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Sophie
“May I have your attention, please?” Amelia asks, her tone quiet, but firm. The room responds
immediately.
“We have all been through a massive ordeal, one that is trying and heart–breaking. But these are
the times when we, as a pack and as a family, pull together to be stronger, strengthening our
bonds to our pack and each other. I know you are all feeling the loss of my parents. Our parents,”
she says, turning to smile at me, “but I don’t want you to feel that you are alone. I have decided that,
as the oldest child of Alpha Carter and Luna Amy, I will take my ce as your Alpha.‘
Instantly the room begins murmuring and chatter begins among the pack. Behind me, I hear Calvin
suck in a breath. I nce at him as Amelia raises a hand for quiet.
“I know that it’s unorthodox for a woman to be Alpha, but as my father did not have a male heir, and
this pack needs a leader, I am willing to take over the role.”
“For how long?” someone in the room asks.
“That I don’t know, but I’m willing to remain in this position until such time as I have a son who can
take over the role of Alpha.”
“Amelia…” Calvin says. He steps up on her other side, taking her `arm. “Amelia, stop this. We need
to talk about this.”
“No, Alpha Calvin, we don’t,” she says, turning back to the pack.
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“Will you support me, as your Alpha?” she asks the room.
I see the pack’s uncertainty. Amelia is already a Luna of another pack. This isn’t just unprecedented
because she’s a woman, she’s also a leader of another pack.
“I support my sister as Alpha of this pack,” I say, my voice ringing out loudly.
“I support Alpha Amelia as–leader of this pack,” Beta Matthews says, standing his mate right beside
him.
“Damn straight I support her! It’s about time a woman became Alpha,” Nikki says, standing up, a
smiling Robin standing beside her.
“I support Alpha Amelia,” he says, wrapping an arm around his mate.
Hunter smiles at me as he stands. “I support Alpha Amelia as leader of this pack.”
The other Alphas and Lunas all stand and give Amelia their backing as does the rest of the pack.
When the entire room is on its feet, Amelia addresses them again. “Thank you all for your support. I
know the Alphas and Lunas here must return to their packs today. But I would ask that you stay just
a bit longer while I am formerly inducted as the Alpha of this pack,” she says to them.
We all agree and as Calvin pulls Amelia aside, Hunteres up to me, making sure that I’m okay
and that I know that he’s here for me. I hug him tightly, feeling even more sorrow for my sister who
doesn’t have this with her mate. My sister is so much
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stronger than most people give her credit for, mistaking her kindness for weakness.
When the stage is set, I stand beside Beta Matthew, watching as Amelia makes her way to the
stage. I notice that her hands are holding her stomach as she walks, and I wonder if the baby is
moving around a lot.
When she arrives on the stage, Beta Matthews holds the cup, as I lead the ceremony and give
Amelia the words to say. As Alphas, we both know them, but it’s tradition for someone to have the
new Alpha repeat the words in front of the pack. Usually, it’s the outgoing Alpha having their son
repeat the words, but today, it’s me and Amelia. My sister’s words ring out strong and true and there
is no hesitation in her. She has made her decision.
Beta Matthews slices her palm and lets her blood drip into the cup. I suddenly realize that her
connection to her mate will snap when the first person drinks her blood and epts her as their
Alpha. They will still have the mate bond, but he will no longer be her Alpha.
I panic, looking over at Hunter. Amelia can’t show any weakness up here on stage.
‘She rejected him before she came out. That’s why she was a little unsteady on her feet,‘ he says to
me in the mind link.
I look back at my sister, even more impressed with her now, knowing what she just went through.
It was better than having her react on the stage in front of everyone,‘ Hunter says, confirming my
thought. But it still doesn‘ t mean that my sister isn’t suffering and no one, not even me,
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I stand beside her, silently giving her my strength, as the packes forward, epting her as their
Alpha. As each person epts her, I feel her strength increasing and when thest person drinks,
you’d never know that she just rejected her Alpha a couple of hours ago.
