Alpha's Mate

Alpha’s Mate

The Denver Pack

Book One

by Jana Leigh

Published by JK Publishing, Inc.

© Copyright 2010 Jana Leigh

Revised May 2016

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Dedication

Thank you to my family who has been so patient with me. Yes, I will cook dinner now.

Table of Contents

Dedication

Chapter One

Chapter Two

Chapter Three

Chapter Four

Chapter Five

Chapter Six

Chapter Seven

Chapter Eight

Books by Jana Leigh

Chapter One

Quin sat on the top of the building he owned looking over the city that had come to feel as home to him. Denver was far away and completely different from where he grew up, and yet he could not imagine ever leaving the city. Quin realized this place had finally become home. He watched as the sun set over the Rocky Mountains. Lately, he’d become so restless that he escaped to the rooftop to try to find peace from within. He knew nothing would cure his restlessness except to find his mate, which he didn’t stand a chance to find his mate when he considered the fact he’d been too busy with pack business even to actually find a woman. Hell, for the last few months he and his Beta have been knee-deep in attacks from the Rogues. He’d pleasured himself whenever the need struck, instead of looking for the perfect woman. His sexual drive as a werewolf was a little more intense than the regular human's sex drive. Sometimes it was a curse, but if he found the right one, it would be amazing.

When he was growing up, and he hit the magical age of fourteen, his hormones kicked into high gear and he shifted for the very first time. Quin had spent many nights in a cold shower to try to ebb the need he had to fuck everything around him. His parents had laughed and said he had almost acted as if he was in his terrible twos again trying to claim anything and everything as his. It wasn’t so funny when they told the stories to anyone who would listen. Potential mates and friends had given him a lot of grief over the years because of those stories. His best friend still sent cards on his birthday designed to poke fun at him; the latest even included instructions on how to masturbate correctly. Quin took it in stride, but damn it, he was the Alpha of his own pack now. He wanted his mate to be here by his side to lead with him. Was that too much to ask for? Quin wondered, and then once again silently asked the spirits for guidance.

Many years ago, Quin's father and mother told him stories about the Rockies and the folklore that surrounded the majestic mountains. In the mountains, the wolves ran without fear of becoming the hunted. They explained the tales from their ancestors who had found peace in the Rocky Mountains, and the promises they held for each wolf that chose to venture to the United States. When the decision came from his father to expand the pack, he volunteered to move to Denver and be the Alpha of the Denver Pack, an extension of the Gevaudan Pack. The name Gevaudan stemmed from their ancestors in southern France, it meant ‘hybrid beast’. They failed to mention that when he settled here he would have to defend his pack territory every day. It was one of the most desirable places for a wolf to live. Those wolves didn’t want to join their pack or lead their own pack, which caused problems.

His parents were still the Alphas in southern France, but decided they needed someone in the United States to help lead those who had migrated over the years. Many of the European packs made the change at the same time, so there had been at least ten packs that he knew of that had migrated. It was more out of need; the decision made when a Rogue pack had tried to hurt a member of their pack that had visited a few years ago. Without an Alpha on the continent, the other packs refused to accept that any wolf was under the Council’s protection. Quin's parents made the decision quickly to move someone to protect and lead the pack in Denver.

So overnight, he uprooted himself, his Beta and Enforcers, and moved to a new country. That was ten years ago and Quin never regretted his decision to move. It was rough the first couple of years settling themselves in the United States. The wolves here had no desire or willingness to live by the rules the European wolves followed. They assumed that they didn’t have to follow the laws the elders had set up. When Quin arrived in Denver, his parents and other European pack leaders had developed a Council to help them set up the laws. It was a constant battle trying to keep them in line, and protect the humans they wanted to hurt. Of course, the humans knew nothing of the threat that loomed over their head.

Many of the younger pack members didn’t look at the gift given to them by being a wolf. Instead, they looked at the power they held, and used it to their advantage to gain what they could from the humans. They felt entitled. Gods, he was sick of hearing the nasty rhetoric they spewed to one another. Quin’s parents raised him to respect people, and the gifts the gods gave them. The misconceptions of Were and wolves, made more by the Rogues who tried to make people afraid of them were hard to overcome. Humans like to believe there were no terrible beasts and shifters didn’t exist. They blamed many of the attacks on wild dogs. If it weren’t so sad, it would have been humorous. Instead, they turned a blind eye from the reality around them, which was fine with the Were Council.

Quin was excited when first approached by his parents to leave their pack and come to the United States. He struck out, along with seven chosen Enforcers, and finally settled in the Front Range. With the help of his previous pack's riches, they settled and expanded their power. Lately, his restlessness had become more prominent. He told his Beta that he missed the women of the pack. When they were in France, he had the pick of the litter. All of his men were waiting to find their mates. When they left the safety of the homeland without any females, they knew it would be a long time before they found their other half. They couldn’t chance a female being hurt before they became settled. It had only been in the last year that female wolves had begun to arrive from Europe. Unfortunately, none of them had been his mate. For a wolf, meeting their mate was what grounded them. The female wolves were to be treasured; took care of. He could not wait until he could find his mate and settle down.

Quin stood staring at the setting sun and sighed loudly, wishing he could shift and run through the mountainside. He planned a retreat for next week for him and his Enforcers high in the Rockies. Then they could truly be free to shift. Most of the time they had to be careful not to let a human see them, they needed to remain a secret for the sake of everyone. In the past few months, it had been harder and harder to hide their presence in the city. They had to deal with the Rogues and more often than not, they fought in wolf form.

"Alpha, your father is on the phone. He wants to know if you have