The Female Alpha: A Werewolf Romance, page 1
Copyright © 2019 by Anna Kendra
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The Female Alpha
Anna Kendra
Table of Contents
Chapter 1
The News
Chapter 2
White Wolf
Chapter 3
Let’s Go
Chapter 4
Captured
Chapter 5
Her?
Chapter 6
Mate
Chapter 7
Female Alpha
Chapter 8
Pains of Betrayal
Chapter 9
Heated Denials
Chapter 10
Deal
Chapter 11
Chase
Chapter 12
Two Steps Backward
Chapter 13
Trouble in Paradise
Chapter 14
Secrets
Chapter 15
Heart to Heart
Chapter 16
Calm before the Storm
Chapter 17
Bared Hearts
Chapter 18
Secret Basement
Chapter 19
Knell
Chapter 20
Wolf’s Rain
Chapter 21
Bloodbath
Chapter 22
Stay Away from My Mate
Chapter 23
The Battle
Chapter 24
All Part of the Plan
Chapter 25
A Battle Won
Chapter 26
A Brief Reunion
Chapter 27
Pack
Chapter 28
Finding a Way
Chapter 29
Coming Home
Epilogue
Prologue
To my mom, Ashima Bhattacharya, who is the real Female Alpha
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Chapter 1
The News
Rhys
“So, Rhys”—Alpha Salim Ali of Saudi Arabia folded his arms below his chin and gave me one of his not-so-innocent smiles— “I heard you still haven’t found your mate yet.”
“And that is of relevance to our conversation because?” I raised my eyebrows at the twenty-nine-year-old man who had recently found his mate and was holding a celebration in honor of his luna.
“Oh, come now! We all know as the alpha of the strongest and largest pack in Asia, you need a mate now more than any of us do,” Salim pointed out. “Your pack has extended up to four hundred wolves, and an alpha alone cannot manage everything on his own. The luna is the heart of the pack. People come to her with problems that they are too afraid to tell their alpha.”
“I know perfectly well what the purpose of a luna is,” I snapped at Salim. “I will take a mate when the time is right. Thank you for inviting me to your Mating Ceremony, Salim, but I’m afraid I won’t be able to make it. Congratulations once again. I’ve already sent you a gift. And I’ll see you during the next summit.”
“Alright then, see you.”
With that, I disconnected the video feed on my phone.
I know I was being rude, but being the alpha of the biggest and strongest pack in Asia, I couldn’t afford to have any weaknesses. It was true that my pack had extended a fair amount and also that there is a growing sense of unrest deep inside, an unrest that only a luna could solve, but I just couldn’t afford to choose just anyone as my mate. My luna had to be strong enough to hold my pack together and suppress any rebellion inside or outside the pack, even during my absence. And in reality, I hadn’t found any of my potential mates yet.
Wolves have many potential mates. Our wolf decides whether someone is compatible with us or not. It is very much possible that a female wolf might feel attracted towards a dominant male wolf but the male’s wolf might not even acknowledge her. Both wolves have to approve of one another to become true mates. Wolves are almost always paired with wolves, and that applies to all kinds of shifters. Nature seems to like keeping us purebreds. But the only exceptions are humans. Shifters have gotten paired with humans several times, but the pairing isn’t very common since humans are a lot weaker compared to us.
The wolves in this continent are smaller than normal compared to those from the west. But what we lack in size, we make up with our fierce strength and speed. I especially made sure every member of my pack was well trained both physically and mentally. Being desert wolves, we are naturally ferocious and dominant, but that didn’t give anyone a reason to slack in their training. Anyone who did so would find themselves wandering alone in the endless Wahiba Sands.
My pack was located in Saudi Arabia, south of Nizwa, on the brink of the Wahiba Sands. The place was called Jever, which in Hindi means jewels. My pack was known as the WildRain.
“What happened this time?” my second, my beta, Zyane Hudson, asked.
I looked up from the paperwork on my desk as he came inside my office and settled on a chair right in front of me.
Zyane was about 6’1”, comparatively shorter than my 6’3”, with black hair and dark brown eyes. His hair was longer compared to my military cut, and he also had a slight mustache, which, frankly, he was damn proud of.
“Salim happened,” I growled low in my throat, the sound more animalistic than human.
“Ah!” he said with a knowing smirk. “Poor boss got the whole luna lecture again?”