“My pack,” she says, addressing the group. “This is no time for celebration, unfortunately. We are all
still grieving, and we must protect our borders from another attack. I will be working with Beta
Matthews to look over our patrols and I will be asking Beta Caroline to begin running safe room drills
at once. We need to be safe and you, my pack, are my first priority.”
I look around, but Calvin is nowhere to be seen. I wonder how
he’s handling all of this. Part of me wants to feel sorry for him, but the other part feels like he
brought this on himself. His selfishness and greed have lost him his mate, possibly forever.
When she walks off the stage, Amelia thanks all of the Alphas and Lunas who came to support us
during our grief, thanking everyone again for being here and supporting her.
When it’s time for us to go, I hug my sister tightly. “If you need anything, you let me know,” I tell her.
“I’ll be needing a new alliance between our packs,” she says to me, then looks at Hunter.
“And you’ll have it. Let me know when you’re settled and we’ll talk,” he says.
“We’ll also be including you in our Alpha meetings now, Alpha Amelia,” Dutton says.
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“Of course, please include me on any meetings or alliance discussions and I will be there,” she
says. I can tell that everything is starting to weigh on my sister. She’s still dealing with her grief,
she’s pregnant, she rejected her mate as her Alpha, she took her oath as an Alpha and has taken
on the responsibility of being the leader of this pack, a job she never wanted. I pull her into another
hug.
“You can do this. You are stronger than you know,” I whisper to her. She nods, squeezing me tightly
before letting me go and stepping back.
“I’ll call soon,” I tell her, and she nods again, waving goodbye to us and the others as we drive
away.
“Will she be okay?” I ask Hunter. Ezra and Luna June are in the
backseat, returning to the pack with us.
“She has a long road ahead of her,” Hunter says. “But we’ll support her in any way we can, Soph.”
“Where was Alpha Calvin? I didn’t see him after the ceremony started,” I say.
“He left. After she rejected him as her Alpha, he left, unwilling to watch her take her oath as Alpha of
another pack,” Ezra says.
“But he’s the one who suggested it!” I say, shocked.
“He obviously hadn’t considered the ramifications of his greed. It’s not umon for Alphas to want
something and to not think it through before pushing ahead,” Luna June says softly.
“Not all Alphas are like that,” Ezra says to her.
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“No, but Alpha Calvin just got an ugly lesson on the negative side of greed. I just hope that he isn’t a
vindictive man,” she
says.
I see Ezra and Hunter press their lips together tightly.
“Why? What would he do?” I ask.
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Hunter reaches out and takes my hand. “She didn’t reject him as her mate, Soph, only as her
Alpha”
“And?” I ask.
“If he decides he wants to make her suffer for rejecting him, he could cheat on the mate bond,
weakening her and possibly making her lose her pup,” Luna June says to me, sadness in her
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eyes.
“Would he do that?” I ask Hunter, quietly, sickened at the thought of my sister having to suffer more
than she is.
“Calvin’s…an unknown. He’s been leaning toward our side of making change, but he obviously still
has some old–school ideas about what and how things should happen. He could go either way,
Soph. He could ept his own part in this, or he could me Amelia and want to make her pay for
what he would consider embarrassing him.”
“Either way, it will be hard for him to return home without his Luna. His pack will go into mourning,
some may want to leave him. Just based on my interactions with your sister, I’m quessing that her
pack adores her, nearly as much as your pack adores you. If that’s the case, they may me Calvin
for not being able to keep their Luna, and may turn against him,” Ezra
says.
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I sit back, thinking about the mountain that my sister has to climb.
“I wish there was more that I could do to help her,” I say softly.
Hunter pulls my hand to his lips. “Well do everything we can, Sophie.”
I nod, getting lost in my own thoughts the rest of the way home.
When we arrive, Ezra leaps out of the car. “I’m going to shower and then I want to go check on
Margot. If you need me, I’ll be in the pack hospital.”
We walk inside, and introduce Luna June to everyone, making sure we have a room set up for her.
Ezra has barely made it to the stairs to his room when we hear her.
“WHERE IS HE? WHERE IS THAT ALPHA ASSHOLE?”
Ezra stops, and turns back, a slow smile spreading across his face.
“There’s my sweet mate now.”