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In the Chains of the Alpha Tara's Tale
“Come on, this isn’t happening right now. You and I need to talk about this.” Cal pulled Tara from the training room. He could test her later.Right now he needed to know what happened because he had a feeling this was something that made Tara who she was today.This was something she should have disclosed on the forms she’d filled in when she first stepped foot in his club. It was something any decent dominate would keep in mind when working with any submissive. Gad, this was something as her mate he should have known all along.Tara was hesitant to go with him, as seen by how she tried to pull her wrist out of his grasp when he tried to guide her from the training room. “Tara, we need to talk about this now. It’s not something that will wait. No, that’s not right exactly. I can’t let it sit between us until we’ve had a chance to process it’s implications.”“Implications? There’s no implications, unless you’re going to report me to the ruling council, reject me, an
In the Chains of the Alpha Cal's Stance
“Are right, so you understand my take on what happened? Anything Elmwood said, did, or thought has no bearing on what I think, feel, or decide. You were a pup, and you were alone when you were attacked. Tara, you did the only thing you could do, and that was let your instincts out to defend yourself. I would expect nothing less than that.” What Cal couldn’t explain was how a pup could instinctively perform a partial shift.A partial shift was something alphas trained to do for years or decades. Most never achieved the ability to just pop their claws. Fangs were one thing, but claws were completely different. It was nothing like the Lycan form. They sprouted fur and their skeletal structure completely changed to something in between a human’s and a wolf’s. They sprouted fur, and there was no way they could wear shoes.Cal had seen Tara’s wolf, and her wolf was nothing like the Lycans’ dire wolves. She looked like a pup compared to them.If Cal had to describe his response to T
In the Chains of the Alpha The Meaning Of
Tara stared at the email and the explanation of the results. “I’m seeing this correctly. Eddie may look like me, but he’s not blood related to me in any way. That there’s no question that Alpha Danvers is my uncle.” They still sat at the kitchen counter where they’d been talking. Tara could only describe her emotions as if she’d been put through an emotional wringer again. If admitting to the attack all those years ago and describing what happened to her, now she felt like she was on a verge of having a nervous breakdown. “It explains a lot. Why he sucks at fighting, and you don’t. His perchance for rogue-like activities and your straight and narrow tendencies. You were born into a family of alphas, but raised by a pack of rogues.” Cal now understood a lot of things that weren’t clear before. Comparing Tara to Eddie now was meaningless, and explained why their skills were so different. It wasn’t because of their differing experiences, but because genetically
In the Chains of the Alpha Managing Tara
“So, have you decided who you want to speak to first about this? Eddie or Kole?” Cal came into the living room from changing out of his training gear. He looked at Tara and she was still in her training gear, staring at her phone. He knew she was looking at that email message he’d sent her and instantly regretted doing that. Cal didn’t think twice about what he did next. “Go change now. I don’t want you looking at that until you’ve fixed yourself up.” He held his hand out, and he put his displeased dominate face on, along with the tone he knew everyone feared arguing with.It was one perk about this business and being an alpha of a wolf shifter pack. You knew early on how to influence the actions of those around you. The best learned to be responsible with it. Because without that responsibility, they could easily abuse it. Right now, Tara needed that push to get unstuck from contemplating pointless things. Whatever would unfold was out of her hands.Eddie would do what he wanted to
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Kole Danvers sat in his home office, which looked over the play yard of the school next door to his pack’s main house. That’s where they sent their pups to school, along with other packs. It was something they did to try to foster a working relationship between the packs going into the future. It wasn’t always perfect and clean cut. Pups possibly ran more on instinct than adult wolves did. He thought of this because he’d stared at the email list with an email from the Healer that did the DNA tests. If it came back with what he thought, it would. Then one pup fell through the cracks and somehow, he’d failed to find her. It only made things worse to know she shared his family’s bloodline with him. Kole hadn’t expected the forceful impact of so many emotions from looking at an email listing. “You’ve been staring at that screen since I knocked. What have you so focused that you didn’t hear me knock Kole?” Elliot Hawkins asked as he blatantly walked into
In the Chains of the Alpha Disappointing Eddie
Tara sat in a private room within the pack’s personal shared space. The door was locked, and she sat across from a downcast Eddie. He paced behind a sofa, unable to look at Tara. She didn’t like this at all. This is what she feared would happen. “Eddie…”“I know. I got the email too. All these years, we grew up together. No one ever said anything. Not even a hint. Heck, we sort of look alike even. What happened? Could there be even a slight chance someone who ran the tests got something wrong? If not, why didn’t someone say something? No one in that pack could keep a secret properly. How did they keep this one?” “I don’t know. But it doesn’t make anything between us different. We grew up together and later we survived together. This doesn’t make any of this less valid. We still have that bond, don’t we?” Tara wanted him to remember what they’d meant to each other over the years. He needed to see the value in that.“Do we? I’m a filthy rogue who’s just tagging along on your go
In the Chains of the Alpha Breaking It to Family
“Now that we’ve had this delightful dinner, Kole, please tell us why we’re eating privately? This usually means you have an announcement to make to the pack, but you don’t want to blindside us, so what is it?” Stone Danvers asked, demanding to know why they were here. He had a good book waiting for him, to end his day with, but his routine wasn’t finished he still had his daily run.“Father, please give me some patience and time to explain everything first before you get impatient and dismiss it before you learn everything.” Kole tried to forewarn his father that his very nature would complicate this announcement, but he silently chastised himself. He knew better than this. His father never changed his stripes.“Learn everything about what? Dear, you’re talking a lot but saying nothing right now.” Elaine Danvers was the patient one and Kole’s mother. She was the empathic soul and motherly influence in this family.“Right, as you know, everyone sitting at this table has never given up
In the Chains of the Alpha Cal Talks to Kole
“You spoke to your family? What did they have to say? How did your father take it?” Cal didn’t know what Kole said to them, but Stone was just that stone hard and a traditionalist through and through. He hated anything that changed the standard way things were done.Stone still struggled with the loss of his daughter. She may have been the elder, but she was his little girl. His only girl.Then there was Kole’s Beta, Kiera’s father. Cal was on pins and needles about meeting Elliott again. Elliot was considerably older than Cal and now his father through mating. It was a sobering feeling for Cal. What did he say? How did Elliott feel about all of this?“My father is pretending to accept the fact she is his blood. I suspect he’ll bide his time and then, when we least expect it, he’ll interrogate her about her story. Then I expect everything to go downhill from there with my mother letting in on my father for being overbearing. I’m sure Tara will be in tears. Which will probably
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