He's an Alpha: She doesn't Care

CH 2

Alpha Edward

Wynta was an interesting creature that pricked his full curiosity. She’d walked into this room and looked at each of them, not frowned, but her mouth had turned to a thin line that denoted annoyance to him. He’d wondered if she thought coming in here with a rogue status would see them turn her away.

It wasn’t how he worked; though as he looked at her, his wolf, Rhodes, picked up that she wasn’t just a rogue but that she was also without a wolf. He personally didn’t like calling any of them wolf-less. Because most of the time they actually weren’t wolf-less. They just needed the right set of circumstances for their wolf to be granted to them or to come forth.

Many without wolf had to find a Mate and be marked and claimed before their wolf was granted to them. He put it down to their Goddess, seeing if the one to scent them out, was worthy of the one without wolf.

Most in this world failed that test by rejecting the one without wolf. Something they would usually come to regret later in life; when they either never got gifted another for themselves, or they saw their rejected so-called wolf-less Mate happy and mated, had gotten a wolf at some point after rejecting them.

Other times it just weighed on them, when the one without wolf simply accepted the rejection unquestioningly, almost knowingly, that it was going to happen. They were simply resigned to their fate of being rejected, simply because they were seen by those in the pack they belonged to as useless or weak.

He knew it wasn’t actually the case at all; 95% of the time, the one without wolf was often much stronger than anyone knew they could be. Because they had to put up with things inside their own packs from other wolves who thought they were better than the so-called wolf-less; so they treated them like garbage.

Which intern made the majority of those without wolves, mentally stronger than even Alpha wolves at times. He’d also noted over the years that like 7 out of 10 of those that were female without wolf were mated to Alpha Wolves. It was he believed their Goddess testing them and, like 5 of those Alphas out of the 7, would fail the test.

Now here sitting before him was a very beautiful she-wolf; and that was how he saw her, as a she-wolf. She had, at some point in her life, turned herself rogue to leave a pack he suspected. Those that were banished kind of had an omega feel to him where they thought they weren’t worthy of the wolfen kind, likely because that was not only how they were treated, but been told that’s what they were.

This she-wolf he felt wasn’t like that, she didn’t even seem to really care that she was sitting before an Alpha and his unit. Had that full rogue mentality of ‘I don’t have to do what you want, and you can’t make me.’ that would depend on how long she’d been a rogue and how good her instincts were.

He wondered if she’d been treated terribly or just hadn’t felt like she belonged inside her pack. He couldn’t pick up any venom in her, so she’d never been marked and mated by any wolf, though that attitude he was seeing was indicative to him of a would-be Luna or high ranking member.

Asking her even politely got him nowhere, which meant that either Ms Wynta Morgan had no inclination to discuss her current status with him, or she didn’t want to be initiated into a pack at all. He wondered just how long she’d been a rogue all alone in the world. Though he could hazard a guess from her uncaring demeanor that it was a fair while, years at the least.

He was watching her mannerisms. There was nothing out of the ordinary. She sat without fidgeting in that chair and held direct eye contact, though he didn’t think she wasn’t alert to be on the move if any of them suddenly got up and tried to snag her. She simply wasn’t afraid to be in this room with them.

All he got from her was her annoyance at him and his lack of asking her interview questions, which told him she did actually need this job. Most rogues did need human jobs to survive and she was no different. He watched her just get up and leave the room, went so far as to show them she didn’t care what their rank was by thanking them for wasting her time.

He smiled to himself after that door closed. “Oh, I like her.” he chuckled softly.

Ernesto, his Beta, looked right at his amusement and stated, “Please don’t tell me you’re thinking what I think you’re thinking.”

“Oh, but Ernesto, I am.” He nodded and heard his entire unit laugh. “It can’t hurt.” He smiled to himself now. "That lovely," and she was stunning. "Very stubborn she-wolf, might well be a good match for my very arrogant eldest son.” He chuckled “I bet Wynta Morgan will have no issue in giving him a piece of her mind, do it without batting an eyelid.” He nodded. She was just what that arrogant boy of his needed, a strong, unyielding she-wolf at his side.

“You know Edward, Jared is not going to want to hear it,” his Gamma, Chester murmured. “Though I agree with you, she does seem to fit the bill of stubborn and uncaring, didn’t have a single concern about offending you or any of us at all.”

“I know, I like that, and what harm can it do to put that boy of mine in a room with her on a full moon? None is what.” He smiled at them all and turned to his Beta, “Ernesto, go bring that girl to my office. She’ll need to be brought into the pack. So when Jared comes home, she’s back to pack mentality and not rogue mentality.”

