Orphan Alpha

Chapter 1

“Hannah, can you step into my office please?” Called Barb.

I sighed and turned around to walk back to her office. She gave me a gentle squeeze on the shoulder as I entered and sat down. Barb was a sweet woman; she had run the orphanage since before I had arrived. My eyes followed her as she took her own seat behind her desk, her glasses swaying on their chain around her neck. I couldn’t help but chuckle to myself at her appearance. She looked not a day over thirty, but she chose to dress like an elderly librarian from the fifties.

“As you are aware, Hannah, you age out in a month.” Her words wiped the laughter from my face. “How is the search for a job and apartment going? Have you found anything yet?”

“No.” my shoulders slumped heavily, “Nobody wants to take a chance on an orphan with no work history.”

“Well. I have great new than!” Barb chuckled. “I’ve recently been authorized to add another caregiver to the orphanage. The position comes with room and board as you will be responsible for the younger children and their needs round the clock.”

“Really?” I shrieked in excitement. Barb had just told me I wasn’t going to be homeless and on the streets in a

cautioned. “I wouldn’t offer this position to any of the others. Your circumstances are unique.”

me the position not just so that I wouldn’t end up on the street, but also so that I wouldn’t be considered a rogue threat by other wolves in

out while I was at a sleepover in the neighboring human community. I couldn’t remember much about that night, just my friend’s father coming home in his policeman uniform with a grim look on his face. He had received a call from my parents, alerting him that something was wrong, but by the time he arrived, our packs compound was a grizzly murder scene. The locals had written it off as some kind of religious massacre. They all assumed we were a religious group of some sort. None of them had been aware that we

the local schools until we reached our freshman year. I had been the only member of the pack, including the other pups, not on the compound that night. All because I had been at a sleepover with my human best friend Ella. I hadn’t seen Ella outside of school since that night. At first, it just hurt too much seeing her

said, pulling me from my thoughts of the past. “There shouldn’t be any other packs running in the area,

pack. I had hoped that I could join Barb’s pack, but me being in the system had thrown a wrench

realized it had gotten dark out until I saw the time on my clock read “11:03”. Time for my run! I threw on a pair of sweats and a baggy shirt and

arrange a run for me. The feeling of the leaves and dirt under my paws was exhilarating. I sent up a silent pray that I wasn’t in some large city and there were actual woods for me to run through. I pumped my legs harder, flexing the muscles that hadn’t been used in this form in months. I wanted

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