The Alpha

Chapter 11

Kate’s POV

I woke up with the worst pain I have ever felt. I could hear and feel some bones breaking inside of me. A massive heat radiating from my body, every single tooth in my body arching, and my toes and fingernails feeling like they were being pulled out. I couldn’t help but scream out in pain.

Liam was sleeping but soon woke up with my screams. I couldn’t talk or walk. All I was doing was screaming. Liam picked me up and ran with me in his arms. I don’t remember anything after that. Not anywhere on earth at least.

I could see a little light in the dark. I see a huge white wolf with purple magic around it. She looks beautiful. I walk to her and she jumps on me before licking my face.

“I’m free. I’m finally free.” She gets off me.

“Who are you? Free from what?” I’m so confused.

“I’m Joule. Your wolf.” She starts telling me about my family. She remembers what happened. I don’t know how to feel. I feel sad. I was once loved, cared for, and protected. I was someone’s child and they didn’t choose to leave me…they were forced to.

“Joule, where are we? Are we dead? The last thing I remember is that I was in so much pain.”

“We are not dead. We’re in your, my…our mind. I have been with you since you were little, but I was unable to contact you because of the spell. When we met our mate part of the spell was broken because of the pull. When we mated the spell was completely broken because of the strength of the bond.” I finally understand now.

Joule…are we dying. I know that we couldn’t shift because of the spell but I can still feel pain. It feels like if I’m in a dream. I might not feel it here, but I know I’m experiencing it. I can feel it there…if you waited so long why are you here with me and not pushing to shift.” She lays down and I lay next to her.

 “If I push it more your human body might not be able to stand the pain. The spell was to forcefully stop us from shifting so even if we have already shifted once…it will be excruciating. It may kill us.” I nod

”We should get to know each other then, push to shift together. I don’t want to be in here forever and if there’s a chance we should take it.” Joule nods once and so we begin to talk.

It’s a fun conversation that seemed to never end. With in a few hours it feels like Joule and I have truly become one. We play catch and tag for a bit. We even try to add trees to this blank, dark, dream and it worked. Its our mind and if we worked together it would appear. She wanted a bunny and I wanted cake and so they appeared.

After we did this for a few more hours we decided that it was time to try and shift. We are doing this.

Liam’s POV

Since the day I carried Kate to the pack doctor, she’s been in a coma. She was going through her first shift, but the pack doctor doesn’t know what went wrong. There are some cases of late bloomers, but they turn out fine.

She has been out for almost a month now and every now and then I could hear her bones break but she never shifts.

Rosie visits her every day after school with either me, Chris, or Will. She sings her the song that her mother always sings the her. I try to be positive but with every passing day my positivity shrinks a bit.

Right now, I’m taking a shower because I haven’t had time. With doing paperwork, organizing things for the orphanage like she had started, and visiting her, its been a hectic few weeks.

I haven’t told anyone but I’m mad at her. Mad that she came here and made me want to be with her. Mad that she made me love her. Mad that after I treated her like s**t, she still stayed. But most of all I’m mad that after everything she could leave me forever and I love her. She broke my walls down and now she’s on the verge of dying. I let the tears fall freely while the water watches them away.

‘Alpha she’s awake’ the pack doctor mind links me. I come out the shower and put on a pair of shorts before running to the pack doctor.

Kate’s POV

“Ok Joule on the count of three. One…Two…Three!” Joule and I push. We just both really focus on shifting. I begin to feel the pain more and more and pretty soon I’m screaming in pain in a hospital bed. We had to try a few times, but we did it.

I feel worse than when it first started. I need to shift before I pass out again. I push one more time and push harder and then my body falls to the floor. I feel no more pain. Did it work? Am I in my mind again?

I begin to get up and when I look down. I have big, white, furry paws. I stumble a little but then let Joule take over. I run out the room and outside into the backyard of the pack house. We let out a load and long howl for finally being completely ourselves and free.

Not long after we finish, I see people approach me, so we let out a powerful growl in warning. Everyone immediately bows their heads and I hear Joule say that they recognize me as a high rank born and their Luna.

When I’m about to run towards the woods I smell a scent and calm down. My little rose is running towards the crowd asking about her mother, that’s me. I make a wolfish smile and walk to her. Joule is so happy to finally be able to be with her in her form. Rosie stops right in front of me and looks up at me with her big eyes. She looks different but I let that thought go. When I hear someone call out to her my head snaps to them with a low growl.

“Kate, it’s just me, Liam. I was just looking for Rosie. She went looking for you  when we didn’t see you in the room.” He spoke calmly and caringly.

I look at Rosie and lick her face. I start walking to Liam when I start to feel weak. Everything goes black.

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 I walk up in my room feeling relaxed and well rested. My whole body feels sore but its bearable. I look around and see Rosie sleeping next to me, her little body taking up half the bed because of the way she was spread out. While Liam was sleeping in a chair on the other side of me holding my hand.

I slide my hand away and go to the restroom. I’m  in there for about 5 taking a shower and getting ready when the door bursts open.

“”Liam get out I’m in a towel. Get out.” He looks at me longingly and rushes in the hug me.

“I missed you.” I hug him back and chuckle.

“Liam I was only asleep for a few hours, at most a day. What are you being so dramatic about?” He pulled away from the hug and smiled at me sadly.

"You have been gone for weeks…almost a month.” I laugh until I realize that he’s not joking.

All the time me and Joule were together…it was a month…it felt like a few hours…like a day together to bond. It felt good to bond with my wolf and finally get to know her. I  feel so guilty now that I know what we did. I thought that if I stayed a while longer that we could catch up on the time we missed all these years…but now…now I think that I deeply hurt my family.

