You're Mine

6: My Father's Successor

Alexander's POV

I rolled over in my bed to see my alarm clock that read 4:30 am.
2 more hours. Please sleep.
Then, after what felt like an hour had passed I rolled over again to see 4:32 am.
I can't take this.
Immediately, my entire body was covered in goosebumps. I had to miss school yesterday for some pack business that my father wanted me to be a part of. We met with the aplha of a neighboring pack and my father let him know that we would be transitioning myself into the alpha position over the next couple of years and in 2 years time, at the latest, I would be the alpha of the Dark Moon Pack. But ever since Sapphire, Sienna, Kobe, and Christian got home from school yesterday, I've had the worst feeling being around them. Especially Christian, even his scent was sending me over the edge last night. My wolf was in pain and I was feeling a mix of so many different emotions.
Fine, let's go for a run.
I took off my shirt & started to get out of bed. My muscles felt strange all over my body, it was almost as if I was a stranger inside of my own body. I lifted myself up with my arms & watched my muscles flex involuntarily before a tingling feeling overtook my arm. My body felt like every muscle I had was twitching. I stood up and rose to my toes, in my mirror I could see all of my leg muscles flexing & then tingling. It was hard to stay on my feet and I could feel my muscles ripping apart.
What is going on?
My wolf unsurprisingly didn't respond yet again, he had been leaving me in the dark all night. I climbed out to the small rooftop balcony outside my room and jumped over the banister. My body exploded into a large dark wolf and I felt the ground shake beneath my paws when I landed.

I was bigger than my dad now. In human form, I was about 210lbs and even surprised myself by my muscle composition, just like my dad, so he had about 20lbs on me, but in wolf form I had finally surpassed him. Many of the older pack members had told me countless times that Clayton Thompson was the biggest wolf they'd ever seen until he had a son; that would be me. But still, as powerful as I felt in this form, I was confused because my wolf had never acted like this before. I was running faster than I'd ever ran before and I could feel my muscles ripping apart and building back up to be bigger than they were before. Everything felt strange and then I noticed my wolf's body starting to shake.
What is going on?
I ran and the feeling continued. I didn't have control of my wolf anymore & I couldn't stop running. The sound of my muscles ripping made me cringe internally as I wondered if I would suffer the consequences of the pain my body was undergoing after I shifted back to human form, but right now I just needed to take the edge off and do whatever it took to feel normal again.

Throughout my run I started getting these abstract visions of our land and our pack. It was so confusing to me, watching my life unfold from this point of view in my mind. Then, suddenly, all of my physical pain began shifting to an uncontrollable rage. I couldn't figure out why I was so out of control and emotional, but it did feel like it was stemming from my wolf. It was like he knew something that I didn't or was keeping something from me. I pondered what it could be as I felt my humanness crying tears of anger to my wolf, then the next thing I knew, my wolf collapsed. I laid there for a minute and then shifted back to human form involuntarily. My muscles in my arms & legs felt as if they had gotten bigger but I couldn't tell if they had actually grown or if I just couldn't stop flexing because of the sudden and dramatic shifts. Everything felt swollen as I got up off the ground and began walking back towards my house. I grabbed a pair of shorts from a tree in my yard and easily climbed up the rope I hung for easier access to my roof.

After slipping into my room, I plopped down onto my bed.
Beep beep. Beep beep. Beep beep.
My mind was overwhelmed at the idea that it was already 6:30am. Now I was expected to get ready and go to school after this. I considered missing another day of school. This was exactly why my pack had influence over the school, for these very moments, to protect us and lessen the strain that these transitional seasons had on the younger wolfs of our pack.