“I’ll be fine Nicole, don’t worry,” she responded before opening the car door. As she was about to come down, she remembered something she was supposed to tell her friend.
“Nicole, can you promise me something before you go?”
“What is it?” Nicole feared what she was about to say.
“I don’t want Ray, Ethan or anyone to know about what happened today. Can you keep it a secret?”
“Are you sure? this isn't something you should keep Ava, if you're so uncomfortable about rejecting him yourself why not tell Ray? I'm sure he'll agree to stand by you when…”
“No! I want to do it on my own, Ray didn't need my help when he rejected his mate, I should be able to do the same, the only thing I need you to do now is not to tell him what happened, promise me you won’t tell him.”
Nicole sighed defeatedly. “If you say so.”
“Thank you.”
Ava dropped off at the bus station before Nicole drove away, she was standing there before a taxi stopped in front of her.
“Going anywhere miss?” The driver asked after rolling down the windows.
She thought of going somewhere, but she couldn’t think of anywhere to go, so she shook her head and the driver sped off. She began to take a walk, and then her mind began to travel back to what had happened today. She didn’t know how long she had walked nor the direction she walked until she realized that she was still in Bandera; Nicole had dropped her at the outskirts of Chester, the town they resided and she’d unknowingly walked back to Bandera. She feared this town she met her mate but her heart wasn’t too troubled because she knew it was still a far distance from the restaurant she’d met him in.
She stopped at a sign board and read what was written on it.
‘DRAWL FOREST.’
She turned to her left and saw the large trees that marked the entrance of the forest, she then remembered something about letting Layla coming out to play. The forest would be much safer for her wolf, as she couldn’t let a wolf run loose on the streets within the sight of humans.
She walked in the direction where the arrow on the sign board pointed. Taking Layla for a run would be a good idea at this moment, she needed somewhere to process all that happened today, and Layla needed somewhere to play.
She walked into the thick forest entrance, where the first batch of tall trees stood, she then took off all her clothes until she was dressed in nothing but her skin.
'Ok, Layla, time to come out now,' she crouched down on all fours and then her bushy thick wolf fur with a furry tail at her butt started protruding from her human skin. Gradually, her legs and hands turned into four wolf feet with extremely sharp claws, her pointed canines grew larger replacing her human teeth. Within less than a minute, she was now fully in her wolf form and Layla set off into the woods, running with great speed. When it came to running, she was nowhere as fast as Layla.
As Layla played, her mind went back to what she’d been thinking about before. Ava had always heard stories of this strange attraction, but she'd never thought that it would be this tremendous, she'd never thought that it'd have such an effect on her, she'd never thought that it would make her almost want to curse herself for chickening out of the situation like that, but she had no choice. She wanted it.... No, the mate bond made her want it, and she just couldn't bear the thought of abandoning the duties she had been prepared to do her whole life; to serve her people and become a Luna to an Alpha she was not attracted to.
She remembered when she'd first asked this pending question to the one who raised her, Ray's late mother, Mitchell, at the time where it troubled her the most.
"But Luna Mitchell, how will I be joined to someone I don't love? I've seen the other pack members with their true mates and how they're doing pretty well with each other, what will happen if I end up with someone who is not my mate?"
"Nothing my dear," Mitchell answered briskly. "As you can see, I am very happy with Ray's father, and he's not my true mate. At first, I thought that the leaders were punishing me by joining me with someone who I felt nothing for and making me reject the one I was fated to be with, but later I understood when I started feeling an attraction for Ray's father. The attraction for Ray will come soon dear, just like it did with the other Luna's before me, the two of you just have to spend more time with each other."
She gave her a reassuring smile which seemed like she was trying to convince her to believe what she said.
Ava took her word for what she said that day and tried spending more time with Ray, but it didn't help. With Mitchell's expression that day, something told Ava that there was more to what her Luna was saying, that there was something she didn't want to say to her, but she'd brushed the thought aside, it was best not to keep bothering her if she'd told her all she needed to know. Up till today, a few years later, she'd still felt the same way she felt when she asked her Luna that question. Mitchell might have given her an answer, but yet her heart still wasn't satisfied. It wanted more answers, and she knew that she could only find those answers when she found her true mate; the same mate she ran away from today. Upon realizing the distance Layla had taken her, she made her stop before she got lost, they were now in an open space surrounded sparsely by trees. She didn’t know that so much time had passed since she entered this forest, she’d spent hours thinking and Layla had been playing all the while, it would soon be time for the party, what a good way to while away the time she thought, she’d soon be on her way back home but first she wanted her wolf to rest before continuing the journey.
'Good job girl,' she commended Layla as she slumped on the cold forest ground to rest, her ankles ached a bit from running for such a long time and distance. Minutes of silence stretched and girl and wolf lay there catching their breaths whilst enjoying the serenity the cool forest night had to offer and gazing at the moon that had just come out. As she was about to close her eyes, her ears twitched and then Layla observed that they weren't alone.
'He's here,' she informed Ava.
