Silver Moon (ManxMan)

032

"Erik..." Cobie called out but the Alpha doesn't turn around. "C'mon Erik. Look at me." Cobie said, his eyes changing from red to gold.

Erik turns around at that and stared at Cobie. None of them moved to close the distance between them but it was okay because Cobie just needed to talk.

"Our mother, Celeste, was his Luna. I never understood it. I remember her always being alone until one day she woke us up in the middle of the night, grabbed our coats and headed to the nearest port. She never spoke about her title again. There were times when she would randomly burst into tears and we'd hug her and pepper her face in kisses. So yeah, I don't like to think of him as my father, as our father." Cobie explained. "Colson and I pushed it so far back into our minds and since we were little, we could forget things easily. You know how it went from there."

Cobie sighed and that was all it took for Erik to close the distance between them with just a couple of steps and pull Cobie against him as tightly as he could.

"I'm sorry."

"She was so scared of him, Erik. Sometimes Mum wouldn't sleep, she'd be looking out the windows, peeping through the curtains to make sure. She'd double lock the door and I never wanted that for myself nor Colson. It gave me an already set mind as to how Alphas behave. And then when I was on the run, I watched several Alphas treat their packs or their mates like they were beneath them, like they were gravel underneath the golden feet of an Alpha."

"It made you think all Alphas were the same. That's why you didn't like any of us back then."

Cobie pulls back a bit and cups Erik's face with his hands. "You are so different from them all and not just because you haven't fully awakened your wolf yet. You lead thousands of wolves and you make sure they're okay, you have Alphas who come to you for help, you have Alphas who respect you and your every word despite you being angry seventy percent of the time. You take care of everyone and now you're taking care of me too."

"And I will keep taking care of you till the day I die because you are my everything, because you are my love, my friend and my mate."

"I'm sorry for acting like a knob."

"I don't call you McStupid for no reason." Cobie replied, a big grin on his face as he leaned forward to press a light kiss to Erik's lips. "I love you."

"I love you too."

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Erik makes a quick calls to all the Alphas on Astir, save for the Elders. It takes them thirty minutes to appear in the stadium sized backyard.

"We have a fight coming our way, a war if you will." Erik bellowed. "An Alpha with his head stuck so far up his ass that he can see the sky, thinks he can come and take my mate away. I know this is not your fight but I want to ask for your support to help keep Astir clean and safe and to also ensure my mate and his family lives. This so called Alpha has already killed one of our own, this Alpha was the one behind the berserkers attack a few weeks ago that left some injured. It time to fight back, to prove ourselves to the goddess."

Cobie who was standing beside Erik watched as everyone clung onto every word that left Erik's mouth.

"What kind of pack does he lead?" One of the Alphas spoke up.

This time Cobie spoke up. "A pack of rejects and cast always. He has goblins, berserkers, a deal of armed gunmen and Unseelies."

"We do have the upperhand though. The Alpha thinks he the Silver Moon pack is a small pack. The Alpha doesn't know about the size of our wolves nor does he know about our strength. All he knows is the fact that Cobie and Colson are here and he will come for them."