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?”

his

just let Zane get away with throwing away everything

Carter coughing to

a deadly look, Carter holding up his hands

I need some

mutters, storming

Oliver pausing at the door and

sighs, closing the door after

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

when the

Aurora holds up her hand, Talia clamping her mouth

happened,” She mumbles, finally looking up at

memories as soon as

and leans

not make this situation

is the issue?” Talia asks for both of

is just

“What’s the issue?”

laughs sarcastically, sitting up

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 with him next week to discuss the future of our partnership.His father, however, decided to

to rub her

all week to come up with a finalized 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,

Queen looks like her head might explode with frustration and for

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

little credit,” he

the Witches and you took them down in less than 3 weeks.You can handle a snobby Alpha and his son

words seem to have given her the comfort

guilt washes over

fault,” Aurora says after a deep

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

have to be

I held back, Grayson snickers.It was either piss or rip

shut the

bien tu lobo, {I like your

her face once again

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

discuss with both of you,” Aurora

kicked out?” Talia asks, her hand

on you,” Aurora responds with a shrug as

you safe and I have failed you now on two

looks like the time of peace in

arm around her waist and pull her

know you have your reservations about wolves, so I don’t

while Gwen completes her mission…But I would really love

for a moment, wrapping her arms around my stomach and burying

really likes it here,” Talia whispers to herself,

pups need to be around other wolves.He’ll have questions that

she has more to say before now, that

is that a yes?” Aurora asks with a

you think, Zane?” Talia murmurs, slowly tilting her

“Should we stay?”

asking me? No, Zane.She’s asking your shadow,

you protect

her thick lashes

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

replies, turning to look at

“might like it.”

to see River Moon is slowly changing your

Talia’s cheeks

young Queen rummages through her drawers and plucks out an envelope, holding it

Moon as official pack members.We would be most honored if you would join us

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

we free to

just have one more

to her feet and

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

Grayson rolling his eyes at me for my

“Great!”she says aloud.

thing Monday morning, 6 am sharp.Evan can pick you up and he’ll take

eyes suddenly fog over and she heaves a heavy sigh,

apparently late for a meeting

collect Kota from the lawn and head

***Natalia***

of an impending

I’d only ever seen one rogue attack.It was small and luckily no one got hurt but it

with me, however, puts

would protect