The Princess’s Broken Alpha

"Zion!"

A rough pounding sounds on my door and I force my eyes open, the door frame shakes and I take a deep internal sigh.

The clock on the bedside table is blinking 3:30 am and my anger is slowly rising at my interrupted my sleep.

What the fuck is wrong with him?

The room is pitch dark and I pretend to ignore the knockings. The door shakes violently again. "Zi!"

"What?!" I shout back.

I open the mind link connection and Daniel jumps in shouting and I quickly close him off again. Pulling up out of bed I reach for my wheel chair. My fingers feel the cool metal and I grunt using my upper body strength to pull myself into the chair panting for breath. Turning on the lights, I slowly wheel to open the door and look at Daniel. His face registers relief when he sees my angry features.

"I was about two seconds from taking the door down." he says nonchalantly.

I look at his freshly shaved well put together appearance. Even for the gym he's in color coordinated gear. Why is he up so early? No happily mated man should be up so early and excited about it.

"You should leave the connection open in case of anything." he says matter of factly, touching the side of his head and I want to strangle him.

He looks me over as I quietly sit there squeezing the armrests wondering how to kill him and get away with it. "I tried getting Samuel up, but he really has a temper when it comes to waking up early in the mornings."

That explains the bruise on his upper arm. I glance over at the mirror and I look like I've been in a fight with ten squirrels. I want to tell him that early in the morning is 5:30 am going down but I'm really trying to keep my seething anger in internally. He says something else, but I'm contemplating that if I strangle him, then I'd have one brother left, the one that doesn't wake me up at 3:30 am in the morning. If we're being honest, all I really need is one. Two is a bonus.

He raises his eyebrows at me and realizes I'm not listening... Alpha kills Beta brother. Patience Zion.

"So are we going to work out?" Daniel looks at me expectantly.

"I need some coffee." I grumbled and wheeled past him heading downstairs for the kitchen. We turn on the kitchen lights and I start the machine.

His green eyes stare out in the dark early morning through the glass doors and he looks lost in thought. I select a table and place the steaming mug down, angrily looking at him.

"I'm not no fucking psychiatrist so what do you want?"

He ruffles his dark hair out of place and leans back in his chair, flexing his muscles. He even had the audacity to comb his hair to wake me up at 3:30 in the morning.

"The Lycans are supposed to visit today and I think we are over prepped and ready. I don't think they're staying overnight though which the pack members are hoping for well dying for. Seems more or less like a pass through."

He pauses and unsurely looks around at the wide open room and continues.

"The nephew or some shit is supposed to be coming, a living breathing Lycan royal which is insane but for what is what I'm really intrigued to know. You know everything they do is top secret, top of the line official stuff. The last time Lycans came was two years ago I think?" he runs a hand through his hair "The pack is buzzing from it hoping they'll catch a glimpse of them this time especially since they're royals. You'd think they were some God visiting their creation. In a sense they are." he finishes.

I don't answer him as I wait for him. He looks uncomfortable as he drums on the table absently and swallows.

"Lisa's been trying to get pregnant."

I nod quietly, my green eyes pinning at him, waiting for him to finish.

"It's been a while now, well years and she's been to the docs and they say everything is fine, but she just isn't getting pregnant no matter what we've tried." he says exasperatedly, and he looks stressed.

In our world, this is a huge deal. He finally looks at me.

"I want children Zi." he falters a bit before coming out with it." I was thinking of asking her if it would be okay to have children at least one with someone else unmated of course."

Fucking hell. There it is.

I release the mug handle and rub my hands over my face cursing under my breath. To say I am beyond shocked is the least.

"What the hell?!" I growl at him tilting my head back to really look at him. It would kill Lisa to hear him say this shit.

"I know I'm just grasping at straws and it's taking a toll on us especially her. It isn't that I would ever consider something like this, but if it would make her happy, then I would try it. I would do anything to make my mate happy."

I can imagine. Female wolves are very judgemental when it comes to reproduction. It's an important part of our cycle. Mate and then have kids. If you couldn't then it made you seem less of a wolf and undeserving of a mate. However the devastating pain alone she would suffer from having her mate not only be with another she wolf but impregnate her and all. I can't believe he's even thought of this.

"Can you imagine what that would do to her?" I ask him furiously trying to keep my voice down hoping to talk some sense into him.

"I'm just saying-"

"It's fucking stupid. You would be with another woman, as mates that would be painful on her part. I can't believe you would actually go there!" "It's easy for you to say because nobody's ever actually wanted to be mated to you!"

He opens his mouth to counteract.

"Zi."

I nod at him

"We say what we mean when we're angry right?"

I slowly wheel off leaving him there to head back to my room. It hurts when people say it but when your own brother does it hits differently. Nobody wants you.