Chapter 179
Fated To The Alpha by Jessica Hall Chapter 179
When we got home it was nearly dinner time. Derrick and Jonah picked dinner up on the way home but
Andrei didn’t even acknowledge them, instead racing to his office and shutting the door. Jonah was
trying to show him something, but Andrei was too distracted to notice. Luckily Jonah quickly forgot as
Derrick distracted him and pulled him into the living room and put a kids movie on. I watched for a bit
while eating dinner but after an hour curiosity got to me. I could hear crashinging from the office. I
heard him on the phone multiple times, and heard him talking to Kat, Ezra. Some man from the city, the
one who gave us the news, the one who said we couldn’t keep Jonah safe here with us. Andrei was
raging but most of all what he felt was fear, the same as me. Fear for what would happen to our Jonah.
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It was killing me wondering what would happen to him, he was such a bubbly boy despite all he lived
through, despite what he lost, he always smiled. Now I wondered if his new home would be warm,
would it be safe, would he have enough to eat, would he be happy, would he thrive but most of all
would he be loved because I loved him, the pack loved him, Andrei loved him. Jonah has no idea the
handprints he has left on everyone’s heart here.
He was the light after so much darkness, this pack suffered but Jonah kept them on their toes, made
themugh. Jonah filled us with hope. He was the hope I had that we could be a family. He was the
hope that made us all want to keep fighting. It was because of him, the pack came alive again.
“Is Mr Andrei ok?” Jonah whispers from where he was sitting on myp. He yawns tiredly and I nod.
Malik tried to calm Andrei down, His father did, but they were just as devastated. Malik ran from the
ce with tears trailing down his face.
Getting up, I tuck the nket around Jonah. He watches me leave and Derrick moves sitting by his feet
while I wander down the hall to the office. I push the door open and Andrei was arguing with someone
on the phone over temporary custody, or asking to at least be able to check the living conditions. His
words make me more nervous.
What had set him off sopletely.
He has been on the phone since we got home, has not left the office and for the most part I was too
afraid to know. I wait for him to get off the phone and he tosses it on the desk falling into his chair
heavily.
“ I don’t know what to do, we never should have told anyone we found him” He says staring off.
He swallows his eyes red and puffy like he had been crying and I move closer not knowing whether I
should touch him or not but when I step closer he pulls me on hisp, pressing his face into my
shoulder des. I stare at the printed pieces of paper on his desk.
My heart sinks when I see a photo of a man. But not just any photo, it was a mugshot. His crimes
ranged from petty theft, to assault. Domestic violence and he even had one for fraud. Clive Steed.
There was also some information on his family.
Sister Melissa Marie Steed. Going over the documents I found the domestic violence report, there were
multiple and most were against his own mother and his younger sister. Car theft, the list never ending
and I was shocked to see he actually spent time in a human prisons too, that was the first time I had
ever heard of a werewolf spend time in a human correctional facility but said he did three years for
kidnap and shooting his sister in the leg and breaking her arm.
“He can’t go with this man” I whisper, picking up the picture with his mugshot again. He had greasy
dark hair and resembled a thug, with his beard and tattoos on his face. What I found most disturbing
though was the way he smiled in his mugshot like it was some joke, that he was better than not only
packws but human ones too..
“The mother’s brother?” I ask and Andrei nods against my shoulder.
“He has no money, in fact he owes nearly a hundred look to some pretty fucked up people. But despite
all that, he is blood I am not. We can’t do anything. Kat and Ezra have spent nearly all night, trying to
find away for us to keep him”
“Can’t kat overrule him?” I ask, she is Queen after all.
“Kat’s livid, even she said what use is being Queen if she couldn’t overrule. But she would have to
change Packw and that takes time. After everything with Dominic, no one will vote in her corner until
she proves herself, Laws are written in bloody treaty’s and expected to be upheld until changed or
revised. She goes against it, we could start wars with every pack for abusing her authority”
“But she canmand them, ” I tell him.
“It’s more than that Sage, it’s Pack politics, you can’t just do what you want without reason because
you are stronger, not without severe repercussions”
“But he is a bad person”
“Some would say I am too, Sage. It doesn’t matter what he did, byw he has paid for those crimes
and is free now, he is blood to Jonah and the only living rtive and hasn’t broken any of his orders
since being released 2 years ago. Besides his debt they have nothing on him”
“So we just let him go, let this man take him. The same man that beat his own mother and sister.
What’s saying he won’t do those things to Jonah?” I ask appalled. I felt sick, this couldn’t be
happening.
“No, he can’t go with him” I tell him, getting up. We could run with him, hide him, anything has to be
better than letting him go with this horrid man.
