The Alpha Who Saved Me

CHAPTER 12

Declan

I do the very last thing that I ever thought I would do for anyone, but I can’t let her slip away, “I need you, Quinn! Please don’t leave…” I beg as I call out to her just before she shifts. I’m not sure how I will be able to keep her under the same roof as me, but I have to try. My heart *a beat when I see her pause, and I’m about to jog over to her, but then she finishes her shift and runs into the forest without looking back.

I drop to my knees, knowing that I just lost the one person that I could ever really trust, aside from my Beta, and that I would be happy living the rest of my life with by my side. It doesn’t really matter, though, because she’s made it clear that she is waiting for her mate anyway. I just thought that if I kept her busy enough, she wouldn’t have time to find them and that eventually, she would choose me. Goddess, why did I have to be so weak and let that vile she-*into my bed?

I’m not sure how long I kneel here for, but when I do finally get up and try to shift, Duke ignores me, ‘Seriously?’ I say to my wolf, but all I get is silence. I can’t really blame him, though, i’d be * at me too.

It’s about a twenty-minute run back to the packhouse on human legs. Stopping by a nearby tree where I store some of my clothes for after shifting. I dress and then slowly walk back into the packhouse, hoping that Lila isn’t around, but of course, I couldn’t be so lucky.

I don’t even see her at first as I walk through the door. It’s as if she was trying to conceal herself until she was ready to make herself known, because she waits until I take the first step on the way to my office before she even speaks up, “Where did you disappear to?” Lila asks with a nasty tone.

“That is none of your *business, Lila, and until we get this * storm figured out, you are to call me by my rightful title.” I sneer and continue up the steps to the second floor, but the she-*follows right on my heels.

“I hope you know that I will not tolerate you having any mistresses once we are mated, Alpha.” She says snidely.

“No worries there, Lila. I’ll be remaining celibate starting the day of your Luna ceremony.” I say dryly.

She chuckles, “You can’t be celibate if we are together, Alpha.”

I stop in the doorway of my office, and turn back to her, blocking her way into my space, “I can and will be celibate, Lila. Just because you are going to be Luna doesn’t mean that I have to marry you or *you. I’d rather cut my *off before putting it back inside of you.”

When she takes a step forward and places her hand on my chest, I grab her wrist with one hand and her throat with my other, “You will refrain from touching me in the future, if you know what’s good for you! If that pup you’re carrying is mine, then I will already have an heir and there will be no reason for us to touch ever again. Otherwise, if it’s not, well, you already know that you will not be Luna. For your own sake, this better not be a trick just to get the Luna title, because you will not like the outcome if it is.” She’s gasping for air when I suddenly let her go, turn and slam my door in her face.

ANNAVAANU’NUN

I’ve kept myself holed up in my office all week, not wanting to talk to anyone but my Beta for pack business only. When the day came that i” ve been dreading all week, I began drinking early that morning. Nobody could get through to me, not even Carter while in this state. It wasn’t until I heard her voice on the other side of my office door that I finally got up and unlocked it.

A gasp slips out of her mouth the moment she sees me, “Declan, what are you doing to yourself?”.

on her lips

office. When I go to close the door, I notice Lila at the end of the hall, glaring our way and I smirk, closing the door for privacy. I walk around my desk and sit in my

you need to stop doing this to yourself.” She starts in, “Everyone

“Everyone but you…”

isn’t true, so don’t ever say that!” She stares angrily at me, “You mean so much

here, admiring the woman that sits across my desk as she continues talking. I’m not paying any attention to her words, just the way her mouth

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have to ask him to swear me in? Are you really not going to do it?” Her words finally reach me when she talks of another

are you

of the many others

your cousin! Am I going to have to ask him to swear me in really is beautiful when she’s angry.

so *, but it’s out of my hands now. Not

going silent once more.

to leave, I don’t want Quinn hating me either or want her drinking anybody else’s blood, because that’s part of the swearing in of an Alpha. An alpha has to slice his hand and the wolf that is becoming an Alpha has to drink the blood of an Alpha. She’s leaving

Suddenly. I’m looking forward to performing the ceremony; anything to have Quinn’s lips on me one last time. Sure, the blood

you, Alpha, you don’t know how much it means to me to have you be the one to swear me in.”

her mouth again.–ugh!”I’ll only do it under the condition that you always call me Declan. I don’t want to hear Alpha coming out of your mouth

smirks, “But what will everyone think?

else! I’ll set them straight if they have a problem with

to drive over to the Dark Moon pack to do the ceremony. I also want to see those that are survivors and make sure none of them are a danger to Quinn. I will have to talk with her as well, because there may still be danger if Alpha Luther from the Desert Sand pack gets wind that she is the daughter of Alpha Lincoln

we walk out of my office together, Lila calls for me,

under her breath, she says to me, “I see

to answer the other she-wolf, “What is it, Lila. I have somewhere important

be.”

close to lately. When she places her hand on my arm and addresses me by my name loud enough for Lila to hear, I want to throw my head back and laugh, “No worries, Declan, go ahead and take care

the she-*anger the moment Quinn is gone. I watch as Quinn walks towards the stairs, and I know Lila sees me watching Quinn’s *as she walks