Walking up to Willow’s house I can feel my nerves kicking in. Which is crazy since I spent the night in there. In her bed. With her in my arms. But this was still our first date. Our first public outing. I could see the headlines I’d have to protect her from already. Werewolf hierarchy being what it was, I could just hope my pack loved her because I did. Her dark black curls and sweet smile melted me already. I never stood a chance and that’s on the goddess herself. I knock on the door slowly and take a few deep breaths. Everything would be fine. It had to be. She had accepted I was her mate. This was just the finer details. Making her fall in love with me. Actual love. I never expected her, and yet I felt like I had known her forever. Willow. My sweet bending Willow. Ready for the storm ahead. I spent the entire day in meetings and dealing with angry Alphas. Some thankfully were on our side and ready to fight with us. But some were so very angry already. Not wanting to kneel to anyo
“Come on, Willow, you can do this baby!” my mother screams as I square up against Damien. It was training time and I was shaking in my skin fighting against the biggest underage wolf in our pack. We both turned 18 in a few days and had to prove ourselves as warriors. I see him tense just before his twists left and throws a punch. Dodging his arm, I kick him in the ribs. The breath leaves his body at the impact, but it doesn’t stop him. He charges me and I jump to the side, swinging my body onto his back just as he shifts under me. I panic, I have never seen someone underage shift so quickly and smoothly. His fur a deep red and his wolf, Dante howls and twists trying to bite me. I make myself small, forcing him to roll over to lose me. Just as he turns around to attack, I shift myself. Giving control over to my wolf, Sasha. My mother always told me “I named you Willow, after the trees. I have seen hurricanes snap oaks as a Willow just bends and adapts”.
My twenty sixth birthday was around the corner and Dad was breathing down my neck about taking over the pack. My aura already grown past his. The problem? I didn't even want the job. I dont want to be in charge of anyone much less an entire pack of wolves. They would all look to me to set an example and I wasn't even a good example for myself. I currently stood in my shower washing blood off from a run turned hunting mission. A rogue was near our borders and I chased him down and took him out. I was not meant to be alpha. I was named to be a Warrior. Everyone says being Alpha Is a blessing but I found it to be a curse. Every burden on your shoulders. Feeling every pack members death. Their loved ones agony. I remember all too well after the last pack war how hard it was on my father to feel his pack torn apart with grief. my own mother died on the front lines. Taking a part of Dad with her. Stepping out of the shower I burn with anger and frustration as I get dressed. My w
Today is my 18th birthday. I am finally an adult. This comes with so many new things. The final battle later today to secure my spot as the packs 2nd Female warrior. Second only to our beloved Luna whom we lost 10 years ago. I also will be on the watch for my mate now that I am of age. They say you know instantly but I cannot believe it works so quickly. That I could pass a stranger, or worse someone I have always known and instantly know I am theirs and they are mine. That sounds like absolute lunacy. But as a Lunar child, I guess that only makes sense I think while laughing quietly. I can smell pancakes and mom pushes against the mind link “I made your favorites for breakfast, and I have a surprise for you when you come down”. Smiling I tell her that I will be down after a quick shower. Stripping off my cotton t-shirt and flannel pajama pants, I squeeze into my small stand-up shower and feel the sweat of a restless night wash from my body.
“Mate!” yells Oaklen inside my head as I watch my sister crouching in wolf form to attack the girl. She is not what I expected. Curvy and tall with long black curls falling down her back. I see her lock onto me as the wind blows in her direction, knowing she sensed it too. Odd, I had never really noticed her in our pack before, but I could sense why. She had Omega blood. I grimace at the laughing stock I will be for this. And to think, I really though last nights dream had been a reality. Nobody would take me seriously as the Alpha of Alphas with an omega mate. The moon goddess really got this match wrong I huff to myself. Oaklen growls at me “Do not insult our mate. She is a fair match against your sister. Perhaps even stronger. Her blood may be omega but her heart is pure Alpha!” I shake my head at his nonsense. But watching the scene in front of me, he did have a point. The girl jumped up and shifted into a pure black wolf. Twisting she took my sister to h
Sasha screams in my head, “Rejected. He rejected us, we aren’t good enough to be an Alpha’s mate and he said so!” Trying to breath I reminded her that he hadn’t said anything, maybe she startled him? “No, I felt his anger and his rejection. He shoved us off and wanted nothing to do with us. I would rather be rogue than a rejected omega. Don’t make me face him again, it hurts. Willow please!” Hearing my wolf cry of rejection did nothing to make me feel better. I had won. I had been a welcomed warrior. But I had not been a welcomed mate. Tears streak down my face as I painfully shift back, my mother immediately gathering me into her arms. “Shhh baby. Its okay Willow. Remember, in a hurricane you adapt. You don’t break on me now. We will figure this out. Just get a shower and we can go home” I hiccup as I reply with the words no werewolf parent wants to hear, “I am not going home. I am going rogue. If he does0n&rsq
Today was my birthday. It was also 5 days after meeting my mate. I did my best to avoid her but my body seemed to be pulled in her direction constantly. I had found myself in her presence many times. Wondering if it was the mate bond pulling us together or if I had really never noticed this beautiful woman before. She was graceful for her height. Curves that would make Aphrodite jealous. And the way she smelled. Goddess, that woman smelled amazing. Like honeysuckle and rain. Fresh and sweet as she is. She never stayed long where I was. Like she was afraid if she did, I would reject her on the spot. But she had no idea that I didn’t want to reject her.The hot summer air in Louisiana was no joke, the entire wolf pack often finding itself in the river trying to cool off. Today was no different. But my mate, she didn’t stick around. Willow, what an unusual name. Soft and yielding but stronger than any other trees in our area.I jumped up and ran to her, trying
“Fuck” I whisper under my breath as I run home. He is everywhere I go lately. I do not ever remember seeing him this much before he became Alpha. Or my mate. Sasha hides, angry that he snapped at us. He was supposed to love us and protect us, not yell at us and make us submit over one rude remark. I get away with more with my mother. He was a right brute and I have no idea what the moon goddess was thinking when she put us together. We are polar opposites. Even our wolves were opposites. Mine dark as the night sky with no moon. His brighter white than the moon itself. Made no sense. And to top it all off, he definitely didn’t want me. I was already leaving, I do not know why he felt the need to come make me. I didn’t want to be around him either. My heart had already broken, I just wanted to be set free. Yet he toyed with me and kept me around. I guess I should be lucky he had not visited the brothel. I have heard that even without the mate bond completion, t