The Angel in my Darkness

Chapter 4

Alexis

“Alexis! Alexis!” someone screams. I must have fallen asleep.

“ALEXIS! where the hell are you?!”

Is that Micah calling me? I am still dreaming?, wiping the sleep from my eyes.? I can hear him destroy the house and my father yelling at him to calm down. Opening my bedroom door half asleep

“where is the fire? Why is everybody yelling?”

As soon as I started talking you could see Micah’s shoulders visibly relaxed. Sighing he says

“You’re okay” coming up to hug me

“No I’m not!”

“Why ! what’s wrong ?” he asks his eyes getting big again spinning me around

“you are yelling while I was trying to sleep that’s what’s wrong!” trying to lighten his stressed mood. Giving me a hard look and a small growl

“This is serious Ally”. His mood is not lightened like I hoped, Uh oh something is actually wrong .

“Son, what is this all about?”

What is so serious that dad and Micah are both so serious! They haven’t been like this since the night of my 16th birthday. Micah is standing there looking at dad breathing hard clenching his fists.

“Micah?” I say walking slowly towards him like a feral animal. Nothing, his eyes are closed he must be trying to reign in his wolf.

“Micah?” I say putting my hand on his arm. As soon as I touched him his eyes shot open and they were black, it was max instead of Micah this could be dangerous. I knew max would never hurt me but this could still be a dangerous situation if anyone were to try and interfere.

“Max are you and Micah, OK?” I asked,

Watching my father on alert trying to slowly move into position to intercept him. Before he can answer he hears my father’s steps on a creaky board and next thing I know I am being shoved behind Max and he is now growling at dad like he is a threat. Putting his hands up in retreat stopping entirely he says

“Max it's dad you know I’m not a threat to you or Ally, You need to give control back to Micah now.” Growling lowly

“I Need to protect Ally” Max says in a deep voice pushing me farther behind him and holding me there with one arm. I put my hand on his shoulder

“I am fine Max but I really need to talk to Micah so he can explain what is going on, Please let him have control back” As soon as he gives me one last look over I make sure to hide my yellowing wrist he gives me a nod and lets go of control.

Once he is back in control Micah keeps me behind him but apologized to dad about Max.

“It’s ok son I know how protective you are but you need to reign it in enough to let us know what is happening” Nodding, we all sat down to figure out what is wrong.

“Hello everyone!” my mom says in a sing song voice looking at us all sitting in the living room with tension high.

“Hello, my angel” my dad says getting up to greet mom giving her a kiss. “What is going on? why is everyone so tense?”

“Come sit Micah was just about to fill us in on that” my dad said guiding her to the couch to sit with him. “Micah” he said prompting him to start.

“OK well dad when I went into the locker room, I overheard a conversation between the alpha and his son”

Gasping

“Micah you shouldn’t be eavesdropping on the alpha!” my mom chastises.

“Not the point mom” I said.

Hoping to get everything back on track because the longer this takes the more my anxiety goes up. Micah starts talking again about how he overheard Tyler telling his dad about how I might be different and that he wants me to be his minus the attitude and that they are going to try and tick me with a potion. The more he tells us what he heard the more I started to hyperventilate, he knows something is different about me what if they find out about Angel what if they get the potion sooner than we thought. The more I start thinking about everything the less I can hear Micah and my vision is starting to blur, I can hear Angel trying to talk to me but everything is going dark.

Waking up I’m not sure how I got here I sit up, How long have I been out for? Looking around I see my mom sitting in my chair reading her book as she hasn’t noticed that I’m awake yet. “Mom? What time is it?” as soon as she hears me, she rushes

“Oh honey you are awake” brushing my hair behind my ear.

“Mark! She is awake” she calls out my bedroom door. Not even a minute later my dad and brother come barreling through my door,

“oh my girl are you ok?” worry lacing his voice. Thinking for a minute it all came rushing back to me that Tyler wanted to force me to be his mate one way or another. Oh no I thought, and my eyes must have gotten really big because before I could start having another panic attack Micah rushes to tell me to breathe and that they have a plan.

“What’s..the.. plan” I say between breaths.

Damien

Sitting in my office working on my laptop when my beta Noah comes storming through my door without knocking, he is the only one who would be able to do that without punishment as we have known each other since we were babies.

“You know if it was anyone else , they would be punished for entering the Alpha’s office without permission.”

“yeah but I’m just too cute for that” he says plopping down on my brown leather lazy boy.

“Try me” I said sending him a low menacing growl. Seeing him shift uncomfortably in his seat almost brought a smile to my face. Clearing his throat

“Man, Damien when are you ever going to have fun?”

Focusing on my work

“why would I need to, You and Rocky both have enough fun for me” I say in a bored tone.

“Well do you need help with anything? Maybe the quicker we get this done the quicker you can come hang!”

“I’m fine!”

I snap at him hoping for him to leave so I can focus.

“OK, I'll just see you later then I guess” he says, getting up

“Just so you know there is more to life in this pack then work even for the Alpha”

before walking out of my office. That’s where he is wrong, there is no other life for me either than this my father made sure of that from a young age.

I might be one of the younger Alphas in age, but I also run one of the strongest packs in the area and over see some of the other smaller packs that either need help or are small and are in need of proper training to defend against rouge attacks. After looking over the last report I close my laptop looking at the time it reads 2 am, another full night of this s**t, I have get to bed or else I’m going to be late for training again and hear it from my dad. He still trains the warriors. It’s about the only thing he still likes doing and is the only one who can stand against me in the training ground. Packing up all my stuff, I make it to the door before my phone goes off.

“f**k!”

Who the hell is calling me so late! now I’m getting pissed off.

“SPEAK”

I yelled into the phone, someone had better be dying at this point to be calling me at this hour.

“Damien?”

I hear on the other end of the phone

“Is that you?” they asked again.

“Micah? Why are you calling so late?” I ask with annoyance.

Micah is a warrior from the Moon River Pack that came to train with us a couple years ago and a very strong warrior. We became friends or as close to friends as I have.

“I need your help man” he said with some urgency in his voice. Going from upset back into full alpha I ask,

“What do you need?”

“It’s my sister man, our SOB alphas son is trying to take her as his mate by force of a witch’s potion”

Ahhh his sister I heard about her while he was here, he loves that girl more than anyone I have ever seen.

“What do you mean by force? Shouldn’t she know that he isn’t her mate? He can’t just take her it’s against the rules”

“No man her 18thbirthday is next week they are trying to get a potion so that when she can sense her mate it will lead her to him”

Ugh I hate Alphas that think they can do whatever they want with their pack, they are supposed to be protecting them not hurt them.

“What do you need from me?”

“We need to get her out of this pack for now or at least until after she turns 18, Do you think we could come stay at your pack for a bit?”

“No problem send me a text when you plan to be here and I will get my beta to set it up”