I growled again. Yes, that exactly was my problem. In the past couple of years, everyone seemed to be giving me advice on getting a goddamned luna! I was only fucking thirty-two, and that was hardly like being a teenager in werewolf terms. I wasn’t going anywhere anytime soon, and all this talk about getting a luna was only fueling interest amongst the female wolves who now thought it was alright to expect more out of a simple one-night stand and were pressuring me for a ring. Damnit!
I didn’t need women who would try to seduce me just so they could become the next luna. I didn’t need women who batted their eyelashes at me and did everything I told them with their heads bowed. I needed someone who would take care of the pack for me, look after my wolves and nurture them, but most importantly, I needed someone with a spark, a fire that was challenging. Yes, challenge. That was exactly what I needed. Someone who would make me earn their keep, not give in so willingly. Unfortunately, dominant females are very rare in our pack. And the groupies were like puppets, trying to grab my attention so I could do with them as I please.
“Any news? Where’s Jakia? And has Mehul returned from the construction site yet?” I asked him about the packmates who were under Zyane’s command as soldiers. I needed to get my mind off the drama. “Any other news that I need to be made aware of?”
“Jakia’s patrolling the outer perimeters during the night so she won’t get any unnecessary tan.” He snorted. “Woman’s a pain in the ass, but she’s also a damn good soldier. Mehul is out with Eric to finalize the construction deal with the Mega Mart CEO about selling the dates in our own stores for once. And yes…there is…some news.”
“What’s with the long pauses?” I asked Zyane, who also happened to be my friend ever since we were little children. His father had been beta back when my father had been the alpha, and we had grown up together, thick as thieves since childhood. Nothing had been able to separate us, and since we’d known each other since so long, we’d come to know what the other was thinking even without having to communicate verbally or telepathically through the pack mind link. And that’s why I knew something was up.
“Alpha Devon Solomon and Alpha Aiden Morgan called. They want to have a video conference with you,” he answered simply, but his shoulders were tense because it wasn’t often that the two of the most notorious packs wanted a video conference, much less together. Don’t get me wrong, they were thick as thieves, but they were also greedy and power-hungry bastards, each trying to grab an opportunity before the other could get a whisper of it.
“Connect,” I said, shoulders tensing. This couldn’t be good news.
Zyane booted up the laptop that sat on my desk and connected it to the large plasma screen on the opposite wall so that I was facing the screen directly. After adjusting the webcam and sound de
Devon was fair skinned with what we liked to call “pretty boy” looks, complete with blond hair and blue eyes, while Aiden had mocha skin and black hair and dark brown eyes. But both were equally powerful, dominant male wolves, and they were also the only two packs present in China. Separately, their packs didn’t come close to my strength, but if they ever joined forces, they would become the strongest pack in the planet with almost six hundred wolves under their command. Fortunately, they were too egoistic to submit to one another, so those two uniting any time soon would be out of the question.
“You wanted a conference?” I asked with my eyebrows raised, waiting to get this over with as soon as I possibly could. Apart from being power hungry and cunning, these two also loved to bicker like a married couple, and it was the most unpleasant thing I’d ever had the pleasure of watching.
This time I had no doubt there was a female involved. Both were also equally big manwhores, and the competition between them was endless. But they usually complained to me separately, never together like they’re doing now.
“We…well…we have some news to share…” Devon said hesitantly.
I frowned. This was definitely not going to be good. “Go on.”
“You know we have our spies on the China border to make sure no rouges are hiding in unusual places?” Aiden asked me.
“Yes,” I said. “I left that for you to deal with. Don’t tell me you’ve failed in your mission.”
My temper rose at the thought. We had enough rouges around already. We didn’t need more from India to cross over through China.
“No.” He hesitated.
So Devon took over for him. “We had reports of a few wolf sightings in the Middle Himalayas…so we followed them.”
“Wolves in the Middle Himalayas? But wolves are usually found in the southern or Lesser Himalayan ranges, not the Pir Panjal,” I said, confused.
“That’s why we followed them by sending some of our best spies after them. We even kept a mind link so we would know what they found, but—” he paused “—but out of the eight wolves that we sent…none returned.”
“We lost total contact with them a few minutes ago.” Devon finished.
A sense of dread settled in my stomach. Spies were specially trained to endure any kind of hardship. Typhoons, tornados or avalanches—they were trained to survive them all. The fact that eight of them were missing at the same time without any hint of a natural calamity was no joke.
“But,” Devon said, “the last image we got through the mind link…before they…god, I don’t even know if they’re still alive…the link is completely silent!”
I could understand what he was going through; spies were outstanding fighters, but more than that, it was the loss of several packmates that hurt the most. Pack was family. Pack came above everything else.
