Lost and Found by her Alpha

It can't be

Zane POV

The electric jolt that course through my body and the howl that followed from Zane confirmed what I can’t seem to wrap around my mind of yet how this is possible I know what I smelt on that day the sorrow I felt, the anguish and pain I felt when I saw the makeshift grave of our mate. 

“What?” she questioned. I looked at her in amazement.

“I know what a mate is. I watch Disney. I’m asking what that means for us and how can we get rid of it. We don’t have time for shagging right now?” I realized she was talking to her wolf and not me. Out loud, it was cute and weird, but I can dig it. I giggled, and that seemed to have brought her attention back to me. She walked back to her truck, and I quickly moved up to her side. She turned quickly. She almost gave me whiplash, and it wasn’t even my neck. I wanted to know who she was and why she was in such a rush. 

“Look, stop following us. I can’t do the mating thing right now,” she insisted. 

“Excuse me.” my wolf was squirming in pain at her slight rejection. 

“You're rejecting me,” I asked in shock and pain.

“What?” she looked at me, puzzled.

“Is that what I got to do to get rid of you?” my eyes bugged out my head like those bugs bunny cartoons. 

Why not, he's just going to slow us up and the babies?” she was talking to her wolf again, ignoring me. 

“Fine. Fine. Fine. I won't reject your mate. I swear if there is something called Karma, that b***h has it out for me because she keeps haunting my magically challenged ass." She muttered out loud. Still talking to her wolf out loud.

“Wooh, hold up, you were going to reject me” she just looked at me like I was a bug on the windscreen, and she was ready to wipe me off for my annoyance, fanning me off with her hand.  

“Phone?” she requested with her hand stretched out ad palm open. I was just stunned at her disregard for me and her absolute disrespect when addressing Alpha. Zane was doing backflips, knowing that his mate wanted him while mine wanted nothing to do with me, and I was bothering her. Every wolf wanted to meet their mate. Every wolf would kill to meet their mate, especially an Alpha, because, without a mate, we are more likely to go feral. I quickly dug my phone out of my pocket, and she snatched it from my hand. She input what I'm assuming her number. 

‘Here, call me, and we can arrange something, bye,” and she abruptly left me standing, still in a daze and a little confused at what's currently taking place. I was just so confused at what's currently taking place I scramble to form coherent thoughts. Hearing the truck door slammed shut and woke me up out of my shock daze. Moving at a swift and unnatural speed, I quickly stuck my hand into the car and yanked her car keys from the ignition and jingly them at her. 

“NO. not until you talk to me, I have a few questions’ i heard a growl from the back of her truck, and that's when I noticed the little black fur ball snarling at me, looking ready to tear me a new hole. 

“Sit”, I growl at the young pup. And in response, my so-called mate snarled back at me. 

“Don’t you ever speak to my son like that? Serenity mate or not, I will rip you're inside out and give it to him as a chew toy.” snarled with Alpha conviction. 

“Wait, what?” I look from the pup to her in confusion. s**t. It can’t be. Not my mate, she's already mated with someone, and they have a pup. And a bloodling.  Goddess, what have you done?

“I need some explanation as to what's going on here. You can get your keys back when you explain yourself” she smirked, and the keys just flew from grip into her awaiting palm. 

“You're a witch?” I'm sure she was talking to her wolf.” I’ve never heard of someone like her before. It's either your one or the other. You're either Wolf or Witch, never both. What the hell is going on. I don’t understand. 

“Yes. Bye,” she waved her fingers at me and put the keys in the ignition once again, ready to leave me in the dust. I open the front door and attempt to yank the keys out a second time, but she uses my momentum and slam the door into my gut and turn the keys and put her foot down on the gas, leaving me on my ass in the dirt. What the hell is going with me. 

Xander was in my head snarling at me to go after our mate, but I was momentarily dazed and confused. Jumping back to my feet and jumping in my jeep. The chase was on. She was not getting away from me that easy, not again. Something wasn’t adding up. She was a witch, and she had a wolf. Was she a bloodling too like her son, and that's another thing she had a kid, kids there was more than one in the car. How old was she? She had a teenager too, no, but the teenager was human, that much I could smell, maybe she was latent, witch. Is there such a thing as a latent witch?

 My phone rings, and I pick up with a frustrated growl. 

