The Goddess Alpha

Chapter Six: The Party

Rheya POV

1 hour later and I’m stepping out of the shower and dressing back into my comfortable pajamas. It’s now 12 ‘o’clock and I’m absolutely starving, and for some reason Sotiras is extremely restless, she’s been howling, and it is getting harder to block her out.

I come out of the bathroom to find Tyler sleeping on my bed and Natalie is finishing her last bit of makeup with her hair in curlers. I laugh at her medusa looking hair, and she glares at me. I then nod over to a sleeping Tyler and give her a hand signal to which she replies with a nod. We both creep over to the bed and at the same time Nat and I jump on his sleeping form.

“AAAAAH!” he screams and throws us both of before taking a fighting stance. Natalie and I burst out laughing while sitting on the floor. “HA HA. Very funny you bunch of bitches!” He huffs out. Another minute passes before we can finally stop laughing.

“Okay okay, time to be serious.” Nat says. Before I can protest anything, Natalie is helping me up and putting me in the chair in front of the vanity. She hands me a bowl of fruit knowing I’ll be quiet and fidget less if I can eat. She puts my hair in the same curlers she has on. In about an hour she’s got my hair in medusa nest as well. She applies some lotion to my face and does the bare minimum makeup. I don’t mind having my hair done up, but I refuse to add more than mascara and lipstick. Tyler’s getting a real workout today running up and down the stairs bringing me a continuous train of snacks to keep me still.

While my body is still my mind is going crazy. Sotiras is getting worse and is really fighting her way out now. It feels like an itch in my head and I can’t scratch it. Tyler notices my attitude is off and convinces Nat to give me a break while she finishes her hair herself.

“You okay babe?” He asks while I sit on my bed and rest my elbows on my knees and my face in my hands.

“I don’t know. Sotiras is being weird. She wants out and she won’t relax. It’s killing my head.” I say in a frustrated groan. “Maybe she’s just excited or wants to go for a run?” he suggests.

“Maybe. We don’t have enough time for it though. She’ll just have to wait until later.” I say while I lay back on my bed and dose off for a little bit. I’m awoken by Natalie gently shaking me.

“Hey, it’s time to get up. It’s 2:30. We only have an hour” she says. I open my eyes and look at her. Her hair and makeup are perfect as always and she’s wearing a long white dress with lace sleeves. I get up and head over to the vanity again and she touches up my makeup and insists on adding some eyeshadow and I agree, before taking my hair out of the curlers and styling my hair. After she’s done, I walk over to the closet to put my dress on, it’s a long black dress with open on my chest with long sleeves. Its tight but not form fitting with a slit starting from the bottom and ending at my knee. The back dips down leaving my entire back open. It’s a beautiful dress, I just hate it for myself, but Nat insisted I dress up for once in my life. Since it is physically impossible for me to wear heels I opted for some scarlet colored flats. The only jewelry I wore was the necklace my mom gave to me.

I check myself out in the mirror, I hardly recognize myself. I look stunning, huh maybe it doesn’t suck to dress up occasionally.

Natalie grabs my wrist before pulling me to the door. “Come on me gotta go! It’s time to greet the packs!”

We make it downstairs with a minute to spare. Outside my family is dressed equally as nice. My mother and father in the center, Maxwell, Kristina, and Zachariah on my mothers’ side. I roll my eyes wondering why Kristina is apart of this. I go to my fathers’ side and next to me is Benjamin (also glaring at Kristina) and Aaliyah after him.

Two black Tahoe’s pull up. A Tahoe is a pack go to vehicle; they tend to have enough room for multiple people while also offering protection. Out of the first vehicle comes the Alpha and Luna of the Sapphire Pack, Alessandro, and Aurora. Their son Giovanni follows them.

“Good evening! Thank you for coming!” My mother says while her and my father hug both. The Sapphire pack is the closest thing we can call an ally, they choose to be neutral as well, so we tend to get along better with them. I know my mom invited them because she thinks their son would be a great mate for me, but as we make eye contact there was no spark. I could hear Alpha Alessandro let out a defeated sigh.

