The Alpha Who Saved Me

I roll my eyes and grin at him. “I will link Lila and tell her to get her ass home, but if she doesn’t let me

close it right after, you will be on diaper duty for a week!”

“No!” Carter rushes out, “I mean, don’t worry about her, I can link her myself. You’ve got too much to

do, scram!”

I smirk at my best friend, “Are you sure? I know you hate linking her just as much as I do.”

“Pfft, I will be fine,” He waves me away. “Go catch that killer, Alpha.”

I don’t waste any more time, as I turn and transform into my wolf. Stopping at the tree line to grab a pair

of shorts in my teeth, I take off toward the eastern border. It doesn’t slip my mind that this specific

border also borders Quinn’s pack, so it makes me wonder if the killer left the body on my property

accidentally. If so, that would make it two bodies that they have left for the new Alpha. Why would they

be targeting her, though?

Newwa

When I get to the area where the body was found, I see that we are only about three meters from Dark

Moon’s border. I’m fairly sure that my assumption is correct, and this body was meant to be on Quinn’s

property. As I get closer to the still form lying on the hard ground, I slow

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my steps. For a brief moment my heart stops as it takes in the color of the dead she-wolf’s hair.

No, no, no, no, no it can’t be her! I move quickly until I’m kneeling beside the bloody form. All I can

smell is death, the woman’s natural scent is long gone. My warrior was right, she is unrecognizable,

with her face beaten to a bloody pulp and gashes all over her body. Quinn has no identifying marks on

her, her skin is perfect, so I can’t go by that either.

Lifting one of the eyelids, I snatch my hand back really fast. Staring back at me is one blue eye; not

quite the same color as Quinn’s, but that could be the rigor mortis setting in. For the first time ever, my

stomach turns and wants to empty itself over a dead body. I don’t have my phone on me so I can’t call

her yet, but I do send a few warriors over to Dark Moon’s pack house to see what they can find out.

Fifteen minutes later, I get a mind link from one of the warriors telling me that Alpha Quinn isn’t home

and that they do not have her permission to tell us where she is at. What the fuck, Quinn? She knows

there is a psycho on the loose and she takes off the way she does? There isn’t much that I can do

about it until I have the body taken care of.

glance down at the she-wolf once more, before instructing my men to take her back to our pack and

give her over to Milo, who we like to call the pack’s mortician. He’s the closest thing we’ve got to one,

and he’s does good work in finding out cause of deaths. We burn our dead, sending their spirits back

up to the Goddess Selene, so it’s not like he needs to do any embalming or preparations to the body.

My main concern is finding out who this she-wolf is.

Once I get back home, I immediately text Quinn, but I get nothing back. I proceed to call her and get

nothing but her voicemail. I’m on edge all night as I call and text her continuously. At some point,

exhaustion takes over and I fall asleep sitting at my desk, with my phone in my hand. Waking up with a

jerk, I look around my office and then stretch my sore back out. Taking care of the kink in my neck, I

check the time on my phone and see that it’s only half past six in the morning. I also notice that my

phone is about to die, so I stick it on the charger and leave to go check on my son.

Finding him in his crib, his monitor is gone, and I’m not sure who has it, but they are doing a terrible job

at monitoring him because he’s fussing as he lays in his bed. I pick him up and notice right away that

he’s soaked through both his diaper and his pajamas. I automatically feel responsible for the state that

my son is in. If he’s soaked all the way through, then he’s probably hungry as well.

Giving Holden a quick bath, I put him in a new diaper and a dry onesie before going to the kitchen to

make him a bottle. When I see that Lila hasn’t left any extra for me to feed him, I stomp to her room

and without knocking, I throw the door open, causing it to crash against the wall. The she-wolf jerks to

a sitting position, wiping the sleep from her eyes. When she finally focus’s in on me, she lays back

down, covering herself back up.

“What do you want, Alpha? It’s too early…”

I notice the baby monitor beside her bed, and I growl, “Did you not check on our son once during the

night?”

“I have the monitor…”

It’s then that the scent hits me, “Were you out drinking last night?”

“What’s it to you, if I was?” She mumbles.

