The Cursed Alpha

The Fight

FREY POV

I stretched my fingers out before standing up and cracking my back. I hadn't had time at all to go and check up on my pack, because I was stuck inside my office doing paperwork. But, I was finally finished! The pack's finances were looked over, the next month all budgeted out, and our taxes were sent to the Alpha King.

My wolf howled in delight in my head, and I could hear B-G's weak howl echoing hers. I reminded her that we would have to go over the sheriff reports of 'wild wolves'. We needed to make sure that they were wolves from our pack, and not just some filthy rogue trying to make his/her mark on my land. She growled and agreed.

I gave myself a five minute break, ignoring the side-effects from my Instinct and did a quick workout. One minute of pushups. One minute of crunches. One minute of tricep dips. One minute of pull-ups. One minute of squats. Then it was back to work.

I had just pulled out the first report when Beta Chris plowed through my door, almost knocking it off its hinges. I shot up.

"What's wrong?" I demanded, jogging after my Beta. The person I trusted most in the world.

"Your mate," he growled as we neared the kitchen. I heard a few shouts, and the unmistakable sound of fists hitting flesh. "Is insane."

I ran after hearing that, straight through the crowd gathered in the kitchen. They parted for me, and I saw two figures wrestling with each other. One, obviously, was Zane. His eyes were wide and crazed, and there was blood leaking out of his mouth. I felt the tell-tale heat of anger start to rise to my head, but Yaps pulled it back for me.

I looked at the other offender, and saw Larry. I knew then that words would do no good. Zane never listened to me anyway (a fact which irritated Yaps greatly) and Larry went into a sort of trance when he was fighting. He wouldn't be able to hear anything.

Zane pushed Larry off of him and then moved so he was pinning Larry to the ground and then proceeded to punch my pack mate in the face. My wolf growled appreciatively at the show of power, but I knew I had to stop this. I didn't like using my Alpha Tone, so I usually never did. And this time was no exception.

I stepped briskly so that I stood next to the two grappling males and grabbed Zane's fist with my hand while simultaneously shoving my foot onto Larry's collarbone—hard. It didn't break, but it showed him who was in charge now. I was his Alpha. Any show of dominance from me would force him to submit.

Zane was a different story. He was technically still a rogue. He wouldn't know to back down from just a show of power from me. Best case scenario: he would start to fight me. But, he was my mate, and there was no way I would fight him. So, I couldn't treat him like he was a rogue. I would have to do what I saw other mates doing to calm their mates down.

I pulled Zane up from the floor and wrapped my arms around him, asking Yaps to try to get B-G to get Zane to hug me back. It didn't even take a second before I was completely surrounded my Zane's intoxicating scent. This was the closest I had gotten to Zane since I stopped him from crushing Chelsea two days ago.

I looked up at Zane, to try to see if he was still in a rampaging mood, but he only looked confused. I was sure that any second, he was going to push me away, and I was going to have to hide my hurt, but he didn't. He pulled me closer to him, stuck his nose in my hair, and inhaled deeply. I was happy that he found comfort in me, but as an Alpha, I needed to know what happened.

"Ok, ok," Beta Chris growled from the inside circle of the crowd still in the kitchen. "Get away from her, rogue,"

Zane lifted his handsome face up so that we could all see the anger in his eyes. I saw his jaw shift as he clenched his teeth, and for some reason, I was left breathless.