The Rejected Alpha

CHAPTER 3

　　"So this is the rogue?" The man, named Alpha Derrick said. There was this very powerful vibe around him, even more than Shawn.

　　Perhaps that's why he's the boss around here.

　　I don't know what I was expecting when I was on my way to see the 'so powerful' Alpha, but it definitely wasn't this.

　　He sat there, on a chair, in normal clothes, looking very human.

　　"Yes Alpha." Shawn said.

　　"Interesting." The Alpha said not taking his eyes off me. He looked a bit older than Shawn but handsome nevertheless. He had dirty blonde hair and piercing gray eyes.

　　Piercing because he was staring at me way too intently. It was a bit unnerving.

　　"What's your name?" I felt like I was in court, the way the Alpha sat there like a judge and some other men and two women were standing all around, observing me.

　　"Adriane Clark."

　　"Come here." he said calling me closer. I stepped closer to him, but he was still a couple of metres away from me.

　　Then get this, he started sniffing the air towards me.

　　Like actually sniffing me.

　　I tried my best not to show how weird I thought it was.

　　How weird I thought all of this was.

　　"That aura... you've been living with humans for a long time. Who are your parents, your birth parents?" He asked me.

　　What?

　　"As far as I'm concerned, my parents are Robert and Kristen Clark." I answered. They're the only parents I've ever known, so his question caught me a little off guard when he emphasized the 'birth'.

　　"Hm, from which pack?" The stupid pack question again.

　　"No pack, I just came from a nice quiet family of four, my parents, my sister and I." I said getting tired of all these useless questions.

　　He pressed his lips into a straight line, the he turned to Shawn. "Shawn, go get Evelyn." he instructed.

　　"Alpha." Shawn gave a quick nod before leaving the room.

　　And I just stood there in awkward silence, not knowing what was going to happen next, staring at the floor and occasionally at the Alpha.

　　Out of the two ladies present, one stood particularly close to the Alpha with her hand on his shoulder as they engaged in a hushed conversation.

　　The woman looked at me and smiled. I managed a small smile back.

　　I guessed that was his wife by the way she kissed him before she left the room with the other lady.

　　Shawn returned about half an hour later with an elderly woman, Evelyn, I presume. She had all white hair but I believe that that was just her hair colour as she didn't look that old to be grey all over.

　　"That's interesting, white blood." the old woman in front of me holding my bloody palm said.

　　She just came in here and cut open my palm, which surprisingly didn't hurt. What was more surprising though was the little dagger-like nail shew grew from her index finger to cut open my palm with.

　　It just grew out, just like that.

　　Now that freaked me out a bit.

　　And just by the way, my blood was red, not white, so I had no idea what this woman was blabbing about.

　　"Is she a white wolf?" The Alpha asked sitting up and suddenly looking very alert and interested.

　　Evelyn shook her head.

　　"Not exactly a white wolf Alpha, but I believe she's from the Golden Moon pack. They were the only ones I knew with this type of moon-blessed blood." The woman spoke, waving her hand on top of my palm.

　　"I thought everyone in that pack died in the fire." The Alpha said, knitting his eyebrows together.

　　"I thought so too, I guess she survived." Evelyn said staring at me and then back at my hand.

　　"There's more Alpha." Evelyn suddenly spoke up, drawing circles on my hand with my own blood, that for some reason won't stop coming out of the tiny incision that she had made.

　　"What is it?" He asked with a curious face.

　　"She has the Alpha gene in her. It could be possible that that's Alpha Gordon's heir." My eyes shot up from my palm that was still bloody to meet Evelyn's eyes.

　　How on earth was she conjuring all this nonsense from staring at my red hand?

　　"It's not possible, my father is Robert Clark and he isn't an Alpha, he is normal just like me." I said, I was so confused it literally hurt to think about my situation right now.

　　I still tried to convince myself that I was normal.

　　Maybe I was getting light headed from all that blood loss, which for some reason stayed on my palm in a little puddle, not a single drop on the floor.

　　Was I still dreaming?

　　"Hush child, you're a wolf and the people you were living with before clearly weren't your parents." Evelyn told me.

　　"Well that's something, I never knew Alpha Gordon had a daughter. I always thought it had been a boy, shame." I c****d my eyebrow at his remark.

　　I watched as Evelyn took out a little plastic container from her pocket and tilted my hand to let the blood flow in.

　　She was collecting my blood.

　　I thought they said they werewolves not vampires.

　　She closed the lid on the container and turned to the Alpha.

　　"I'll will do some further reading on her blood Alpha. That will be all for now." He nodded at her.

　　"Well then, if that's the case, you may stay with my pack, Adriane, since you clearly have no where else to go."

　　Excuse me? No where else to go? I have a home. I want to go back home.

　　Get out!

　　The memory hit me hard and suddenly in my chest like a brick to my heart.

　　I remained silent.

　　"But I would like to keep my eye on you, so you will stay in the guest quarters here." The Alpha said.

　　"Mavis." He called. Seconds later a girl about my age came scurrying into the room. She had red wild hair and bright green eyes.

　　"Yes Alpha?" Her voice small.

　　"Adriane, this is my niece, Mavis, she'll show you all that you need to know." He told me.

　　I was still quite overwhelmed with everything that was happening but I managed to speak.

　　"Thank you?" I wasn't quite sure why it came out sounding like a question but I wasn't able to fully grasp what was going on yet.

　　He rose an eyebrow expectantly.

　　What now?

　　I was lost. Mavis quietly coughed 'alpha' and smiled at me.

　　"Oh, sorry, uhh... thank you, Alpha?" I said unsure. He nodded and smiled at me and some chuckles went on in the room and I gave a small smile to Mavis. She smiled back at me.

　　"Okay, let's go and get that cleaned up."

　　What? "Clean what?"

　　She pointed at my hand that had stopped bleeding now but was still covered in blood.

　　"Right."

　　**End of Flashback**