Chapter 16

• The Alpha’s POV
• Rumors are going on in my pack. Words of the human girl being alive were infiltrating amongst the people, and I knew it was only a matter of time before news spread. I don’t know how they knew she was in my custody. Or the decision I made to take her into my abode. No one had been able to confront me yet, and they were scared too, I knew. I was one to be respected and feared, but I also knew their safety mattered a lot; they were my people and deserved to be safe and happy without having to think of the dangerous human folks.
• This Hazel wasn’t supposed to be here in my home, living under my roof. But Mama Mia's confession greatly shocked me. If I hadn’t known the prowess and supernatural abilities of my aunt, I would’ve called her a liar and even thrown her in a cell for it. How could a human be the cure to my curse? In my wildest dream, I wouldn’t have guessed it right. The Moon Goddess had surely played a very tricky and fast game here. I didn’t want humans near my people; I hated them. What they caused my kind and their deeds against the last Alpha, my father I wondered why the Moon Goddess would make this scrawny-looking human my savior, among other available things and/or beings. I was left with no choice; I had to take her in. I needed pups, especially a male pup, to take over as Alpha when I’m no longer able to. Dizane wasn’t aware of this human’s presence in our home yet. And knowing who she was, she’d get angry for keeping things like this from her, but she wouldn’t understand. I needed to be let off of this curse. A curse—no one knew how it came, only that I had been cursed when I was a little pup, on my birthday,