Royals

Chapter Eleven

Jordan watched as Alyssa made her way to the ballroom and wondered for the millionth time since he met her, What happened in her past?

He shrugged it off, knowing that she would tell him when she's ready.

He followed her into the ballroom and they both took their places at the front.

"Royal Blue Moon Pack," Jordan started, "You all have been called here because I have found my mate, your Alpha Queen." Alyssa took a step forward and gasps went up around the crowd.

Well, guess they know who Alyssa is.

"You will all treat her as though you are speaking to me. Am I clear?"

Murmurs of agreement went up through the air and Alyssa spent the rest of the morning greeting different wolves, although only one person avoided her all together.

She trailed them, not getting a good look at their face. It was masked by the shadow of their hoodie.

She used the tactics that Paxton had taught her and finally the mysterious person left the ballroom.

Alyssa quickly followed them out but almost instantly lost track of them.

She scanned the nearby area but they were nowhere to be seen. She let out a long and loud string of curses.

Jordan quickly found her and asked,

"They get away?"

She nodded and said,

"I'm going for a run, please don't follow me."

Alyssa turned on her heels and walked away. She felt his eyes on her the entire way down the hall but didn't once look back.

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Alyssa was well past Royal Pack territory and Jordan would have her head for it later but she needed this run.

Sometimes, and only for a moment, did she wish that Paxton was here. To guide her, tell her what to do, help her. But then everything else he did came flooding back and her hatred came back quickly.

Alyssa's head snapped up when she heard the rustle of leaves. She crouched into a fighting position and moved to where the noise came from.

She came around a large tree only to find a small pup laying there.

Alyssa quickly shifted and cautiously moved towards the pup.

The wolf pup couldn't be more than 2 years old which shocked her because most wolves didn't shift until age 6 or 7. The earliest reported was a 1 year old she-wolf.

"Hey buddy." She said in a soft voice. "Can you shift for me?"

She realized that the wolf in control probably didn't know what she meant. So Alyssa shifted in and out of her wolf form in demonstration.

The pup caught on and shifted into human form. A young boy stood in front of Alyssa and she looked around the forest.

To her memory, no packs lived nearby and when she smelled the air she realized that the poor boy was a rogue.

He also didn't have any clothes because he just shifted. Alyssa started to think and eventually she shrugged off her leather jacket and took off her shirt before putting the jacket back on. She zipped up the front before putting the too large shirt onto the boy.

Cupping her hands together, Alyssa sang out a bird call and was met with a howl of reply. She knew the wolf as Xavier's.

But there was another one too. One she prayed was a figment of her imagination.

Mason Wilder.