His Alpha's Guardian
Chapter 17

I waited for Ezekiel to begin his story. Carlos never told me exactly what I was in for with this pack,just that it would not be easy and that he had faith in me.

“First thing first, my father was not the greatest Alpha. We have always had our differences and sofar, he has not enjoyed the way that I have run this pack. He tells me that I am weak for acceptingmy Luna because of the circumstances in which she has come from. He told me that I was going toruin this pack with my ideals and philosophy. He told me I needed to grow a back bone and stopbeing a fucking push over. Most of the warriors that I have are sexist pigs, as you saw earlier, that Ihave been trying to weed out. Many think that a female's job is to cook and clean for the pack andto take care of the home, while the men support them. Omegas are not allowed to train and neitherare the children, which I have felt is a huge disservice to the pack. Our children and Omegas deservethe right to learn how to protect themselves and hone in their abilities. I am not going to lie whenCarlos told me about you. I was excited. Carlos told me about some of the ways that you improvedyour pack and he also explained about how your warriors trained. It intrigued me. And I knew thatmy warriors might have had some issues with you. You were, after all, the first female Alpha of ourtime. 1 was hoping that you were exactly what this pack and I need in order to improve it.”

“It does seem like your pack needs some work. Where exactly are you expecting me to start?”

"First and foremost, I need help with the training. My Gamma was never trained by his father, so heis unsure of how to lead training sessions and he is not innovated. I was hoping tomorrow youwould lead the training session for my warriors. No cap. I will allow you do what is necessary to getthem where they need to be. I am sure that I will have several of my warriors that push back againstyou. After all, women currently do not attend training, so it is going to be new to see you there. Iwould go ahead and expect them to push back against you. You will be leading training with thehelp of my lead warrior, Carlisle, and my Gamma Damarcus. My Beta and I will be there as well.”

I nodded my head in agreement. That does not sound too hard. I looked at the Luna beforespeaking again, “And what about your Luna? You told me there were things that I needed to knowabout your Luna and her circumstances that will help me succeed in helping you and your pack.”He rubbed the back of his neck before looking me in the eyes. I saw his eyes glazing over and helooked at his Luna before she nodded her head and exited the room. I looked at him questioninglyand raised my eyebrows at him. “Was there a reason to dismiss your Luna? If we are talking abouther, don't you think she has a right to hear, Alpha?”

“You misunderstand, Alpha Kataleya. I was not dismissing her. She gets upset when people talkabout her past. It brings everything to the forefront and she generally has breakdowns from it. Ialways give her the option. We can either talk about it with her or she can leave the room if itbecomes too much for her...she was not raised in a pack...she was raised with a group of rogues.She has not been in a pack since she was five years old. Her family was the Beta family in her oldpack, so she had Beta blood running in her veins. Her pack was slaughtered by a group of rogueswhen she was five and instead of killing her, they took her with them. She was sexually assaulted,tortured, and every other form of abuse known to man. She was not in good shape when I foundher. The group of rogues had attacked us and her scent led me straight to her. She was terrified ofme. She thought I was going to treat her as she had been treated by those rogues. Not only didthey abuse her, but they used her special gifts from the Moon Goddess. My mate is one of therarest forms of wolf. She is a red wolf. She has the ability of extra speed, she is an empath, heals,and reads the minds of others. They used to exploit her gifts for their own good. It took me twomonths to convince her that I could be trusted. While my pack has not abused her, some of themembers have not welcomed their Luna. Due to her past, some view her as weak and think that Ishould take a chosen mate, which I have refused. I have waited all my life for my fated mate and Irefused to give her up because she does not meet their standards of what their Luna should be like.With that being said, Katherine was terrified of going outside of our suite. She is very timid anddocile. Due to the events of her past, she hates large crowds and, honestly, dealing with people ingeneral. She deals with my mother, my Beta's mate, and myself. Those are the only people that sheis comfortable being alone with. I am hoping that with you here, you can help her with that andhelp her realize her potential and her destiny. I hope you don’t mind them telling me this, but Carlosshared a little bit of your backstory with me...and I know what happened before you found yourfated mate...I think that it might be good for Katherine to see that you have bounced back fromyour trauma and pain...” he finished quietly.

Goddess, why did Carlos have to tell them about me being sexually assaulted?

