The Alpha's Young Mate novel Chapter 44

Clayton's POV

I woke early the next morning and gathered the trackers to go searching for my sister again. We didn't find anything — like all the other times.

After searching we went home and right away my wolf was freaking out about Rose's safety and health. I haven't seen her all day, so I decided to go to her room to see if she was there. But nope, she wasn't.

I panicked and ran downstairs - finding she is not there either, but I ran into Damon. Damon looks at me and says, "Everything alright alpha?"

"Where is Rose?"

Suddenly, without having to have him answer, I knew exactly where she is. Strange.

He smiles at me, "Training." I let out a sigh of relief as that is what I thought, but soon I am not calm anymore as I realize who she is training with.

I growl before I quickly turn and run out of the house to the training center. When I get there I see Rose working on her Fighting skills as she throws punches at Drake and kicks him.

I feel proud of her as she punches him right in the jaw before he could dodge it. My little mate is learning to be a strong wolf. My proudness then fades as I realize — I wanted to be the one to train her.

I walk over to them and they both stop what they are doing. Rose smiles at me while Drake glares.

"Rose we need to talk." He smile fades as she says, "Can we talk in a minute? We're almost done with my training for today-" I cut her off from what she is saying.

"NOW." She then nods her head okay before she takes a step towards me, but she stops when Drake says, "Training after you talk, we still need to work on how hard you hit."

I growl as I say to Drake, "She trains when I say she does."

Drake growls quietly before he says, "I am her trainer-"

"I am her mate." I say to him as I walk over to him.

"Not a very good one if you leave her with all the work because you have to search for a dead body."

I growl at him, "I am a good mate. You don't have a right to talk to me about MY MATE."

He growls back louder as his eyes turn yellow.

"You don't deserve a mate like her." He pauses as my wolf starts to take control.

"All you do is cause her problems and control her."

That's it. I shifted into my grey wolf and stalked towards him - but Rose got in front of me.

"Clay, it's okay, calm down." She says as her voice calms me for a second before I walk past her and growl at Drake.

Rose turns around to face us before demanding, "Clayton, I am not playing this game were you can attack people because of anger and I have to watch."

Her voice held power - kind of like an Alpha's tone, but instead this one was a Luna's. I am shocked as I hear her use it for the first time.

I turn around and face her as she speaks again, "Shift back. NOW."

I obey her and run into the room next door before shifting back and getting pants on. Once I have pants on I return to the room and Rose turns to Drake before saying, "Can we work on training tomorrow? Besides, I'm not feeling all that well."

Drake nods at her before glaring and me and leaving.

Finally, the dickhead is gone.

Rose must have heard my thought as she turns to face me and raises an eyebrow.

"What did you need to talk to me about?" She asks slightly annoyed.

"From now on you have training with me, no more of that Drake guy."

She stares at me for a moment and Damon mind-links me,

'Alpha, we just got a call from Blake's pack, he wants to speak to you.'

Just what I need; to talk to Blake. I growl at the thought of him as Rose shakes her head before saying "okay, no more training with him."

I then turn to leave to my office without saying bye to Rose or telling her what is going on.