Nine years ago Seventeen-year-old Sarah placed her hand gently in the hand of one of her suitors as he whisked her away to the dance floor. She smiled as the suitor twirled her around to grab hold of her other hand."It's a pleasure to dance with you," the man whispered in her ears.Jake was one of the suitors her parents had chosen for her. True mates were rare nowadays unless you were someone of power or rank. Therefore, once wolves had graduated from high school or had turned eighteen, whichever came first, they would begin the process of searching for their forever mate.The pair of them had become quite acquainted as they both enjoyed each other's company."What has it been now? Four dance at three of these balls?" Jake asked as the couple waltzed around the room."I believe it has been something like that," Sarah laughed. "Dancing is delightful 2hen you aren't stepping on my feet."Jake let out a loud boisterous laugh. Some people's heads turned around to look at the two of the

Aleena happily packed up her room, humming as she threw drawers of her bright neon, sparkly clothing into a large box.Sarah was watching as she leaned on the door frame. She was fraustrated at herself for letting Legolas convince her to spend a week at his pack. She had no idea how he had done it, but he had. He had 3ven convinced Jackson to help with the Alpha's duties! Jackson, of all people!One thing she had to give him was the vacation he promised. She wouldn't have to be In her office all day doing paperwork and instead could be spending some time with Aleena. However, she wasn't looking forward to seeing her family again. Aleena had been her only family now for almost eight years.Movement caught Sarah's eyes as Aleena spun around her heel in her own head and listening to her own head music. Sarah smiled. She remembered designing Aleena's room when she was heavily pregnant. After much debate, she had decided to paint the walls a light, pastel yellow with a dark wood dresser an

"Okay!, That's fine," Legolas responded fixing his gaze towards the floor.Sarah left him and went in and slept with Aleena. During the night hour she heard a notice outside of people rejoicing. She moved towards the door and gently opened it and walked outside and made sure she shot the door behind because her daughter was sleeping in the room. She then walked towards were the noise was coming from and found out that it was Legolas and his packs rejoicing about the return of her and her daughter and she walked towards Legolas and said. "What's really happening here?" She was confused about the whole action taking place."Everyone is happy because you finally returned," Legolas said, breathing heavily because he was dancing among the pack.She was touched by their action and busted into tears and fell to the floor and Legolas reached out to her. "What's happening?" "I've been a fool for a long time, I refuse to let go of the past.""I know it is truly hard to let go, but am truly sor

Aleena POV“Wake up! Wake up!” I hear Tyler just a moment to late as he springs himself onto my bed and starts jumping around.“Would you stop before I kick you in the balls?!” I groan out as the morning sun is just starting to peak threw my windows enough to blind me.“You wouldn’t dare!” He acts shocked that I would even think of such a thing, but he knew better. “Get up and ready. Mom is almost done with breakfast!” Tyler heads out of my room and I hear him go down the stairs. I don’t know how that boy can eat so much sometimes. I understand once you shift and you have your wolf, your metabolism skyrockets and it’s like you could eat a whole buffet and still not gain an ounce, but he just takes it to a whole other level. I drag myself out of bed and head for my closet to get clothes for today before heading to the shower. It’s game day so I had to look halfway decent. Holy jeans and a hoodie weren’t going to cut it for today, or so coach said last night at practice. So, I found a

“GIRLS! GIRLS FOCUS!” Coach was trying to yell over all of us to get everyone’s attention. Everyone started to quiet down, and we were all focused on coach. “As you all know, this is one of most important games of the regular season. In the past, whenever we’ve played our rival team, the game gets pretty nasty. So watch each other’s backs out there.” I look to Kira questionably by what she meant by having to watch out backs. We were will off the field on the sidelines and never had an issue before. So I didn’t understand why would have to watch our backs now.“For our first-year members, you will be in the front row for this game only. It’s only as a safety measure as our veteran members know what to expect. Returning members please let’s not have a repeat of a few years ago!” Coach pleaded and all the upperclassmen had nodded and said ‘Yes ma’am’ in unison. “Ok let’s go out there and give it your all. Remember we’re here to keep the spirits up and winning attitudes.” With that coach