Alpha Xander: His Contracted Luna

Xander had rubbed off some bravery on Catherine. She quivered at first but slowly regained confidence when Xander held her hand. She looked Faye dead in the eyes.

“You puny human!” Faye snapped at Catherine.

Xander stood in her way but Catherine could stand for herself.

“You dirty mutt!” Catherine snapped backed.

Faye was whelmed with quite a surprise. She stepped back with rage in her eyes.

“You think you’re happy? Enjoy it while it lasts.” Faye scoffed.

She dashed away from their quarters.

“How rude,” Catherine said. “She just barged into our room like that.”

Xander smiled and pulled Catherine close.

“You said OUR room,” he pouted his to plant a kiss on her forehead.

This was no time to have a cute moment. At little enamor it was, it was a moment to be revered.

“But for real, hope it’s gonna be alright?” She asked concernedly.

“Don’t worry about it,” he said. “I’ve got it under control.”

“You sure do say that a lot,” she muttered.

She took his words with a heart’s trust. She confided in him.

They had stuck by each other. Although the circumstance that brought them together was a disaster, they hoped to make the best of it. A beautiful disaster.

‘…I promise to keep you safe,’ she thought back on his word from the ball.

He always showed up at the right time. Jack wasn’t her knight in shiny armor. That was a fallacy. The truth, the real truth reborn and living is Xander, her husky breed. Just as hope is the last phase, Xander is her last phase. Her perseverant savior.

***

The betas were outside on the field, wrestling shirtless. They were sweaty and it appears they have been at it all morning. Jackson held no part in their fun, he was chopping wood at the barn. He was surprised to see Xander look at him without a grimace, since the incident with Catherine.

Jackson had served his penance but he still felt indebted to his Alpha.

He put the axe down and bowed to his knees, “My Alpha,”

“My loyal Beta,” Xander said.

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FLASHBACK

His rage had taken over. The other betas ran off and left Jackson all by himself with Xander. Jackson got to knees and pleaded, “Alpha forgive me-

Too late for apologies. Xander kicked him hard by the side of his face.

“Please no,” Jackson begged.

Xander took him by the collar. Catherine had passed out on the sofa.

The furnace was burning with immense heat and the embers were bright red.

‘This is what you get,” Xander growled.

His skin slowly peeling one layer and on to the next. His face melting on the embers.

“Alpha!” Jackson yelled in agony.

Xander pulled him back when he got a hold of himself.

One half of Jackson’s face was bruised with blows taken from Xander, the other was a smoky lump of flesh. He wasn’t regenerating like he was meant to if the burns were meager.

Xander left him sobbing on the ground. His eyes were dull and brooding regretful emotions. He hoisted Catherine on his shoulders. He took one last look at helpless Jackson on the living room carpet and headed up the stairs.

“What happened,” Catherine wheezed.

Xander carefully dropped her on the bed, and proceeded to leave the room.

“Have a good night,” he said and opened the door.

“Why the sad eyes,” drunk Catherine asked.

Xander closed the door and sat by the corner of the room.

“Don’t be sad now Alpha boy,” Catherine crawled to his side.

She slowly undresses herself.

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PRESENT

Xander picked the axe and swatted it in the air.

“You remember Vegas,” he asked Jackson.

“We sure dealt with a lot of ’em bloodsuckers,” Jackson chuckled.

“Yeah just swinging heads at the casino,” Xander said handing the axe to Jackson.

Xander placed a chunk of wood on the platter.

Jackson chopped it into two halves with one swing.

“The good old days,” he smiled.

Even when he tried to smile his face could never compliment it. His face was always falling to the side.

“I need to talk to you about something Jackson,” Xander sat on a log.Property belongs to Nôvel(D)r/ama.Org.

They talked about that dreadful night by the fire. Jackson had made peace with that long ago but Xander persisted on telling him how sorry he was.

“I should have reacted the way I did…”

“No Alpha. I deserved everything I’ve got, we were the ones fooling around.”

“I could have handled it differently.”

Jackson didn’t want Xander to hold himself accountable or in the wrong.

‘The deed had been done,” Jackson said. “No retribution just consequences.”

The sun was setting. The boys on the field were going in to have some food. They kept on hollering till they entered.

“You guys are all I’ve got,” Xander told Jackson.

“And you’re all we’ve got,” Jackson said.

“I’ve made decision,” Xander said. “Some good and some bad.”

He got up and stared at the roof of the barn.

“It doesn’t matter,” Jackson said

They heard a ruckus in the barn. A fire started out of the blue.

***

They pack came out with buckets of water in their hands. Every man trying their best to put out the fire before it burns up their entire food supply. With the little they had in the house, the barn was where they stocked up most of their supplies.

Xander was walking back and forth waiting for Faye to give a report on the suspects they chased in the woods.

Jackson had a seizure when the fire started. It was traumatizing and overly sensitive for him to bear. He was resting in the house and just woke up.

“Alpha… I’ll go after Faye in the woods for support,” Jackson signaled to Xander.

“Fall back beta,” Xander ordered.

Faye and a few others were seen coming back from their chase.

They met up with Xander in the woods.

Faye was looking disappointed, “We weren’t able to catch the perp.”

Xander stomped the ground in anger.

“This was obviously an attack from Drew,” he said.

Faye had a look of disbelief in her eyes.

***

Xander realized Catherine wasn’t in the house the whole time. She had been missing. He gathered the pack outside that night.

They pack were gathered on the field, where the stars were very few in the night.

The sky was bleak. Xander’s heart raced and he spun into a brief manic episode.

“Let me go!” Xander yelled. “I will kill him. I will kill drew.”

Two betas held Xander to calm him.

Jackson took charge of the search for answers. For the time the search for Catherine was postponed by Faye. Xander couldn’t calm down, he made his way to the woods when they pack was planning.