“Speak” 

“Where are you?” my beta Nicholas asks.

“I’m chasing my mate down the highway”, I replied excitedly. 

“Huh?. you found your second chance, mate?” he asked, throwing a bucket of ice-cold water on my thoughts. Why didn’t I think of that? Why did that conclusion come to me before? I can’t believe I never thought of that before. It made sense now that it's mentioned. Ever since meeting her, nothing seems to be going right or how the natural order of things is supposed to go. 

“Alpha?” I hear Nicholas calls. 

“Yeah, I’m here. Let everyone know that I will be returning with their new Luna,”

“What about the summit?" 

“Yes, we have time. I will be there,” I tell him and hang up as a clown overtook my vehicle with his damn caravan. I swerve out a little to see if she made a turnoff. Trying to overtake the buffoon in front of me, I noticed a black SUV, all blacked out, trying to do the same.  What the hell is wrong with these people.  Getting in the overtaking lane behind the SUV to overtake the caravan. Another SUV that I overlooked overtook myself and the SUV in front and moved in position in front of the caravan when I was trying to go. My wolf was very alert, and hackles raised.  I notice mate speeding up at the sight of the SUV, or maybe she saw me still tracking her down. Letting these clowns go ahead of me until I get the chance to move in on our mate. She turned off at the turnoff without signalling and told me something was very wrong. I could tell she was very protective of those kids, so she wouldn’t make such a rookie mistake and not use her turning signal unless she was trying to get away from someone. But she knew I wasn't a threat. Didn’t she. If she didn’t have my work cut off for me, I would have to show her. I noticed the SUV’s did the same thing. Now my paranoid radar was ticking over time. Are they after our mate? The thought made Zane fight to take over, my vision turning black, as Zane pushed his way forward. “CALM DOWN, YOU CAN’T DRIVE”, I snapped at my wolf, taking back control.  What reason would these people want with our mate? 

“It doesn’t matter if they touch our mate, rip the throats out, no question asked,” he snarled. So clearly, our mate made my wolf bloodthirsty. 

“Yes, I will drink from their skulls and suck the marrow from their bones and play fetch with their hearts with our mate bloodling,” he said happily. 

“That's sick, relax and be quiet while I concentrate on catching up with our mate,” I told him with a smile from ear to ear on my face because the idea of what he proposes sounded pleasant to me. I guess that makes me just sadistic as he sounded. The black SUV rammed into the back of the Truck our mates were driving—a low growl release from my throat. I slam onto the gas as I watch our mate try to keep control of her truck, swerving from side to side. ‘s**t, s**t, s**t!’ OK think, think think. I sped up close to the nearest vehicle hunting our mate, surprising them, slamming into the side, causing it to swerve to the side of the road, pivoting the Jeep to face his, pushing the jeep forward, causing it to topple over. Swinging back again to catch up with the others. I can’t believe that worked. Thanks, Bad Boys two. ‘Bad boys, bad boy, what are you gonna do, whatcha gonna do when they come for you?’ I sing as I try to catch up with my mate. Xander snarled in my head at my singing and urgency to get to our mate. 

‘We have a mate now. Try not to die’ he snarled. I ignored him. Finally catching up to the last SUV, I see that they have backed our mate into a corner, pushing her off the road onto the forest border—big mistake. Quickly sliding my off boots, preparing to let Xander take control. Is that a gun? s**t, they have a gun pointing at my mate. Xander growled deep in his throat at sight before us. They stopped, and I can see my mate getting out, shoving the children behind her. One of the men grabbed hold of the eldest child. As the little runt of a pup snarled and bit the one holding his sister's leg and the damn wolf kicked him, and he let out a loud strike. The gunman had the gun to the young woman's head as a lone teardrop on her cheeks. 

“f*****g, mongrel scumbag. Can’t fight someone your size you pick on a defenceless mother and her kids,” I hear the young girl spat. Brave girl 

“You don’t scare me, your just a little p***y,”

“Nah, sweetness, that's what you’ll be when I let my men have their way with you, your ugly ass”, the leader of the pack, I'm guessing. Sick f**k. I couldn't wait to sink my fangs into his flesh and rip his throat out. But first, I have to get the kids and mate out the way. Ooh, I’m going to make him suffer. Sneaking up the side of the SUV in my human form, trying not to make a sound, I notice one scenting the air. s**t, Xander snapped. Leaping forward in a slow shift, he extended his claws first, using the nearest goon neck as a propeller to swing from one goon to the other whilst slitting his throat wide open. His back paw came up, landing another chest as his mouth opened wide to clasping around his throat. For me, it went in slow motion, but in fact, it took less than 3 seconds. And then there were three. Mate of mine sent two of them slamming into the truck as she tried to reach her eldest child. But the dog of a wolf held on to her tight. He growled and snarled loud enough to halt everyone. 

