1. Alpha Andrei's Mate

One Year Later. 

Anya’s POV

“I’ll be gone for only a week. You don’t have to look like you are sending me off to the other world,” I tease Sam, my only friend in school, as I move my backpack to my other hand and then pull him in for a hug. 

“Just make sure you are back early enough.” He says and then ruffles my hair slightly. 

After one year of being away from the pack, I was finally going back. Going back because that was all the family I had, and however much I hated that I was only human, hated that I would still be scorned, it felt unfair to just man up and never go back there. 

Papa had called me several times to know where I was exactly. However, I didn’t want to be a burden to him anymore and refrained from telling him where my college was. 

Also, I have heard the news about some unrest among packs from Kenan. It was better to visit now that I had some mid-session break in school than wait till things got too worse for me to travel down. After all, among wolves, there was hardly anything I could do. 

The bus ride was fast as we were at the last bus stop in no time. Although the real journey only began once I got off. Our clan, Boz Pack,  was beyond these woods, which without a car would take me about two hours of fast-paced walking. 

To regular humans, the park was dangerous, and sightings of wolves have been reported on several occasions. However, to someone like me, who knew what wolves crawled in here, this woods was as safe as a park. Or so I thought….

Two hours later, slight beads of sweat trickled down to my chin, somehow, I hadn’t gotten to the clan yet despite keeping my pace up to par. Slightly lost in my thoughts while trying to confirm I hadn’t missed any landmarks, I hear voices and stealthy footsteps. 

“Surround the whole premises. Not one of them should escape,” a gruff and unfamiliar voice sounded right ahead as I furrowed my brows in confusion. What’s going on? 

My instincts told me I needed to run as I felt my hair stand all over my body. I turn back, being careful not to step on any broken twigs and start moving the way I came. Unfortunately, I only took about five steps before…

“Where do you think you are going, little tramp?” I hear an angry voice behind me, causing my whole body to freeze up as I pick to my heels. 

I should have known there was no way I could outrun people that dared to attack shifters. 

The sight I see the moment I’m dragged into the clan makes my stomach churn as I see all the familiar faces bound together with blood splattered around while some seemed to be dead. Deep pain and hatred boil in my heart as I look at the men carrying me on both sides.

“Alpha Andrei, we found her by the premises. Our best guess is she had an early head start at running.” One of the men holding me reports, and I look around trying to see who he was reporting to, and that’s when I see it. 

My Papa was tied and held down with a long knife to his neck. “Nooo!!!” I yell out subconsciously as a kind of pain I have never felt before hits me.

I feel something snaps in me as my eyes redden.

Alpha Andrei was renowned. Although I had never met him, there was no wolf clan that was unaware of him. Kenan and I had enjoyed teasing kids in the pack with being captured by him when we were much younger. 

Alpha Andrei not only ruled the biggest wolf Kingdom, but he and his brothers also took the smaller ones by war every time. He was called the Devil Alpha, and his being here only meant bad news. 

“Anya!” Kenan’s familiar voice cries out, attracting my attention which I, of course, regret immediately the moment I see the state he’s in. He’s covered in blood. His blood. 

“You bastards!” I yell, although it sounds more like a growl and I can feel more eyes on me. No matter how much I hated not being a wolf, there was no way I wanted my best friend and my papa dead. They were the only two people I had in this world. 

“Who’s she?” The man they had called Alpha Andrei asks Alpha Cole. Kenan’s dad who’s held down in a position very similar to my Papa. 

“She’s our Beta’s nephew. She’s not a werewolf, you can leave her out of this.” He said gruffly, and I felt a kind of warmth at his subtle protection. 

“The more reason she should be killed off.” He growls as he lands a kick at my father, that not only makes him spurt out blood but also sends him quite some distance away.

Rage fills me, and I lunge for him despite my inability to do anything, but what happens the next moment not just changes everything for me, it changed everything for my clan as I felt my body enlarge and the sounds of bones breaking and popping fills the air.

My body erupts with a force that pushes my captors some miles away from me, and years of reading and trying to understand this whole thing makes me very aware of what I was going through. 

At the worst moment where being human could have perhaps saved me, I got my transformation….

I could feel all my senses heighten, and the way I looked at everything felt totally different. I don’t bother to soak in the feeling when I could use my transformation as an advantage to get rid of this Alpha Andrei. 

My wolf should be connecting with my sane mind, but I’m far too gone at the moment, and all I’m thinking of is the best way to attack these people here. 

Yet, the moment I set my eyes on him, I felt the churns of fate twirling as my wolf in its natural form whined and softened despite the anger it had carried just some moment ago. I feel my body heat up as I feel a deep need to lunge at him. His eyes darkened, and I knew for certain that he was experiencing just what I was feeling. 

A feeling I had thought impossible for me to experience in this life again. 

We were mates. Alpha Andrei, The Devil Alpha that everyone feared, was my Fated Mate!