The Alpha's Spy

ANNALISE POV My brother Dean and I have come a long way since our parents left two years ago. Normally, the alpha title isn't passed on until the successor turns twenty, but when my brother was eighteen, my parents decided they wanted to travel the world. So my dad passed the title on early and left me in his care. I was sixteen at the time, and I had a lot of anger about how our parents could just leave us like that. My brother, even though he was overwhelmed, took care of me and the rest of the pack as best as he could. He started implementing his ideas, the top one being the spy program. I begged my brother to let me train for it, and by the time I was seventeen, I was one of the top spies and fighters. I turned eighteen yesterday and can find my mate now. The timing is great because tonight is an Alphas meeting. Dean and his mate Lyla are hoping to make some new alliances and let the packs know that if they need help, a part of the spy program will be to help train their warriors if needed. My best friend, Emma, rushes towards me as I walk into the dining room for lunch, her strawberry blonde hair in a messy bun on top of her head. She links arms with me and starts talking about what we need to do tonight to get ready for the dinner with the visiting Alphas, their lunas, their betas, and a few of the future alphas and beta. She turned eighteen a month ago and hasn't found her mate yet. She's hoping that she'll find him tonight. I do, too, but I won't be crushed if I don't. Once we finish eating, we head up to my room. While I shower, Emma paints her nails, and we switch once I finish showering. Since my hair had the time to dry while she was in the shower, she started in my hair. Emma has a talent with hair and can make it match the dress or outfit without seeing it first. She curls my hair, then puts the majority up into an elegant braided bun, with a few loose strands down the back and framing my face. I start on her hair, and knowing my best friend, her dress will be very attention grabbing, which would be best matched with a simple hairstyle. I straighten her hair and then do a slight curl at the ends of her long hair. I do a braided headband that is simple and elegant at the same time. We do our makeup at the same time, laughing and joking as we go. Em does a dramatic smokey eyes accented with a dark red lip stick. I chose to go a but more natural, using neutral colors and a shimmering lip gloss. As I walk out of my closet in my dress and heels, I see the sparkly bright red dress, with a plunging neck and back, with a small train behind my friend who has chosen to wear. She will definitely have some eyes on her tonight, even if she doesn't find her mate. I look down at my black floor-length dress. The most attention getting aspect of the dress is the thigh-high slit and sheer lace back. I slip on my black heels as my friend finishes adding some jewelry to her look. "Damn. You look hot, Anna." She says, and I smile shyly. "It's not too much?" I ask, looking at myself in the floor-length mirror one last time. "Not at all. Now, let's go find our mates." She says as she links arms with me once again and pulls me out of my room. We enter the ballroom to see all the alphas, betas, luna, future alphas, and future betas all talking, laughing, dancing, and drinking. Emma goes to her brother, who is my brothers beta, and I go to my brother and his mate. The two smile at me as my brother begins to introduce me to the alpha and luna he is speaking with. I smile politely and listen as they talk. I excuse myself from the conversation when I smell the most intoxicating scent. It smells like the clean air after a rain fall. I feel eyes on me as I move around the room, trying to find the cause of the smell. Someone tapping on my shoulder from behind breaks my concentration as I turn to see Alan. He's been trying to get me to go out with him for years, and I've always come up with some excuse as to why I can't. "Care for a dance, Anna?" He asks as he holds up his hand with a devilish smirk on his face. I nod politely and take his hand. As we move around the dance floor, I look anywhere but him, still trying to find the source of the smell that I love so much. "You look stunning." He whispers in my ear and pulls me closer to him. "Thank you." I say, trying to pull away some. "You know, I'm eighteen and have yet to find my mate. You turned eighteen and have no mate either. Maybe we could take each other as chosen mates." He says casually as I snap my eyes to his face with a horrified look at his suggestion. "I just turned eighteen yesterday, Alan. I don't think I should give up the search for my mate quite yet." He pulls me as close to him as he can as he tries to get his lips close to mine. "We'd be so good together." Before I could say anything, my brother walked over and taps on his shoulder. "Would you mind if I stepped in to dance with my sister?" He asked, but it held a hint of a command. He nods respectfully and steps away. My brother takes the spot where he was and begins leading me in the dance. I sigh in relief. "Is he still pursuing you, Ana?" "Yes, he just suggested we take each other as chosen mates since we're both eighteen and have no mates." He laughs a little. "You just turned eighteen yesterday." I smile and laugh along with him. "That's what I said." My smile widening. "Dean, I smell a particular scent that seems to be calling to me, but I can't find the source of it." I say, hoping he'd be able to help me. He smiles down at me. "That's sounds like scenting your mate." He wiggles his eyebrows at me as I begin to laugh at him. "Stay by mine and Lyla's side, and you'll probably find him. Almost everyone is trying to introduce themselves to us tonight." I smile just as the music ends. He leads me back to where his mate was watching us with a happy smile on her face. The smell begins growing