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In the Chains of the Alpha Tara's Tale
“Come on, this isn’t happening right now. You and I need to talk about this.” Cal pulled Tara from the training room. He could test her later.Right now he needed to know what happened because he had a feeling this was something that made Tara who she was today.This was something she should have disclosed on the forms she’d filled in when she first stepped foot in his club. It was something any decent dominate would keep in mind when working with any submissive. Gad, this was something as her mate he should have known all along.Tara was hesitant to go with him, as seen by how she tried to pull her wrist out of his grasp when he tried to guide her from the training room. “Tara, we need to talk about this now. It’s not something that will wait. No, that’s not right exactly. I can’t let it sit between us until we’ve had a chance to process it’s implications.”“Implications? There’s no implications, unless you’re going to report me to the ruling council, reject me, an
In the Chains of the Alpha Cal's Stance
“Are right, so you understand my take on what happened? Anything Elmwood said, did, or thought has no bearing on what I think, feel, or decide. You were a pup, and you were alone when you were attacked. Tara, you did the only thing you could do, and that was let your instincts out to defend yourself. I would expect nothing less than that.” What Cal couldn’t explain was how a pup could instinctively perform a partial shift.A partial shift was something alphas trained to do for years or decades. Most never achieved the ability to just pop their claws. Fangs were one thing, but claws were completely different. It was nothing like the Lycan form. They sprouted fur and their skeletal structure completely changed to something in between a human’s and a wolf’s. They sprouted fur, and there was no way they could wear shoes.Cal had seen Tara’s wolf, and her wolf was nothing like the Lycans’ dire wolves. She looked like a pup compared to them.If Cal had to describe his response to T
In the Chains of the Alpha The Meaning Of
Tara stared at the email and the explanation of the results. “I’m seeing this correctly. Eddie may look like me, but he’s not blood related to me in any way. That there’s no question that Alpha Danvers is my uncle.” They still sat at the kitchen counter where they’d been talking. Tara could only describe her emotions as if she’d been put through an emotional wringer again. If admitting to the attack all those years ago and describing what happened to her, now she felt like she was on a verge of having a nervous breakdown. “It explains a lot. Why he sucks at fighting, and you don’t. His perchance for rogue-like activities and your straight and narrow tendencies. You were born into a family of alphas, but raised by a pack of rogues.” Cal now understood a lot of things that weren’t clear before. Comparing Tara to Eddie now was meaningless, and explained why their skills were so different. It wasn’t because of their differing experiences, but because genetically
In the Chains of the Alpha Managing Tara
“So, have you decided who you want to speak to first about this? Eddie or Kole?” Cal came into the living room from changing out of his training gear. He looked at Tara and she was still in her training gear, staring at her phone. He knew she was looking at that email message he’d sent her and instantly regretted doing that. Cal didn’t think twice about what he did next. “Go change now. I don’t want you looking at that until you’ve fixed yourself up.” He held his hand out, and he put his displeased dominate face on, along with the tone he knew everyone feared arguing with.It was one perk about this business and being an alpha of a wolf shifter pack. You knew early on how to influence the actions of those around you. The best learned to be responsible with it. Because without that responsibility, they could easily abuse it. Right now, Tara needed that push to get unstuck from contemplating pointless things. Whatever would unfold was out of her hands.Eddie would do what he wanted to
In the Chains of the Alpha Telling Elliot He's a Daddy
Kole Danvers sat in his home office, which looked over the play yard of the school next door to his pack’s main house. That’s where they sent their pups to school, along with other packs. It was something they did to try to foster a working relationship between the packs going into the future. It wasn’t always perfect and clean cut. Pups possibly ran more on instinct than adult wolves did. He thought of this because he’d stared at the email list with an email from the Healer that did the DNA tests. If it came back with what he thought, it would. Then one pup fell through the cracks and somehow, he’d failed to find her. It only made things worse to know she shared his family’s bloodline with him. Kole hadn’t expected the forceful impact of so many emotions from looking at an email listing. “You’ve been staring at that screen since I knocked. What have you so focused that you didn’t hear me knock Kole?” Elliot Hawkins asked as he blatantly walked into
In the Chains of the Alpha Disappointing Eddie
Tara sat in a private room within the pack’s personal shared space. The door was locked, and she sat across from a downcast Eddie. He paced behind a sofa, unable to look at Tara. She didn’t like this at all. This is what she feared would happen. “Eddie…”“I know. I got the email too. All these years, we grew up together. No one ever said anything. Not even a hint. Heck, we sort of look alike even. What happened? Could there be even a slight chance someone who ran the tests got something wrong? If not, why didn’t someone say something? No one in that pack could keep a secret properly. How did they keep this one?” “I don’t know. But it doesn’t make anything between us different. We grew up together and later we survived together. This doesn’t make any of this less valid. We still have that bond, don’t we?” Tara wanted him to remember what they’d meant to each other over the years. He needed to see the value in that.“Do we? I’m a filthy rogue who’s just tagging along on your go
