The Alphas' Hunter

Chapter 4

I waited in the meadow for the next few weeks following the incident between my third in command and the hunter. The hunter that was supposedly had a rogue child with him.

I wanted to know exactly what kind of a hunter risked shunning from his kin and the rest of hunter community just to care for a rogue pup.

I also wanted to see the hunter himself, after what Blake described he mentioned that the hunter couldn't have been more than nineteen.

Odd, considering hunters normally didn't leave their families homes before the age of twenty-one unless they found their mate. So why would such a young hunter be on his own?

I was about to give up for the day, when I smelled it. Rogue. I took off in the direction I had smelt it from and quickly hid behind a tree as I saw the culprit.

It was like Blake said he saw, a little brownish-red pup. What I saw next to him surprised me, I saw another pup. This one was daintier, and a lot smaller. The build leading me to believe it's a female. She was shying away from the male in a narrow opening between the roots of a tree.

The male had lowered his body to the ground and layed his ear against his body, trying to show her he wasn't dangerous. And then in an almost comical way, he rolled onto his back.

The female pup immediately jumped up and cocked her head at him. I was going to laugh until I heard a snap to my left. It sounded fairly close. I took a glance back to the pups to see the male over the female in protective stance. I rolled my eyes, cocky little bugger.

Like he could protect another let alone himself.

I took off towards the area it had come from only to find myself in field. I turned until I found myself looking at the back of a man. A very sexy back, I thought to myself. Then I noticed all the weapons in holsters all around his waist. I straightened my stance in the light of this discovery, this must be the hunter. And that pup back there was probably his.

I lowered myself as he took a sniff of the air and stiffened. He slowly turned around, what happened in that moment where our eyes met had me wishing that he had never turned around at all, and that I wished he had done it sooner.

This hunter was my mate. The one person I had waited my whole life to find. Somewhere in my head I remembered once telling myself that this was something that could happen.

I accepted two things as my eyes filled with sad, happy, and angry tears: one) I was already in love with the man in front of me, and two) we were both going to die today.

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Ezra shook his head angrily, this wasn't fair. He didn't want a mate sure, but he most definitely didn't want to have to kill him, and soon thereafter himself as well. What would Logan do without him? What would happen if he was gone and he ran into hunters or pack wolves? This isn't fair, he thought again.

He began to cry as he felt his hand reach for his gun of its own accord. He cried harder as he saw his mate shift into human form, his own tears painting his cheeks. He chuckled despairingly, my mate had to also be completely gorgeous. Fate must hate me.

"It's okay," his mate said giving him a small smile. "it's all going to be okay."

"No it's not," he said almost choking on his words, "it's not fair."

Dimitri was going to tell him it was okay again that he loved him and it would be okay. But he stopped when he saw his mate close his eyes, the saddest smile on his face that he had ever seen.