The Merciless Alpha(erotica)

The door to the safe room had been opened, and Brent rushed out and embraced me. “You should have let me fight,” he said.

“My job is to protect you, even from yourself,” I said.

“Baby, I’ll call you back when things calm down, we’ve got some cleanup here too.” I closed the conference and checked on my Enforcers. When the last had been sent to Medical with the doctors, Brent ordered me to follow. “Why? I’m going to be fine, it’s just some slashes.”

“Humor me,” he said. “And if you can’t do that, it’s an order. We’ve got plenty of people who can take care of this mess.”

I reluctantly walked to the Clinic, my Vampire healing closing the wounds as I waited my turn. Patty came to sit with me and we started to talk about my wedding plans. “Have you picked a date?”

“Mom, he’s not even asked me to marry him yet!”

She waved her hand. “He mated you and he got you a ring, I bet you’re wearing it within a day of him returning to you.” She was probably right; Randall was one of those ‘know what you want and get it’ types. “Just don’t wait too long.”

“You know there are plenty of other sons and daughters who are newly mated, you don’t have to pressure me to give you grandchildren.”

She just smiled as the Doctor approached. “Please sit and remove your shirt, Chief Enforcer,” she said. I walked into the exam room as Patty said something in her ear. She smiled and came in, closing the door behind her. She cleaned the blood off, amazed that the deep cuts had already scabbed over. Testing my range of motion, she found the muscle was already healing as much as a werewolf would in two days. “Well, at this rate you’ll be fine by morning.” I could have told her that, vampire healing rocked. “Now give me a sample, the bathroom is through there,” she said.

“Why?”

“This is as close to a physical as I’ve been able to give you since you arrived, and I am responsible for your medical care.”

I took the cup and went to the bathroom, filling it before bringing it back out and washing up. She pulled out a test from a drawer and my eyes bugged out. “Is that a…”

“Pregnancy test. You’re newly mated, so you’re sexually active?”

“And adventurous,” I said.

“With only two female hybrids, I intend to monitor you closely to see if your body works differently than a normal werewolf female when it comes to heats and reproduction. Have you felt any symptoms of a heat coming on? Restlessness, night sweats, excessive sexual arousal?”

I blushed. “No physical symptoms, and if you saw my mate you’d understand it’s anything but excessive.”

“Well, if you don’t want to start a family, you should think of using birth control. You are young and healthy, so you have a good chance if…” Her timer beeped, and we both looked down at the test.

A faint plus sign showed in the panel. I was pregnant.

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Ania’s POV

“It’s over?” I leaned back into Bobby’s chest as we sat at the laptop in the security section of our safe room. The entire Pack had been in here all night due to the threats of Vampire attacks. Bobby and I had been sitting in the room all night with the warriors. Two were constantly monitoring the cameras and motion sensors, and we were trying to keep up with what was happening elsewhere.

I had felt helpless, and I hated that feeling.

“We think so,” Chairman Brent said. “The rebel vampire attacks on the two Councils and the Sulphur River Pack failed, and we have no reports of other attacks. Chairman Nikolai is laying down the law to the remaining Covens right now.” He was making it very clear that any Vampire who violated the peace he had made would be eliminated, them and their Coven. “We’re still cleaning up from the attack here. What I’d like to do is get all of the Packs together at 0600 Eastern time on a videoconference. We’ve got a lot to catch up on.”

“We can handle making the calls for you, I’m sure you have lots of other stuff to do,” Bobby said. It was just over an hour away. “Is it safe to leave the room yet?”

“I wouldn’t do that until sunrise, just to be sure,” he said. “I have to go. Love you guys, talk to you soon.”

“Love you Dad,” Bobby said, then the video call ended. We went to work immediately, sending out a blast email to all the Alphas and Betas in North America, then following up with phone calls. It would have been easier if we had Council members for each region, but those elections were yet to happen. We finished in time to freshen up and grab a snack, then we put the conference on the laptop screen in front of us. The conference was being sent to monitors in the main area, so the whole Pack could watch, but only the two of us would be able to talk.

