This book contains some content that could be trauma triggers for some people. I have also used a free translation app for some of the content. I’m saying sorry now if it did not get translated correctly.
Heather POV
“Hey Heather the Alpha would like you to meet him in his office when you’re done here.”
“OK. Thanks Beta Ralph.” I answered.
I turned back to help finish cleaning up after our end of the year school party that we had the night before. We had just graduated from grade eight. It was a good ceremony. My Grandmother was able to make the trip down, which was nice. The only thing that would have made it better for me was if my parents had been able to be there. They had been killed in a car accident back in January driving home from a nearby town in a surprise ice storm.
My father was the Beta of the Blue Ridge Pack, which is the pack I was born into. Beta Ralph had stepped into the roll after my father’s death. My mom and dad had met while my mother was attending a college out in British Columbia. I remember them telling me how my father had tried almost every cheesy romantic cliché to get my mother to go out with him after he messed up their first meeting. He hadn’t made the best first impression on her. With him being a werewolf and realizing that my mother was his mate, he thought that it was a good idea to just pick her up, throw her over his shoulder and walk out of the pool party with her so that the other guys would no longer be looking at her in her bikini. This might have worked if my mother had not been human. Needless to say, she had no idea that werewolves even existed, or what a mate bond was. In the end, he must have done something right or I wouldn’t be here.
After the accident, the Alpha, Alpha Sean moved me in with his family. This wasn’t that big of a change, since I was best friends with his daughter Dawn and spent most of my time in the Alpha quarters of the pack house anyway. The main part of the packhouse could have been mistaken for a hotel. The main floor consisted of a large kitchen, a dining room, a games room, a lounge area with TV, a conference room, a few washrooms here and there, the offices of the Alpha, Luna and Beta and the elevator that could be used to access the upper floors of rooms if you didn’t feel like using the stairs. The second floor had fifteen rooms, each with a double bed and a small bathroom, and was used to house unmated males when needed. The third floor was the same as the second but was used to house unmated she-wolves. The fourth floor was divided into two, with half being six guest rooms that had a king bed, a seating area and a private bathroom. The other half of the floor was the Alpha’s private quarters. It was accessed by a separate entrance or elevator from the main floor. It consisted of an open floor plan kitchen, dining room and living room combo, three bedrooms, a shared bathroom and the master bedroom with en-suite. All the bedrooms in the entire building were made sound proof, since werewolves tend to be a little loud when they are “entertaining”.
I walked into the pack house, headed to Alpha Sean’s office and rang the bell, since knocking was pointless because of the soundproofing.
“Come in.” Came the Alpha’s voice over the intercom speaker.
“Morning Alpha, Beta Ralph said you wanted to see me.”
“Yes Heather, come in, have a seat.”
As I entered, I noticed that my Grandmother was already there sitting on the couch. I walked over, gave her a hug and sat down beside her. Alpha Sean walked around his desk and came to sit in one of the high-backed wing chairs across from my Grandmother and I.
“Ok. So, Heather, you have asked me about going to live with your Grandmother. Is this something you would still like to do?”
“Yes. She is the only blood family I have left from my mother’s side.” She was actually the only blood relative I had left. Both of my father’s parents had passed before my Dad even met my Mom and he was an only child. “I would like to get to know her better.”
Don’t get me wrong, I do know my Grandmother. I just never spent a lot of time with her because of where she lived. She lived about three hours further up north in another pack’s territory. With my father being the Beta, we didn’t get as many chances to visit her as we would have liked. We tried to go about once a year and I spend a couple of weeks in the summer with her a few times. My mother told me that it had taken my Grandmother about three years into my parents’ relationship for her to accept my father. That was about the same time I was born. I was always surprised at the fact that my Mom had grown up surrounded by werewolves, but did know they existed until she met my Dad. She’d even gone to high school with some of them. Apparently, my Grandmother had known of them, but never told my mother. There’s a story behind the reason. I’ll have to ask her about it sometime.