stronger as I see a group of men making their way to us. My eyes zone in on the most attractive looking man I've ever seen. He's a foot taller than me in my six inch heels. My five foot three inch height without heels would be tiny compared to him. At least the heels are helping me right now, making five foot nine inches. His caramel brown eyes are the most gorgeous eyes I've ever seen. His sharp jaw line and his black hair kept me so entranced that I didn't even hear his name when he introduced himself to Dean. When she shook my hand, there were tingles that went up my arm. When he walks away, I look at my brother confused as he looks at me. "Was that him?" I nod slightly. He smiles slightly. "He won't be eighteen until next week. You can go speak with him but you can't tell him about being his mate. We'll go to his birthday celebration and then all will be well." I smile and nod. I turn to go speak to him when I see him flirting with Taylor. She's slept with almost every guy in the pack, and she doesn't care if they have a mate or not. My wolf whimpers as I watch them walk out, and he looks back to his friend and winks. I make my way to my room slowly, feeling both mine and my wolf's sadness. When I finish showering the night off me, I begin to feel a burning pain all over my body. I cry out in pain and slowly make my way to my bed and curl up in a ball crying. I know what this pain is. My mate is with Taylor, and I'm here in pain from their acts. At some point, I fell asleep. I groggily make my way down to the dining room for breakfast. As I enter the room, I look around, hoping to see him. Dean is instantly walking towards me urgently. He signals me to follow him, and I do. When we get to his office, he pulls me into a hug and runs his hand up and down my back in a comforting way. He pulls back, still holding me by my shoulders. "Annalise, I'm so sorry. He's already left. He had an altercation with one of the warriors over Taylor. Did it hurt badly?" Concern covers his face and laces his voice. My eyes tear up some as I nod my head and then look at my feet. "We can fix it. When we go to his birthd." I cut him off before he could finish. "I don't want to go anymore. I don't want anything to do with him. I'll live with the pain. It'll make me a better spy. My pain tolerance will be high, and no amount of torture will ever be able to break me." He looks at me sadly before nodding his head in reluctant agreement. SCOTT POV I don't understand why my dad insisted on my future Beta Rick, and I need to be at this stupid meeting. Their territory is nice, and the girls are quite the lookers, I hope one of them will down to have some fun while I'm here. Tonight is the welcoming ball. Tomorrow is the actual meeting, and then the next day, everyone goes home. Rick and I have been sitting and talking with all the other future alphas and betas. I go to get a drink when I walk a beautiful girl. Her brown hair is in a low bun with pieces of hair framing her perfect face. Her hazel eyes are stunning, and her body is quite perfect, too. Her black floor-length dress has a slit going up to her tigh, and I feel my d**k getting hard against my pants as I watch her move across the floor. She goes to Alpha Dean, and he gives her a hug. I wonder what their relationship is for that kind of greeting, his luna seems completely fine with their display of affection. I get my drink and head back to my best friend, where I continue to look at the most stunning woman in the room. She starts looking around, then seems to excuse herself from the group and start walking around. Stepping forward to ask her to dance, I see a tall blonde muscular man stop her, and they go to the dance floor. She was looking anywhere but him. I don't know what he said, but her already tense body tensed more as she looked at him in horror, trying to pull away. I move to go and interrupt them, but then Alpha Dean is there again. The man nods and steps away, then turns and looks angrily at the two dancing. Once the dance finishes, the two move back to Luna Lyla. My father and Rick's approach us and lead us over to the alpha. I'll get to meet the beautiful girl that is standing next to him. My father and Alpha Dean are introducing their groups to one another while I just stare, and she stares back. I snap out of it when a booming voice introduces his luna and himself, then turns towards the girl in front of me with a soft smile. "This is my younger sister Annalise." I reachbout to shake her hand and decode to walk away. I won't mess with an alphas sister, I'd kill whomever messed with mine. I doubt he is any different. Rick and I begin searching for tonight's companions when a tall blonde girl approaches me seductively. I didn't hear a word, she said, but I knew she would be easy to get in bed. We get to my room and begin kissing like hungry, starved animals. Clothes start to fly off, and as we lay on the bed kissing and grinding on one another, there is a loud and constant banging on my door. We ignore it and continue, and the banging becomes more urgent, then it's followed by a man yelling. "Taylor! I know you're in there! I won't stand for this. Get your ass out here!" I look at the girl below me as she rolls her eyes. She puts her hand on the nape of my neck, pulling me back down to kiss her. I start kissing down her neck, but her sentence stops me from going any further. "It's just my mate. Ignore him." I get up and put my pants back on and open the door to a man who is obviously a warrior. He instantly attacks me. I don't know how long we were fighting for but a powerful command to stop breaking through, taking control of the man, and almost having me submitting to it as well. Alpha Dean demanded that I leave with my future beta, and my father complies. Rick and I grabbed our things after he was notified, and we headed home to our mothers in the Black Rock Pack.