CHAPTER 2: CHANGED SHE-ALPHA

“HAYDEN ENOUGH!” A firm and intimidating voice from the previous alpha and my father, Venic shouted at me. I didn’t care.

“ALPHA HAYDEN, STOP!” Then another voice shouted at me but it held a worried tone and it came from only a down-to-earth brother and a pack doctor, Henry but I didn’t listen.

I kept slaughtering rogues by ripping them with my bare hands although they were lifeless already. I kept shredding them as if they were just a piece of paper and I didn’t care if I was already bathing with their stinking blood. This is who I am now; a ruthless-heartless monster and I can’t stop. I already had sunk this deep.

“HAYDEN!” but someone still could reach out to my sanity, Harriett, my sister, and pack gamma called out to me with her firm and commanding gamma voice.

I halted but the turmoil still burned around my chest making me growled as I walked back to them. I'm still looking for blood but meeting my siblings’ worried eyes, I clicked my tongue as I looked away. I don’t want them to see me like this but I can’t go to where I used to be.

“Next time, call me Alpha.” Being an Alpha, I don’t tolerate being disrespected and growled as I passed Harriett.

“And next time, remember we’re here for you. You’re not alone anymore, Hayden. You’re our sister.” Harriett firmly countered despite the shiver on her body. She won’t be my strongest female gamma if she can’t stand tall in front of me, an alpha.

“Please believe in us.” Then Harriett’s words have been continued with a caring voice from Henry. He was always the kind one among the three of us and the youngest that we both wanted to protect.

“I do but Harriett, Henry you know that I’m in so deep. I can’t go back to the Hayden you once knew.” I sighed but coldly reminded them of what I could no longer do after what I had been through.

“Hayden…” my father was about to say something when Henry beat him to it.

“Hayden, can you tell us what happened there to make you change like this?” Henry’s worried voice stung my heart but I quickly masked it and walked away.

“HAYDEN!” My father shouted again but I couldn’t stay and gave them an answer as for now, I’m still not over it. I still loathed it.

“Clean this up and make a report,” I commanded as I dodged answering what made me turn like this in twenty years since it was still fresh in my mind.

I know they were worried but I just can’t open it up. I sighed and cleaned myself of the nasty blood all over my body. I was soaking myself in the shower when my mind played a moment with her.

‘We’re mates.’

With that, I quickly cut it by punching a hole over the shower wall. My emotions were haywire whenever my mind drifted in those times. I hate it but it kept happening whenever the rain poured heavily. It easily reflected the sadness swirling around my chest. I might be already a changed alpha but the wound engraved deeply inside my heart was something truly hard to heal. It needed to be out but I can’t without losing me. I gritted my teeth yet a growl of pain still managed to escape from my lips.

“But sadly, not anymore,” I muttered under my gritted teeth before recollecting myself as I controlled my emotions and finished my bath to do my usual routine as the she-alpha of my pack.

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Annoyed with the paperwork, I decided to ditch and have some walks. I was just roaming around the house while trying to hide from my grandfather since I didn’t want to be nagged with the same topic. But my feet dragged me into another spot with the pack house’s perimeter where the old and unused area was.

“Is this…” I muttered but the eerie energy wrapping around here made me speechless. I know this place from the younger memory I had when I was just ten.

It was the huge garden that was once filled with healthy wisteria willow trees and different colors of roses making this area look mystical and majestic but now, it’s not. It has no color anymore. Everything was dark, creepy, and dead like an abandoned mausoleum. But one thing hasn’t moved or ruined much.

“It’s still standing still…” I muttered as I approached the old, dusty, and wet grand piano. I faintly smile as I touch the keys recalling my childhood memories that were once filled with laughter and joy.

“So much for innocent lives.” It made me miss my childhood days when I had no worries or fear of anything. All they knew was how to live happily but growing old, and aging, you started to be tainted with negatives that came from different roots until you forgot to be happy.

“Please, save my heart…” I whispered my longing prayer until I pressed the keys on the grand piano which still had its tone.

I was just pressing different keys on the piano when the eerie energy began to swirl around making the dead trees and bushes seem to move. Being a werewolf, I was already passed to all creepy things as I didn't care about the rustling and cracking sound echoing in my background. I kept making random melodies until I stopped since the piano's keys ghostly moved. I would jump if I’m not who I am but when I glanced to my side, I saw a figure of a charming fair lady.

“Who are you?” I calmly asked despite the translucent figure of the lady. She looked like a ghost but she wasn’t. I could tell she was alive but asleep.

‘Hm, someone knows and is close to the family.’

“Feels like it but am I the only one who could see you?” I wondered since I felt familiar to her but I couldn’t tell when or where we met or have we even met before. Yet, I can’t deny we knew each other.

‘Perhaps.’

“Then why me? I mean, why show up to me?” Seeing her smile, somehow I felt at ease and wondered.

‘This is my area and with you putting melody around here, it will now change. It will do the same to you since your heart will start to yearn for what it lost.’

“That’ll be wishful thinking.” I scoffed since I didn’t believe it anymore but at the same time, she knew exactly what my heart was longing for.

‘I’m not saying about your first but someone will come and even if you deny it, you can’t stop it. You’ll yearn for it.’

“Whoever it is, hope it’ll accept me.” I sighed as I wiped the tears that were threatening to fall.

‘She will.’

I gave her my scrutinizing look making the lady sweetly chuckle while shaking her head then vanished. But the lady didn’t just vanish since she left something that was unknowingly rooted in my heart.

‘She’ll come when the right time comes. She’ll heal you. She’ll wake me. She’ll destroy everything who wronged her and her loved ones. You better keep her safe. Protect her. Secure her. Love my daughter, Alpha Hayden.’