The Alphas Redemption

Chapter 5 - Aziel

I wake up at 5:30, it’s my 18th birthday, the day I’ve been waiting for my whole life. The day I become Alpha and the day I hopefully find my mate. I can hear all the commotion downstairs, so I can only assume my mother is up already and bossing everyone around, trying to make sure today is perfect.

Luna Kate is the most loving mother anyone could ever ask for. She’s always tried to give me everything I could possibly want or need. She does have a very cold side though. It’s rarely seen, but I have seen it most around Aurelia. My mother seems to really dislike her. I’m not sure whether it’s because she’s an outsider, an orphan that my mother felt compelled to take in or because of her parents being drug addicts. This last part had caused some issues over the first couple of years after Aurelia arrived. Drug-dealing rouges and wolves from other packs had linked her to our pack and had come to locate her parents to collect debts. My mother, Luna Kate and father, Alpha Kal, were constantly having to either fight or turn them away and I think that led to their dislike of Aurelia. It meant we all disliked her too. We could sense the anger and frustration my parents held towards her and no one wanted to anger the Alpha or Luna, so we all treated her badly too.

I suddenly have a flash back to a time where we all decided to teach Aurelia a lesson. She had “been too busy” to bring our clean washing to our rooms and it had angered us. We took her out to the woods behind the packhouse and had tied her to a tree naked. She had a lovely body. Not that I’d ever admit that. She wasn’t as slender as the rest of the she-wolves and was around a size 10, which I would say is more my preference. Sean and Darla had begun physically hitting her. Sean kicked her that hard in her abdomen that she squealed out. She never argued back though, she always took whatever we gave her and just stared. She took the 2 of them beating on her for 15 minutes while we told her she was fat & lazy. I remember when my fathers' Beta Brendan had found her, he brought her back covered in bruises. He gave us all a telling off and told Sean that he was a brute. We had left her out there for 6 hours in the cold and naked. She never shifted. In fact, no one had ever seen her wolf and that made everyone question if she had one. She often got called a wolf-less b***h due to the rumours that she didn’t shift because she didn’t have a Wolf. She’s also very small for a she-wolf. Most are 5’5 at the minimum and she’s only around 5’2.

I snap myself out of these thoughts. I’m not even sure why Aurelia is on my mind right now. I get showered and head off to training before I start my preparations for the day. As I step into the hallway, there’s a faint smell of something delicious, something I’ve never smelled before. It’s a soft floral fragrance that has my heart beating every so slightly faster. I wonder if it’s a weird new air freshener. As I walk downstairs, it’s a little stronger and the effect it has on me is amplified. I decide to ignore it for now and head off to training.

4 hours later and our days' training is over, it’s now 10am and I see Aurelia getting out of a car, she’s carrying things into the house. Mum must have sent her on some errands for the party tonight.

We all walk towards the pack house to grab something to eat and clean up, while Liam, my best friend and soon to be Beta, resides on the Beta floor with his parents. Sean doesn’t live here with us but he does leave spare clothes in mine & Liam's rooms and he always showers here after training. Thinking about it, he is here that often he may as well move in.

We get showered and changed, and go to the Alphas office to meet mum and dad. As we walk in, they both shout happy birthday at me. Mum runs over to give me a huge hug but dad just nods at me. He’s never been good with emotions, but I know he loves me. Next, we spend the next couple of hours preparing for the party.

Mum tells me that the party will begin at 3pm. The first part will be to celebrate my birthday. We’ll do presents and sing and all that other birthday related stuff. Once we’ve had some food, at around 7pm the Alpha ceremony will begin. That is where other packs will join us. The other packs have been invited to cover bases when it comes to my mate. There is no guarantee that she will be part of our pack and mum wanted to give me the best chance of finding her.

The meeting wraps up at 1:30pm and now it’s time to go and get ready for the evening. I see a text from Darla on my phone. She tells me she can’t wait to come over later, that she loves me and she can’t wait to see my face when I scent her and realise she is my fated mate. We had planned to stay away from each other until the party so that it could be in front of everyone, but we had also discussed that if by any chance she wasn’t my fated mate, we would simply remain friends and she would step aside. We both know there is no use in trying to fight one’s fated mate. A wolf can reject their mate but this process is horrible for the wolves involved and while they can then choose what is known as a chosen mate, they will spend the rest of their life feeling empty, like half a person. An Alpha has never rejected their fated mate as this would mean they are weaker, which would then leave the pack vulnerable.

I can’t wait to finally realise my full power and potential the minute I sink my fangs into Darlas neck to mark her tonight.