Mallory's POV
I perceived that delicious scent of wild mushrooms and ran to the hospital room window to have a peek at who it was.
I felt his presence and panicked when I realized that the Alpha of this pack was around.
I felt his intimidating aura from the top floor where I was admitted. As I peered out the window and saw him, my eyes widened in shock.
He was a handsome, brown-skinned man. But when his black eyes met mine, I quickly ran to hide because I was afraid of him.
“The pack's Alpha. He is here,” I muttered to myself, and to my shock, a soft voice responded to me.
“Calm down, Mallory. He is not going to hurt you,” the gentle voice replied, and I almost freaked out, wondering who had spoken to me.
“Who are you? Who spoke to me just now?” I stood up from the ground beside the window where I was hiding and looked around, wondering who owned that soft, melodic voice.
“I am in you. Your wolf. Do you want to see me?” She spoke to me again, and I felt stunned.
“My wolf? Is this a dream? First, waking up to the reality that I am an Alpha she-wolf, and now, to the fact that I have a wolf. Someone tell me that I am not dreaming!” I screamed aloud.
The door behind me burst open, and a tall man in black trousers and a white lab coat came in.
He looked like the Alpha whose cold gaze I had met, and I gasped and moved away from him.
“Who are you? And what do you want here?” I asked the brown-skinned man who marched up to my hospital bed to meet me.
I moved back and shifted away from him as he neared me.
“I should be asking you, Shorty. Who are you? You don't belong here, and you are not a member of this pack. Yet, you are shouting like you own this place?” he accused me, his orange eyes looking at me thoughtfully.
I blushed and lowered my face as I apologized to him.
“I am sorry, sir. I am Mallory Adonis, Alpha Bruce's first daughter. But I was banished from my pack.”
I met his curious gaze and his intense orange eyes.
“Alpha Bruce?” He mentioned my father's name like he had heard it wrongly.
“Yes. Do you know my father?” I asked the handsome man who looked like a lab doctor, and he replied, “Who doesn't know Alpha Bruce? Are you sure that you are his first daughter?”
The creepy man drew nearer to me. His enchanting orange eyes glowed, probably trying to detect if I was lying to him.
“Yes. Alpha Bruce is my father, and I am his first daughter,” I replied, though without confidence, as I lowered my gaze.
“Mmm. I find that hard to believe, that your father is Alpha Bruce, but your beauty and Jasmine scent are intoxicating. Raise your face when I speak to you,” he commanded.
Just then, the hospital room door burst open, and Dr. Chris came in with Nurse Elena. Their eyes widened in shock.
“Alpha Bowen. You are here?” Dr. Chris asked and bowed to the man named Alpha Bowen.
“Yes. I am here, and I perceive this intoxicating jasmine scent that threatens to claim this entire territory with her pheromones and arousal. So, that brought me here,” Alpha Bowen said, and my big blue eyes widened as I looked at him.
“Oh! She is among the new foreigners who were found injured at the pack borders, and the warriors on patrol brought her here. I was preparing to inform Beta Dennis about it. It's just that I was still waiting for her final test result to come out to ensure that she is not dangerous or a rogue,” Dr. Chris explained, speaking to Alpha Bowen in a respectful tone.
Alpha Bowen looked at me and nodded.
“I see. She isn't a threat, but her jasmine scent is too intoxicating and can make a normal man aroused to mate with her,” Alpha Bowen stated, looking at me accusingly, and my gaze dropped.
*I am not a harlot. Do I really have a scent?* I muttered in my mind, and they kept looking at me.
Then Alpha Bowen said, “Who told you that you don't have a scent?”
“Huh. Can you hear my mind?” I asked him, and he nodded and smirked.
“Yes. As an Alpha, I can hear your thoughts loud and clear. You are an Alpha Wolf, and your scent is Jasmine. Are you trying to claim that you haven't met your wolf?”
Alpha Bowen moved closer to me, and I got pinned against the wall behind my back.
“Yes, um, I don't know. I haven't shifted since I was born,” I replied nervously, recalling that soft voice that had spoken to me before they came in.
They all frowned.
“Are you serious?” Alpha Bowen asked, a look of disbelief on his face.
“Yes,” I replied, shivering and lowering my gaze.
“Mmm.” Alpha Bowen stepped away from me and said, “It's alright. You should wait until Dennis or my brother sends for you. And stop secreting those sèxual pheromones. You are not doing any good but attracting harm to yourself. I came here for other lab matters. Follow me to the lab, Dr. Chris.”
Alpha Bowen left, and I released the breath that I didn't know I was holding.
“Phew!” I sighed as the two men walked out.
“He is our Alpha's second son. A lab genius. You don't have to be afraid of him,” Nurse Elena said, and I looked at her face with relief.
“Okay. Who was the other man that I saw leaving here earlier? They looked alike. Was he the Alpha?” I asked, my heart still beating so loudly in my chest.
“Yes. That was Alpha Benson. Did you see him? He loves to make his presence known, and that's why he kept on secreting more of his territorial pheromones and suppressing us. But he had a wonderful Alpha aura, and has a wonderful wild mushroom scent.”
Nurse Elena blushed as she went to stand beside the hospital room window and gazed out.
“Alright,” I replied with a warm smile.
Then I heard my stomach growl.
“I am hungry. Do they serve free food, or am I supposed to pay for it? I don't even have any money,” I asked Nurse Elena as she finally moved away from the room window.
“They will bring your lunch now. They were cleaning the hospital kitchen, so that took them longer to have the patients' meals ready, but it's free,” she told me with a smile, and that made me relieved.
“Alright.”
I went to sit on my bed and waited for them to bring me lunch.
As Nurse Elena left my hospital room, I kept thinking about Alpha Benson and his brother, Bowen. They could pass for twins. But while one had black eyes, the other had enchanting orange eyes and red hair.
“Mmm,” I hummed, smiling.
The voice in my mind spoke again.
“I am back. Wow! You need to learn a lot about yourself.”
“Not again. Who are you?” I asked the voice.
She replied, “I am Selena. Your wolf.”