Fated to the Enemy

Dahlia's POV

I was so excited, looking at myself in the floor length mirror of my dressing room. I was to be married today, to my mate. He was the Beta of my pack, the Knight Moon Pack. The pack is named after my family. My great great great grandfather was the first Alpha here, the man that put this whole pack together.

He had triplet sons, all mated to one woman who gave birth to three boys, one with each triplet. Two of them left to start a pack across the country when my grandfather took over for this pack.

He had a son with my grandmother, a long line of only boys in this family until my father had me. The first female to be born into the Knight family. He and my mother proceeded to have another child, my brother Levi, who is just a year younger than myself.

Dad really never had much to do with me but was proud when he found out I was mated to the man stepping into the Beta position alongside my brother next year when he took the Alpha spot.

We have to wait until he turns eighteen to give them their full ranking titles, but Christopher and I are both eighteen now so my father wanted us to be married and move into the Beta suite of the pack house now, before the ceremony next year.

Now here I stand, when my mother walks into the room in her rose gold colored dress, a smile drawn on her face as she comes up behind me, looking at me through the mirror.

"You look beautiful, my little princess. I can't even put into words how truly breathtaking you look. Here,"

She held her hand up, moving a simple curl back a bit before pulling a clip from her clutch. It was fresh water pearls intricately woven into the shape of a Crescent Moon.

"May I?"

I nodded as she placed the clip in my hair just above the start of the small veil I had pinned in. She stepped back as I watched her eyes fill with tears through her reflection in the mirror before turning to face her. My dress made a swishing sound as I did.

I loved the bottom of my dress, the way it swirled out around me before working its way up to the corset style top that fit me perfectly.

The lace was delicate and hand made by my great grandmother. My mother took her old dress, and her mother's old dress so she could create one made just for me.

Being the only girl, I was spoiled by her along with her entire family. Everyone was so shocked that my father could produce a female that I was always the topic of people's conversations.

Some say my mother must have cheated, that I wasn't truly a Knight, others say I'm a curse on the family, but I like the rumors about me being specially gifted from the moon goddess herself for greatness.

Of course I don't believe any of the things I hear. I know my mother didn't cheat, so does my father because he would have felt her infidelity. I don't believe I am a curse because I have not brought anything ill down upon my family or pack, as for special, I doubt it.

Granted I'm huge, as big as an Alpha, which is rare for females to be that large, I even impressed my father for the first time when I got my wolf and shifted at fourteen, well before I was supposed to.

My brother shifted at sixteen, like I should have, we are the same size when shifted and look as if we could be twins, our only difference is the color of our eyes. His wolf, Tyr, has bright green eyes that glow like emeralds. My wolf, Alanah, has blue sapphire eyes that light up when she gets excited.

We both are solid black and can hide at night within the trees like no one else can, being part of the Knight family we can also mask our scents to not be caught when put hunting or if we are in battle and need to become shadows.

"You stuck inside that head again I see princess?"

Smiling at her I nodded before she turned me back around to face the mirror that stood in front of me.

"Do you remember the day Christopher came of age? You were just seventeen for another month still but the moment you saw him, you scented him as he did you.

The excitement on your face was everything I'd hoped it would be and more. You ran to him as he scooped you up into the air.

You two have known one another for your entire lives, you won't have to leave the pack due to being mated to an Alpha, but.."

"Mom, he won't be some playboy any longer, not now that we have felt the mate bond. Once he marks me, everything will be exactly as it should be. It's perfect mom.

I have him, and all of you. He knows I'm not a curse or some weirdly special wolf, he knows that I'm bigger than he is when shifted, it's never bothered him before.

Everything is going to be perfect."

My eyes drifted from hers to my own as I smiled to myself. I was so excited for this day, to be Chris's wife and mate, to move into our suite, to finally be marked and to mark him. I wanted to on my birthday, the night I came of age, but he thought it'd be more romantic to wait until our wedding night.

I did lose my virginity that night though, it was painful at first but pleasurable after a bit. He was a bit rough with me but said that was the best way because if you go slow it would have just been more painful making the pain last longer.

My mother and I finished making sure I was ready to go before she was called out so she could be taken to her spot inside the hall where we shall be married.

She kissed me, gave me one last look, then she left after telling me how much she loves me. As she left the room I felt a strange feeling. I got this feeling often, like my body was pulling me to something, as if I needed to be somewhere other than where I was.