The Alpha's Pen Pal
I told him.
“I know I didn’t need to, but I wanted to,” he said.
He let go of me and reached under the bench, pulling out a small rectangular wooden box. I raised my brow at him, and he smiled.
“Here,” he said, handing it to me.
The wood was dark and smooth, except for the very center where my name had been stamped into it with a crescent moon behind a redwood tree next to it, the symbol of our pack. I ran my hand over it, feeling the ridges and dips of the letters, marveling at the beauty of its simplicity.