The Alpha Who Saved Me

CHAPTER 6

DECLAN

I can hardly believe that tomorrow will be three years since I brought Quinn into my pack. She was just a scared petite young girl at that time, but even then, I could see a fire that burned inside of her. That girl has been through a lot in her young life, but she has overcome it all. She thinks that I am not aware of the reasoning, but the moment she started training, I knew it was for revenge. Quinn Night, daughter of the late Alpha Lincoln and Luna Stacia of the Dark Moon pack, has vowed to seek revenge for the massacre of not only her family, but for her entire pack

Quinn is a strong-willed she-wolf that will make some male an incredibly happy mate. She turned eighteen today and even though I haven’t found my mate yet, at the age of twenty-six, I had no fancy notions of her turning out to be my mate; I was not sure how I would have felt about it at that time. I have watched her grow up in the last three years, almost like a little sister -almost.

Lately, I’ve been seeing glimpses of a different woman when I look at her. She’s the same person, but she’s different, I can’t explain it, but it makes me feels things that I don’t think I should be feeling towards her. It’s one of the reasons I have taken up sleeping with Lila, the pack ****. I know, I know, I sound like an **, but she really is the pack ***, who has slept with every unmated male that is of age in the Storm River pack. I don’t dare sleep with an unmated she-wolf otherwise, because I don’t want to ruin her for her Goddess-given mate.

Quinn Night is the only person that may be able to bring me to my knees if she really tried. I would do anything for that girl, and I have absolutely no idea why. She’s the type of person that would do anything for anybody, but ***does she have a sassy mouth. I chuckle to myself as I think of this last part. Nobody would dare talk to me the way Little Red does, out of fear of my wrath. Just like I don’t dare call her Little Red, out of fear of her wrath.

I think back to when she came to the office earlier today and remember feeling an overwhelming disappointment when I realized that we really weren’t mates.

I was working on the pack’s income ledger, when I lost track of time and the next thing I knew, I was hearing a throat clearing, and I looked up, “Oh, hey Quinn. Sorry, I’ve been super busy today,” I closed the ledger and stood up to go to her, “Happy Birthday, sweetie.” I hugged her tight, lifting her off the floor, “You haven’t met your mate already, have you?”

She rolled her eyes at me, “No, I haven’t, and I doubt I will. I’ve been all around town today and didn’t smell anything.”

“You went around sniffing for your mate?” I asked out of confusion.

“No, Cici pulled me around town trying to see if I’d smell him. I really don’t have any motivation to find them just yet.”

I laughed, picturing Cici doing just that, “Leave it to Cici. That girl is going to give her own mate a run for their money.”

Cici is my Beta, Carter’s, baby sister and best friend to Quinn. She was actually the only one that I could get to come in and see to Quinn when we first brought her to the packhouse after the attack on her pack. The two of them have been tight ever since.

She grinned at my comment about Cici’s mate, “I’ve said the same exact thing.”

I tap my finger on her nose, “That’s because great minds think alike!”

“Oh yeah?” She closed her eyes, “Tell me what I’m thinking right now.”

“You are thinking about what my birthday gift to you will be.”

“Are you serious?”

Shrugging. “That’s what I would be thinking.” I chuckled.

Quinn slaps my chest, “Ha, ha! You’re such an Alpha dork.”

Islap the same spot, “You wound me, Quinn!”

“I’m sure you will be fine in five minutes time,” she joked, “Isn’t that how it is when any female wounds you?”

I sat back down in my chair while Quinn sat in the one opposite and on the other side of my desk, “You aren’t just any woman, Quinn.”

that you have to put up

sister, Quinn.” The more I thought about it and looked at her, I knew that I no longer thought of her as

ran into Lila downstairs, like literally.” She

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remember thinking, What the hell

of condoms. She said that you ran out, so she was bringing some more over.” She paused for a moment before switching topics, which was good, because I was still trying to figure out why Lila would say that to Quinn. I haven’t been with her intimately like that in a month. So, what time is dinner, and when

for her own good, “I don’t know what you’re talking about, a party? I know nothing of a party.” I had no idea how to hold a straight face, so I probably gave it away, “Alright! If you tell my mother that you know about

fingers across her lips and pretended to lock them, “My lips are

had a dress laid out for you on your bed; mom picked

had gotten up and walked around the desk, “Thank you for everything that you and your mom have done for me. You didn’t have to take me in, but you did. You didn’t have to rebuild the Dark Moon pack’s town, but

be happy Quinn. That’s all I want is for you to live a happy

at my watch, I figure I had better get her birthday gift out of my safe, so I have it ready to give to her. It’s not the one I bought her, but I know she will love it because they belonged to her mother. What Quinn doesn’t know is that when we cleared out her old packhouse, we kept everything of her parent’s and her older brother, Dylan’s, things, figuring she would want to go through them one day. I even made sure that her old bedroom was

in here?” I hear her soft melodic

here.” I close the safe and jump up. I hear a gasp

“What the hell, Alpha!”

a sassy eighteen-year-old

like?” She

down to her waist. She has two pieces of fabric that attaches to the waist and goes up to cover her perfect hand-sized breasts before tying together at the back of her

the one that was

taste.” I fight myself over not

Her perfume smells divine as she stands this close to me, and I have to

dress.” I have to smirk when I realize that it’s the same color as Quinn’s dress. It’s almost as though mom was dressing us up as Alpha and Luna. How I wish in this moment that it was true! I would proudly call Quinn my Luna if I could. She will be

from me. “Your text asked me to meet

have part of your birthday gift that I thought you may want before we leave.” I hand her the blue velvet box that I had the jeweler wrap it in after they cleaned them for me, “As you will see, they aren’t brand new, but I think you

her legs buckling from beneath her. My reaction is instant as I grab her before she can fall completely. I hold her in my arms as she

up with watery eyes,

put all your family’s things into storage, so you can go through it when you are ready. I have everything here, it’s all yours. I wasn’t sure if these meant anything, but they looked like they may have been special, so I wanted to give them to you for

mom these for their anniversary just before the attack.” Next thing I know, she has her arms around my neck, “Thank you so much Declan. You don’t know how much this

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that’s why I did it.” I

her warmth with her, as she slaps my chest playfully,

her hand and place a sweet kiss

*Thank you, Declan.”

at the time. Picking up the other item that I removed from the safe, and the present that I got

us here. We had decided to keep it small with only my mother, Beta, Cici, and myself, along with the birthday girl, of course. Quinn isn’t one that likes to make a fuss about herself, and since we are throwing her a party already, we wanted

with the dinner portion, a commotion breaks out just outside the private room that I reserved. Before I could get up to see what was going on, the door bursts

I’m late! I couldn’t remember what time it was, and my invite got lost in the mail.” The woman has the audacity to lean down and kiss my cheek.

states, “This is a private birthday party. There were no invites sent out. The only ones