Chapter 165

Young Alpha.

«Fraction

I grumble as Ca s’s phone line rings out for the second time, I don’t know what’s wrong with him but I

can take a guess. His father is pretty sick, some form of bowel cancer, if I had to guess his time has

come and Cas is doing the needed Alpha tour. I can’t imagine why he would be upset though, in all my

years I’ve never seen an Alpha Heir treated the way Cas has been. I only ever met Alpha Steven once

but it was enough for me not to want to go back to the Everfur Pack, Alpha Steven was raised on the

human religions so he led his Pack with the same convictions. When Cas was born we all thought this

would mellow the Alpha out a bit but instead he saw Cas as someone to overthrow him and he treated

him like the enemy. To give Cas his due he stuck it out until he was eighteen and then left until coming

back just over a year ago when his father started getting sick.

“Fraction.” I lift my head up when I see Rick and James standing in the office doorway with grim

expressions.

“Goddess, what now?” They both walk in closing the door behind them, James hands me a coffee as

Rick sits in the chair opposite my desk.

“I just got news that Eva never made it to New York, the apartment hasn’t been claimed.” I curse loudly

as I pull up my emails on my laptop, seeing no new emails from any Alpha’s I breath out a sigh of relief.

My first thought was The Shalamayne and them starting up again, it’s highly unlikely if only Eva is

missing though.

“Do we know where she is?” I ask James, he nods, pulling out a notepad and flicking a few pages.

“Looks like she boarded a bus to Seattle instead, maybe she decided to go her own way?” I feel my

eyebrows draw together as James tells me

this.

“Why would she go somewhere when I set up a home for her? It makes no sense.” Suddenly I’m

realising why Cas is trying to get hold of me, I let her go and it was my responsibility to get her to where

we agreed. “Cas is going to be pis sed.”

“Why would Cas care?” Rick asks, I just raise an eyebrow at him and it takes Rick a moment but I

finally see the realisation hit him. “Sh it.”

“Yeah, it’s messy.” I confirm exactly what Rick is thinking.

“He could reject her? Problem solved right?” I’m shaking my head

before he’s done.

“No way. Cas won’t do that, she needs help and protection. He will see this as his own personal job,

you know how he was raised. He will want to shelter her.” James is nodding his head, he was with me

when I went to Everfur Pack, he knows how Cas was treated.

“Want me to try calling him?” I shake my head no at James.

“You guys cover patrols and what not and I’ll keep trying.” I pick up my phone pressing Ca s’s number

before they have even closed the office door behind them.

Cas might be young but he’s built like a dam n bull, thanks to his father he did nothing but train to be

better, faster and stronger. He needed a way to protect himself against the abuse and at some point it

clicked for him that he was his only protection. Other Alpha’s tried to interfere but it never ended well

for either party, I remember Darryl taking Cas for a week and when Alpha Steven caught up to them

Cas could barely walk after. We stopped trying after that for fear he would kill his son, we all loved in

hope that Cas would grow up to be a better Alpha than

“Fraction?” Ca s’s words are slurred as the phone is finally answered.

“You’re drunk lad,” I point out the obvious and I swear I can hear this eyes roll.

“He died this morning, he’s gone. I’m free.” Ca s’s words are whispered like he’s worried someone will

overhear his joy at his father’s passing.

“You need me to come swear you in?” I don’t offer an apology, I’m not sorry that Alpha is dead and I

won’t pretend to be.

“Darryl is coming,” Cas hiccups as I hear glass meeting glass telling me he’s pouring another drink. Of

course Darryl is coming to swear him in as Alpha, Darryl has been like a father for Cas for a long time

now. “She’s not at the apartment.”

“So I’ve been told, James said she got a bus to Seattle.” There’s no point in hiding anything from him,

he will only find out himself eventually.

“She’s running from me.” I can hear the sadness in Ca s’s voice.

“She doesn’t know enough to run, you smelt her yourself. Her wolf is so buried she might as well be

human.” I remind Cas.

“What if I lose her? You said I had to wait, you said to let her grow and stay back. I stayed back, I left

when I wanted to come back to Swiftmane.” I hear gulping and then more glass clinking, “you promised

me you would set her up.”

“I gave her everything I could without handing her a free pass for everything she did. If she chose not to

take it that’s on her.” I won’t apologise for not ensuring she arrived in New York, people can only be

given options, it’s up to them what they do with it.

“What if I never find her? What if she’s gone? My wolf is going crazy, he won’t calm down.” I know the

feeling he’s talking about, it was the same one I had when Anna first came to us and was taken from

my kitchen while I was out running in the trees.

“Trust me Cas, these things have a way of working themselves out. One day you will turn around and

she will be there.” I remember how I found Anna in a field in a rundown Pack all those years ago, it was

the last place I thought I would find my mate.

“You make it sound like it’s all planned out.” Cas sounds so depressed that I can’t help but think he’s

sinking into the same darkness I’ve been in a few times myself.

“It’s not going to be easy but it will work out Cas.” I try to be as upbeat as I can but even I can admit

that when your mate has been raised in a cult and taught to hate everything about herself it’s kind of

difficult to see a time she would want to be with a shifter. Cas doesn’t say anything else as the phone

line is disconnected, I don’t know what more he could have said in the state he’s in to be honest.

“Everything okay?” I smile as Anna sticks her head around the office door.

“Perfect little wolf. Come here,” I hold out my hand to her and she ski ps into the office, closing the door

behind her. Once she’s in my grasp and I pull her onto my lap so we are front to front, her legs squeeze

in next to mine and she holds herself over my legs. “I love you little wolf.” After my phone conversation

with Cas I just need her to know how loved she is. Leaning forward I lay a kiss on her neck and her

head falls back as a moan leaves her lips.

“If you love me, could I ask for something?” I smile against her neck, this woman will never understand

that she can have anything I’m capable of giving her.

“Name it.” I have a feeling I know what she wants and I can feel my co ck swell at the idea.

“I want Hysion to stay here with us. Just like Momma Beth kept James, I want him to be ours.” I lean

back from her and stare directly into her blue eyes, that one I wasn’t expecting.

“I thought…” I shake my head before putting a smile on my face, “if we don’t find his family then yeah,

little wolf. We can make Hysion family, that will make three kids mind you.” I’m reminding her of when

Elder Thomas told us we would only have three children.

“And I wouldn’t change them for the world, he’s as much mine as Thomas and Aurora. He needs us,” I

can’t help myself anymore, I pull her into me and slam my mouth onto hers, this woman will never stop

amazing me.