The Intent of the Moon Goddess (#1)

Chapter 8- Andrew

I hate these stupid events, and there seems to be more and more of them, almost every month there is a new mixer or festivals or Fayres. 

I have enough to do as Alpha than attend these pointless gatherings. But the lure of finding my mate, despite my misgivings about the Moon Goddess still looms over me. What if the Moon Goddess finally blesses me and I’ve pigheadedly missed her by not attending one of these events?

I’d been at this ‘mixer’ for over an hour, Alex had just left with some redhead and now my wolf is agitated, maybe he hates these things as much as me. I tell my Beta and Gamma that I need to walk around because something feels off.

We begin looking in the rooms and I feel drawn to a room on the second floor. I hear some of the younger warriors from my pack in there and I hear one of them goading a couple of young girls with crude and salacious remarks and I’m about to intervene when one of the girls tackles him herself and gets him to submit within 10 seconds. 

I hear my Beta, Louis behind me laugh and then say “f**k me” under his breath.

I put my finger to my lips to tell him to sshh. When I walk in the room my pack members all bow, there is a little girl near to the one in the red dress who has made my warrior submit, her dress sparkles and I hear her intake of breath. 

“What is going on here?” I demand to know.

The girl in the red dress looks up, she is breathtakingly beautiful, with long brown hair and big blue eyes. I can’t put an age on her, but she looks like a woman, maybe late teens? I notice the anger in her eyes as she holds her prey on the floor, but she’s still completely in control. 

My warrior was right, she does have curves in all the right places, but I’ll gauge his eyes out for looking. I know this James. He thinks he’s something. Well, I’ll have him scrubbing floors for a month after this performance. Who does he think he is? I notice when she looks at me there is a red tint to her cheeks, I wonder if that’s exertion, anger, or sheer embarrassment? I’m not sure but it’s cute as hell and I would love to find out.

Afterwards I watch as Lilianna leaves with her friend. She looks back curiously before I’m distracted by Mylo, my Gamma telling the young warriors off.

I had felt my wolf get agitated when I first saw her, but there was no fated mate bond moment, which is strange, he’s never reacted to a woman like this before. Maybe I’m wanting something so much that I’m starting to imagine things that are not there. There is no denying that I find her attractive, but my wolf never usually shows any interest.

I’ve had enough of these events, these places, I’ve got better things to do with my time, I tell Louis I’m going home, and he gets the car brought round.

When we are sat in the back Louis asks, “what is it that intrigues the men about the fridges? Is it because it’s a bit of a challenge?” 

He’s referring to the Crescent Moon girls and he knows I hate it when he calls them that. I don’t think it’s smart or classy to refer to a woman as frigid or cold because she doesn’t sleep around. 

“Louis how many times? Just because you don’t agree with the teachings doesn’t mean they are lesser than us. Do you want me to reel off the words they call us?” Louis puts his hands up in surrender 

“Sorry boss, force of habit” I sometimes wonder how he became my Beta because he annoys the crap out of me most of the time. 

There are many derogatory names attributed to me that I take deep offence to, the fact that I’m the Alpha of the notorious Scarlet Moon Pack does not make me immune to the tales and gossip spread by rival packs. 

Mylo answers Louis’ question. “I think they probably do see it as a challenge but when you think about it, who wouldn’t want their fated mate to be from the Crescent Moon? They would be all yours, untouched, as pure as the day they were born. There’s something nice about that, don't you think?” 

We laugh at him. “So, you want them to be pure and innocent while you’ve been putting it about everywhere?” 

He pretends to take offence. “Hey I’ve already had my mate; I’m not going to get another one so I have to get my pleasure where I can.” And we all laugh.

The mood is lighter now, and my thoughts turn to my brother,

“Who was Alex with this time?” They both shrug at me, my brother and his friends are nothing more than man-whores, they bed women like it's a sport.

Alex loves these events because he gets “fresh meat” to quote him. A fresh batch of women who he hasn’t had, who haven’t heard his cheesy lines, and won’t see him again.

The problem is Alex is a smooth-talking, good-looking brother of an Alpha, and he uses that to his advantage. I need to start giving him more responsibilities as Second-In-Command and then maybe I can get a bit of skirt too, I’m never going to find my mate or my Luna at this rate.

I worry about Alex and his s****l activities, every weekend now it’s a different girl every night, sometimes more than one a night.

He is going to end up catching something or impregnating someone who’ll be tied like an albatross around his neck. I don’t know what to do about it, he doesn’t listen to me.

I know that mother being ill is hard on him, he’s young, too young to lose both his parents and mothers illness came as such a shock, she was always so strong and resilient. She cared for father all the way until the end and even helped me transition into Alpha afterwards.

She is my mother too; I think Alex forgets that. It is time to make him responsible for his actions, he must grow up at some point and this is just going too far now. I’ll have it out with him tomorrow and see where that leaves us. 

It’s times like this that I know why I feel older than my 24 years, Alex acts like my petulant child and I’m acting like an old man. 

Things need to change.