Chapter 7

It didn’t take long for him to fall asleep, as he was weary—both his mind and his body—and it was a short, sweet sleep until he heard a pounding on his door.

Kane was a notorious light sleeper; it could be from the fact that he had lived in the wild for a long time and you have to learn to be alert.

He was sitting up on his bed as he heard the knock, and he glanced at the wall.

The party must have kicked off already.

“Isn’t it too early for booze?” Kane cocked an eyebrow at his Beta as he entered his room, nursing a bottle of vodka.

“No time is too early for booze, but we are just getting started, and I thought to inform you.”

“Yeah, thanks; I will be on my way. Meanwhile…” Kane snatched the bottle of alcohol from his hands, and he took a long gulp before he handed it to him and sent him on his way.

He had already taken his bath, and he opted for his signature black shirt and black pants. He ran his hands through his hair, not bothering with a mirror. They were all male except for the nurse, and they had no one to impress.

He walked towards the entrance of the pack, where a fire had been burning brightly and men gathered around it, drinking and laughing.

A hush fell on them as they sensed his presence, and they began to shout in victory.

Praises have a way of getting to your brain, and Kane was nodding his head to their cries as he made his way to the middle, the fire burning fiercely as if in response to the chants.

Someone handed him a bottle, and he didn’t look at it before he was chugging the bottle. He raised his hands in the air and opened his mouth. “To victory!”

“To victory,” the pack thundered after him and broke into a loud shout.

Kane nodded his head as he looked at the men seated. They all had their struggles, but somehow they had overcome them and gotten to this point in their lives, and he had never been more proud.

The celebration dragged on until the night, but there was only so much they could do as there were no females around, so they pretty much retired to bed on time, drunk out of their minds.

Except Kane.

He had slept during the day and needed to use the time to work. He padded back to the little room that served as his office and sat down to work, taking note of the inventory of their latest conquest.

Kane was neck deep into work, scribbling into pages and racking his brain, and suddenly his ear perked up as he sensed a presence.

“Dad?” Ariel called with a soft voice that had Kane’s hardened heart melting. He looked at the young girl, who seemed smaller for her age, and he was shaking his head in pity.

He had asked his men to snoop around the pack house before they burned it, and they had discovered she was just 15 years old. He was 20, which means there was a five-year gap between them.

It wasn’t all that much, yet as he looked at her innocent face, he couldn’t feel anything but pity for her.

“Come.” Kane said, motioning to her. Ariel's eyes hardened as she looked at him, yet her legs seemed to have a kind of their own, and they made their way to him. But right now she was in a strange world and had no recollection of herself, and it was only this strange man that was radiating a comfortable warmth she could trust.

Kane watched as she made her way to him, and he couldn’t help the smile on his face. The moment was, however, disrupted when his ear pricked and he heard panicked footsteps coming from afar.

“Oh, my goddess. I am dead. Oh, my goddess, he will kill me.” The voice continued to ring out, proclaiming her demise, even though Kane had no intention of shortening her life span.

Just as he had thought, a knock went off on his door, and upon his verbal consent, the door opened quietly, as if afraid that the mere creaking of the door would anger him.

If this was what his pack members thought of him, Kane thought he would have to be more friendly.

“Alpha.” Denise peeped her head through the small opening of the door, and her worried eyes scanned around the room until they landed on the ones she had been looking for, and she released a little sigh of relief.

“Denise?” Kane looks at her with a slight annoyance. He wanted alone time with his mate and needed no one to disturb him. “What do you need?”

“I just wanted to check up on you. I know you have been quiet busy lately, and I just wanted to appreciate you for what you did.”

Kane rolled his eyes at the obvious flattery. “You lost her, right?” He said in a teasing voice, and Denise gulped before nodding her head.

“I am sorry. I went to get her food, and suddenly she was nowhere to be found. She doesn’t have any scent yet, and there was no way to track her.”

Kane dismissed her with a wave of his hands before she continued to ramble his ears off. “It is alright, but I expect you to do a better job next time.”

“Yes Alpha.” Denise lowered her

head for a second longer than necessary, and she scurried out of the office, shutting the door in her wake.