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Chapter 69
Later That Night
After celebrations and dinner, I got the boys finally settled and back in their cribs. Tucking the blanket tight over them, I turn to
see my mother waiting by the door. She inclines her head to the side, wanting me to follow her. Leaving my room, I follow her
downstairs and through the giant living room.
The front screen door creaks as she opens it and we step outside into the cool, fresh air. Sondra was sitting in her rocking chair
and we take our seats beside her on the other two. It was peaceful out here. The sky always seemed clearer. It was tranquil, and
I could see why Sondra favored her rocking chair. The view was spectacular, and you could make out the city lights from the
front verandah.
Forest lined one side of the property with rolling mountains. The city was to the right, and barely a stone’s throw away. If only
Axton knew how close I truly was. Sondra’s property was nearly directly at the back of his pack. On the other side of the ranch
was all open land for as far as I could see.
“I may have done something,” my mother tells me, making me tear my gaze away from the city. My mother chews her lip and sits
back in her chair, watching me. Her lips tug up in the corners.
“You know, when I married your father and allowed him to mark me, I didn’t think much of it. What I was losing-what I was
gaining.” Michelle opens the door, coming out with a tray with mugs. She sets the tray down and hands me one. I find it is hot
chocolate. She smiles and moves to sit on the top step with her own mug.
“Bardot’s owned the city, and we founded it. Amongst our pack elders, it was no secret that the pack was run by the Luna’s, not
the Alpha.” my mother continues.
“I don’t understand,” I admit, not that I knew much of our family tree, not on my mother’s side, anyway. That has always
remained a mystery. Same as my father’s. He always said never to dwell on a past we can’t change.
“Like you, I was next in line to become Alpha. Yet my father ensured I would always be Alpha behind the lines; he named your
father his successor. Just like you, I trained all my life for a position that was never going to be mine. My mother raised me as the
next Alpha, just like me she was also denied her birthright.” She tells me and I shift in my seat, keen to hear a little of her history.
and built her own pack. She couldn’t handle her mate’s cheating, so she rejected him and he kicked her out. He also took her
daughter, so she built an army, a pack made out of rogue women. Women who were also wronged by their mates. Together she
took down his pack, and he fled like the coward he was and she got her daughter. However, the councils refused to let her name
remain on the title of the pack. So she was forced to take her mate back, and he took her pack out from under her. He changed
her pack name, which was Originally Arctic Moon light Warriors; he then stole her title as Alpha.”
“My father always believed my great grandmother cursed us, because every firstborn of each generation has been female white
wolves, Arctic wolves. It was the only trait we got to keep. Every firstborn generation has been female, and white wolves. Until
now, so you are not only the first official female Alpha in my bloodline, but the first to give birth to boys.” my mother sighs, sips
her hot chocolate before tracing her finger around the rim of the mug.
“Each generation was denied their birthright. Our pack has had many names, but never its rightful one. My father promised my
mother he would hand the pack back through me. He let me believe I would be next in line, promised my mother. And then your
father marked me, swept the rug out from under my feet when the announcement was made. Only it wasn’t my name called to
take his place, but Derrick’s.” she exhales loudly.
“Your father watched me write out my speech, even helped me with it. Let me stand by the podium as I waited for my father to
name me the next Alpha. I was going to be the first ever female Alpha in history. We were supposed to change history, rewrite
the stereotypes. I even picked out my Beta. You know her daughter.” My mother tells me with a smile and my brows furrow.
“Gia, Tieriny’s mother, she was to be named my Beta.” Her words make me think back to what Tieriny said in the kitchen the
night Axton held the dinner. How she said my mother would have made a great Alpha. Now I understand what she meant. Not
even I knew my mother’s family history. But now so much makes sense.
“Gia and I were so excited. I was to be the first female Alpha and she would be the first female Beta. Then my father called yours
forward. He was just like the rest of them. That day I watched all hope of the change my mother was promised leave that day. He
didn’t just betray me but her.” my mother shakes her head.
“The speech your father helped me write was never for me, but for him. He knew all along and that cut me up the most. It was
humiliating, and I felt foolish. Once again he changed the name of the Pack, it’s why in our ancestry our pack looks brand new,
each generation the pack renamed, pushing us further from our roots, our history, the history of Arctic Moon light Warriors.” my
naming ceremony. To hear so many generations betrayed by their father’s and their mates saddened me.
Mom wipes a stray tear and sniffles before looking at me. “Once I realized your father was doing the same with you. I started to
plan. And then when he kicked you out, that was my tipping point. History would not repeat itself. I did not watch you slave away
for a position, you wouldn’t get. Not again. So I decided to rewrite history myself. Restore it back into its rightful hands.” she tells
me, a coy smile tugging at the corner of her lips.
“After seeing the devastation on my mother’s face the day your father was named, I promised myself I would not let history
repeat. So before I rejected your father, I changed the titles, Elena.” my mother tells me. I’m taken aback by her words when she
sits up, pulling out some documents under the cushion of the chair. She passes them to me. Glancing down, I open the
envelope, I pull the documents out.
“I am done living in the wrong Alpha’s shadow,” she tells me, and I see my name on all the paperwork. Legally, I owned every
asset of my father’s. I owned his pack.”
“What have you done?” I gasp in shock. A giggle escapes my lips as I read over the documents.
“I gave you back your birthright. You just need to get the pack to submit,” she tells me.
“Dad won’t allow that,” I tell her, glancing at her.
“It’s not up to your father. It’s up to them. After you left, the pack has suffered, Elena. Your father has no idea what he is doing.
Those that remain loyal to him are only loyal out of fear. Not everyone has forgotten the pack’s history. Our elders still told the
story until your father forbade them. Some still remember whose blood that pack was built on, and it wasn’t your father’s but
mine, and now it’s yours.” I swallow, nodding my head as I stare down at the paperwork.
“But what if Axton-” my mother waves me off. I had no intentions of being with Axton, but he has marked me, and I knew now I
had to fight a bond I could feel trying to reforge. If I try to reject him again, I have no doubt he will take my boys. And soon, there
would be no hiding from him. Soon the world would know my name.
My mother is right; I would be changing history. I did when I officially put my name down on this pack as Alpha. And with that,
Axton would also be thrown back into the spotlight when they find out I am his mate. I would be lying to myself if I said I hadn’t
been craving the Alpha-hole since I left. His mark made his presence in my life impossible to ignore now. By hierarchy, I am
technically his Luna since I bare his mark. Yet also, I’m still the Alpha of my own packs.
“Times are different now, Elena. Women have rights now. Axton can’t take this from you unless you allow it. So not only have you
become the first female Alpha of not one, but two packs, but you can merge them, keep the name solely under your name, and
Axton-” she chuckles. “He can always break titles too, become the first ever male Luna.” she chuckles.
“We shall call him Lupha,” Michelle chuckles. And I can’t help but laugh. Somehow, I don’t think Axton would be too pleased with
that idea, which makes fighting the bond more important.