The Alpha’s Lone Wolf

Reunion

After the guard took me to my room, he let me know that the pack doctor will be here shortly. I looked around the room while I waited. It was a decent size room with a private bathroom. The walls were a forest green with trees painted on the wall. The forest theme was helping me and my wolf to relax a little. There was a queen sized bed on one end of the room, a dresser and a walk-in closet. The dresser and closet were filled with lots of clothes. As I was looking through the clothes and picking something out to wear, I heard a soft knock at the door. That must be the doctor.

“Come in,” I say. I continue to pull out some clothes and close the dresser when I hear a small gasp. I look towards the door and I almost faint. The person standing in front of me was my best friend, Sara. I have known her my entire life. She was six years older than me, and had found her mate shortly after she turned 18. I haven’t seen her in 6 years now when she moved out to be with her mate. I just stand there staring at my friend taking in all of her features. She has beautiful, long brown wavy hair that is halfway down her back and dark blue eyes. There are tears forming in her eyes threatening to fall any second.

Once the shock from seeing her wears off, I run and give her a bone crushing hug. I forgot how short she was. As I hug her small 5’2” frame, tears fall freely from both of us.

“I thought that you died when your pack was attacked by rogues five years ago!” Sara cried. We just embraced for a solid 5 minutes before we let each other go. Sara was the first to speak, “The Alpha said that you needed to see the pack doctor, are you okay?”

I paused for a moment, then I filled her in about what happened with the rogues. After many tears were shed, mostly by me, she did a quick examination and left for a moment to get some medication to prevent me from getting pregnant. We spent almost three hours together, before I was getting tired. Sara told me to take it easy the next couple of days and to come by her office in the morning. Then she left, and I hopped in the shower. I stayed in the water until it started to turn cold. No matter how much I scrubbed, I just didn’t feel clean enough. Frustrated, I gave up my quest to scrub my body raw, and went to bed. I had forgotten how nice a bed felt. I was out the moment my head hit the pillow.

The next morning I woke up screaming. I could still feel those damn rogues’ hands touching my body. I checked the time. 5:30 am, I might as well get up and try to find the training grounds. I haven’t had a good training workout in a long time. I did get a lot of cardio and combat practice with fighting other rogues, but nothing beat actually training with other wolves. I got up and put on a sports bra and sweatpants. It took me a bit to find my way out of the pack house. It was a lot like a maze. Once outside I jogged around until I saw a few pack members walking around. “Hi there, my name is Alley. I am new to the pack. Can you tell me where the training grounds are please?” They pointed me in the right direction. I thanked them and headed towards the training grounds.

There were already a few wolves gathering at the training grounds.

“Are you lost, young lady?” one of the pack members asked.

“Is this the training grounds?”

“Yes”

“Then I am exactly where I want to be. Can you point me towards the person in charge of the training sessions?”

They pointed to a man that looked familiar. I walked towards him, and it clicked. He was the wolf that commanded me to shift when I woke up yesterday. I walked up to the leader and introduced myself.

“Hi, my name is Alley. Would it be alright if I joined you guys for training this morning?”

“Hi Alley, I am Matthew, the pack’s Beta. Are you sure you can handle training with the men? There is a different training session for the women after lunch if you are interested in that instead.”

“I am sure that I will be fine. I used to train with the men in my previous pack.”

“Ok, if you say so. Just know that I won’t have the men go easy on you just because you are a woman.”

“I wouldn’t have it any other way, Beta.”

“Let’s get started then.” Beta Matthew called everyone together. “We have a guest joining us for training today. Do not go easy on her just because she is a woman. I expect you to treat her just like any other warrior here.” A few of the warriors smirked and chuckled softly. Oh, they won’t know what hit them.

Beta Matthew led everyone through some drills and workout routines. Once everyone was warmed up, we paired up into partners for sparring. The Beta chose me as his partner. “I want to see what you are capable of before I let you spar with any of my men.” he explained.

I wouldn’t have it any other way to be honest. We spent the first couple of minutes just dodging each other’s punches. Beta Matthew got ready to throw another punch. I blocked it with one hand and landed a punch with my other hand. He threw a kick in my direction, and I ducked under his leg while simultaneously sweeping his other leg out from under him. When Beta Matthew’s back hit the ground, the other pack warriors stopped what they were doing and turned to watch us.

We threw a few more punches back and forth until the Beta put me in a submission hold. I have never been very good at getting out of those kinds of holds, so I have no choice but to submit. Applause erupts from everyone watching.

Beta Matthew: “That was a very impressive match. There were a few times where you almost had me. I don’t see any reason why you can’t spar against the other warriors here.”

“Thank you Beta. Maybe in the future you can teach me how to get out of the different holds.” I said with anticipation.

“We shall see. It depends on how you do over the next few weeks. What is everyone doing just standing around? Switch partners and get back to work!”

The next hour went by really quick. I really enjoyed sparring with the different pack warriors. I missed sparring for the sake of training and staying in shape. I didn’t get a lot of it as a rogue. As I was saying goodbye, most of the warriors insisted that I come back again tomorrow. I said that I would, and we parted ways. I said one more thank you to the Beta for allowing me to join them this morning and headed back towards the pack house to take a shower before breakfast.