Hidden Alpha [Alpha Mates] (Siren Publishing Ménage Amour)

Alpha Mates

Hidden Alpha

Devlin Mikhail and Chase Tanner have been searching for eleven years for their other mate. When disaster strikes the same day Chase finds their human mate, he knows they found her at the perfect time to complete their family.

Amalya McKinnon is a human who had her heart broken five years ago when the love of her life, Gavin, left without contacting her again. When she meets Chase and Devlin, she is thrown into a world she never knew existed. She is drawn to the two wolf shifters but has a hard time trusting them.

Devlin and Chase earn her trust and start to heal her heart, but her happiness doesn’t last. Gavin returns to claim her as his mate, and a threat from the past she never knew existed has come back for her.

Can the three men put their differences aside and make her happy, or will they all lose her?

Genre:
Ménage a Trois/Quatre, Paranormal, Shape-shifter
Length:
74,855 words
 

Alpha Mates

Kasey Dean

MENAGE AMOUR

Siren Publishing, Inc.

www.SirenPublishing.com

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HIDDEN ALPHA

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HIDDEN ALPHA

Alpha Mates

KASEY DEAN

Copyright © 2012

It was the last day of Amalya McKinnon’s first year as a kindergarten teacher. She hated the last day of school. It brought back bad memories for her. She loved her job and was going to miss the kids. She also didn’t know what she was going to do for the summer. She didn’t have a lot of friends, even though she had lived just outside of town her whole life. She looked around the room at the kids as they had their last kindergarten nap time and had time to think about the past.

Growing up in foster care, she wasn’t allowed to go out often, and her best friend, Gavin, had left her. She still didn’t understand why he had left or know where he was, but she missed him every day. They had known each other since they were born. Her first foster parents had lived next door to his family, and his parents sometimes babysat her when her foster parents had to work late. The two had become inseparable until she turned thirteen and her foster mother had become too ill to take care of her anymore. She then went to another family on the other side of town and only saw Gavin in school and on the rare occasion she was allowed out. Her second foster home had six children, of which she was the oldest, so she was, more times than not, left to watch the others while her foster parents went out. When she was sixteen, her foster parents came home one night after drinking too much and the father had hit her. She ran away that night to Gavin’s house. When she got there, she told his parents what had happened, and they called the police. All the foster children were, thankfully, removed from the house. Social services wanted to put her in another foster home, but Gavin’s parents had petitioned to be her legal guardians. She and Gavin were as close as brother and sister for the next year until Gavin’s seventeenth birthday. She had planned a surprise birthday party for him with his parents’ help. All of their friends from school were there, but he never left her side. After everyone left and they were cleaning up, he revealed to her that he was in love with her. Their first kiss was that night, and she had never wanted to kiss another person afterward.

When they graduated and both decided to go to the community college in their town, they had moved into a house that was left to him by his grandparents. His parents had moved to Arizona where his older brother and family lived. Everything was perfect. They had each other, a house with no rent, both had part-time jobs, and they were going to college. She was going to be a kindergarten teacher, and he wanted to be a physical education teacher. Their first year of college went by in a flash, and before she knew it, it was the last day of school. Amalya’s classes finished before Gavin’s, and she wanted to surprise him. They had told each other they loved the other, had kissed all the time, and even slept in the same bed more often than they slept alone, but they had never been intimate. She wanted that to change, so she had planned a romantic dinner for the two of them. When she heard him pull up, she lit the candles and waited for him, but he didn’t come into the dining room. She waited several minutes before she went looking for him. She found him in his bedroom packing his suitcase. When she asked if everything was alright and where he was going, the only thing he told her was that he had to leave town for a little while but not to worry, everything would be fine and he would return. He didn’t even stay for dinner. He finished packing his suitcase and held her tight for a moment. With a quick kiss and an “I love you,” he walked away without looking back.

She had tried to call his cell phone, only to find it had been disconnected. The numbers for his parents and brother were both disconnected, too. It was as if they had all just disappeared, or at least wanted her to believe they had. The only sign that she had received that he wasn’t completely gone was a letter from a lawyer’s office a year later showing he had signed the house over to her. She wanted to tear it up and move out, but being realistic, she had stayed and made the place her home. She had worked her way through school. When she had transferred to the state university to finish her degree, she worked two jobs to be able to afford everything. After school, she had taken a year off to look for a job in another town where she didn’t have so many memories. Finally she had decided to take the job offer from the school she had gone to as a child and stayed in her hometown. She knew Gavin was never coming back but deep down needed to be where he could find her if he ever did.

The first child sitting up and wiping the sleep from their eyes brought her back to the present. “How pathetic am I?” she whispered under her breath as more children decided nap time was over.

The first child to get up from his nap was always Adryk, followed closely by his twin, Dmytri. She loved both of the boys, and even though she would never admit it out loud, they were her favorites. She knew teachers shouldn’t have favorites, but these two little boys had captured her heart the very first day of school. They were identical twins. Their hair was so light blond it was almost white. Their eyes were deep blue, almost the color of denim. They were both good little boys but quite different. Dmytri was extremely softhearted and caring of others. There were several times over the last school year that she found him helping another student or comforting someone. Adryk, on the other hand, was all boy and didn’t show his emotions to others. He was a very private child, and Amalya had had a hard time figuring him out for the first part of the year. When she finally realized that he was indeed a lot more like Dmytri than she thought, she realized that he just hid his emotions better. Amalya had only met their mother a few times, but she was an amazing woman. She and her husband had moved to the city a few years ago. Her husband was killed in a car accident about a month after school had started. She had told Amalya that she found out she was pregnant with twins again the day her husband was killed. Now she was raising twin five-year-olds and was due in a month to give birth to twin girls. She was doing this all on her own. Amalya didn’t know how she did it. She could barely take care of herself. She couldn’t imagine having to take care of four children on her own. It wasn’t like she was going to ever have to worry about that. Gavin was her one true love and the only man she could imagine having children with. Since he was gone and she had no idea if he was ever coming back, she was destined to be alone and not have children. That was okay with her. She had all the kids she needed at school. Still, she had once dreamed of having children of her own and wished that someday Gavin would come back to her.

Dmytri walked up to her desk, pulling her from her depressing thoughts once again. He whispered, “Miss McKinnon, are you okay?” Once again, the little boy wanted to make everyone he met feel better.

“Yes, Dmytri, I’m fine. Thank you for asking. Why don’t we go read a book, shall we?” Dmytri bounced over to the bookshelf, picked out a book, and brought it back to her. He was bouncing in place when he asked, “Can we read this one, please? It’s my favorite.”

She looked down at the book,
Goodnight Moon
. Very good choice, Dmytri. It’s one of my favorites as well.” She led him over to the reading rug, and he settled in the front of the class while she read the book to them.