Alexandro's POV:
I need to apologize. Why the fuck did I blow up in his face like that?! Why did I just storm off?! Fuck! I'll apologize after training. Yeah that's what I'll do, I'll get to training early and then I'll apologize for what I said and take whatever punishment Dad sees fit.

"Alec, wait for us!"

I rolled my eyes as I slowed down to allow my friends to catch up. I wanted to get home, no I need to get home and start training, they are just too damn slow.

"Will you guys hurry up, we're going to be late!"

I yelled back as I started running again. I laughed as I heard them all groan and run after me, I swear they are just too slow. But they always know how to cheer me up, they don't even have to try or even realise they are doing it but they do.

I ran through the door with a grin stretched across my face as I threw my bag down and slipped my shoes off just waiting for them. Kayson was first which didn't surprise me in the slightest, then Carlos, followed by the girls, and then finally Benji and Robin who fell straight through the door with a thump after colliding with each other making us all laugh at their childish behaviour.

"Alexandro, Don needs to speak with you in your father's office."

I furrowed my eyebrows in confusion why the hell does my Dad's Gamma want to talk to me and why is Tanya's Dad telling me this information. I could feel Caden pacing in my head which only made me feel uneasy. Until I felt Kase's hand slip into mine giving it a gentle squeeze before he withdrew his hand all too quickly.

"Relax Alec, I'm sure it's nothing bad your dad's probably just going away or sending you away for a meeting, it'll be fine."

I relaxed slightly as Kayson's words echoed through my mind before I slowly headed to my dad's office. I took a deep breath to calm down before I pushed the office door open when I couldn't sense my dad was inside, he hates it when anyone just walks into his office without knocking and I'm already in his bad books, looks like I'll be apologizing a bit sooner and receiving my punishment a lot sooner too. I looked from Don to Salvestro and his face made my stomach drop.

"Alec..Alexandro I...your..."

I growled as my uncle stumbled over his words. My claws dug into the palms of my hands as Caden started to stir inside of me. I was finding it hard to keep control of him and my temper.

"Spit it out Salvestro, what the hell is going on?! Where's my dad?!"

My dad will know what's going on, he always gets to the point, he said there is no point beating around the bush just get straight to the point and you can set it right.

"Alexandro it's..it's...your father...he's...he's dead."

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"You're not ready Alexandro."
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I took a deep breath as my blood started boiling what was this, some sick joke! I growled out for him to repeat himself and when he did I swear my howl of anger and pain could be heard for miles, the whole town shook not just the house.

"Alec...Alexandro, please calm down. I'm sorry but you're the Alpha now. You have a responsibility, your father was my brother and I loved him more then anything and we will morn him in due time but...but you need to get prepared, you're not just an Alpha but your father named you his heir to the gang too. You...you need to be named as the new leader of the Fallen Dragons."

I howled again before I growled throwing everything I could see. I destroyed furniture, I clawed at the walls and furniture before I howled again punching the wall over and over leaving holes in the plastering.

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"No, you just don't trust me! Mom would say I'm ready, I wish she was here instead of you! I hate you Dad, I hate you!"
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I'm just seventeen. I'm seventeen years old, I'm not ready! Dad was right I'm not ready, I can't do this without him, he was my everything. He was all I had left, he...he can't be gone!

"When?! What happened?! Who killed him?!! Tell me!"

I was on the verge of force shifting. My dad was a good man, a merciful and kind Alpha. He was the same when he led the gang, he was feared but he was loved and respected and someone...someone just killed him like he was nothing!

"Alexandro, please calm down."

I howled again but then I ended up snarling and growling as well. This life killed my mother and now my father as well. What the hell do I have now? I have no one! No one will respect me now they'll just pity the orphan boy!

"MY NAME IS NOT ALEC OR ALEXANDRO GRIFFIN. MY NAME IS ANTONIO DU LUCA."

