Alpha Desmond novel Chapter 2

***Present Day***

I walked out of the lower level. Scott, my Beta, reached out to me. Handing me a wet towel, I wiped the blood off my hands and arms. I also tried to wipe my face to remove anything that might have sprayed up. He opened the door for me and I walked into the main floor of our pack house.

“How did it go?” Scott took the towel from me as he closed the door and locked it behind us.

“Enlightening.” I smiled. “Looks like we are going to have a mini raid headed our way.”

I walked over to my desk and sat down. Pulling up my phone, I stuck my ear buds into my ears and leaned back.

‘Alpha Desmond, I hope to hear good news from you.’

“Victor, I’ve got good and bad news. Good news is that I broke him. Bad news is that they are planning on attacking the fey camp just north of here.”

I heard a sigh on the other end of the line. ‘What’s the plan?’

I chuckled, lacing my fingers together and smiled. “We hit them first.”

‘Alright. I’ll grab everyone available and meet you just north of your territory.’ The line disconnected and I pulled the ear buds out of my ears.

I called Scott back in. “Get the warriors. We are going after Alpha James. I’ve got all the proof I need to knock him down a peg or two.”

Scott nodded. “I’ll grab everyone for the raid.”

“Thank you.”

I watched as my Beta left the office. The pack house was quiet now, the screaming I had filtered to the back of my mind for the past few hours had actually been enough to lighten my mood. Grabbing a pen, I started to finish the paperwork sitting on my desk. It was rare I did work at the pack house but since I was here, I might as well revel in the peace and quiet that was not present at home.

My Luna had early on requested that our house be outside of the pack house. Her weak stomach couldn’t handle the screams and cries coming from underneath the pack house. I sighed. I married her because her family was almost as prestigious as mine. Helena was the previous Beta’s daughter and Scott’s older sister. She was the ultimate trophy that I had paraded around when I was younger.

I had never found my mate. After the momentary scent in New Mexico, I never again smelled her. I knew I was destined to be the mateless end to our prestigious family line. Signing the document harder than I meant to, the ink in my pen blotted on the page. I took a tissue and dabbled the extra ink. My signature ‘Alpha Desmond Wright’ scribbled neatly at the bottom of the page. Smiling at the thought, I put the page on the left side pile of the desk.

In everyone else’s story, I’m sure I would be portrayed as the villain and I was happy to play the part. I did anything and everything to keep my pack and my territory safe. Even if that meant pulling out claws, one by one, from captured prisoners. There was no method too gruesome if there was something I wanted. I always got what I wanted.

'Alpha, Helena is waiting out here for you.' Scott mind linked with me.

Sighing, I got up and grabbed the paperwork that was left and tossed it into my briefcase. I took it out with me, looking at my Luna. Her blonde hair was cut at her shoulders and she was wearing this year’s designer dress. She was carrying a pink Louis Vuitton bag on her arm, the most recent gift I gave her. Helena’s green eyes snapped to mine.

“Helena, you know not to interrupt while I’m at the pack house.” I watched her roll her eyes.

“Yes, well I currently don’t hear any screaming so I’m sure it’s fine. We have plans to discuss and I thought I would pull you from this desk to go home and work at your home desk.”

I had an identical office built at our house so I could still feel as though I was working in the same place, ensuring that I worked as optimally as possible. The only difference was the one at home was on the second floor whereas the one at the pack house was on the first floor. Other than that, the desk, clock, filing system and the furniture were exactly the same.

I opened the front door for her and she walked out. “This better not be regarding what I think it is Helena.”

“Your birthday party, of course! It’s not every day our Alpha turns forty.”

I growled. “Every time we talk about it, I feel older and older. I don’t know why we need to make such a big deal about me getting closer to my death.”

She laughed and took my arm. We were walking across the street, a few of the people nodding their heads to us. “Desmond, you need to relax. It’s an opportunity to allow the pack to relax and not feel like you are breathing down their back.”

“Who says I won’t be?”

“The open bar.”

I laughed and patted her arm. “So, after all these years you do know me.”

“Our eighteenth anniversary will be coming up this year as well.”

“You know it means that I should get you an appliance, right? According to the handbook.” I smiled at her look of disgust.

She turned away from me, her chin raised into the air. “If you give me an appliance for our anniversary then you won’t have a nineteenth anniversary.”

“Oh good, I won’t have to get you anything with jade in it.” I smirked as she hit me in the stomach.