Chapter one

My story at the beginning is probably the same for what it is for a lot of people. 

I have a Mum, a Dad and two older brothers who are called Richard and Riggs, they were and are all very over protective of me. You see all my family were really really strong wolves, but not me I seemed to trip over my own feet. A few months back I literally broke my toe coming down the stairs I'm that clumsy, thanks to my wolf healing though it didn't take long to get back to normal. It hurt like a bitch though.

We did normal family things together ate tea together, watched films and had family holidays together and were all a very close family that is until we lost our Dad and my Mum lost her mate. 

We lost him just over a year ago and it is one of the hardest things I have ever had to deal with in my life. I miss him everyday and something always reminds me of him. He died during a battle against some vampires that had tried to get onto our land, my Dad was one of the wolves on the perimeter duty, checking to make sure no rouges or vampires got onto our land and if they do to alert all the other warriors. My Dad managed to alert the Alpha but he was overwhelmed by the vampires. 

A lot of people died that day, A lot of people lost their father's, mother's, son's and daughter's but most importantly a lot lost their mates. Now I know that sounds weird, but the connection from a mate bond nothing can compare to it, they are the other half of your soul. Since the loss of my Dad, my Mum has not been the same for the first few months it took us enough time just to get her to eat and drink, slowly she started coming around a bit more and started eating and talking and actually getting out of bed. She is trying to be more like she was before but the light has gone out of her eyes and no one dares to speak about our Dad in front of her, as we are scared that if we do she will be hurt too much and she has already gone through enough. 

My two brother's look just like my Dad did, tall, broad and muscular. Bright blue eyes and blond hair. I however look just look like my mum, tall, slim, with brown eyes and brown hair. My Mum has a pixie hair cut, where my hair is in waves down to my waste. I loved my hair even though sometimes it was a pain in the arse. 

I was turning eighteen tomorrow. That age is significant as that is the age where you can meet your mate. My friends Lisa and Benji turned eighteen this week also. Every month different packs come together on different pack lands so their young can meet other wolves and hopefully they will meet their mate. This month it was being held here, thank goodness I didn't want to go anywhere else just to find my mate. It was happening this month tomorrow too. Great birthday present for me.

Lisa and Benji was looking forward to it, me on the other hand wasn't bothered either way. I just knew whoever he was better not think I will bow down to him, that is not in my nature, I might not be physically strong but my attitute more than made up for that. 

Richard and Riggs are not too happy that I have turned eighteen, they want me to be happy and find my mate like they have but they just want to protect me, as I am the female if my mate is from another pack I will become a part of his pack. 

Our pack is the Blue Moon Pack, our Alpha is Alpha Ashton but we just call him Alpha Ash. His son Dax is the future Alpha of this pack, he turned eighteen a year ago. The Luna of our pack died in childbirth five years ago and both her and the baby was lost to us. Alpha Ash was a bit like my Mum at first but then he came out of the 'funk' abit faster as he was the leader of this pack and had to act like it and Dax was too young to take over. 

No-one liked our Beta Nelson he was a jerk he took over from my Dad after he died, but unfortunatly he was one of the best fighters, he didn't like me as I had been a gooby bitch to him throughout my teenage years, he deserved it though. He also took part in trying to train us. Some of us went through training at a young age if we showed strength and came from a good background. Even though I am from a Beta background I still wasn't picked to train early as like I said I was weak compared to the rest of my family. 

So like everyone else like me we went through training at eighteen. So this time next week would be my first training session and I wasn't looking forward getting my arse kicked on the first day. Lisa and Benji was at least going to be training with me, so hopefully I will get paired with one of them and I won't be so severely beaten.  

my phone dings with a new message " You excited for your birthday tomorrow Rory?"

I roll my eyes at the nickname she always uses my full name is Aurora, but her, Benji and my family just call me Rory. I used to hate it but over the years I have gotten used to it.

I message her back "I can't wait for our shopping trip, other than that with you and Benji, it is going to be quiet night just spending it with Mum, Richard, Riggs and their mates." 

"EEEKKK shopping I can't wait." 

"I think me and you are the only ones that will like it, I still don't know how you managed to convince Benji to come."

"My wicked woman wiles." 

"See you tomorrow."

"See you tomorrow Rory."

I laugh at her, if anyone can talk men into anything it would be her, she is one of those natural beauties that every male going past her has to have a look and she is capable of major rants that would make anyone conceed to her wishes. 

I go in the shower and then try and detangle my now soaking hair that somehow has managed to get massive knots all the way through it. I finally get my hair sorted. So I get dressed in my favourite blue jeans, I put my long sleeve red shirt on and my black boots. I leave my hair down today.  I leave my bedroom and head downstairs. My house is nice and a family home there4 is nothing special about it, but it is my childhood home and I love it. Family pictures hang from every wall, my Mum's ornaments litter the shelves around the room. I smile and head out the front door. 

This day I decide to spend it alone and have a little walk through the woods to my favourite little place, that is peaceful and no one ever bothers me there. I normally go later on in the night, but decide to head there this morning instead. 

It takes me about half an hour climbing through bushes, plants and over tree's. Hearing the crunch of leaves and twigs snapping under my feet is one of the most relaxing sounds to me. I love my friends and family but sometimes I just like to be by myself and think everything over. 

I walk into the little clearing and I am at peace straight away, at this time of year all the flowers are out and it is a canvas of colour in front of me. I see my favourite place to sit, it is a tall tree that is in the centre and throughout the years it has created a groove atthe bottom of it's trunk that seems to fit my back perfectly like it was designed for me. The leaves littering the floor makes a nice comfy seat for my bum and I just sit there for hours watching the wind blow through the leaves on the tree's and making the sunflowers sway side to side. 

I was watching everything so much that I didn't notice at first that I had company. When he first spoke it made me jump and I have never stood up so fast in my life.