The Alpha's Virgin Witch(2)

“What’s going on with Bianca?” Caleb asked.

“Nothing.”

“The way you try to avoid her, that’s not nothing.”

“You do know I can smell the claiming heat from you, right?” Caleb chuckled as Guy gave him a filthy look. “Does Bianca know?”

“No.”

“She’s your mate?”

“Yes. The little sub is my mate.”

“You’re not going to claim her?”

“Are you going to claim Lucy?” Guy asked.

“Lucy’s not my mate.”

“How do you know?”

He looked across Guy’s shoulder to stare at Lucy’s back. She was laughing with Bianca, and he noticed several of the pack staring at her. The pack were all unnerved by her witchy ability. He’d never been afraid of her powers, and knowing she was a witch didn’t bother him. His father had been aware that she was a witch even before Lucy had.

Her parents, the wolf pack, had known the truth. There were many secrets surrounding Lucy, and she didn’t even have a clue that many within the pack were duty-bound to protect her, including him.

Guy knew, as his father was Beta to the pack. Her own knew, too, parents, as did Caleb’s parents and also several pack elders. They were duty-bound to protect her.

“I’ve never had the mating heat, nor do I feel the need to take her.”

“Yet during the full moon you go and wait near her home, staring up at her bedroom window,” Guy said.

His friend should know as Guy had spent many full moon nights sitting with him as they stared up at Lucy’s window. Sometimes she was sitting at the window, staring up at the moon. She never looked toward them, always at the moon.

“I’m doing my duty.”

“What about Patricia? She’s expecting you to put the mating call on her. Are you going to do that?”

Caleb wrinkled his nose. Patricia was one of the strongest of the new generation of pack, and she believed her rightful place was by his side. Ever since Lucy had thwarted her attempt to claim dominance, she’d been trying to prove what a strong female she actually was. The truth was, none of them stood a chance against Lucy unless they worked as a pack to attack. Witches were strong, the strongest kind of paranormal beings, but until they inherited their powers and learned to harness their craft, they were forever in danger. Lucy, being away from any coven, was vulnerable.

“I’m not mating with Patricia. You’ve got no chance.”

“She’s not going to take no for an answer. You gave Cora a smile the other day, and Patricia made the girl bow down to her strength.”

“Patricia needs to be careful. My mother will not allow her to take her place.” There was only one true pack alpha female, and that was his mother.

“Now that smack down I’d pay to see.” Guy signaled the waitress, and they ordered some coffee and muffins.

While Guy ordered for them, Caleb watched Lucy as she tucked some hair behind her ear. It was the last weeks of summer, and she wore a pale pink summer dress. The thin straps didn’t hide the large scar on her back that she’d gotten when she had fallen out of a tree at ten years old. He’d been there and had watched her climbing the large tree near the park where kids hung out. He’d been thirteen, and had been terrified for her, but she’d been determined to climb.

One of the branches had been infected and weak, so when she put her whole weight on it the branch snapped, cutting her back on the way down. She ended up breaking her leg and arm, not to mention cutting open her back. Her parents and his father had been so damn worried. Throughout the whole episode, she hadn’t screamed at all. It was the first sign that she was a real witch.

Some witches were able to mask their pain so that they couldn’t feel anything. He’d never seen it done, but Lucy had screamed during the fall and knocked herself out. Then when she woke up, she showed no signs of having any pain at all. From what he’d been told, she had thought they had filled her with morphine. To start the procedure, the doctor had given her some morphine, but the effects would have worn off. She hadn’t known that he’d been in the room, watching her. Lucy didn’t have a clue that he’d spent most of his life watching her at some point or another.

Even when they’d gone down to the creek that fateful day, he’d been curious. When he saw her finally use her powers, he’d been fucking aroused. She looked so beautiful, and when everyone had been afraid when her while her eyes had darkened as the magic started to take over, he hadn’t been. He’d been aroused.

“You’re staring again.”

Once again he averted his gaze, and found a coffee in front of him.

