Filed to story: Owned by the Alphas Novel
“Derik doesn’t have a great relationship with them. They’re not the nicest of influences on the council. They believe in keeping wolves pure and prefer the savage side of them.
“They’re also the most traditional there is.”
Anetta sighed before she continued and let me have the truth of it. “They’re the main ones he had to convince to let you stay. They are very against the idea of letting a winter born human anywhere near the city.
“They like the idea of an heir though, they just don’t think you’ll be needed once it’s out of you.”
I sucked in a breath, my mind spinning with the truth bombs she kept giving me. I clenched my jaw, anger coiling through me hot and tight.
His parents wanted my baby without me attached to it? He was arguing on my behalf without giving me the chance to do it myself? So many fucking secrets.
I shook my head and went to turn back, I was going to that fucking meeting, but Anetta grabbed my arm.
“Don’t. Please,” she begged quietly. “If you do, they’ll know it came from me, came from my mate. We’ll both be shamed.
“Please wait until the council have left the mansion to have a tantrum at the alphas for keeping these things from you?”
I hesitated, fighting with my want to go psycho and my affection for Anetta. My affection won out, and I nodded with a heavy sigh, following her again, albeit with a sour face the whole time.
“Why are you telling me these things if you’re not meant to be?” I asked, and she shrugged.
“Because if it was me, I’d want to know. The alphas tell me not to mention all these things when I am to spend the day with you, and I think it’s bullshit. How can you prepare for things to come if you don’t know what those things are?
“I also think Derik needs to just tell his parents to shut the fuck up, but then again, my mate hasn’t had much luck when saying that to them, so it probably wouldn’t even work.”
She snickered, and I let a small smile appear. It made me feel a bit better that at least somebody was being honest and straight with me.
I followed Anetta down path after path, frowning as the streets got quieter.
“Where are you taking me?” I asked, and she pointed ahead to a few buildings bigger than the others.
“That is Main Street,” she said, and I frowned at the buildings, trying to read from a distance with my annoyingly human eyes.
“Hospital. Werewolf training…and is that a daycare place?” I asked, and she nodded.
“Yeah, c’mon. I want to show you what being pregnant looks like for our kind.”
She grinned, and I was all for that, so I went with her past the streets where the houses turned into more commercial-like buildings.
We passed another bar and saw a wolf getting thrown out by a lady with a bandanna in her wild curls, an apron over her khaki dress, and a grin over her fangs. She winked at me as we passed.
“Luna.” She nodded in respect, then sneered at the wolf she had kicked out and walked back into the bar.
Anetta led me straight past with a grin. “Yeah, you’re full-blown luna status now if even Juniper is giving you her blessing.” She laughed.
“I thought it was the council’s blessing that decided that?”
Anetta scoffed. “Pfffft. Yeah, right. The council members all have mates. As much as the men like to show off all their muscles and act all high and mighty, we all know they’d be on their knees in a second for us if we asked. Which means us females really have the power.
“And Juniper? She runs a brothel for the wolves and a bar with booze. She has the most sway among all the non-mated wolves–male and female.”
She smiled and led me up the stone steps of the hospital. I smirked at that and knew she had to be right.
My alphas were just as devoted as that, maybe more so, but it worked both ways. I would be on my knees with them. I wasn’t sure if that made me weaker or stronger.
Anetta led me through the hospital, the stone walls closing in around me, heat flashing up my spine. I sucked in a breath, my palms prickling with sweat.
Anetta caught it and frowned at me.
“Are you okay? Do you need to sit down or something?” she asked, her eyes flicking to my stomach again.
I held it with a gentle hand, cupping it before shaking my head.
“It’s just hot in here. I’m okay.” I smiled, fanning my flushed face, pulling at my dress to unstick it.
She frowned a little at that, her step faltering as she stared at me. She looked like she wanted to say something but decided against it and went to the nursery.
I thought it’d be scary to see, but it was actually just cute as fuck.
Mothers sat in a big room, their babies to their breasts and in their arms. They were talking, laughing, eating. Like a commune or a village.
Like mine when I was human.
Now I was something different, and I didn’t think I would have anything but my mother from that part of me, but looking at how similar that was to what the wolves had reminded me so much of home I was almost sick with it.
My heart clenched, and I smiled tightly. I didn’t need to see any more.
“This is where I will come when the baby is born?” I asked, and she nodded.
“Most actually choose to birth at home but come here during the day for support and help. Our pups get a little demanding, so there’s always hands to help.”
She smiled, and I gave her one back, the idea of being a part of whatever community thing they were sharing making me even warmer.
A bead of sweat trickled down my brow, and I wiped it away, clutching the wall as we made our way out. I blew out a breath, trying to cool down. It was just too hot.
I was dangerously close to saying fuck it and ripping my dress off too. My skin tingled at that, but I ignored it and chased after Anetta, who was already leaving.
“C’mon, there’s someone I want you to meet.”
I followed her to the training building and then behind it, where there was a huge field and a whole lot of wolves fighting in human form. They were training, and they looked lethal.
It was sexy as fuck. So many bodies on display, sweating, breathless. I chewed my lip as my skin tingled again, heat chasing down my spine.
I hoped Anetta didn’t notice how I was affected. I tried to walk with my thighs closer together. Damn, I really missed my alphas.
If she noticed, Anetta didn’t say anything. She led me to a training mat where a woman fought a male, taking him down easily, grinning as she pinned him.
I grinned at how easily she had won, a small gasp escaping my lips as she stood up, a big swollen bump on her. She was pregnant too.
“Demi. This is Lorelai.”
Demi nodded once. “I know who she is,” she said, and I didn’t miss the sneer in her tone.
“She’s pregnant. I thought you could give her some tips on being pregnant with a wolf,” Anetta said, and Demi scoffed.
“The only tip I have for her is don’t keep pretending to be one of us when you are clearly not.”
I sucked in a breath at the tone and frowned at her. Why would Anetta want me to meet this girl who obviously hated me?
“I have never pretended to be,” I said back to her, and she rolled her eyes.
“Sure. That’s why you have our alphas pussy whipped and carry our future heir, poisoning it with your winter born blood,” she growled, and I raised a brow, a flare of heat rushing through my blood.
“Demi,” Anetta snapped before turning to me. “Sorry, Lorelai, I thought my sister had learned some manners by now, but it turns out, she got dropped on her head one too many times.”
“It’s okay. She can have her wrong opinion. I can’t do anything about it, but it will make it that much sweeter when I prove her wrong.” I turned to Demi with the sweetest smile I could manage, and she glared.
I went to talk, to tell her that I was there for the pack and I wasn’t going to fuck everything up, but my words were stolen when a searing heat flared under my spine and under my skin.
My stomach twisted, my throat ran dry, and my pussy clenched. I sucked in a breath and gripped Anetta’s arm, my eyes going wide as I realized what was happening.
“Lorelai?” She frowned, holding me up as my knees buckled.
Demi frowned too, sniffing the air before cursing, a slight moan on her breath before she released an earsplitting howl.
“The heat,” I bit out through the tightening that burned even hotter.
I could barely breathe through it and whined as I relied on Anetta to hold me up, my nails digging into her arm as all the wolves started howling.
“Fuck,” she bit, her own voice breathy. Her mating mark glowed, and I frowned at it.
“It does that every heat?” I snapped, and she nodded, her jaw clenched as she started urging me back the way we came.
“I need to get to my mate, and I have to get you to the alphas,” she urged, helping me along.
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