The Female Alpha's Broken

Chapter 5 - Staking My Claim

It’s been 4 days and I haven’t seen or heard from Reign. He hasn’t even been around the house or with Nate, if I didn’t know any better I’d say he’s avoiding me. What an ass. Surely everything that happened wasn’t that bad to make him run away from me. I half expected him to come back that day after breakfast but nope. Thankfully I had the worst hangover to keep my mind occupied that day. But it’s been a few days since then and still no sign of him and all I’ve done is stayed in the house, mainly my room. I can’t seem to focus on anything else but Reign. I really need to pull myself back together and do something. But what? ....... The gym! I’ll go work up a sweat and hopefully that’ll make me feel better. It’s 10:30am so most pack members will be either working, at school and all that stuff so the gym should be empty. I put on a black sports bra and khaki leggings, pulling my hair into a high ponytail. Then I grab my headphones before blasting some hype music through them.

Let’s do this!

Thank the Goddess that it’s empty. First I’ll warm up with some stretches and a quick run on the treadmill. Now that I think about it it’s been way too long since the last time I’ve been here. 5km completed, phew I’m glad that’s still easy. I could’ve went for a run outside but I don’t really feel like seeing people. I jump on the cycling machine, I was too focused on trying not to think of Reign and running that I didn’t even notice I wasn’t alone in the gym. Damn it I really need to be more aware of my surroundings. I see in the far corner of the gym a topless Dean lifting weights looking at himself in the mirror. I roll my eyes thinking about how vain he is.

I’m not attracted to him in that way but I can’t deny he is handsome. In no top and only shorts, a tall man with broad shoulders, a chiseled body, dirty blonde hair, green eyes, with our packs symbol tattooed on his shoulder, and another big traditional tattoo on the side of his stomach stretching to his back, with other small ones on his body. Damn he is fine. Not Reign fine but fine nevertheless. Hopefully since I didn’t notice him he hasn’t noticed me. Oh s**t I just realised I’ve been staring at him for a bit now, probably looking like I’m checking him out. He suddenly freezes oh no... no, no, no. Damn you Delta Warrior instincts. He can definitely feel me looking at him. Slowly he turns around and sees me and with a big smile he yells.

“HEY MIRAH!” Obviously forgetting about the ear phones he has on.

“Heyyyy” I awkwardly wave back. Damn it now he’s walking over here. Great.

He comes and leans on the front of the cycling machine with his arms hanging over the bars mere inches from my legs. I sit back trying to move as far from him as I can on this.

“Sooo... you and Reign huh?” He says raising an eyebrow at me.

“Um yes...” I say avoiding eye contact.

“When did you find out?”

“When I woke up the next morning.”

“Oh well at least you’re not stuck with some ugly lowlife. I mean he’s not me but he’ll do” he says with a laugh. I roll my eyes.

“You are so vain” I say slapping him on the shoulder, he dramatically drops his jaw.

“Girl you know he won’t like you touching me” he says with a smirk.

“Oh shut up Dean it’s not even like that, you’re a friend and I’ll slap you in the face too if I have to” I laugh.

“Oh so I’m in the Friendzone...” I look at him and that’s when I notice that his eyes are on my boobs not my face.

“Hey!” I say snapping my fingers “my eyes are up here not on my chest” he laughs.

“Sorry they’re just right there in front of my face in all their glory just staring righ-“ before he can finish a deadly growl comes from the door and our heads turn in that direction. Oh s**t.

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Reign

“Hey have you seen Namirah?” I ask one of the Omegas.

“Yeah I think I saw her heading to the gym” she replies.

“Okay thanks.”

On my way there I can smell her beautiful scent I take a deep breath inhaling as much of it as I can. Then it hits me, another scent one that’s more masculine. Maybe it’s just somebody else working out too... hang on but they’re the only two scents I can smell coming from that way. As I get closer I start to hear a conversation.

“Girl you know he won’t like you touching me” is that Dean? What the f***!

I start running, the sound of my footsteps blocking out the rest of the conversation.

“Hey!” thats definitely Namirah “my eyes are up here not on my chest” then he laughs.

“Sorry they’re just right there in front of my face in all their glory just staring righ-“

I burst into the room with a loud growl. All I see is MY mate on a cycling machine and this arrogant prick leaning over it with his arms way too close to her legs. AND I just heard him talking about her boobs. I swear to the Moon Goddess I’m going to rip his limbs from his body. I run towards him and he turns to me with a smirk. I’m gonna kill him.

“Reign it’s not what you-“ before she can finish I grab him and throw him straight through the window. “REIGN NO!” she yells at me.

“I already told you Namirah!” I point to her “Now it looks like I’m going to have to show you what I mean!” I say before running out of the broken window. Dean gets up and turns to me.

