Fifty-seven

~Aphrodite~

I told Valdus to go up stairs and to the room on the far left down the hall, was where I placed all the old Alphas clothes, so he can at least have something covering him.

I walked back down stairs and I see Ekon standing next to the stairs, and looking up towards me. I smiled and hurried down and gave him a tight hug. I went on my knees and pulled him closer to my chest and squeezed him so tight. When I felt his hands starting to loosen, that's when I do too.

"How are you?" I asked. I heard Valdus walking down the stairs but I didn't need to turn around.

"Good." He said. He forced a smile on his face and I was going to ask what's wrong, really, but he looked towards Valdus. Valdus walked towards my side and looked down at Ekon and didn't say anything. I pinched his side for him to greet himself but he still didn't. I sighed, "Ekon, this is my mate, Valdus. Valdus, this is Ekon." I looked up to Valdus and still see his hazel eyes staring hard at him with his arms crossed over his chest.

I don't like him.

"Hi." Ekon said. I held back the growl and the slap I wanted to throw to Valdus when Ekon spoke. Valdus only nodded and looked towards me with a raised eyebrow. "Listen Ekon. I'll catch up with you in a bit. You can go play again or you can go outside okay?"

"Okay." Quickly he turned around and ran towards the back yard and ran in the grass. I turned towards him and slapped his chest. "What the hell Valdus?!" I growled.

"What?"

"What do you mean what!? You know what."

"Okay, and? I don't like him. Just the vibe of him, don't like it. Messed up kid I can say, and I can say that because I know one because I was one." He winked and then walked towards the kitchen.

"Valdus!"

"Sure, he'll be your pup, but not mine. I'm just a figure in the back ground when raising him to the Alpha title."

"What the hell is wrong with you!" I said as I followed him. He turned around and leaned against the kitchen counter and crossed his ankles over each other with his arms doing the same across his chest.

"Aphrodite. I just have a bad feeling about the kid. I don't know if it's because you like him or just because I know he's going to be my replacement, I just don't like him. I don't have a reason for it but my wolf is telling me the same thing. I have a bad feeling about the kid. Like, yeah, I'll be there and all, but I won't like him. But don't you think I'll be like my father." He growled. "I'll take care of the kid."

I didn't know what to say. Nothing came to mind, but I was just mad. But I knew I couldn't be mad. I'm basically forcing him to take this pup and call him his. Call him his own blood. So I backed down. "I'm sorry." I said.

"That's shocking that you're sorry." He smirked.

I rolled my eyes, "so you rather have me yelling at you?" I said.

"Well no, but sometimes it turns me on, sometimes."'he winked as he pushed himself up and took two steps towards me and stared down at me while his hand cups around my right cheek.

"Yeah right, we're always arguing back and forth."

"Yeah, but it doesn't mean that I want to pin you on a wall and fûck you till you won't speak but only make you scream." He purred.

My heart skipped a beat and my mouth turned dried. I placed my hand on his chest, "stop."

"It's true though." He said as he pressed his forehead against mine.

"Well don't think that."

"I'll try." He gave me a quick peck and hugged me tight. I relaxed in his arms and hugged him tightly as well.

******

~A month later~

We combined the packs together and had a ceremony about it. Valdus had to slice his hand with mine again on my old ground to get the links to everyone, and then that combined all of ours wolves together. Zeke and Cadmar stayed. I talked to Angelia and Helmer and they were staying but I talked to Wilson and Valdus agreed to have him in the pack again but if he pulls something like that, he's either going to die, or run before Valdus can get his hands on him.

Zeke and Cadmar started to train my old warriors with Valdus' warriors, which made our warriors look bigger and larger all together. They couldn't be any happier. Helmer even decided to help sometimes, but I can tell that he loved what he did when teaching the warriors.

I had Ekon going to school and then at the end have him training with the warriors at the end of the day. People would look at him weirdly but wouldn't ask about him because I would've said something they wouldn't want to hear, and why would they confront their Alphas?

Valdus had to catch up with meeting that he missed with other Alphas and had to catch up on some short of paper work that he said that he rather do alone. I didn't mind because I hated doing my paper work, but I never knew that they was meeting with other Alphas. I guess it was close Alphas that they knew, and wouldn't fight against or had alliances with each other.

It felt weird to have this huge pack, a huge territory. Would Ekon even handle this? Would he even be able to take care of two packs combined? My pack was pretty big because we took over some weak pack which slowly started to grow into the larger territory. That's how I grew to have my name as the second strongest Alpha.

Yeah, we'll be there when he's a Alpha but we can't be babying him when he's the Alpha. He earned the title, so that means he was ready to take care of it and take care of his his wolves. His pack.

******

~A year later~

I walked down the stairs and off the estate and walked towards the school. My steps were hard and fast. My blood was boiling and my claws were bitting into the palms of my hands.

When I made it to the school, I already knew where to go. The second time he did this. I slammed the door open and there he was sitting on the chair, looking down at his hands which were covered in blood. His claws were out and they were covered with dried blood. He got in a fight, again.

"Let's go." I growled. I turned around and walked out of the building. I heard him sigh but followed me. I didn't walk to towards the estate, I walked towards the woods and waited for him.

When he was close to me and we were out of other wolves sight, I asked, "why?" I growled.

"He didn't take me seriously." He smiled. "So I slashed him."

I growled, "where?! Where did you slash him?!"

"Maybe the side of his face down to his neck?" He said with a shy smile.

"This is not funny Ekon!"

"I had to prove him something mom."

"Slashing him is not going to prove him anything, you're going to make your wolves afraid of you!" I said. I took a deep breath in and sighed as I combed a hand through my hair. "Never mind. You're going get a punishment. I don't know what yet, but go home. I'll meet you there and you better be there. If not, I'll have everyone look for you. You got it." I growled.

"Yes." He said as he looked down at him hand.

"Go." He turned around a shifted into his wolf and took off in a sprint.

Where am I going wrong.