Alpha Iniko

By Meg Elly Gerena

On Iniko's 18th birthday, he has his first shift, and it becomes clear that he is different from other Lycans and werewolves.

While everyone else thought he would be like any other werewolf, only the Alpha, alongside his Beta and Luna, knew the truth about Inikos' curse.

Miriam, a witch who once loved Inikos' grandfather, had cursed his family after he left her for his fated mate. The curse binds the next child born of his blood to fall in love with someone who is not their fated mate, causing them to be bound to another creature.

To protect Inikos, the Alpha of the pack keeps him as a slave among the Lycans. However, everything changes when Inikos meets his father and learns about the curse that has plagued his family for generations.

As Inikos battles his inner demons and tries to find his place in the world, he must also confront the secrets and lies that have been kept from him for so long. Will he be able to break the curse and find his fated mate, or will he be forever bound to a fate that was never meant for him?

• Language: English
• Publisher: supernovel
• Release date: Apr 19, 2023

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CHAPTER 1

This burns me more than a Barbeque!says my friend Rebbeca from under her black umbrella. She came out sightseeing with me for a while.

At times I swear she is no Lycan or werewolf. She is constantly sleepy in the day, as well as moody and I have never heard her talk about her wolf or Lycan. Nobody can see her, so I always talk to her as if she is real.

I know I'm a bit older. Not to be, you know, talking to my imaginary friend, but seeing her lonely gets to me and I don't like making her feel bad. Rebbeca is a young blonde, skinny and pale. She is always in dark Victorian clothes and very imaginary. She is sweet in her voice, charming with her movements and a funny girl always full of adventures nicknamed her Ree.

Then I think it's time you go back to work and I do too. See you tonight, Ree. I tell her as we part ways.

My name is Iniko, I'm a slim, brown boy. I have big dark brown curls with well kept hair cuts. I have thin hoop earrings, thick eyebrows, brown eyes, a heart shaped face with a more rounded nose. I have a very fit physique for a 17-year-old. My birthday is tomorrow, so I am almost a man with a wolf.

I am always in button down tropical shirts of light colors with short button pants and sandals. I wear caps when working, going out delivering things. I have been doing that since I was ten after school. Earning my keep is not easy. I never have a single dollar on me because I am saved. Which is something I don't like at all. If you want a way better image of how I look imagine Brandon Mcguire is the best I can tell you, but I'm his better version.

I live here on an island named Agueybana, this island that helps raise their kind. Only Lycans and werewolves help the Lycans here. I'm an orphan, so one day I guess my parents left me on the island. The main pack house being raised by the Alpha Drake in his pack on the island, Evergreen Pack, as a payment for staying I help in the protection of the Lycans. Which honestly is somewhat unfair.

They are the ones who need our protection or so the Alpha says, but they don't even try to be grateful to us.  Instead, they bully us. I try not to let it get to me, seeing as I owe everything to the Alpha. He and Luna Marena are like the best parents I have ever had and I never once tried to be on their bad side.

I ride my bike to the big, blue building in the center where I work. It's literally like a department building and it's centered in the territory of the houses where the Lycans live. I help distribute their meals, clothes, toys, medications, mail and anything they ask as I walk up to the center gates where security is.

I gave them my ID to enter. I sat ahead since I was on the beach. I was a bit late, but nothing working would get me out. I park my bike in its space. Hook up the chains and lock it, taking the key with me. I stop as I hear the car with the meat stop.

A neighbor waves at me, Hey Iniko, help me with this in the building, will you? I will be right behind you with more before they get their claws out at me again.

He hands me a plastic bag that has the meats in them. I take it in and see the Luna is looking for someone. When she sees me, she calms down and other she-wolves follow her. She walks to me and takes the bag. I try to protest because a Luna is not somebody who should be doing this type of job, but she takes care of others' needs with our help.

Luna Marena looks like a cheerleader from the superbowl, long ironed black hair, really shiny bronze tan and bright green eyes. She has a curvy body, but flat on her chest and a shallow voice. All werewolves here are 6ft or more. She is 6 '2"which is taller than me, for now. I am 6' now.  Once I get my wolf, my body will definitely change.

She takes me by the shoulders and we walk out to a BMW. As we sit, she looks a bit nervous. Not the first time she is looking for me and can't find me and I put my hand on hers to help her calm down.

The Luna takes my attention with our conversation. How have you been?

I have been good. I've been at the ocean for a while. It looked like a lovely time in the morning to get some vitamin D! I replied to her as I saw her shifting uncontrollably, not feeling con trouble with my situation.

It is a very sunny day out, do you have any plans for tomorrow? It's something the Alpha and I kind of need to know. She adds, she sounds out of this conversation like she is trying to fill in the conversation absent-mindedly.

Well, no, only my first shift and getting to find my mate like all other werewolves, why? Is everything okay?

I feel like she is interrogating me on this. She has done it for the Alpha before and it's always something they don't tell me until I ask. Still, as I do, we stop in the pack house. I have a shift to do so I can earn my keep staying here with everyone else, but I'm being moved here by my Luna during my work hours.

CHAPTER 2

Please don't make things difficult, Iniko. I have excused you from work until we have your wolf, okay? So take it as a free day. The Luna tells me with a warning tone.

Luna Marena, what's going on? My worried tone squeaks out.

She gets out of the BMW and heads into the pack house. My two warrior friends Kealan and Chase, they look uncomfortable in how they are standing. I walk behind the Luna as my two friends walk beside me. Inside the Alpha is talking to his Beta Philip. I am very nervous they should be working, but here they are talking while we walk to them.

