The Rogue Alpha and Her Mate

The Funeral

Jax's p.o.v

My sister seemed to recognize me. I wonder how? 

There aren't any pictures of me anywhere, mom and dad made sure of that. I wish I could have shifted back. I wasn't allowed though because "We don't want you getting hurt, your sister is dangerous." 

Give me a break! Sure I was 5 years old, but I developed earlier than most pups. When I was 2 years old I could speak in full sentences. 

When my sister saw our parents, she glared at them and scoffed. I don't understand what mom and dad did to make her so cold and angry. 

They always said she was a nice gentle girl until her 14th birthday, but then they would keep their mouths shut and refuse to talk about it. 

Every New Years Eve, instead of celebrating, the pack mourns the loss of the Alpha's daughter. 

Dad goes into a fit of rage and mom goes into her room and cries over a picture of - what was her name? oh yea- Dianna. While I lock myself in my room and imagine what life would have been like with her.

Dianna's p.o.v

I inhaled sharply as I felt a sharp pain in my abdomen. I look around the pack house and see that it was Saturday February 9th. 

I was now on my period. I curse silently at myself for not checking the calendar earlier or bringing a pad or tampon with me. Hunter was looking at me with so much fire and intensity that I almost wilt.

I could see Donna scowling and I can't help but laugh a little at her. I look around and see the stairs. I rush upstairs and lock myself in the pack washroom. 

I search in the cabinets for pads or something. I look in the cabinet below the sink.

"Aha! Found it." I found a pack of pads. I grab one and use it. 

I get out the bathroom and decide to explore. What can I say? I was still a curious woman. I was wandering the hallways when I heard Hunter's voice along with someone else's. How could he not smell me?

"What do you mean to be careful?!"

Hunter's p.o.v

"What do you mean to be careful?!" the brunette in front of me screeches with rage.

I give her a serious look. 

"It means that I want you to be careful." she looks skeptically at me.

"You keep saying that, but you always let me on the battlefield." she smirks at me. 

"Well I guess you can say I found my mate and she is very dangerous." she glares.

Man, she is so damn moody.

I roll my eyes at her and she does something unexpected just as I smelled Dianna. She slaps me across the face.

"Bastard..it's either you treat me like a child or you treat me like an adult." she hisses furiously at me and storms out the room with me looking dazed.

"Oh... Hello, you must be new here." her voice appears again.

"Umm.. yes I am." it was her voice, Dianna. Slight  hesitation was placed into her voice as well as her usual confidence.

"Well my name is Dorothy Grace, sister of the Beta, Carlos." 

"My name is Dianna Spencer," I creep over and see the two chatting together.

"I am the runaway daughter of Alpha Spencer and Luna Jane." She rolls her eyes and adds quotation marks around ‘runaway daughter.’

"I am the Alpha of the biggest rogue pack, otherwise known as the Belladonna pack." I couldn't see Dorothy's but I could tell she was surprised.

"Wait, you're the Belladonna Wolf aren't you?" Dianna simply nods.

"I KNEW IT! I told those idiots that the wolf was a girl, but noooo because ‘female wolves aren't capable’." and what do they find out? The wolf is a girl." Dianna smirks.  I decided to cut in the conversation.

"Hey there mate." I give her one of my lazy smiles. She glares at me although, I could see a hint of something else, and Dorothy looks back and forth between us.

"First of all, stop calling me mate, I have a name. Second, stop looking so smug, we may have to mate according to your conditions but that doesn't mean we have to do it right away. And third, be nicer to Dorothy, she's a nice girl." Dorothy beams at her.

"You are going to be a great Luna, you are now, officially, my best friend." I look at her irritated., her anger now gone. Dorothy gives Dianna a hug, she looks surprised but eventually relaxes.

"Come on, you should meet my Beta, Persia Shang, and my Delta, Huda Shun, my other best friends. I think you'll get along nicely, they're downstairs. Persia has brown hair in a braid and bright green eyes, she is probably with your brother, and Huda is Asian with her black hair in a ponytail and warm brown eyes, probably with the Delta."  

"Are you coming?" Dorothy asks puzzled.

"No, I need to have a chat with the Alpha here about female stereotypes and equality between the genders." they both laugh but when Dorothy goes downstairs, Dianna's face grows serious. 

I sigh, this was going to be a long day.

