Jenna.C
On our second anniversary, my boyfriend Blake messaged to say he had lost me to one of his friends in a racing game.
Right after that, the video of me collapsing at last year's shifting trial went into his group chat.
In it, I lay curled on the ground without so much as a strand of wolf fur appearing.
The chat erupted.
"That counts as a werewolf? She's a rabbit in a wolf skin."
"Whoever won her is out of luck. Imagine having to mate with a broken wolf."
Someone opened a book on it soon enough.
The wager was how long it would take for me to be discarded.
My boyfriend was the first to bet that I would be discarded within a month.
"Eric values strength above everything. He has said that only a strong Gamma warrior deserves to be his mate.
"Still, a bet is a bet. Eric can make it through one month until the forfeit is over."
Serena, who had grown up alongside Blake, tagged me in the group and did not bother hiding the mockery.
"Liora, you won't last a week before he's sick of you, will you?"
Reading it, I smiled.
Nobody knew that after that collapse, my wolf had begun to evolve.
And nobody knew that a month ago my father, the Alpha, had issued a decree naming me the pack's next Alpha.
I typed a message into the group.
"Blake, count me in on this bet."