The Silent Alpha

***Christian*** 

..A few hours earlier...

I haven’t slept at all since Chaos made me a living compass, the voices in my head whispering and muttering non-stop in Jack’s absence.

Their incessant murmuring has led me all the way to California and now as morning breaks over the horizon, I find myself driving out of San Rafael through a dense forest.

"Turn here! No, there! Take a left, you i***t!", The voices hiss.

They are driving me insane! 

"Your mind wandered before us!"

A voicesnaps.

"You ungrateful mutt!"

My phone rings beside me, the screen flashing with my father’s name.He hasn’t stopped calling me all night and this morning.

"You miss your mommy?" Avoice snickers.

"She wasa stupid b***h for having you!"

"Shut up!" I shout, nearly swerving into another lane in anger.

"Aww you're going to protect her now, after all you've done to her?’ Another sneers.

"Mommy killer!"

The other voices begin to chant in unison, "Mommy Killer! Mommy Killer! Mommy Killer!"

"Shut up..." I murmur, scratching at my head to make them stop.

"I said shut up!"

I pull over down a secluded road and step out to catch my breath, counting each exhale until the voices stop.

Get it together...

I scold myself.

You have a mission to accomplish.

My phone begins to ring again and I hang up, scrolling through the messages left by my father.

WHERE ARE YOU?? PICK UP YOUR PHONE! HAVE YOU SEEN YOUR MOTHER?? I CAN’T FEEL HER! CHRISTIAN!!! I feel sick as I read through his desperation but I close his messages and check my recent messages for any updates from Brody, the spy I sent to watch Jordan.

That’s odd, I mutter.He hasn't messaged me any new updates in over 12 hrs.

"Traitor! He’s a traitor!" the voices hiss.

"The Killer has a traitor!" They shriek with laughter.

"He's got a target on his back! Who else will betray him?"

I climb back into the car, hoping to outrun these voices, but they follow me wherever I turn.

By the time I make it to the City where this River Moon Pack is located, I’m almost on the verge of tears with frustration.

"The Mall! The Mall!" The voices whisper.

"The boy will be at the Mall.He wears the medallion! Wait by the fountain at noon! Go!"

I drive to the mall, rushing in towards the restroom to clean myself up and prepare my tools for my mission.

The witches had given me a sleeping potion and I spray it on a cloth and some candy before heading to the fountain.

The Mall is crowded and without my wolf, I cannot smell Natalia, much less our pup.

The voices urge me to stay put and despite my impatience, I wait as the hour ticks by until my phone strikes noon.

My palms begin to sweat and I feel butterflies of excitement flutter in my stomach.

After all these years, my family is finally going to be together.As I smooth down my shirt, the voices suddenly start up again.

"He’s here! He's here!"

They cry.I look up and spot a beautiful older woman holding a little boy’s hand in hers.

The child has his back to me but I can see he wears overalls and bright blue vans as he skips happily towards the washroom.

Rising to my feet, I linger over to a small shop near the washroom to get a better look and wait patiently for them to come out.

The voices fall silent when I see the little boy, my son, face to face for the first time.

His eyes are mesmerizing with their brown and blue irises, a thick pair of lashes casting a shadow on his cheeks.He has my pale skin and small lips but his nose is all Natalia’s.He’s perfect, I smile to myself, the little boy blinking up at the older woman.

woman smiles as they

to black

the voices warn

close behind, keeping just enough distance between us so that the woman does

my son scurrying off to climb the tubes and slides while the woman takes a seat in an empty sitting area to read a

nonchalantly step

chair but offers a polite smile in my

I take the

I make sure no witnesses are standing by to interrupt me before

to hear me over the laughs and giggles

points in my pup’s

she mutters, turning back at

voices snickering in my head as

The woman looks up

"What-"

and press her head into it, her body instinctively fighting against me.She manages to fight for only a few seconds before the potion begins

see all the adults preoccupied with their own children to notice the sleeping woman in my arms.I lay the woman down gently across the seats and cover her up with her own sweater

boy is alone in the pit, running around in a circle and watching the balls roll off his

up at me and smiles a big

at him, the little

tossing

"What are you doing?"

"I don’t know,"

be at his eye level and smile, "Well, do you want to see

cheerfully, trotting over to the edge of the ball pit.I slip my hand into my pocket and hide a coin between my fingers before pretending to pull the coin from

giggling innocently at the trick and inspecting

Again!" he cries, jumping up

I smile, pulling another coin from

empty air beside my ear and opening his

sighs in

head for any coins and

all out of

and flicks his

ask, the

"I’m Chris."

swinging his

candy, Kota?" I ask,

we’re friends now,

at me, biting his lips

share, right?" I ask, the little

reaches for the candy and giggles as he unwraps it before popping it in

too easy, I sigh.I pull out a second untainted candy and eat with him to make him feel comfortable and he smiles happily to see we are

I’m positive he’s had enough to

and seek?" I ask, Kota

hide and I count." I pretend to shield my eyes as

fingers, I watch him tuck himself under the slides and I

finished, I quietly tiptoe towards the slides where I find Dakota curled up in

he sleeps and I quickly pull down the front part of his overalls to find

need, I gently cradle him in my arms and crawl out of the

rock wall chuckles as he watches me adjust Kota in my

nap," he remarks, and

chuckle as I take my son out of the playcenter and walk out of

"Mommy Killer!"

"Shut up!"

as I tuck my

car seat so I lay him flat on the

the

"Father of the year."

me to Chaos," I

my wolf

jeer but ultimately begin to give me directions to Olompali

the park so I keep a close eye on the sleeping pup through the rear view mirror.I drive up to what appears to be an old abandoned shed in the middle of nowhere and

find

fast," the woman says in an all too familiar

back the snarl in my throat

seeing it and rises

she’s about to reach it, I pull it away and growl

then your little

in my head begin to shriek in anger, their

of my vulnerability, the woman takes the medallion from my hand with a cruel smile on her

the Master of Juegos," the God within sneers,

thin but I hold my tongue to get this ordeal

chuckles to

you have your

out the blue stone from my

do I

release your wolf, crush the stone and call to your wolf," the

"That’s it."