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Chapter 2: White Flame

I was shocked in place as Valary smiled at me. Did I just hear her correctly? The White Flame Coven had a lead on my mate, how? I've searched for her almost everyday since I turned 18 and shifted for the first time. I only started to give up this year after flying all the way to Japan to meet the members of the Ajakutski Pack and hoping to find her there. I'd come to terms that my mate was either a rogue I'd never see or a member of a enemy pack. How lucky had I been? Tuh, not lucky enough. I was a future Alpha and couldn't even find my mate one of the most simple task I could have.

"Well?", started Valary still holding onto me. "What do you think Phi, wanna go find your mate?" I was still clueless as to how the hell they could have gotten a lead on her. My Dad called my name, "Phoenix, what the hells the wrong with you boy?" I looked at him across the room. He stood now meeting my look. My Dad wasn't someone to be kept waiting. "Sir," I said, but didn't know how to finish. "I don't understand Dad, how could the coven have found my mate for me?" Valary looked pissed. "AS IF WE WERE WEAK, AS IF WE WERE ONLY ALLIANCES OF WHITE MOON BECAUSE WE NEEDED YOU!"

Shit, she was pissed now for sure. I had offended her. I took her by the hand alarming her she snatched it away and I quickly snapped it back. Kneeling before her I apologized for my ignorance.

"I didn't mean to offend you, I'm just confused. I spent the last two years of my life searchering for my mate. How did you come upon a lead?" She looked at me irritated. "Witches in my coven have kept birth logs on your pack for decades. We came across something interesting yesterday and immediately brought it to Alpha's attention." I walked towards the table in the room where a large book laid. There were names of multiple pack members I knew and some I never met. There was a purple circle around a name of three people who's first names I couldn't make out because it looked as if they were scratched from the book, the only legible thing was the last name Allure.

"Who's the Allure family?" I looked to my Dad. "The Allure family was once a trusted family to this pack, they were a line of Betas here. Malice would have been my Beta but a situation happened between us.", he looked down, upset. "What happened?" ,I asked. "Malice's sister and I dated, I was in love with her before I found my mate, your mother." Valary shuffled nervously in the corner. I looked at my father to edge him on. "Well things didn't go as planned obviously because Mal knew I had to ascend to Alpha, thing is Moon was pregnant." he swallowed hard. "When I found your mother I was excited and scared all at once. No one knew Moon was pregnant though, we kept it a secret because as you know it's forbidden to be a Alpha and have a child outside from your Luna. Was just me and Malice and her." Thinking to myself, and knowing I was a only child I knew the story wasn't going in a good direction. Valary had shifted to the side of my father.

"The White Moon Pack and White Flame Coven have very specific and strict rules as to what happens under certain circumstances. When there is a child born out of mate relationships we are forced to do one of two things. Ban the child and they become a rogue or the child dies." Valary's eyes had a glossy kind of cold look to them. "I took it upon myself to help your father. Although he thought we didn't know of the pregnancy witches can tell when one is with child. I brought the issue to him the night he marked your mother.", she finished.

I sat there silent, waiting, and my insides turning. "So I have a rouge sibling?", I began thinking of what this could mean. "No." , my Dad said quietly. "Moon ended her life when Valary confronted her with the options." Tears left his eyes. I stood and held my Dad on his shoulder. "Why do we have this rule? It's ridiculous!"

"The rule is in place to make sure there are no squabbles over Alpha and Luna reign. Either a Alpha or Luna is born to the previous leader or we chose from the next ranking family. Things have always been done this way to assure peace and equality in the pack." my mom said from the doorway. I hadn't even noticed she came in.

"Although it's not a rule I particularly agree with, it does keep things civil." She walked to my father. She probably felt his pain through their link. Mated wolves have a very strong emotional link that connects us.

She held my dad lovingly. Valary explained how after Moon ended her life, her brother Malice wanted out from the pack. My Dad allowed it not wanting to make things even worse with his old friend. Malice had his mate at the time and they had one child, in the book she was marked female at birth.

My wolf started howling eagerly inside of me at the chance that she could be my mate. My heart started pounding and sweat formed on my forehead. Why the hell was I feeling this way. I haven't even seen her yet. Hell I didn't even know if she was actually my mate. My wolf growled lowly at my negativity. "Val, so where do we begin?", the words shot out of my mouth before my brain even formed them. My mother glared at me. "Didn't you just hear your father and I? She would be a rouge wolf. You know what comes with that. The Allure's knew with leaving the pack they'd never be allowed back in under any circumstances." I looked at my mom confused. "So what's the point of this meeting then?!", I shouted so loudly because my wolf had partly taken over. "How the hell am I supposed to become Alpha without my mate!?"

My father lunged towards me but I quickly dodge him. I could see the fury in his face. "WATCH HOW YOU SPEAK TO MY WIFE AND YOUR MOTHER!" The wolf inside me heeled but growled all the same. I wanted to challenge him, this was my shot at becoming Alpha and what?, they were just going to take it from me. Anger grew in my chest. "I want the information and where to find these Allure's, I will find them and see if this girl is even my mate." Everything in me felt positive it would be her.

Valary shifted towards me, she tapped me on my forhead and a vision appeared in my view. A cottage, small but decent, front yard and grey picket fence in the rear a field full of wildflowers and fruit trees. I know this place, I thought to myself. "I've seen this place before!" I said to Valary. "I've seen this place hundreds of times in my dreams!" She looked at me wholeheartedly. "If you have seen this place it must be a sign that we are on the right path."

Suddenly, I heard a shuffling from across the room. Our packs Beta, Tate, had just walked in. He gave me a nasty look, partly due to me messing around with his daughter. I deserved that. "Alpha Phi.", he muttered still staring my way. Tate stood almost six foot tall, amazing build for a Beta with ice white hair. His gaze turned to my father, "Reporting for duty."