The Wolf’s Fate

“Who wants a broken mate after all?" Lucas sneered at me, with hatred in his eyes.

 "I will rather remain mate-less, than to be married to someone like you Lucas; you disgust me!" I fired back.

 Both of us glaring at each other, making it obvious that we could not stand the sight of each other.

 Lucas was the junior brother of the Alpha of the Ice-crest moon pack, powerful and feared by everyone including our neighboring wolf packs.

He is the chief warrior of the Ice-crest wolf pack, and has bagged many different laurels to this credit. He is notorious bully, who uses his position to lure innocent young girls to bed and to those who refused his biddings, he will forcefully take and nobody dares question him.

On several occasions, he had attracted inter-tribal wars to the pack because of this his notorious act, and in almost of all the occasions, he had emerged winner due to his powers and the powerful alliances he had gotten for the pack.

And after such inter-tribal wars, he would come back to the pack triumphantly with captives who would later become slaves in the palace. I was not born of royal blood, but I was raised and I grew up in the palace.

My late father, Alpha Sapphire was the leader of my wolf pack, the smallest family in Ice-crest clan, who is not too many in number nor powerful enough to protect our territory.

 When I was barely 8 years old, a war broke out in our clan which took the life of my father, and caused the loss of my pack family. And the Alpha-king; Alpha Magnus seized our family land and declared it a possession of the royal family, and also took my mother in and made her one of his wives.

And on my mother's request, he allowed me come live in the palace with my mother and I was raised as one of the members of the royal family.

 Living in the palace then was very difficult for me, especially whenever I remembered that my father died because of the Alpha-King and my family inheritance taken away from us by him, I couldn't help but feel even more hatred for him.

With the help of my mother, who is now one of the king’s wife, and the maids and royal servants of the palace who loved and cared for me due to my mother's kindness towards them, I began to loosen up and lived freely in the palace.

 "There is no point in crying over spilled milk Naomi, Alpha Magnus is kind enough to take us in as members of his family instead of slaves; why not let us enjoy these moments while it lasts, especially when we cannot do anything about it". My mother had said to me on one of those days I was still rigid about our stay in the palace.

 "I will grow up someday, and I will fight and take back my father's inheritance". I had responded.

This made my mother to smile, and we made light the situation at that moment. The royal family eats together, in the huge dining table in the dining area; huge enough to contain more than a dozen people at the same time.

And whenever we have dinner together, certain family decisions are taken there and everybody's opinion of the matter is always welcomed.

 Most times, the issues troubling the pack are discussed here too; especially when Lucas is back from war and is around to have dinner with the family.

 "So Lucas, how did the meeting with the elders of Night-Shade City go?" The Alpha had asked Lucas one evening while the family was having dinner.

 "The meeting went well, Chief Keeve finally agreed to go into alliance with our pack and is ready and willing to render help in any way he can to us on demand. And to further portray his sincerity, he has requested that a day be fixed for the two families to meet at a party, and his sons would pick a wife from the daughters of our family". Lucas had said, a proud smile of achieving an assignment dancing round the corner of his mouth as he munches on his food.

"Wow, this is great! Even better than I had expected". The alpha said, laughing heartily. The love and trust Alpha Magnus had for his junior brother Lucas was immeasurable. He always has this confidence whenever Lucas was to execute any assignment, and he did it to perfection.

 The Alpha always obliged to every of Luca's request, no matter what it was, and will always support him in everything. Hence Lucas would always go Scot free even when he committed any of his notorious activities.