Alpha Adryan
twenty

Author's Note : I would be gone for a month. I usually stay busy withonline class and exams, assignments etc. It's just a bit stressful for meand I wanted to take a small break. I hope you understand.

- naomi xoxo

A pained groan leaves his lips as he sits up. He looks around replaceinghimself in the middle of the forest, near the border of the pack.Confusion fills his mind when he couldn't remember how he ended uphere of all places.

He replaces a few of his warriors a few distance away from him, the oneswho were in charge of night patrol unconscious or just waking up andlooking around them cluelessly. Clearly confused how they ended upalmost at the edge of the forest.

He could feel his wolf, trying to communicate with him.

"What is it?" Adryan questions.

"Mate" Vince whimpers in his mind.

"Jade" her name a whisper. It was like he was suddenly struck with anonslaught of memories. Him in his office. Catching her scent. Her tryingto run away. Him chasing after her.

That is all he could remember. His memories were hazy, like a series ofblurred images. He started to panic. Where was she?!

He quickly stands up, going behind on of the trees and wearing theshorts he founds tucked into the bushes near by. His pack kept clothsaround the forest, so whoever needed it could use it to coverthemselves after shifting into their human form after a run.

Adryan looks around him, he could catch her faint scent which stoppedat the border of his pack. He seemed to quickly realize what hadhappened. She had manage to escape. She ran away. From him.

It pained him to say it, and even think about it.

Anger builds up inside him but mostly sadness, and remorse.

He hadn't felt so many emotions in a very long time, in fact years.

In between all this his wolf's constant whimpers weren't helping hiscase either.

"What is it?" He snaps at Vince. Trying to get through his wolf throughthe common link they shared.

"I can't tell you" he whimpers.

"What do you mean you can't tell me?!" Adryan asks "Do you knowsomething I should know about?!" Adryan had a feeling that his wolfknew something, but his wolf wouldn't say what it was for whatever thereason was.

"Tell me" he insists.

"She wouldn't want us to" Vince whispers, sadness lacing his voice.Vince retreats back into Adryan’s mind, causing him to panic.

"Vince! Vince".

His wolf's silence was all he got in return.

A roar leaves Adryan's lips, his chest aching. Startling the still in distresswarriors who just woke up from whatever spell they were under. Hisroar shook the forest floor, birds fly out of the trees startled as well.

He punches a nearby tree, snapping it into two in one go.

She can run as much as she want now. But he wasn't one to give up soeasily. He was going to replace her no matter whatever it took. No matterhow long, he would replace her.

"I'm going to replace you, Jade. It's only a matter of time." He whispers.Jade has been running in her wolf form for almost seven hours now, itwas a miracle that she hadn't collapsed face first into the forest floorwith exertion.

She was almost at the place Violet had asked her to stop and wait forher Aunt. Who would be waiting for Jade in a black car near the edge ofthe forest.

Kira, Jade's wolf was cautious while manuvering her way through theforest, it was clear to her that Kira knew about Jade's pregnancy waybefore her.

Kira comes to a stop at the edge of the forest, she looks around for thecar or a woman. She couldn't shift into her human side since shecouldn't see, it was a blessing that she could in her wolf form, thanks toher werewolf eyesight.

She'd have to spot the car and then shift.

Suddenly she could pick up the rumble of a car headed her way. Shewatched as a black car parked itself at the edge of the forest, a fewmeter away from where she herself stood in her wolf form.

. A woman, probably in her late forties got out of the car. She had darkbrunette hair like Violet but blue eyes instead of Violets's dark greeneyes. She could spot the familiarities among them. This woman had acalm aura around her which put Kira at ease.

Kira stepped out of the forest, and she could hear the woman let out anaudible gasp at spotting her black wolf with white highlights. It wasunusual for wolves to have two colours on their fur. Werewolves wereonly seen to be in one colour as a whole but here she was, a mixture ofmidnight black and white.

Well, she was a Hybrid too. Which was also said to be extinct nowadays.So, Jade wasn't a normal werewolf in that sense.

Kira takes no time in shifting back into her human form. Jade feltrelieved to be back. She had not been in her wolf form for this long. Itwas refreshing. Feeling the wind whip her fur around but it wasexhausting too and her being pregnant didn't help that factor at all.Jade immediately takes out the clothes from the duffle bag she hadbeen carrying in her wolf form clamped between her jaw.

After getting dressed, she walks towards where she remembered thewoman stood.

"Hi, I'm Jade" Jade speaks up, unsure of herself.

"Hi Dear, my name is Scarlett Harvey, I'm Violet's aunt". Scarlett was asweet woman even now she oozed warmth and kindness which madeJade and Kira relax.

Her wolf senses never betrayed her.

“I hope I'm not disturbing your life by coming here, Mrs Harvey —"Jade starts to say but gets cut off by Scarlett scoffing playfully.

"Honey, please call me Scarlett, Mrs Harvey makes me sound old andbesides now you are family." This causes Jade to smile at her words,family. She tried not to think about her parents and pack much, it justbought a load of nightmares along and Jade had enough on her plateat the moment.

"Thankyou, Mrs — Scarlett” corrects herself at the last moment causingScarlett to chuckle.

"Oh, please don't be so formal with me. And oh, let me take those bags,you might be tired". Scarlett takes the duffel bag from Jade, surprisingher since she didn't have time to react.

"No, I can handle it" Jade tries to say but Scarlett has already openedthe back of her car stuffing the bag inside.

"Come on, it's about an hour drive. You can sleep in the car" Scarlettsays.

Scarlett helps Jade into the passenger seat and gets herself into thedriver seat. Jade could feel the ignition of the car turn on with a rumble.Her side of the window was rolled down, letting the wind whip her hairand face as the car drove forward.

"I'm going to replace you, Jade. It's only a matter of time."

She lets put a gasp startled, it was just a mere whispers but she wasable to understand the words. Her body tenses in realization. They hadstarted a bond when they mated. The first stage of marking ones mate.She was sure it was him. It was Adryan's voice she had heard in herhead.

"What happened?” Scarlett asks, managing to catch Jade's change indemeanor.

"Nothing. It's nothing".