I’m sorry” I tell him when he hugs me again.

“Don’t say sorry. You have nothing to be sorry about. Come on let’s go get you something to eat you must be starving.” We walk to the kitchen and get something to eat with my little rose and the rest of the guys.

Since Liam doesn’t let me go out yet…something about me still being too weak and him not wanting to let me out of his site. Anyway, most of the kids have come to visit, some pack member as well.

It’s been 2 weeks and Liam barely letting me out and about a week ago. Pack members would come in and out. I have gotten to know many more people and this pack has now truly become my family.

From the start I felt a connection with the people here. Like they were my family. There was a bond I felt, kind of how I read in books about how the Alpha feels a bond with his pack. Well every member feels it but its stronger with higher rankings because it’s their pack they’re supposed to protect.

We have been great. There have been some rouges spotted near the boarders but they never come any further. Liam has had meetings about that situation and how we plan on dealing with it. To many rouges have been spotted and the conclusion is that they are planning something big.

“What are you thinking about, love.” Liam’s voice rang in my ear.

“About how hot my mate is.” I said turning around to face him. He had that smirk he always has on. He kissed me and I guess it lasted longer then it felt because the guys came in with a groan. Will doing some noises sounding like he was troughing up.

I heard Liam growl and they all stop. I let out a giggle and pull Liam outside for a run. We both chose a tree to shift behind.

This past week Liam and I have been going on a run every day. He has been helping me shift. At the beginning it hurts and the more we shift the less it hurts.

When I finished, I come out to see Liam waiting for me.

‘Race you’ before he could answer I run.

We race a few times with each of us winning, play some hide and seek, and some tag before going back to the house.

This week has been super fun. Running with Liam, playing fun games with the kids, spending time with the pack, doing pack work was fun too. And the time I got to spend with my little rose was amazing. I love her so much and her now living with me was something I dreamed of. This week was a start of something good.

I was eating with Rosie when Liam came to ask if we were tired. Rosie of course said no and yawned right after making me and him laugh. He carried her into her room and tucked her in before kissing her head goodnight. I just stood there leaning on the door smiling at my mate and daughter. He cares so much about her and he has never once brought but the fact that she isn’t his because to him she is.

I get pulled out of my thoughts when I feel Liam carry me bridal style into our room.

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Liam’s POV

I woke up when  I felt James mind link me.

‘Rouges have entered our boarders. They seem to be led by witches.’ He states

‘Get the warriors ready.’

I get out of bed and wake up my beautiful mate from her ‘beauty sleep’

“Liam how many times do I have to tell you if I don’t get my beauty sleep it won’t be pretty. It’s not my outer shell but the inner we have a problem with. My attitude can be brutal.” She explained. That is very true she is always beautiful but her attitude when she doesn’t get sleep is something I won’t even wish upon my enemy. But right now, there is no choice.

“The rouges have crossed our boarders and are being led by witches.” I say simply. she rushes out the room and I do the same. I hear her giving out orders and leading the children, elderly, and some men and women. I order the warriors to follow the plan that we came up with when we spotted the rouges.

Kate and I share a kiss and say ‘I love you’ to each other before completely parting ways.

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I’m in the field fighting so far things are going ok but they rouge keep coming like they have a never-ending number. The witches are outside the boarder waiting for I don’t know what. I look around and see that everyone is getting tired and honestly so am I. The rouges are slowing down. There are not as much but we have been going at it for about an hour and there are still too many.

‘Hey babe, everyone is safe in the bunker. I assigned sleeping and eating schedules because even if the fight is almost done the pack still shouldn’t see all this blood’ Kate mind linked me

‘This blood? Kate, where are you?’ I respond

‘Fighting a rouge near the pack doctor. Its filled of blood it smells nasty. Were gonna need a lot of Febreze’ I hear her joke like nothing

‘Why aren’t you in the bunker with everyone’ I asked. She needs to be safe.

‘I wanted to fight. I’m not gonna be a Luna that waits for the action to finish. I did what I needed to in the bunker now I will fight alongside my pack members and my Alpha.’ I growled lowly. She doesn’t call me ‘her alpha’ unless were in bed. She knows what it does to me.

‘On my way’ I have to admit that my heart warmed up hearing her say that she wants to fight alongside ‘her’ pack. She thinks of this as her pack and her home and I can’t help but be happy. But I’m angry at the same time. I just want her safe and she is definitely not safe out here.

We are both in our wolf form, so I go straight to her and lick her face. She does a wolfish smile and we get back to fighting. We fight for a while checking on each other. The fight lasts almost another hour when the rouges finally stop coming.

The entire time I was afraid this would be the last time I would see Kate, but she is strong. She is really strong. I don’t know what her wolf rank is, but it has to be high.

I shifted and put on shorts and a t shirt. Kate came out of the pack doctor with some shorts and a t shirt that smelled of another male. I growled and walked to her. I know that there are more important things right now but she’s mine.

“Who’s cloths is this. You smell like another male and I don’t like it.” I chuckled

“Would you prefer me to just wear nothing?” I growl once again

“Relax, I needed clothes and was given this by a doctor.” She came closer to me and kissed me she then put my arms around her and rubbed her chest against mine. I could feel that she didn’t have a bra on. I was in a trans when she suddenly pulled away. She sniffs the shirt which made me growl and her smile.

“There now I smell like you.” Her smile was so full of love and happiness. I was about to say something when we heard a voice speak. It held so much hate and evilness that we all shivered.

The battle is far from being over.