“I have contacted Alpha Shane of the Twin Moon Pack, which is the territory that, Lyla, your Grandma lives in.” The land that my Grandmother’s house was on had not been part of the Twin Moon pack territory until about two years ago. She had made a deal with Alpha Shane to sell him the land around her home as long as she could keep living in the house. It was a way that she was able to make sure that the land would stay untouched and it gave the Twin Moon pack the much needed forested area.
“He has suggested that you attend the high school that has been set up in the area between his pack and the neighbouring pack, the Silver River Pack, not the public human school in the nearby town. Alpha Shane thinks that since you are half wolf you could benefit from some of the extra programs they have at the school, and I agree with him. You know as well as I do that, because you are only half werewolf, we won’t know if you even have a wolf until close to your eighteenth birthday. By attending the packs’ school you will not be behind, on your battle training if you do have a wolf. If it turns out that you don’t, you will have learned some really good self-defence moves. Now do either of you beautiful ladies have any questions?”
My Grandmother and I spent the next half hour to forty-five minutes going over minor stuff about my move. It had been decided that I would be staying until the beginning of August with the Blue Ridge pack so I could have time with the friends I was leaving. Then I could have the time until school started in September to settle in Grandma’s place and get to know the area a bit.
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Heather POV “I can’t believe that you’re leaving tomorrow” Dawn said. I sat down on the ground next to her and put my arm around her shoulders. “Hey, once everything is packed in the car and ready to go, what do you say about heading out to the lake for a few hours? Then we’ll come back, order pizza, watch some movies...” “So this is where you two have been hiding. I’ve been busting my ass loading your...” He points at me. “...stuff into the SUV so we don’t have to do it in the morning. Dawn and I saw Jacob, Dawn’s older brother, coming across the lawn. Jacob had just turned 17, making him three years older than Dawn and I. Jacob stood 6’3”, with black wavy hair that was a little on the long side and beautiful hazel eyes, he was 200 pounds of muscle and still hadn’t finished growing. For the last year or so, I had been developing a bit of a crush on him. It had gotten a bit stronger in the last little while. He’d been very supportive after my parents had died. I think that is when
Jacob POV “Looks good to me guys. It’s only 3:00 now, so I think we’ll wait an hour or so to light it. What do you guys think? Guys?” I turned to see which girl had gotten their attention this time. “Are you sure that’s her? It can’t be.” “I’m telling you Ben, that’s Heather. Who else hangs out with Dawn?” I looked down the beach to where Ben and Zane were staring, just as Heather was lifting her shirt up over her head to reveal all the gorgeous curves she had been hiding from everyone. Up until now, I had been the only guy to have the privilege of seeing them. I have caught glimpses of her a few times over the past little while that she has been living with us, in some of her more revealing sets of PJs. The first time had been when I had found her sitting in the dark in the living room, crying. It was about a week after her parents had died. She was wearing a form-fitting tank top and a pair of boy short-style bottoms. I sat on the couch, pulled her into my lap and just held her w
Heather POV After putting my t-shirt back on, I sat down on my towel and looked at Dawn. “Well, we’ve been here a whole thirty minutes or so, and I have had three new experiences. What’s next?” “Three?” “Yeah three, one, your brother using his Alpha tone. Which, by the way, was a little scary and, don’t hate me for saying this, also a little sexy. Two, Alexa yelling at me, and for the first time making me feel embarrassed to be half human.” “What was the third?” “That thing... with Jacob... I don’t... “I sat there waving my hands around trying to find the right words to explain what I thought I felt, when Dawn leaned over and whispered “You mean Jacob running off into the water sporting a boner he got from standing behind you.” I pulled my knees up to my chest and hid my face as I felt the blush start to creep up my neck, into my cheeks. “Please that is never to be mentioned ever again. Are you listening to me, Dawn?” “Do you really think I want to talk about my brother’s boners
