Chapter Two

I flinched when sunlight hit my eyelids before opening an eye and attempting to block the offending light. I turned to my side and was immediately greeted by a very much naked and beautiful woman next to me. A shewolf I met last night in a bar. Vague memories from last night played in my head. 

What's her name again? Glenda? Gladys? I'm sure it starts with G.

Not even bothering to remember the name of the shewolf I slept with last night, I removed the blanket covering my naked body before standing up and flexing my muscles. I pulled out a clean shirt and new pair of jeans from my dresser before taking a quick shower before I start my duty. 

It did not take long for me to finish and I saw the shewolf still very much asleep and I smirked in arrogance. I can't remember what happened in details, but I know I did a number on her seeing all the marks on her body. Damn, was the sex even good? It must have been forgettable seeing as I can't remember a thing. For me, sex with every shewolf is the same and I haven't met someone who can make me remember the night we spent the day after. 

I covered her body with my blanket before picking up the pile of paper and a pen I always have from my bedside table. I left her a note instructing her to leave before noon before leaving it somewhere she will see immediately and walking out of my room. 

I was about to enter my office, but stopped when my sensitive hearing picked up the sound of some voices fighting and arguing. Sighing, I dropped the hand that's about to open the door to attend to the unknown chaos. I saw some of my pack warriors and my Delta, August, pushing a man who I guess is in his mid 20's away from the fence.  I also took note of a few omegas scattered around the scene and watching.

They all turned around and stood straight when they sensed me approaching.

"What is happening here?" I boomed and they all bowed. "Why are you pushing the man away and you, why are you outside my perimeter? What pack do you belong to and what business do you have here?"

"Alpha, he's from Bluemoon Pack, an omega who was thrown out and wants to seek refuge to us by joining." August answered me.

I immediately frowned at what I heard before my lips curled in distaste. Bluemoon pack, a pack who's known to abuse their Omegas and treat them as slaves and not their own. It is disgusting and repulsive that some of the other pack in our community abuses and treat their Omegas as slaves or servants. They are werewolves like us. The same species Goddess created alongside us. 

And it's not uncommon that some of the rogues or those who couldn't take the abuse of their own pack anymore, turns to my pack or the other domestic pack like us to seek refuge and home. Because unlike those heartless Alphas, my pack sees everyone as equal. 

And I know my pack isn't pushing him away just because he's an Omega, but because he's a stranger. A potential threat to us.

"Mountain Peek isn't an orphanage." A warrior of mine spat out. 

It's true that for the past months, a few will attempt to join my pack and beg for their lives. 

"Please! I finally had the courage to leave my pack. I couldn't take the abuse anymore. I promise I mean no harm. I just need to... to find a new home for me and for my son." The man begged, fear evident in his eyes.  And desperate tears cascading down his face.

I took my time to study the man, he's wearing a pair of worn out clothes, mud and dirt painted his clothing and some part of his bodies. Probably in attempt to run as far and fast as he can. Plus, I can smell blood from his bruises and cuts. Some of them are healing, and some are fresh. 

"Son?" I asked, when I remember what he said, my eyes following his side or behind him to see any kid but found none. 

As if hearing that I'm searching for him, a loud wail came from behind the man and he turned to the side just to show us a baby clinging on his back and hidden in his bag. My heart broke a little and my fists clenched when I saw bruises on the baby's face. A quick sniff was all it took to find out that he's an Omega, too.

"Did your pack hurt your son, too?" I asked lowly, but dangerously, my wolf clawing inside me to come out and demand justice. 

Just like me, my wolf will not sit back and ignore injustice. He hates those who uses their title to hurt someone. 

The man nodded with a solemn look before hugging his son to his chest while bouncing him softly. "I just left him to do my chores, but I came back to the Delta beating him just because he wouldn't stop crying."

"Those filths." August cursed under his breath. 

"Please! I am begging you," the man begged before kneeling on the ground. "I-If you can't take me, a-at least adopt my son, he's innocent and he might die with me."

Murmurs of disapproval and some who's actually willing to accept the father and son reached my ears, but I blocked them out. 

I felt my wolf trying to connect to me so I opened our link and heard his voice. 

'Accepting only the baby means separating them, and the man will die in the wild, if he's lucky enough, he's old pack won't find him and he can live as a rogue, but luck is like waiting for a drop of water in the desert. I know I don't always agree on you about accepting about outsiders, but I have a feeling that he isn't a bad man.'

I closed the link and took a deep breath. "A week. I want you to show me your worth as a potential member of my pack. Accepting you means threatening the safety of my family, and I won't have that. Once I know I can trust you enough, you and your son will be accepted."

The man seemed to cry harder before nearly injuring himself by repeatedly slamming his forehead on the ground before I stopped him. 

"Thank you! Thank you so much! Goddess was right in leading me to your pack, she must have known you will accept us. Thank you, young Alpha."

I nodded my head before turning to August. "Let him settle in and keep a close eye on him. Give him duties and have someone study his every move. The moment he shows even just a little sign of being a threat, I want you to report to me." I instructed him while patting his shoulder and turned to leave. 

This time, I successfully turned the knob to my office and my eyes automatically zeoring on the scattered documents waiting for my attention. I sighed and sat down on my chair before facing my computer and starting it, only for unread emails to greet me. 

I picked up the first paper I saw on top of my table and prepared to read it when there's a knock on my door. 

"Come in." I said without looking up, with my heightened senses more than normal weres, I immediately picked up his scent even before he stepped inside the mansion. 

"Good morning, Alpha. I heard about what happened."

"It would be weird if you didn't." I answered as my eyes read the letters on the paper I'm holding. 

"You turned away most of the rogues who wandered near us no matter how much they beg. What made him special?" My Beta and my best friend, Samson asked as he stand in front of my table. 

I jotted down what is needed on the first paper and laid it on the clean side of my table before answering him. "My instict told me he isn't a bad man and that he might be become a help in our pack. My wolf even said so."

Samson hummed under his breath. "The Elder called again."

My hand stilled and I resisted the urge to crumple the paper I'm currently reading. "For the millionth time, I was not, am not, and I still won't be interested in finding a mate, and I want you to tell them exactly that."

The Elders have been bugging me about finding a mate to lead my pack alongside me, but I have been dodging that idea. For me, women are distractions. And they will only hinder my duties, the duties that have been passed down to me since I was young, and I don't want to change that anytime soon. I dismissed him and buried my head in my work until it’s time for training.

I was making my way back to my office from the training area when I crossed paths with the man from earlier. 

He bowed his head, and I nodded mine in return. I was about to pass by him when I caught a scent that made my whole body still and my wolf go crazy in me. 

'Mate!'

'What mate, you crazy wolf? He's a man!'

"Alpha, are you alright?"

I turned to the man and noticed him holding onto something and something in me made me snatch that cloth to inhale the lingering scent there and I could feel my wolf fighting to come out and chase the owner of the wonderful scent. It was faint, and the baby and the man's scent were more dominant, maybe that's why I didn't smell it earlier, but it's there. 

"Where did you get this cloth?"