The Merciless Alpha(erotica)

Unknown POV

I slipped out of my cabin, walking to the woodpile and ducking behind it before removing my clothes and leaving them hanging from a protruding branch. I looked back towards the window, where my older brother was sitting in the living room with his human wife, watching a movie on the satellite television. She tucked into his side, his broad chest and hairy arm giving her a comfortable spot to relax. I knew that he would take advantage of my absence to make love to her; my hearing was such that me being gone was the only way he could have true privacy.

I called forward my wolf, falling to all fours as my grey, black and white colored wolf shook out his fur and smelled the air. My brother used to run with me every day when we were young, when I was just his annoying little brother who needed to learn how to be a wolf. We had been on our own since he was seventeen and I was eight. Mom died of the same cruel disease that killed all the other women in our Pack. Dad died when our Alpha tried and failed to take over another Pack, he was a Warrior and a loyal wolf to the end. My brother had taken me to this cabin when my father departed, and that was the only reason we were still alive. Our Pack had been overrun that day, the women taken, the men killed along with the male children.

For the next five years, I never ventured more than a mile from our cabin in the deep woods. My brother had some savings, and eventually we inherited money from the Pack lands that had been sold. He homeschooled me until I was old enough to start high school, and by then he hadn’t scented another wolf in two years. I went to school with humans, blending in, while he took a job in a lumber mill and met his now wife. Now twenty-six, I had been working at the mill since I was eighteen, saving to get my own place.

I started to run fast through the dark forest, my eyes easily picking up the features in the soft moonlight. I still couldn’t believe my brother gave this up, but when he got serious about her, he overdosed on Wolfsbane and killed his wolf. They’d never have children of their own, but he was human now, not worried about his secret getting out. I refused, I loved my wolf, but I had to keep myself balanced so I didn’t flash wolf on her.

I pushed harder through my run, the miles behind me as I ran the familiar trail. I slowed when I got closer to the lake, there were cabins all along it, and dogs. I didn’t go too close to them, I stayed a couple hundred yards away as I moved silently through the trees. I picked up the pace as the lights faded behind me. I stopped when an unexpected scent crossed the trail. Human… and young.

I followed the scent off the trail into the darkness, going another hundred yards or so until I could see it. I was a little shocked to find a little kid, no more than three or four years old, barefoot and in his pajamas, shivering and crying as he sat next to a tree. I could smell the blood, his arms and face were scratched from the brush, his feet torn up from the rocks and twigs. He was almost a half mile away from home, and his parents probably didn’t even know he was gone.

His head was on his knees, his arms hugging his legs, so he didn’t hear me as I approached. I didn’t want to scare him, so I laid down, whining softly as I crawled closer to him. He froze as he looked up, seeing me, my eyes glowing in the moonlight. “Puppy?” I moved closer, and he grabbed me around the neck, hugging me and crying into my fur. “Puppy…” I curled around him as he buried his face in my neck, he was exhausted, and soon he was sleeping.This material belongs to NôvelDrama.Org.

Now I was really at a loss as to what to do. I couldn’t leave him out here all night, but I couldn’t walk naked out of the woods holding a three-year-old either. I waited until I was sure he was out, then I shifted back to my human form underneath him. Picking him up, I started to work my way back through the woods towards the houses. I followed his scent trail, seeing how he had wandered around as he got lost. Eventually, I got to the edge of the trees. I shifted, then gathering his pajamas in my teeth, I picked him up gently and slowly moved out of the woods, into the grass back yard, before I set him near the back deck. Raising my head to the sky, I let out a loud howl, followed by some barks.

The dogs in the neighborhood went nuts, and as I kept barking, I saw a few lights come on and people yelled at their dogs to shut up. I kept going until the light on the back of the house went on, a man coming to the sliding glass door.

A shotgun in his hand.

I turned and ran for the woods as quickly as I could as I could hear the sliding door open, waiting for the sound of the buckshot coming. Instead, I heard him yell “Tanner” and then a woman started to cry. I stopped far enough away they wouldn’t see me in the darkness, turning to see the boy being hugged to his father’s chest as he took him inside. I chuckled to myself, imagining the story the next morning.