“Well if it isn’t the mate” he says.

“You sure do have a lot of balls Dean” I say calmly. I’m so sick of this guy.

“So I’ve been told before” he says with a smirk. Alright that’s it!

I run at him and punch him straight in his face sending him backwards on to his ass. By now people have started to gather around us. He gets up, in mid air he quickly shifts into his big brown wolf growling at me. I hear the gasps coming from around us.

“Oh so that’s how you wanna play it? Fine by me little pup” I spit before shifting into my wolf. I am a pitch black wolf and slightly larger than him due to my blood line. But bigger or not I’ll still take him. We pace around snarling and circling each other. I’ll wait for him to make the first move. He lunges towards me and I dodge grabbing hold of his back leg with my mouth where I quickly sink my teeth in causing him to growl some more before I throw him a few meters back managing to rip some of his flesh off. He gets back up turning to me and he looks even more fired up. I spit out his flesh and stomp on it looking right at him.

“Come and get me b****” I say through mind link. He rushes at me, I duck under him using my head to flip him on to his back then I jump down on top of him with my claws digging into him making him bleed and whimper, I see pure fear in his eyes. “See you in Hell, Delta.”

I growl loudly and just as I’m about to come down to bite his throat out I’m taken by surprise as I’m bowled off of him by a Grey wolf.

“REIGN STOP!” He yells at me through mind link

“Damn it Nate! I had him!” Now anybody around us would think we’re about to fight.

I take a look back at Dean, he’s still on the ground with pack members going to help him up. I see Namirah standing in the window in shock my wolf wants to run to her but no I need some space from her. I can’t go back to her til I cool down.

“Reign you don’t need to do this! Let’s go for a run and cool off. Come on dude he’s not even worth it” he says hitting me on the head with his paw.

“Let’s go!” Nate says nudging me with his snout.

“Fine” we run off into the forest. After about twenty minutes of running we make it to the lake and we stop to have a drink.

“Reign I don’t know what it’s like to have a mate, I really don’t. But I’ve heard stories of how uncontrollable we can become if somebody does something to our mate so I get it man I do. But Deans just trying to get under your skin and you let him.”

“What would you do Nate? What would you do if you heard a guy saying to your mate that she should know I wouldn’t like her touching him and then hearing your mate telling him to stop looking at her boobs and he laughs it off saying and I quote, sorry they’re just right there in front of my face in all their glory. And you know what the worst part was? She wasn’t even telling him off it sounded more like a f*****g joke” I reply.

“Wow, I-”

“That’s not even all. When I walked in to see them she was on one of those bike things and he was leaning over the bars with his hands an inch away from touching her thighs. If he hadn’t already. Then he had the audacity to look at me with that smug look. I’m usually a really calm guy but he sent me over the edge man. There was no coming back from that. I was so caught up in rage I think I might’ve even yelled at her saying some s**t after I threw him through the window.”

“s**t. I knew he was a smart ass but I didn’t think anything like that went down. I’m talking about from both of them. I know she’s my sister and all but s**t that’s f****d up.”

“This mate thing makes you crazy man I swear.”

“I get why you did what you did Reign and from a brother to brother approach I say he deserved it and that I would do the same. But from a future Alpha approach I gotta tell you otherwise. You almost killed him dude, in fact if I didn’t get there in time I guarantee you would’ve killed him. Now if he was an outsider we would’ve let it slide. But he’s apart of our pack and a Delta at that and the punishment for killing one of our own is prison. And you can’t be the future Beta from in prison.”

“When your Alpha you can just release me” I joke.

“Dude if you end up in prison I might just take on the whole council and my father to get you out. Probably put myself right in there with you” we laugh starting to walk back.

“No but in all seriousness you gotta keep your cool okay? I need you with me before becoming Alpha too. We’ve got a lot of things to do together before we take on those roles.”

“Yeah, yeah whatever.”

“I doubt Dean will be stupid enough to keep pulling any stunts again after almost being murdered for it.”

“Wouldn’t put it past him. He’s got balls.”

“If he does I’ll be the one to put him in line. Now as for my sister... well I can’t help you there.”

“Yeah... her. I don’t even know what to do there either. It hasn’t even been a week of being her mate and I’ve lost my s**t more times than I have in this whole year.”

“I know it might be too soon but let me ask you this Reign... do you love my sister?”

I stop walking. Love. That’s a bombshell.

“Reign. You can tell me.”

“I was in love with her before she became my mate. I was never really interested in any of those girls, I was just... passing time. I would’ve told you but you probably would’ve just beat my ass. So I just thought I’d wait til she turned 18 hoping that she was my mate. And if she wasn’t well then I would’ve just had to deal with it.”

I continue walking.

“I can’t say I saw that coming. But I’m glad it’s here now.”