Alpha Drake is the big strong muscled Alpha and he works in the pack all the time. He never allows a day to be wasted. He is bold brown with tattoos all over him. He is wearing a crop top and blue basketball shorts as well as sandals with his sunglasses on his head. Everyone can see his brown eyes and has a slim face as he has no neck and he has his arms crossed on his chest and is 6'5".

Beta Phillip is similar, but he has one heck of an afro with its metal brush stuck on the side. He wears a tree pal, black button tropical shirt and under a thin white shirt with green trunks and sandals. He's 6'4" also has many tattoos and is laughing at their conversation.

As soon as they see me, their faces change. What did I do that made them this angry? Was it Cayden and his anger with me? He always fights with me. I don't know why. Yes, the girl he crushes on  is beautiful. Anvi, even though I like her a lot, why would I bother to try when I know she will never want a guy like me? I'm not even a warrior that could provide her with anything.

The Alpha asks me. How are you feeling, Iniko?

Me? Nervous, afraid and can someone please tell me what is going on? Luna Marena has been acting weird and so have my friends who are by my side on duty. Alpha, what is happening?

Iniko, they have made it clear to me that you need to stay far away from werewolves to make sure your curse ends here. Says my Alpha, almost like a command to not defy him.

Curse? What do you mean curse? I have never known of a curse. I'm shocked and with fear, I can't even explain.

I was livid. I had done nothing wrong, but here they are making me be a bad person when I had done nothing to them. My two friends put their hands on my shoulders to pin me still as the Luna goes to stand behind the Alpha and the Beta places his hand on the Alpha.

The Beta takes control of the conversation or tries to. "I will make sure to do Alpha as we talked about, make sure his father knows he is safe.

I don't understand what they are telling me, the words just fly out of my lips. My father? You can.

I woke up with a massive headache. I try getting up from my bed, but I can't because I feel my body twitching on its own. I feel my bones crack and my head is splitting itself from me to something. It hurts so much.

This pain has me screaming, AAAAAAAAHHH!!!!

It hurts so much, and I don't hear anyone. I have my eyes closed, no way to see my surroundings. Praying to the moon goddess my pain leaves me soon. I finally feel my body rearranging, but it feels like it's being put together much differently. I am shifting and it's my birthday. I can agree this is the worst feeling ever. When I see Ree again, I will ask her what is the worst first shift or giving birth? That should be an exciting debate.

Setting aside the idea that I am being beaten with a hammer only to be put together like clashing my flesh with a taser gun and a brick of a hit that comes with it. It is so much worse than when I saw it from others.

My skin feels like someone took hot metal and poured it all over my body. It is so painful and I feel something growing out of me like when you sneeze and that big relief of losing that bugger after blowing your nose? That is how it feels, but it feels even worse because it's not just my nose it's my entire body. My head, I can feel it as I have an inner conversation.

'Hello?' Says a voice I have never heard before in my head.

'Hello?' I answer, terrified and in pain.

'My name is David, and I'm your wolf. Sorry for the pain, you tried to make it horrible to shift. It seems we are in a good place for a run.' He says, a bit more calmed than I am. Which is leaving me dumbfounded.

"Uh? I don't know where we are, can I see?

Before I can react to this inner conversation, it ends as I look out through my wolf's eyes and see we are on the beach. I look behind me to see the Beta. I don't feel comfortable with him. After what I went through, it is not okay to be doing these things.

I mean, I am technically an adult and am 18 now. Even though on the island, one has to be 21 to do other grown-up stuff. So I move to the side where the Beta is and he proceeds to see me. I see my two friends looking at me happily, they already have their wolves. They were born in the early months. My birthday is October 31. Yeah, happy Halloween to me.

CHAPTER 3

Philip says, I knew it. You are no average wolf. Your wolf is an Alpha, a pure-blooded one. So it seems we have a case to deal with. Annoyed at me and from that, he is mindlinking.

'You need to run?' Phill asks me.

Daniel growls at Phillip, "Why are you treating Iniko so rude?'

Phillip laughs at Daniel. 'Rude? You and Iniko are cursed and we can't allow harm to come to our pack. So, for now, you will move with Iniko to the Lycan homes. We have a vacant home. You will be there with the Lycans' rest until your father returns here.'

"You say I am Alpha?' His cold voice asks the Beta.

As Phillip walks around Daniel, he answers him again. 'Yes, you are pure-blooded Alpha.'

My wolf is in complete control as he asks, "Where is my pack?'

'Later, you will know. Go and run. The warriors and I will follow. Tonight is your last night in the pack house, understood?' He informs us sternly.

Alright. Says my wolf as he then ends the mindlinking

Just like that? I am kicked out for being something I had no idea about and I was never told about the curse either. I don't even know what the curse is about. I go back to the back of my wolf's brain and I am conflicted with all of this. Does that mean I won't see Ree or Kealan and Chase? No, what if I never get to tell Anvi how much I like her? So many questions and I'm not allowed to know their answers.

Daniel must have run a marathon and rolled on the sand like a dog instead of a wolf, but before we leave. I can feel him getting to where I am, so I am close to him. I am in no mood for more of the Beta. Clearly, my friends would rather have me submit than make a big deal. I never answer violence with more violence unless I am left with no choice.

'Look at your wolf through my eyes Iniko, for you to see what I look like.' So says Daniel in my head.

I take control of my new body only to see a white wolf. It's an odd dog because I only have a rose on the middle of my forehead. My eyes are like my own, brown and I look big, like an Alpha. I see that this is the only time I will see myself in the water. I move to the side of my body to see black swirls around me.

I turn my body and grab my tail to see it clearly, but the water shows nothing. I look straight to see the swirls going