“WAIT!” I screamed loudly while getting up from my bed while I raised my hand horizontally to stop the wolf. I had erratic heartbeat and was sweating heavily throughout my body.
“I didn’t even touch you yet” said Lily, my dear best friend, while raising her hands in defense.
“I wasn’t talking to you. I just had a dream about…” and I started talking about my fantasy dream again.
“About your handsome werewolf again?” asked Lily with a cheeky grin on her face.
She sat on my bed next to me with hearts in her doe eyes to discuss the dream, she has heard thousands of times.
To which I replied in a low tone,
“Yeah”
“So, the handsome guy you meet in your dreams is a dark brown colored werewolf, right?” asked Lily curiously as she remembered the details, of course.
She has to discuss it every single time! She is just mad for handsome wolves!
“Yes, the fact is that only you know that it’s not a dream!” I said with narrowed eyes.
My statement along with frustrated expressions made her smile widened.
“You are really something, Elena! You are the daughter of Alpha and your mother is a warrior and our clan’s Luna, let’s not forget to mention that. I mean both of your parents are werewolves of highest rank possible, still you somehow made people believe in your lie that you can’t change!” said Lily in an impressed tone.
“SSHhhh! Dumbo! No one should ever know that I have already changed” I hissed at her and tightened my grip around her hand to an extent that it started to hurt her.
She immediately removed my hands and took a deep breath.
“But why?” She asked again in annoyance without complaining about my recent lethal attack because she knows my desperation to hide it.
‘She had to ask it every single time. Why can’t this girl just stop her investigation already?’ I thought in frustration.
“I have my reasons” I said looking down and continued,
“and you should respect one’s privacy”
“Fine! But you should know that people will find out sooner or later. If it wasn’t me violently attacking everything in sight on my first change people would have already known about you. The coincidence helped but it’s not something you can hide forever. You have to accept yourself. You need to accept who you are, Elena” said Lily giving me a knowing look.
I hate the fact that my best friend knows me so damn well.
I looked away to avoid eye contact with her and my eyes fell on the clock, it was 5:30 am!
What is she doing here this early?
“Why are you here again this early in the morning?” I asked in a frustrated tone throwing my pillow at her which she dodged like a ninja turtle.
“I came for training, of course. But then I heard the big news and I really needed to share with you. When I reached near your room and knocked, you didn’t answer so I was about to leave, but I heard your scream so I entered to check on you” said Lily in a concerned tone.
“Thanks babe. You are the best” I said with a polite smile.
“I know, right?”
“What was the big news?” I asked curiously.
“We are merging with Moonshine. Isn’t it amazing!” she replied the dreadful news excitedly which made me panic.
How can she be so excited for this ridiculous merge!
“What amazing? We can’t! Dark Sapphire and Moonshine can’t merge! We have been living like enemies from the time of my great great grandfather! They can’t do that!” I said in utter shock. My blood was boiling after hearing the distressing news.
I can’t believe that they are giving the merge with Moonshine a thought! Did they forget how those low life creatures of Moonshine disrespected my great great grandfather! They did not only disrespect my great great grandfather but also the whole Swan family!
Not caring much about my disagreement, my excited chicken continued with her utter nonsense.
“I know! But do you know that the eldest son of Alpha of Moonshine is sizzling hot! What is his name again? Luke.. Luke Smith. There is a rumor which say that, He is so damn handsome that there is not a single girl in this entire world who can resist his charms! He is going to be the next Alpha soon. I think it is right after the merge” said Lily while clapping her hand in excitement.
‘She just knows too much nonsense for her own good!’
“I don’t care about that stupid future Alpha! Nobody is as handsome as the werewolf I met” I said proudly. A smile curved on my rosy pink lips when I thought about my gentle and kind hero.
But someone could not just digest me being happy, so she had to interrupt.
“My a*s! He is more handsome than your fantasy boyfriend! I hope that I get to date him. I hope he is my mate. Please God! Please make him my mate! Please! Please! Pretty please!” said Lily closing her eyes and praying like the most religious person to ever walk on planet earth.
Nobody gets to disrespect my handsome prince!
“Get out of my room! Go and get trained to be his future wife, soon to be Mrs. Smith!” I said in a sarcastic tone but the foolish girl really took it seriously.
“On it” replied Lily happily while jumping out of my room.
Just this instance, she remembered something and turned towards me with a serious look on her face.
“By the way, we are merging in a week!” said Lily in a small voice.
“No! It can’t be! I won’t let this happen!”
“No! It can’t be!” I said in utter shock, I hid my face in my palms as it was just too much for a single girl to handle at 5.30 in the morning!Observing my building depression, Lily tried to change the topic to lighten the mood.“Well, I heard that your parents want to discuss certain matter with you. You should better get ready, my real-life panda, you take all the time in the world to get ready” Lily replied while bowing.“Stop eavesdropping on people, for God’s sake” I said as I knew she must have heard my parent’s conversation on her way to my room.“I will try” replied Lily with a wink and left the room like a happy puppy.‘I can’t believe they are really merging! But why? Why my parents need to merge with those measly creatures who looked down on our family by saying my great great grandfather isn’t fit to be the Alpha of our clan’ I wondered.
