Lost and Found by her Alpha

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***Zane POV***

A few years ago, I came across a scent so intoxicating that it nearly blew my lungs out. It was a mix of Mango, summer berries, fresh-baked bread and some mix of sweet spice. The pack and I were hunting in the woods after the yearly summit, and it hit me like a freight train. I couldn’t breathe. Tracing the scent for half the night. It had me going in a circle. My pack thought I was going crazy. I thought I was going crazy. Until I came across the blood on the ground covered up by the earth, I could smell it strongly. My wolf let out a high pitch howl filled with nothing but pain and sorrow. It hurt my heart, something fierce. The scent led me to the river where a makeshift grave was made. And ever since then, my wolf hasn’t said more than two words to me. He retreated to the back of consciousness. Our mate was dead, and our mate was no more. The first few months after that, he mourned her taking out his pain on every single rogue who dared to come near his pack borders. The torment and turmoil we went through are unbearable; on most days, he just wanted to kill everything in sight since we could not find out who she was. We didn’t even know her name, beautiful face, nothing. We never got to meet her wolf. Just thinking about her makes him howling in pain so loud I always have a headache, sometimes so loud I blackout from the anguish and hurt inside. My pack can feel it; also, I’ve had several challenges because they thought I no longer can be their leader, but they will all pay for her death, the world will pay for her death because they don’t understand, they will never understand, maybe it's better if I just let them rip my throat out finally and get it over and done with it, the pain that is scorching through my veins don’t seem to be fizzling out anytime soon, maybe it best for everyone. At this point, they’re all one strike away from death until I find the evil that took her from this earth before I got to gaze into her what must be beautiful eyes.  

“You like that baby?” the fool between my thighs asked. How many times I got to tell these pitiful wolves to shut up and swallow. With a swift grip on her throat, I squeezed hard at first.

“you had one job and not even something as simple as keeping your mouth shut you could do”. 

My wolf always recoils, retreating even further inside when I try to use these female to relieve some of the anguish I’m feeling. Sometimes it helps, but other time like right now, it just makes my blood heats up hotter, and all that left to do is kill everything in sight. It takes all my willpower not to destroy everything that crosses my path. It was taking everything in me not to kill this pathetic excuse of a she-wolf in front of me. I can see the life leaving her body before I release her throat and tell her to leave me be. She scrambles up to her things and leaves quickly without saying a word. Now she lost her voice. The darkness pulls me under and gives me the reprieve from all the misery I feel daily. Sometimes I wish I never found that grave. Smelt her scent. 

“Xander”, I call out. He growls at me now. He hasn’t said a word since that day. Now he growls. 

“I’m sorry”, another growl and then a high pitch howl, causing the darkness to gather around me faster. Yes, that's it. I welcomed the darkness.  

Fluttering my eyes open a few hours later, I groin at the feeling of life that my soul seems to be clinging to. I growl at the harsh light of the sun shining through the curtain. Another five years and another summit, if it weren’t for my beta, I wouldn’t even attend this bullshit gathering. The Blood Moon Pack has been an ally of my pack ever since I can remember. I’m yet to meet the new alpha that took over a couple of years now, and to be honest; I'm not interested in meeting him either. However, since our packs are neighbours and the treaty between our pack is still valid for the next fifty years, he can’t take over like they have been doing those others in the area. I'm not interested in gaining more territory at this rate. I have enough people I despise already. If it weren’t for the long-standing pact agreement, I wouldn’t even consider agreeing with my beta that I need to show my wolf at this gathering—been apart from my pact for a while now, not to hurt any more of my pack when my wolf gets out of control. He's like a beast. Maybe this year, I step down and hand the reins over to my beta. He can have the pact now. I might as well become the rogue I'm turning into because without her, I'm nothing, I'm no one, I'm no better than a rogue wolf. Time to make my way back to the pact to gather the men for this summit. Maybe I should go alone and challenge one of the other Alphas to get this thing I called a life over with. Just the thought of it makes my wolf seeth. Laying on this cheap motel mattress seemed fitting for my dingy mood until I took a deep breath, and Zane started stirring inside me frantically. 

“Relax, we're heading back to the pact today; we can visit her spot one last time before we leave,” I told him. But he is still stirring, gnawing at my inside to be free.

 Getting up to shower and leave, my wolf is alert. In the shower, I ask. 