“You’re meddling,” Ernesto muttered but got up. “Isn’t that why he’s in Europe now, to get away from you and your meddling.”

“Yes, but I can bring him home at will. I’m still his Alpha, and I’ve let him think I’ve dropped trying to find his Mate for almost three years now.” he nodded as Ernesto headed for the door. “Right to my office, and make sure she stays there all afternoon.”

His Beta nodded and was gone from the room, now he just had to get her to agree to be part of the pack. He didn’t think it was going to be an easy task, but he now had all afternoon to think of a way to do so.

He picked up the page with her photo on it, Wynta Morgan. She was a lovely she-wolf of 5 foot 9, with long black hair and hazel green eyes, and he wondered just what her story was, and if he could get her to tell it to him. Something he thought he was going to need at some point, he was also hoping that there had been a rejection and acceptance of this lovely she-wolf, and not just from any wolf, but from an Alpha Wolf.

Because that would mean she already knew deep down inside that she was supposed to be a Luna as their Goddess saw fit to create her. Therefore, she would not only be stubborn, but defiant to all Alphas. He knew his boy well, his eldest son didn’t like women that fell at his feet or not unless he was looking for an easy lay.

So that very stubborn rogue, his Beta, was not likely going to have to manhandle up to the top floor, where she couldn’t actually leave without an access card to the private elevator, would pique his boy's interest give a few interactions between them. Especially if she was dismissive of Jared like she had just been of him and his unit.

His boy wasn’t so young either. He was 77 years old and currently focused on that European division of their pack, something Jared had gone and started himself, just to get away from his old man's meddling. Edward smiled, it wasn’t going to work. He wanted all his children to be happy and to have a Goddess-Gifted as well.

He’d put a few nice rules into his pack when he’d established, ascension wasn’t like every other pack out there where the eldest child just inherited the pack at a certain age. No, his children had to earn it. Not only did they all have to have a good education, but be able to create and run their own businesses and do well in the industry they chose for themselves.

They had to meet his demands, and currently all four of his sons were considered equal and held the exact same title of Future Alpha to the pack. They’d all had to take on an Alpha Unit and training and learn everything there was to run the pack.

All four of his heirs were also constrained by a mating bond band that they had to wear at all times. When the Alpha Council had been formed and the Alpha Colleges had been built and first opened, he’d explained his pack laws to the council way back in 1950 when they’d opened for the first time.

Jared had been seven, but all of his sons had been born by then, and that band the Alpha Council had created to stop fake bonds to other Alpha children saw him find a way to get exactly what he wanted. No way to lie about scenting out a Goddess-Gifted Mate.

His four sons, Jared, Ethan, Colby and Lance all wore those bands, as had his three daughters, Elizabetha, Francine and Sophie. Though his daughters were all mated off now and it was just his sons that couldn’t seem to find Mates.

This was what prevented them from gaining the seat of Alpha by deception, because only a Goddess-Gifted pair could run the pack. There were also two other rules he’d put in place, 1 they couldn’t take the seat until they were 100 or more, and they had to have produced at least one heir as well.

It was anyone’s guess as to who would get the pack, because if they all made it past 100 without finding a Mate, it would be the first one of them to do so and then produce that heir. It kept them all equal, and those bands couldn’t be fooled. Also stopped them from killing each other for the seat of Alpha, by alerting him and his entire unit if one of them was under threat from another and added thing he’d asked for, and had been added to those bands.

He also had four more bands, so there would be no fooling him on the she-wolf. If one of his sons scented out a Mate a band would be put on the she-wolf to confirm it was who his son claimed it to be. He’d covered all the basics of protecting his sons and giving them all equal rights to ascension to the seat of Alpha to his pack.

“Boss, how are you going to get Jared home from Europe?” Luther, his Delta asked curiously.

“There is no rush for it to happen right away. I need that lovely young she-wolf to settle into pack life for now… I’ll just let her work quietly away until a natural solution to the problem appears.”

“He won’t claim her if she’s not his Goddess-Gifted, you know that,” Chester stated.

“I do,” Edward agreed. “I’m not trying to force him or her together. She will present as a challenge to him and pique his interest and I want to see what he does with that. She’ll refuse his attentions if, as I suspect, she was rejected by another Alpha, and he’ll not understand why she doesn’t fall at his feet.” He smiled. “That’s all I want for now.”