“While I am not too happy that he told you that much about my past, I can understand why youmight have been excited to have me enter your pack lands. I will help her to the best of my ability.Now, don't get me wrong, I will try my hardest with her, but remember that I am not a therapist andin order for her to get the real help that she needs, it might be beneficial if she were to see a realtherapist for her problems...now, Carlos told me that your mate had some people that were afterher. What can you tell me about that?”

"Well, that is the thing. We don't know much about them. There were a few of the rogue pack thatwere holding her captive that escaped and we think they are involved. They have been repeatedlysending her threats or leaving her messages about the “promise” of what they are willing to do forher when they get her back. It breaks my heart to see how she cowers in fear at just the mention ofthem. I think those threats are part of the reason that she has refused to leave this room andinteract with pack members. She is dead set that one of my pack members is helping the roguesbecause they don't like her. I have tried to assure her that will never happen, my pack is not stupidenough to go against their Alpha like that, but she does not believe me. She refused to train as well.I have tried to tell her that if she trained and learned to defend herself then no one could harm heragain, but she is scared of fighting. It is like where her fight or flight instinct is, she only registers theflight instinct. Like the fighting instinct doesn't exist for her.”

He is not about to like what I am going to tell him; I can feel it. He has absolute faith in his pack, butI know from experience that just because you have faith in your pack, does not mean that you donot have at least one traitor in your pack. Someone can still betray your trust.

“I would never rule out that they have inside help from your pack. I know from experience that nomatter how much faith you have in the members of your pack, there is always one person that iswilling to break that trust and betray you if the price is right. A few years ago, I had two packmembers that betrayed my trust. One was a jealous ex-girlfriend and the other was a pack elderbecause he wanted revenge for something that happened when my father was Alpha that he didnot understand. As for training, she may just feel overwhelmed being in big groups, as you havetold me. I will try and get her to do some one-on-one training with me and see how well that goes.While I am in your pack, I will continue getting her train with me, but the moment that I leave thepack, you will have to have someone that will take over for me. While I am hoping that by thatpoint, she is confident and ready to train with your entire pack, that may be reaching too far, so Iwill take what I can get. If she is willing to train with at least someone on the side, then we can workwith that.”

He nodded his head, “I hope that we can get her to at least start talking to other pack members,” hewhispered.

“I hope so too. I assure you; I will do my best, though. I give you my word. I will try to help yourmate the best way that I can. Is there anything else that you think I should know?”

He shakes his head no before responding, “I don't think there is anything else that will benefit youknowing about my pack or my mate. I just want to say thank you for coming out here and trying tohelp me get my pack where it needs to be.”

“No promises, but I will do my best.”

“Katherine!” Ezekiel sang out to his mate.

I heard the small click of the door opening before I saw her figure walking towards us.

“Hi, Luna. If it is alright with you, I am going to help you train a few days a week, so that you canlearn to hopefully better protect yourself. I know that you are weary of being in the pack and thatsome of Alpha Ezekiel's pack members have been less than welcoming to you, but I promise that atthis time, I will not subject you to dealing with them.”

She nodded her head with tears in her eyes.

“I promise you training will be fun and eventually you will be such a pro that you will be able to kickyour mate's ass too.”

Ezekiel glared at me for telling her that, but Luna Katherine had the biggest smile on her face.“Loosen up, Alpha. At least I made your mate smile. Now, if you excuse me, can someone show meto my room? I am tired and training comes early. I am assuming your warriors train at 4 am?”

“No, actually, my pack starts their training at 5am, so you can have a little extra sleep if you like. Asfor room arrangements, I have had a few of my men prepare one of the high-ranking official housesfor you for your stay.”

I shook my head no. “Definitely not. It is not necessary to give me a house reserved for your high-ranking guests. I can definitely just take a room in the pack house and it allows me to be closer, justin case I am needed.”

Ezekiel agreed to me staying at the pack house. He asked an Omega to quickly prepare one of therooms for me and then once it was finished, he showed me where the room was.

I quickly prepared for bed and opened up my suitcase, pulling out one of Justin's old t-shirts andslipping it on. I breathed in the orange blossom and sandalwood scent floating from this shirt andbreathed in deeply. This should help me sleep just nicely.

With final thoughts about my mate and wondering what was going to be my fate tomorrow, Iquickly fell asleep, my soft sores ringing through the room.