In the Chains of the Alpha Breaking It to Family
“Now that we’ve had this delightful dinner, Kole, please tell us why we’re eating privately? This usually means you have an announcement to make to the pack, but you don’t want to blindside us, so what is it?” Stone Danvers asked, demanding to know why they were here. He had a good book waiting for him, to end his day with, but his routine wasn’t finished he still had his daily run.“Father, please give me some patience and time to explain everything first before you get impatient and dismiss it before you learn everything.” Kole tried to forewarn his father that his very nature would complicate this announcement, but he silently chastised himself. He knew better than this. His father never changed his stripes.“Learn everything about what? Dear, you’re talking a lot but saying nothing right now.” Elaine Danvers was the patient one and Kole’s mother. She was the empathic soul and motherly influence in this family.“Right, as you know, everyone sitting at this table has never given up
In the Chains of the Alpha Cal Talks to Kole
“You spoke to your family? What did they have to say? How did your father take it?” Cal didn’t know what Kole said to them, but Stone was just that stone hard and a traditionalist through and through. He hated anything that changed the standard way things were done.Stone still struggled with the loss of his daughter. She may have been the elder, but she was his little girl. His only girl.Then there was Kole’s Beta, Kiera’s father. Cal was on pins and needles about meeting Elliott again. Elliot was considerably older than Cal and now his father through mating. It was a sobering feeling for Cal. What did he say? How did Elliott feel about all of this?“My father is pretending to accept the fact she is his blood. I suspect he’ll bide his time and then, when we least expect it, he’ll interrogate her about her story. Then I expect everything to go downhill from there with my mother letting in on my father for being overbearing. I’m sure Tara will be in tears. Which will probably
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In the Chains of the Alpha Conclusion
One Year Later —Tara sat out on the poach behind the packhouse with a laptop open to a spreadsheet. She and Emily were working out the next year’s budget and the projects they’d tackle.With Emily looking after the club while they were up here. It was interesting, to say the least.Tara gave birth on schedule. It was about the only thing that was on schedule these days, and Cal was sitting on a blanket on the grass with one-year-old Natalie Nichols. The apple of her daddy’s eye. She had him wrapped around her little finger and he’d have it no other way.Eddie and his Lycan girlfriend were now running the kitchens here for Rachel. They’d mated and, well… Tara expected to hear that they’d have pups soon enough.Jaxon, well, he was back in the city. Tara wasn’t sure what was happening with him. Cal wouldn’t speak of it. But Jaxon took a leave of absence from his position for a bit. Tara wasn’t receiving the full story. But as far as she could tell. Jaxon may have two mates. One wasn’t d
In the Chains of the Alpha New Territory New Commitment
Five Months Later —Tara felt like the size of a house. She propped her ankles up on her desk and she had to eat her fries with no salt. It wasn’t the same, nothing tasted the same. The poking from inside was regular now and she couldn’t wait for the last six weeks to go by. She’d been six weeks pregnant when her symptoms started and since then, if it wasn’t one symptom, it was another. Tara would be more than happy for these little monsters to enter the world.Cal was everywhere and nowhere, it seemed. He told her to clear her calendar today because he wanted to show her their new territory. The thought of trudging out there was exhausting to her. But she’d do it because he was just so insistent. He promised they’d stay the night out there and come back the next day at a leisurely pace.“You ready to go?”“Yes, I just don’t understand why we have to do this now. When all I want to do is take a nap.”“You can nap in the vehicle on the way. Don’t worry, I’ve packed everything we need a
In the Chains of the Alpha Telling Cal
Tara could feel the ball of conflicting emotions rolling about in her head and her belly. She had a new life inside her. No matter what, she’d never be alone again. But how did she explain all of this to them when the time came?How should she explain this to Cal? He had to be expecting this. Look at the second floor. She didn’t like it necessarily. Their pups living completely separately from us with someone else looking after them. Why hadn’t they spoken about this before?Tara’s eyes closed as the elevator dinged and opened. She’d not thought that it was important before this because she wasn’t pregnant, and they didn’t have any pups. Now she thought of it.This morning, Cal was gone before she got out of bed. This was a day she didn’t train, because there were other things she needed to get done. Which, of course, didn’t get done? A few steps brought her to Cal’s office over the club.She knocked and entered when she received the okay to enter. Tara lucked out because Cal was alon
In the Chains of the Alpha The Verdict is
