Phoenix's Alpha

It all started with an offer to help.
Two girls.
One who was destined to stand up against an antiquated and unjust law.
The other helping her from the shadows.
They changed their very world.
For the better.

What started as an unlikely friendship, between an Alpha's sister and a Rogue, turned into a family affair when the Alpha finally caught the little Rogue.

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There is a party at at the beginning of Spring each year.
Meant to help single wolfs starting at 16 to, maybe, meet their mate.
It is a terribly large affair.
This is a neutral ground and conflicts are strictly forbidden.
The party lasts a week, allowing connections to form.
Alliances to start or strengthen.

Females are required to go.
And most females long to go, dreaming of finding their prince charming and, well, to be fought over.

For on the final day males will try to claim their choice.
There have been females who have had over 10 males try to claim them.
If an Alpha makes a claim though, most others back down.

If the female chooses to not to accept a claim, by law a male family member must fight off the male.
Though the one that wants her, can keep trying to convince her, and each year at the party retry to claim her.
And her family can keep fighting for her right to say no.

But if they lose, she must accept his claim and let the male mark her.
And the mark will cause a bond that will slowly change her mind about him, even if she hates him.
Or so they say.

This is a horrific old law set when werewolves were a small endangered breed.
But one that holds on to this day.

Rouges are the only ones not allowed to join.
Banished from their pacts they are looked down on by all werewolves.
A female rouge is unheard of.

But this time a female not wanting to be claimed meets a female rouge, and finds out that the law hides a truth or two.
And together they turn their world upside down.
With a tiny bit of help from their males.

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And then years passed since the unjust law that allowed males to claim females who were not their true soulmates was overturned. All unmated wolves now share a common fear; that as the first wave of rebels, many of them would be mateless, because of mistakes their ancestors made. And that their mate have been claimed by someone else.

The Belcourt siblings are still waiting for their true mates to show up.

André Belcourt is the Alpha of the Bell Moon Pack. As an Alpha, there is an immense pressure to have a Luna and an heir. But he hadn't been willing to give up the chance that she was out there still. With his peoples' very vocal worry for him, he had been constantly reminded that her presence was missing in his life.

One night of weakness gave him an heir. Lorenzo. And with his birth the nagging stopped. The pack accepting that he was one of the ill-fated ones not meant to have a mate. With him having an heir and his sister acting as Luna, the pack had finally left the subject alone.

Then Lorenzo was taken.
And an old friend of his sister is suddenly in front of him.
In all her adorable glory.