Submissive Alpha

CUATRO

Taylor's POV

Today is the day I finally get to become alpha and will hopefully find my mate, maybe it is someone from the pack that recently moved to our pack or someone who does not stay on pack grounds. I will need to wait until the moon is at its highest peak before I get inaugurated, something to do with tradition or something like that. I really hope I will find my mate today, I have been waiting two years for her, well not really waiting since Esihle and I continued being mates even after finding out we were not mates, but you know what I mean.

Also, I hope she is my true mate, yeah, I said true mate, alpha’s can have more than one mate, this is because the lineage must be continued. The other mates are like a rip-off the original thing, but you forfeit all your other mates if you decided to reject your true mate. In order for you not to forfeit them, they need to die, or they reject you, but I mean come on, who would reject their mate? That is like signing your own death warrant, but there are also incredibly stupid people out there.

As I walk up to the makeshift stage, I feel the adrenaline and energy coursing through my veins. I can practically hear it strumming through them, is this what it feels like to be buzzed, if so, I totally understand the hype behind it. I walk up on the stage, I am only in a pair of loose-fitting shorts because after this we will be going for the run that signifies that a new alpha has come into power, I will have to lead it. My father starts rumbling on and on about the legacy of Shallow River and how we have the potential to be one of the best and hopefully during my term that potential will be realised, I block him out mainly because Alex is clawing at me. I do not know why because he has not been excited about becoming alpha, something to do with not being meant to lead alone or something ridiculous like that, I mean I just ignored him because really, melodramatic much.

While trying to suppress Alex from taking over, he also keeps chanting something, but my mind is too focused on the ceremony to even try to decipher what has his panties in a twist. Before I can be officially inaugurated, I get a whiff of the most amazing scent, well more like scents. The one smells like slightly burnt salted caramel, I am a fan of anything caramel but salted and slightly burnt caramel is my go-to dessert, it smells like heaven. The second scent more masculine, there is no other words to describe it other than pure alpha male scent, it smells like the outdoors after heavy rain with a hint of musk. I do not understand why I am smelling two different scents, that are the complete opposite of each other but equally intoxicating.

While trying to decipher what these two scents could mean, I hear a menacing growl, not as powerful as an alpha but very powerful, possibly one of a very strong beta, one that could be an alpha if they wanted to. Thank f**k I am an alpha, because had it not been for that I would have been on the floor in a submissive position, that is how powerful that growl is.

I immediately transform into my dark grey wolf and leap of the stage to fight those attacking my pack, I know that we are under attack but it takes a while for me to realise that we are being attacked by Blood Moon, none other than the Grim Reaper's pack. They are the strongest pack around, and I mean that in the most literal sense, even the alpha king does not interfere with Blood Moon. What the hell did my father do to warrant this attack, as vicious as Reaper is, he never attacks unprovoked.

While fighting alongside my warriors, Alex forces me to follow that amazing scents that are still permeating through all the blood. Following the scents, I am in complete shock when I see a pack member I have never met before, that must be Harley McNally. She recently moved here with her brother after their parents died in a rogue attack, I was supposed to be introduced to her today. Alex says the sweet word that, confirms my suspicions that this petite red-haired angel is my mate, 'MATE'. Walking towards her momentarily forgetting about the attack on my pack.

Before I reach her, I notice a god, there is no other way to describe a man that tall and that built as anything else either than as a god. This godlike creature must be the Grim Reaper, but why is he walking towards my mate, before I can growl at him to stay away from her, Alex utters the words mate again, but he now sound stupefied and scared. How is it possible to have two mates, and one of them is the Grim Reaper, an alpha male, this is not happening it cannot be happening.

I walk towards both of them ignoring the c*****e happening around me, yeah, I do not think I will have a pack after this, that makes me flinch a bit. I suddenly notice that the Grim Reaper’s eyes are glowing a weird purple colour, kind looks like methylated spirit, I hear an ominous growl, more menacing than the one that signalled the attack on my pack. This one is powerful enough to force every wolf into submission, every single wolf my dad, his beta, my beta, and myself included laid on the ground on our stomachs in a sign of submission.

The Grim Reaper continues his strut towards Harley, and I like he did not just cause two entire packs to submit to him without even breaking a sweat. Alex keeps pestering me about something I do not quite understand, he keeps muttering something incoherent and it is starting to annoy me. The Grim Reaper is hands down one of the most handsome people I have ever seen, he has black hair that almost looks blue in the moonlight. He has heterochromia, one eye was a deep violet colour, almost like the colour his eyes were glowing a few seconds ago, the other is hazel with gold flecks in it. He was taller than me, I mean significantly so, and I am 6'2”. He has an eight pack I did not even know that was possible without flexing your muscles constantly. This man is a f*****g Adonis, actually scratch that, Adonis would be jealous of this man is how handsome he is and now I sound gay.

He finally reaches us and I have by now managed to convince Alex that it is okay to stand up, especially if this man is indeed our mate, Harley also stands next to me but she looks to be in shock, I mean I would be to. The Grim Reaper growls out 'MATES' reaffirming that we are indeed his mates, but f**k this there is no way I will submit to this monster of a man, I mean the cocky f**k did not even transform into his wolf when attacking us, I am an alpha and I submit to no one.

So obviously I am going to do the only sensible thing, cause I will still have Harley, 'I, Taylor Bennett reject you..." what was his name again, I actually do not know his name, I just know him as the Grim Reaper. Before I decide to say f**k it and reject him under his alias, I mean the Goddess will understand I feel soft lips smash onto my own, rendering me stupefied. I do not respond immediately, the plan is not to respond at all, but I keep forgetting that Alex is a little b***h and he forces me to respond to the kiss. The kiss will go down in history as being one of the most toe-curling, bone-melting and brain liquefying kiss I have ever experienced.

After what feels like ages, he finally stops kissing me, allowing me to come up for air. He then turns his searing eyes to Harley, boring those eyes of his right into hers, he moves away from me and I miss his warmth. He pulls her into his arms and smashes his lips on hers and I feel my 'little', not so little getting harder than he had already been from the kiss. Damn this was turning me on beyond belief, add the fact that I was recovering from that kiss and you could conclude how needy I was at this exact moment, I hear a moan only to realise it is my own. The little show the Reaper was putting on needs to stop before I jump both of them and f**k Harley senselessly while the Reaper watches us.

As if he can hear my intentions, his eyes suddenly glaze over, indicating that he is linking with someone in his pack, his pack members rise from the floor and start running back into the woods, he told them to stop the attack apparently. That is very odd, especially considering that he never stops an attack until all males and alpha are dead, and clearly my father is still very much alive, I wonder why he would do such. He picks Harley up bridal style, seeing as she has been practically turned into jelly and beckons me to follow him into the unknown, well not really unknown cause we are going to his pack lands, but you know what I mean.