CHAPTER 4

MIRIAM'S POV

We eventually left the place after he had tried explaining things to me on how he was certain he was my mate. I know I come from a pretty weird family but could my life and family get any weirder? I actually agreed to follow him home and surprisingly he already knew the way to my house and I accredited that to the fact that he did say after all that he had been monitoring me longer than I could ever imagine. It had been a few weeks actually because when we got closer, he told me everything and for how long. Well he left me in front of my house but then came down as mother stood there in front of the porch.

"You finally found your bride now haven't you?" she asked

"Ma'am please let me take your permission to woo your daughter." he had said like the most gentleman in the world.

I was totally floored especially when my mother agreed to his wooing me. Well I did give Eli a tough time but he made mine even more tougher at school as he started showing up around me and had successfully scared away all males from me. It seemed like he carried this dominance that made him keep them away and soon everyone knew me to be his woman. I later learnt that he used to be the all time ladies favorite in the school and how disappointing it was for the other ladies when they found out that he was hanging out with me. Gradually our weird relationship started blossoming with Eli being everything for me.

We did fight occasionally. It was just natural but he found a way to appease me and I realized that with each fight, I got to know him better unlike my current husband who has been nothing but the perfect guy. He never actually fought with me and would rather admit that he was wrong. Even when I tried to prickle him knowing I am at fault, he would still take all the blame. That was the contrast between him and Eli. 

The relationship between Eli and I united both our families even after college and before then, we were already officially together. Did I mention we won prom. Eli transformed me and together we were crowned prom king and queen. That was a dream I used to think I would never accomplish. When I had started writing and working, Eli encouraged me and he would keep pushing me until I released that book. We were inseparable and I had come to learn his secrets and that of his family. His father was the pack's alpha making Eli the next in line and he already was beginning to show signs of dominance. I also learnt that mine was a family of seers although there was only one seer in each generation and that happened to be my older sister who was just like my mom. I was just an ordinary human like my dad with nothing special except the fact that I was mated to a werewolf.

Going forward to the night of my birthday. It was a celebration as I was turning eighteen and both families came together to eat at Eli's. We both were there but in the course of the celebration, he happened to have pulled me away saying he needed to talk to me. I let him give me the fastest piggy ride into the woods where we used to spend our time together. The very woods where I had given him my virginity. We got in there and I felt it within my guts that he was going to propose. Eli was with me and we were sitting by our favorite tree in each other's arms when barely a few minutes after we had gotten there, he received a phone call. He had muttered that he was going to put it off but when he looked at the screen, he decided to take the call. Up until now, I have no idea who had been calling him but he got up quickly and I almost followed suit when he asked me to stay back. He made me a promise at that moment.

"Stay here Miriam, I'll be right be. Whenever I return, I'll take you and you would be mine forever." he said

"Swear it." I said

"It's a promise and I swear," he said.

I smiled and felt really excited when he said that as he sped away while I sat down staring at the moon and being thankful to the heavens that soon I would officially be his woman and we could start making the family we promised to ourselves. I waited for a very long time into the night and at a point I had woken up to something that sounded like a growl. I could have sworn even to this day that in the reeds opposite me, I had seen a pair of red eyes glowing at me which at the time was nothing like Eli's yellow pair. When I blinked, it was no longer there nor was the growling but the reed had been shaken. I became really scared as I could no longer wait for Eli there where I was feeling unsafe. I rose up abruptly and started away from the woods realizing how far into the woods we were. We used to come here to get away from people and sounds except those of nature.

It was a really cold night and I continued walking through the night. At one point I had gotten exhausted and I woke up the next morning to see two pairs of beautiful gray eyes peering at me to see if I was alright. It was Jason and apparently he had been out hunting when he found me. He decided to help lead me home where I was met with the most devastating news in my life.

There had been a fire at Eli's. There had been no survivors. All of his family and all of mine had been consumed in that fire and funny enough neither Eli nor his corpse were seen. A search for him was conducted but from what it would seem, Eli had run away. It was the most heartbreaking moment of my life that I had lost everything and everyone in one night. 

Eventually Eli had been declared wanted as the sheriff said that evidence was pointing out that he just might have carried out the arson for personal reasons especially after they were told he had been with me in the woods.

I never saw Eli after that and I sank into absolute depression.