‘Shit, so he'd followed us here;’ she didn't expect him to do that. This was one of the things Ava hated about being a werewolf; scents. You can never avoid your mate except he or she chooses to leave you alone bla bla bla.... she rolled her eyes as she recalled one of the most important rules of the mate bond. She knew from the onset that he might just follow her; he wouldn't have a hard time doing that since he could track her scent easily even if she ran to the ends of the world but she still ran anyways, hoping that he would give up on chasing her at some point and just leave her alone. She would admit that she felt a bit flattered that he went through such lengths to find her, and upon seeing that he was persistent having followed her all the way here, he at least deserved an introduction.She stood from the ground and walked up to him, not fully aware that she was back in her human form and was standing completely naked in front of him. She could
He reached his hand out to her and she knew what that meant, this is how Ray would reach out to her too on the day of the joining ceremony in front of the pack, and she'd be expected to accept his claim according to the tradition, then she'd become his Luna and be joined to him forever. The man standing in front of her offering his claim was the one she was meant to reject so she could accept Ray, she ought to do it now, but why was she so finding it difficult? If she accepted Lucas now, she knew there'd be no turning back. She was unsure of what to do at this point, her heart told her to accept him but her mind, which always told her to do the responsible thing had been shut down, it wasn’t there to tell her what to do this time, all that was left to do was follow her heart, which bing-banged loudly for Lucas.She did the same thing every she wolf does the moment she sees her mate for the first time. She slowly melted to her knees in front of him, putting her han
"You're pure, innocent. You don't have another male's scent on you; which means I'm your first. And do you know how that makes me feel? Do you know what that does to me precious?" He groaned subtly into her ear and brought his hands to massage her breast whilst kissing her cheek and her neck before he continued."It only makes me want you more my precious, it turns me on and it only makes me want to do things to you that I've never done to another woman," then he brought his lips to hers again.Ava didn't understand what he'd said by wanting to do things to her; but her curious mind did want to find out. She brought her arms to his back and pushed him closer to her body. Leaving her mouth and a hot trail of his kisses down her body, he brought his head in between her legs, and the thought of what he was about to do made her flush the minute she felt his wet tongue at the opening of her clit. Her clit was so sensitive and swollen, he started to lick an
Ava jumped right out of the bed the minute she realized this. Did it really happen? Did I lose my... Oh no! she cried within herself.'Layla! Layla!!!' she called out to her despairingly.Layla always tends to be inactive mostly in the mornings, sometimes Ava wondered why she had a wolf if she couldn't get to her when she needed her.Was he here? If he was, where had he gone? She tried to pick up his scent, and then she noticed that he was in the cabin too, just outside the room. They were alone in the small building and he was sitting by the fireplace, playing a guitar, she could hear the charming melody right from where she stood in the room and it tempted her to go outside to go and meet him, or to continue from where they finished last night. No! She scolded herself, doing that would just add more fuel to the fire, would worsen the situation, last night wasn't even supposed to happen and it did. She had to find a way to escape before
The wondering feeling she had last night about whatever surprise Ray and the other pack members were planning for her flew right through the window and was replaced by the intense desire she had for Lucas,….. t-the desire the mate bond made her have for Lucas. All because of what happened, she had missed her own birthday party surprise. In all her 18 years of being in her pack, of growing up as a moonlighter, she had never for once missed her special day with them until yesterday. Even though she didn’t like Ray’s surprises, spending her special day with her pack members was something Ava always looked forward to every year, even when the trio moved out of the pack house, she still celebrated her birthdays with the moonlighters every year; it was like Christmas to her, and she was looking forward to it yesterday before she met Lucas in that blasted restaurant, and now she missed it all; she had forgotten her own birthday, and it was all thanks to her mate. A
This was strange, how could she prefer the touch of a stranger to the touch of the one she was supposed to spend the rest of her life with? The mate bond gave the answer to that question. She noticed that Ray was still kissing her; she found it strange that he was enjoying this whereas she wasn't. Didn't he know that what he was giving her was far from pleasure? She felt bad about how she felt; Lucas's touch was supposed to be the one that repelled her, but no, it was exactly the other way around.Ray then brought his hand to touch her breasts, and she pulled away from his kiss at that moment, panting heavily. He saw her expression and dropped his head in his hand, he was disappointed but tried well to hide it."I'm sorry," she muttered."No, no, I should be the one apologizing, I know how you said we should wait and all, but I find it hard to restrain myself whenever I'm with you."Ray reminding Ava of the reason she refused him whenever he t
Lucas was already getting tired of the wild goose chase between him and his mate. Why did she keep running away from him? He wondered, last night she'd submitted herself willingly without any hesitation to him and then the next morning she was gone all of a sudden. She ran away; just like she did at the restaurant the first time they'd met. Why was she playing games with his mind? Did she think it was funny?He recalled their first night together, remembering how much he couldn’t get enough of her body, her sweet innocence. After their intimate moment, he took her while she slept in his arms to his log cabin, one of the properties he owned in the forest that bordered near Chester and watched her sleep on his bed, he wanted more of her, but didn't want to wake her up, no need to do that. They could always continue when she woke, in the meantime, he picked up his guitar and went to the fireplace, he began playing a song. He would sing it to her once she woke u
As soon as Ria took off all her clothes, Vivian cleared the empty bottles of wine on the table and sat Ria down on it, pulling her feet apart and spreading her legs, she dove her face between her thighs and started eating her pussy hungrily. Ria writhed on the table, moaning.Lucas nodded his head, good show but he still wasn’t satisfied. Vivian turned for a second to look at her master, she noticed his face remained unchanged, this was unlike him; he’d always loved seeing them come in each other’s mouths, what was so different about today?“Why did you stop?” Lucas asked her, pissed off when he noticed she turned away from Ria’s pussy to watch her master’s reaction.“Sorry,” she turned back again and continued eating Ria’s pussy. Fucking Ria with her tongue and hoping Lucas would come out of the bad mood he was in soon; she and her partner had never left their master unsatisfied befor