Dorothy's p.o.v

The soon-to-be Luna was nice, I really liked her.

I scan the crowd and see Persia and Huda sitting together and chatting. Allen was talking with Hunter's brother, Oliver Vorace, who is a total player, by the way. 

Carlos on the other hand was beside Persia, playing with her hair and occasionally kissing her neck which results with her giggling. Persia turns her head and sees me. She squeals and jumps over to me. She wraps her arms around me.

"You're Carlos's sister right? He talks highly of you, so does Dianna!"

"But Dianna is upstairs.." she taps her skull.

"Mind-link." and she laughs. Carlos looks annoyed at me for making Persia get up.

"Hey bro? Didn't you say that you were going to wait for your mate?" he nods.

"Persia is my mate, and the Beta of the Belladonna pack, and Allen and Huda over there are mates as well." I nodded slowly.

"Do you smell that?" Persia and Carl look confused and shake their heads. I look around and my gaze lands on a male with black hair and blue eyes just as Huda comes to join us. She notices me looking at the man and her hard gaze softens.

"That's Charles Brown. He was my sister, Hati's mate." she explains softly. Her voice is really smooth. She could be a singer.

"Was? What happened? Did your sister reject him?" I couldn't help but be jealous of this Hati.

"She died after being r***d, January 8th, a week after Alpha's birthday. He's never been the same since." she sighs lightly. "I haven't been the same either."  Persia hugs her and murmurs some words of consolation. 

My jealousy dies down but I couldn't help but gasp.

"I am sorry for your loss. It must be hard losing her like that."

"She was a ray of sunshine." a female pack member chimed into our conversation

"Remember that time she tried to cheer everyone up when Dianna was in a coma?" there was weak laughter in the room.

"She was so strong." there were sniffles in the room. Some people were crying.

Persia's p.o.v

"She was brave, a true warrior. I would know, I trained her." I add, I held Huda as she cried.

"She could put anyone in a good mood." Renold said 

"I've only known her for a month, but she always made sure I was comfortable." Felicia added to the conversation.

"We all loved Hati Shun. I realized we didn't give her a proper funeral. I believe that now is the time, after all, we have just avenged her death." our heads look towards the stairs and we see Dianna, looking like a goddess straight from Olympus, an angel from heaven.

Our pack files out the pack door, Carlos and Dorothy came along as well, despite the fact that they didn't know her. Dianna was studying Dorothy.

"She looks like her, you know? Hati. You look like her, with the hair, and the attitude." Dianna says quietly so almost no one hears her, but I could.

It was a normal conversation at a funeral. 

"Everyone, grab something that Hati would like." Carl and Dorothy look confused.

"Carl you can go grab wood, or grass, Hati loved nature. Dorothy, you can come with me to find a feather. " 

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A few moments later

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We had the stuff and we gathered together.

"I know we don't have a tradition, so I decided on making one today." Dianna steps forward into a cleared patch of ground. She was holding a simple daisy, she placed it with care underneath an oak tree. 

"I will remember your kindness." she steps back. Everyone hesitates, I step forward with the feather and a branch. 

"I will remember your strength."

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10 Minutes later

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Huda went last. Placing heather on the ground. 

"I will remember your heart." Tears running down her face, Huda arranged the objects. We ended up having 20 stones which she put in a circle, flowers which were put in a heart, the feather in the middle along with a piece of heather. We were silent, mourning the loss of a life.  

Dianna steps forward to give her blessing, the blessing of an alpha.

Dianna's p.o.v

I closed my eyes to give Hati my blessing.

"May you live in the after life in peace, may the Moon Goddess bless and protect you. I give you the blessing of an Alpha." I hadn't said it louder than a whisper.

"If anyone has some words to say to Hati, may the moon goddess bless this place, may she give this grave her protection throughout the years." I walk away, glancing back once to see Huda at her sister's grave. 

Some people left to rest, some stayed to look at the grave for a little longer.

Hunter's p.o.v

I came into this clearing with my brother and Allen to look for Carl. We found him, my mate, and Allen's mate. They seemed to be having a funeral? I caught a glimpse of her tear streaked face, her eyes puffy from crying and I felt my heart clench, I should have been there to comfort her. Oliver inhales sharply and mutters something under his breath that I'm going to pretend I didn't hear.