The Shattered Alpa

Chapter 3

"Alexis, could you come here please?" my mother yelled from the bottom of the stairs.

"Yeah Mom?" I asked as I bounded down the stairs with Libby not too far behind me. "You know your eighteenth birthday is coming up soon and it will be time for you to have an attempt to meet your mate." She said as I got to the bottom of the stairs and then groaned out loud. "Your birthday is just a month away so that isn't much time for us to get ready and to plan a party then on top of with what you girls did to Tiffany, the punishment from the Alpha to still be decided, we still have to send out invites to all the single male wolves in the surrounding packs, get the decorations, cake, food, drinks, and last but not least a dress" Mom huffed and sat down at the island in the kitchen, then smacked her hand against her forehead before she reached to the drawer under the table to grab a pen and paper to begin writing everything down that we would need. "Can't we just skip the party and just line the guys up every single male in the area, single file and I can sniff them"

Mom looked at me horrified, while Libby snickered "Alexis!" my mother snapped at me. "That is not how it works" Dad walked in just then shaking his head and behind him was our Alpha. The Alpha of our pack which was named Aephinus "That's not how what works?" "Our daughter seems to think that you just sniff your mate and you know that is the right one!" My father and Alpha started laughing so hard tears were running down their faces. "What?" I asked innocently. They were laughing so hard that they couldn't answer me. My mom had to. "It is not just sniffing them dear, it is a feeling like you are whole, that no one in the world no I take that back that no one or nothing in the universe is right without your mate.That you are finally complete" My parents were looking at each other as if no one else was in the room.

Bradon cleared his throat a few times but my parents seemed to be in their own little world. "James, Angelique!" he said in his Alpha voice. They quickly looked at him, both of their faces going red with embarrassment. I grabbed an apple off the island tossed it into the air then catching it, and took a big bite of it to keep from laughing at them acting like a couple of teenagers in front of our Alpha. "We are having the party young lady and that is the final world" my dad told me wagging his finger at me as I batted it away he said: "Your mother has waited your entire life to have this party for you and she is going to get it, I mean it is once in a lifetime when your daughter turns 18." he went on saying, while my mother just nodded her head in agreement. "Well, Libby turns 18 next year, why can't you just throw her a party and let me go to Europe or something like normal kids my age do?" I huffed and shrugged my shoulders. "It's because I am not their real daughter Lexi, I don't see why you are fighting this, it could be fun! We can have a theme and dress up almost like Halloween" she said, getting excited as she walked over to me and placed both her hands on my shoulders. "Mom we could have an old people’s party; you know dress like they did in Victorian times or like they did in the old west!" " LIBBY!!" I turned and yelled at her. What I was going to do with her? She was siding with my parents for God's sake! If that happened I was not going to win then to make matters worse Bradon started in on the conversation. "I like the old west idea myself I always wanted to be a gunslinger" he chimed in clapping, then rubbing his hands together. “Besides, Libby is not going to need to have a party” we all turned to look at him but he had already walked out the door. We all looked at each other puzzled as the door slammed behind him.

Libby came upstairs a short time later and knocked on my door. "Come in" I said as I put my phone down on my bedside table. "Hey" she said as she opened the door slowly just before she waltzed over to my bed and plopped down beside me and swung her legs up to lay down putting her hands behind her head and getting comfortable. "You're a traitor" I pouted. "I'm sorry I just got caught up in the moment, '' she told me. "I still love you" I hugged her "You know our parents think of you as their real daughter too" I told her as I let her go. "I know, sometimes I forget that they are not my real parents too and then I get sad because I think that I disappointed my parents for forgetting them, you know?" she told me as she shrugged her shoulder "Even when your parents were alive you called mine Mom and dad and they were best friends to top it off Libby, I called your parents Mom and dad, I don't think they would be disappointed in you being happy, I would think that they would want you to be. They loved you so much," I told her crying.

"She is right Libby '' my dad said from the door. We screamed and jumped about six feet I think.I gave him a dirty look. "You scared the crap out of us!" I squealed at my father. He pushed off of the door frame as he spoke "You meant the world to Sandy and Jon, Libby we all agreed that if anything that happened to any of one us we would take care of each other's kids as if they were our own." he told her as he sat on the bed next to her. "Angie and I love you just as much as we love Lexi-bear. Your parents would be just as proud of you as we are are Libby-bear, their death was hard on all of us especially you, but you are a fighter and you got though it'' she bolted up and flung her arms around his neck and he just wrapped his arms around her and held her as she cried just running his large hands down her hair trying to soothe her as much as he could. When I looked up at him you could see the tears in his eyes as well. "It's time for bed ladies, we have a long day of work tomorrow after school, '' he informed us as he got up from the bed and left the room. Libby curled up on my bed and I laid down next to her. "I have been thinking a lot lately, Lexi about my mate and wondering who he is" she said to me. "I don't know and I don't know if I want to know right now" I told her. "With everything that is going on, I am almost afraid to find out who he is." I went on. "I always hoped that it would be the Alpha" she sighed dreamily. I laughed at her and pulled the pillow out from under my head and smacked her with it. "Well, he is so hot!" she laughed as she hit me back."You would think he was hot" I told her.