Alpha Lawson’s P.O.V

“Okay everybody listen up.” My voice boomed across the meeting room, “I have some bad news and some good news. The bad news first; this concerns Missy and Matt, me and the pack elders are in agreement that the best thing for them is leaving our pack. I already spoke to Missy’s parents they agree with me on this. So Missy’s memory about us will be erased before leaving us. As for Matt we decided he should be put down.”

I hear surprised gasps; it’s been years since we carried out such a death sentence. “We do this because what happened to Farrell wasn’t his first crime. We dug deep in his background and found he did some worse stuff too. So with his mother’s consent and the other legal offices that are in fact prosecuting him for his other offences all agreed to the death sentence. On another note; the child I say would join us in a few months’ regretfully died when he ran into rouges.”

As I say this his mother Mary burst into tears, sobbing. Luckily Eleanor was quick enough to guide her out of the meeting room. Everybody was quiet for a while, already mourning Matt’s death. They also mourned the other child’s death.

After a few more beats of silence I continue my speech; “Now the good news; I’m pleased to announce that together with the pack elders we have decided that anyone from the abandoned junkyard is free to join our pack if they choose to.” Everybody cheered quietly, still reeling from the fact that Matt is going to leave us. Sean and Ryan grinned at each other, as the oldest of everyone they decided to come to the pack on behalf of everybody at the junkyard.

Smiling at their reactions “As not many of you know we had another applicant for joining our pack; Genesis McFarlow.” Everybody looked around until they found a petit girl with long black hair and dark rimmed glasses. She was hiding behind Kate; it was obvious that she wasn’t costumed to all the attention she was getting.

I smiled at her, “We accept your application for joining our pack. So welcome to the Sun Warriors!” now the crowd explodes into cheers, whistles and clapping. I smile as I see her peek around Kate and show a shy smile. Farrell grabs her and hugs her tight, which caused Sean to growl at him.

Everybody in the room turned towards the sound. Even Ryan looked at him with an eyebrow raised; meaning the sound also surprised him. Farrell as quick as ever to let her go and moved a safe distance away from her. Genesis looked at him with her big dark eyes, clearly frightened. This caused Sean to be confused, “Sean, she doesn’t know how to react to this. It’s new for her. We are her first pack.”

Thank god he got the hint and slowly made his way over to her and speaks with her about his reaction.

Ryan’s P.O.V

I can’t believe we’re going back to be in a pack, and not just any pack but one of the biggest in the whole of Texas! I was very surprised to see Sean react to the petit girl with long black hair. Not only that but it sounded very possessive too.

While I text the others back at the junkyard that they accepted us, I look around the room for that one person. I stretch on my tippy toes too look over all the heads; I can’t seem to find him. “He’s not here.” A light voice sounds in my ear. Turning I see the white head Matt was so nuts about. I raise an eyebrow, “Mike is not here, he left a little while ago there was something going on with his parents.”

As I try to mask my surprise he keeps on talking, “I don’t think he would accept you any time soon, he apparently hates same gender mates.” He looked at me with sad eyes. He looked over his shoulder, “I have to go.” “I will make sure he’ll change his mind.” I tell him before he runs off towards Lawson’s son.

After what feels like an eternity I see Sean saying his goodbyes to Genesis. In the meanwhile they were talking most of the pack came round me way to meet me. That was awesome, and gave me a sense of security. It has been awhile that I had a feeling of security within a pack.

On our way back to the junkyard, Sean was still star struck with Genesis. It was obvious to everybody else in the group saw it. Even the smallest child could see it. So of course everybody reacted to him asking him what was wrong with him. I answered for him “He found his mate, and she is in the pack we are going to join tomorrow.”

Everybody was cheering about this fact except Nicole. She was the only one who opposed joining the pack. So we also told her that she didn’t have to join the pack like the rest of us. She has had problems with her previous Alpha and his pack. Apparently the Alpha and his pack treated her like their personal punching bag. Having enough she left and found us at the junkyard.

