Jace's POV
"Shift now!" I commanded, some of my Alpha showing through. The rogue lowered its head in submission. The rogue trotted behind a tree and for a few seconds you hear the snapping of bones as the rogue shifts back to its human form. While the rogue was behind the tree I shifted to my human form as well. Seeing the rogue come towards me I immediately noticed two things, first the rogue was female, and second is that she couldn't have been a rogue for more than a few days. "Why are you here? What is your name?" I bark out in my Alpha tone.
"My name is Claire Price." she squeaked, " I came here to see if I could join your pack?"
"Why did you leave your pack?" I asked. Normally wolves only left their packs either because they were power hungry and wanted to be an Alpha, their mate died and they wanted to be alone, or, and this was the most repulsive, their pack beat them.
She kept her eyes trained on her hands fiddling in front of her. "I left my pack because they beat me, even my own family. My older brother was killed in a rogue attack when I was little and my father blamed me for his death along with my pack. The only people that wouldn't beat me was my younger sister and my mother. I'm gonna miss them but they won't get hurt." Claire looked like she was becoming disgusted by what she was thinking. " She's the packs little angel, everyone loves her. In their eyes she can do no wrong while I couldn't do anything right. At least my mom still cared about me, she helped me escape." Her face morphed into one of pain and sadness.
In a way I knew how she felt. I looked at her waiting to see if there was more and the silence that followed showed she was finished and waiting for my response. "You can..." I started to respond when she cut me off. "Its okay, you don't have to accept me to your pack. I'm sorry I came." She got up and started to walk away with her head hung low while I just stood there speechless. Did she just interrupt me? An Alpha? Who interrupts and Alpha? Oh well looks like we'll have our hands full with this one. "Stop! Come back here." I slipped some of my Alpha tone into my command so she had no choice but to obey. Her wolf wasn't strong enough to go against an Alpha. She returned to her previous position in front of me.
"Claire what is your full name?" I asked. I can't believe I'm doing this, I'm going to let her join my pack.
"Claire Marie Price." She said looking at her feet. She probably thinks I'm going to refuse her request I told my wolf River. "Well no duh stupid. You made it seem like you would!"
"Claire Marie Price, I Alpha of the Blue Moon Pack, accept you to join our pack." I stated as if it were nothing. "Come on lets go get you settled in and introduce you to everyone. There will be a welcoming ceremony this Saturday."
"Thank you so much Alpha!" Claire screamed running and giving me a tight hug. "By the way Alpha what is your name if I may ask?"
"My name is Jace." I responded coolly. "Now lets head to the pack house."
She responded with a simple nod as we started walking towards the pack house.
----------------------Three hours earlier---------------------
I really don't like mornings. I'm definitely not a morning person. I couldn't help but think back to a time when my older brother Mason was still here.
~Flashback~
It was my birthday, he snuck into my room with a bucket of ice water and poured it on me. I didn't move, I didn't even know he did it until he jumped on me waking me up. As soon as he jumped on me I responded by pinning him to the floor growling at him to never wake me up again. "Jeez Jace I just wanted to be the first one to say happy birthday to my baby brother." Mason had said innocently but let a smile slip showing how much he wasn't sorry. "Big brother Mason." I said irritation lacing my every word. "I'm going back to bed. When I come down in three hours you can be the first to say it to me then. Good night." I crawled back into bed. "But its not night!" Mason whined. "Its 11 am." I had woken up an hour and a half later to chaos. A rogue attack. I ran down stairs just in time. I was pushed out of the way of an on coming rogue to see my brother fighting off my attacker who within minutes had ripped my brothers throat out with his canines.