David Monroe struggle with the enforcer training. His heart wasn’t in it and his skills lay in other places, but everyone lumped him in with the other male Lycans because he was a Lycan. He’d exhausted almost every avenue trying to explain to them he’d rather be patching people up and treating pups with fevers. While he was moping during a break, his phone rang, and it surprised him to see that Emily’s name came up on his phone. “Hello, Emily. What’s wrong? Why are you calling?” He couldn’t think of a reason she could be calling him for, but any chance he got to speak with her was better than nothing. “I’ll tell you, but you have to be very careful with what you say. No one can know why you’re about to be ordered to the Luna’s office. What we need you to do, is slip out of the packhouse. If anyone asks, you’re running an errand for the Luna. That’s it nothing more. What you need to do is go to the closest pharmacy and pick up a pregnancy kit. Come back here
In the Chains of the Alpha No One Prepared Her for a Morning Like This
Again, Tara was up late the next morning. Cal was determined he wouldn’t let her feel like he neglected anything about her. From sympathizing with her, to how her emotions were toward absolutely everything, and he didn’t forget to include planning their future together.Well, he talked, and she mostly listened. What he said wasn’t bad. Tara didn’t have a problem with any of his ideas. She didn’t have much to add or at this time have an emotional connection to any of it.Now, though, Tara needed to get her day going, and she felt like something that had been dredged from a swampy pond. It took only minutes for Emily, her newest staff member, to realize there was something wrong with Tara.“If we had a cat, I’d say you look like the latest thing it dragged home. When will we see you going to a healer?” Emily eagerly asked Tara as she returned from her latest flight to the bathroom. Tara looked at her with an expression of exhaustion.“I’m fine and I’m not planning ongoing to see one.” S
In the Chains of the Alpha A Clue to Follow
“Stone dear, you know I love you. I’m your mate and partner in life. I have always advised you about everything honestly and in your best interest.” Elaine still quietly sat in the sitting room and calmly spoke to Stone. The others had slowly filtered out to go on with their day or to watch their guests leave. “Of course you are, and you have.” Stone looked out the window and watched the vehicles leave. Elaine could see he was distracted by what was going on and his own thoughts. “Then why are you being an ass and not listening to anything I say now?” She let her irritation slip into her voice and she dryly responded to him. Her annoyance was obvious. Stone’s instincts instantly alerted him to the fact that not all was good between himself and his mate. Over the years, that instinct helped him avoid many different disasters from exploding in his face when it came to their relationship. “I’m listening Ellie. I’ve always listened.” “Then explain to me if you listened to me, then why
In the Chains of the Alpha The Trip Home
No one said much of anything on the way home. The privacy divider between the front of the vehicle and the back raised then never went down. Cal pulled Tara to him and sat her in his lap. He didn’t do anything more but let her soak up his warmth and strength. He buried his head into her neck and hair. The smell of the wool sweater mixed with the natural spice of her scent. He instantly felt his aggressive feelings smooth out and gentle. It’d been difficult watching her get so wound up from it all. Tara sat there, and all but purred. As their vehicle made slow progress through traffic, it’s darkened windows gave them the privacy that Cal didn’t care, Tara turned and straddled his lap instead. She didn’t do anything more than that. But his body felt her skirt hike up and he groaned, knowing how naughty she was instinctively gravitating to for comfort. That wasn’t what their mating would ever be based on. He’d never satisfy his needs while she was seek
In the Chains of the Alpha Parting Words
Kole wanted to get back to the gathering as quickly as possible. He didn’t want any misunderstandings between anyone, let alone the two packs. There was no way he’d explain to the pack that their beloved elder and ex-alpha alienated his first born grand pup with blind stubbornness, hateful questions, and fear. That wouldn’t be happening today or any day. Kole wouldn’t risk fighting with Cal. How would it look when the Council of Alphas met? His father always forgot about that. Though the council of alphas didn’t exist during his time in control of the pack. He’d been a forward thinker of his time and moved his pack to a territory that was being noticed by the local humans. It meant he could settle their businesses in, and those humans would see those businesses as founding members of the business community. “Let’s go back down now and please be nice to her. She’s so much like Heather and you wouldn’t talk to Heather that way. Just apologize and let mother do
In the Chains of the Alpha Making Things Clear as Stone to Stone
“That’s my third pup there and his mate. Your uncle, Stephen, and his mate, Ariel. Their grown pups, Erin, and Eric. That about covers your living family here, dear. Everyone sit please. Stone has created enough excitement and drama for one day. She has a sweet soul. Stephen, treat her like you would your sister and don’t act like your father if you know what’s good for you. As for the doghouse, it’s an old guard shack that’s been turned into a bunkhouse for single wolves who, for one reason or another, don’t want to make the trip all the way back to their homes to sleep. It’s affectionately called the doghouse because often there’s trouble between the few mated wolves that stay there.” “Oh, good grief. That’s horrible.” “Oh, don’t think your grandfather hasn’t stayed there a time or two. Though these days he’s more likely to use a guest apartment.” Tara looked over the tissue at Elaine with a shocked expression. “You’re joking.” “No, I’m n
