The Heir's Shadow

THE CALM BEFORE THE STORM

Chapter 5

Mireya's POV

She was an Alpha despite her small stature, I could tell that much from her scent. “Xander, a word” I gritted out.

He pushed the Alpha that was clinging to him away as if she scalded him. I scoffed, dropping my champagne onto the bar top.

I shook my head walking away from them. Of all days, he had to show him he does cheat on me today.

“Mimi, it isn't what it looks like” he echoed behind me, his shoes clicking against the tiled floor.

“What exactly does it look like, Xander? Enlighten me” I asked my tone frigid, arms crossed against my chest.

“I know it might seem as if I was hugging that woman but she was drunk and she stumbled into me. I was only holding her waist to avoid her falling to the ground” he explained, his eyes wide and shining.

“Ohh, that must have been what happened to Sally too! She stumbled into your car and you steady her hair in her house. I understand, totally” I spat out, my hands shaking with the force of my anger.

“Don't you dare use that tone with me! I am trying to reason with you and…you are behaving like an uncouth wolf. If one the Council members saw you now they would even believe their eyes” He roared out at me, stunning me into silence.

I blinked, not sure I heard him right. “What the hell are you talking about about?!” I screamed at him, losing my cool.

“I literally just caught you cheating and you are turning this about me? You must be f*****g joking!” I laughed out, the sound slightly maniac to my ears.

“This is the issue I have with you! Why can we just talk it out like normal mates, uhn? Do you have to be so…problematic all the time?” His voice got softer at his last sentence.

I shifted away from him, needing space before I exploded. “I am been problematic? Really?” Before he could find another stupid thing to say, one of the Council members called out to me.

I puffed out, shaking my head as I walked away from him. The Council woman introduced me to some people, their names escaping my mind as soon as I heard them.

My anger had simmered to a point after I had paraded with the Council woman. Did I truly overreact? Was I been problematic all the time like he said?

I let out a sigh, slipping down the floor of the bathroom I was in, not minding I was going to crumple my dress.

“No matter what your mate does, forgive and forget. That is the only way you can grow, do you understand me, Mireya?” My mother's voice echoed in my head, making me run my hands through my hair.

I let out a muffler scream into my dress, feeling hopeless. What was the use of been the Alpha heir when my mate had power over me?

Why should I be the one trying to keep everything together and he would…do whatever he feels like?

“Don't overthink it, if it takes you being the bigger person do it. For peace to reign” Her voice echoed once more. As if she were right beside me.

“It isn't that easy to keep putting myself out there, Mom. I am tired of being the bigger person” I rasped out, my voice hoarse.

I wiped at my cheeks, wetting the edge of my handkerchief to clean up the edges of my eyes. I was the bigger person, I changed in my head.

I looked at my image in the mirror, taking a deep breath in. I walked out of the restroom, head held high.

“Do you happen to see my mate?” I asked from Cara, one of the Beta wolves in the pack.

“I saw him at the bar on the first floor” She replied, bowing before me. “Thanks” I moved to the elevator, pressing the button for the first floor.

The moment the elevator pinged open,.my eyes searched for Xander's figure at the bar but he wasn't there.

I checked through the rooms and restrooms but still I couldn't find him. I plastered on a smile on my face anytime on e of the Council members passed me by.

Just as I was about to enter into the elevator to continue th search on the second floor, I remembered the tiny room behind the bar that was like a…sitting space?

Anyway, I huffed there, praying he was there and I could get this over with. I moved behind the bar, my hand on the knob when I heard his voice.

“I don't even know why I put up with her, she is so…controlling” I fisted my free hand, my body trembling.

“If it weren't for her inheritance and her control over the pack’s territory, I would have rejected her. I could do better than her” He remarked his tone filled with haughtiness and entitlement.

The nerve of him! He seemed to have forgotten who I was and apparently I did too.

I wasn't just the Alpha heir to the pack, I carried the blood of ancient warrior women who stood and fought against drakonis that threatened to take our lands.

I had no right to condone his disrespect, I was not carrying just myself alone. I represented those who came before me and those who will rule after me.

I let the knob go, walking away from the door. It was as if I woke up from a long sleep, my body stiff and slightly sore.

I walked into the elevator, my mind clearer than it had been in years. I pressed the ground floor button, slipping my heels off.

The sound of the igi drum resounded in my head, the feeling mystical. The igi drum has been used for celebration during my ancestors time.

It felt as if they were seeing me and were playing the igi drum as celebration for my…awakening.

“Mireya, what's wrong?” Alec asked me, looking down at my bared feet. “Are you okay, Al-Mireya?” Finn, Alec's mate, asked shyily, his body pressed into Alec.

My bond with Xander pulsed with hunger, as if noticing I was done with him. “I am okay, I am going for a drive” I replied looking at them both.

Alec nodded, his hands wrapping around Finn. I stepped out of the pack house, my feet sinking into the moist earth.

I opened my car, hands tighteni

ng around the steering. This time it wasn't in anger, this time…it was in control.