177. I will do according to your will

Sedrik

“You have two options, Alpha Sedrik,” the people's representative said as I sat on my throne, and they demanded to speak to me.

A few days had passed since Toby and Lily's wedding, and since then everything had become a real mess. Alana had decided to reveal the truth to everyone, and the news had spread quickly not only in our pack but also in neighboring packs. It was like a domino effect was happening, everyone who heard that the alpha had conceived a girl instead of a boy was going into shock and ridiculing me for saying that I was the alpha that was bringing shame to my pack and the entire wolf nation.

And now the people had gathered among themselves and sent a representative to me to make their voices heard. And now the representative was facing me with courage and fear at the same time. He needed to be courageous to carry the people's message, but at the same time he was scared shitless because he had to tell them that if he imposed himself too much, he could lose his life right there, especially because I was an Alpha, and he was just a wolf who was claiming that I was bringing shame to the people, which was a dangerous audacity for a people to do to an Alpha.

He and his companions were visibly scared, even more so when I had a pocket knife in my hand that I used to peel an apple that I was calmly eating.

“People thought a lot about it, so we came up with a solution,” he continues to say, even though I showed no interest in what he was saying. “The first option is that you allow Substitution when the time is right,” the man said.

Substitution was an act that took place among our people. Suppose there was a case in which the alpha of a pack ended up dying prematurely, and that same Alpha did not leave any heir Alpha to lead the pack in his place, so in that case an Alpha appeared in the pack in mourning and adopted it as his own, thus resulting in a substitution from one Alpha to another.

However, this type of situation happened more in the past when alphas were abundant on this vast continent, nowadays, when Alphas were rare, many packs are abandoned and orphaned by Alphas as there are not that many alphas in existence.

But in the case of my pack, if I died, I was sure that the remaining alphas would jostle to take my place. There was no way around it, fame kind of followed me. So the people were suggesting that if my death came or my time of leadership ended, I would allow a new Alpha to come and lead here.

“Or you can choose the second option,” the man continued to say. “You will have to choose women from among the daughters of the people and sleep with them with the intention of getting them pregnant so they can give you a child son. So your lineage will still continue to lead this pack.”

One option was for me to give up the pack to another Alpha, and the other option was for me to sleep with a woman other than mine, and there was no option in which I would let the child I fathered with Alana be the Alpha leader as it should be since that child was my firstborn, whether a girl or not.

If I got a new woman pregnant and had a son, this boy would be born like this with the skills I had, he would also be an Alpha and everything, but he would never be a leader like a firstborn of mine because the leadership genes were passed from one firstborn to another. So that meant even if I had another hundred alpha male puppies, none of them would be a leader because the leader had actually already been born and was Alana's daughter.

I sighed, straightening up in the chair, and looked at them finally. The people's representative and his companions were all shaking with fear even though they had to face me, so they gathered the courage to do so.

“Very well, I heard you. Set up a harem again for me, and I will satisfy your wishes,” I said to them finally, and the attention that was with everyone in that place kind of softened, and they could finally feel relieved.

I got up and left that place. All I wanted was to go to Alana and be able to hug her and tell her how bad I was and how much I missed her. I felt really bad, I was destroyed inside because of that whole situation. I mean, I couldn't even be happy that my wife had finally given me a child, I couldn't even celebrate that I had become a father because the pressure of being an ideal leader was suffocating me.

Furthermore, I wasn't even having peace in my own marriage, my wife was demanding a divorce, and she wanted to leave with the child away from me, while my people were putting pressure on me in another way. I just wanted everyone to get fucked. I just wanted to be able to be with my wife and show how much I missed her. Likewise, I hadn't held her in my arms for weeks, and it was all because of all this shit that was going on.

I decided to go to Alana's quarters. I needed to talk and try to convince her at least one last time.