The Silent Alpha
Chapter 5: What is your name?
***Zane ***
"What is your name?" my father's voice booms, my shirt balled up in his fist as he holds me up against the wall.
I swallow the sob caught in my throat and blink away my tears as I try to concentrate on my words.
"Z-Z-Za-"
Before! can finish my attempt, my father's fist races towards my face, the blow connecting just below my jaw, sending a surge of pain to jolt my small body.I taste the blood instantly, the metallic lavor all too familiar against my tongue.
"Sebastian, please!" my mother cries pathetically, grabbing at my father's bicep to pull me free from his grip.
"Try again!" my father growls, slamming me against the wall.
Fear bubbles in the pit of my stomach as I stare at my father's cold eyes looking back at me with so much hatred, so much shame at having me for a son.
My mouth suddenly feels extremely dry as it hangs open.I could feel my name at the back of my throat but try as ! might, Isimply could not utter a single coherent sound.
At 6 years old, my stutter was no longer a cute little phase but a problem.
No matter how hard I concentrate, no matter how hard I try, I find stringing together a single sentence a daunting task, something pronounce my own name even to the maids.
lt was not a hard name either, Zane White.
Simple, or at least it should be.
To fix this problem, my father, the Silver wolf Alpha of the Scarlet Haven Pack, had the best speech therapists flown in, but none were successful in curing my defect.
I was incurable and in my father's eyes, this fact was unacceptable.
It had yet to be presented to the pack as the next Alpha and so far only two maids, the beta and my mother's Gamma knew what I looked like.
I was the hidden Heir of Scarlet Haven, locked away within the Pack mansion.
The one no one had ever seen before and for good reason too.
My father had a lot of enemies.
His first son, Jonathan, had been killed by our silver wolf rivals, the Ravenstone Clan just a few days shy of his first birthday and my father feared someone would try to kill me before I could take the title.
My incurable stutter only added to his need to hide me; for how could the next Alpha of one of the most prestigious Silver Wolf Packs on the West Coast have a stutter? Having given up on the professional therapist, my father took matters into his own hands, literally.
And that’s where I currently find myself now, in his hands and at his mercy.
Mom tries to help me, but she is too weak to stop the furious Alpha from taking out his frustrations on my face.
close my eyes and concentrate on my name dancing on the tip of my tongue.
I try to make a sound but the fear of my father’s fist makes my throat run dry.
Rather than my name coming out, a small squeak escapes my lips.
infuriated, my father's brown eyes begin to glow blue as his wolf makes his presence known.
His piercing eyes look at me with disgust and I suddenly fall to the ground as the Alpha tums on his heel.
"He's not even worth my time," the Alpha snarls over his shoulder.
He tums to my mother.
"Pick up your son and keep him quiet during the party.Make sure he doesn't embarrass me any further."
He slams the door on his way out and the sob I had been holding in finally breaks free.
My mother gently picks me up, cradling my head as she whispers soothing words to me.
"It's okay, Zane," she coos, "I know you're trying..."
"I-l'ms-s-orry,"I hiccup.
"H-he ha-tes me!"
"No he doesn’t,"
My mother protests, smoothing down my hair and kissing my forehead.
"He's just a little frustrated.There's just a lot on his plate right now."
She helps me to my feet and dusts me off "Come on, sweetie.Let's get you cleaned up."
After getting dressed, my mother walks me down to the car where my father waits impatiently for us.
It was the King's birthday today and all the Alphas of the Crescent Mane Kingdom and their families would be attending.
Unfortunately for me, this would also be Alpha of the Scarlet Haven pack.
I go over my lines in my head as we drive to the King’s territory where we find several guests already mingling outside of the King's Mansion.
"Hi, my name is Zane,"
and over again until
car and stares at me through the rearview mirror, his cold eyes boring
he asks through clenched
if I kept staring at those cold angry eyes, I would actually piss myself
"Z-Zane,"
body stiffening in preparation for the blow
met
eye and steal a glance at
says nothing as he opens the
growls as he steps out of the
out.You won’t be presenting
storms off towards the mansion, completely ashamed
tries her best to soothe me
rest of the evening.Just the two of us? I’m sure your father
wipe my tears and she gives me her
chirps, reaching
snack and we'll hide out
of wolves as I
windows of the car, I squint my eyes and stare at the guests as
all of the packs in the Kingdom and knew Scarlett Haven was not the only Silver wolf pack in Crest Mane.I was curious to see if we were really
to see another silver
many times, each time leaving
the gift of gas
allowing him to avoid being injured by an attacker
wolf has ever defeated
hope on the night of my first shift that I would not disappoint my father and
the rear view window just in time to see a large pack of wolves storm in through
the music playing from the Mansion, wolves rushing to
pups are quickly whisked away by their
come with his family in a separate
my mother in
pounding in my chest almost drowns out the sounds of death around me
climb out of the car and make a run for the trees near the house, hoping somehow to
it is!
and there amongst
hearing my mother’s voice, I force my legs to
most horrifying scene that would forever
Ravenstone wolf, my mother
my eyes filling
mother turns her head in my direction, her neck now perfectly exposed to
from my mother's eyes.I flinch at the memory of my mother’s lifeless body and fall off the edge of my bed with a
in annoyance and I quickly scramble to
decide to get a head start
quickly filling with steam.I count my scars as I scrub my body, a habit I developed after years of
life is starkly different now that my mother is
the announcement that both
Wyatt and the maids who knew of me were sworn to secrecy while I was locked away in
father never came to visit me and the maids were told to never
silent and soon, so
after, Gamma Wyatt informed me that my father had remarried and was expecting a
to whom he would be passing his title
brother, Caine, was born and given an Omega rank, was spotted near
a small woman, no more than 5 feet tall
the reason she was spared from certain death, for
still remember the day I
my father came to see me
.- FLASH BACK....
is Agnes," my father's voice
unsure if I
his eyes for me hadn’t faded after all this time
stand before the
small woman standing behind
will be moving to the Omega house with her,"
you pack
when both Agnes
I have to repeat myself? Get moving!" he commands, pushing Agnes into the
and collapses
line her eyes as she looks
her up and she flinches, her arms flying over her
over again and tap
not intend to hurt her, Agnes slowly lowers her arms and
places her hands in front of her
nose in
to her ears and shakes
don't understand, she pulls out a pen and paper from her
pointing again to her
name is Agnes.What
the shower and get dressed before the rest of the
House, nicknamed the Hive, is a large building just south of the main Pack house
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