Fated To The Alpha novel Chapter 164

Fated To The Alpha by Jessica Hall Chapter 164

I could hear my pack members talking out the front of the packhouse as we drew closer. The boy’s hand was still tucked in mine and yet I couldn’t seem to pull away from him. The look he gave me when he looked up at me made something twist in my gut. When we break through the treeline, I hear them stop behind me.

The she-wolf sniffs the air before backing back, the boy looks over his shoulder at her and the other two are standing just in the shadows of the trees. “ Are there children to play with?” The boy suddenly asks.

“No” I tell him, both of the two wolves growl behind me.

“Jonah come here” The young  girl says, waving him over.  Her hair was cut  short and if I couldn’t smell her scent, I would have mistaken her for a boy. Her brown doe eyes shone with fear of the small child standing beside me. The chatter of my pack seemed to stop but I could hear the crackle of the firepit that sat out the front of the packhouse and smell the spit roast cooking above it.

“He won’t hurt us, he gave me an apple isn’t that right Mr?” The boy asks looking up at me, yet I had no idea what I wanted to do with them. I couldn’t understand why I didn’t just walk away and leave them behind.

“Andrei,” I tell him.

“That doesn’t mean we should trust him,” The girl says behind me.

“Can we trust you? What does trust mean?” he asks biting into his apple which was now mainly seeds and the core.

I don’t answer him, not having an answer to give the child. “Please Paige, I don’t want to go back. He has apples” The boy says, making me chuckle.

‘We can’t leave them to fend on their own Andrei, say something. Make them trust you,’ Donnie tells me.

‘They can’t trust me Donnie,  I  don’t trust myself’ I tell him and he growls at me.

“Hungry?” I ask them not knowing what else  to say. The boy nods and I start walking around to the front of the packhouse to see most of our pack gathered around the fire pits set out in the centre of the small park-like area. They look up as I walk out and I start looking for Zane but can’t see him anywhere.

The she-wolf behind me whimpers and the teenage wolf growls looking over at all my men before taking a protective stance in front of the girl.

“Where are the girls?” I barely hear her whisper to her friend.

“You said you had a Luna, where is she?” she asks, her eyes frantically scanning the crowd of people sitting down. A few  got up and I could see the shock on their faces. I too couldn’t believe I had brought rogues onto my territory willingly. Malik and Casen stand up and walk toward us, the little boy ducking behind my leg but he doesn’t let go of my hand.

“My men won’t hurt you” I tell the young girl. “No one here will hurt you” I try to reassure them. It was dangerous being rogue. Everyone knew that, but being female and rogue was even harder.

Countless times I had seen it growing up, witnessed my own mother forced to do unspeakable things to keep us alive before my father found us.

“Where is Zane?” I ask Malik as he approaches.

“Trying to calm Sage down, she has smashed herself up pretty badly trying to get out of the