“Have you heard that Lucy is planning on leaving the pack?” Guy asked, continuing to talk.

“What?”

“I’ve heard her parents talking. They’re worried she’s going to head out, to look for her coven.”

They stopped talking as the waitress put down their breakfast.

Wolves had a faster metabolism, so they had much larger appetites. Caleb loved good food. Relished it, and he enjoyed his mother’s cooking. He’d also tasted Lucy’s cooking, and she really was a superb cook. Every year in the summer they had a potluck weekend in celebration of the full moon. Lucy always cooked for the potluck.

“That’s dangerous.” Lucy couldn’t leave the protection of the pack, not without properly harnessing her powers.

“You know some of the pack want her gone. They believe having a witch within the pack is dangerous,” Guy said.

“Witches are the most powerful.”

“Exactly, and that in itself poses the threat.” Guy shrugged. “Most of the pack have treated her as an outsider for as long as I could remember.”

“She’ll take Bianca with her.”

Guy glanced behind him, and they both turned in time to watch Lucy and Bianca get to their feet.

“Do you want to follow them?” Guy asked.

“Yeah.” Getting to his feet, he threw down some money, and made his way out of the café. He didn’t know why he wanted to follow Lucy, but it was an instinct to go and protect her. “Bianca’s your mate.”

Guy sighed. “I can’t let her go with Lucy.”

“You’ve not even claimed her.”

“She’s a sub.”

“And you’ve screwed a lot of the pack females who would fight her for a chance to call you their own.” Caleb was careful with the women he screwed, and he always made sure that the women knew he wasn’t going to take them as a mate.

He’d never found his mate, and the only female to hold his interest was the one woman he’d never actually spoken to, Lucy. He was three years older than she was, and had seen her from afar, yet they’d never actually talked.

She probably thought he hated her, which wasn’t true.

Caleb wasn’t even afraid of her witchcraft.

Guy climbed into the car, and together they made their way out of the Wolf Valley toward the next town. Lucy was driving as Bianca had never been able to pass her test. She truly was a submissive little wolf.

Some of the women Guy had fucked would tear Bianca apart, and in that moment Caleb understood why he hadn’t initiated the claiming with her.

“What will you do if Lucy leaves?” Guy asked.

“What will you do if Bianca leaves with her?”

“I can’t let her go.”

“You can’t force her to stay here when she’s not happy. Lucy and Bianca are the best of friends, and that is not going to change, not by a long shot.” The two had been inseparable from a young age.

“Look, let’s just handle one thing at a time. Right now, all we have to do is deal with Lucy and Bianca going shopping,” Guy said. “We’ll deal everything else after.”

Caleb couldn’t argue, not really. He didn’t know what he was going to do if Lucy left. The very thought had his gut twisting, and he wanted to throw up. What the hell was that all about? Lucy wasn’t part of the pack, and he’d never even talked to her before, yet she was stirring emotions that no one ever had before. Taking a deep breath, he watched her car while Guy followed behind them.





Chapter Two



Lucy wasn’t getting anywhere with convincing Bianca to leave Wolf Valley with her, and it sucked. She didn’t want to go out on her own and risk leaving her friend behind. Bianca was like a sister to her.

Looking through the dresses, she felt uninspired. Nothing appealed to her, and she hated that. Bianca was just trying on a pink dress, and Lucy kept her eye on the dressing room for when her friend would appear.

The hairs on the back of her neck stood on end, and when she turned around to look for whoever was causing them, she couldn’t find anyone. Letting out a breath, she moved onto the other rail, and as she turned to look back at Bianca, she crashed into a very hard, very male chest.

“I’m so sorry,” she said, glancing up, and then feeling incredibly small as she looked into Caleb’s face. “What are you doing here?”

“Hello, Lucy.”

He knew her name.

Lucy paused. “What are you doing here?”

Caleb held her arm, and she was aware of how warm he actually was. Wolves were always a lot warmer than humans, or witches. She was a witch. Great, she was going insane.