I march over to the side of the bed, and throw her covers back, “Are you fucking serious right now?

You’re asking me that? My son is my business and when he has to depend on you for his food, and

you think it’s okay to drink and do Goddess knows what, then yeah, it is my business!” i grab her by the

arm and pull her out of the bed, “I found Holden soaked through, and I now know that he is probably

hungry as well. Since we can’t use his mother’s milk to feed him, you will get your ass to the store and

buy him some formula!”

I’m seething right now, and if I didn’t have my son in my arms, I probably would have strangled his

mother. The gall of her to go out and get drunk when she knows that she is nursing our son!

“Where were you all night, Alpha? Don’t be putting all the blame on me when you’re the one who

usually takes care of him during the night.” The she-bitch spats.

Laying my son down on her bed carefully, I turn and grab her by the neck. Duke comes forward at this

point, and I take a backseat, “You dare try and cast blame on your Alpha when he is the only one that

takes care of the pup, while you run around doing Goddess knows what?! Your Alpha has a lot going

on, but he still takes care of his pup. Had you not been so drunk and brought him the monitor, our pup

would have been taken care of!” Duke’s fangs are out and are dripping with saliva.

Careful, Duke, we can’t kill her over this.’I warn him.

*As much as I would love to, I know it’s not a big enough offense to off her just yet.’ My wolf responds

before turning his attention back to the pack’s supposed Luna.

“You wanted to be Luna, but you don’t know how to even act like one! You’re a pathetic she-wolf who

wants to play Luna but doesn’t want the responsibilities! You may be considered Strom River’s Luna,

but I will never call you by that title again. Until you can prove yourself to us that you can be a good

Luna and a good mother, you will be treated as a regular she-wolf.” Duke spits out, and I completely

agree with him.

I come forward once more, “Now, like I said, you will get your ass to the store right now and get my son

some formula. When you get back,

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you can return to your room on the second floor.”

“What about Holden? You would make him stay with the unmated males too?” She asks shocked.

I laugh in her face, “My son is the heir to this pack, and he will stay where he belongs. As for you,

you’re nothing to this pack; you have a . title, that’s it. You don’t belong in the Luna wing. As I’ve said

before, you belong sleeping with the unmated males, right where you’re used to being.”

“You can’t do this, Alpha! I will go to the Elders!” She threatens.

I laugh, “Go right ahead and see where that gets you. Now get your ass moving, my son is fucking

hungry!” I roar at her, and she hustles. I watch as she throws on a pair of yoga pants and throws her

hair up into a bun before hurrying out the door.

I go over and pick my fussing son back up, “Shh, it’s okay, Daddy is going to get you fed real soon.” I

coo as I bounce him in my arms.

Making my way back to my office, I look at the time and see that it’s almost seven. My phone has a

little bit more charge to it, so I dial Quinn once more. My heart skips as I realize that my call was

ignored. That’s a good sign, isn’t it? I redial and wait.

“What in Goddess’s name can be so important this early in the morning?” Her beautiful growl reaches

my ear and I release a huge sigh of relief.

“Quinn! Thank fuck! I’ve been going out of my mind worrying about you!”

“Why, what’s going on?” She asks alarmed.

“Another body was found. It was unrecognizable but she had the same hair color as you. Had you not

answered in the next fifteen minutes, 1 was coming to your territory.”

“Wait a minute, another body was found? Where?” Comes her response.

“Right between your border and mine.” I reply.

“I’m sorry, I didn’t answer your text last night. I was busy, but had I known, I would have texted you

back right away.” I can hear the regret in her voice.

“Yeah, I didn’t think to say why I was trying to get a hold of you, sorry.” Holden starts to fuss again, so I

start to bounce him once again as I soothe him.

“I better let you take care of the little guy. Let me know if you need my help with anything, and please,

keep me in the loop as to who it is that was found.” She’s quick to want to get off the phone with me,

and I try to stop her.

“Quinn, I don’t…” I’m cut off.

“I’m sorry, Declan, I’ve got to go. Have a good day.” And then she is gone.

I stare down at my phone, ‘What in the world just happened?’

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