Fighting Zephyrus - The Indomitable Alpha

Lena Warrick's POV

I gazed all around me from my vantage point atop the rugged peaks of Mount Astral. The sun was setting, casting a dull glow all around the bare trees and snow-capped mountains beyond. I sckd in a deep breath as I moved farther. Snow crunched beneath my feet as I continued my inspection. I didn’t know what I was looking for.

Maybe for invisible foes! It was my duty as the future Luna of the Luceres Pack.

Through a gap in the trees, I could see our pack members huddled around a bonfire on the premises of the sprawling clubhouse.

“Lena, what do you see?” The voice of Alpha Atticus brought my attention back to him.

“Nothing unusual, Alpha.” He looked grim, his instincts had never betrayed him. However, with his old age, and poor eyesight, I knew he depended on my instincts solely. The knowledge didn’t give me any satisfaction. I wanted to be free! I have always felt a powerful urge to escape this life and go somewhere far away! A strange force beckoned me all the time, urging me to escape. My wolf, Xara, battled with my mind! She, too, wanted the same. Freedom!

"Look properly, Lena. The future of the Luceres Pack is in your hands.” I noted the urgency in his tone as I inspected the surrounding vista. I knew every nook and corner of Mount Astral, having lived here all my twenty years of life. Our village, Lucania, was cradled at the foot of this majestic mountain range of the Northern Territories, far away from human settlements. It was a place where no human ever set foot on! My eyes scanned the surrounding peaks, too. Nothing!

“I don’t see a thing, Alpha. Maybe Ajax can locate the enemy better.” Ajax was Alpha Atticus’s son and the future Alpha of the pack. I hated the man with a vengeance, but I couldn’t defy Alpha Atticus’s wish. He had the key to all the secrets of my past. He was the only one who knew about my parents, and my family. I never saw my family! I heard that Alpha Atticus rescued a newborn pup when the Luceres Pack was attacked by his brother, Alpha Achilles.

That newborn pup was me.

Alpha Achilles died in the battle and Atticus became the new alpha of our pack. He lost his mate, Vera, too, in the battle and never moved on. For years he sent me away to train to be the future Luna to his two-year-old son, Ajax.

The academy, on the far eastern corridor of Lucania, was my home for twenty years. I trained there with no respite, living a tough warrior’s life! Fighting came naturally to me! It was the only thing I knew.

However, Alpha Atticus summoned me a week ago to fulfill my duties towards him and my pack.

“I trust your vision more than his. Let’s go.” He whirled around and limped down to the pack house, where the members were waiting for his instructions. I followed closely, a strange restlessness spreading all over me. I should be the happiest female here in the Luceres Pack. Alpha Atticus had chosen me to lead the pack alongside his son, but I felt disturbed. I knew the price I was paying for the information I wanted.

Tomorrow was an auspicious day when Alpha Atticus would step down and hand over his responsibilities to his son. Ajax would be the new Alpha of our pack and I, his Luna, at the Bonding Ceremony. It would seal our fates together forever. Only then Alpha Atticus would spill all the dark secrets of my past. He would tell me about my parents! This was the moment I had been waiting for. To know my identity!