The Merciless Alpha(erotica)

We drove into Silver Bay, finding a seat by the window on a cafe overlooking Lake Superior, and having fish sandwiches and chips. We were having a wonderful time, holding hands, watching the gulls flocking over the area, when he suddenly stiffened. He raised his nose, taking a deep sniff, before he stood up and pulled me behind him. “What’s going on,” I asked.

“Stay behind me,” he said. I looked around, I didn’t see anything wrong. The cafe was nearly empty, but he was staring at an older man with his wife who had just walked in. He looked to be about sixty, and his wife in her forties.

He was staring at me, mouth open, like he had seen a ghost. “It’s you,” he said quietly. “It was true.”

“Don’t come any closer,” Steven said as he drew himself up into his most intimidating glare, and he was a scary motherfucker when he wanted to be.

“Please, I mean no harm to Meghan or you,” he said. “Allow me to explain.” He pulled out a chair for his wife near the entrance, then sat down.

“What’s wrong,” I whispered to him as I held on to the back of his shirt.

“He used to be a werewolf,” he said.

“We should find out what he wants, don’t you think? I’ve never seen him before, but he knows my name.”

“You’re right. Stay here.” He walked over to the couple, asking them to stand so he could verify they weren’t carrying weapons. There was no one else in the cafe, and they stood and allowed it. “Don’t move towards my wife, and don’t get up,” he told them. “We’ll hear what you have to say before we decide what to do next.”

He waved me over and pulled out a chair for me, I noticed I was closest to the entrance and he was between me and the older couple. I decided to break the ice. “Good afternoon, I’m Doctor Meghan Jenkins, and this is my husband Steven,” I said as I reached across the table with my hand.

“Doctor Terrance Mack, retired, and my wife Theresa.” I shook his hand and moved to hers, she was looking at me like she was shocked I was here.

“Hello, Meghan. I can’t believe you’re here.”

“Well, we have some time, why don’t we order you some lunch and I’ll get dessert while we catch up.”

The waitress had come in with menus for them. “Oh, are you joining them? Wonderful.” She took our orders and left to put them in.

“It would be prudent to not discuss some things with humans around, don’t you agree Steven?” Terrance sipped his water, holding Theresa’s hand on the table as if he knew to keep them in view. “From your reaction to my entrance, you are the werewolf, and she’s your human mate?”

“Yes.”

“Excellent. I’m surprised you haven’t given up your wolf yet, he is a real pain until you kill him off like I did all that thirty years ago.” Theresa didn’t react, it was clear she knew. “Perhaps I should just tell my story?”

“That would be best, Doctor.”

I took Steven’s hand in mine, I didn’t feel anxious around them, and he needed to calm down and just listen.

“I grew up in a pack in eastern Pennsylvania, the son of a Pack doctor and his mate. I followed in his footsteps, going to human medical school and residency, eventually becoming a board-certified obstetrician. It was a common path back in the eighties.”

“Yes, either that or general practice was common for Pack doctors,” I said.

“Indeed. Well, my father was still active, so I took contract jobs in various Packs who weren’t big or rich enough to have their own. I was on call to three different Packs in the Ohio area, and that’s where I met Paula.” His eyes got a little distant, and he looked out over the still waters of Lake Superior. I squeezed Steven’s hands, knowing what was coming. “She was seventeen, the eldest daughter of the Alpha. She was beautiful, and we recognized each other immediately. I had no choice but to wait, and when we informed her father, he was not happy.”

Theresa squeezed his hand, giving him strength. “He told me to come back in three months, when she was of age, and forbid us from talking or seeing each other until then. It was an Alpha command for her, it wouldn’t affect me, but I respected his decision. He was to be my father-in-law, after all. Three months later, I returned for her and she was gone. He had given her to the son of an Alpha, seeking to cement an alliance, and she had already been mated. She didn’t do it willingly, I know. One of the warriors told me in confidence that she had refused to go, and was drugged and taken to their territory to be claimed.”

I could feel Steven’s wolf rising. “It is a too familiar story, I’m afraid.”

“My wolf kind of lost it. I tried to attack the Alpha, earning myself a beating and a banishment. He didn’t kill me, but I would not forget what he did. My wolf was suffering, I got depressed, and before I could kill myself I took the Wolfsbane and killed my wolf. I haven’t regretted it.” He looked at his wife. “I gave up that life and moved to Omaha, Nebraska, far from any Pack. I took a job at the university hospital and moved into teaching. That is where I met my Theresa. We’ve been married for twenty years, she is my life, and I would give her anything except what I cannot.”

I looked at them in understanding, her eyes betrayed her longing for what was not possible. “A child,” I said.Content © provided by NôvelDrama.Org.

“Yes. Believe me, if it was possible I would have done it, but it is not. Anyway, I withdrew from the world. My family kept me in the loop on things going on through our phone calls, and even asked me to help with SPUDS when it came out. I couldn’t find an answer, and soon enough my mother, my sister, my whole Pack had been swept off the map. With what we as a people had become, we deserved the pain Luna inflicted on us.”

Our food arrived, and we took a moment to talk about the weather and the lake until the waitress was gone again. “So how do you know me? I can’t recall ever meeting you, and I’ve never been to Nebraska.”

“You won’t believe me if I tell you.” I just smiled, nothing would surprise me. “Fine. Two weeks ago, Theresa and I were under a blanket on our porch swing, enjoying the cool evening weather and the sunset. We dozed off, and I woke to my cheek and hair being stroked. I opened my eyes, my mother was there.”

“Wait, you said your mother died.”

“Yes, in 1999. Still, she was playing with my hair like she used to do when I was a young pup. She smiled and told me not to wake Theresa up, then she told me she loved me and was so proud of me, and that Luna had a task for me.”

“Luna? You have no wolf!” Steven looked a little shocked.

“That is what I told her. She said, ‘I knew you would say that, so stubborn. She wants you to know that just because you gave your wolf back doesn’t mean you aren’t one of hers. She has been watching you, guiding you this whole time for one purpose.’ I stared at her, almost through her, her body felt real but I could see the trees and the stars through it.”

“I told her I wanted nothing to do with werewolves anymore, and Mom just laughed at me. ‘This is what she asks of you. Go to Silver Bay. Find a cafe over the water and have lunch. You will see this woman there.’ My mind filled with an image, an image of YOU, Meghan. ‘Offer your services to Meghan, she is doing my work and can’t do it alone. With her you will find what you seek.'”

Now it was my turn to be slack jawed. “That’s why you were so shocked, you actually saw me here and you never expected it to be true.”

“Exactly. My mother told me that as a sign, the ovarian cancer my wife was being treated for was in not just in remission, it was gone forever. She then kissed my head and vanished. Two days later, Theresa had a complete checkup, everything was negative, even the scans. It was like she had never had cancer! The oncologist couldn’t explain it. I put in my retirement papers, effective immediately with my vacation, and we sold our home and started driving to Silver Bay.”

Amazing. I was getting chills listening to the story. “Wait, that was ten days ago, have you been coming here every day?”

Theresa laughed. “You’d think his mother could have told him which one. We drove to the one in New Jersey first, then in upstate New York. We just got here an hour ago and started looking for a cafe over the water, and we find you.” She reached her hand over to me, and I took it. “Why are you so important?”

I shouldn’t tell her, we didn’t know them, but I had to. “I figured out how human females can carry werewolf babies,” I said softly. “I am going to help restore the entire werewolf species.”

“You can’t,” Terrance said. “You would need a werewolf female to provide eggs, and they have been extinct for almost a decade now.”

I just smiled, looking at Steven, who had the same smirk on his face.