I stood there with a million questions rushing through my head as my father walked towards me “dad, what is going on, why did Alpha Sobong call you…Alpha?”
He walked right up to me, and I saw it coming, his hand balled up into a fist, his face scrunched up and he attacked, his fist moved consequently slow that I had time to move away and come back to the spot while he was still swinging
‘Whatever is going on here, if I’m to find out, he needs to have the upper hand’ I stood still and let him punch me across the face “what the hell, what was that for” I rubbed the spot, it stung but only lightly
“Pay back, even though I saw that punch coming it still hurt”
“Still mad huh” he cleared his throat and massaged his knuckles “you chased my mate away, I was mad” he looked at me and took his jacket off, unbuttoned his shirt and rolled up his sleeves
“Play time is over” he said getting into his fighting stance
“Dad, I don’t want to hurt you”
“Do you think I’ll let you be Alpha that easily?”
“Dad, you don’t want to do this, trust me”
“Enough talk” he growled hurling a barrage of punches towards me, they were consequently slow I dodged them easily, if he wasn’t my dad he’d be on the floor unconscious by now
“Dad this is ridiculous, will you stop…please” I said ducking avoiding his high kick, leaving all his pressure points open for me to strike, I swept his legs and he fell to the ground on his back
“Damn you” he barked, summoning his wolf and I watched as his body contorted in front of me, his bones broke, and his grunts turned to growls, and my father’s grey wolf stood in front of me
“Turn or die” Alpha Sobong shouted from the doorway as he walked out with the entire Lycan house staff
“I’m not going to do that” I barked back at him as they all came out in a line, standing lined up in front of the house
“We believe in you Alpha” one woman shouted, I looked at my dad in his wolf form
“Dad, are you the Alpha?”
“Yes, I am”
“What? You’ve lied to me all my life” he stood there in silence avoiding my gaze “answer me” I felt my body get hot, my heartbeat rapidly and my breathing thickened
“You encouraged me to give up on my mate, told me that Caroline would be a better asset to me, and that was a lie” my shirt ripped “you told my mate she wasn’t wanted and sent her away, another lie” my pants ripped
“And now I find out that you are the Alpha, you have lied to me all my life, what kind of father does that” the transformation completed, I attacked clawing at his face drawing blood, he bit into my neck, and I crouched down biting his leg making him fall to the ground, I pounced on top of him clawing down at him as he clawed up at me
He used his hind legs to kick me off knocking me to the ground, I quickly got up and ran to him hitting him hard on the head with my head, he whimpered shaking his head feeling dizzy
I stood on my hind legs and clawed him from the top of his head all the way to his muzzle knocking him to the ground, I grabbed his neck with my fangs, he tapped the ground in surrender just before I pierced his flesh, I stepped back and watched him whimpering on the ground
“Oh my god, is the Alpha dead?” a woman’s voice boomed in my head
“No, I don’t think so, look he’s still breathing” a man’s voice answered
“Is he our new Alpha?” another man asked
“He defeated the Alpha he must be” another woman answered, I looked back and forth at all of them, but I couldn't figure out who was talking
“What happened to the Alpha, who beat him, Seohyun, what are you talking about?” a confused man’s voice boomed in my head
“Shut up!” I barked and all the chatter went quiet, Alpha Sobong stood in front of them and said “stop using the open link, please for now use your private ones” they nodded and one by one started going back inside
Alpha Sobong handed us both towels as we shifted back to our human form
“Alright Alpha, what do you want to know?” Alpha Sobong beamed looking at me
“Okay, what the hell is going on, first you were Alpha and then you dropped this bombshell on me that my dad is the Alpha and now you’re calling me Alpha, just what the hell is going on?”
“Sobong is my Beta, I put him in charge of the pack while I investigated the rumours regarding the king’s plans to change the law”
“All those people knew that you were the Alpha, how come I didn’t know?”
“You closed yourself off from this world, remember, you changed when you couldn’t find your mate, you immersed yourself into your work, when I suggested that you marry Caroline, it was literally my last resort to try to get you to be happy again”
“Were Caroline’s parents against the marriage?”
