Chapter 24: Grace

As we walk up the stairs toward Eli’s room, I start asking questions, trying to calm my nerves. I know what’s coming and while I’m no longer timid about completing the bond with Eli, it is something new and unknown for me.

Most girls probably learn about sex from their mothers or their friends. Unfortunately for me, my mother was suffering from my father’s relationships with other women, and I couldn’t bring myself to approach the subject with her. Add to that, her death when I turned 16 and my utter lack of friends, I don’t know more than the basics of what to expect. So, to try to ease my nerves, I ask Eli something that I’ve been wondering about.

“Were these always the Alpha’s rooms?”

“No, actually the floors for the ranked wolves were on the other side of the packhouse. I couldn’t bear to be in my old room, and I didn’t want to be in Alpha Jerome’s or Alpha James’ old rooms after what they did to my family, so I moved the ranked wolves to this side of the packhouse and that side