The Challenge Two Alphas, One Girl

Theo’s POV

I was standing on the porch of the pack house with a huge smile on my face as Fang parked his car. He got out looking startled to see me. My smile widened. He was freshly showered. Interesting. He went somewhere else to shower? What smell was he trying to hide from us? I highly doubted he was cheating on Astrid. Werewolves practically never cheated on their mates. If a werewolf or she-wolf was unfaithful, it was usually because they were married to someone else who was not their mate and the mistress or mister was the fated mate the wolf was craving. Astrid and Fang were fated. I had noticed her moping around lately. She was feeling neglected by our favourite secretive Beta Fang.

“Fang, my Beta brother from another she-wolf mother!” I yelled.

Fang actually rolled his eyes at me. All the perfect brother pretentiousness had been dropped. I grinned, my eyes darkening a little. The Marigold pack had never really seen the warrior side of Thaddeus or me as he was here to woo not to fight. Fang strode up the steps, neglecting to greet me. I blocked his path. He snarled at me. I laughed.

“Whoa, easy there buddy!”I exclaimed. Fang glared at me. “I’m not in the mood, Theo. It’s been a long day,”growled Fang.

“It has!”I agreed. “It’s been terribly long and you’ve been gone since the crack of dawn. Friday has been worried sick.”

I added that last part to jog his fake-protective big brother memory. Fang’s gaze softened.

Was he faking?

“I’m sorry to have worried her. Let me pass quickly so I can go check on her,” Fang said.

“She’s with her two alphas now,” I said dismissively. Fang narrowed his eyes. “All three of them are where exactly?”

“Upstairs in her bedroom. Heard them all laughing a little while ago,” I murmured absentmindedly.“ But I’m more interested in your activities Fang. Let’s talk. Beta to Beta. Tell me about your long day.”

Fang’s POV

Friday, Thaddeus and Maze were up in her room laughing together ? So they were all getting along suddenly or was Theo just trying to f**k with me. I was in no mood for this. The moment after I had left the Van Der Windt Manor, everything in my life suddenly got ten times more complicated.

After I shook Lord Ezekiel Victor Van Der Windt’s hand, I breathed a sigh of relief. We negotiated the details. What was done was done. I was to benefit greatly from all of this regardless of how it played out. The vampires had offered me asylum in case I was found out and could no longer be the Marigold Beta. If | remained undiscovered (which I hoped to high heaven / would), I would continue on as the Marigold Beta but still be added to the Vampire Council payroll as an informant. I was not too thrilled about turning traitor

for all to see so I hoped everything would go smoothly. I did not want to disgrace the Fenestra name. Friday had done enough damage to it with her wolf-less-ness and her fraternising with the neighbouring Alpha whom / was pretty sure she preferred over Maze. Maze was kind of an asshole sometimes to be fair but Friday should be accustomed to assholes by now. Marigold was a much tougher environment than Berryndale where she-wolves were babied and coddled.   Just on to the side of the ground roor’s main entrance. Sne pusnea me against the wall. She was pretty strong for a female vampire but I could have easily overpowered her if I was not so highly curious. / smirked wondering what this was about. Was she about to threaten me or something? To make sure/ wouldn’t double DOUBLE cross them? Not quite. Her reasons were vastly different. Her cold grey eyes stared at me. She bit her lip.

demanded, getting annoyed. Vampires were

crashing her lips

moved towards the exit of the secret side room. “Wait!” She

a sharp pang of guilt already despite not instigating that kiss. Astrid was my fated mate. No one

She squeaked,

She barely knew me. Maybe it was the Fenestra Family genes or something. Pheromones? First my sister had two tough alphas acting like school boys with crushes on Valentine’s Day and now a Vampire Princess was trying to jump my bones. I could not overtly offend

of vampires, humans and maybe even single werewolves that would

I’m here for you. I won’t let anything happen to you. You’re safe here at Van Der Windt Manor with me ok. If anything fishy happens with your pack and your cover is blown,

all I can handle right now,” I chuckled, thinking of Astrid’s reaction if she knew some vampire chick

laughed sadly. “Sorry, I shouldn’t have…um…jumped on you like that. I know you’re married. I’m not that way. I just…want you to be

feeling a little bad for the girl. She was so…naive and yet she had a fierceness to

step-brother Ezra. He’s against this whole idea. He thinks you’re a jerk for selling out your sister…but he doesn’t know you

Ugh, ok.

looked up at me, her eyes wide and hopeful. She was probably

the shower. Dad was passed out drunk on the couch clutching an empty tequila bottle. I scrubbed the stench off of me. Katrina did not smell gross like

went to my parents room and heard the master bathroom shower running. “Wait a

and waited, sitting on my parent’s bed. My mother came out in her robe. She

father home. I had thought he would still be at his poker

I raised my eyebrows. Was she hiding something? I pushed that thought away. Being sneaky made you think everyone else had secrets too. My mother took her clothes to the bathroom and dressed. She came back

mom hesitantly. She held my

you would drop

lies. “Yeah, yeah,” I said quickly. “It was easy to remember to do it if I did it on Fridays.” Get it, Friday, Fridays. Of course I did no such thing. I did

as I asked?” My mother inquired gently, squeezing my hand. I narrowed my eyes.

she can me. She loves to play victim. I could tell you all the horrible things she says about

be entirely wrong. I won’t be winning any Mom of the Year Awards where Friday

in the wee hours of the morning that had ended in tears. Then, Katrina professed her undying love for

mumbled, patting her head. Friday