“No”
“Then why did you tell me they were?”
“You love a challenge, so I gave you one” he shrugged, I chuckled and shook my head
“So now what?” I asked looking at both of them
“We have to officially announce you as the new Alpha” Alpha Sobong looked at me with a proud look on his face
“What?”
“Kein, you defeated the me the Beta and the Alpha here, until someone else defeats you, you’re the Alpha”
“I’ll go give your mother the good news” dad whispered as he walked back to the Lycan house
“What about you?”
“I’ll be your Beta, if you’ll have me?”
“Okay Beta Sobong, how do we get my girl back”
“Our intel tells us that they were headed to Kyoto”
“Why Kyoto, what’s there” I asked my Beta
“Well, it’s known as one of the most romantic places in the world” he said clearing his throat and avoiding my gaze
“I need to go to her, get me a change of clothes” I barked at him
“The ceremony to announce you as the new Alpha will take place this evening and the other packs from around the world that have joined our cause will arrive in the morning, be patient until then”
“Fine, I still need a change of clothes though”
“Yes sir” he bowed and rushed back inside
***
“In closing, I would like to thank you all for your trust in me and for your steadfast loyalty, like the saying goes, “there is a time and season for everything” and today my time as the Alpha of the Hullyunghan pack has come to an end, and it is my pleasure to introduce to you your new leader who according to our customs and laws has claimed the title of Alpha, my son Kein Keng”
The crowd clapped as my dad gestured for me to join him on stage, the huge assembly hall was packed wall to wall with wolves, I never knew there were so many wolves in our pack, I might have started my company at seventeen, but my preparations started years before then
“Thank you all for the warm welcome, I would like to start by thanking my father” I looked at my dad and continued “dad, I and I’m sure I speak for everyone here when I say thank you for dedicating your life to our pack, we truly appreciate your service, and we will never forget what you have done for this pack” the crowd erupted again with a round of applause
“Today I’m your Alpha” the room went silent, you could hear a pin drop “Today I lost my mate” the crowd started murmuring and whispering to each other, “Today I call you to war, I will not force you to fight for me, but I will ask you to fight with me” Beta Sobong came and stood by my side
“Today my mate was taken because of a law of a tyrant, a law favouring the elite, I’m your Alpha and yet I could do nothing to stop it, trust me when I say no one is safe, it was my mate today, tomorrow could be yours, or yours” the murmuring and grumbling became louder, I raised my hand, and they became quiet
“No, I will not ask you to fight for me, but I will ask you to fight for what you know is right, fight for truth, justice, for the right to live in peace with who the goddess has chosen for you, if you choose to join the fight” I took my dad’s hand and Beta Sobong’s hand and raised them in the air “we will fight by your side, we will fight with you, we will fight for you, we will fight for the right to choose how we live, we fight for the right to choose the path we take, we will fight, will you fight with us?!”
“Yes!” the crowd roared standing on their feet
“Tomorrow we go to war, but tonight, we feast!”
“Yeah!” the crowd roared
“Everyone to the Cleopatra” Beta Sobong’s voice boomed through the speakers, making the crowd go wild, they rushed out almost trampling over each other
“Cleopatra?” I looked at him quizzically, both him and dad had wide grins on their faces
“Remember the customs we spoke about earlier?” dad smirked
I ran my hand down my face and groaned “okay, as Alpha I demand that all riddles and parables be banned, when you speak with me please just come right out and say it” I barked at both of them, and they chuckled, they clearly knew something I didn’t “Sobong, I swear” I growled with my wolf’s voice, he put his hands up in surrender
“Okay, okay calm down we just need to train your wolf first” I gave him a what the hell are you talking about look “he is strong there is no doubt about that” he put his hands up in protest “but he is too erratic, we need to hone his skills and get him focused, if we can achieve that, you will be unstoppable”
“Great, let’s do it” I took a step back “how do we do that exactly?” they looked at each other with excitement plastered across their faces
“He needs to hunt”
“Who?”
“Your wolf”
“Hunt what”
“You’ll see"