<<Zoe’s POV>>
I love winters. It’s the season of hot chocolate and warm fuzzy sweaters. But most of all, it’s the time of year when I go running in the freshly fallen snow, hoping to get my wolf any day now, because nights are longer than days in winter.
I am Zoe Simmons, the daughter of an ex-beta of Silver Moon Pack. My father was a well-respected and trusted Beta of the pack in his time. When I turned sixteen, I expected to meet my amazing wolf, but to everyone’s surprise, she was a no-show.
Ever since my mom had left us, Goddess knows why, my dad had been my sole support, my whole world. We did everything together. Everything I knew had been taught to me by my father, and I loved him for it.
That day I got up after dawn, got ready, and went for a quick run in the woods that were close since our house was at the edge of the community. On the run, I saw some wolf paw prints and I longed for the day mine would be imprinted on the fresh snow like that too one day.
I returned, showered, and got dressed before making some pancakes for myself. My boyfriend had already gone to the pack house to prepare for the weekly pack meeting. I was to join them later. My housekeeper was on old relative, whom I called Aunt Julie. She would come later in the day to tidy up the house.
I brushed my long hair on one side of my head and styled it in a way that the undercut on the other side could be shown off. I wanted to get the undercut area tattooed but was still indecisive about what to get tattooed.
An hour later, I walked into the pack house and spotted my long-term boyfriend, John, the new beta of the pack, right away. The role suited him. He loved pack affairs.
I walked over to him as he turned to smile at me.
I went to kiss him but he just hugged me and said, “The meeting is about to start. I’ve heard some new member of the pack is going to be introduced. Let’s see who it is.” He was excited as he led me into the meeting room.
There were many esteemed members of the pack. Some lower-status wolves and I joined for certain announcement meetings only, like today.
Once the Alpha and Luna of our pack arrived with a guest the meeting started. We all sat in specified seats. Due to my status being lower and my lack of a wolf, I sat farther down the table, while John being the new beta sat to the right of the Alpha and Luna, who were at the head of the table.
The guest sat beside John. She was introduced to be sister of the Alpha of an important Ally Pack, the Blood Cresent Pack. She was sent to bring the two packs closer together and act as a bond between the packs. Her name was Alyssa.
Alyssa was a gorgeous twenty-three-year-old bleached-blonde girl with a perfect hourglass figure accentuated by her tight black tube dress, that showed off her beautiful legs. She had walked in perfect heels like a runway supermodel.
The meeting began and the topics shifted from one to the next according to their importance.
Despite being comfortable in my relationship, I couldn’t help but notice how John leaned in to talk to Alyssa throughout the meeting. The way he smiled when he talked to her softly, to avoid disrupting the meeting. The way he looked at her legs and dress.
I was not insecure but I knew I’d rather talk to him when we got home today.
He had to stay at the pack house till late for some work so I returned home alone. I had a plan.
I went to my room and chose the red lace lingerie that Maisy, my best friend, had chosen for me when I had first gone out with John years ago. That was before I knew I had not been granted a wolf.
John and I had been together for years but he had never shown too much affection. I always thought he wanted to wait and see if we were mates which could only happen when I got my wolf. We had kissed many times before but never slept together even though we lived in the same house.
I was going to change that today.
I put on some makeup and attached my long sexy stockings with a garter belt. The dress and I were ready. I waited on the couch for John to come home.
He came back late. I sat up straight as I heard his keys in the door. I was ready to surprise him and see his reaction. He walked in and glanced once at me. Nodded with a, ‘I’m going to my study, don’t disturb.’
I was so upset. I knew I was not ugly. I had several boys ask me for prom the day it was announced. And since then, I have to keep telling boys who approach me that I am taken. Surely that accounted for something.
John had locked his study door like always. Since he became the new beta of the pack, he had been spending all his evenings in the study and only came to sleep after I had already gone to bed. But I had had enough. So I dared to sneak closer to his study door. I didn’t want to be caught eavesdropping, but when I heard him talk inside, I had to hear it.
“Be patient, I'll stay with you this whole weekend and I'll see you tonight. Alyssa.” John was definitely talking on the phone.
Wait, did he say Alyssa? Was it the same Alyssa who had joined our pack today? The gorgeous one we met at the meeting? The one John couldn’t keep his eyes off of?
I had a pit in my stomach.
Something was very wrong.
I barely made it back to the living area and plopped on the couch.
It couldn’t be true, right? John loved me. He had been with me despite the fact that I didn’t get my wolf at sixteen, four years ago.
Five minutes later he walked out of the study, hair combed and clad in a new shirt, “I’ve got some business to attend tonight. You are on your own for dinner.” And just like that, he grabbed his keys and left.
I was stunned. What had happened?
My mind was creating awful scenarios. John was loyal to me all these years. I hadn’t given him any reason to act otherwise. I had been expecting to get engaged in a year or two.
I paced the living room, tense. Something went off in my head.
I made a decision.
If John were to act suspiciously, I would do what is done to suspicious people.
