PROLOGUE

Being born with a predetermined fate can be overwhelming. It’s baffling and exciting at times. And for Zane to have lived a life outside his fate, completely oblivious of it, he never expected that he is more than just an ordinary guy living in the small town of Tilbury.

When all he knew are the people dear to him and despite being abandoned by his biological parents, Zane loved his new family for giving him another chance to live his life and have a future to chase. But his joie de vivre will soon be caught in a turmoil of his real identity. The once normal birthmark he used to wear proudly will bring him into a new world he never knew existed and later finds out that he has the werewolf print.

Zane is a werewolf!

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All werewolves have soulmate marks. Each mark is a unique symbol, same as fingerprints, worn by each pair of werewolves’ mates (alpha-omega pairs). However, non-royal werewolves’ print/mark only appears when they reach maturity, usually the day they turn to werewolves, while royal werewolves’ prints appear upon birth. Difference between marks are royal werewolves’ marks are deep, almost like veins forming a symbol underneath their skin. It usually appears as rosewood color under the skin. Meanwhile, normal marks are just dark to black color which look like a normal birthmark. Marks/Prints can be found in any parts of their body and not necessarily at the same spot.

Among these marks, half marks are the rarest of them all and almost inexistent. It remains a mystery up to this day because no one has ever been born with it and no living werewolves of many generations have seen it. In other words, no one has the knowledge that there can be half marks. Half marks are werewolves’ print that instead of having a complete symbol, theirs are missing the other side/half. These fated soulmates usually have stronger bond and connection with each other as they are believed to be one. Once mark-fated werewolves mate, they can usually feel what their mate feel when they are close or nearby. Unlike when half-mark fated werewolves mate, they can feel what their mate feel even when they are away from each other and they are gifted in reading their partner’s mind through eye contact.

After mating, their mate becomes their lifeline. Although it is not that extreme with normal werewolves, they can still die if their mate suffers excruciating pain especially omegas. If their alphas go through an intense suffering, some omegas couldn’t handle it and eventually die. Later on, some mated alphas also die from sorrow or vice versa. Because of this, some werewolves decided not to mate with their destined partner and kill them, usually alpha does this to their omega, so they won’t become their greatest weakness and eventually be part of the rogues or rebel werewolves. Marks also hurt when an alpha or omega mates with others who isn’t their same print as this is a greatest act of betrayal to their fate.

For royal marked werewolves, since the connection with their mate is stronger than normal werewolves, if one dies the other dies as well. That’s why it’s the Moon Valley’s tradition, a hidden city of werewolves, that upon birth of a newborn royal, they keep their prints confidential and secretly try to search for it until the royal baby turns one year old. Upon reaching his/her first birthday, the king and queen will announce the mark on public, within Moon Valley, so they can secure the safety of the other half of the royal baby under the protection of the pack. Of course, some tried killing royal marked omegas or alphas but always ended up dead even before they successfully do it as this is the greatest sin a werewolf can commit in Moon Valley, so the punishment is also intensified. Hefty rewards await for those who can give information to the royal marked partners that’s why instead of killing them, werewolves have carried out this decree in good riddance instead for the longest years.

In this werewolf world, royals are determined by marks and not by blood, as marks are given by the Moon Goddess.

Newborn werewolves or those humans turned to werewolves (rogues are the ones turning them) usually don’t bare any mark. Once turned, they join the rogues as they are usually unwelcomed in any of the packs for being the “outsiders”. Some of them are killed if they try to join any of the packs.

How will Zane take in all these truths behind a world he originally was born in? Let alone accept the fact that he is indeed a werewolf?