“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.
I replayed the information in my mind as I got dressed in my grey colored sweat set.
‘It all started nearly 500 years ago. So basically, what happened was my great great great grandfather, Alpha Rutherford, passed away and by law, my great great father, Alpha Xavier, was supposed to be the Alpha of our clan, Dark Sapphire, but that Luke’s great great grandfather, Beta Chase, was against it. So much greatness!
Chase Smith challenged Alpha Xavier for a battle and whoever wins will become the next Alpha. As Alpha Xavier was an honest leader, he accepted the challenge and they fought for their people and pride. The fight lasts for days. Everyone was worried that they will ruin their health at this pace.
The fight resulted in something strange which never happened before, none of them was ready to give up or surrender. They were also unable to beat each other, that’s for sure. They were equally strong! Even if one could kill the other, it will be the loss of our clan for losing such a strong soldier.
When it was concluded that they were not able defeat each other, they stopped the fight.
As two swords can’t fit in to the same sheath, these two werewolves also couldn’t stay in the same pack, so they came to an agreement of separating the packs.
Alpha Chase left the pack with his family, and his supporter followed him, those darn betrayers!! They are now named as Moonshine pack and Alpha Xavier became the Alpha of Dark Sapphire as how it was supposed to be!’
That’s the reason why I am so mad at this merge! They looked down at us years ago! They can do it now too! Why are my parents letting them in again?’ At this point, I was beyond angry, my blood started to boil after thinking about the wrathful history again.
‘My parents have some serious explanation to do!’
I reached the dining room and saw my parents having breakfast comfortably with an uninvited curious cat, who is none other than, Lily nosy Williams.
“Good morning dear” said Lucy, my mother with a polite smile when her eyes fell on her only child who was busy glaring at her best friend.
“Good morning mum, good morning dad” I said as I elegantly sat on my respective seat before turning towards the spy in the room.
“Lilly Williams, care to explain what are you doing here? Weren’t you supposed to be practicing right now?” I asked in annoyance.
Being her prying self, she must be here to know more about this useless merge and being the-proud-betrayer she is, she will take my parent’s side during the argument, so the hottie future Alpha can join the pack.
“Our Alpha and Luna very kindly asked me to stay for breakfast. How can I ever deny their invitation? Their mercy is immense!” replied Lily politely but with a mischievous smile.
‘Why don’t she become the leader of Alpha Joseph’s fan club? Oh, I forget! She already is!’ I thought in frustration.
“What about getting lost from here so that I can discuss certain matters with my parents. As everyone here knows how big of a backstabber you are” I said with a sarcastic smile.
Being blissfully ignorant is her hobby. She didn’t divert an inch of her attention from her food.
On the other hand, a ticking bomb exploded on me after hearing my mean comment.
“How rude, Miss. Elena Swan! Apologize to your best friend. You should be polite towards the people of our pack. You are going to be the Luna soon” said My dragon Mother, Mrs. Lucy Swan, with a perfect mixture of anger and authority in her voice.
“We were just playing around, Mrs. Swan” said Lily with a small nervous smile.
‘Her another hobby is being fake innocent’ I thought throwing dagger at her with my amber colored eyes.
“It’s okay, Lucy dear. They are kids. They do these sorts of bickering all the time. Not like she is becoming Luna today. Let her live her life happily. We are still here to handle everything” said Joseph, my father while stroking my hair like a three-year old.
“Your unconditional love and spoiling have made her this way” said Mother while sitting on her chair like a queen in the upright position, next to my father.
“Dad is right. Not like I am becoming Luna today. I am 18 already and I still have not changed yet. I think you should look for another Luna, I might be just a normal human. You are betting on a lost cause” I said using the opportunity smoothly.
My cinnamon roll father changed into an angry dragon after hearing my unharmful casual comment.
“Enough! You can’t be merely a human! You are the daughter of an Alpha and your mother is also a werewolf. You can’t possibly be just a human!” my father shouted in a hard tone.
‘Uh-Oh! I think I hit the nerve!’ I thought changing the tactic once again.
“Why are you scolding me? I was just suggesting. I am the most hurt one here” I said looking down with a sad face and my crocodile tears started falling on my cheeks.
Lily was impressed with my acting skills. This girl still has so much to learn from me!
“Oh, I am so sorry my dear. I didn’t mean it! I was just angry by the fact that you doubted yourself and called yourself human. You will soon change, I promise and you will be the greatest Luna of all time” said father guiltily while patting my head with a proud smile on his handsome face.
“Your father is right, Elena. I know that you are tensed that you have turned 18 and still you have not changed. But that doesn’t mean you are not a werewolf. You are just a ‘Late Bloomer’. My grandmother was just like you. She also changed in her 18. So, don’t worry. You will soon change and start your training with us” said My mother while caressing my cheeks gently.
I hope not! Just looking at that training from afar gives me nightmares!
“Let’s not forget to add, ‘impress us with her fighting skills’” My father added proudly.
I smiled back and look down at my food. The smiley on my pancake looked like the pancake is also laughing at my failed attempt.
I actually don’t like the idea of playing with my parent’s feelings but I really don’t want to be a werewolf, let alone being a Luna.
In fact, I hate werewolves, I hate the fact that they look like dogs. I never wanted to be one. I want to be a normal human being and live a normal happy life by going to college, making friends, falling in love and stuff like this.
What is so great about being a werewolf anyways? Changing into a beast every full moon without any control over my emotion and ripping the first person coming in front of me and then living in guilt until the next full moon and the cycle continues for the bloody lifetime! Doesn’t sound really charming, does it?
Just in time, my cell phone vibrated and notification showed a message received, I checked the notification and it was none other than the bratty girl sitting right next to me, Miss. Lily Williams.
*Lily: Nice try but it didn’t work. Better luck next time babe * Lily wrote in the message with a laughing emoji to boil my blood even more.
I raised my head again and looked directly at my parent’s direction.
“Mom, dad! Why are we merging with Moonshine?” I asked in a demanding tone.
“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
“Sister Elena, are you hurt?” asked Alice in an anxious tone.Luke tried to remove his hand but before he could remove it completely, another pair of hands held Elena’s arm and help her to stand on her feet gently. The helping hand was none other than her dear best friend, Liam. In response, Luke groaned and took a couple of steps back.“Yeah. I just lost balance” She replied awkwardly.“It’s okay, no need to be embarrassed. I lost balance all the time. I am the Queen of clumsiness” said Alice with a soft chuckle and continued after turning towards her brother,“Good Job brother”“Hmm” replied Luke with his signature emotionless face.“I told you, you don’t need to help me with those stupid boxes. I can do it myself” said Liam worriedly while taking the box from her hand and keeping it on the floor.Before Elena could reply, an always enraged cro