Filed to story: Sorry Alpha I Am Wolfless Novel
I couldn’t take it anymore. I started following the trail for real. I needed to find this girl now. I needed to see her, to know who she was.
The scent trail was leading me closer and closer to the alpha’s house. This alpha house looked so much like the one back home. It was shaped the same but made of slightly different materials and was different colors. Other than that, it was the exact same house.
As I looked at the pack house, comparing it to the one my cousin was now living in, I wondered if my new mate was a maid in the house. Was she here at work right now? Was today her day off and I was just following an old trail of hers? I needed to find her though. Perhaps she would like the idea of someone rescuing her from her life of being a maid to an assholish brute of an alpha.
I was running different fantasies and scenarios through my head. Different visions of how I would sweep her off her feet, profess my undying love to her, and we’d ride off together into the sunset. All these thoughts had me utterly distracted so when I heard the most musical voice ever I froze in my tracks.
“Katie, Jordan, you two are so mean.” The words she was speaking didn’t seem too happy but her voice was full of glee. “I’m going to get the two of you for not helping me. It’s almost my birthday you know, can’t you help your sister out a little bit?”
“But if we start helping you now, we will never be able to rest until you’ve worked us all to the bone.” A man about my brother Noah’s age was responding to her.
“Don’t worry, Ems, I will help you in a few minutes. Just let me put all this stuff away.” That was from a younger girl, perhaps in the last year of middle school, if she was even that old.
“Thank you Katie.” The musical voice was cheering now.
I saw her through the trees then. She seemed to be bouncing up and down, a happy smile dominating her beautiful, perfectly sculpted face. She had a light tan still and her hair was a beautiful shade of blonde. And I could see her pretty green eyes from here. She looked so angelic, and sexy.
Her body seemed to be sculpted by the gods. Perfect hips, perfectly long legs, perfectly perky and ample breasts. She was maybe five feet nine inches tall, maybe a little more or less, it was hard to tell from a couple hundred yards away.
All my dreams and fantasies were already morphing to something more, adding her beautiful visage to the details. I started to walk forward, intent on talking to her and introducing myself.
I took step after step, slowly closing the distance between us. That was until I saw the alpha, Bryce, walk out of the house behind her.
“Daddy!” She leapt with joy and jumped right into his arms. “I’m so happy you’re letting me plan all of this.”
“Well, I know how much you love parties.” Bryce smiled sweetly at his daughter as he hugged her to him.
All of my fantasies and dreams for the future shattered in an instant.
My new mate, my one and only mate in this life, was the daughter of an enemy alpha. This couldn’t be happening. How could this be real. Why did the moon goddess hate me?
I turned around and stopped myself from walking toward her. I couldn’t let her see me, I couldn’t let her smell me. I had to get away.
“What’s that?” I heard her voice in the distance and that was when I started running.
I shifted and ran as far and for as long as I could. My life was over.
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Emmalee
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Today had started out like any other, really. It was early December and that meant that it was almost my nineteenth birthday. I had just started university in the fall and I was absolutely hating it. I had always hated school though. I prefer to be with friends and hang out, I’m a sociable person.
Another good thing about December was getting the family together for a huge party. It was like celebrating all the birthdays that were so close together and Christmas all in one. There were three other birthdays in December besides mine and we all usually had a massive party in the middle of the month.
This year my dad was letting me plan it and I was trying to get my annoying older brother and little sister to help me. I knew that Katie would help if I just asked her to, but Jordan was a jerk and he would be a brat about it. Seriously, what were big brothers for if not helping their beautiful, angelic little sisters plan parties.
“Katie, Jordan, you two are so mean.” I whined at them, hoping to convince Jordan with guilt since his refusal had me tacking the blame onto my little sister as well. “I’m going to get the two of you for not helping me. It’s almost my birthday you know, can’t you help your sister out a little bit?”
“But if we start helping you now, we will never be able to rest until you’ve worked us all to the bone.” Jordan said this as if I was a slave driver. What era was he even living in inside that messed up head of his? I just rolled my eyes at him.
“Don’t worry, Ems, I will help you in a few minutes. Just let me put all this stuff away.” Katie, the angel that she was, agreed to help me right away.
“Thank you Katie.” I squealed in delight, jumping up and down with joy.
I watched as Katie bounded into the house then glared at my brother. He would come around, eventually. I would see to that. I may not be a slave driver, but I could be an evil dictator if he pushed me too far. Maybe the era inside his head really was spot on. Hmph, who would have thought? Oh well.
I was waiting for Katie absentmindedly when I got the faintest whiff of something strange and wonderful. But before I could think about it at all I heard the door open. Only it wasn’t Katie that had come out, it was my dad, the alpha.
“Daddy!” I screamed happily as I jumped at him. “I’m so happy you’re letting me plan all of this.” I clung to him as he hugged me tightly. I could smell how happy he was, Daddy was always happy.
“Well, I know how much you love parties.” He was right. I loved parties of all kinds. Birthday parties, New Year’s parties, random backyard BBQs, Christmas parties, Weddings, anything. If a bunch of people got together to celebrate something, anything, I loved it. I loved being around people and making people happy with the big celebrations I put together. I didn’t care if the party had anything to do with me or not, I just liked to make people happy at their own parties. This big Christmas al a birthday bash wasn’t just for me. Yes, my birthday was part of it too, but my younger cousin Mina was turning five this year and I wanted to see her eyes light up the most. She was so adorable and when she was excited her eyes went so wide they looked like saucers. How could I resist the urge to make her day special.
“What’s that?” I asked as something tickled my nose. While I had been lost in thought I thought I had heard a rustling in the trees beyond the house and there was that scent again. It smelled amazing, like butterscotch and sugar. It was sweet and it made me think of a party dessert. But most of all it had my wolf screaming in the back of my head.
‘MATE! MATE! MATE! MATE! MATE!’
My wolf was straining at her leash, trying to take control, trying to run off into the wood and find whoever that scent belonged to. I didn’t seem to have the strength or the willpower to stop my wolf as she howled inside my head.
‘MATE! MATE! MATE! MATE! MATE!’
I gave in and let her take the lead. My wolf had her nose to the air and was sniffing away madly.
