Alpha Hybrid King - Chapter 1

Alpha Hybrid King - Chapter 1
Chase’s POV

I ran as fast as I could on four paws after the car that was carrying my mate away from me, the echo of her rejection still burning in my veins. It didn’t matter. I needed her back. She was my mate, my goddess given soulmate. 

The car disappeared around the corner and by the time I had got there; it had disappeared. Everything drained out of me and I collapsed to the floor, whimpering. The despair took over as the hole in my heart widened to swallow me whole.

I lifted my snout and allowed my pain to sing out in my long mournful series of howls.



Jensen’s POV

One Month Later

My alarm went off at 6am waking me up from the hour of sleep I could have maybe got. I wanted nothing more than to pull the covers over my head and go back to sleep. But with the Alpha ceremony only days away, someone had to sign everything off. And as soon to be Beta of the Dark Moon pack, I took my new duties seriously and picked up the brunt of the work. It wasn’t like the new Alpha was going to do anything. Not after last night, anyway. Or was that this morning?

It was 3am before I had coerced a very drunk Chase into his bed, and another two hours of semi-unconscious screaming before I had managed to carry him into the remains of Kaeleigh’s bedroom, with the help of Theo Hall one of our elite warriors, and mate to Meagan Stanton, good friend and soon to be appointed Warrior Commander later this week. Chase had finally settled down to a whimpering sleep around 5am ish. 

It had been like this for the last two weeks. Crazy amounts of alcohol before the nightmares started. Dr Steele, our pack psychiatrist, had said that it was normal after a rejection. Although it was made worse by Chase still refusing to accept the rejection. The doctor had said that the nightmares would get better, but if anything, they seemed to be getting worse. I knew we had two more full moons left before the bond would fade completely. We had already had one full moon just over two weeks ago. 

To be honest, I didn’t think Chase would last that long at the rate he was going. Even if the constant drinking, no sleep and no food wasn’t enough to send him and his wolf crazy, we had the impending curse and its deadline looming just three weeks away on Chase’s 30th birthday. And there was no way that Chase would survive the death of his wolf. Not in this state, anyway.

I dragged myself out of bed and into the shower, blasting myself with cold water first and then throwing on the hot. Not that it helped. I had moved into one of the guest rooms on the top floor of the main pack house, because Chase was liable to fly into another rage at any point and my calming aura gift was the only thing that could calm him down. Other than the obvious. But then she wasn’t here and was the reason that most of the upper ranked pack members were working round the clock for. 

I wanted to hate Kaeleigh for what she did. I really did. My best friend was on the edge of oblivion because of her decision to not only reject him, but to leave and make the decision to mate and mark with Asher Bowman, the Alpha of our rival pack, the Crimson Shadow pack. But the simple truth was, I didn’t hate her. Quite the opposite. I knew that no matter how stupid she was being; she thought she was helping. Her agreement with Bowman was that she would be his Luna if he had the curse removed. At this point, from what I had heard, the marking still hadn’t happened, so the curse was still our biggest concern.

Hence the Alpha ceremony. With the state Chase was in, handing him the reins of the pack seemed like a dumb move. But that was exactly what was going to happen. In three days’s time, our current Alpha, and Chase’s father, Alpha Daniel Stone, was officially stepping down from his duties and passing them on to Chase. From the outside, it looked like your standard passing of the title, but those of us in the inner circle knew that there was a bigger reason at hand.

The curse that plagued Chase, that would kill his wolf on his 30th birthday, would then spread to every person who pledged loyalty to the Dark Moon pack. And all would lose their own wolf as a result. We had made a plan that if we were unsuccessful in breaking the curse, that we would release each member from their loyalty. But the act of renouncing a pack took its toll on the Alpha and the effect that fifteen hundred wolves removing their loyalty at once would be a lot, even for an Alpha of Daniel’s capabilities to bear. As it was, the sudden loss of not only over fifteen hundred wolves, because of a large number being spies for the Crimson Shadow pack and the rest scared off because of the mass betrayal, but also the renouncement by Kaeleigh, had already weakened him. Chase had insisted on him taking the title and being the one to take the pain of the rest of the pack, too.

