Damian only recently became an Alpha after his father retired. Before, he thought it was all easy since nothing bad ever happened around here, but he soon realized that it was much harder to lead the pack than he had hoped for.

Today, for example, he was visiting a neighboring pack to discuss the terms of border patrol and other important things with the Alpha of another pack. The travel itself was supposed to be easy, taking only a few hours to reach the border.

However, the travel was not going as smoothly. Currently, they were surrounded by several rogue wolves. He growled, trying his best to not show fear until he felt it, the mate pull. He cursed mentally, knowing that his mate was likely one of the rogues. '' Mate is near!'' His wolf Albus spoke. Damian looked around, his dark eyes searching for the source of the sweet, almost honey-like scent he felt until his eyes locked onto hers.

There she stood, a rogue she-wolf, looking just as conflicted as he was. Without another word, he mind-linked everyone to not attack her and they quickly took care of the other wolves.

Meanwhile, he managed to tackle his mate to the ground, her trashing around didn't quite help. ''Stop! I'm not gonna hurt you.'' He says with a groan, trying to keep her pinned down to the ground.