I went back to my room, thinking about how to get Mike accept me as his mate. Thanks to Farrell I have to rethink my strategy about Mike accepting me.

Farrell’s P.O.V

I felt really sorry for Ryan. I know Mike feels about same gender mates, so I decided Ryan should know how Mike felt about it. Ryan looked a bit deflated about the fact Mike wasn’t going to accept him as quickly as his hoped. But he told me he was going to make Mike accept him, which was great news.

As I came back from talking to Ryan, Connor looked at me questioning.

I thought Ryan should know how Mike feels about mates of the same gender. Because Ryan’s behaviour at the junkyard when he saw Mike showed that they might be mates. Ryan would be good for Mike he might be two years older, but Mike would need a strong counterpart. I know Mike’s strong and loyal but he needs someone he can lean on. In my eyes that would be Ryan.

He chuckled at me you don’t need to sell Ryan at me. I really think Mike could use an older mate too. Due to his home situation, he really feels insecure about mates and treating mates. His brother married someone outside of our pack and angered his parents. His parents took out their anger at him. At least that’s what he said in the few words he wanted to say about the subject.

“Don’t worry about it; they need to clear it out themselves. The only thing we can do is being there for them." He sighs; it seems to me Mike’s home situation really got to Connor. I can feel his anxiety roll off him in waves. I hug him tightly to me, saying that everything is going to be alright. It might be a while but it will be alright. To make him stop worrying about it I kiss him deeply. He groaned, but reacted to my kiss. His arms tightened around me, pressing me against his hard body and growing bulge. I smile at him, wriggle out of his grasp and run upstairs towards our room. It didn’t take him to long to catch up to me and lock us in our room until the next day.

Mike’s P.O.V

I can’t believe he’s done it again! I growl as I think about all the other things that man has done to me and my mother. I just hope Ryan will stop his insisting that we are mates. I feel relieved though that dad doesn’t attend pack meetings anymore. Every time he did there would always be a row, and he’d be asked to leave the meeting. While they were removing him from the meeting room, he would drag me and mom along whit him. Making us also miss the meeting. I really hated him for that. But thanks to having him banned from the meetings I am able to attend the meeting without the trouble of him fighting and making his opinion widely known.

It’s for mom’s sake that I come home every night, when I am home dad doesn’t touch mom. So when I open the front door I’m quite pissed at the man. “I am back!” I shout. No response. “Hello!” still silence. That’s weird; normally I would hear pots and pans, and the TV blaring. But the house is eerie silent now.  I take a deep breath and catch the scent of blood. Not only that but it’s fresh blood.

Oh my god! He better not have killed her! I think as I frantically search the whole house. Leaving the kitchen for last. Why would I leave the kitchen for last? Because I am afraid to have my worst fears confirmed that she is indeed dead.

Finally entering the kitchen, the fresh smell of blood smacks me in the face and makes my knees wobble. A logic part of my brain tells me I need to tell Alpha Lawson what happened, but an emotional part of my brain shouts at me that I need to take care of her first and above everything else. Listening to neither parts of my brain, my knees buckle and I slide down towards the floor. After what feels like staring at her for eternity I get up and start to clean up the mess around her.

As I clean up the pots and pans she dropped, the front door opens and someone comes in. They don’t announce themselves. So I go into the hall and see HIM standing there, with red bloodshot eyes. There are no words for the emotions I feel rushing to me. I just shake my head and return to the clean-up.

He enters the kitchen after me and sees her still lying on the floor. “You’re not going to clean that up too?” he even has the guts to touch her with the tip of his work boot. That made me snarl at him, “Don’t you touch her!” he just chuckles at me, and takes a beer out of the fridge.

Alpha Lawson! Please come! I found my mom dead in the kitchen and my dad return home and is drinking a beer; I just don’t know how many he already had before this one.

I leave the kitchen feeling his beady eyes trying to stare a hole in my back. The only thing I can do now is sit tight and wait for Alpha Lawson to come.

