Alpha's Second Chance novel Chapter 4

OLIVIA

The day had been so boring, but because I didn’t want to worry my dad, I had not left the house all day, and eventually, the evening came, and I went to sleep.

“Muffin, wake up.” I opened my eyes, startled, and I saw my dad sitting on my bed, nudging me gently to wake up.

“Dad? What time is it.”

“2:40, we have to go, Muffin. The car is packed. Get clothes on and come downstairs.” He got up and left me to get dressed.

I was confused. Why were we getting up in the middle of the night just to leave now? But I got up and dressed in sweatpants and a hoodie. I wanted to feel comfortable while we traveled. I could feel how Skye was feeling anxious and nervous, and that made me nervous because I had never felt emotions like these from her.

Coming downstairs, it did slip my trained eyes that Matt packed some weapons in a bag. And as wolves, we never use actual weapons. We are a weapon ourselves. So it did not ease my frustration and nervousness to see him pack them.

“Weapons?” I ask, and he looks up, trying to smile but failing.

“To be on the safe side. Dad is in the car. Let’s go.” He tells me.

We walk outside and see dad in the car but with the lights off. We get in Matt in the passenger seat, and I sit in the back. Dad slowly drives away from the house, and I get the feeling that I will never see it again. When we reach the border of our territory, two patrols step forward, together with another tall figure we first can’t see who is. As we get closer, I see it is Carter, and dad rolls his window down a little.

“Mr. Moore. Good to see you got here undetected.” He greets dad, who nods at his words.

“Thank you, Alpha. For everything.” Dad says.

“I am not Alpha yet, so it’s just Carter. I wish you safe travels and a future.”

“Thank you, Carter. You’re a good man.” They shake hands, then dad starts driving again, and soon we are out of the territory, and dad turn on the lights on the car when we hit the main road.

Four hours after we left the territory, dad held into a gas station at tank gas. When he was done and had come back inside the car, he turned to look at me.

“Muffin, I am going to ask you to do something very difficult, and it will make you feel weak for a while until we get to the Blood Moon Pack,” Dad says and looks at me.

“Do what, dad?” I ask him.

“We have to denounce our place as a packmember of the Dark Forest Pack. But it will just be until we get to Blood Moon Pack, then their Alpha will invite us into his Pack.”

“But why? You don’t have to do that just to visit another Pack.” I say, I know something is up, and I want to know.