Broken Alpha by Paulina Vasquez (ebooks online reader TXT) 📕

phone and whispered as if Dimitri couldn’t hear anything, “Is he your mate?”

I nodded my head yes and she squealed again. “Oh my Goddess, oh my Goddess, oh my Goddess!”

“Please don’t tell anyone yet Clair. I’d like to be able to talk to dad about it first.” I begged.

“My lips are sealed.” She grinned.

“Talk to you soon.” I smiled and hung up.

“Oh, this can’t be good.” I said pacing the room.

“Raven come sit down.” Dimitri said as he grabbed my hand and pulled me to him. He leaned back in the chair and opened his arms to embrace me. I sat on his lap and he pulled me tight to him.

“I have a crazy mafia lord chasing after me and now my brother, whose the future Alpha of our pack and my cousin are coming to Greece.”

“We should have Eros neutralized in the next few days.” Dimitri told me.

“But what about his boss, Eros said it was his boss who wanted me dead. I think they know who my father is, maybe that’s why they want me? My father is part of the shifter’s council.”

“Will you please tell me who your father is?”

“I’m Raven LaRue, daughter of Alpha Diesel LaRue from Cre—”

“Crescent Moon Pack!” He said. “Of course, you said western Canada at breakfast, I should have known. That explains why Kosta has been watching you too. But I don’t think they are after you to hurt your father.”

“What do you mean?”

“I’m not exactly sure where to start.” He said trying to focus.

“Just start at the very beginning.” I told him.

“My family is said to have been descended from King Lycaon of Arcadia who was turned into a werewolf by Zeus. The males in the Theodorus bloodline are usually twice the size as normal werewolves and the strongest of our kind. My father was the Alpha of this pack, he was strong and powerful, my mother adored him. When I was a pup, the Greek Mafia started stepping on pack toes, and my father pushed back. He made an enemy of the wrong person and my mother was abducted and tortured for weeks. She was his everything, his other half.” He paused for a moment.

“My father lost his mind, he felt her pain through the mate bond, everything they did to her and it haunted him. They raped, mutilated and beat her. He felt all of that and wasn’t able to do anything. After he felt the bond break, they mailed her decapitated head to him in a box.”

I let out a gasp and he squeezed me closer before he continued.

“I was twelve and Odessa was four. The next four years were awful. He was cruel and often ordered the execution of pack wolves for the most minor offenses. If he couldn’t have my mother, no one was allowed to be happy. When Odessa turned eight, Elaina had made one of her special desserts for Odessa. He was so angry; he ordered a public whipping of Elaina’s mate because she had wasted kitchen ingredients on foolishness. My father was insane, and the pack was falling apart. Kosta was his beta and best friend, he left the pack after my father raped and killed his mate.” He said with sorrow.

His father was a real monster. I can’t imagine the years of hell everyone suffered. I placed my hand on his chest to help calm him and he kissed the side of my head.

“I was sixteen and shifted early, so I challenged him. My wolf Dom was pretty feral, and we had the elemental gift of earth which my father didn’t know about. There’s a waterfall and river about eight kilometers east of here and we fought near the cliffs edge. I had blinded one of his eyes with a sharp rock and beat him. I was ready to rip his throat out and put him out of his misery, when he submitted. When I turned to face the bowing wolves of the pack, he lunged at me from behind. I sent him flying over the edge of the cliff to his death.”

“That’s when they started calling me The Beast. I killed my father at only sixteen and my wolf was even bigger than his. No one has ever seen a wolf the size of Dom. I spent the next few years building up the pack and expanding our family business. We own dozens of olive farms around Greece that are exported for pickling or pressing for olive oil. We also own two international labels of olive oil.”

“What about the first mate rumor that you killed her?” I asked.

“Six years ago, I was seeing someone, she really wanted to be with me and told people we were mates. I was planning on breaking it off with her, but before I could, someone mailed me her decapitated head. Just as my father had received my mother’s head. Whoever killed my mother is still out there and apparently they have a vendetta with me. I suspect it’s Eros’ boss.”

“That’s why you didn’t want me!” I said as I connected the dots.

“I had sworn to never have a mate and only short term mistresses. I couldn’t suffer like my father did and become a true monster. My pack has suffered enough.”

“Short term mistresses? Great, our mate is a hoe!” Rae scoffed in my mind.

“Mistresses you say. Is the pack swimming with them?” I asked, not really sure I wanted to know.

“No. I haven’t been with anyone from my pack since Heather was murdered. Now that I have my mate, I won’t need a mistress.” He smiled at me.

“No he won’t.” Rae said.

“What