“What did they see?” This wasn’t just about curiosity; it was about detecting any new threats.
It was Aiden who finished that sentence. “The last thing that our spies saw before the bond was terminated…was a white wolf.”
Chapter 2
White Wolf
Under its paws. On the ground.
Liquid red.
Although it wasn’t enough to melt the snow, it still stained the whiteness of the ground the wolf stood on.
The human side would have wanted to question the intruders, but the wolf didn’t understand reason. It believed in the most severe kind of judgment. It knew only to kill, to protect its own.
Dead.
Before they could even understand what was happening, all eight of them were lying on the ground drowning in their own blood.
Snow began to heavily fall again.
Within a few hours, there would be no trace of the blood and or the bodies.
All that would be left would be clean snow.
And a wolf, just as white as the ground it stood on—the most feared wolf in the world.
Chapter 3
Let’s Go
Rhys
“A white wolf in the Middle Himalayas?” I looked at them, unbelieving. “You know I can’t believe that, right? There haven’t been any wolf packs in India for the last few decades. Even if they’re rogue, they must have gotten to the Himalayas by crossing the mountains somehow. And if that’s the case, then someone must have seen them. I’ve had no such reports in the last decade, and neither had the previous alpha.”
“Yeah, we thought you wouldn’t believe us. After all, it was just a fragment of our imagination that killed eight of our best spies,” Aiden answered sarcastically, but his voice shook with the pain of loss.
“It’s true. You can see our memories if you want to. But there is a white wolf in the Middle Himalayas, a potentially powerful alpha that just killed our men. We need to investigate if he is any threat to us. I cannot just stand and watch as our men get slaughtered!” Devon snarled.
I saw Zyane tense up from the corner of my eyes, but I made a tiny movement with my hand to tell him to stand down. Devon and Aiden weren’t in their proper state of mind, having just lost some of their best warriors. I could sympathize with them, but I also knew they were looking for a motive.
It is a custom: if we are able to defeat an alpha, then their pack members will be distributed among the other packs. Their alpha will then be killed or sentenced to wander alone as a rogue wolf, depending on the severity of their crimes.
These two obviously had things in mind for the wolves in the Himalayas. If they kill the alpha, they could easily take in the wolves under their command and extend their pack numbers. But they were both alphas. It was not my place to point out how they rule their territory or if they want to declare war on another alpha.
Rogues are nomadic wolves that deny the authority of an alpha and roam free on their own, but if this rogue pack had decided to bond together, it might be to cause trouble for the other existing pack around their location.
“I’ll investigate into the matter.” I gave them a pointed look when they opened their mouth to protest. “I don’t need you two starting any unnecessary war with someone who probably just wants to be left alone. I can take care of the matter alone. And we won’t pointlessly capture and kill for your sick pleasures.”
“But what if the al—” Aiden started, but I cut him off.
“If the alpha wants to attack, I’ll take him down. If they decide to form a treaty, they are free to join us. And if they want to be left alone, they will be left alone…until they make a move.” I emphasized the word alone to make the two dickheads understand.
“Okay. Fine. Whatever!” Devon and Aiden replied simultaneously, and the line went dead.
God, they could sulk better than any woman in her menstrual cycle.
I sighed in relief and turned to Zyane who had been listening to the entire conversation quietly while staying out of the camera range. I couldn’t directly involve him into our conversation; he wasn’t an alpha, so the others could take insult. “What do you think?” I asked him while rubbing my temples.
“Those pigs are after the women,” Zyane replied with a frown. “But if they are willing to let you check their mind, then it means they aren’t lying either.”
Wolves in a pack are all connected to their alpha through a mental bond. But a unique trait that only an alpha can possess is the power to read the minds of other alphas and their pack members. With their permission, of course, or in cases of emergency. Otherwise, it can start an unnecessary war among the packs. Nobody wants to be violated by another alpha when they have no business snooping around in another person’s mind.
“We need to check it out. See if they plan on attacking or if they’re a pack of rogues hiding up there to regroup and attack another pack,” I told Zyane. “Rogues rarely form a pack, and this white wolf must be really powerful to have brought a bunch of maniacs under his control.”
“I’ll come with you. I’m almost as strong as you are, and as your beta, it is my duty to protect you from danger. But do we take a few fighters with us on this trip? The white alpha attacking those spies clearly meant they don’t like trespassers in their lands. We have to be careful, and the more people we take, the better our chances are of defending ourselves from sneak attacks. We are heading to an unknown territory after all.” Zyane warned.
