Lycan's Prey by Jessica Hall

Alpha’s Regret Chapter 1

Everly POV

My head spins as I look around at my surroundings. My head is pounding, and I instantly regretted drinking so much. Panic courses through me when I can’t immediately recognize my surroundings. I could tell I was in a room; the light coming in through the window was blinding as I tried to figure out where I was. The last thing I remember is the annual Alpha meet–up, a costume party I attended with my family. My sister and I snuck off to meet with the other future Alphas after my father insisted that I needed to get in good with them, seeing as I am next in line and would have the pack handed over to me at the end of the year when I turn eighteen. Yet, for the life of me, I can’t remember how I got into this room.

I groan, rubbing my eyes and praying I am seeing shit. The alcohol burning in my system is still making me confused, except when I go to move. Suddenly, I became aware of the heavy arm draped over my waist. My head whips to the side, praying that the heavy arm belonged to my sister and we had both passed out somewhere. My worst fears are realized, and I must contain my horror scream when I find a naked man lying beside me. He wasn’t just any man but Alpha Valen of the Nightshade Pack. This man owned half the city and is from a rival pack. My father is going to murder me if he finds

out.

“Fuck!” I whisper under my breath before looking down to find myself also naked. The slight discomfort between my legs

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made me aware that I tossed my virginity out the window and have no memory of it. So much for that being a magical moment. I don’t even remember it. He must be a shit lay; I chuckle to myself. Of all people, it had to be the notorious Alpha and my father’s biggest rival.

My phone vibrates on the floor beside the bed, causing me to nearly dive off to retrieve it. My sister’s face pops up on the screen. I quickly answer it, mindful to keep my voice low, whispering into the phone. “Hello?”

“Where are you? Dad is going to lose it, I told him you’re with me, but he has asked me to come home,” she shrieks through the phone. I look around before looking out the window, trying to figure out my location. Shit, I realize I’m still at the hotel where the Alpha meet was held.

“Still at the bank’s hotel,” I whisper, and she pauses, going quiet for a few moments.

“Oh my God, please tell me you didn’t fuck Alpha dickwad?” she whispers, knowing dad would kill me, probably disown me if he ever found out. Alpha Valen’s reputation was scandalous and terrifying. I look over at the Greek God lying in bed beside me, ultimately passed out and unaware of me standing and gawking at him. I would love to see the horror on his face when he woke up, but he just might kill me along with my father. Shit, they may even conspire together to make my death exceptionally horrific.

“No, of course not. I just fell asleep in one of the rooms here,

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completely alone,” I lie, hoping Ava believes me. I won’t get her caught up in my minor issue if dad asks her; she sucks a lying. She doesn’t know she can’t get in trouble because of

me.

“Stuff it, Dad asks. Tell him you stayed with Amber and me. I will have Amber pick you up on the way, be there in five,” she says, hanging up. I quickly look around, scooping my clothes up off the floor and squeezing into the tight bodycon dress. I toss the stupid–ass fairy wings in the trashcan in the bathroom.

Looking in the mirror, I try to fix my makeup. My face is still covered in ridiculous amounts of glitter, and the eye mask that was painted on my face by my sister still concealed half my face. I chuckle to myself, knowing the Alpha will probably wake up just as confused as me and wonder why he is covered in glitter.

form, I can’t help but wonder who took advantage of who. I give him one last glance, scoop up

the back of the room when he was introduced. I smack into his chest, and he

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it funny that I am

there?” he asks. I drop my head, hoping he doesn’t recognize me and quickly

need a lift home?” he asks,

one–night stands a lift home?” I chuckle at

ones,” he says, and I roll my eyes, waving him off before taking off to meet my sister. We needed to hurry

3 weeks later

the weather for more than a few days. Werewolves rarely got sick. My father was the Alpha of Shadow Moon Pack, and after spending the last week sick, he had

Mountainview City’s entire population, was werewolves comprising four packs. My father’s pack was the second–largest pack, which meant we had plenty

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that he only had two daughters meant that I was next in line as the eldest. Well, until the Doctor came back and turned that

heart sink into my stomach. No, it couldn’t be. I only had sex once, and I don‘ t even remember because I was trashed. How the hell could this be happening? My father cast a stunned look at

be pregnant,” my father says. I shrink back in my chair. I was only seventeen, nearly eighteen, and the number one rule all she–wolves have drummed in our heads is to save ourselves for our mates. This was a huge deal, especially to my father. This would bring shame to our family, that I would break the one sacred rule for she–wolves. Sure, the men fool around, it was a little biased, yet we do it, especially someone like me in a position of power, that would

Doc tells him, but my father shakes his head, not believing his words or not wanting to.

test it again; it is wrong. My daughter is not

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called who fall pregnant to someone that is not their mate. It is the worst thing to be

same.

on either side. Our city was lucky; most she–wolves in other cities that fall pregnant are banished, making them forsaken wolves. They turn feral without any pack contact and are forced to live outside the cities, sending them crazed and mad like they do with those that

we just made them rogues, free to go about their lives without pack help. I used to look down on those women I would see trying to make ends meet for their poor choices. Maybe this is my karma; I was soon going to be one of them. Running through this scenario in my head, I start to feel like the room is running out

out.

out of the room and away from my father’s deadly glare. My father starts pacing, and my heart rate quickens when he stops

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