His Queen, Her Alpha

Chapter 7

(Colton POV)

I feel the pack link tug at me. I open my mind-link and my brother is already yelling inside my head. I don't know how I passed out hearing our mate's howl, but my only thought was that she needed us.

“Where are you, Colton?”

“I’m coming. I need to leave as soon as I get back to the pack house.”

I sent a mind-link to Sean, Josh, and my brother together: Meet me in my office in ten minutes.

That howl — the most beautiful I’ve ever heard — still rings in my bones. I need to protect her. With her being a moon wolf, I feel better once she’s inside our territory where I can protect her and keep her safe. I am nervous about finding my mate but I have waited long enough for her and this is like a dream come true.

I have dreamed of my mate since I never had the best family growing up. Most Alphas pass down their pack to their firstborn son when they come of age. I was given the Black Shadow pack by my uncle because he never had children, never finding his mate. My uncle took in my brother and I because our father was worthless, he wanted everything that was not his so he was banished fifteen years ago for trying to challenge my uncle. My brother and I only had our mother and uncle until three years ago. Our mother had died in a rouge attack in town. I tried to reach her in time, but by the time I ran into the town square they had latched onto her neck and snapped it. I watched life leave her eyes; strangely, she almost looked relieved — like she was ready to the moon goddess. She’d been in pain since her mate left, since my father walked out wanting the alpha position and then lost the challenge against my uncle. I hate my father for what he did to our family. He left and destroyed his mate letting her feel his betrayal pains. He was never faithful to my mom so when he would sleep with someone else, she would be the one to suffer. I wished for a very long time my uncle would have killed him when father lost the challenge.

“Mate!” Blaze growls in my head.

“Is that all you can think about?” I snap, smiling because I know the truth.

“Yes. Get to the mate. Other wolves heard the howl too — they’ll try to hurt her.”

“s**t. You’re right. Moon wolves are legendary for strong wolves and strange powers. Any wolf would try to mate her for power.”

The last moon wolf was murdered. Alpha Alexander and his daughter lost their lives in a fire about fourteen years ago due to some rouges causing problems.

I run to my room, throw some clothes into a bag, my wallet and toothbrush and toothpaste. After I zip the bag, I head straight to my office.

Everyone’s already waiting when I open the door. They stare at the bag in my hand.

“I heard our mate's howl. I need to find her. Now!” Knowing I do not have the patience to hear them question everything I say.

“Wait — slow down,” Sean, my beta, says. Sean has been my best friend since well, forever. His father stepped down the same day my uncle resigned as Alpha allowing Sean and I to take our positions in the pack. Sean is the serious one of the group. I am the ruthless one, while our gamma, Josh, is, for better words, the goofy one. Josh spends more time with my brother than he probably should, but he’s a great gamma — responsible for training the pack and the first to run into a fight.

“I have to leave and find my mate. She doesn’t sound far. I should be gone maybe three or four days.” They stare at me like I’m crazy. I don’t care; all I want is my mate.

“Congratulations, man. We’ll watch the pack.” Sean gripes my shoulder, excitement in his eyes. “Bring our Luna home.”

“You got it.” I say, and head out. Josh was just staring at me with his mouth wide open.

On the way down the stairs, Miranda blocks the front door. She reaches for my arm and I lose control of Blaze.

“Touch me again, and I will kill you.” The words are all Blaze; she knows my wolf is in control because she stares straight into my eyes. When Blaze takes over, people swear my eyes look like fire swirling inside them.

She gulps and shrinks back. Blaze snorts, and in my head the wolf says, My name is Blaze for a reason.

I won’t lie — I probably won’t feel bad if Blaze rips her apart. Miranda causes nothing but trouble. One night, I walked into the kitchen and heard her yelling at the omegas, telling them they were doing everything wrong. She raised a hand to hit one of them; I ran up, grabbed her, and lost it.

“Who do you think you are? They’re working here. If you ever lay a hand on them again, I will rip off your arm slowly and feed it to you.” That same night I found out she’d been telling everyone she was going to be Luna. I should have banished her then but I put her in the dungeon for two weeks, hoping something would get through her thick skull — but nothing did.

“Bring the mate home first. Then we deal with her,” Blaze reminds me. I nod. This will get worse if I don’t stop Miranda for good.

I chuckle and run out the door.

I throw my bag on the ground and let Blaze take over the shift. I shake out our black midnight fur. Being in wolf form has always cleared my head; running is freeing to us. The day’s stress melts away, and who wants to mess with a giant black wolf with fire-colored eyes? We stand around eight feet tall — one of the biggest wolves known. My uncle, who was Alpha before me, was only about seven feet and not as massive as Blaze.

I let Blaze step forward in my mind; he’s pushing, eager to find her. “I can find her faster,” he insists. I feel him take the lead and drift to the back, ready to let him do the hard work.

He grabs my bag into his mouth and sets off to find our mate.