“Mate.”
The moment she heard that word, Amelia felt her heartbeats stop. She was the Alpha’s daughter, but she never got her wolf. Theoretically speaking, it was impossible for her to find a mate. That’s one of the reasons why she was so touched when Ian asked her to marry him.
Even after her 18th birthday, Amelia still couldn’t shift. Except for her parents, all her packmates mocked her and questioned her true identity. Someone even gossiped about her being an adopted human. Only Ian stood by her determinedly and told her he would marry her no matter what.
Amelia indeed felt happy and lucky by then. After Ian’s proposal, she completely forgot about the mate thing. Back then, she thought nothing in the world could compete with the love between her and Ian, not to mention “the mate” which was so far and distant from her like a myth.
But now she indeed felt it.
Even though she couldn’t move, speak, or even blink her eyes. She felt something different was approaching her from her back.
No footsteps, just light breaths.
Amelia heard that someone or something walked into the living room slowly and steadily. He stopped behind her wheelchair first, sniffing her scent carefully, and then walked into Amelia’s eyesight at an extremely low pace.
It was not a man, but a wolf, a huge scary grey wolf with a blind left eye.
The moment Amelia saw him, her heart sunk to the bottom. She wasn’t disappointed by the wolf’s appearance but was scared by his identity.
Amelia recognized him to be the notorious rogue Alpha, Darren, and she knew he was her pack’s biggest enemy.
Two years ago, right before her wedding with Ian, Darren launched an attack on her pack and killed half of her packmates. That’s the main reason why her father moved their pack here to live with humans.
Since then, Amelia had never heard from Darren again. She had no idea why he suddenly appeared in her apartment, and she had no idea why he suddenly addressed her as his mate either.
“Mate,”
After circling her wheelchair for a few rounds to check her status, the big scary wolf sat in front of Amelia. He looked into her empty eyes with his lonely green eye. And then he growled that word to her once again.
Amelia had no idea what finding her mate would feel like. She knew from others’ experience that she might smell the most amazing scent from him. But now, she felt nothing and smelt nothing. She had no idea how this scary big wolf verified her as his mate.
Yet, the wolf waited for her response.
He stared at her, whispering and insisting, “Mate, mine…” but Amelia was unable to answer.
After minutes of long, desperate silence. The wolf finally accepted the fact that she wasn’t going to speak. He lowered his eyelids with a grieved sigh, and then moved a step forward to put his big head on her thighs.
It was surprisingly warm, soft, and gentle.
The moment they touched each other, Amelia felt sparkles. All those pains, despair, and fears which filled her heart were swept away. Amelia wanted to cry, but this time, it was because of the happiness which abruptly welled up from the bottom of her heart.
“Mate.”
She had no idea how this could be happening, but she whispered in her mind to respond to him, feeling sad that she wasn’t able to touch him. The wolf must have had the same feeling to her. He whimpered in her embrace, rubbing her stomach gently with the top of his head.
“I am so sorry,” he groaned, and his voice was hoarse, “That bastard Ian set me up. I can’t shift for now, so I can’t take you out of here. But wait for me, mate,” he l/icked Amelia’s cold hand gently to offer her some comfort, “I am going to let that bastard pay for what he did to you. And I will help you recover,” his throat growled with anger.
Amelia felt genuinely happy at the moment. She wasn’t thrilled because the wolf promised revenge for her, but because he didn’t ditch her even after finding out she was now basically a dead person.
The endless tor/ment Ian applied to her during the past six months had extinguished all the hopes inside her. Amelia now had no strength to seek revenge, anger, or even help. She just wished the gentle warmth beside her hands could linger.
Don’t leave.
Don’t go.
Don’t leave me here alone in despair.
Amelia cried and begged so hard in her mind for her mate to stay with her, but after the desperately short-term cuddle, the wolf stood up from the floor.
“Wait for me, mate,” he leaned forward to her emotionless rigid face, and then caressed her cold cheeks gently with his warm, consoling fur.
