When he got to the town hall, he saw her. She had not seen him yet, and he paused for a second just admiring how easily and efficiently she was handing out the pastries to the people who wanted them. She fit in very well. In his world, in his pack. She was a smiling ray of sunshine, and having her around really had been a blessing since he had known her.Seeing that the front of town hall was becoming deserted, he walked forward with the last of the attendees, sending a nod her way. It was his way of letting her know that she was to come with it. Smart girl that she was, she fell into step behind him, gripping her notepad hard.He felt the urge to hold onto her hand but decided not to. He had no idea how she would react, and he was too worried about what he was there to do to be worrying about a rejection too. Together, they walked into the town hall and towards the podium. He was not going to climb it, he just wanted to be around it, especially since she was not permitted to climb i

Through the walls of her room, she listened to hear sounds of Alpha Amal eating, or ending his call, but all she heard was silence, and a sad push of a chair.A knock sounded at one of the doors and she quickly checked the lights for the shadows that would announce someone's presence. She did not see any, so she figured it was at another room along the hall.She heard the familiar sound of Alpha Amal's door opening and stood there shocked as he said he had not eaten.“Find me my personal maid, you know, Sam?”The other maid probably nodded, there was no way she was speaking in response from his tone of voice.She felt the slam of the door before she heard it; a vibration that went through the floorboards followed eventually by a loud thud!Was that because he was looking for her? She paused to think about what she could have done wrong. She had given him water, and set out his cutlery. His bed was laid when she came in, and she was not mate with his food. She thought back to the k

He watched her walk into my room that morning, a look of rehearsed indifference on her face. Confused, he said nothing, letting her pass by with the tray she held. He watched her get startled by the dishes he had not touched yesterday and waited for her to lift them off and set the day's breakfast on the table. As soon as she had, he went to sit at the table, intentionally ignoring that she had passed him - even though it was quite a shock - and sitting down. Once he was at the table, he waited until she was a few steps away from the door before asking her to stop. He bit into his buttered toast while she stopped in place, refusing to move. He knew that she was stubborn, and probably mad at him, but he could not for the life of him imagine why. He had fallen asleep thinking of their kiss from the previous day, and he had asked them to search for her last night, hoping one of the people yelling her name across the mansion would peeve her out of her room. Eventually.He listened in to

She knew that she could not go on, so she asked Alpha Amal if they could just talk about it later. “Sir, can we keep a pin in this? We'll continue later, I'm just really tired right now. ” Nodding, Alpha Amal handed her the cake, refusing all her offers of it.“No, take it,” he said, “and about what has happened to you so far, I am so sorry. It sounds like you have had quite the tough life so far. I am sorry you had to go through all that, and be accused of the things you were accused of. I definitely didn't make things better by allowing them to run with the narrative that you had kidnapped me.” Laughing, Sam waved her hand at him, brushing it away.“It's water under the bridge sir,” she said, “you had no idea, and you were not in a position to defend me. You were hurt.” Sighing, she took a bite of her cake and smiled at him. He looked at peace with the pink petals falling around his head, and she wondered if she could convince him to pose for a portrait there in the orchard.

Just as the hand of the clock struck 12 Alpha Amal began to howl. His howl was sonorous and deep, and it put her and the other servants in a trance, while encouraging all the other members to join him. Carefully she let out an unsure howl and focused on shifting into her wolf form. The first shift she observed was Alpha Amal's, and in a few minutes, she learned about how easy transforming was for the other members of his pack. She tried her hardest and could not seem to pop anything but a fart, but she closed her eyes focusing. She had done that for a few minutes, but then she felt her wolf clamoring for someone, so instead she had a conversation with her wolf who wanted to be in the same headspace with her just to urge her to get through the transformation. Sam had initially ignored her wolf's instructions, so as payback, her wolf started ignoring her; her wolf pretended like she had not heard any of the pleas she had been making, and Sam got so angry, she decided she would do it