The New Alpha Stole My Heart

“How about you let me run loose to the woods for a bit because you promised me last night, Aria?” Bella excitedly chirped, interrupting my thoughts.

I thought Bella wasn’t around since she was silent since I woke up this morning.

“Are you sure? I thought you don’t want me to be on Alpha Hunter’s bad side again. What if we came in late? He didn’t set a specific time to meet me in his office.”

Bella scoffed and became silent again. I looked at how the sun was positioned and spread its rays of light towards our surroundings, including at the plants we passed by as I kept walking now to Hunter’s house. Based on the condition of the surroundings, I could estimate or tell what time it was.

Depending on how plants followed the path of the sunlight, and what animals were doing, it was now easier because I was now back living in a civilized area. It was one of the key takeaways I learned from living on the mountaintop for almost a year. This knowledge came in handy, especially since we didn’t have a way to determine the time before. Maggie taught me how to know it through observing nature.

“I think we can spare several minutes to take a run. I think it’s not even 7 o’clock in the morning yet. Besides, he wasn't around. He should be anywhere near his house since he asked us.”

Bella was still silent, but I felt the gush of her excitement surging in our interconnected souls.

I smiled and went to a nearby huge old tree. I hid behind it and quickly removed all my clothes and swiftly went up to leave all my clothes at the closest tree branch.

Moreover, deep inside, I was ecstatic that Bella wanted to run in the woods for a while. Then I didn’t have to make up a reason to not go to Hunter’s office this soon.

I prepared myself for shifting into my wolf form while I felt the cold breeze of the morning as I went down the tree with all my nakedness. The sounds of my bones cracking echoed and later, My wolf surfaced, flaunting her mystifying and wonderful beauty.

One thing, I could thank Moon Goddess for was my wolf’s magnificence. She was beautifully white, a rare color for she-wolves. Moreover, there was an old legend saying that there was something special with white werewolves because it had been decades before they showed up in werewolf history. But I didn’t know the other stories about it. Besides, Bella wasn’t born with white fur, I had shared before that from grey color, she suddenly shed the color of her fur to this white when I turned seventeen and six months old. Did this have anything to do with us meeting our mate 6 months from now?

It was too early to tell.

I felt flying and refreshed when we ran into the woods. Upon her carefree sprinting from the edge of the woods, Bella suddenly censored another wolf with mixed colors of brown and cream-colored fur not far away than twelve meters away from us. Based on his appearance and smell, he was not one with the assigned pack warriors we got used to seeing around.

Bella made sure to mind-link the other wolf before nearing our distance, saying we weren’t rouges or from the other packs because we were both unfamiliar with each other. The other wolf confirmed he wasn’t alone or a wandering wolf when his orbs glinted a bit, indicating he checked our scent while he was still away from us. We also did the same again because we couldn’t be too sure too if they weren’t from other packs even, they could strongly mind-link us.

Reaching out to the human soul deep inside the wolf, I introduced myself. Maybe it wasn’t bad to have a friend now we were staying in the pack.

“Hi, I am Aria Hemmingwood. Nice meeting you! You and your wolf seem nice. Are you on patrol?”

I greeted through our mind-link, while we were both still in each other’s wolf form.

“Oh, I know you! You were the she-wolf Alpha Hunter performed the pack ritual with, right? Your name is quite popular. It was a pleasure to meet you, Ms. Hemmingwood. I’m Clark Nicholas, and yes, I am actually on patrol,” Clark chattered.

“You can call me, Aria. It’s nice—”

I stopped midways when a loud cry of a child from the restricted area of the woods echoed. It wasn’t restricted for nothing. That place was full of stones, and marshes, and too dangerous for those who haven’t shifted to their wolves.

Bella and Clark’s wolf rushed to the area and were careful not to walk into some of the marshes. “Help me! Mommy! Daddy! I’ll follow you now. I won’t stray away from home and run to the woods! Please, help me!”

As we near the source of the cry, we heard the pup’s voice clearer. He sounded adorable and pitiful at the same time. Through Bella’s eyes, I saw that he was stuck in a marsh, and the boy kept sinking because he kept struggling within it.

Clark’s wolf roared to tell the kid that we were here to save him, but the kid cried louder instead.

“I’ll change into my human form Clark. Spare me a minute. We can’t help him if we are in our wolves’ form,” I mind-linked him.

It didn’t take us minutes before we were back in our human forms, but Clark was still half-naked. He was also good-looking, but he had a softer feature for a guy.

“We’ll save you, pup. I promise. Stop moving or you’ll sink yourself deeper.” I tried to encourage the boy who seemed really scared right now.

“Mommy?” the pup asked. I chuckled and shook my head. Clark stared at me with adoration before I cut his look and asked what our plan was.

“I had an idea, wait.” Clark deliberately made a rope from the materials that could be found in the forest and after some quick two minutes, he finished it before he tied it to a tree. He pulled it to test if it was strong enough to hold his weight and it seemed it could.

He told me his plan and we tried to execute it.

“Little one, please reach for my hands. We’ll get you out of that. Trust me,” I cooed to the boy. Hesitant he still reached for me while I reached for Clark’s hands. He pulled us with his strength, but it wasn’t enough.

“In the count of three. Pulled the kid stronger too.”

“Roger that.”

“One… two… three, pull!”

I felt we successfully pulled the boy out of the marsh and due to inertia, we didn’t estimate where we would land. The pup safely landed on the muddled part, but I fell into a hard and warm thing. I smelled a manly scent and my face immediately flushed with embarrassment.

“I-I’m… I’m sorry, Clark!” I said and was about to get away from his chest. However, a familiar voice boomed and made my body quicker with fright.

“What do you think you are doing here? Isn’t this place restricted? And you even brought a kid here?!”

“Shit! We seemed we had forgotten something, Bella!” I complained and scrunched my nose. I only wanted to come late, but not totally forgot about him. I hurriedly stood up and help the kid get up like Alpha Hunter didn’t catch us in an embarrassing position.

While helping the kid get up, he cried. “I’m sorry, Mommy! Daddy! I’ll not do it again!”

I reached for his face and dried off his tears while Clark got up and report to Alpha Hunter. “Sorry, Alpha we heard someone asking for help and the sound led us to hear. We didn’t mean to break the law.”

Hunter’s face was still dimmed, his face twitched before he furrowed his brows and commanded, “Take the kid to the pack clinic before you bring him to his family.’’

Then he stared at the kid and gave him a warning glare, saying, “Pup, remember to obey your parents and never wander to the forest again. Are we clear?”

The child muffled his cry and nodded. He might have an idea who was speaking to him. Well, he made the right judgment, and I couldn’t blame him because Hunter was giving off a terrifying aura.

“And you, Ms. Hemmingwood. Come with me!” I felt thunder hit me with nervousness when he said that. He was still furious.

“Won’t you explain yourself?” I was about to speak, but he didn’t let me and send some words that left me shaking with irritation. “Let’s talk about that great flirting skill of yours later. Follow me to the office after five minutes, I will check some things first.”

Hunter immediately dashed away, leaving me clenching my fist.

For a man, he had such a tactless mouth. I bridged my brows together and hurriedly retrieved my clothes before I came in late again and received another hurtful remark.

Hope I can stay calm in his office.