Chapter five

ALPHA SAWYER'S POV 

I was brought up as the future Alpha of the Blue River pack. It was like I had two Dad's I had the strong, hard headed Alpha that was hard on me and made me learn and fight like an Alpha. 

The other one was soft and playful and treated me just like a normal Dad did to his child. We were close. When I was fifteen my Dad got a disease. One all wolves feared as it was the only one we couldn't heal. It was a horrible way to die, it was slow and painful and shut your organs down one by one. 

Even though he was dying he still made sure that I was taught how to be an Alpha until his last breath. My mum was absolutely devastated from losing her mate. When two wolves find each other and become mates their souls become one. If one half of that soul is lost, the one left behind they feel a part of themselves is missing and will always long for the other half. She spent the better part of two years locked in a room and only coming out on my birthday or Christmas time. 

I hated seeing my Mum like that but there was nothing I could do. At first I spent every spare second I had with her just talking to her, listening to music or reading a book to her like she used to do when I was a child, but nothing worked and the pack needed their new Alpha focused on the pack. 

I still went to see her most days, but I had to put the pack first. That is what both her and my Dad would have wanted. 

Then after two years she started coming out more and more and now it's back to how it was before he died. There is one big difference other than him not being here, it is the darkness that sits in her eyes as a hollow abyss. So even when she laughs or smiles it never fills her eyes like it did before and it never will again. I don't know how anyone can ever get over the loss of a mate. 

To be honest most don't and they take their own lives within a month or so of loosing them. My Dad had made my Mum promise him that she wouldn't do that and she would stay around so that she could help me. 

You see the pack cherished my Mum she was such a sweet and helpful Luna, if any of the pack needed something she would do whatever she could to help.

Now I am twenty and my Mum has made it her mission to annoy me to death about finding my mate. I had spent so much time trying to be a good Alpha at such a young age that I had never taken the time to think about a mate. i wasn't sure if I actually wanted one after seeing things between my Mum and Dad I wasn't sure I would want to ever go through that or make her go through that if she lost me. I was also known as a great fighter and an Alpha no one wants to mess with. I always did what was necesary and I was not cruel in the slightest, but I still go the nickname Alpha Saw. 

I didn't leave the pack lands that often, only when I needed to talk to other Alpha's or to sort problems out.

Today as I lay in my bed after waking up early, I lay there thinking about the Alpha I was going to go see today. I wasn't looking forward to it, he was known for being difficult. 

Me and my Beta Jack and just two other memebers of my pack warriors were going there. It was just a small talk about pack lands.  

We head towards the door of the pack house when I hear my Mum behind me. 

"Where do you think your going without giving your Mum a hug?" I stop and roll my eyes. Trust my Mum to still be such a Mum to an Alpha. I know she won't give up until I do what she asks, so I turn around and walk to her and give her a hug and a kiss on the cheek. 

"Come back safe." she whispers in my ear. 

"Always." I reply and head back to my Beta. 

We get there after about an hours drive and climb out of the cars. The Alpha and Luna are waiting for us. 

"Welcome to our pack Alpha Sawyer." We do the usual hand shakes and follow them into his office neither of us wanting this to last longer than it needed to. 

"Right I will get straight to it, there is bit of land between both packs that no one technically has as part of their pack, now our pack is expanding as we have a huge increase in numbers of our pack, now we are just wanting to come to some sort of agreement with you on the land." I say as soon as I am sat down. A smile inreasing on his face the more I speak. 

"Well I heard you don't mess about and I see the rumours are true for once. Well we are in no need of that land so I am open to negotiations on that bit of land, but I warn you it will be a high price." 

"I expected nothing less, as the rumours I have heard about you also seem to be true." I say back to him and I see his face go from one of smug satisfaction to anger. 

"Lets get this over with, I have things to be doing with my time." 

We spend the next few hours going through negotiations, but nothing was finalised. On the way back to the car I feel a weird pulling towards a wooded area but then it goes quickly. That was weird but I need to go back to my pack now. So I climb back in the car and we head home. Me and Jack spend days going over everything and see what options we could give to Alpha Derrek. 

A week later we head back to his pack lands and talk things through again. Same results nothing. This was the problem with a lot of these types of negotiations they could take months to sort out. 

Yet again I feel that pull but this time it is even stronger, this time I know there is something and it is making me not want to leave. 

"You OK Sawyer?" Jack asks while pulling me towards the car. 

"Both times I have been here there has been a pull and it is making me want to follow it." He looks at me weird and we head home. 

My Mum comes to talk to me about how it went and she wasn't surprised when I told her we still had not arranged anything. 

"We need to sort this soon as we are very crammed right now and it will take a while to build new houses on that land as it it."

"I know and I am trying but he is a being a difficult bastard on purpose."

"Anything else I should know about?" 

"What do you mean?" 

"Well I can tell there is something else you are wanting to talk to me about." I slightly shake my head how did she always know? I tell her about the pull. 

"That is the pull of your mate."