“We have no choice, Sage. He isn’t ours”
“He is, you found him. His uncle didn’t even know he was missing, please. We can run with him” Andrei
shakes his head.
“We have a pack Sage, it’s not that simple ” Andrei says, cing his head in hands.
“We will get him back, we just have to wait. It will just take time” He breathes rubbing his temples.
“How much time?”
“I don’t know,” He says, running his fingers
through his hair. I was shaking in anger, in fear for him. Andrei gets up walking out of the room. I follow
after him and he stops before walking into the living room. Despite how tired Jonah was, he instantly
sat up, a big smile on his face when Andrei sat beside him.
“Jonah, do you know how to use a phone?” Andrei asks him. I lean on the doorframe watching. Derrick
jumps off the couch walking away. He returns with his phone, it was an older button model which would
be simple for a kid to use, no passwords.
“No” Jonah tells him.
“Give him mine” Derrick says, going through it and erasing everything on it.
“He still needs to know the number in case he loses this” Derrick tells Andrei who nods.
“Jonah I need you to listen okay, we are going to show you how to use the phone, so you can ring us”
“Why do I need to ring you, you are next to me?” Jonahughs and I look at the ceiling trying to
swallow my emotion.
“Because tomorrow you are going to a new home, so you need to know how to use a phone ok”
“A new home? but I want to stay here” Jonah says, looking over the couch at me and I couldn’t handle
his tear filled eyes.
“It’s only for a short time, then youe back here, but you use the phone, get me a pen and paper”
Andrei says looking behind him and Derrick rushes off before returning. Andrei writes his mobile
number on it. I had doubts about how a child of his age was going to remember a 10 digit number when
some adults couldn’t.
“ I don’t want to ring you, I want to stay. I want to stay here” Jonah says, crying and tossing the
phone. Andrei grips his face.
“Stop, I need you to do this. I can’t be with you when you go”
“Go where?” Jonah asks.
“With your Uncle Clive”
“Clive, Clive ” he whispers, his eyes going wide like he suddenly remembered the face that went with
the name. Jonah shakes his head, crying harder and Andrei tries to calm him down.
“He made mum cry, he took our house, I want to stay here, please let me stay, I will be good” Jonah
says.
“He ising to get you tomorrow” Jonah starts shaking his head smacking Andrei’s hands.
“Listen Jonah, stop and listen to me, I will get you back, I promise but I need you to show me you can
use this phone. That you can ring us, if you need us”
“You promise, I cane back home?” Jonah says, tears spilling on Andrei’s hands. He holds his
shaking pinky up and Andrei looks at his tiny pinkie in the air before wrapping his around Jonah’s.
“I swear to you, I will bring you home. I won’t let him keep you, you are ours but you need to go and
behave, until I can get you back, but I will get you back” Andrei tells him and Jonah’s sobs turn to
hups and he nods.
Jonah sniffles, tears staining his face as Andrei tries showing him how to use the phone before telling
Jonah to do it. Once he had sessfully used the phone by himself and rang Andrei’s number 10
times, Andrei tried to get him to memorize the number. It was impossible, Andrei tried for hours and it
was nearly midnight. Jonah yawning and his eyes fluttering only for Andrei to wake him.
“Andrei, no more” I tell him.
“He needs to remember the number” Andrei snaps at me, bing frustrated. I know it was out of fear
but Jonah was falling asleep.
“Sage is right, he is exhausted, let him sleep. Try in the morning” Derrick tells him. Andrei nods letting
Jonahy back down. He tucks the nket back around him but remains by his side. Derrick pats my
shoulder pulling out the sofa bed when I hear a soft knock on the door. My eyes were raw from so
much crying and I sucked in a breath walking over to the door and opening it.
Malik, Casen, Vince, Nora. Zane about 20 people were at the door with pillows and nkets. My heart
clenched at the sight of their broken faces. I push the door open wider letting them in and they all file
into the living room surrounding the couch making themselvesfortable on the floor.
Derrick chucks more logs on the fire and as I go to close the door my throat restricts when I see the
entire packying on the ground out front. They couldn’t fit in the packhouse they knew that, but they
wanted to guard their boy. Their Jonah. The little boy they all spent hours hunting for, chasing after, the
little boy that took a broken pack and put them back together reminding them how to smile andugh. I
leave the door open before going back to the couch. Andrei moves over and I climb in behind Jonah
tucking his body against mine.
“We will bring you home, we won’t give up, you have a huge family here fighting for you Jonah, you
are pack, you are ours” I whisper to him before pressing my lips to his forehead and closing my eyes.