I got out of the shower and quickly dried and brushed my teeth before heading back into the bedroom and pulling on a pair of dark grey jeans and a light grey t-shirt before heading out of my room. I went to Kaeleigh’s room, which was a disaster zone. Everything had been smashed to pieces in several of Chase’s earlier rages. It smelt mostly like alcohol and drunk guy sweat, but there was still that smell underneath, the sweet smell that belonged just to Kaeleigh. Even after a month. I knew that was why Chase spent his nights here. It was the only way to calm the man and the wolf.

I looked at the pile in the middle of the room where Chase had collapsed last night. He was still there, fidgeting in his sleep while he had a death grip on a piece of material, probably one of Kaeleigh’s tops or something. I remembered back to that first night, the one where she left. I still remember seeing them both crumble in pain from her rejection, and watching helpless as that bastard Asher picked her up and put her in his car, and the smug smirk on Adam’s face as he slid into the back of the car. 

But hearing Chase screaming for Kaeleigh as he chased them down, and the harrowing howls as he mourned the loss of his mate in his wolf form. He howled for hours and nobody could get close without him snapping at them. I had eventually got within a foot or so and sat there against a tree, waiting for him to shift back. I eventually fell asleep and when I woke up, he was gone.

We found him a couple of days later, still in wolf form along the border of the Crimson Shadow territory. It looked like he was testing the boundaries for weaknesses. It had taken us another four days and a tranquilliser gun to finally catch him and get him home. He was a wreck, covered in dirt and blood. Not that he was much better now. 

I deliberated waking him up but decided to let him sleep some more and quietly let myself out of the room. I headed to the top floor living and dining room, which had become a command centre of sorts. Only authorised persons allowed on this floor. The walls were covered in blueprints and maps and notes from the many many meetings we had. There was only one person in the room when I got there. 

My dad. And he looked like he hadn’t got any sleep either. 

“Dad,” I said as I sat next to him and watched what he was doing. He was working on yet another plan. Mapping out manoeuvres. 

“Dad,” I said a little more urgently.

“What?” He was annoyed at the interruption. I think he felt guilty over Kaeleigh. We all did. I knew I spent many an hour wondering if there was anything I could have done differently. Anything that meant that she was still here. 

“Get some sleep,” I said, putting a level of authority into my voice and my dad rolled his eyes at me and the corner of his mouth cracked a, blink and you miss it, smile. 

“You aren’t Beta yet, son,” he grumbled, and I grinned. 

“Three days, Elder.” He scoffed at me but put down his pen. He rubbed his eyes and frowned.

“I dunno, son,” he said sadly. “I just feel so helpless.”

“I know, but if you don’t get sleep, you will be helpless,” I said sternly, and he looked at me proudly.

“Who would have thought it?” he grinned. “This time last year, you were my carefree playboy son, who was more interested in notches on the bedpost than leadership qualities.” He stood and patted me on the back. “And now look at you.”

“Yeah, a lot has changed, that’s for sure, now about you going to bed.” I wasn’t letting him get away with this.

“After the morning meeting,” he assured me, and I nodded.

People had started to file in. Seth and Zack were first, followed by Zoey, Meagan, and Theo, and then Kierra and Ivy walked in together. Molly, Elaina and the Luna were carrying breakfast food and the Alpha and Jeremy were deep in conversation as they walked in. Elaina and Jeremy had pretty much moved into the pack as official guests to help sort out this whole mess. Jeremy’s mate Jade and their three kids had also arrived three weeks ago. From what I knew, Elaina’s two older children were staying in their new home up north and were researching things from their own libraries. Apparently Elaina’s daughter, Tatum, I believed she was called, finally came out to her mother and said that she knew she was a witch and had been practicing and building her own connections for years.

Soon everyone settled at the dining table and I took the chair at the head, the one that should have been taken by Chase, but that’s what a Beta did, right? They acted for the Alpha when he couldn’t himself.

“Ok everyone,” I said, drawing the attention of the room. “Let’s go over the plan to rescue Kaeleigh once more.”