Geoffery Hobbs, soon to be Alpha of the Highlands wolf pack, walked toward his father's study. Today he was ready to let his father know that he, a 21 year old man (and werewolf) was ready to take on the responsibility of the pack. His father, Scott, had been preparing him for this day for many years. The only thing standing in his way was finding his mate. The woman who would become Luna of the pack. Geoffery, or Geoff as his pack mates call him, had been all over the country in search of his mate so that he could take over as Alpha. But he had no such luck as of yet.
Geoff knocked on his father's study door. "Come in Geoffery." his father said.
"Hey dad, can I have a chat with you for a moment?" Geoff asks.
"Sure but I do have a meeting in about 30 minutes, so we will need to make it quick, or we can chat after the meeting." said Scott.
"No , it will only take a minute. I wanted to let you know that I'm ready to take over as Alpha. I know I haven't found my mate, but what happens if I never do? Someone needs to take over soon for you." Geoff stated.
His father took off his glasses and thought for a moment. "Unfortunately my son you can not do that yet. We really need to find your mate before. I have this meeting soon and we have a few alphas and their families coming for the meeting here. I would like for you to be there and help with showing the families around."
"Why can I not take over? What if something happens to you? I would need to take over then, Luna or not." Geoff exclaimed.
Scott looked at Geoff for a moment before replying.
"There is a curse on this pack. Years ago a witch placed a curse. If an Alpha took over without the Luna by his side, then the pack would start to crumble and the members go insane. The curse was originally meant to drive the upcoming Alpha insane with looking for his mate. But the last 3 generations have been pretty lucky with having our mate in the same pack. I do not want that to happen. if something were to happen to me before you found your mate then Bill the beta would come into the acting alpha role for the time. so far there has been no problems when that happens."
"Why have you never told me about this curse?! If I had known I would not have come back home, I would have continued to search for my mate until I found her." Geoff couldn't believe what his father told him. But he knew anything was possible. Scott looked at his son with worry in his eyes. "I'm sorry I never told you son. I was planning to tell you as soon as you found your mate and you became Alpha. But it just hadn't happens yet."
My father looked at his watch and said "I'm sorry Geoff we need to be going, the other Alphas and their families are here. It's time to start this meeting."
We got up and walked down to the large conference room at the other end of the pack house. The room was large enough to hold 300 people easily. When I walked into the room I felt my whole body buzz. It was as if someone had taken one of those hand buzzer things they use as a joke when shaking someone's hand and used it on my entire body. It was a weird feeling. I looked around and there looked to be about 8 other families here. They were all from the Midwest territories. Our Territory sat right on the western edge of Iowa and eastern edge of South Dakota. The pack to the west of us was the Inlands pack, to the north was Havenheld pack, east the Greenlands pack and the south had 2 packs, Silver moon and Golden star packs. The last 2 packs had split the territory when the old aplha turned out to be sadistic man who had no regard for his pack other then what he could do to the women. There was an uprising with the Beta and Gamma who took him down. The alpha had 2 sons whom had no idea what he was doing until the beta and gamma found him. The 2 sons decided to split the territory between them and run their own packs, which turned out to be a very good success.
As I looked around the room I saw a girl of maybe 17 or 18 with beautiful long golden blonde hair. As she turned to look at me, I became entranced by her emerald green eyes.