“Alpha Mine”
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Dava stared at the Alpha with pleading eyes. Rafe wanted to look away from her, ignore the request she was begging of him but he couldn’t. Not while the entire Pack was watching him. He had to act as an Alpha would act for the sake of the Pack.
“Fine,” he grumbled and waved his hand towards his son. "Ecce homo,” he announced loudly and then translated the latin command as, “behold the man.”
Those three words were all that was all that was needed to be said to end the summons. Once the summoner was officially pronounced by an Elder or the Alpha, the summons ceased to exist.
Adam slumped in Dava’s arms and exhaled. “Damn,” he’d never expected anything like this. He’d read about the summons in one of the books his mother had given him to study early on in boarding school but it was a practice that he thought was long abandoned. It was typically used as a tool to bring those whom were deemed as traitors back to Pack land for trial.
He was not a traitor. All he ever wanted to do was protect his mate unlike his father who rejected her.
Slowly, he forced himself to stand and met his father’s steely gaze. “The summons hasn’t been used in years. Why did you have it issued?” he asked him furiously. Any claim his father thought he had on Dava no longer existed. “Why do you insist on fighting this?”
“I’ve stated my reasons,” Rafe replied calmly.
“And they are bull shit reasons,” Adam shot back. “Dava is my mate. She is the one that I want, not Blake. Why can you not accept that?”
Rafe glared at his son. Dava was holding onto his arm and leaning into his body. The familiarity between the two was more than Rafe could stand. His wolf was precariously close to his breaking point. “Right now,” he snarled, “my word is the law. That’s all I have to say.”
This was crap. “Your law means nothing to me,” Adam yelled. “You,” he said, feeling the omnipresence of the animal growing inside of him, “mean nothing to me.”
Rafe raised his brows. “Is that so?”
Adam instinctively pushed Dava behind him and stepped forward, taking a fighter's stance in front of her.
“Those are some mighty big words for a pup. Do you think you're man enough to back up those words, son?”
“I don’t think I am father, I know.”
“Then I challenge you.”
“Oh my Goddess, no!” Dava cried out in fear. "You can't accept a challenge your father. Not over this. Not over me." She pushed herself closer to Adam, grabbing fistfuls of his shirt in her hand. "Please... you could be killed. I can't- I won't let that happen."
“Whoa. Wait a minute. Let’s not all go crazy and lose our heads here.” Aiden stepped in between father and son. “There is no need for a challenge right now. What we need is a council meeting.”
“We won’t need a meeting if there is a challenge,” Rafe argued. "This is all because my son seems to think he is suddenly better than me. Once I put him in his place and he bends to my will then all is settled."
Jared joined Aiden. “I agree with my brother,” he piped up. “There is more here than meets the eye.”
“Yeah,” Aiden said. “As I was trying to tell you earlier, I think there is more to Dava’s history that we don’t know about.”
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Alpha Mine
WerewolfFor the most part Dava's led a happy life. She had everything that she needed; a loving family, a good home and her romance books. She was saved by the man that she now calls father at the age of five and grew up lacking for nothing. She was the...
