Chapter 62 - The Rejected Goddess

Alpha Inga POV

Months. It has been months since I last saw Emma, the day she left etched into my mind. I broke that day, watching Emma turn to dust and the love of my life disappearing.

For two months I was hit with a serious bout of depression. I tried everything to join her, but I was always stopped at the last minute by Beta Edward. He would always ask me what I was thinking, what Emma would say if she was here? But she wasn’t and that was the problem.

After two months had passed, I pulled myself together. After all like beta Edward pointed out if I can still feel the mate bond then she has to be alive somewhere. That shocking bit of information pulled me out of my slump, and I started to work at getting myself back together. It took another month to do so, but now here I am back in my office and back to running my pack.

My pack is flourishing, as is the Solar Eclipse pack. Alpha James and I have created an alliance that benefits both, but even he has not heard from Emma.

I am currently sitting in my office looking through my emails to see if anyone has seen or heard anything regarding Emma, but the grapevine is silent. Even Beta Edwards information network couldn’t find anything out on her, and my pack are missing her.

Many knew she was my mate, and those that didn’t know were surprised but happy when I told them. But when she was here visiting me and working with me and the Solar Eclipse Pack, the effect she had on my pack alone is still being felt too today.

Everyone is working diligently to make this a pack to eb proud of, so that when Emma returns here she will be welcomed with open arms and can be told all of the stories that we as a pack and individual members have been up to.

“Alpha, your signature is required for these.” Beta Edward says, walking right into my office.

“What are they for?” I ask.

“The annual alpha ball, we are hosting it this year. Lucky us.” Beta Edward replies sarcastically, he is an unexcited about this ball as I am. I hate attending it but this year I am the one hosting it. I tried to get out of it but unfortunately the other alphas have already agreed to it being here, meaning that I cannot got and search for my Emma.

I quickly sign the papers, not caring what Beta Edward has arranged as I know it will be good and reflect the pack in a positive way.

I hand the papers back to Beta Edward and watch him head for the door. Before he opens it I decide to ask him a question that has been burning in my mind for a while now.

“Do you think Emma will return?” I ask him.

“Honestly? I don’t know. But she does love you alpha, so I am sure that wherever she is you are in her thoughts and heart.”

Alpha James POV

Things have been going well for me and the Solar Eclipse pack. The pack itself is now being respected again by other packs, they have even welcomed me as the new alpha. Which surprised me as I thought there would be some resistance, but when they were told that Goddess Emma as the one who appointed me, I earned their respect. It probably helps that I used to be a skilled warrior, so whenever we have attacks, I am at the front of the fight with my warriors. Not that we have been attacked much, only once and that was by one small group of rogues.

The pack also grown in numbers, but at the moment we have more than enough space to accommodate another 500 members, so I have not been looking at expanding the territory just yet but there are places I have been looking at that would fit in perfectly in the territory.

During the fight at Alpha Johns pack, Eric was nowhere to be found. When I arrived home, I held a pack meeting and told everyone what had happened. Including what Melanie had done and what happened to her, I then discovered that Eric never left the pack, but he had been acting strangely according to the omegas.

Eric has been in the omega pack house, I demoted him even further by branding him an almost rogue and now he has to scrub the pack house floors every day and work under me, then return at night to be beaten and ordered around by the omegas. I have him working under me to keep my eye on him, by having him here I can monitor everything thing he does.

By branding Eric as an almost rogue, it means that all of Erics pack ties are limited, and he can only move where he has been told to. That is that pack house and the omega house, he has no right to anything else not even medical care or education. He is literally stuck in the lie of a slave but he can’t even make himself a rogue, as you have to be a full pack member to be able to denounce a pack., meaning that I have cut of his escape route and he will be here until either his dying breathe or I see fit to banish him.

When I told Matthew what his and Emma’s father had done, he broke down. He told me to throw the book at his father, even offered to kill him for us. But he is broken over his sister, while she was killed once it is harder now that she is a deity, and no one knows what has happened to her. Shelley has been his rock and helped him to get through everything, but we can all see the train that it is having on him.

Dennis Locke is currently in our cells; we are awaiting news that the five packs are back on their feet and ready to deal with him and Eric. Personally, I wanted Eric in the cells as well, but when I saw how miserable he was being ordered around by the omegas, and that they made him kneel at their feet for everything I decided to leave him where he was.

Melanie’s remains were disposed of by being thrown onto no mans land and left there for the animals- we did not want to claim them and neither did any other pack. Eric begged us to give his mate a burial, but I refused because what they did was beyond evil, and I refuse to have that woman’s remains in this pack territory.

Mitch has been in contact with his mate and pup, he speaks to them on the phone daily and he is much happier now that he has his memories back. I have offered to let him leave this pack and return to his old one, but he says that he likes being Beta and this pack a lot more than his old one.

I have tried to get his mate and pup here too but the alpha of that pack is being too stubborn. When I told Mitch that Emma was going to help get them back, he was over the moon and even to today he believes that Emma will bring them to him even though no one has seen or heard from her since that day.

William and I have recently adopted a young girl and boy, they are twins who were orphaned just after the fight with the rogues. Their mother and father were from Alpha Johns pack, but they stuck to me like glue. When I left, apparently, they cried and cried until they spoke to me on the phone every day and night. When I took Will with me to introduce them to him, all three just bonded and we ended up with two children then and there.

Alpha John and his pack are doing well, we have an alliance with him and Alpha Inga. It turns out that what set Emma off that day was the killing of her sister, Lune Lucy did not make it out of the pack house alive but thankfully their daughter did. Apparently, a few days later Emma turned up at the pack house with the little girl and gave Alpha John a heart attack almost, they spoke for a long time but Alpha John refuses to tell anyone what they spoke about.

Just thinking about that day is hard, when her friends from years ago heard the news, they quickly sent their condolences. After all, when Emma died the first time, they quickly relinquished their ties to this pack and left, so tracking them down was hard but it was the least I could do in the circumstances. Everyone I speak too are all of the same mind, that Emma will return but when no one knows. I hope they are right; I would love to see her again.