Her Second Chance Alpha

Chapter Seven

Walking around the back of the house I was surrounded by a wooded area, the opening before the woods, was well lit and covered in circular tables covered in a white cloth decorated with plates and cutlery, champagne flutes and pale pink roses in the centre of each table. I walked through the maze of tables before I seen Cameron stand up and wave us over to our seat’s. We walked through the sea off people who were all staring at me with smiles and hushed voices until we finally made it to where Cameron was standing, I watched Beth give him a hug and then I repeated the same action before finally sitting down. Across from me sat two men, each smiling at me, to which I smiled in return, Cameron then introduced us all.

“Ellie this is Beta Shane and Emmett our third in command, finest warriors you will ever meet, not the funniest of guys, but they do try…” he said waving his hand in their direction, I couldn’t help but laugh. “Shane, Emmett this is Ellie who I was talking about earlier. She’s daughter of Beta Hale at the Crimson Shadow Pack”

Both of their faces immediately dropped, wiping away there smile into a shocked expression with their mouth in an ‘o’ shape. Shane was around the same height as me with dull brown hair and grey eyes, he wore a black suit and tie with a white shirt, identical to every male wolf here, he was clean shaven and his hair was short but had a small quiff at the front, swaying to the right, a lot like Elijah’s hair style, it just screamed bad boy. Emmett had long, straight blonde hair that fell to his shoulders and green piercing eyes, enough to make anyone know what emotion he was holding and man I didn’t not want to see him angry. His smile quickly returned when his eyes locked on mine, he opened his mouth and spoke softly.

“It’s nice to meet you, Happy Birthday by the way. I can’t believe your Hale and Jessica’s Daughter”

“You know my Parents?” the surprise in my voice was evident as Shane continued to look at me in disbelief and Emmett confident in the conversation.

“Yes, we met your farther, but only briefly, he’s a very private man and strong warrior. Your mother was part of this pack before she met him. They came here not so long ago with Alpha Rob to set up an alliance with us so that our packs could always trust one another. She looked good, had a catch up with some of her childhood friends and then they left.” A frown covered his face. “They never mentioned you though, so we always thought they didn’t have a child”

My smile soon shifted into a frown “Well why would they mention me at an alliance meeting with a pack?” my anger showing with every word as if I had been accused of something. Emmet just held up his hands in surrender and laughed at me, making me angrier, I could feel my wolf getting agitated and wanting to take over.

“Easy tiger, I was only saying, my bad.” His smile calmed me down a little but I was still pissed.

“How about to make up for upsetting you I take you to meet some of the pack?”

I nodded politely and with that Emmett stood up and made his way round the table holding his hand out to me, when I put my hand in his he bowed as if I was royalty which made me blush. We walked around from table to table, just as I said goodbye to one person another person was saying hello, until eventually I felt a strong presence at my side and a hand on the base of my back “If you could excuse us I would like to pinch Miss Eleanor for a dance” all eyes darted to Elijah who was stood with a perfect smile on his face and loving glint in his eyes. “Of course Alpha Cleary, Happy Birthday Ellie” the group I was just speaking too mumbled as I was dragged to the dance floor with Elijah. I looked around and seen most of the females around us were glaring at me as if they were trying to burn a hole through my skull, Elijah quickly spun me round and pulled me into his embrace while gently swaying to the music that a young guitarist was singing on stage. It was a beautiful cover of ‘can’t help falling in love’ by Elvis Presley.

We both laughed at the awkward choice of music but decided to continue anyway. The dance floor was immediately full of couples swaying to the music; I looked up at Elijah to see him gazing down at me with wide eyes, he was wearing a navy blue suit and white shirt with the top three buttons undone, he bent down and whispered in my ear “You look stunning Eleanor.” He then stood up straight not taking his eyes off me, we swayed in silence to the music just getting lost in each other’s eyes and awkwardly smiling and laughing every now and again not knowing what to say. When the music came to an end everyone stopped and clapped towards the stage showing their appreciation to the singer. Turning back I noticed that Elijah still had not taken his eyes away from me. I smiled in response “Thank you for the dance Alpha Cleary, and I can’t thank you enough for all of this” I say, motioning my hands to the stage and all of the tables where the guests were residing with smiles and laughter throughout.

“It was my pleasure, and please call me Elijah” I couldn’t help but frown again at his response. “How about we go up to my office to discuss a few things and to figure out what you are going to do in terms of packs” he smiled sweetly making my heart melt.

Holding out his hand I took it and followed him back into the pack house. Once inside we went up the stairs to the second floor, we walked towards two large mahogany doors which I could only assume was his office. He opened the door and inside was a large black desk in front of a fire place, the room was well lit and had a huge window looking out to the front of the pack house where the moon light shone through, it was a breath-taking view. Elijah walked around the desk and took a seat, waving his hand in the direction of another to which I brought myself to sit down opposite him.

“I hope you don’t mind me asking you up here so that we could talk.” He tipped his head to one side and smiled.

“It’s ok I’m glad we are getting this chance to talk. I really want to apologise for the way I spoke to you-…” before I could finish my sentence he shook his head with a frown and instantly stood up, walking around the desk he sat on the front of it, both hands gripped the desk on either side of him as he looked down at me for what only looked like sorrow in his eyes.

“Don’t apologise, I understand why you were so defensive. What Alpha Hunter did to you was beyond disgusting. I just hope that you can forget about the sadness he brought to your life and join me here, at the Blue Moon Pack. Of course I would understand if you say no, you have family and friends at the Crimson Shadow Pack…” He stopped seeing tears fill my eyes. “I don’t wish to upset you Miss Eleanor, I will allow you to stay here for as long as you need and help you return if that is what you intend to do. I would never hurt you. I couldn’t. There’s something about you. I don’t know what it is but, when I’m with you I’m happy. Something lights up inside of me and I haven’t felt like that in a long time.”

I looked down at my knotted fingers then back up to meet his gaze “Thank you, you are very kind to be treating me like this. I don’t know how there is any way to repay you for all you have done for me. Me and Hunter grew up together, he was my world-…” I suddenly stopped what I was saying when a loud crack sounded in front of me, looking at his hands I could see his knuckles where white from the strength of the grip on his desk, under his hands I could see the desk had two sections of wood that were completely snapped off and shredded into tiny pieces, some falling to the floor. I looked back up to see his eyes had shifted from there ocean blue to a deep black. His expression was clear as day. Anger.