Amelia heard him sigh bitterly beside her ear. And it was filled with despair…
"Wait for me, mate." Right after he sighed upon her ear, Amelia suddenly opened her eyes.She found herself lying in her teenage bedroom back in her old packhouse. And familiar noises of chatting and laughing were coming from outside the door.The light in the room was off, but the ceiling could vaguely be seen by the dim light that leaked through the gap under the door. She laid there on her bed motionlessly, feeling her heart pounding violently like a drum. Her marriage with Ian and the hellish tor/ture in the wheelchair was now flashing back in front of her eyes like the most horrifying nightmares. But Amelia knew it wasn't nightmares but the most realistic life she had just lived in person.Then what happened?Why did she suddenly wake up in her teenage bedroom in her old packhouse? And why was she suddenly able to move?It may sound crazy, but Amelia now indeed felt her fingers. She curled the fingers of both her hands into fists without much effort. And then she slowly proppe
Amelia decided to escape.Though she hadn't figured out what was happening to her or was this a dream or not, she wasn't going to marry Ian and let him manipulate her again.To tell on him to her parents was impossible, as Ian had always been the perfect guy in her parents' eyes. Compared with wolfless Amelia, it was Ian who got more trust from her parents and her whole pack.To accuse him of drugging her without evidence would be like setting herself on fire. Amelia was a timid girl, but she wasn't a stupid one.She remembered the rogues would attack the pack tomorrow night. Amelia left a note to her parents to explain her disappearance and warned them about the attack. And then she packed herself a packsack for escape.She was a wolfless wolf, except for school, her parents rarely allowed her to go too far from the packhouse. She had never worked before and only got some pocket money saved. Which could only support her for about a week.But she had learned enough about humans from h
Darren didn't leave after sending off Amelia. He stayed in that grove and watched until Amelia’s figure vanished into the station’s building. He waited for a while in the woods and then shifted into his human form. Rogues who live in the woods can only survive in their wolf forms. It had been years since the last time he transformed into a human. His hair was long and untrimmed, as well as his overgrown beard, plus his disabled right eye, which made him look like a scary homeless man. He didn't want Amelia to see him like that. It may scare her. But she was too fragile for him not to worry.When he looked at her, he saw a delicate flower that could be broken off even by a gust of slightly stronger wind. Her voice was soft. Her facial expressions were always timid. Though she had the most beautiful smile in the world, whenever Darren looked at her, he saw a fragile soul which might collapse at any moment.To be honest, she wasn't the strong Luna he was looking for. She had nothing ev
Once Darren faded out of her eyeshot, Amelia surprisingly found that she started to hesitate.She was hesitating about the destination of her trip.The big city was too much for her to handle. She had never been with too many people before and she was a little afraid of doing so. When she left the packhouse, she had planned to go to one of those little towns far away. But Darren told her to go to the city. She obeyed out of instinct.Throughout her whole life, there was always someone to tell her what to do. Even if she disagreed, she wouldn't be listened to. To live under others' instructions had become her living habit. Facing Darren, she still did it out of habit.But now Darren was gone, so did the pressure that had been messing up with her head. Now she was able to think clearly. For the first time in her life, Amelia found that she was totally free from wolves now and completely belonged to her own. She suddenly had this strong impulse to cut off her connection with all the wol
Amelia was thrilled by her achievement on her first day in this big scary city.Not only did she find a job successfully, but she also got a huge paycheck which was much bigger than she could ever imagine.Hey, who said she was a useless trash who could never live on her own? See, she had a job now and she could afford her food. After leaving the coffee shop, Amelia took time to find a place to live. She was unaccustomed to noises and was afraid of crowds. In the end, she found an old tall building in the middle of a dark alley.The smell of the alley was stinky and it was completely hidden in the shadow like the sun would never come to this place. But Amelia liked it because it made her feel hidden and safe.Within the cold stone building, it was smelly and dark too. Amelia stepped into it and saw nothing but an old male clerk sitting in the reception hall. He was skinny, half bald without any hair on the top of his head. The rest hair around his head was white and messy. He attenti
Ian felt something off.Yesterday, when he received that alarm reminding him someone broke into his apartment, he was in his office. He quickly turned on the surveillance that he installed to watch Amelia and then saw a big scary wolf barge into the living room.“Fuck!!!” He cursed, and quickly rushed out of the office.The moment he pushed open the door, he found himself going into a different place or world.In front of him was a big living room under dim yellow lights. There were sofas, TVs, and teenage boys and girls, laughing and making fun with each other. Seeing him walk into the door, a young male wolf seemed about 17 or 18 walked towards him. He had curly brown hair and a pair of kind blue eyes. When he spoke to Ian, he wore this big, lively smile, “Where have you been, Ian?” He patted Ian’s shoulder, “The Alpha and Luna are looking for you for your wedding with Amelia. They are waiting on the second floor.” His voice and gesture were as familiar as his appearance. Ian reco
Someone is trying to help Amelia.Ian had no idea who it was, but he knew Amelia well to assert that she had no nerve or talent to plot all of these to go against him.She was weak, timid, pathetic, and doomed to be his favorite human-shaped toy. But someone had noticed her and decided to offer her a hand, a chance to change her fate, an opportunity to escape from him.Ian was enraged at first, but he soon tasted joy. The help that someone offered to Amelia must be conditional. That was why he himself was sent back with her. That meant his target here was clear. He was here to hunt, to capture, to stop her from getting away from him.A toy who knew to run and hide was so much better than the one who can just sit in a wheelchair. Ian now felt satisfied.He looked around Amelia’s bedroom and went through all her stuff to search for information about that someone.Suddenly, he just recalled, before he was sent back, he saw Darren break into his apartment.Darren was the leader of the ro
“Where do you think you are going, sweetheart?”The man standing in front of her was short, skinny, and wore a dirty and disgusting smile. There were uncovered lusts and crude desire beaming from his slender eyes. It took Amelia some time to recall who he was—One of the many customers she served in the coffee shop. She remembered his name was Scott. She met Scott on the second day of her work. Vernonia once warned her about him. “He is one of the gang members who ran the unlicensed taxis in this area. Be careful and don’t cross him.”Amelia nodded her head and greeted Scott with her beautiful smile as she did to others. She didn’t know much about gangsters and their illegal business, and she had no intention to cross anyone. That’s why she was able to serve him without any bias.Her innocent smile and her fragile beauty somehow impressed the rough man. From that day, he came to the coffee shop frequently and asked her out a few times.Amelia declined him politely of course. She didn