Chapter 4. Welcoming the Alpha

Karl’s POV

“O, Gegroet die Alfa, Welkom tuis Alfa!” (Oh, hail the Alpha, welcome home, Alpha!)

I heard the entire pack scream as I walked in with the elders, my beta, and Avery, who seemed to have gotten into herself and was not talking at all.

“Is everything okay?” I asked her, and she shook her head.

“Hey, I need a verbal answer and not a headshake,” I implored, and I knew what I was doing.

“Hey, you fool, because we have come to your pack and you seem to be in control of everyone doesn’t mean you are in control of me, get it?” she said with all her might, and the veins of her neck protruded. There I got a reaction, but she was taking it super seriously.

“Calm down, Avery. I am sorry if I kind of hit a nerve,” I said because the way she sounded was as if I had triggered something from her past, and maybe she had been in a controlling relationship and thought I wanted to do the same with her. She visibly calmed as we entered the house, and my sis