“Shifting back, I face him, and his eyes widen slightly as he tries to keep his composure. I see he knows who I am, but I have no clue who he was and could care less. I knew he was an Alpha from the command he just gave. But that doesn’t bother me. I can already tell I'm more powerful than him. 

“Alpha Zane,” he momentarily sputtered. 

“What business do you have here?” I ask not to address him directly or with the proper formalities. 

“This has nothing to do with you, Alpha. This woman has kidnapped members of my pack, and I'm in my rights to punish her as I see fit.” he spat.

“And who are you to do so? They don’t look like kidnap victims.”

“Alpha Patrick, of the Thunder Crest Pack” he smirks like that is supposed to put fear in my bones. 

“I know the Alpha of that pack, and you are not him. So what happened to Alpha Thomas.”

“Dead, my father killed him and took over, and I will take over in a few days”, he spat out with glee. He was a friend. How have I not heard of this before? Something to look into after. 

“Patrick, Please let go of the human.”

“Alpha,” he snarled, and I just rolled my eyes. 

“Well, Patrick, I won't ask twice, let go of the human” he squeezed his fingers around her throat, and I smelled the rest of his goons that I sent tumbling over the side of the road closing in. s**t, I need to get the girl from his grasp.  He snarled in irritation. I just smiled and winked at the girl he’s holding. 

“That little b***h, stole what belongs to me.” the snarl that came from my lips boomed so loud it shook the trees, and I heard all the remaining gritters of the forest quickly scurry away in fear. 

“Speak of my Mate in such a way again and forfeit your life, Patrick.” I addressed him.” I saw the realisation of two things take place all at once in his eyes. One, how powerful I was compared to him, and two, he just messed with the wrong person, mate. He knows the penalty of messing with a pack's luna. But then a flicker of something crossed his face.

“YET”, he smiled a little too wide, but I could still smell the fear in him and his men who had finally joined us. 

“Try and take her and let's see the war that would follow. You already know who I am, and I don't care who you are or who you’ve killed. The fact that you killed a dear friend of mine would make it even sweeter for me to kill you. So please, I ask once again, Let the human go.”

 “Tell you lovely mate to release my pack member before I take her for myself. After all, you haven’t claimed her, yet she is still fair game,” my little mate just spat in his direction. 

“The only reason you're still alive is that you got one of my kids shielding you. Otherwise, you would have been pissing blood already,” she told him, and that made my wolf smile if a wolf could ever smile. 

“You should really teach your mate how to speak to her better, not a very good Luna if you ask me. 

“NO ONE asked you,” she told him. Then, turning to my mate, I asked. 

“ Are these his pack members? 

“NO, they’re MY children.” 

“That's all I need to know. Now, this is what's going to happen you're going to release the human. My mate and I are going to leave these woods in one peace. You and yours will go wherever it is that you please, I could care less, and you will not bother my mate or me ever again. Her pups are now a part of my pack.” which made him snarled. 

“I think you got me mistaken for someone who cares about the Alpha who is slowly losing his mind and practically feral. I'm in my rights to put a feral dog down. But, also, there's one of you, and then there's us. So here's what is going to happen,”  he stated. 

“I will release the human in exchange for the pup right there, and we can be on our merry way.” I wonder why he only wanted the bloodling and not the mother. I thought I would have to challenge him for my mate, but he only wanted the bloodling. Bloodling are more trouble than they are worth, so I'm not too worried about that, but my mate would be devastated if she lost it, so I had to do whatever I had to do to keep the pup and the girls together. I sighed. Xander forced his way to the forefront, partially shifted at the threat to his mate and her pups, no longer in the mood to talk. He was bloodthirsty, and the darkness took over before I could grab control. Then something amazing happened. Our mated shifted, and it was the most beautiful thing I have ever seen. Her wolf moved swiftly and deadly fast.