The Silent Alpha (Natalia)

Zane***

Talia orders a pizza and the three of us sit by the fort and watch Shrek in Spanish.I can’t follow most of what is being said but the subtitles help.

Talia seems restless as we watch, glancing at me from the corner of her eye every so often and shifting on her pillow over and over again.

I know there’s something on her mind but I cannot bring myself to invade her privacy, so I timidly place my hand over hers, Talia flinching as the sparks ignite between us.

Ashamed, I pull my hand away but she takes it in hers and interlocks our fingers, muttering an apology under her breath.

“Sorry…it’ll just take a little getting used to,” she blushes, her thumb caressing mine.

“Your hands are…warm…” she smiles nervously.

She says nothing more, turning her attention back to the movie.

I want to ask her what is on her mind but before I can figure out a way to communicate, there’s a knock at the door.

A bit of dread settles in the pit of my stomach when I see Evan standing in the doorway.

He tries to hide his worried face with a smile, but his eyes give him away.

“The Queen wishes to speak to both of you about today’s… incident,” he says, carefully picking his words.

“Zane didn’t do anything wrong,”

Talia huffs, taking a Grayson practically swoons over the gesture and like a love sick puppy, demands to come out and mark her on sight.

Is that all you can think about right now? I snap at him, knowing we are very likely going to get kicked off the territory for his behavior.

No, I’m definitely thinking about her t**s too, Grayson replies nonchalantly.

Just look at how she’s puffing out her chest.

They look great in this top…

I despise you, I sigh, knowing there is no way to trade wolves at this point.

Trust me, I’d trade humans in a heartbeat, he retorts.

“I never said Zane did anything wrong,”

Evan explains calmly, though I can see the fear flicker in his eyes as he backs away from my small Latina mate who glares furiously at him.

“”Trust me, I would have loved to piss on Benoit Perrault years ago.”

“So then why-”

“Things are more complicated than you think and unfortunately, Zane and his wolf only made things worse,”

Evan interrupts.

“Please, just come to the Pack house so Aurora can speak to you both.”

Seeing that we would have to face Aurora sooner or later, we grab Kota and head to the pack house where Evan takes Kota out to play with Rio on the lawn while Talia and I head upstairs to Aurora’s office.I don’t smell the visiting Alphas anywhere, meaning they nervous.

Talia must be nervous too because she holds my hand as I open the door to the office, giving it a tight squeeze as we enter.

The tension in the room is thick, Aurora resting her head in her hands as she focuses on her breathing while her mate, Oliver, gives me a murderous look.

Carter, their Beta, seems to be the only one not upset at the moment, greeting both Talia and I with a smile.

A spine tingling fear washes over me when Oliver opens his mouth to speak.

“Do you have any idea what you two have done?”

Oliver growls, his blue eyes flickering between sapphire and silver.

“Do you have ANY idea how much you f****d up-”

“Oliver, stop it…”

Aurora warns, her face stern as she looks at her husband.

“Let them speak for themselves before you place blame on anyone.”

“You know as well as I do that it does not matter what the reason was.Zane had no right to pee on an Alpha visiting my territory!”

“Our territory,”

Aurora corrects him, Oliver’s mouth closing instantly.

“You forget, Zane and Talia are my guests here and Benoit, as a visitor, should have respected me by respecting my guests.You and I both know he has not!”

“So what do you propose we do?”

shakes his head in

throwing away everything we’ve worked hard on building because he can’t

to hold

him a deadly look, Carter holding

think I

storming

pausing at the door and taking a deep

he sighs, closing the door

of air, pinching the bridge of her

explain,” Talia says when the

her hand, Talia

what happened,” She mumbles, finally looking up at

your memories as soon

and leans back in her chair with her eyes

not make this

is the issue?” Talia asks for

is just

“What’s the issue?”

laughs sarcastically, sitting

pack company, but they also have a huge influence over our other shareholders.Alpha Jacques’s eldest daughter, Adeline, used to manage these shares before she went rogue 6 months ago.Benoit is the heir apparent to the Alpha title and has been managing the shares from France.He is set to take the title next month, so we planned to have a formal meeting

to rub her temples in

been negotiating with Jacque all week to come up with a finalized plan to end the partnership.They came to an agreement this morning until Grayson so graciously

like her head might explode with frustration and for a brief

to

little credit,” he

were Luna for like 5 minutes before we went to war with the Witches and you took them down in less than 3 weeks.You

but his words seem to have given her the comfort

guilt washes over the

your fault,” Aurora says after a deep

with or without Grayson’s help,” she

have to be

Grayson snickers.It was either piss

be thanking me.Would you shut the f**k up? I

tu lobo, {I like your

her face once

needs to learn discipline.I wholeheartedly disagree, Grayson replies before

of you,” Aurora says, her eyes switching between

Talia asks, her hand

Aurora responds with a

and I have failed you now on two occasions,” she

the time of peace in

shifts nervously on her feet so I wrap my arm around her waist and pull her close to remind her she has me

have your reservations about

could always make arrangements to place you somewhere else while Gwen completes her mission…But I would really love it

wrapping her arms around my stomach and burying

really likes it here,” Talia whispers to

around other pups…I had forgotten how much pups need to be around other wolves.He’ll have questions that I don’t know the answer to…And there are some good wolves here that he can look up to,” she

she has more to say before now,

that a yes?” Aurora asks with a

what do you think, Zane?” Talia murmurs, slowly tilting

“Should we stay?”

No, Zane.She’s asking your shadow, Grayson grumbles, the desire to

protect

her thick lashes

life, Iwant to say but I only manage to nod my head at her, a small but

Talia replies,

“might like it.”

glad to see River Moon is slowly

Talia’s cheeks

plucks out an envelope, holding it out for

initiated into River Moon as official pack members.We would be most honored if you would join us in this celebration.It will take place on the Buck Moon, perfect for the pups

Majesty,” Talia replies quietly, taking the envelope from

we free to leave

have one more

says as she rises to her feet and switches

River Moon and I think I have something you could do.Would you be at all interested in guard training? Now that we have a new enemy on the horizon,

at me for my eagerness to be useful.”I

“Great!”she says aloud.

sharp.Evan can pick you up and he’ll take it from

fog over and she heaves a heavy sigh, Carter laughing at

everything, I’m apparently late for a meeting with

from the lawn and head back

***Natalia***

an impending war is

Luna and I’d only ever seen one rogue attack.It was small and luckily no one got hurt but it pales in comparison to an all

me, however,

protect Kota