Alpha Lawson’s P.O.V

I was working on some legal papers when I get Mike’s message about his mother’s death. I can’t say I’m shocked that she is dead; I expected it but not this early. I had hoped that she would live to see the day Mike found his mate. But seeing as things are now, she would never see his mate. On the other side she would never have to go through another beating.

But what worried me the most was the fact that Mike’s father was there and drinking beer. According to Mike his father might already had more than the one he’s is having at the moment. I kiss Eleanor on the cheek and say I need to go to Mike’s house and sort out some trouble. “Logan!” Thank god I just have to say his name and he comes to my side. I owe a lot to him and his family.

Once we arrive at the house we can smell the blood from outside. I feel myself and Logan tense; “Are you sure the boy still inside the house?” I nod my head “Yes I can still sense him inside, he is probably in his room right now. You go around back, if we know his father he would probably have dragged her outside and tried to burn away any evidence.” With a sharp nod Logan disappears behind the house.

I can feel the neighbours’ curiosity but because I’m Alpha they will stay away from the crime scene until we leave. “Excuse me Alpha. I’m Emily my family and me moved here just recently and we would like to take care of the boy until everything is finished. He used to baby sit our child.”

I turn around to see a female of the age of twenty something and has brown hair and her head bowed in submission. I look back at the house, “Yes that’s a good idea I will go get him, wait here.”  Once on the landing I can hear contained sobs from a room on my right.  Upon entering I see Mike curled up like a ball biting his fists. My heart ached at the scene; it just showed how much his parent’s behaviour got to him.

Once he realised it was me and not his father, he uncurled himself and threw himself at me. Clutching my shirt and sobbing without abandon into my shirt.  He was babbling about everything and nothing, as I gently guided him out of the house and into the caring arms of Mrs Emily. Just as Mike entered their house I heard a noise and saw Logan and Mrs Emily’s husband Caleb carry Mike’s father between them kicking and screaming.

Not long after other pack members come out from behind the house as Logan reports to me that indeed Mike’s father had tried to burn his wife back at the woods at the end of their property.  I sigh it was going to be a long night. As I rub my temples Mike comes out of Emily’s house looking as white as a sheet, “Can I stay at the pack house Alpha?” he murmurs very quietly.

“Of course you can son, I already asked someone to come pick you up.” As I say that a car pulls up and Farrell rushes out of the car and hugs Mike tightly. Causing Mike to sob again. But this time he let it all out; he held nothing back as he clutches Farrell just as tightly.

“Go on with Farrell to the pack house and we will see you there.” I really want them both out if here before they bring back the half burnt body of his mother. So I praised my lucky stars that just as Farrell rounds the corner, two more pack members come out from behind the house with Mike’s mother on a stretcher between them.

At the sight of his half burnt wife Mike’s father had the gall to actually start crying. “Put him in the car Logan and bring him to the dungeons. Caleb, find somebody and go check the house on clues or anything else that may be important for his case.” With two firm nods the two men set out to do what I asked of them.

Honey? I am going to be late to night. Mike’s father killed his mother and Mike and Farrell are now on their way to the pack house. Logan is on his way with Mike’s father, and I have put him in the dungeons. I will wait here as some people are processing the house for evidence that might be important in this case. Okay dear, I will make sure Mike get’s everything he needs. I will even ask if Dr. Mary our pack psychologist can come to talk to Mike about everything. Okay that’s fine see you later.

I have had people process the whole house that took us all night long, but in the end we left no stone unturned. Everybody did a good job and was satisfied with what we have found at the house. Now the only thing we needed was a statement from Mike and we would have all the evidence we would need to show to Mike’s fathers previous pack as their say would influence the outcome of the this case.

I decided that Mike’s statement could wait until tomorrow; I don’t think he was going to be able to answer any questions with a straight mind, considering the circumstances.

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I am sorry for not including a lot of Connor and Farrell in this but i found that this awas also important for the story. Let me know what you thought if it!!!