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He grabs my arm and lifts it in the air as everyone around me begins to cheer.
It slowly starts to sink in. I won. I won. I FUCKING WON!
“I WON!”
“Thank you for not letting me down, Alpha,” Luna Nikki says, stressing my title.
I’m suddenly flooded with people congratulating me. Luna Nikki shoves a bottle of water into my hand and then some food, while I talk to everyone. Eventually everyone begins to pack up and start heading back to their packs, leaving me to look around.
“How does it feel, Alpha, to know that all of this is yours?” Luna Nikki asks me.
I turn and see her and Alpha Robin watching me.
“Exciting and terrifying all at once. Does that make sense.
“It makes perfect sense,” Alpha Robin says. “And you know that we’ll help you with anything that you need.”
“Thank you, Alpha!” I say.
“Call me Robin, Reese. We’re equals now.”
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“That will take a minute to get used to.” I say, swiping my hand through my sticky hair.
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“Why don’t you take some time, absorb all of this, then come join us for dinner. We’ll make a plan to move your things over and you can talk to Ezra and Margot about the pack members who are interested in moving.”
“Thanks. I’ll do that.”
He nods and then leads Luna Nikki back over to their pack lands.
I turn and look at the area around me. The ground is crushed where the competitions took place and there’s some clean–up to do, but as I walk into the packhouse, I stop and look around.
All of this is mine. I’m an Alpha now.
I lift my head and howl my happiness. I did it! I’m an Alpha!
‘We’re Alphas,’ Sid clarifies.
‘Yeah, we are!‘
David
“It looks like a competition,” Cash says as we watch the large gathering of people. My scouts had tracked Jacqueline here. We arrived last night and saw two battles happening, then early this morning, we’d watched the winners from last night start competing again this morning.
I was very surprised at the length of the battle. Six hours, if I’m not
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mistaken. I’m not sure if this is for bragging rights or if the winner is actually winning something, but these two are fighting hard.
I watch as the battle is called and it takes a moment, but then the winner is announced. I’m not sure what made him the winner. Maybe the other guy conceded.
But throughout the entire thing, I’ve watched her. Jacqueline. She’d been cheering for one of the guys, the guy who ended up losing. When they were done, he’d walked up to her, taken her in his arms and
kissed her. More surprising to me was that she threw her arms around
him and kissed him back.
“Who the fuck is he?” Cash growls as I snarl, watching as the kiss
goes on and on.
“He’s the guy I’m going to kill to take back what’s mine.”
“He’s apparently her mate,” a voice says from below us. We’ve been in the trees, keeping our distance. I recognized several of the Alphas that attacked us while we were chasing my future mate, so we’ve been careful to keep our distance.
“Who the fuck are you?” Cash says, leaping out of the tree at the same time I do.
“Don’t kill the messenger,” the guy says, holding up his hands. I sniff
the air.
“What do you want, Gamma?”
“Gamma, soon to be Alpha. I was out here looking for someone and I
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eame across you fine folks. If you’re watching Jacqueline, then you must be Alpha David and Beta Cash.”
“What’s it to you?” Cash snarls stepping forward. I put my hand on his arm, holding him back.
“You haven’t raised the alarm, so I’m guessing whoever you’re looking for out here isn’t a fan of these packs, and neither are you,” I say.
“You would be correct. I’m Gamma to an Alpha bitch who took over after her parents died.”
“A female Alpha?” I ask, shocked.
“Exactly,” the guy says. “She’s not out here. Her mate, who has his own pack, was in a car accident.” Something about the smirk on his face has me wondering what his role was in that ‘accident‘.
I frown. Nothing that he’s saying makes sense. “If she’s a Luna, how is she also an Alpha?” Cash asks, wondering the same thing I am.
“Exactly! It’s unnatural and greedy if you ask me. But it gives me an opportunity and I’m going to take.”
“What opportunity is that?” I ask him.
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“A pack without an Alpha and a new, green Beta is ripe for the taking, hence my future Alpha status.”
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