QuinnI watched as dad picked up his call. We all listened to his one-sided conversation with the other person on the line, out cutleries paused in mid-air. after a while, dad dropped his phone and sighed."Who was that?" Jack asked."One of the elders." Dad replied. "He said one of the pack members was assaulted by some members of the other packs and he wants us to fight."Mia gasped. "You can't fight our battle.""What is a pack?" Vanessa asked.We all looked at one another at her question and knew that we had messed up. I wondered if dad had forgotten that she was at the table with us. There was no way that she was not eventually going to find out about our secret if we continued to be careless of our words.I leaned back and grimaced, thinking of how we were going to get out of this. She was looking at us and I knew that she was waiting for an answer.I looked at my brothers to come up with something quick as my brain was blank and dad seemed ruffled by the question his wife had a
QuinnFinally, a decision was made and it was agreed that the competition between me and Tyrex would start soon. As based on tradition, it was meant to happen at the house of the former alpha.It was while we were seated out there that Albus put a call through to Tyrex's father to come to our house with his son to prepare for the pre-initiation ceremony.We could hear everything that Albus said and all what Tyrex's dad also on phone. It was what he already asked me immediately he was done with breaking dad's arms. The elders wanted to know how closer we were to being the next leader of the pack."How soon can you get here, Tyrien?" Albus asked Tyrex's dad."We will be there in the next two hours.""Good. We will all be expecting you. Albert had already told his staff to be expecting you and prepare rooms for you.""We are moving soon. We have actually been expecting your call as Tyrex has been telling me of how his body has been changing recently."Albus sighed and exchanged a look wi
QuinnIt was here. Finally. The day of the fight. The day I was either going to be crowned as an alpha or scorned as a loser. I was determined to not go down though. I was going to fight with my nails and my teeth till I win.I looked around the cave, looking for one particular person but I didn't see her. I could my dad, my brothers, the elders, Tyrex and his father but Mia wasn't there. Of course, she wouldn't be there. She wouldn't be invited yet to a ceremony as grand as this, even if she had been introduced as our mate and accepted by the pack which we hadn't done yet. She wasn't an elder and neither was she family. Yet.The pack had strict and ancient rules that guided our ceremonies and conducts. Mia wasn't a natural wolf and biological sister and so wouldn't be considered as family member of anyone of us. She wasn't mated to us yet too so she had no reason to be here.I sighed as I moved my eyes away from searching the crowd and focused on what was needed here. She wasn't here
QuinnAlbus looked at the two of us and waved his right hand down and then blew the whistle, declaring the fight for the alpha hunt open.Tyrex and I growled and dashed into each other without any more prompt. We didn't need anyone to tell us what we had to do as she knew it already. We had already been told what to do for years and had been groomed for it.We charged at each other, our fists going mad at each other. I grunted as he hit me on the face and I growled, packed my punch tight and got him on his jaw. He growled, his eyes rolling back in his head and then I smiled, loving the crack of his hard bones. Watching him in more pain than I was made me feel better about my own.We were at it for five minutes and eventually I won, landing a jab at his hind leg from behind which made him lose his footing and slumped to the ground. That was all I needed to win. I didn't need much. I only needed to have the hand of my opponent touch the ground. As soon as his hand touched the ground, I
QuinnI walked out of the room few minutes later without waiting for Tyrex to come back. There was no need to do that. He would see the meat I had killed and that was the proof he needed to know that he had lost to me. It wasn't a total loss though as the one who lost in the duel for the position of the alpha automatically became the general of the pack.I hoped that the two of us would be able to work together for the better purpose of the pack. It wasn't an easy thing to wish for at this moment but I hoped that we could make it work. With the way Fedro hated my guts and the win that I had, I could only hope that he didn't incite Tyrex to rebel against me.I hoped that Tyrex wasn't a fool and a man of his own. I hoped that he wasn't swayed by Fredo to cause trouble and we would be able to have a stronger pack with the cooperation of the two of us.I decided that I would have a meeting with Tyrex after our initiation ceremony as the alpha and the general of the pack. I would have had
QuinnIt was coronation day. It was festival time. It was jubilation time. The pack was in a festive mood and I didn't think anything could stop that, not even Fredo's angry glares as he moved around the party. What was his problem? He should go back to his house if he felt like he didn't want to be here instead of acting up and walking around, looking like he would love to have a pass at our heads with his claws. Not that anyone cared about his sour looks. Everyone was too happy to care. It turned out that the wolves were happy that I got to be their alpha. There was a huge turnout of all the werewolves in the pack for the celebration event that we didn't have enough room for all the guests even though the mansion of the alpha was the biggest house of all the houses owned by anyone in the pack.We had to ask the werewolves to manage the rooms, four to a person and they didn't mind. They were all just too happy to have an excuse to be together, see one another and celebrate. Though it
QuinnI felt a sense of deja Vu as I stood before the men with Tyrex. We had had our meeting and had both worked out a plan for how we were going to run the pack and any war that we were to have. I was elated that Fredo wouldn't come in between us. He seemed like a man that had a mind of his own and I was glad that he hadn't disappointed me.He was truly meant to have dueled for the position of an alpha. He was meant to be the general of the pack.Standing before the men and looking at them reminded me of when I had stood before the soldiers of the vampire clan and was preparing them for war. That was what I was doing here as well. We were preparing for war, finally going against those who had dared to come after the men in our pack. Those were the men who had been the reason the elders had come to dad, why he had to confess to them that he wasn't strong and why we had had to have dueling ceremony faster than it was planned.I hoped that we wouldn't be having a war though. Not that I
QuinnI was back home. We had won the war. We had chased off the wolves to wherever else they could go through and had gotten our men back. I knew that the men weren't ever going to come back with what we had done to them.I had been trying to have pity on them, knowing they were a homeless pack and wanted to reach a compromise with them, working on how they could live happily with our men without breaking any code of conduct and making a mess of the law but they hadn't composed themselves in the manner of a pack that I would want my men to live with. Before long, if care wasn't taken and I allowed my men to get used to men as barbaric as that, they would be corrupted by their bad manners and start living as animals which was less than what they were.I leaned on my bed as I got out of the bathroom and splayed wide, explaining the rest I had. I needed it after the war that I had fought with those miscreants.I heard a subtle knock on the door and wondered who it was. Mia and my brothe