“What wrong, “ 

“I smell something, it's faint, but it’s” I inhale deeper as a yarn left my lip. All I smelt was my awful morning breath and that she-wolf, what was her name again?

“Mango, summer berries freshly baked something.”

“What?”

“No bread”, he howled. 

“No pal, she's gone; our mate is gone, remember? I promised we go back one last time before we head home. OK,” I’m not sure what's gotten into Xander this morning, primarily since he hasn’t spoken to me in years other than the howling and growls. It's good to hear his voice again. Getting out of the shower and getting dressed is so robotic these days. Existing in the motel room, a familiar scent slammed into me.   

 Mango, summer berries, freshly baked bread and mixed spices, it can't be. She died, we saw the grave. Xander frantically howled in delight and was pacing, working himself up into a frenzy at the thought that we may have been wrong all these years. But it's not possible, could it?

“Xander, could we have gotten it wrong? No, no, we got it right, but that sweet smell.” 

He howled again with excitement, letting our noise lead us. But I didn’t want to get his hopes up. I know it could only be our imagination playing mind games because I saw the blood and grave with my own two eyes. 

 That's when I heard the most beautiful melodic sound I have ever heard, and it was getting into a beat-up vehicle about to drive away. 

Could it be? Is this real? I stood frozen on the spot, not able to believe that maybe, just maybe, we got it wrong, and for the past five years, we have been mourning the wrong person. It can’t be. I blink in confusion as Xander urges me to move forward to meet her. I can only see her from the back. 

“She's getting away”, Xander barks in my head, causing me to wince and my feet to move to force me to stubble. I catch my balance and straighten up as the beat-up old truck pulls out of the car parking lot of the motel. I scramble to my vehicle and slam on the gas to catch up with her vehicle. Something is wrong. No, this can’t be our mate, could it? I keep questioning myself as I slowly follow behind, keeping at a steady pace. I was willing my mind to wrap my head around what's happening. Maybe it's all the alcohol I consumed. Alcohol doesn’t generally affect werewolves due to quick healing, so it would take a considerable amount of time to get a buzz. Still, I figure out a combination that can get me there quicker than most. Xander constant pacing and tongue lagging got my mind running a mile a minute. I realised the exact moment she realised I was following her, and her truck sped up faster a chase. Oh, I love a hunt, little mate; you have no idea what you got yourself into, little mate.

    ***Star POV***

This morning Serenity was wilding out. She is on edge about something. She complains that she can smell something, another wolf, but she is confused because she doesn’t want to run. She wants to find it and something, but she doesn’t know what it is. If it's another wolf, it's time for us to leave. We can’t trust anyone. The fact that Serenity can’t pinpoint what's up with this wolf makes me on edge. Quickly I got the kids ready, pushing them through the door of the motel, hoping that I wouldn’t run into the wolf or that they wouldn’t know what room we were in to find us. I move the kids along quickly as my heart speeds up, and I can feel all the bile in my stomach threatening to make an appearance. I move swiftly, strapping the kids in. 

As I strap my princess in, an assault of something manly and intoxicating slammed into my senses. My knees buckle. Momentarily, I was dazed. Nevertheless, that part of me that has always been able to sense danger went haywire. I inhale deeply as I regain my equilibrium. Again a scent I couldn’t place hit me 10 fold, giving me a sense of something new, something never felt before peace, lust. That can’t be right, and if he's here, he must be after the kids.  No turning back now. Let's go. 

“No, Star, there is something different about this one. I can feel it. The scent is faint, and his Mate.” Serenity screeches in my head. But I was paying her no mind. I was on a mission, and nothing was going to stop me. These kids are my responsibility, and no one will hurt them and put my baby in a damn fighting ring.  I jump in my truck looking back and slam on the gas pedal. Smiling at the kids in the rear view, I can see the fear in their eyes, but I can also feel the fear coursing through my body. I wish I had taken up the offer to learn more about my magic if it would be useful to learn how to protect my kids for nothing. A second glance in my rear view let me know that we got a tail. s**t, no no, no, no. I put my foot down hard on the gas, willing the truck to move faster, but I was already going over 120mph. 

“You need to calm down, and you're scaring the pups”, Serenity chastises. 

