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

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

coughing to hold

deadly look, Carter holding up his hands

think I need

mutters, storming

t’aime,” Aurora calls after him, Oliver pausing at the door and taking a

closing the door

of air, pinching the bridge of her nose as she

explain,” Talia says when the suffocating

her hand, Talia clamping her mouth

know what happened,” She mumbles, finally looking up at

saw your memories as

fingers through her hair and leans back

it does not make this situation

the issue?” Talia asks for both of

just another

“What’s the issue?”

laughs sarcastically, sitting

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

stops to rub her

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 declared River Moon

with frustration and for a brief moment, she appears overwhelmed with

about to enter another war,” she whispers under breath, Carter walking

little

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

but his words seem

guilt washes over the

your fault,” Aurora

managed to cause trouble with or without Grayson’s

it have

lucky I held back, Grayson snickers.It was either

the f**k up? I snap, Aurora

tu lobo, {I

her face once again grows

discipline.I wholeheartedly disagree, Grayson replies before I shove him to the back of

discuss with both of you,” Aurora says,

Talia asks, her

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

keep you safe and I have failed you now on two

it looks like the time of

I wrap my arm around her waist and pull her

you have your reservations about wolves,

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

goes very quiet for a moment, wrapping her arms around

it here,” Talia whispers to

need to be around other wolves.He’ll have questions that I don’t know the answer to…And

has more

a yes?” Aurora

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

“Should we stay?”

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

protect

thick lashes

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

Talia replies, turning to look

“might like it.”

glad to see River Moon

chuckles, Talia’s cheeks turning

drawers and plucks out an envelope, holding it out

weeks and will be initiated into River Moon as official pack members.We would be most honored if you would join us in this

Talia replies quietly, taking the envelope from my

we free to

I just have one more question for

she rises to her feet

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

Grayson rolling his eyes at me for my eagerness to be useful.”I mean, yes,

“Great!”she says aloud.

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

heaves a heavy sigh,

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

the

***Natalia***

of an impending

peace during my 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

Grayson with me, however, puts my mind

protect Kota without