Alpha Loreign

Ch 17 Reign's POV

As I am finishing up writing in my journal, I look up and my dad and Nessa are both in my doorway.

“Where did you go yesterday sweetie?” Dad asks as he and Nessa walk in to sit. I put my diary in my desk and look up to give them my full attention.

“Sorry if you needed me but no one mind linked me, so I assumed no one noticed my absence. I met my mate.”

“You’re to be alpha of course your absence was noticed, and I said yesterday,” he said a little irritated and clearly confused.

“I know, I met him yesterday thanks to my visions. I spent the whole day with him, and Nessa was nice enough to deliver us dinner so we could stay in alone. We spent the day getting to know each other but I waited until midnight when I knew for sure before we went any further.” I replied, clearing up the confusion.

“Okay, well are we going to welcome him to the pack tonight during your ceremony? And who is it?” He asks.

“Well, the thing is he is a beta so I don’t know how quickly he can move here being that his alpha will have to replace him.” I replied and he stayed silent waiting for a name.

“It’s Ryan,” Nessa said, and we both looked at her. “Sorry I was tired of the dramatic moment, and he needed to know who it was.”

“Well Ryan will have to talk to Cole, and I am sure he will be pissed but he will get over it. Not even Cole would go against the moon goddess’ wishes. Do you bare Ryan’s mark?”

"Not yet,"

“That will make matters more complicated.” Dad said.

“Why?” I asked.

“ Well its a double edged sword. If he doesn't mark you I worry Cole may try to make him reject you or try to stall him coming to live here. If he does mark you, you will be in heat before the week is out and if you come into heat and he isn’t here to sooth you then we take the risk of every unmated male in the pack coming after you. They won’t be able to control themselves.” Dad replied and I put my elbows on my desk and buried my face in my arms. I hadn’t yet considered anything that comes next.

“I’m sure all will be fine; we will separate Ryan from everyone else tonight and talk to him after the ceremony. Now let’s go get ready.” I nod at Nessa and look to my dad.

“Anything else? Or is that all,” I ask

“Well seeing as you don’t need to worry about finding your mate, that’s one less conversation to have. We do have another thing to talk about though,” dad said as he pulled a disc case out of his coat pocket. “This was made by your mom at the photo shop in town while she was pregnant with you. She had a ton of health issues when she was pregnant, and she was afraid she wouldn’t survive your birth, so she recorded a message for you for your 18th birthday, there is also a bit in there about the mating ceremony and for when you have your first pregnancy. You can watch it all at once or stop it and save it for later. So here it is,” he set it on my desk. “I watched it after she died and it made me cry, she had all kinds of her maternity pictures in a slide show on it with her voice in the background. The recording was originally VHS, but I took it to the shop in town and they turned it into a DVD, and I also gave them more pictures to add to it. I hope you like it sweetie.” He finished and walked around the desk to pull me in for a big hug.

Tears were rolling down my cheeks but while we were still mid hug I managed to ask, “You really cried?” which made him laugh a little, I had never seen my father cry.

“Yes sweetie, I really did.” He said as he pulled away looking at me.

“I miss her so much, dad.” I replied.

“I do to sweetie, every day of my life, and I hope you never know the pain of loosing your mate.” He spoke earnestly.

“One more question dad and I don’t ask to in anyway upset you or mock what you and mom had but do you think you will ever get a second chance mate?” I asked.

“I don’t know sweetie, but I don’t think it’s quite that simple. See I bare your mom’s mark, so I don’t know if it’s even possible for me to have a second chance mate. Nor do I know if I want one. Should the day ever come that the moon goddess gives me a second chance, of course I would welcome the companionship, but she could never replace your mom.” I was grateful he and I could be open and honest with each other. I nodded in understanding and hugged him one more time, “I love you sweetie.”

“I love you too dad,” I said and pulled away. We all left my office, dad headed downstairs, and Nessa and I went into my bedroom to begin preparing for the ceremony.

Nessa and I talk and watch reality TV, and a knock sounds at my bedroom door.

“Who is it?” Nessa and I both say almost in perfect unison and then laugh. The door then opens to reveal Jan pushing a cart with her right hand and carrying dress bags in her left hand over her shoulder. Nessa and I both get up and run over to her, I grab the dresses and Nessa pushes the cart the rest of the way in. I lay the dresses on the bed and the three of us grab lunch off the cart and sit on the couch. We all eat and talk about tonight; we are all excited. Not only is Jan an amazing chef but she can do killer hairstyling and makeup. She offered Nessa her help for both of us yesterday while I was with Ryan.

Nessa’s makeup is done, Jan gave her dark purplish red lips to compliment her blonde hair and brown eyeliner to make her bright green eyes pop. The rest of her makeup gives her a natural glow, her eyeshadow is even a muted gold tone, it shimmers but doesn’t stand out. Her hair is pencil straight and left down, we will be shifting tonight so Nessa insisted that it was senseless to waste time making her hair overly pretty, ‘it would just go to waste’ she says.

The base of my makeup also looks natural, and I am not wearing any eyeshadow though I have winged eyeliner that is a dark almost black blue. My lips are a light pink color with a glossy finish. My hair is also down but Jan insisted on curling my hair, so the waves are more defined.

Once our makeup is finished, we thank Jan and help her. We decided it is okay to go all out on Jan’s hair and make up because she revealed to us, she won’t be shifting to run with the pack tonight because she just found out she is pregnant. It’s not safe for us to shift until we are cleared by a doctor and for some wolves it’s not safe during pregnancy at all. Nessa does her makeup while I curl her blonde hair half up. Nessa gives her bold but tasteful yellow eyeshadow with black eyeliner and clear lip gloss. After we are satisfied with our work Jan excuses herself saying she still doesn’t know what she is going to wear to the ceremony.