African Wolf

Chapter 4

Andre

My wolf had been uneasy all morning, pushing to be released.  I had tried to calm him but nothing was working, I looked over at Jacob at the breakfast table and could see that he was feeling the same way.  

“What’s going on with you two! You seem like your wolves are ready to burst through.” My brother Peter was looking at us concerned.  We are very close and can generally pick up on each other's emotions.  I am the oldest of the three of us and have yet to find my mate, I am the Alpha of our pack, The Red Star Pack, it is the largest pack on the African continent.  We have merged into different businesses, Game reserves being one of our main sources of income.  We employ pack members in most of our businesses but every now again we have to employ humans.  This is never an easy process as eventually they find out who we are, we try to keep it a secret but when someone lives on top of you all the time, it can be difficult.  Also all our females are human, only males are born werewolves while the females are born without the ability to transform.  Most of the females born to werewolf fathers end up being mated to someone in the pack or neighbouring packs.  I have traveled the world to try and find mine, but am still alone.  In our pack you may only be mated to your given mate, it is a gift from the Moon Goddess, at 27, it is hard to be alone.  At least I have Peter and Jacob, Peter is the second oldest and the Beta of the pack, him and Hettie have been friends since they were kids, they were always together, we kind of figured they would be mated.  Their son Chris is the best, it feels as if he is my own son.  If I don’t find my mate he will have the title of Alpha passed down to him.  It must be passed on to a male.  Although Chris is incredibly bright, with a very quick mind he has struggled to learn to read and write, the teachers in our pack school don’t know how to support him which has lead to us having to hire a reading specialist.  It felt right hiring her and her brother, I am not sure why.  We needed a chef as well as none of our cooks have had the specialist training we need to offer at a 5 star resort.  We are hoping he will be able to cook as well as train.  But that part I will leave to Jacob.  Jacob is the youngest of the three, he has no real interest in holding a high position in the pack. He loves growing his own vegetables, being in the restaurant, food and service are his passion.  He is gay, and has struggled to find his mate.  Although it is not common for a werewolf to be gay, it has happned in the pack and they have found their mate.  He is 23, so still quite young.  I hope he finds someone and does not end up like me.  Although we have strict rules about waiting for your mates, there are females who don’t like to stick by the rules. They throw themselves at Jacob at myself, sometimes even Peter, hoping to sleep with us and use our fortune and title for themselves.  I can handle myself, and so can Jacob, but just last month we had to ban a female who was going for Peter and even broke into our home.  We just can’t tolerate that behaviour.  Two of her friends had to be banned too as we found all information on how they were going to drug us, sleep with us and try to bare our pups.  Werewolves are incredibly protective over their young, we would never have been able to get rid of them.  We needed to send a strong message to the pack that behaviour like this would not be acceptable.  

“We can’t leave the two of you in such a state, why don’t you let me handle the pick up today and you three go for a run?”  Hettie spoke, she is such a sweetie, Peter was really gifted when he got her as a mate.  

“CCan I come with? Pleeeeezzee” Chris tried to plead with us.  

“I am sorry sweetie but you need to come to meet your new teacher.” Hettie answered as gently as possible.  We knew this was not easy for him, our pack teachers had not been mean, but were just out of ideas and said they could not manage him until he could read.  

Chris’s entire body slumped, even my heart was melting.  Hettie walked over to him and took him in her arms.  

“It’s going to be ok sweetie, Cassie seems so lovely.” Her gentle voice soothes him.  Cassie, I liked that name, it seemed to stir something in me.  I needed to run now.  I moved towards the door, ripping my clothes as my wolf tore through my body.  Peter and Jacob were not far behind, allowing my wolf to take full control, I ran for the bushes.  

We returned a few hours later, Hettie had left a message that she had collected Josh and Cassie and were heading towards the restaurant.  In her words “They look like they have not had a decent meal in months!”.  I had to laugh at her, always wanting to save everyone, at least feed everyone.  After we had showered we headed towards our newly built restaurant, Jacob was particularly proud of it, it has been his design.  I could see Hettie’s car parked there already, my wolf began to stir again, I could see that Jacob was feeling uncomfortable too.  As the car door opened it hit me, the most beautiful smell in the world, fresh mountain dew with a bit of honey, it was so intoxicating.  My wolf was pushing to the surface, as we walked in I saw her, beautiful brown shining hair, with the most gorgeous sparkling green eyes, my wolf began to growl, I had to try and stay in control, I bashed over the trays, fighting my wolf, I could feel Jacobs wolf too, we were both going crazy.  Everyone was running to protect Cassie and Josh, they knew what was happening, Peter was desperately trying to restrain us as my wolf was shouting for joy “Mate, Mate, Mate’” those were my last thoughts before I felt a prick in my arm, everything went black.