CHAPTER 2

Luke POV

“Luke are you ready?” I could hear my aunt Lucy call.

Shit – was it almost time. I been deep in thought that I lost all sense of time.  I looked at the image of me in mirror wearing my dad’s old suit. It was of cause to big and I looked even more like a small puny teenager than in my own clothes.

Before I could answer her – she was standing beside me looking at my reflection in the mirror. She smiled proudly like she was seeing something completely different than I was.

She started stuffing the shirt down my pants and straitening the jacket making me feel 10 years old again. 

“So handsome” she said with a smile looking at me. I smiled back and look in the mirror once again trying really hard to see what she saw.

“I know why you are doing this” she then said.

“Oh” I replied trying not to look her in the eye.

I felt like I was abandoning her and that this pledge was me being an ungrateful brat for all that she had done for me. She took me in as her own – raised me – protected me and always stood up for me when the pack wanted to reject me and turn me rouge. And now I was making a fool of myself and even worse her, by pledging to the supreme alpha. Not only in front of our own pack but the five nearest packs and their alphas.

Our pack have been looking for a reason to throw me out since I was only a kid and now I was handing it to them on a silver platter. After all she had done to make sure it didn’t happen.

“You really think the supreme alpha can help you?” she asked.

“What?” I answered confused.

“Isn’t that why you are doing all of this? Because you think the supreme alpha can help you shift” she asked again.

“Ehm” I answered even more thoughtless.

I actually didn’t know why I was pledging. Why I wanted so bad to be chosen by the supreme alpha. I never met them. I always thought that my mate would make me shift. That the sent of her would awaken and press my wolf forward.

Most wolves first recognize their mates at the age of 18 and since I didn’t really think my mate was among my own pack – I hoped she would be among one of the other packs.

“Please tell me, you at least thought this through and that you are not just doing it in despise of the pack” with a tone in her voice both worried and annoyed.

“No….. no, I thought this through – of course it because the supreme alpha is the best person to help with my problem” I lied still not looking at her

Why were I doing this – maybe I could still change my mind – but then again the pack wouldn’t let me stay without a wolf when I surpassed the age of 18 any way. So maybe the supreme alpha was my last change.

“I’m ready!” I stated out loud to both reassure her as well as myself.

“Are you going to Kates afterward” she asked ignoring my statement completely.

“Yep – first the election in the big hall and then we’re celebrating her birthday” I answered.

I would never forget Kates’s birthday. We had been celebrating our birthdays together since we were kids – never once apart. But this time it was different. She was turning 18 and that meant she was about to meet her mate for life. And that I was losing her. I would never stand in the way of her happiness but the thought of her being consumed with love for another man. That made everything inside me ache. It had always been me and Kate. Luke and Kate against the world – and now it was about to be Kate and her mate and that weird third wheel Luke following them around like a lap dog.

Maybe that was why I was taken my chances with the supreme alpha – then I at least there was a chance I didn’t have to endure her mating ceremony. At bit puke building up in my mouth at the thought of it.

I shake the thought of it off me and turn to the door.

This was it – my life was about to change – I could feel it in my bones.

And then I walked outside towards the great hall leaving my aunt Lucy and my old life behind.