Alpha Grayson & His Omega

Ch.3 Settling In New Land

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As I walked with John through the house, when we got to the kitchen, we were greeted by my little brother stuffing his face in a bowl of pie with whipped cream seated at the table with the beautiful woman from earlier with him. I think he heard me when I started chuckling because I saw the corners of his mouth covered in a mustache of whipped cream, reminding me of Santa Claus without the long white beard. In turn, Walter turns towards me and smiles a huge grin as he says,

"Pie!!!-" so happily that he caused me to flinch with the impact of his power from his voice. Which didn't go unnoticed by the two in the room with us, as well as Walter stopping his shout and getting off the seat he was on, to run over to me, grabbing hold of my legs.

"So sorry ba-ba," he says with tears brimming at the end of his eyes.

"It's alright Walt, you didn't mean to, and we'll work on it, OK?" I asked, to which he nodded quickly before going to his seat again and continuing to eat his snack. As his focus went back to his food, I grabbed my bottle of meds from my pocket and took one, and as I did this, the two that were still watching me looked at me curiously and to answer their questioning, look at me and I said,

"I have sensitive ears and I take medication to help with my symptoms."

They looked at one another, then back at me, "Noted" they said together, and I walked over to sit with Walter. As I sat down, I noticed that he had a bruise showing from under his sleeve on his right arm which I covered up by moving his shirt sleeve up towards his hand.

"I need to put this on your neck, alright Walt?" I show him the collar to which he sees and says,

"N-nno. . .ba-ba."

"Hmm... what if I show you how I'm going to put it on you by showing you mine? Would that be alright?" To which he nods and as I pull my collar open I move my arms so that it's around my neck and I fasten the belt clips and use my fingers to loosen the grip on my neck by three fingers.

"It no-h-hurt???" He asked as I finished and let it hang down on my neck.

"No Walter, it doesn't hurt, it's loose this way. You'll be able to breathe. Do you want to try yours on and see how it fits?" I tried to ease into convincing him to try the collar on. I knew he had an issue with collars because I once found him crying in a corner with a collar tightly wrapped around his neck with a chain that only allowed him to move to the bathroom in our small living space in a closet. I wish we didn't need collars, but we need to live somewhere now.

He tilts his head to the side and for a moment he stares at the collar around my neck and nods,

"OK, b-but if it hur-rts, you take off?" He says as he confirms with me that I will take it off straight away once it bothers him and if this one thing about the collars are a rule that I can't discuss, to have an exception for Walt, then I needed to start looking for another pack to join.

I nod and with the others in the room, they stay silent as I work on making as much space between the collar wrapping around his neck, as I see that doing this isn't comfortable with Walt, so I finish quickly.

"It feels weird, ba-ba."

"I know, and when we're in our own home you don't need to wear a collar, alright?" I say and he nods three times quickly. "OK, go ahead and finish your pie and thank the pretty lady, OK?" I say and he says "OK."

He looks over at the woman and says thanks while I feel a piercing gaze on me. I turn to see Alpha Smith with John at the doorway to the kitchen. When he waves me over, I stand and tell Walter I'll be right back, then walk over to them with my head bowed down in greeting to the alpha.

"We have some questions for you. Would you mind us going back up to my office?" Alpha Smith says and I nodded to his request but turned to look at Walter.

"Walter, I'll be right back. I need to check in on some things and will be back to check in on you." I stated before turning my full attention on the alpha and John to walk with them up the stairs and re-enter the alpha's office.

As we all get seated, the alpha looks straight at me and asks,

"What just happened downstairs?"

"My little brother just got a little panicked about having a collar, the reason is that he was traumatized with a collar at our last pack house." I said as I looked straight into his eyes, then looked back down. He nods and moves to the next question,

"What's this I hear that you have sensitive ears?"

"Yes, I inherited my mother's hearing, so when there are loud gatherings, I take medication to help my symptoms and when there's a high-pitched sound, I still take my medication."

'I hated giving myself away, but if it meant that we could have a place to live, then I was willing to give some things up for the safety of my brother and myself.'

'Just say the basics. Don't say everything, Ray. We still must be prepared for anything in the future.'

'Alright Si.'

"Alright, um if it's alright he can have a bracelet with your name instead of a collar." The alpha states, to which I reply,

"No, that's alright. I need to keep something on him that will ensure his safety even when I'm gone. I understand the circumstances, and he will get better over time, but the collar is needed." I state this knowing full well that if someone tried to claim him other than his mate he would turn and no one here has seen anything of the like in a five-year-old werewolf. If that were to happen, then I would have to reveal myself to control the situation. I was entrusted to protect my brother, no matter the cost, so long as he grows to twenty years old.

"Why is the collar needed? Why would you need to keep something on him?" John asked as I turned to answer with my mouth open, then a loud-

*Snarl* coming from downstairs and from the sound I knew straight away who made that snarl.

I got straight to my feet and rushed down the stairs into the kitchen where there was a girl crying against the wall and Walter in defensive mode. As I examined the situation, I noticed that on Walter's neck there was a smudged bite mark on the back of his neck and then looked at the girl and saw that there was a small amount of blood on her mouth. I turned back to Walter again as he was getting ready to pounce on her I said with power in my voice,

"WALTER WILLIAM REGE!" in my voice. I could see that it affected the young girl against the wall and the woman that was standing near the hallway but now on the ground shivering. I stare at Walter as he turns his head to me and I know it's Ambrose, and he glares at me, then says,

"NOT MATE!" was all he said, and I walked over to him.

"I understand that, but you need to remember your strength, my Rege(King)." Then I knelt next to him and said,

"Let me see." He then turns away but allows me to get close enough to move the collar and move aside his shirt collar to lean forward towards the bite mark on his neck and I pull out my teeth and bite over the mark on his neck to replace the little girl's mark, which in turn causes Walter to flinch.

As I let him go, I refasten his collar and made sure that it was now two fingers from his neck because I knew it wasn't tight enough.

"I hope you can calm down now, my Rege." Then I turned to alpha Smith and John as they were staring the whole time at the situation as we were in the kitchen.

"I'll explain in a bit when he is calm," I said, then turned back to Walter,

"Breathe in and out and imagine red rose petals falling, Rege Ambrozie." I know whenever he closes his eyes it's because he gets upset and needs my words to calm down again from the last time we were in this situation.

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