The Silent Alpha (Natalia)

Chapter 23: Identity he
“Agnes** *

My little butterfly flutters around the room, its iridescent wings catching the light that filters in through the window.

On the floor, Kota watches a Disney film with Rio by his side, large headphones blocking out the rest of the world to him.

Rosalie types away at her desk, looking over hundreds of spreadsheets and developing promotional content for her pack’s company.She is the Head Social Media coordinator in charge of the company’s social media presence.

As she works, she instructs me to give her pup, Emile, a bath and put him to sleep.I execute the task with great care, preparing a warm bath with little bubbles.

Emile seems to enjoy the bath, his eyes widening as I pour a little water over his hair and his legs kicking frantically with excitement.

He likes the water…my wolf, Cynthia smiles.

Just like Archie.

An overwhelming sadness fills my heart as I look down at the small happy pup in my arms, seeing in him the little boy I had lost long before I became Zane’s mother.

He’s with his father now, Cynthia tries to comfort me but it’s no use.

There would forever be a small hole in my heart…all because of My life as a Ravenstone wolf was by no means perfect.

Being deaf, I was always pushed around and made fun of for being unable to talk or hear.

While my parents never said it, I knew they were ashamed to have a deaf daughter and Alpha Tristan (Alpha Toran’s father and former Alpha of Ravenstone) would not have hesitated to get rid of me were it not for the fact that my father was the gamma’s younger brother.I learned early on that it was best to stay out of the Alpha’s way and be invisible.

But Damon saw me, and he never stopped seeing me.

Growing up, none of the other pups understood me nor did they bother to try.I was too strange because I talked with my hands and made weird sounds whenever I tried to speak.

But as Moon Goddess would have it, I met my mate in a sandbox of all places.

He wanted to know why I played with the sand all by myself and never joined In on the games with the other pups.He wanted to know why I used my hands instead of my words.

When Damon realized I could not hear, he brought me a notebook and wrote down all of his favorite things to do in it so that we could do them together.

Hide and seek, tag, and mancala were among our favorite games to play together.

I taught him how to sign and he taught me how to hear with my eyes and feet.

His father was learned to stay vigilant, like relying more on my nose and my sense of touch.

I was devastated the day of my first shift when I realized my wolf was as deaf as I was.I had held onto the hope that I could hear in her form, but Moon Goddess did not grant me that gift.

“You are not useless,”Damon told me as I shifted back into my human form and burst into tears.

“You are just different.”

Those simple words helped soothe my broken heart and I learned to accept myself as I was.

The day of Damon’s 18th birthday will forever be one of the greatest days of my life.

He did not hesitate to claim me as his mate, marking me that very same day.

I was only 16 but my parents were overjoyed that I would not spend the rest of my life in loneliness as they had expected me to.

With Alpha Toran’s permission, I was allowed to move in with Damon as his wife despite not being a matured wolf yet.

Neither Damon nor I were ready to start a family, so we focused on building our home and becoming contributing members of the pack.

while I finished school and worked at the pack library

overjoyed to be a

work building the nursery, putting special attention to every corner of our pup’s room

joy, I was nervous about being a

he is

night “Then we will love

as he wiped away

will know love

all of my fears with his kisses and his love, reassuring me that there

came without trouble and he was the most beautiful

eyes were shaded by a pair of thick long lashes like his father’s and he

describe the joy I felt when I held him in

like bells or the sound of his father’s voice, asserting that he was

doting father, spending every second he could with

to sleep,” he’d

“I’ve got Archie.”

not rich and we could barely make ends meet, our life was

me and I

and a house to call our own.We had

that fateful day Scarlet Haven

close allies, but that all came crashing down the day Alpha Toran discovered Alpha Cyrus and

beginning of

see Scarlet Haven burn to the ground

message to young

but Alpha Sebastian would go on to commit an even

both working full-time, I was forced to sign Archie up in the

a day like any other, I it would be the last time I would ever

four unlabeled packages were delivered to the daycare and at

what all the commotion was about and to my horror, I saw the collapsed daycare center In the distance, the burning building giving off

were no survivors, all 26 pups and their

the war intensified, Damon volunteering to be

lost my husband in the war just one month after losing my pup.I was devoid of all feelings, my heart shriveling up to the size of a shrimp.I could no longer

to his office, I was more than ready to be

wrote to me as I sat silently in his

you want revenge for your son and mate?” I sat there staring at the question on the sheet of paper, understanding the individual words but struggling to comprehend their

did find Sebastian’s secret heir, not even during the attack of the King’s birthday,” Alpha Toran

child hidden in the pack house which he has turned into a fortress my men

I replied, my trembling hands struggling to hold the pen to the sheet

of any service and get revenge?” The Alpha smiled

are weak, there’s no doubt about that. A wolf of your caliber is virtually useless to any pack,” he wrote,

to become a rogue stumbling through woods

and take you in, allowing you to find the hidden heir

“Or…” the Alpha continued.

kill you on sight, which I assume is a viable option for you, all things considered,” he shrugged, his eyes scanning my poor state

cheeks were hollowed out from lack of eating and my once bright eyes were now dull

head at him.I had lost a child.I could not do the same to

once more, unfazed by my lack of interest

not giving you an option,”

you in a time of war. You will be a rogue whether you accept my

only your pup, but the only

my dear Agnes,” he adds on a

woods, raped and killed by other rogues…or will you die a hero and end this war