Forever More

Chapter 9

Lucas' pov

"You wanted to see me, dad." "Oh yes, my birthday boy is here. We need to start setting everything up for you to become Alpha." "About time, old man, I laugh." At that time, my father's beta walks in. "We are ready for you, Alpha. Alpha Zander is almost here sir. He's running a bit behind." "Of course, that prat is, my father says. If we didn't need him as your ally son, I wouldn't even have him come here." "Why do we need him as an ally? He's just a punk and a bully." "Now, son, remember he has a very large pack." "Dad, we don't even know if he does or not. Nobody knows his exact number. He probably is just getting on with scaring people and letting them think he's some tough guy werewolf." "Be that as it may, we still need him on our side. You don't want to go to war with him and find out just how big of a pack he does have." "The other Alphas are waiting in the conference room, Sir Charles says." I can't stand him, he's too invested in Joelle for my liking. Him and his stupid daughter Claire, whom the Moon Goddess fated me with. I rejected her because I wanted Joelle to be my mate. I enjoy inflicting pain on her. "Let's go get Joelle and discuss her leaving the pack to go live with another." "WHAT?! I growl. When was this up for discussion?" My father turns to me and asks something I didn't want him to ask, "What is it to you where the little sl*t goes?" "Well, it's not. I would have liked to be included in this topic is all. I am about to become Alpha. Don't you think I should know where my pack members are?" "Why does it matter? What is your obsession with this girl?" "I'm not obsessed with her dad I just think I should know everything is all." "Well, Charles thought that it would be better if she was somebody else's burden and not yours." See always trying to protect her from me, I think. Why did he have to stick his nose where it didn't belong? "I just received word that Alpha Zander is here sir." "All right, we had better get moving." As we walked down to the conference room I smelled her. She always smells so good. As we sit waiting for everyone else I have a feeling I'm not going to like the outcome of this meeting. And then it happened without anyone knowing it was happening. Zander growled" MATE," and I followed his eyes, knowing from the gasp who it was. My Joelle.

"NOOOOO!!!! It can't be. Why does he get her?" She then hits the floor and he's on her before anyone knows what's going on. He is stealing my mate. I don't hear anything that is said, but once she opens her eyes, I know something has changed in her. I could feel that something had changed in her way of thinking and feeling. I could see the pure hatred in her eyes. She wasn't listening to us anymore. She had a fire in her eyes that I had never seen before. She knew that she was no longer under our control. She would be safe from us with him at her side. "Are you kidding me, she said? I do have a wolf. Her name is Willow. She came to me today on my seventeenth birthday." That's right. Her birthday is today, as well as my eighteenth birthday. Did she have a wolf? Did she come to her today? Why so late in our years? I have had my wolf for years now and she is just now getting hers. I don’t have much time to say anything because Alpha Zander decided he wasn’t going to be my ally anymore due to what we had done to that little b***h Joelle. If they are mates then he must know everything that we did to her. We are doomed. I will figure something out. I will give him until tomorrow to calm down then I will talk to him. That all goes out the window when he says that they are leaving and taking Joelle with them. As I watch their backs with fire in my eyes I know that it will not be easy to get her back to me. I will just have to make other powerful allies. I will get her back and I will kill him for taking her from me. "WHAT THE HELL WAS THAT? I roar." Dad is the first to speak, "son calm down we will figure out something. Maybe we let him have his go at the little slut and see if he gives her back." I am fuming, "are you joking me right now dad? You are just going to let him walk out and take her with him?" "Son, believe me, we don’t need her." "Yes, we do! I rejected my mate for her." "YOU DID WHAT?" Now my father is angry. "I wanted her to be my chosen mate. If she can handle all my aggression then I will be a better Alpha. I could be the best damn alpha there is out there. Better than Zander." "Boy, show him some respect he is far better than you, my father says." This just makes me even angrier. I am far better than that punk will ever be. I am faster and stronger. He probably doesn’t have very many warriors. I want to see my mate, Joelle. She would calm the beast raging in me. How am I to calm down now? I’ll go for a run and let Matthew have control for a bit. At eighteen I stood well over six feet tall weighing in at about two hundred and seventy-five pounds I tower over everyone. I am a rather large wolf as well. Jet black fur and gray dead eyes. I know what people think of me and what they say about me. I take off at a dead run shifting mid-air into Matthew and letting him take control. I sit back and enjoy the feel of the breeze on us. The heat of the sun blazing down on our fur. It feels good to let our legs stretch. Matthew runs until he can’t run anymore. He lays us down in the grass by a stream to relax and catch our breath. We have to get her back Lucas. I want my mate back. "I will get her back don’t worry. We just need to come up with a plan of attack to drag her back here whether she comes willingly or kicking and screaming I don’t care, I tell him." I will carry her over my shoulder if I have to. "Good, glad we are on the same page with this. She is our mate and only our mate. We need to get her back before they finish the ritual. I don’t want sloppy seconds." Things will be different when I get her back and then I will beat that fire out of her and make her a weak she-wolf. She will lose her will and surrender to me one way or another. "Lucas, son, come home your mother is worried about you, my father says." "It isn’t like I ran away like a child father." "Son, that’s exactly what you did. You couldn’t control yourself so you ran like a child having a tantrum." This old man is getting on my nerves.