Filed to story: Luna Lovette and Alpha Kodak Story
“I’ve found my mate,” she declared in a steady voice.
“Your mate?” he repeated tonelessly. “What the hell are you talking about, girl?”
“You’re not happy for me, Daddy Dearest? Why am I not surprised?”
Lance fixed his glare on Kodak. “Let go of my daughter.” There was a slight tremor to his voice that betrayed his nervousness.
“That’s not going to happen.”
“What’s your game here? We all know she isn’t your mate. What would you want with her, with a latent?”
“Careful,” said Kodak in a deceptively patient voice, not liking the derogatory way he had spoken of Lovette.
“You want to trade her for some of my land, is that it?”
Kodak laughed, and it wasn’t a nice sound. “If I wanted some of your territory, I’d have challenged you Alpha to Alpha. And, believe me, I’d have won.”
“Well if this isn’t about territory then what the hell is this all about?”
“Um, Alpha,” began Richie, “we all just saw what happened. It looked like true mates finding each other.”
Relief washed over Lovette as she saw many of the wolves around them nodding their agreement with Richie.
“No!” insisted Lance. He pointed hard at her. “You’re doing this just to spite me, you little bitch!”
“Hey,” snapped Kodak as he advanced a step toward Lance. “Be very, very careful. Paper thin fucking ice.”
Lovette almost shivered. The words had been delivered in such a lethal, authoritative tone that her dad had actually resisted the urge to snap back at him. “The decision was taken out of anyone’s hands by nature itself, Dad.”
“Nature? If you’re talking about your rebellious nature, then yeah, nature is what caused this. You’re doing it to get out of mating with Roscoe. We both know that Joey was your true mate.”
“I thought so too, but as unbelievable as it might seem, I was wrong.” God, it hurt to say that.
“No. I remember the way you were when he died. You wouldn’t talk, barely ate, never left the house. You were like that for over six months.”
“That was probably a lot to do with me having lost my mom in the very same accident.”
He went to take a step toward her but Kodak’s growl halted his advance. He snarled at Kodak. “Even if the kid wasn’t her true mate it makes no difference, she’s already mated! She’s mated to Roscoe Weston.”
“As I said to your enforcer, if that had been true, I wouldn’t have been able to claim her.”
“Well I think you’ll find Roscoe will disagree with you on that. And so do I. She’s coming home with me.” He signalled to Perry and Oscar to grab her.
“Try it,” bit out Kodak, his face like thunder and his eyes flashing with anger. “I can guarantee you won’t like what happens.” Wisely, the enforcers didn’t try it.
“What are you waiting for?” Lance growled at Perry and Oscar.
Oscar shrugged. “It’s like Richie said. We saw what happened, it sure looked like true mates -“
Lance shook his head. “There’s something I’m missing here.”
Lovette used his own words against him. “With your view of the world, I would have thought you’d have found this easy enough to accept. According to you, a wolf wouldn’t want a latent for a mate unless he had no choice in the matter.”
“That’s true,” said Lance with a snicker. “I don’t even know why Roscoe wants you, why anyone would.”
A second later he was pressed against the wall with Kodak’s hand around his neck. “It’s almost as though you want me to rip your throat out,” he growled, fighting his wolf from surfacing and doing just that. He hadn’t wanted there to be any violence, but Lovette had been right. Although they weren’t true mates and this whole thing was to be temporary, his wolf wasn’t hung up on those details, wasn’t held back by them. His wolf was an elemental being who acted mostly on instinct, and since he’d marked Lovette Warner, his wolf regarded her as his. His to protect, to comfort, to shelter, to possess. And Kodak agreed.
This whole thing hit too close to home, making Kodak think of his own father. His dad had been pretty attentive and protective…right up until the Seer within the pack, when Kodak was just five, had told his dad that Kodak would one day usurp his position as Alpha. After that, his father had pretty much disowned him and left his care to his maternal grandmother – when he wasn’t busy taunting him or using him as a punchbag. His mom had tried to fix the divide between them, but she was too much of a submissive wolf to have had any influence on his father.
“Get the hell off me!”
“But I’m comfortable here.” Watching Lance try to glance around, Kodak smiled. “No one’s going to help you. Unlike you, they know better than to try to get between mates. Says a lot about you as an alpha if no one is willing to offer their life for yours.”
“She’s my daughter -“
“And she’s my mate. She’s mine.
New Book: Veiled Desires of the Alpha King Novel
Dayson was the alpha of the largest pack in North America. Powerful figures from other packs sought to offer gorgeous girls as potential mates for Dayson. He steadfastly rejected these advances, he was not a pawn to be manipulated. But eventually there came a mysterious girl he could hardly say No. Who was she?