“Mom, dad! Why are we merging with Moonshine?” I asked in a demanding tone.“Oh! So, you heard about it” said my mother with a bitter smile while looking at Lily with the corner of her eyes causing her to choke in her food and my father passed her a glass of water.Everyone knows how Lily works like my spy in the pack and she is so shamelessly proud about the fact!“Yeah, I did. Now answer me, why are we merging with those pathetic creatures?” I asked in an enraged tone while hitting my palm on the table making a thud noise.Overflowing with emotions, I didn’t even let them answer my question and blasted them with more.“We are merging with them in a week and still nobody considered telling me? Why we are in such hurry? Nobody wanted to know my thoughts in the matter? Am I not important?” I asked feeling completely betrayed by my own family and pack.I felt like a used tissue!
“My hot future Alpha is coming! Be ready to make him feel home” said Lily with a wide grin.“He is not coming here to marry. I will try to make everyone from their pack especially the Alpha and Luna to feel home. Now, get out of my way” I said moving away from the betrayer who gave me only half of the news.“Oh, come on. It will be fun. We need to surround ourselves with good looking company. I mean good company” said Lily with a small chuckle.It wasn’t a slip of tongue, it was slip of truth!“Be a little gentle and get ready to greet your future brother-in law” said Lily jumping like happy fluff ball.“Whatever! Stop following me! I am done talking to you!” I said running away from her.“Listen to me! the hotiiee alpha..” shouted Lily following me to nag me more.One week later,I woke up early in the morning to get re
‘What was that about?’ I thought confusedly.As I reached down, my father came forward to take my hand from Liam’s and started introducing me to the unfamiliar faces standing in front of me.“Everyone, this is my lovely daughter, Elena. She is going to be the Luna of our pack soon” said my father proudly introducing me to the bunch of unknown faces.“And Elena dear, this is Alpha Arthur Smith and his wife, the Luna, Mrs. Emma Smith”“Hello, really nice to meet you” I said smiling while shaking hand with both of them.“Pleasure to meet you, beautiful” said Alpha Arthur with a gentle smile.‘Not much pleasure in my case’ I thought but plastered a fake smile on my face.“You have such a lovely daughter” complimented Mrs. Smith with such genuine motherly that I couldn’t think anything bad about her.“Thank you” I replied shyl
Both of our eyes widened in shock as a word rolled out of our tongues at the same time,“MATE!”Neither of us spoke. We were completely speechless. Both of us were just staring at each other at that compromising position with utterly astonished expressions on our faces.How could this be possible?I have already found my mate!He can’t be my mate!I was dragged out of my train of thoughts when the third person decided to speak in the matter.“Did you both just say ‘Mate’? What was that? Did I see sparks generating from your bodies?” asked Alice with the same shocked expressions but soon it changed into the brightest and most approving smile on her face.“You guys are Mates!” she added jumping happily.“What?” asked both of us in unison.We looked at her confusedly then at each other and I realized that we were not at stable position yet.Luke
“Hello, Ms. Elena Swan. I am Ira Blossom” said a beautiful blonde girl while standing next to Luke.‘She is a bit too close to be just a pack member, she must be a close friend’ I thought while looking at the almost invisible distance between the two.Alice, on the other hand, moved away from her in the fraction of seconds and stood next to me making it obvious that she doesn’t like her that much.Even the real late bloomer, Lily also observed that.She smiled at Luke who didn’t show any emotion on his handsome face.He then turned towards me with his signature expressionless face.“She is the daughter of my father’s beta” Luke said coldly without even glancing at her.“Pardon me. Let me introduce myself again. Hello, my name is Ira Blossom, daughter of Beta, Ethan Blossom. It’s an honor to meet you, Ms. Elena Swan, the future Luna” Ira corrected in a more elegant
“Okay, then no problem. I thought something really bad happened to…” Lily said with relieving expressions but stopped in the middle of her statement, when her unpunctual mind finally decided to translate my sentence to her.“Wait a minute! WHAT DID YOU JUST SAY?” she shouted in shock.“Stop shouting! Keep your pretty little mouth shut! Do you want our entire pack to know that? Why are you always ready to make an announcement about me?” I asked keeping my palm on her mouth.“He is your mate?” she asked in a whisper after removing my hand from her mouth.“Yes. When he saved me from falling, our body touched and then those sparks, you know the rest” I said in a frustrated tone.The uncontrollably romantic Lily didn’t pay attention to any of the details except for one.“Ooo, he saved you from falling, how romantic! How does it feel to be in his muscular arms?” S
“WHAT??” she asked in utter astonishment. “You heard me, ‘I will ask him to reject me’. I am not interested in him at all. I only love my handsome wolf mate. Unlike Luke, he is such a gentleman. I will wait for him” I said smiling while thinking about my dear wolf. Blood drained from Lily’s face when she heard my reply for the second time, with worried expressions she stated, “You can’t just force him to reject you!” “Try me” I said replied in a challenging tone and the corner of my mouth twitched into a smirk. “Did you forget the fact that he must also agree to reject you? You can’t do it yourself!” Lily replied in frustration. ‘Why is she so frustrated? I know everything’ I thought before replying confidently, “I know. I don’t think he is that much interested in me either. I guess we have mutual feelings about it” “How do you know that? Have you seen ‘You’?” she asked while pointing towards me, referring to the fact h