Chapter One

     

         Onyx knew bad news was coming.

                Don't ask him how, he just knew. Sometimes, it happened, he'll just know that something not to his favor was about to occur. Maybe it's years of honed instincts, an hunch, a feel in the air that set his wolf on edge. Since he was a small boy he has always almost knew where a certain missing object might be, like his toys or pen. But there were also times when the 'hunch' was heavy in the air, where his instincts would shout a warning deep in his bone. 

      Maybe it's a gift, or all alpha has it but the point is that he knew terrible news was coming and it was getting difficult not to let the mix emotions of dread, anticipation and anxiety to spill over to the pack link. 

        He's very sure that his brother and one of his shield – the two wolves in the car with him have caught some of his anxiety. But that's to be expected since they were very close to him. His wolf had sense Onyx's tension too and now paced within him like a coiled spring, rigid with tension. Onyx liked that him and his wolf always work together but that working together doesn't apply to their one and only disagreement – claiming Tasha Loupe.

            His wolf was very clear on the matter ; Tasha is their mate, so Onyx Luis should claim her, make her theirs and name her Luna of the Dawn Pack. But it's not as simple as that, as much as Onyx might have wished otherwise. 

       How do you make a submissive wolf an Alpha? Luna? Luna are the Alpha female of the pack. Submissive wolves aren't weak or timid, no. For all their calm behavior, they can be hotheaded, strong and more dominant that any dominant wolf, and in some cases dominant wolf can also be weak, too calm , soft minded and vulnerable despite their dominant gene. But the difference is also in the favor of dominant wolves, their gene made them stronger, more powerful than submissive wolves gene, thereby making dominant wolf high in rank. 

   

        Though Tasha was very important to the pack, her submissive nature will make her vulnerable to more dominant wolves. If she was made the pack Luna, she would always face challenges by dominant female in the pack for the position. He could help her in her challenge but in the long run that will cost her the respect of the pack and that is even more dangerous. The pack will lose any respect for her position as Alpha female and to Onyx that is unacceptable. 

       This left him with only one option to claim his mate– he would have to leave the position of alpha if he wanted to be with his mate. Very easy, only no one in the pack wanted the job of being an alpha. No one wanted the responsibility that came with being alpha. The old Alpha had caused a lot of damage to the pack though he had challenged and killed him, the pack still remembers. 

   

         This are no concerns that his wolf is bothered with though, to his wolf it's simply white and black, Tasha is their mate and so Onyx should claim her. Not claiming her has but his wolf in a very bad mood, not that it's new, his wolf almost always has a bad mood, Onyx blame his wolf bad mood on the fact that when his wolf emerge for the first time, it was in pain and rage. 

    

          Shifter's always shift when they are in puberty but he had shifted when he was six, his wolf had emerge to protect him. That was a sign of a strong and powerful wolf and Onyx will always be prideful of that but it also hurt to know that he had shifted in such and early age to protect himself, surprisingly his wolf had been one of the calmest and cooperative wolf, calm as Onyx himself but the early shifting had also made his wolf to only look at the world as a dark somber place. Tasha had been the only light to shine in a long time and stir strong emotion in his wolf. 

     In truth, Tasha had been the only one to stir any strong emotion in Onyx. Sometimes, he could be as cold, hard and unyielding just like his wolf. Oh, he had knew right from wrong and had always try to be a fair alpha. Onyx had always felt something off in his emotions, he felt it like everyone does but bonding had always been difficult with him. 

        

     Maybe it's not that of a surprise, Onyx's wolf had emerge as such a young age when wolves only start shifting in their puberty. It's like starting puberty at six. What happened to him had put a scar on his heart and broken something in him. 

   

        Tasha always remind him of creatures of grace and and colour, always on the move and she had a way with her, she could easily move and charm people with her sassy attitude. Not that she was little miss angel, hell, he had heard of her famous temper and some say she's just as crazy like her friend Luna Tara. Tara and Onyx were just so different from each other that it was funny. 

        He could remember the first time he saw her. It had been at the mating ceremony of Tasha's Alpha and Luna. Onyx had been restless all day, knowing that something important was going to happen and it did happen. He had gaze at the redhead and he had and still fell such conflicting emotions, possessiveness, need and joy. Onyx heart had ached from all the emotion. He wanted her so badly, still does. He wanted to touch her, smell her, be around her, protect her, he wants to be all around her. She'd being all he could think a bought, itching constantly to touch, smell or to be just around her. It was pure torture, not being around her. 

  

            The main reason he resist claiming her as he wished was that she might find herself being a care taker later, his mother's voice rang faintly in his ear "the healing is working, you shouldn't resist claiming your wolf because of fear" 

      All the people he knew whose wolf emerge prematurely had one thing in common– they suffer for it later in life, headache, muscle tumor and slowly dying. Most can be healed completely, and his headache and memory laps had stopped completely. His mother said he was strong and he will certainly heal but the fear remained. Fear that later, his problem might later surface and that Tasha would pay for it. The pack healer had warned him that it might happen, it's a possibility and how can he do that to her? To turn her to caretaker ? For her to watch him dying slowly but surely? 

    

               Though Onyx didn't feel like he could claim Tasha, he had vowed to watch and protect her from afar. Her wellbeing would always be top priority for him, and that is why he was at this moments, in his car approaching the gates of sliver pack territory, he had to make sure she was alright, to make sure her health was okey and to just see her. Even a glimpse. 

        

          Because Onyx's and Sliver pack were allies, they weren't stopped at the gate. The guards simply gave them respective nods as they passed through the gate. The pack was land was disguised an a private forest land. His muscles relaxed slightly as the thought of seeing his wolf sooth his wolf. 

         

             Lexer, Onyx's brother drove the car to a set of cabins deep into the sliver pack territory. Once Lexer packed the SUV at the pack's packing lot, Onyx got out. He said facing Lexer "Stay here, Trevor and I won't use more than a minute." 

      Trevor opened his mouth, probably to protest but I shot him a look. It's not polite nor wise to bring too much dominant wolves before an alpha. Lexer and Trevor were one of the few people that knew that Tasha was his mate and being a man that says little about other man's business, Trevor hasn't said much about it, Trevor won't let it rest, constantly telling Onyx to not let fear decide his claiming Tasha.

     

      With Trevor close at his heels, he went to the entrance of the biggest cabin, Jordan an easygoing, always smiling enforcer guard the door and the fact that Jordan didn't flash his costomary smile made Onyx frowned a little. What bad news awaited Onyx?