“Right. I’m calm. I’m calm.” I repeated over and over until my breathing levelled out. Taking another deep breath. I look back in my rear view before looking back at the kids.  It looks like I lost him, inhaling deeply. I smile. The faster we get to the next town, we are going to have to switch vehicles. ‘Don’t worry, babies, I won’t let them take you from me. I drive all night straight to the next town. My eyes burn with the need for sleep, but I can’t stop, gotta keep going. With each moment that past I pray that the man I should call father is willing to help. ‘Please God, Goddess, whoever let him help’. I prayed, ‘please, we need a miracle. You didn’t just let me save them for them to be taken away, please there mine.’ I look back at my little soldiers, fast asleep. I need to stop so they can get proper rest. I need to rest myself. As the thought crosses my mind and I turn my focus back to the road, a bright light blinded me mad I swerve the car side to side to gain control, slamming my foot on the break on the side of the road, bringing it to a stop. The sound of the pups crying sent me back into mommy mode. ‘It's OK, babies. It's OK. I’m sorry. Shhh. It's going to be alright. Shhh. I jumped out the front of the truck and into the back to comfort them. I sat with princess and Asher, just holding them, rocking with them, trying to reassure them that we would be OK. I’m not sure when I fell asleep, but the loud sound of something big flying brought me out of my sleep, alerting me to the sun about to rise. Buckling up my babies. I closed the door, just sitting there thinking over all the mess we're in. check the gas gauge; I can see we're almost out of gas again. Sighing, I tried to start the car, but it buckled. Again I turned the keys to start the engine, and that's when I noticed the large grey wolf in my side mirror. Serenity perked up at the sight of the wolf, taking in the wolf that's slowly crawling up the side of the truck… ‘MATE’ she growled. What the hell. The car finally decided to start, and I pulled out onto the road speeding down the road. “Who was that?” I asked Serenity since she seemed to know him, I don't know-how. ‘Mate’, she replied. 

“What?”

“Mate” 

“Yes, I heard you. What's that?” 

“Stop, go back. He’s also ours.”

“Are you sure? Remember we have the kids to protect? Will he help.”

“I don’t know, but we have to go back to him, he mines”, she growled that last word. She never steered me wrong before. Ever since she became a part of my life, she has always been there for me.  Something doesn’t seem right. How does she know this wolf? Where have they met before? Can we really trust him? What if the kids don’t like him? What if he doesn't like the kids. 

“Then we run him over and turn him into roadkill,” she answered to my inner thoughts, and I smiled. 

“OK, I slowed down and pulled over to the side of the road, on guard, as I waited for the suspicious-looking wolf to reach us, and I noticed the car that was following us before driving up to us beeping, sending my anxiety overdrive. 

“Relax, remember to show no fear. Be the Alpha. We are Alpha,”

I jumped out of the truck, grabbing the hammer I kept in the glove compartment. I know it's random, but all I good besides the bat is in the back. 

“Why are you following us?” I shouted as I got closer. My steps became slower, my body filled with tension became slack and slightly calmer. ‘MATE’, Serenity screams, in my head, making it release from my lips in a faint whisper. 

‘Mine, Mate’, he replied. Somehow hearing me. I watched him inhale, taking a step out of his vehicle. 

Interrupting my inner turmoil and wariness, I asked again.

“Why are you following me?” I can feel and hear Serenity inside flipping over and frolicking like a swooning high school virgin. Oh, bother. Stepping closer towards me, he just gaped at me like he didn’t hear me. He inhaled once again, 

“Stop that. Answer my question.”

“It can’t be” he still staring at me with a stupid look on his face, lips slightly parted. Those lips I know want all over my body. Nibbling on all my sensitive parts.

“Star”, I heard Nina whine, and my head swiftly turned to her. She had her head sticking out the window along with her brother. 

“Get back in the car, be right there”, I yelled, turning my attention back to the stranger. He just stared at me with a puzzled look on his face. What was he staring at? 

    ‘It can’t be, your dead”, he said 

    “Is that a threat?” I growled out, gripping my hammer tightly. 

    “I thought, I thought you,” he was stumbling over his words, not making much sense. 

    “Sorry, I’m Alpha Zane, of the ...”

“I don’t care, just stop following us, weirdo” I turned to walk away, and he grabbed my elbow. Send a jolt of electricity that I have never felt before in my entire life. The buzz settled in my c**t and took up residence.

“Mate”, Serenity Growled out.