Chapter 11

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Chapter 11

Daniella's POV

I wake up in the middle of the night feeling like I'm burning inside and out. It only takes me seconds after waking to realize I'm in heat. Shit Zach's here, unmated males are a force to be reckoned with when their mate, or any unmated female for that matter, is in heat. I jump out of bed and try to cool myself down.

"You're in heat," I hear Zach say, I look in the mirror and he is standing right behind me. His eyes are practically glowing golden. He's smelling me, but I know that since I'm in heat I have pack members in heat I need to deal with.

Just as I was about to mind link Will, there is a knock at the door. "Dani, it's heat and we need help keeping the unmated males and females separated," he tells me. Being an alpha I don't get to lay in bed and endure the pain of my heat, I have to work through it.

"You're not going out there smelling like that to deal with unmated wolves," Zach growls.

"It's my job, Zach you know that," I tell him sternly. "It's not like I haven't been doing to for years," I mumble afterward.

Wanting to act on my own mating hormones, my wolf was demanding that we mark and mate Zach this second. Trying to keep control over my wolf, I walk out with Zach hot on my tail. "Zach listen to me you can't kill every wolf that looks at me out there okay? You've got to keep your composure, I'm yours, so don't attack juveniles acting on their desires," I try to warn him.

He just growls lowly at me causing me to roll my eyes. Will and I have a process that we use every year to try and handle the situation, so we just need to go and separate them and get the females cared for by elders and mated wolves. Zach does nothing but growl at anyone who dares to look at me, but he listens and doesn't try and hurt anyone.

Once the wolves are separated I head home. The second we walk through the door Zach all but throws me against the wall and kisses me aggressively. "Zach stop," I say weakly because my wolf is compelling me to let him have us, but this isn't the way it supposed to happen. "Zach," I say firmly this time.

He backs away, "I'm sorry, but you just smell so god damn sweet and it's getting hard to control my wolf."

"I know it's hard for me too," I tell him, "if my packs in heat so is yours, why don't you seem worried?"

"I mind linked Maxwell to see if they needed me, but he said they had it handled. And even if they didn't I was not leaving you here alone unmarked and unmated, so they still would've had to figure it out themselves," he says frustratedly.

I feel like crap, I'm still burning up and needy.

"What can I do to help you besides the obvious solution?" he asks.  As much as I want him, if we mated now it would just me hormonal impulses, and I want it to mean more than that.

"Can you just hold me please," I ask him. I just need some relief from the searing pain. We lay down and he wraps his arms around me and it dissolves some of the pain away. We fall asleep like that, me wrapped in his arms.

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Heat usually lasts about three days and first thing in the morning Zach makes it clear that he will not be leaving my side until my heat is gone. It took me a while to convince him to stay on the other side of the door while I showered.

I know that once heat is over and Zach has gone back home that I will be meeting with first my elites then my entire pack to discuss the situation. If I want to be with Zach, it means his pack and mine would combine, he being the alpha and I would become a luna. That's not a decision I am allowed to make on my own, that would be selfish and create civil war within the pack.

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Heat passes and Zach leaves. Now I am in a room full of my elite wolves, including Will. "As many of you already know I've found my mate and seeing as he is an alpha it raises questions regarding the pack. So, I need opinions on what you think and what you believe the pack would think regarding the situation.

Will is the first to speak up, "Dani, the pack has had no former issues with Alpha Zachary's pack and our pack neighbor each other a merge shouldn't raise too many issues."

Another one of my elites, Derek add on, "I mean obviously there will be a few stupid wolves that will try and challenge the decision because they want to be alpha and they will see this as an opportunity."

All of my elites were in agreement that merging Blue North with Shadow ridge only poses a few issues that could easily be fixed. I dismiss them and thank them for their time saying that I would plan a meeting to discus this with the entire pack soon.

Will stays behind after everyone leave, "what's wrong Will? I've known you long enough to read that facial expression."

"I just had a quick question. My family has been betas for this pack for a very long time and even when Tyler was alive we were still regarded at a beta level. I don't mean to be intrusive, but I was wondering when the packs merge, would I still be a beta. I mean my son has been raised to expect to be a beta, it's family tradition for us-" he rambles on.

"Will, you and your family took care of me my whole life. If Zach isn't willing to have you as a beta, which he loves you so I don't know why he wouldn't, I would step down as alpha and allow you to step up before I let you go," I tell him meaning every word. His family treated me like a daughter when my parents died. Will and I grew up and trained together, he's always been there I know beta is a big deal for him and I wouldn't be as selfish to take that from him because of my desires.

"Thank you Dani," Will says hugging me.

Once Will leaves I get in my car because this is a conversation that needs to be had in person. I didn't tell Zach that I would be discussing this with my top wolves and I want to talk to him before talking to my whole pack.

Just like last time I pull up to boarder patrol and they tell me that Zach is currently at the pack house. I drive to his pack house and I smell food when I walk through the door. I realize that he his eating diner with a large portion of his pack. I instantly feel shy when all eyes turn to me, but I'm just focused on one set of eyes. He looks rather confused, I suppose border control didn't inform him of my arrival, they probably assumed he knew I was coming. I walk over closer to him, "hey love what a nice surprise."

I give him a quick peck on to lips and tell him we will talk after diner because it's nothing urgent.

"Ow why'd you kick me," he asks turning to the younger girl sitting next to him.

"Introduce her to me and everyone else you idiot. Everyone is starting and waiting for an introduction," she tells him like its the most obvious thing in the world.

Zach stand and wraps one arm around my waist, "Everyone, this is my beautiful mate Dani, Dani this is my lovely pack." Everyone says hello and smiles at me and I give a small wave back. Zach then sits and pulls me onto his lap seeing as there aren't anymore chairs. "And this Daniella is my annoying little sister Lauren," he adds on.

"Hello it's nice to meet you. I've heard a lot about you from both Zach and Sophia," she smiles at me.

"I'm glad I get to meet another one of Zach's sisters. It's lovely to meet you too," I respond with a smile.

She then turns to conversation with people around her. "What are you doing here, I wasn't expecting you," he says. "Not that it isn't lovely to see you," he adds on quickly.

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