If someone asked me the happiest in my life now, then first and foremost would be my family, my mom a sweet wolf, my father a formidable warrior in the pack, my little sister the cute headache and my best friends Leila and Conner.
The second on the least would be the fact that in a month's time, we'd come of age and shift for the first time into our wolves!
Cool isn't it? It is!
I had already felt her presence in me and on the rituals that were carried out, I was among those that would be expected to shift the next moon. It was a prideful thing and I couldn't help walking with my head held high up in the sky. I was heading over to the pack house to deliver a few snacks to dad, that aside, my mother didn't want me to be locked up in my room as I had to be out here, since my wolf was awake within me, she'd be able to pick up in my mate's scent subtly or my mate catching whiff of my scent. It was so exciting! Mate! That beautiful thing ...my parents had me on tenterhooks awaiting my mate hoping we'd have what my parents had. Father was a good warrior but he was a well behaved boy when it came to mum...he loved her senseless and I hoped my mate would be the same.
I could see the pack house not far as it neared in my view, I hadn't been here alot of times but I always longed to come to this place. There was a strange pull that dragged me to this place and I loved it, somewhere in my gut, I knew my mate was here...in the pack house. Maybe a Beta or Gamma! Ahhh! That's be great.
Our Alpha was also strikingly gorgeous, down to earth and very kind and loving and everything good in a person. The person who would become his mate would be the luckiest female in the wolf community.
I gave a greeting to the warriors as I walked by them, luckily, father had mindlinked them about me coming by hence I wasn't troubled with questions and explanations. Making my way in, I was awed by the interior of the pack house, white granite stones covered the floor in sophisticated patterns, they were intriguing to watch, as always, I was easily distracted from the main task I always at hand, it was one of my very terrible traits!
And so with this terrible trait, I was graced with smacking really hard with one of the pillars in the pack house. Ouch! I winced rubbing my head, surely I was going to have a bump there! how embarrassing!
Lifting my head from the floor, I looked up with my contoured face and noticed some of the higher ups in the pack looking at me. I had not noticed that they were in the place. Great! I was so ashamed and really wanted to burry myself, from the corner of my eyes, I caught my father's disappointed face as he stalked towards me. Not him! I couldn't help groaning. Luckily, I had his snacks safe with me, those would tame him well! Hehe.
I thought I told you to wait outside the pack house!" I heard his light scolding. He seemed to be tense. Why?
I looked up to defend myself. "The patterns are fascinating. I couldn't help it!" I pouted. He didn't even notice the bump on my head and he was already scolding me? I was going to tell mom about it!
Suddenly I felt an oppressive aura fill the pack house presence.....father slightly sheilded me behind him and I was sure a beta or Gamma had come by... hopefully I hadn't put dad in trouble. He is my favourite and I don't want anything wrong to go with him in the pack house..... mainly because of me!
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I had been going about the pack business for the last few weeks. We had to get the work done as the next moon came with the coming of age of the pups in the pack. It was a joyous occasion but that brought a monthst pile of work on my shoulders. I was stressed to say the least.
Going back to my home wasn't a good thing either as I had no one to go back to. When I had come of age, I had had the previllege to leave the pack and go to other pack lands to seek my mate all to no avail, hence I gave up after trying five years. I chose to settle to dealing with the pack but my wolf decided not to cooperate with me and always have me restless...my pack loved me and they hadn't yet pestered me withw getting a mate. I loved the idea but in the same way, it scared me, it brought unpleasant memories to me.
We had just finished strategizing the security issues to the coming of age celebration, it was necessary, many packs had been in a frenzy to acquire more land from other packs by attacking and killing....I hadn't provoked any pack but that didn't mean that the ambitious ones didn't have eyes for my pack lands...that's why I had put importance to training all cubs from a young age so that they could protect themselves even if they hadn't yet transformed into their wolves.
It was scarier when the one you had to protect yourself from was one of your own kin. They knew you like the back of their palm, it was scary..but I had made a promise to father to ensure that I kept each and every of our pack members safe at the cost of my life.
Finalising with the pack business for the day, I was planning on going for a run around the borders to check the patrol teams stationed there when I stopped dead in my tracks.
Something strong and new hit my senses that I had to keep myself from stumbling and rolling down the staircase like a ball. It was so sweet and intoxicating that I could feel it within every vein of my being, I could taste it in my mouth and it almost drove me crazy.y body grew franatic as I searched for the source as it was the first time I smelt such a scent in the pack house.
My mate had been in my pack all this long....she hadn't just come of age yet? I was so glad yet so troubled. My eyes caught a small frame walking eyes trailed on the marble floor unaware of her surroundings. I noticed all the others looking at her in amusement....pups were indeed amusing creatures with their curiousity...they did the stupidest things that would leave you speechless.
I realised she was trying to solve the mystery of the floor.
Interesting!
I made the changes personally once I took over as Alpha but I realised little to no one paid attention to those sophisticated patterns, further, the message hidden beneathe them.
I heard a loud clash and noticed the small frame of the she would had unceremoniously clashed with a pole. It must have been so painful as she winced in pain. I could hear the silent chuckles of the pack members through the mindlink that they had opened to talk about the little one's misfortune. Probably they forgot I could hear them?
They did, they always do!
I noticed one of my formidable warrior step forward towards the small pup. She grumbled feeling wronged and I couldn't help noticing her now and my mind drifting back to main topic, the scent!
It had to have come from her, she was the only new person to the pack house for as far as my observation. I had been in a fight with my wolf who was jubilating for finding something I had always been eager to find but now, it was something that I was most afraid of having.
I felt a hold on my shoulder and turned to look at my beta, he must have noticed my predicament, as he always did and he stood by my side offering support.
That's when I noticed my shirt had lines crawling where it was meant to rip had I not won control from my wolf. The beast was displeased. It wanted it's mate at all costs!
Either way, as much as I fought for control, she was my mate and the fact that she was hurt couldn't be ignored....she was so small in the first place, and now getting hurt? I wasn't allowing that!
With anger directed to my self for not stopping the incident on time and for her recklessness, I stalked down the staircase with an imposing aura, the pack members must have wondered what the drastic change in temperature and what could have triggered my anger...but I was in no mood to entertain their curiousity and in a few steps, I was only a few feet from my mate, who was instinctively sheilded from my view from her father which displeased me more.
I was kind and everything good, but that didn't mean that was the same with the beast that lay beneath this skin.
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