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 head in

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

retorts, Carter coughing to hold back

deadly look, Carter holding

I need

storming past

Aurora calls after him, Oliver pausing at the

love you too,” he sighs, closing the door after him as he

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

can explain,” Talia says when the suffocating silence

up her hand, Talia clamping

She mumbles, finally looking up at

as soon as

her fingers through her hair and leans back in her chair

not make this situation

Talia

just another

“What’s the issue?”

sarcastically, sitting up

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 show up two weeks earlier than

stops to rub her temples in

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

frustration and for a brief moment, she appears overwhelmed with

to enter another war,” she whispers

yourself a little

down in less than 3

does not smile but his words seem to have given her the comfort she

enormous wave of guilt washes over

Aurora says after a deep

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

did it have

Grayson snickers.It was either piss or rip

thanking me.Would you shut the f**k up? I snap, Aurora

lobo, {I like

face

disagree, Grayson replies before I

discuss with both of you,” Aurora says, her eyes switching between Talia

Talia asks,

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

you a promise that I would keep you safe and I have

looks like the time of

feet so I wrap my arm around her waist and pull her close to

have your reservations about wolves, so

else while Gwen completes

wrapping her arms around my stomach and burying her nose

here,” Talia whispers to herself, though we all hear

wolves.He’ll have questions that I don’t know the answer to…And there are some good wolves

like she has more to say before now, that is all

a yes?” Aurora asks with

you think, Zane?” Talia murmurs, slowly tilting

“Should we stay?”

blink ather.She’s asking me? No, Zane.She’s asking your shadow, Grayson grumbles, the desire to punch my own wolf growing by the

protect Kota

thick lashes fluttering

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

Talia replies, turning to look at

“might like it.”

glad to see River Moon is slowly changing your

chuckles, Talia’s

plucks out an envelope, holding it out for me to

of Melodies ritual.Four of our pups will receive their 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 lots of food and music and plenty of pups for Kota to play with.It should

you, your Majesty,” Talia replies quietly,

we free to

have one more question

to her feet and

you asked if you could work here in 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, it would be nice to have another silver

me for my eagerness to be useful.”I mean, yes, your Majesty.I

“Great!”she says aloud.

6 am sharp.Evan

suddenly fog over and she heaves

apparently late for a meeting with the other

the lawn and head back to the

***Natalia***

idea of an

reign as 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 out war

and Grayson with me, however, puts

protect