My wolf, Caden, was in control, my eyes fully changed colour and before I knew it I had thrown Don against the wall. Salvestro just about avoided my fury as he went to help Don up. My father is dead, he's gone just like her, just like my mom! My Uncle didn't even have the guts to tell me! I spent the whole...the whole day thinking he was alive and he could have been suffering! He could have been dying and I wasn't there, I...I didn't know!

I could hear my friends coming through the door and I span round and growled at them. Kayson and Liv tried to come near me but I just growled at them, pushing them all away.

"Get out all of you. I said GET OUT!"

I heard them all leave and I slammed the door shut before I started punching the wall again. I need to feel numb, I need to...

"Alec, Alexandro, calm down. Now."

I growled and ignored whoever was speaking and just continued to punch the wall, I could feel Caden fighting for full control of my body and I was ready to give him full control.

"Alec, now is not the time to lose it."

I growled again as someone else spoke. Caden was clawing to break free and in a split second the little control I had was gone and he took full control. Our knuckles were now bruised and bleeding but we just kept punching. We're both so close to punching whoever is in the room with us.

"Caden! That's enough!"

I was breathing heavily as I slowly stopped punching and turned around to see them. Our best allies and my good friends. Drayden was stood the closest to me. His hands up to show he was no threat but his stance and eyes said otherwise; he was more then ready to fight. Chance and Ripper where stood side by side furthest away from me they knew that regardless of friendship if they get in Caden's way they'll get hurt.

Caden growled at them and I felt my body shift, my teeth extend just as my claws had, my bones break, snapping and popping as they reform; moving into place, morphing from human to wolf. My clothes get ripped to shreds, my skin becomes covered in fur, my nose and mouth morph into a snout and muzzle, my tail forms, my ears grow pointy and I soon fall on all fours. I pushed off my hind legs and pounced not caring who I attacked. Before I could even reach Chance a body collided with my own knocking us both to the ground. I shook my head and growled as I got to my feet, coming face to face with Dryden's wolf.

I launched myself at him claws ready, but he was faster and pinning me to the ground. I clawed at his muzzle, snapping my jaws as close to his paws but he didn't budge just snapped his jaws at me.

"Alec, Dray, enough."

Drayden gave a final growl before he slowly climbed off and trotted out the room before he came back fully dressed with a pair of spare clothes with him.

"Alec, we heard about your father, we're sorry he was a good man, a good friend he didn't deserve what happened to him. Look we're here to help you okay, we promised your father that if anything happened to him we'd help you."

Ripper nodded as Chance spoke and I turned to look at Drayden.

"Your father was one of my best friends. Chance, Ripper and I will help make you the leader you were born to be. I'll make you an Alpha and Chance and Ripper will make you a leader. But you have to make your own choices, this is your pack, your gang, not ours."

I lowered my head taking the spare clothes into my mouth before I trotted behind the desk which was miraculously still intact. It took everything in me to calm down and shift back but once I did I stepped out and they stared at me. I looked at myself in what was left of the mirror to see that my eyes were red and sore. My knuckles were split, bruised and bleeding but I didn't care.

"I...I want him back. I can't do this without him. I lost mom and he promise-he promised me. He said he'd stay and he didn't. He left me alone when I needed him!"

All the sadness and pain disappeared only to be replaced by anger and rage, he left me just like she did, they left us!

"Alec..."

A snarl escaped my lips as Chance called me Alec. All that I was, the man I was and could have been died with my dad. My name isn't Alec or Alexandro anymore everything he could have been is died, he is nothing now.

"Alexandro is dead. My name is Antonio Du Luca, the Alpha of the Midnight Horizon pack and I am the leader of the Fallen Dragons."

I walked out the room in silence and headed straight for the morgue section of the infirmary. I followed the faint scent of my father and pulled down the sheet staring at his dead body. In that moment I decided that I wouldn't make the same mistakes, I won't be soft, I won't show weakness, they wanted to break me; no they didn't break me they created a monster. They thought they could make me weak; they didn't want a monster. Well too bad because they got one.

Alexandro Griffin is no more. My name is Antonio Du Luca.

Drayden/Angelo's Wolf Axel.

Alexandro/Antonio's Wolf Caden.