Reject Me Again, My Alpha

" It won't be long now brother , eight more weeks until the ceremony. Then all of this will be yours ", my friend Devon said. We went for a run up in the mountains. If you hit the right opening, you can see all of the packland in front of you. I smirked and looked down at it. We had a lot of land , one of the biggest packs. This is what I have trained all of my life for. What I had been molded for. My mum and dad were the strongest alpha pair to date. They'd watched over this pack for years now and no one had dared to even think of stepping one foot out of line. No one had challenged them , and no outside threat had been even close to doing any damage to us. Cut off before their attack had even made a dent in our armour. I had some pretty big boots to fill. But I was coming of age , and it wasn't hard to see my strength was now rivalling my dad's. It had begun people talking , even after years and years of his rein. When the pack see someone stronger , they start to gravitate toward it. It was just natural for a pack. No disrespect to him , or loss of gratitude for him being such a fierce leader. But they look towards the one that could protect them, keep them safe. I wasn't fearful of it. I wasn't nervous, it felt like I was finally going to do what I was always meant to do. What I had been lying waiting for. I just wanted to get on with it. " Yea. It can't come quick enough. Mum and dad are going to take a vacation, to make the transition easier. Then they'll move into one of the larger lodges on the edges of the pack lands once they are back. They've been having work done on it , Mum is in her element. Dad will take his seat on the pack council as an advisor", I say, looking at where they would be moving to. It was quite a distance from the main house. Dad thought it would be best so that they were out of the way. So I didn't feel like he was trying to step on my toes. Dad understood , he knew first hand. My grandfather hadn't been so willing to let go. In the end , my grandfather and grandma had moved out of the pack lands. And hadn't come back until dad had been the alpha for ten years. He was way too proud of a man, my dad was proud. But he knew it was time for a change. I think he and my mum were welcoming the quiet. So a six-month vacation while the pack adjusted and doing some traveling and then they would be back. " What about your problem ?" He asked. It wiped the smirk off of my face. Annoyance set in. That pesky little detail. By now my father , grandfather, great grandfather. They all had their mates by their sides. Ready to take on this role together. It's usually when future alphas start gaining more strength, mine came without a mate by my side. It was something that was baffling us all. And taking the position without a mate raised concerns. Recently, my father had sent me around other packs , looking and searching for mine. I'd gone along , hoping I would find mine. I'd been met with row after row of women , all hoping and praying they would be the one. Word spread and I had female wolves turning up here. Being an alpha mate was a prize , especially one for this pack. Other alphas from half way around the world had sent their daughters here on planes, and still nothing. It has made for me some pretty good wild nights. She wolves hoping s*x would trigger the mating bond. They had all left in the morning , reeking of disappointment. Not from the s*x we had shared, by far from that. Their screams of pleasure had echoed around the pack land loud enough to prove that. Much to my mother's disapproving glare, the next morning , as alpha mate, she was the one to provide any outside guests with the perfect hospitality and put up with some of their tears. Whilst I had made myself scarce. She literally had to show them the door. " I'll find her , more are coming. One of them has to be her " he laughs. " That I am not complaining about , the ones that don't try to bed you out of desperation find another willing companion to entertain them. My bed has been kept most entertained the last few weeks ". I glanced at him and smirked again. Devon has been my friend for the longest time. Since he had the balls to try and fight me when we were ten. No one would ever spar properly with me , the alpha son. They'd all hide in the back, not wanting to be picked. Him he'd strode forward with as much arrogance as I carried with me. " Your welcome " I said and he laughed again. " In eight weeks , I'll become alpha. There is a reason I made you hike your playboy ass up here " I said to him. Looking down at the land. He snorts a laugh again " You top me a million times over in that department, Enzo". The men feared me and the women flocked to me. It was an occupational hazard. "Besides my mate situation, I also have another one. Who will be my second ? The one at my side. I dragged you up here , because I want my beta to be you ". He was quiet , too quiet. So I looked at him. He was grinning at me , giving me a no s**t Sherlock look. " Like anyone else would be able to put up with your ass. Brother, it was a given that I would be the one at your side, seen as you scare the rest away with one look. I'm afraid to tell you, Brother , but you have no other friends to ask. " I rolled my eyes at him. I did have other friends. But none I trust like I do him. " Dickhead ", I grunted at him. His face turned serious , the most serious I had ever seen Devon look. " It's an honour to be at your side. Always has been. " I gave him one firm nod , and he made one back. That was all it took. We shifted to our wolves and spent the rest of the day hunting and running the mountains. I was wary of keeping my thoughts blocked , an advantage as future alpha I had. Pack members didn't have that privilege. The fact of the matter was , I had already scented my mate. And I refuse to believe that is who the fates would seal me with. No way in hell would I link myself to her. So I kept looking , hoping it was a mistake. It happened around four months ago. It's why my strength has been growing. Everyone else thought it strange , like I said before, to be increasing my alpha strength without a mate. But it was just because I hadn't told anyone I had. Because I wouldn't be accepting her. Anthea , the runt of the pack. The one born too early. Premature babies didn't happen within a pack. No wolf had ever had a baby born so early. Our bodies are very strong and healthy , and ituative. If the pup had defects, you would lose the pup within the first few weeks. Yet she had been born three months too soon. People have questioned the mother's strength to carry a child. Maybe it was her Anthea was her first pregnancy. But she went on to have three more children, all full term and all powerful wolves. I think it was to prove her point. That she hadn't been the problem , but Anthea. I wonder what she would have done , if she had birthed more runts. My guess she would have either run away or ended her life. It all seems barbaric , but in our world , weakness is a death sentence. Challenges happen all of the time. In our pack not so much. In other packs not either. But a lot of wolf packs are volatile. You come across them outside of the pack land and they won't hesitate to demolish you. Wolfs are prideful animals and our ego's huge. That would have been what had killed her mother off more than anything, I reckon , her own pride. Anthea was a pariah with her own family, an embarrassment. Her mum couldn't stand to be seen or look at her. Two of her brothers ignored her existence. As far as I had seen, only her father and one of the brothers actually acknowledged her. Before four months ago , I knew nothing of her except her name. Since scenting her that night , I had done maybe a little bit of digging around. Just to find out about her and basically how it would impact the pack if I sent her away. Banish her out of the packland. Turns out her dad is a ranking wolf. It would make noise and cause rifts , especially if I had no reasonable reason. If I did , it would be breezy. So that is why I had been looking for a justifiable cause to send her away. Maybe I had been overly mean and cruel towards her too. Maybe then she would leave herself. My mind replayed the night , everything had gone to f*****g s**t.