Born For The Alpha

“She needs to graduate. The least you can do is allow her finish school. Then she can face her destiny.” The Elder responded.

“It was easier to wait when she was focused on her studies. But now, she is open to love. I cannot explain how much that annoys me. The more she socializes, the higher the risk of exposing her identity to the enemy packs.”

“I know. Still, there’s a stronger reason why you need to wait.”

Gillow gave him a knowing look. “Cain and his agenda.”

“He will kill the moon child to fulfill it. He will do anything to fulfill it. They know about the prophecy. They will be alert once they hear you’ve taken a mate. She will be in danger.”

“I want to challenge him.”

The Elder adjusted his balance on the stick. “The enemy packs need to be kept in the dark about her existence, otherwise, the reason for keeping her hidden all these years would be futile.”

“I said that I want to challenge him.” Gillow deliberately ignored the wise man’s words. He was impatient.

“It is not time. The gods have not permitted it.”

Gillow rose up, towering over the man. “My patience has grown thin. With all due respect, speak with the gods and tell them that if their silence remains, I will start making decisions. I grow weary of having my mate alone out there. They have until the next full moon.”

The Elder quickly cleared his throat. “No one has ever given the gods an ultimatum.”

“I just did.”

The man bowed and turned to go while Gillow’s eyes returned to Arda’s image inside the book. He really could not wait to claim her.

***

The next day, Arda lived her life like it was normal. She set her concerns aside and went about her business.

In the house with her family, she performed chores, aided her mother in the kitchen and went hunting with her father and sister at night.

The moon was out and half full and the forest behind their home was alive with the night sounds of nature.

Twilight thrushes sang and owls called back and forth to their young. Insects and frogs took over where the daylight songbirds had left off while crickets chirped incessantly in the background.

and her father were dressed in clothes that covered their bodies fully so that

and defended them from any kind of harsh

in the forest and looking around the bushes

we be worried about the

“Fear baby.”

“Shut up, Mabel.”

couldn’t help but recollect how

her and would always love her whether she liked it or

Mabel had shocked Arda who had thought Mabel’s behavior was borne out of a grudge about sharing her

so surprised waking up to the girls joking around as they made breakfast together. The

mind returned to the

the games away.” Their father cautioned Mabel and smiling, Mabel clamped a hand over her mouth to muffle her

told her and faced her father. “Seriously

are normal. If their cries have increased, it

happens if we find any?” Arda was

are afraid of

with relief.

here. You already know the

flash your light if necessary, should you encounter trouble.” Arda and Mabel finished for him and he shook his

that awaits your

broadly and they separated, the three going in separate

booted foot. It took her a few yards before

saw a single pig feeding on rape. She could not see any piglets but a single pig at that time of the year could be a sow.

details but she couldn’t pass up her first kill on the hunt. This was why they were here.

come out. Her attention was divided at the moment. Even the pig raised its head and turned

a couple of pigs lazily emerged one after the other from the rustling spot. They were not too

on the one she had first seen which had returned to its meal. It seemed fatter than

the trigger when she heard a gunshot and saw a bullet hit her target,

somewhere close by in the trees. Her eyes fell on the figure of a hunter who was positioned on the sturdy branch of a tree just a couple

area but that fat pig was her kill. It was almost her kill and the situation upset her. To add to her anger,

the tree. His movements were smooth and graceful. He seemed skilled and from his silhouette, tall and brawny. He wore a hat and his hair flowed underneath it. Where had she seen long

on the hunting lamp at the foot