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

throwing away everything we’ve worked

retorts, Carter coughing to hold back

Carter holding up

think I need

mutters, storming

pausing at

he sighs, closing the door after him

out a large breath of air, pinching the bridge of her nose as she once again rests her

when the suffocating

just-” Aurora holds up her hand, Talia clamping her

already know what happened,” She mumbles, finally

your memories as soon

fingers through her hair and leans back in her chair with her eyes

it does not make this

issue?” Talia

just

“What’s the issue?”

sarcastically, sitting

she went rogue 6 months ago.Benoit is the heir apparent to the Alpha

stops to rub her temples in

plan to end the partnership.They came to an agreement this morning until Grayson so graciously pissed on Benoit Perrault.Now, not only are all the negotiations off the table, but Lune de Minuit has

explode with frustration and for

can’t believe I’ve only been Queen for less than 3 months and I’m about to enter another war,” she whispers under breath, Carter walking over to her and

yourself a little credit,”

the Witches and you took them down

not smile but his words seem to have given

wave of guilt washes

Aurora says after a

cause trouble with or without Grayson’s help,” she

have to be

snickers.It was either piss

shut the f**k

tu lobo,

before her face once again

Grayson replies before

of you,” Aurora says,

being kicked out?” Talia asks, her hand squeezing

depends entirely on you,” Aurora responds with a shrug as she rests her hands on

promise that I would keep you safe and

time of peace in my

my arm around her waist and pull her close

reservations about

could always make arrangements to place you somewhere else while Gwen completes her mission…But

quiet for a moment, wrapping her arms around my

whispers to

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,”

has more

yes?” Aurora asks with a

Zane?” Talia murmurs, slowly tilting her head

“Should we stay?”

my cheeks andI blink ather.She’s asking me? No, Zane.She’s asking your shadow, Grayson grumbles, the desire

you protect Kota and

her thick lashes

I only manage to nod my

stay…” Talia replies, turning to look

“might like it.”

see River Moon is slowly changing your perception

Talia’s

Queen rummages through her drawers and plucks out an envelope, holding it out for me to

wolves over the next few weeks and will be 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 to test out their new wolves.There will be

you, your Majesty,” Talia replies quietly, taking the envelope from

free to leave

just have one more question for

says as she rises to

have something you could do.Would you be at all interested in guard training? Now that we have a new enemy on the horizon, it would be nice to have another silver wolf helping to protect the pack.You don’t have to do it if you don’t want to and you don’t have to give mean answer right now

my eagerness to be useful.”I mean,

“Great!”she says aloud.

first thing Monday morning, 6 am sharp.Evan

she heaves a heavy sigh, Carter laughing at

if that’s everything, I’m apparently late for a meeting with the other

the lawn and head back to the

***Natalia***

idea of an impending war

during my reign as Luna and I’d only ever seen one rogue attack.It was small and luckily no one got

me, however,

protect Kota