Alpha Theo

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AUTHOR'S NOTE:

*Before you begin, please note that this is only a seven-chapter sample of my book, Alpha Theo. The full book is available for purchase on Amazon Kindle.*

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Theo

I'm dreaming when the blare of my alarm clock jolts me awake, its high-pitched beep delivering an instant headache. I paw for it on my nightstand, fingers clumsily searching for the snooze button. Instead, I knock the damn thing onto the ground, the beeping only growing louder as it echoes off of the cement floor.

Fuck.

Guess I'm up now.

I blink sleep from my eyes, slowly adjusting to the dim light spilling in through the slit in the curtains on my window. The light intensifies my headache. I tied one on last night, and even my shifter healing hasn't quite caught up to this hangover yet.

I grumble as I kick the sheets away from my body, sitting up and leaning over to retrieve the alarm clock from the floor. I want to smash the fucking thing, but I hit a bunch of buttons instead, the incessant beeping finally ending. Groaning, I set it back on my nightstand, focusing in on the red glow of the numbers. 7:00 a.m.

Why Gray had the bright idea to schedule this meeting so early in the morning, I'll never know. He's the leader of the security squad, a team of fighters assembled to protect the six-pack territory: six separate and distinct packs of wolf shifters, brought together for a common purpose- survival. We aligned years ago to increase our ranks and protect ourselves from some crazy asshole alpha who was targeting, attacking, and absorbing smaller packs.

Gray's pack was almost a casualty of that lunatic Alpha Xavier and his shadow pack. Some of them were able to escape, and not long after, they linked up with another pack which eventually led to the formation of the six-pack. I was fucking thrilled when the other five packs united with mine and settled into the surrounding territory, making our little corner of the world feel so much larger. I've always felt too big for my small town.

Another bonus to the formation of the six-pack is the fact that it brought me my closest friends- Gray, Brock, Jax, and Reid. All of us are either alphas of our packs or will be one day, so it was easy for the five of us to form a bond with so much in common. When Gray started the security squad, he urged me and the others to come help him take charge of it. The day I graduated high school, I packed my shit and moved to the complex to help Gray get the squad up and running. Jax, Brock, and Reid joined us shortly thereafter, and the rest is history.

I don't know what I would've done if the squad wasn't there for me to go to after high school. Things were rough at home- my dad's a total hardass and nothing I ever did was good enough for him. It's still not. Out of the five of us alphas who run the squad, two of them already run their own packs and another will be running his by the end of the summer. But me? I doubt my dad will ever step down as alpha to let me take over. He always says I'm not ready, not mature enough, even though being Alpha of the Summervale pack is my goddamn birthright.

At this point, I've stopped trying to prove to my dad why I deserve to run our pack. He's made it abundantly clear that I'll never measure up, and he can go fuck himself if he thinks I'm going to change everything about who I am just to fit the mold of who he wants his son to be. He wants me to be someone I'm just... not.

Still, I don't need the formal title to enjoy the alpha perks. I may not run my pack yet, but as a future alpha I've got all of the clout, none of the responsibility. Females throw themselves at me constantly, itching to spend a night with an alpha, and I happily oblige them. I've fucked my way through half the girls on the squad, all eager to invite me into their beds. I can get any woman I want, and I'm always gone by morning.