“Well better luck with our next children,” he bellows referring to Ben or Max and his daughter. The three of them rush inside to enjoy the party while the occupants of the second vehicle make their way up to us. It is the Alpha of the Blood Rose Pack and his Beta. We’re also close to this pack, they tend to get a little more involved with the other packs, but they aren’t as bad as some others. Strange, no Luna in sight. Maybe my mother is hoping me to mate with him?

“Ah Alpha Leonidas! Where is your beautiful Luna Jordyn?” My dad approached him and shook his hand

“My Luna has passed giving birth to our son last year.” Alpha Leonidas said with a sadness in his voice.

“Oh dear...I’m so sorry to hear that.” My mother said while giving him a hug.

“No worries. We knew it was a possibility as she was only human, but she gave me the most beautiful parting gift I could ever imagine. But I was hoping my Beta here, , would be mated to your wonderful daughter. But I can see that isn’t the case.” He said referencing to Thomas and I not even taking a second glance at each other. Alpha Leonidas was a devilishly handsome man, he stood as tall as my father with every muscle obviously in shape.

Dean then approached me and spoke, “Alas my dear, it would have been a true honor to be your mate. A man is only as strong as the women in his life.” He kissed my hand before walking inside to the party. Damn, he would’ve been a great mate! Uhhh Moon Goddess did you make a mistake? I roll my eyes to myself, of course not, she NEVER makes mistakes. Alpha Leonidas shook my fathers’ hand again, kissed my mother’s cheeks, and gave me a bow. As he passed me, he leaned towards me and whispered, “When you become Alpha, I’d love to have a sit down and seriously consider becoming allies.” I nodded my head and smiled, “Of course Alpha Leonidas !” I replied.

Once they were out of earshot I turned to my mother, “I’m sorry Mom, I know how bad you want me to find my mate.”

My mother had a grim look on her face before she plastered a fake smile on it. “Oh, that’s okay honey, it looks like you’ll just have to travel before you come back home and settle down!”

Yea, not happening, I’m okay where I’m at mom I thought. We all turned to go inside and enjoy the party for ourselves when a sensation came over me. All the hair on my body stood up, my heartbeat picked up, and I felt like I got the wind knocked out of me. I stopped walking and my mom came over to check if I was alright. It was then that they noticed another vehicle pulling up. My parents looked at each other confused.

Out of the passenger seat came the Beta to the Blood Canine pack, the most hated and feared but also biggest pack. Both my parents tensed up at the sight of him, I know were neutral but that doesn’t mean we don’t react to pure evil.

“Good evening ladies and gents. I’m a bit saddened that we weren’t invited to your wonderful party.” The Beta, Bradly, said. He continued, “Our invite must have got lot in the mail. You wanted all unmated males here did you not?” He smirked a truly evil smile. This pack was terrible, of course they weren’t invited. I’ve heard the rumors; they kill their mates. Surely if I were important to the Moon Goddess, she wouldn’t pair me to any of them.

“Yes, we were…unaware that you were unmated…” my mom said cautiously.

“Oh, not me my dear…Female Alpha…” he said the last two words like it pained him that a female was in charge.

He then went to the backseat and opened the door and out came Alpha Christian Waller of the Blood Canine Pack, staring me right in the face. My whole world stopped and Sotiras howled in glee before chanting in my mind “MATE, MATE, MATE!”. He was perfect, his jet-black hair was combed back so neatly, his brown eyes piercing into my soul. He stood at about 6’3” and had a wonderfully sculpted body. My body moved on its own, it knew what it wanted before my head could make up my mind. We made our way to each other and he enveloped me a hug and all I could do was take in his scent. He smelled like a campfire and I couldn’t get enough of it.

We leaned apart from each other and he grabbed the back of my head and pulled me in for a deep and passionate kiss. Sparks-no lightening shot all through my body. I couldn’t get enough of his lips or his skin touching mine. He nibbled on my lips and I gasped at the sensation and before things could go any further, I heard my mother fake a cough behind me.

“Well, it seems that is that!” She said with a nervous laugh.