Checkmate Alpha

Chapter three

Lucas

“Wait a minute” I called out as I instinctively laid my hand on Sophia’s shoulder trying to stop her from walking away. I didn’t know what I was expecting or what I was going to say but her rejecting me just like that made me remove my hand right away.

I wanted to growl at her for making me feel like less. Like I was nothing, but I only knew how that would lead me into an open war with her brother and his friend, or her boyfriend or whatever that other guy was.

“Fine!” I said and turned on me heal back to the guys.

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As I got home from the beach, I couldn’t help but think of her. How annoying she really was. She was younger than me even though it wasn’t more than a few months and she was stronger than me, or at least as strong. There was two years until I turned 17 and then I would become Alpha.

But knowing a she-wolf like her was stronger than me I needed to train more and harder.

I went to the pack training facilities as my future beta Kyle joined me. He had been at the beach with me, yet he had stood by watching me make a fool of myself. Never again.

“Hey, how are you holding up, Luke?” He asked me, giving me a light punch on the shoulder. I could tell him just how annoyed I was with this Sophia, or I could just ignore it. Either way I had to come up with something.

“Got to keep on training you know. Can’t have someone being stronger than me especially when my dad has the pack run as tight as this” I replied back. In honesty it didn’t matter that she was a she-wolf. What mattered that she was an Alpha kid, and he was not going to lose to another alpha. Even if she wasn’t becoming the next alpha. It only meant her brother had the same capacity for strength too.

“I hear she’s stronger than her brother too. Sad she’s not going to be the Alpha over there” Kyle said not saying anything about how she beat me. It wasn’t a real fight but if it had been I was sure I would have lost.

“Let’s just forget her and keep training, yeah?” I proclaimed to Kyle.

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Four years later

Sophia

It’s been two years now since I became Alpha of Silver Moon and 3 years since I lost my brother. An accident happened with another pack which we went to war with. Dark Moon. Apparently there had been a breach on the peace treaty and so my father and brother had gone into the war. He was almost 17 and had to learn how to be an alpha while in combat. Of course, it didn’t turn out great. I never wanted him to get hurt even though I myself had planned on taking the title of Alpha from him. Yet now I was running the pack. I still haven’t met my mate, and I sure am never going to.

My mother has changed her plan for me. She wants me to marry a Beta. Someone that doesn’t want to go for my title and at the same time someone who knows just how to help me. Adam was a great candidate to my mother, but I felt like it would only distract me more to have my Beta as my mate. I wouldn’t be able to focus on the pack, which has been and always will be my first choice.