“Good morning Alphas,” Brent started. “This isn’t how I imagined my first day as Chairman would play out, but things have happened quickly. With me here in Council Headquarters are Vampire Council Chair Nikolai, Vampire Master Leonardo, and Werewolf Council Chief Enforcer Talia Meechum. Yesterday, the two Masters arrived at our Council Headquarters at the invitation of the former Chair, Talia.”

“I wanted to show the Vampire leadership that we were taking strong actions to root out the corruption and illegal experimentation on captured vampires,” Talia said. “This was key to securing the peace, a peace that our new Chairman sealed in blood a few hours ago. It was not a peace that all Covens agreed with, and some of them rebelled against their own Council. We were attacked last night by three of them.”

There was outrage among the Alphas, attacking our Council was a declaration of war. Brent held his hand up and waited for quiet. “The attacks were not against us directly. They were aimed at toppling the Vampire Council members here today so the peace talks would collapse. That did not happen, because our vampire allies fought side by side with our Enforcers to hold them off. The attack was not without casualties; many fell in our defense.”

Chairman Nikolai leaned forward. “The Covens that did this are gone, destroyed. The Vampire Council wants peace, and our Covens are in agreement now. We will not be the ones to dishonor the sacrifices made to bring this about.”

One of the West Coast Alphas interrupted. “Mr. Charmain, wasn’t part of the issue the Hybrids that the Vampires created? What is happening with them?” I felt my wolf coming forward, now they were talking about my sister.

“The hybrids are a new thing, and both Councils are unsure as to what it all means for our kinds,” Brent said.

“We have only one who was created without extenuating circumstances, and that was Talia here four years ago,” Nikolai said. “The most sacred thing among Werewolves is the mating bond; Randall was Talia’s mate, and her bite is fatal to Werewolves, so Randall was changed to be like her. The real shock was with Erica. When she found her mate in a Vampire, it shook our worldview.” He paused to gather himself. “Vampires might find love, they may change their love so they don’t grow old, but we don’t have mates. Yet, Eduardo found his with a werewolf, our historical enemies. She had to be changed to mate with him, and to our shock, he changed when he mated with her. The two things that are part of the Vampire ‘curse’ were the inability to be in the sun and the loss of our ability to procreate. The dead cannot sire the living, that is what we have always known.”

“Wait,” an East Coast Alpha said. “You mean this mating cured those two things?”

“Yes. Eduardo is no longer like me or the other Vampires, he is something more. He hasn’t lost his Vampire characteristics, but he is now a Daywalker with viable sperm. He is the evolution of our kind, just as Erica is the evolution of yours. The Vampire Council and the Covens are aware of the implications for both our kinds. We know that we may find mates among your kind, and you may find your matches among ours. Mated pairs have always been the way to build bridges. There isn’t a Vampire out there who isn’t filled with hope that they may find what Eduardo has found.”

“Imagine, a whole population of adults who might find their mates in Werewolves,” Brent continued. “We have to help them find each other.”

“Are you going to allow for werewolves to become hybrids if they volunteer,” Alpha John of Thief River Falls asked. “We have seen how strong Talia became, there is not an Alpha among us who does not want that power.”

“I wish it was that easy,” Nikolai said. “Only a Vampire Master can do the change, and if you talk to any of the hybrids, they will tell you the change is incredibly painful. The Vampire Council has forbidden making any future hybrids until we know more.”NôvelDrama.Org content.

This didn’t calm the Alphas, who respected power about all else. Having a young female become the Alpha Killer was intolerable to them. “CHAIRMAN NIKOLAI, a moment please,” Kimberly said from the Sulphur River Pack House, Erica sitting next to her. “There is one more Hybrid you are not aware of.”