Dawn of an alpha.

A weird dream.

Three hours later,

Dawn Daniels

After waking up from a very weird and distressing dream, I tried to go back to sleep but I could not because the sleep was not coming and I was feeling too restless, the room suddenly felt tight and I thought about taking some air on the balcony but as I stood up to walk to it, my mouth felt dry so I just changed my mind, put on my sleep robe and walked out of the room, with the intention of going to get water to drink from the kitchen. On the way to the kitchen, I noticed the bar so instead of going for the water I decided I wanted wine so I stopped by it, took a wine glass, poured myself some red wine, then sat on one of the high stools by the bar and thought about the dream I had.

It has been a while since I had a dream at all, not to talk about having a dream that made me think, lose sleep or be restless. This one was still clear in my mind and I wondered what it meant.

In the dream we were in a large room seated at a large table – the table was big enough to seat 30 people, I was dressed in warrior garb and sitting at the head of the table, I was uninterested and I wanted to leave but I could not leave because someone was coming and even though it was a dream, I could tell that someone was coming. There were other people at the table, men and women, they were giving me looks, some bad looks, some just curious looks. We were all waiting for someone then as if someone turned on the sound, they all started talking at once, arguing over each other, it got noisy and that irritated me but for some reason, I just kept looking at them and stayed quiet.

The talking stopped the moment the door opened and someone stepped into the room, it was Kieran. He looked beautiful like always, just with longer hair which gave just sharpened his rogueish looks and I felt a longing for him, I wanted him. His beautiful blue eyes fell on me the moment he walked in and he smiled, it seemed like I was waiting for him because then I stood up from my sitting position at the head of the table and walked toward him, smiling back at him.

I stopped in front of him and we stayed that way, facing each other for a few seconds, his blue eyes shining like bright lights then as the people watched, we turned back to them about to address the people seated at the table.

Before we could speak, one of the men said in a loud voice. “she’s not one of us.”

Then they all started talking over each other again, some shushing, some pointing at me then I looked at Kieran who nodded like he was giving me permission. Then he made them keep quiet when he mind linked them with a single command,

“Quiet.”

They went silent immediately, it had been an alpha’s command on his people. I wondered how he did that because I doubt they were members of the Rogue lands, looking closely at them, I even doubted they were all werewolves because some of them smelled different.

Everyone was silent, I could see fear in some of their eyes, they were scared of me. I wondered why but I was still going to talk, the moment I was about to speak, I woke up.

The dream had bothered me and it was hard to understand too which made me feel restless. I knew that sleep was far from me at the moment and I did not know what to do so I just sipped my wine and tried to figure out what my dream meant but nothing came to mind.

I was still replaying scenes from my dream in my head when I sensed someone moving in the house, it was May – it is usually easy for werewolves to scent people but for me, it was heightened, I could easily tell people by their scents from a mile away. That was something Hera and I had noticed while we were training and honing my powers as a werewolf – May’s scent was unique, very different from the other werewolves.

If May came down she would see me drinking wine in my restless state and I was in no state to have a conversation with May right now and it made me realize that I had come down to take water and I ended up having wine, laughing quietly at my sudden love for wine and the distraction it caused, I finished sipping the rest of the wine in my glass then I poured more wine, returned the bottle to the cabinet in the bar, and went back to my room since I couldn’t sleep I would just read my mother’s journal. I have procrastinated reading it for too long.

After climbing the stairs, I got to my door and paused a bit as I looked towards Kieran’s room, I thought of letting him know about the dream I had but it was the early hours of the morning and I had already taken his time the night before so I just went into my room.

Placing my wine-filled glass on the bedside table, I opened the side drawer and took out my mother’s journal from it. I smiled and held it to my chest for a few minutes and that made me think of her and the last time I saw her, I wish she had never left. I miss her.

I did not start reading it immediately, looking at the clock on the wall I noticed it was way past midnight, almost 1 am. I placed the journal beside my wine glass and fished around the bed covers for my phone, I needed to set an alarm so I get some sleep before the fight later today. That is if I get to sleep.

After finding the phone I set an alarm for 6:00 am and 6:15 am just in case, then I set the phone on the bedside table, sipped a little more wine, and then I picked up my mum’s journal and started reading.