***Rowen*** Chastity had responded to my earlier text as we were leaving the meeting hall. She had said she would watch today’s proceedings after dinner. She was asking what was going on, and I was texting her quick response as I walked to our suite. I hit send just as I opened the door. A scent I didn’t know, but knew was female hit my nose. How did they keep getting in here when we had guards at the door. My father asked just that before we walked to our suite. “How is it that I request you be placed at our door to keep people out, but we can smell that someone has entered very recently?” My father asked the unknown guard as we had asked to borrow two for guard duty from the hosting pack. “She….um…we were only following orders, sir.” The young male responded. “Who’s orders?” “Miss…..Miss Renee sir.” “I see. You may go. I will handle this from here.” “I…uh….yes sir.” “No need to mind link your Alpha about this. I will be returning Miss. Renee to him untouched.” “I…Yes sir. I’
***Chastity*** The days since I returned to school from my trip home have been hectic, but enjoyable for the most part. Sunday was a quiet, return to life day. I washed all of the clothes I took with me for my visit, hung my new pictures, and set up my new statue and vase Rowen bought for me. He also surprised me by sending me a bouquet of lilacs to put into it. His card read that he wanted me to be able to fully enjoy my new vase. In between laundry, and after putting things away, I got to work reviewing my assignments that would be due the coming week. I also did some reading for my classes. Lilac, and I spent a lot of time in my room that day. I needed it to unwind, and get back into school mode. Lexi was the same way so she spent some time sprawled out on my bedroom floor reading, and just relaxing. I appreciated that Lexi was just as dedicated to her studies as I was. She also seemed to be connecting more, and more working in health care. Monday morning it was back to business
***Chastity*** I woke up the next morning with just enough time to get to class which was unusual for me. Norm, and Lexi tried to ask if I was ok, but I just waved them off. I didn’t want to talk about it. I was thankful that I had my homework done for the class early. After class I considered canceling on Dee-Dee, but knew that she wouldn’t allow that unless it was for class, or sickness. Since I had neither excuse I dropped my book bag off in my room, grabbed my journal, and Lilac then headed to my appointment. Dee-Dee was waiting in her usual blue bean bag chair for me. After I took Lilac off her leash I curled into my usual purple one, and buried my head in my knees. Dee-Dee remained quiet which I was thankful for. I didn’t want to talk. I didn’t feel like talking. She seemed to understand that, and left me be. For a bit at least. "I understand if you don’t feel like talking Chastity, and as I told you your first day here I won’t push you to. What I am going to ask for is to see
***Rowen*** I can’t say that I slept very well after my video chat with Chastity. I had no idea she felt the way she did, and that I had contributed to her feeling that way. I felt really guilty for upsetting her as I had been. I had a feeling everyone would when I told them. I had sent a text to Chastity letting her know that I would talk to everyone about backing off on the Luna talk. She said she appreciated it, but she was worried about disappointing people at the same time. I reassured her that was not going to happen. When I went into the sitting room dad, Dimitri, and Jax were already up, and eating breakfast. We had stopped going down to the dining room for breakfast after the first day because it was just too much commotion that early in the morning for any of us. We kind of liked to start the morning at a bit of a slower pace. I was just about to sit down when there was a knock at the door. Warrior Blake told me that is was the members of Dark Moon wanting to have breakfast
***Chastity*** Saturday morning found me up early to get ready for Norm, and Marcus’s mating ceremony. Lexi’s brother Darren was picking us up to take us to the pack house for it. It was going to be held in a small private courtyard next to the pack house. Lexi, and I were going early to help decorate, and set up. Lexi also wanted to make the cake as a surprise for Norm, and Marcus I had seen her drawings for it, and it was impressive. It was going to be a three tiered chocolate cake, with buttercream frosting. She was going to have a waterfall of blue icing going down all three layers of the cake, ending in a pond at the bottom. She was going to decorate the sides of each tier with flowers, and trees. At the top she was making two wolves that would have their heads tucked together standing in a meadow. It was going to take a lot of work, but I knew she would pull it off. I had also agreed to make my croissants as an appetizer. The ceremony wasn’t until 5:00 because Alpha Jeremy was
***Chastity*** I woke up early the next morning, excited for my visitors. It was going to be a great day. Molly, Melissa, Colby, Braxton, and Gina were set to arrive around 10:00. Rowen said he, Jax, Dimitri, and Alpha Joseph would arrive around 12:00. The street fair was set to happen in the Dark Moon pack town to start around 10:30. I was excited for it as I had never been to one before, and I was even more excited to share this experience with some of the people I cared about. It was going to be a fun day. I just knew it. After showering I put on a pair of denim shorts, and a green t-shirt. Once my hair was pulled back into a ponytail I was ready. I made a quick trip to the cafeteria then went to get Lexi up. She was grumpy at first, but thankfully that didn’t last long. She dressed pretty much the same as I did, just with a pink t-shirt instead of green. By 9:30 she was laughing, and calling me Norm Junior because I was bouncing with excitement over my plans for the day, and my g
***Chastity*** The following month flew by. I hadn’t been able to go home at all during that month. Rowen, Jax, and Colby hadn’t been able to come to spend a weekend either. Rowen, and Jax had been too busy with alliance talks with Rogue Leader Dean to be able to take a weekend away. Molly, Melissa, and Gina were able to spend one weekend with us though. That had been a lot of fun. School was going well, and I was doing better than I thought I would. I was really proud of myself for how well I was doing. I was also really enjoying my drawing class. We had finally moved into drawing shapes, and starting to learn techniques for blending shapes into larger pictures. I could also feel myself getting stronger physically from self defense class. I did notice that my movements, and the way I carried myself was changing with more focus on my core than trying to keep myself as unnoticeable as possible. My appointments with Dee-Dee were going well too. I still had hard days, and she was right
***Chastity*** I hadn’t had a chance to see the courtyard before Melissa’s ceremony. When Molly, Lexi, and I stepped outside I looked around. Melissa had decided to go simple with more of a fall theme. The colors were more of orange, dark red, and yellow. She didn’t do streamers or lace, but the decorations were still pretty. She had bunches of fall looking leaves tied together with either red, orange, or yellow ribbon arranged in vases on the center of tables. She even managed to spread fall looking leaves along the aisle. It all looked very pretty. We quickly found our table with Rowen, Jax, Colby, Marcus, and Norm. Rowen brushed his fingers along my arm, before taking hold of my hand, and kissing the back of it before whispering in my ear that I looked beautiful. I smiled shyly up at him, and kissed his cheek. He looked very handsome in his dark purple, short sleeved button down, and black dress pants. When the music began to play I looked to Ross. I knew the moment he first saw