Fated To The Alpha novel Chapter 179

Fated To The Alpha by Jessica Hall Chapter 179

When we got home it was nearly dinner time. Derrick and Jonah picked dinner up on the way home but Andrei didn’t even acknowledge them, instead racing to his office and shutting the door. Jonah was trying to show him something, but Andrei was too distracted to notice. Luckily Jonah quickly forgot as Derrick distracted him and pulled him into  the living room  and put  a kids movie on. I watched for a bit while eating dinner but after an hour curiosity got to me. I could hear crashing coming from the office. I heard him on the phone multiple times, and heard him talking to Kat, Ezra. Some man from the city, the one who gave us the news, the one who said we couldn’t keep Jonah safe here with us. Andrei was raging but most of all what he felt was fear, the same as me. Fear for what would happen to our Jonah.

It was killing me wondering what would happen to him, he was such a bubbly boy despite all he lived through, despite what he lost, he always smiled. Now I wondered if his new home would be warm, would it be safe, would he have enough to eat, would he be happy, would he thrive but most of all would he be loved because I loved him, the pack loved him, Andrei loved him. Jonah has no idea the handprints he has left on everyone’s heart here.

He was the light after so much darkness, this pack suffered but Jonah kept them on their toes, made them laugh. Jonah filled us with hope. He was the hope I had that we could be a family. He was the hope that made us all want to keep fighting. It was because of him, the pack came alive again.

“Is Mr Andrei ok?” Jonah whispers from where he was sitting on my lap. He yawns tiredly and I nod. Malik tried to calm Andrei down, His father did, but they were just as devastated. Malik ran from the place with tears trailing down his face.

Getting up, I tuck the blanket around Jonah. He watches me leave and Derrick moves sitting by his feet while I wander down the hall to the office. I push the door open and Andrei was arguing with someone on the phone over temporary custody, or asking to at least be able to check the living conditions. His words make me more nervous.

What had set him off so completely.

He has been on the phone since we got home, has not left the office and for the most part I was too afraid to know. I wait for him to get off the phone and he tosses it on the desk falling into his chair heavily.

“  I don’t know what to do, we never  should have told anyone we found him” He says staring off.

He swallows his eyes red and puffy like he had been crying and I move closer not knowing whether I should touch him or not but when I step closer he pulls me on his lap, pressing his face into my shoulder blades. I stare at the printed pieces of paper on his desk.

My heart sinks when I see a photo of a man. But not just any photo, it was a mugshot. His crimes ranged from petty theft, to assault. Domestic violence and he even had one for fraud. Clive Steed. There was also some information on his family.

Sister Melissa Marie Steed. Going over the documents I found the domestic violence report, there were multiple and most  were against  his  own mother and his younger sister. Car theft, the list never ending and I was shocked to see he actually spent time in a human prisons too, that was the first time I had ever heard of a werewolf spend time in a human correctional facility but said he did three years for kidnap and shooting his sister in the leg and breaking her arm.

“He can’t go with this man” I whisper, picking up the picture with his mugshot again. He had greasy dark hair and resembled a thug, with his beard and tattoos on his face. What I found most disturbing though was the way he smiled in his mugshot like it was some joke, that he was better than not only pack laws but human ones too..

“The mother’s brother?” I ask and Andrei nods against my shoulder.

“He has no money, in fact he owes nearly  a hundred look to some pretty fucked up people. But despite all that, he is blood I am not. We can’t do anything. Kat and Ezra have spent nearly all night, trying to find away for us to keep him”

“Can’t kat overrule him?” I ask, she is Queen after all.

“Kat’s livid, even she said what use is being Queen if she couldn’t overrule. But she would have to change Pack law and that takes time. After everything with Dominic, no one will vote in her corner until she proves herself, Laws are written in bloody treaty’s and expected to be upheld until changed or revised. She goes against it, we could start wars with every pack for abusing her authority”

“But she can command them, ” I tell him.

“It’s more than that Sage, it’s Pack politics, you can’t just do what you want without reason because you are stronger, not without severe repercussions”

“But he is a bad person”

“Some would say I am too, Sage. It doesn’t matter what he did, by law he has paid for those crimes and is free now, he is blood to Jonah and the only living relative and hasn’t broken any of his orders since being released 2 years ago. Besides his debt they have nothing on him”

“So   we just let him go, let this man take him. The same man that beat his own mother and sister.

What’s saying he won’t do those  things to Jonah?”  I ask appalled. I felt sick, this couldn’t be happening.

“No, he can’t go with him” I tell him, getting up. We could run with him, hide him, anything has to be better than letting him go with this horrid man.

“We have no choice, Sage. He isn’t ours”

“He is, you found him. His uncle didn’t even know he was missing, please. We can run with him” Andrei shakes his head.

“We have a pack Sage, it’s not that simple ” Andrei says, placing his head in hands.

“We will get him back, we just have to wait. It will just take time” He breathes rubbing his temples.