The King's Alpha novel Chapter 4

My eyes widened when I realized what I was thinking and shook my head. I wasn’t gay. At least, my only real sexual escapades was with Jess or another vampire named Emma. She was Jess’s friend and the two of them liked to gang up on me sometimes. Outside of that, there was nothing else, no one else. I didn’t even know if there could be gay mates. How would the moon goddess set up two men when neither of them could have kids? It didn’t make any sense.

“Alpha King Vale, please step forward.”

My heart fell. I didn’t want to step up. Naresh forced us to stand up. We stepped forward and I grabbed the railing until my knuckles where white. I looked down at the group, keeping my face blank, my lips in a thin line. I watched as the Alpha’s eyes raise to mine. We looked at each other and the room melted away. My heart hammered in my chest and I watched as his eyes grew to the size of saucers. For the first time, his scent filtered into my nose. It was pine. Pine and the scent of cracking opening the pages of an old book. That scent was partly the reason why I spent so much time in the library. It calmed me, soothed me.

Mate! Naresh yelled, nearly making me jump.

“Alpha King Vale, I don’t think this would fall under the jurisdiction of the High Council but rather your decision.” Peter, one of the other vampire High Council members, looked at up at me. He was the one I liked least. While he was fair, his attitude was horrific. If he could get out of doing work, he would try to weasel his way out of it.

I swallowed the lump in my throat and tore my eyes away from my mate. “It depends on the original decision of the High Council. If the original council did, indeed, make a decision incorrectly when taking disciplinary actions against a pack, it would fall under the jurisdiction of the council. If not, then yes, I would take responsibility for the next steps in regards to this rogue pack.”

I watched as Peter’s eyes narrowed but he didn’t say anything. Jess flashed me a smile.

“Since none of us were here seventy years ago, allow us to take a day to decide whose jurisdiction that this falls under. We shall reconvene tomorrow. Is that amiable, Alpha Ezekiel?”

There was silence. My eyes flickered back towards him and he was still staring at me. His Beta elbowed him in the side and he broke his gaze.

“Yes, that is fine.”

She nodded. “Then this meeting is adjourned. Alpha Ezekiel, Beta Leo, we will have someone come by and take you to the guest quarters.”

Everyone started to get up and walk away. Alpha Ezekiel’s eyes turned back up to me but I backed away from the edge and fell back into my chair. My hand came up to my forehead as I leaned around the chair.

'It’s our mate, Vale! We need our mate!'

'Oh yeah? You want to go claim a male alpha?'

Suddenly, I felt him shrink back. 'The moon goddess…'

I cut him off. '…is a joke, apparently. Look what my mom had to go through. Am I doomed to be just as fucked? He looks like he could be in his early thirties. I bet you he has a Luna. Probably has a couple pups by now.'

Naresh whined at the thought. We stayed quiet for a while as the room filtered out.

'Vale, I think we need to talk to Mom.'

I smiled. 'You’re probably right. We need to at least do our due diligence for our mate. Figure out what happened and how we can help.'

'To the library!'

I chuckled and stood up. Taking my book with me, I looked back down for a moment but no one was left in the room. Heading out of the room, I stuck to the back hallways. One that weren’t open to the public. Was I avoiding him? Absolutely.

Opening up the doors to the library, this one was not open to the public. We did have a public library but this one had a lot of confidential information. Ones that would restart wars or would break races apart.

“Alpha King.” Keeper Thomas bowed his head to me.

I probably spent more time in here than anywhere else. He and I had scoured through tomes abc times of information before finding what we needed.

“I have a question. I need the books for the High Council from about seventy years ago.”

He nodded. “I think I know the two books.”

“I’m gonna grab the Alpha King’s information for those years as well, maybe he mentioned something about it.”

We broke our little huddle and I went to one side of the room, he went to the other. To say this place was huge, was an understatement. This was the smaller of the two libraries but there were two levels, the floor to ceiling books that were jammed in that not a playbook could be squeezed between. It was my home away from home. I grabbed the journal as well as the official history for that time. My eyes fell over the genealogy of the kings and I grabbed it as well.