My Mate

Betrayal is a scary thing. It’s even worse when it’s from your own family.

I do understand the reasons behind my father's anger, but I can’t accept what my mother did to me.

My life was as perfect as a life could be. Yet, what I wanted the most was the reason I’ve lost everything.

How rude of me, I haven't introduced myself yet.

My name is Amara, Amara Kawan.

I'm the first daughter of both Alpha Aeron and Luna Tiana. I'm supposed to be the next Alpha. Yet, I failed to even claim a wolf to be mine.

My story starts as I was facing the moon, waiting for my fate to be settled.

As the moon rises, the blood runs cold inside my veins. I wasn't sure if I could do it, or if I would turn out to be nothing but a human.

The mere idea of being a human brings a fatal fear that seems capable of destroying my entire existence.

No! I refuse to be just a human, I’m meant to be more.

We, wolf shifters, get three chances to shift. If none of these chances are enough to pair us with a wolf, the obvious happens:

We get expelled from the pack and have to adapt to human life. A life without dignity, power, or self-respect!

I would rather die than end up that way—or at least, that's what I used to think…

Tonight is supposed to be my twenty-first birthday, which means my last chance to get a wolf.

Just like any other wolf, I got my first chance to shift when I was sixteen. Yet, nothing happened that night.

For an Alpha bloodline, that truth is … I’m dishonoring my own family. 

Aside from my mother, the rest of my family secretly hoped I would never get the chance to shift. Because if I did, I would claim my rightful place as Alpha - by birth, by blood, and by destiny.

To everyone, a female Alpha is a sign of weakness, a disgrace to the pack. They believe that my younger brother would be a far better leader than I just because he is male.

Too bad for them - I wasn’t planning to take a step back or be just a follower in my brother’s shadow, even if I have to fight for my right alone.

As the moon finally fully rises, I start feeling my bones changing shape, my skin rupturing - changing to fur, my teeth turning into fangs, and my claws replacing my fingers.

I tasted power for the first time in my life.

My family and pack members were all surrounding me. Yet, it wasn’t in the way I expected.

Instead of the cheers and celebratory howls I was expecting… some of them gasped, while others started growling as if they spotted the enemy, and I was the enemy.

“Run!” my wolf spoke for the first time…

Well, it was indeed my first time shifting, but I knew better than to ignore a wolf’s warning.

I did as I was told and started running, only to hear my father demanding that the pack members follow me. Worse, to kill me.

Just as I thought I have a chance to escape, I was captured.

The one who captured me was my father, and here I am, locked inside a cell, waiting for my trial by the Alpha King himself.

I know… I know…

You guys are still wondering what I have done!

Well, basically, not me - my mother is the one behind all of this, and she is nowhere to be seen.

When I first shifted, everyone noticed that my wolf isn’t a normal wolf.

I turned out to be an elemental wolf.

An elemental werewolf is a hybrid line that comes from a witch and wolf mating. If this means anything, it means that my mother cheated on my father with a warlock.

So, I basically possess witches' power and can also shift like a wolf. 

I can't cast spells, though - I’m only capable of controlling elements such as fire, water, air, and more…

My kind went extinct years ago. After that, we were hunted to the last of us…

The royal palace declared that all elemental wolves are nothing but a danger that needs to be dealt with as fast as possible.

Also, mating with witches or warlocks is a crime worthy of death.

The problem was never related to my kind’s power, it has something to do with our blood.

An elemental wolf’s blood can make a normal wolf an eternal one. It can also heal vampires from the curse of the sun.

Of course, I don’t have to explain how much vampires and werewolves hate each other.

As much as I don’t want to believe it, I’ll be dead within a few hours. The moment the Alpha King lays his feet in our pack, he will kill me and drink my blood to get stronger. Then, he will declare a prize on my mother's head.

Of course, my father—or the man I thought was my father—will be honored for his heroic acts.

Well, although we were both going to die, I spent the last hours trying to get to know my wolf.

My wolf’s name is Lexa.

She told me she knows everything about me since she was always there with me.

Our link was created the day we were born.

She also informed me that it’s normal for elemental wolves not to shift during their early life. It’s because their magic blocks their wolves until the human body is ready for both.

Anyway, I asked her if there was a way to escape all of this, and she denied it, claiming we are still too weak to fight since we’ve barely shifted.

Time went by fast, and soon my brother was dragging me out to meet the Alpha King, who had apparently arrived.

I didn’t want to beg him for help, but I was surprised at how cold he was when everything happened. So, I felt like speaking to him while leaving the dungeon.

“You seem happy for someone who would lose his sister soon…”

“You’re not my sister!” he snapped at me. “You never were, and you never will be!”

The shock I felt made me lose the ability to speak. I shouldn’t have expected anything else. 

I mean, I was the only one standing between him and his wishes, and eventually, one of us would have to fight and kill the other for the title.

Guess not anymore!

I could tell I had been taken to the hall, it’s just that something felt a bit different. It smelled good. Perhaps it's because I’ve spent the night in the dungeon.

Anyway, for some unknown reason, I forgot about my trial and was just thinking about the scent. It seemed to awaken something inside me.

As expected, the house was full of our pack members. Some of them felt relieved knowing that the female who dared to take the lead was going down. Others seemed a bit sad.

You might wonder, in such a huge pack, I should have at least one or two friends supporting me.

Well, I don’t.

I’ve spent my entire life training, trying to make myself a stronger leader in a way that made me grow up a loner.

Against what I was expecting, I was calmer than I should have been—even when I heard what they were whispering.

Some claimed I deserved what would happen to me. Others were blaming my mother, since apparently she’s not a witch, which means my father must be one.

The third type were the wolves who didn’t care about me or what was happening. They were there to see what the Alpha King and his companions looked like. I’m not judging, I kind of wanted to see the royals too.

I know, I know… I should be worrying about my life right now. But I’m not feeling like dying today.

Suddenly, everyone got quiet, indicating that the Alpha King was finally here.

The moment he took his first step, my entire world went silent, and I felt frozen.

All I could hear were the howls of my wolf in my head as she repeated constantly…

Mate!