mean the girl,” Nuel added carefully. “She’s human. I scented her.”

That irritated me even more. I turned sharply, and he stopped instantly.

“Whatever happens to her, I don’t care. She got paid for a job well done.”

But the memories didn’t stop. They kept replaying, her trembling voice, her tearful breaths, her small hands pushing weakly at my chest. I thought Lucy Ahn’s work would suppress all that, but I almost wished I had been gentler. She’d even sobbed and bitten me, begging me to ease up, and I’d still lost myself in her. I never lost control like that.

“Is that what I think it is?” Nuel’s teasing tone slipped in, his lips curling into a smug smile.

Before he pushed further, I stepped in front of the car, catching sight of the fresh scar on my neck in the side mirror, the exact place her teeth had sunk into yesterday.

“She bites,” I muttered, yanking the car door open. Nuel wisely kept his silence as he drove.

“Get Lucy Ahn here. Now.”

I ordered the moment we arrived. I went inside, leaving Nuel to contemplate my mood, which even I couldn’t decipher completely.

“Sebastian!”

The shrill voice hit my ears, unmistakable. I turned to see my mother approaching, smiling as always, youthful in a way that defied reason, a beauty untouched by the age of time.

“Mother brought me because I couldn’t stop crying,” Caro whimpered beside her, her childish tone making me want to walk right back out. She never acted her age not once, and her clinginess was worse than her drama.

“Sebastian, be nice to Caro. She handles everything at home for the pack,” my mother scolded gently, gliding toward me.

I stayed still, knowing exactly what would happen. And as expected, she reached me and pulled me into an embrace. Her soft sniffs were alarming, she must’ve sensed something had changed.

“We need you at home, Sebastian. The Lights Pack never relents, and your father hasn’t healed from the wolfsbane.”

Her voice trembled as she nuzzled my arm, just like she used to when I was young.

“I have my pack here to protect you, Mother.”

She hated when her pleas didn’t sway me, but I couldn’t abandon the life I’d built here. I couldn’t leave the place my pack had ruled for hundreds of years. Home had Father and Sylvester, but this was my domain.

“I won’t be pleased with you, Sebastian, until you come home,” she warned before turning away. Not new. She’d done much worse trying to drag me back. But LA was where I belonged.

“My Alpha, you asked for me?”

Lucy Ahn’s voice drifted in, and I nodded, gesturing for Nuel to send Caro away. I sat down, hoping the images in my mind would finally fade.

“Why am I seeing her? Thinking of her?” I growled, rubbing my temples. “Make it stop immediately. I can’t keep thinking about a lowly human like this.”