I loved being a wolf, but I knew I would die alone. There were no more shewolves. I met a Pack wolf last year at a bar and he told me the bad news. I would never have a mate, never have children. I turned for home, swearing to Luna that I would live as a good wolf, honoring her ways until the end.

Two Months Later

Alpha Keith Jenkin’s POV, Colorado

I looked at my top staff, my lead Beta Charles, my Gamma and head of security Donovan, and my father and advisor Ken. I held the invitation in my hand, turning it slowly. “Gabriel is working something here. His Pack isn’t large, they don’t control any territory, they aren’t a threat to us. So, what do they really want?”

My Dad just scoffed. “Who knows with those guys, they are a bunch of Luna freaks. For almost two decades they’ve been blaming the plague on Alphas, saying that it was a curse because we took choice mates, and allowed forced matings occasionally. They’re a bunch of monks on bikes, I hear they don’t even fuck human women.”

“That may be true,” I said, “But they invite every Alpha in the country to Chicago for a two-day summit, all expenses paid, top staff included. It seems like a lot of money to just talk, unless you’re going to get something out of it.”

Charles leaned forward and pointed to a paragraph. “See this wording? They invited all never-mated males to attend a dinner and reception on Saturday night. That wording is intentional- and it excludes almost every remaining Alpha and Beta in the country. Most all of them, including your father, had mates, sometimes multiple mates as the plague continued on.”

“So?”

“They Knights are all about purity, about finding and mating only the true mate Luna has for you. If you’ve been mated, you lost your connection to your true mate.”

“So, he’s looking for people who are pure?” I didn’t see where he was going with this.

“No.” He leaned back, smiling. “I think they have a shewolf.”

The objections rang out, I could hardly hear myself think above all the shouting. I smacked my hand on the desk, everyone stopped immediately. “Explain,” I said.

“About, oh, 1998 I guess, I ran into one of the Knights at Sturgis,” he said. “I’d lost my Emily the year before, and the only females left in our Pack were still underage. We had a few beers, we were the only werewolves in that part of the bar, so we’d been swapping stories. His name was Michael, he was the Vice President of the Knights.” He sat down before continuing. “The President, Gabriel, he said he had a vision shortly after the plague started. He said Luna appeared to him, told him the plague was her judgment to her people, and there was only one way for the curse to be broken.”

“A shewolf?”

He nodded. “He called her the Promised One, and that they had all sworn an oath to find her and protect her until she could find her true mate and break the curse.”

“And if they are calling for a gathering now,” my Dad said.

“She’s of age,” I finished. “I want her.”

Charles laughed. “What makes you think you are her true mate?”

“It only makes sense, I’m the only Alpha of a major pack who hadn’t mated already. Luna wouldn’t take the most treasured resource in our world and give her to a wolf without rank, or a minor Alpha or Beta. If we are to rebuild the species, you would start with the best bloodline. Mine.”

“And if it isn’t you,” Charles asked.

“Then we let her find her true mate, fulfill the prophecy and break the curse,” I said. “Then I’ll kill her mate and take her for myself. This last shewolf is the key to Pack survival, without control of her we will slowly die off. With her, we control her offspring, and we can ask anything for one of them and the other Packs will gladly give it to us to save their own.”

“The Knights won’t allow that,” Charles said.

“Then the Knights will have to go away when we bring her into our Pack,” I said. “We have no need for them after we have her.”

The men looked at me for direction. “Put all our resources into finding out where these Knights are, and let’s get eyes on them. Numbers, security, and if we can get a look at the shewolf, do it. Just keep our guys far enough away we don’t spook them.”

“Are you going to the gathering, Alpha?” Donovan had to know, he was in charge of my security.

“Yes, and we will bring every never-mated male with us,” I said. “Then we’ll bring the rest in on our own dime. We don’t let her leave Chicago unless she’s coming home as my mate.”

Eve’s POV

Bored. I was completely, utterly bored.

As my eighteenth birthday approached, you’d think I be excited to be an official adult, ready to take on the college world as a new high school graduate. You’d be right unless you were me.

The restrictions Gabriel, Viper and Snake had placed on me remained in place and had been tightened even more. I couldn’t leave the building, couldn’t go outside. Even the Club rides I had grown to love were off limits for me now; the Riders would ride without me, locked down in the Clubhouse, surrounded by Knights. My beloved Sportster was left in the corner of the garage.