My Cursed Alphas

Chapter 1

Today was my sixteenth birthday. I usually don't care about my birthday, but today was special. Today I can feel my mate bond. I can finally find my fated mate. I dressed in some faded denim shorts that came up high on my thighs, a white satin drawstring crop cami, some strappy black sandals, and did natural-looking makeup. I had just put my hair into a messy bun when someone knocked on my bedroom door. I opened the door and my best friend Jacob was there singing 'happy birthday'. I giggled and blushed. I cannot believe him! We sat in my room talking for a while when he pulled out a small square package.

"Whats' that?" I asked him, suddenly curious.

He smirked, "A birthday present for my best friend of course!" 

He handed it to me and I took the bow off carefully before lifting the lid. It was a white gold necklace with a pendant hanging on it. I took it from the box and read the message.

                                                                            Love you forever and always! 

                                                                                        Ur bestie, Jacob

On the backside was a diamond-encrusted evil eye. Oh, it is a David Yurman necklace! I looked up at Jacob and threw my arms around his neck hugging the life out of him.

"Thank you!" I whispered.

He chuckled and kissed the side of my head, 

"You are welcome. I love you, Kyra."

I moved away from him and smiled at him.

"I love you too, Jacob. You are the best friend that anyone could ever hope for."

We went downstairs and had breakfast with my mother and father. The Luna and Alpha of the Ocean Moon Clan. Mom hugged me and told me happy birthday and after we ate, we went our separate ways. I went down to the beach to meditate and to try and gain some sort of control over my wolf, Koda. I had fallen into a deep hole of peace and serenity when Jacob's worry reached me through our link. 

Before I was able to see what was happening, I could smell this amazing scent of sandalwood and vanilla. My wolf was excited about something.

MATE! she howled in my head.

I looked around the battlefield and my eyes found him. My heart dropped into my stomach at what I saw. I watched as the man that was my fated mate skewered my best friend with his sword. He looked at me and grinned like he knew I was watching the entire time. I dropped to my knees and felt the tears stream down my face. I hadn't noticed that he had stepped in front of me. I was still staring at the body before me. 

I fell onto my butt and hugged my knees to my chest. The sobs had escaped my lips and now I couldn't stop.

 My mate kneeled down in front of me and spoke in a hushed whisper, 

"Reject the mate bond and I will spare the rest of them." 

It was my duty as the future Alpha of this pack to help my people if I possibly could. I looked into his eyes and spoke the words, 

"I, Kyra Morgan Raven, future Alpha of the Ocean Moon Clan, reject you, Ethan Andreas Conri, as my mate." 

I didn't know how I knew his name, but I spoke confidently until the pain hit. I clutched my chest hoping that the pain would disappear soon. The breaking of a mate bond either by choice or by death is hard. I could feel my heart shatter even more. 

He nodded, there was a look of sadness in his eyes that was gone as quick as it appeared. He stood and called his men to him, leaving our land. I wasn't sure why he had come here in the first place if he was just going to start a war. A war that I intended to one day finish.

 I held Jacob in my arms and cried for the man he was and the man he had yet to be.

I don't know how long I sat there that day. Clutching to my best friends' corpse. I remember him being pulled away from me. I remember that I shifted out of anger and took off into the woods for months. I came back a year to the day when I heard the howling that signaled that the alpha, my father had passed.