Heather POV As Jacob started to pace, I thought it would be a good idea to head back over to Dawn and go for a swim since that was what we came here for in the first place. I had taken two steps away from the tree when I heard Jacob say, “Stop right there. Don’t move. We are not done. We have one more thing to talk about.” I stepped a little farther away from the tree so that at least he wouldn’t be able to cage me in against it again. He approached and stopped about a foot away in front of me. Even with him standing at that distance, I still had to tilt my head back to look into his eyes because of our height difference. “No, I think we’re good,” I replied. “You never told me why your cheeks were red.” “Sun burn. I forgot to put sunscreen on them.” “Is that so, then why are they getting redder by the minute while we are standing in the shade?” “Holes in the ozone layer. It has been causing lots of problems.” “Heather are you trying to be a smart ass?” “No. All my brains are in
Heather POV My thoughts were running a mile a minute through my brain. What the hell had just happened? What the hell did I just agree to? Did I just have a mini make-out session with Jacob, my best friend’s brother, with my back against a tree and my legs wrapped around his waist? This is not good. How am I going to look at Dawn? When I got back to my towel, both Zane and Ben gave me questioning looks and walked away. I sat down and put my head back on my knees trying to hide from Dawn. “Did you enjoy yourself? How many other times have you made out with my brother?” Keeping my head down, I answered “That was the first time. The only other thing I can say is WOW.” I hear chuckling coming from beside me, to pick my head up in time to see Dawn break out into a full fledge belly laugh complete with rolling around on the ground. “Will you stop that? People are staring at us.” “Girl, they were already staring after Jacob picked you up and hightailed into the woods with you.” “I jus
Zane POV I followed Dawn out of Jacob’s room and down the hall. I thought that she was going to stop at her room, but she headed down the stairs. She walked into the kitchen, opened the fridge and pulled out a bottle of water. “Want one?” she asked, holding up the water. “No, I’m good thanks.” Leaning on the door frame, I watched Dawn walk towards the back. She stopped and looked over her shoulder. “I’m going to go sit outside for a bit. Are you coming or heading home?” “I’ll sit for a bit.” I followed her outside. I lowered myself onto one of the lounge chairs next to the one Dawn had sat in. “Well I must say that was an interesting day. What’s your take on it?” I asked her. “I really don’t know. I think I’m still processing it all. Did Jacob ever tell you guys what he said to her?” “You mean they talked. I didn’t think he had time to do that, you know, with his tongue stuck down her throat.” “Yes they talked you ass.” Dawn said as she smacked me on the shoulder. “He told her t
The next morning Heather POV “Let’s go, let’s go, let’s go, let’s get this show on the road.” I let out a long groan that sent pain shooting through my brain and buried my head under my pillow as Dawn barged into my room screaming about road shows and opening the curtains. If I had the energy, I’d throw the extra pillow at her. “Go away” is all I can manage to get out before the blankets are pulled off me and someone is forcing me to sit up. “Come on let’s get into the shower. That should help a little, maybe.” The next thing I know, I’m hit with a blast of cold water, my eyes spring open and Dawn is walking out the door telling me I have fifteen minutes to shower, get dressed and get down to breakfast or she’s coming back and I won’t like the consequences. I realize that I’m still in my bathing suit and t-shirt from yesterday, I strip them off and leave them on the bottom of the shower while I finish washing. I step out of the shower, dry off, and head back to my room to get dress
Heather POV Before I even get to the kitchen, I catch a whiff of bacon, waffles and the glazed berries that have been made for breakfast. I’m starting to think they’re trying to convince me to stay by bribing me with my favourite foods. So not fair. I made my way over to the table and sat down at my usual spot at the same end of the table as Luna Rene, across from Dawn. Luna Rene starts to say something but is cut off by a very loud entrance of the guys as they race to the table. Zane, who is still not recovering from last night, makes it to the table first. He takes the chair beside Dawn at the other end of the table where Alpha Sean is sitting. We all look at him funny, since that is the chair that Jacob normally uses. Zane looks at us all, shrugs his shoulders and says “What? He lost. It just pushes him to do better next time.” Jacob made his way over to the seat beside me and glared at Zane. “Well if someone had been able to get himself into his bed on his own last night, maybe h