MY HUMAN MATE

The coronation of a new Alpha

~ANASTASIOS’ (MICHAEL) POV~

My eyes fluttered open and I looked around and saw that I was laying on my bed. My wife was sitting beside me, with swollen eyes. She must have cried a lot.

“What happened??” I asked.

“We saw you lying on the floor. You fainted” My wife replied.

I forced myself to sit up on the bed.

“Where's my daughter?” I asked, searching round the room with my eyes till my eyes finally rested on the baby's cot.

“She's asleep in there” my wife replied and pointed her fingers to the baby's cot.

I stood up weakly from the bed and walked to my baby's cot. I got there and looked inside the cot.

My beautiful and gorgeous one year old princess was sleeping peacefully and beautifully on her bed, oblivious of what was happening around her. She's oblivious of the fact that she just lost her grandfather.

The sight of her beautiful and sleeping face seemed to comfort me. I smiled sadly then bent to give her a kiss on her forehead. I was so gentle and soft with it, so I didn't wake her up.

She kept on sleeping and I turned and walked back to my wife.

“How's mom doing?” I asked.

“Still crying. But right now, she's with the Beta. They're discussing burial plans for your father and your coronation of being the next alpha” she replied to me.

My heartbeat skipped a million times!!!

Being the next alpha!! My greatest fear!!!

I have always been so scared of being the next alpha. I have been scared of not knowing what to do, handling difficult situations and controlling the people with respect.

What if I become a failure at leadership?

What if I let the pack my father struggled to build go to ruins because of my incompetence and inability to rule well??

Would I be able to defend my pack against the attack of our enemies just like my father did??

What if I become the worst Alpha to ever rule?

These were my fears of being the next Alpha and I have always prayed for my father to live long and continue to be the alpha till I'm ready to rule.

“You'll make a great and powerful alpha, Anastasios” my wolf, Aether mind- linked me.

“I'm too young for all these things. I'm still too young to be an alpha. I'm not ready at all” I replied to my wolf loudly.

“I know you're still very young and not ready to be the next Alpha, but you have no choice now” my wife replied with a sad expression on her face. She must have thought I was talking to her.

“She's right. You have no choice, and besides you can't let Beta, your father's brother, be the next alpha. It has to be you, that's the rule. You're the next one to be the Alpha. The Beta can only be the Alpha only if your father didn't have any son” my wolf, Aether said.

I wanted to ask him how he knew about my plans but I remembered he's my wolf after all. He reads and knows all my secret thoughts.

I had plans of going to beg Beta Achilleus Adonis to be the next Alpha in my stead. I wouldn't mind lying on the floor and begging with tears rolling down my cheeks.

But my wolf has read my thoughts and has advised me against it.

I sighed deeply and held my forehead in my palms.

“I need you now more than ever, Aether” I mind- linked my wolf.

“Sure, Anastasios. I'm always here for you” he replied.

“Thank you,” I muttered.

My wolf didn't reply after that.

“Let's go and see mom” I said to my wife, Aphrodite and she nodded.

We walked to my mom's room, knocked on the door, opened the door and went in.

The Beta was still with her. She's no longer crying now but paying rapt attention to whatever the Beta was telling her.

They both looked up at us when we walked in.

“How are you feeling now? I heard you fainted” my mom asked.

“I'm fine, mom. How are you?” I asked.

“Fine” came her brief reply.

My mother has always been like that. She's a strong woman, always acting strong and fine even when she wasn't. The way she bounces back stronger from difficult situations surprises me a lot.

My parents were strong people, my brother too, I was the only one not strong enough like them.

“We're discussing your father's burial and your coronation as the next Alpha” Beta Achilleus informed me and I nodded my head.

I sat down beside them on the bed after giving my mom a short, very deep hug.

A hug that says so many things at once. A hug with so many emotions.

“We need to officially announce to the pack about the late Alpha's death and summon for all the pack to be present at the palace for his burial and the coronation” Beta Achilleus explained to me.

“You're aware of the tradition of the pack that your father must be buried the very day he dies and a new alpha must be crowned immediately. So we shouldn't waste any more time. The burial and coronation celebration will be the next day” he said.

“This tradition is cruel. We don't even have enough time to mourn the dead before we bury him and crown a new alpha” I complained.

“That has always been the tradition” my mother replied and I sighed deeply.

The burial arrangements and the coronation plans were finally made and an official announcement on my father's death was made.

The whole pack kept a sorrowful mood as they kept wailing and crying loudly when they heard the news of my father's death. Almost everyone was in tears as my father was really loved by all because of his free, cheerful and Jovial spirit.

He wasn't wicked and ruthless like other Alphas but still he commanded respect from his people even without struggling for it.

And when the pack members were asked to come to the palace for burial and coronation, within a few minutes, the palace was filled with people from both far and near.

Some Alphas my father related well with while he's still alive were present too with some of their pack members. The news about my father's death must have spread wide.

Soon, it was time for my father's burial and his body was brought out. The burial rites were performed by the Beta, elders of the pack and my mother.

After the burial rites were performed, he was laid into the already dug ground and this action erupted with loud wails and cries from the people present.

He's covered with sand till we could no longer see him anymore.

“Now, it's time to crown a new Alpha” Beta Achilleus announced when we're done with everything concerning the burial.

Everyone was quiet, the air was suspense filled as everyone wanted to know who the next Alpha would be, both the pack members and outsiders. Everyone wanted to know the next person to fill that great position of being the Alpha of the Moon Shine Pack, one of the most popular and powerful packs to ever exist.

I shifted nervously in my seat and my legs started to shake in fear. My wife noticed it and placed her fingers into mine.

“You'll be fine. You're a strong person, so act like one” she whispered into my ears and it seemed to calm me down.

“And I present to you, Anastasios Adonis, the first son of the late Alpha Atticus Adonis, as the new Alpha of the Moon Shine Pack” Beta Achilleus announced and I closed my eyes tight, waiting for the reaction of the crowd on the announcement.