I rushed to grab my keys. On the spur of the moment, I made the bold decision to follow my boyfriend. I kept telling myself that once I saw John meeting with elders of the pack or his friends for whatever business, I’d feel better and could come back to cook something for a solo dinner.
I followed John’s car to a hotel and waited as he stepped out of his car.
In less than a minute a tall blonde rushed at him and jumped right into his arms. He held her and spun her around before placing her on the floor and kissing her like he had never kissed me before.
The night’s cold air nipped at my skin through my thin dress but I didn’t care. My blood was boiling. I walked closer to confirm that it indeed was Alyssa from the meeting today.
“John!” I shouted to get their attention. I didn’t care how ridiculous I looked.
John was clearly not expecting to see me. The surprise on his face was the confession of his guilt. “What are you doing here?” He asked keeping his hands flippantly on Alyssa’s perfect ass in front of me.
Tears burned my eyes as I asked in an accusing tone, “Is this what your business is?”
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>“Is this what your business is?” I had asked, trying to hold my tears until I was alone.“John? Do you know her?” Alyssa asked placing a hand on his chest. The chest that I was rarely allowed to touch for years.“Lyssa, it’s not what you might be thinking. This girl and I, we’re just friends.” John lied blatantly on my face and I was shocked to bear witness to this side of him.“Don’t get the wrong idea by what she is wearing. She is going through some stuff. Must’ve gotten upset when I couldn’t be there to help her.” He had the audacity to twirl a stray lock of her blonde hair around his finger as I stood watching in shock.“Oh, in that case, hi. I’m Alyssa. I think I remember you from today’s meeting. You were sitting at the back right?” The man-stealing bitch smiled and it stung like a viper. She extended a hand as an offer to shake mine and I glared at it.John squirmed as I refused to shake hands with the whore he was cheating on me with and glared at him, not allow
>After my conversation with my father, I immediately went to look for John. Since he was the Beta, he was often at the Pack house’s office wing. I was hoping to find him there today as well.I entered his office without knocking and found him sitting in his big chair like he owned the world, a glass of champagne in his hands so early in the morning.“What’s the occasion for this early celebration?” I asked upset. Heartbreak was one thing, but he had also attacked my only family. This was not the man I had fallen in love with all those years ago.“Who allowed you to enter? You, like everyone else, need an appointment for a trip to the Beta’s office. You can’t just drop in like this!” John stood up, daring to act disrespectedly.“Why are you doing this?” I asked, unable to formulate anything else. My broken heart and frustration made it hard to focus on what I had wanted to say to him.“What am I doing?” He leaned on his large wooden table acting like he had no clue what
>The tag brought some unpleasant feelings in me. I felt like I needed to be angry. That there was something I needed to say to anyone who belonged to the Werewolf Council.I leaned over as if to tell a secret but found that he was already leaning toward me. One of his hands was covering mine that was holding the glass on the counter. His other hand came to tip my chin upwards for a better angle. A tingle ran down my spine.He was slow, allowing me to move away if I wanted to. But it only made me want to do it more.So, when his lips brushed mine, the spark that we felt at the touch was undeniable. He leaned in and captured my mouth as I allowed him entrance. One of my hands absentmindedly landed on his thigh that was between my legs as we sat facing each other on the bar stools.>After a hot minute of not caring what the other guests thought of their performance, and taking his time to enjoy the exquisite taste of a woman he had never had of her likes before,
>Aunt Julie came sniffling in my room with a knock. I looked at her and felt my own emotions getting the better of me.We cried together as she kept worrying, “John is so heartless, he's so cruel! Your father supported him to become the next Beta, and now he is going to send your father to the dungeons. Your honest father getting locked up for years, maybe a lifetime!”It made me feel even worse. I sat up and wiped my tears angrily but more took their place immediately, “You know what, everyone in the pack knew that John was going to get engaged to another woman and not me. But they knew she belonged to a powerful background and let everything happen. They know my Dad is innocent. They have always respected him for his values and honor. But nobody said a word as John got Dad locked up for a fraud he didn’t commit.”“There has to be a way to save your father.” Aunt Julie said as she placed a comforting hand on mine, “Maybe there is something that John wants so he would spa
>I had been intrigued by the beauty that stood before me, when she had first bumped into me at the party.She was drunk and clearly trying to move on. It made her attractive simply knowing that she was strong enough to show up and not cause any drama at her ex’s engagement, like most women would.Of course, knowing that she was my sister’s fiance’s ex was a shock for me. I loved my sister to the ends of the world, but John was a fool to give up this one. One man’s trash is another man’s treasure, I guess. I looked her up and down and up again, to catch her checking me out.I leaned on the door frame, smirking. I was no stranger to this reaction to me. Girls were fond of my body, even if they didn’t know about my political status and wealth. All of which this one knew now.She didn’t have to answer my question for me to know what she had come looking for. Normally, I would find it desperate and a turn-off, but watching her blush as she stood in my coat was alluring. I
>I decided to clarify her confusion, before she became upset, “Sorry, that was my sister. I left her engagement to drop you off and didn’t return. She was looking for me.” I told her, hoping that she could catch my drift and not react badly. I had been looking forward to doing it with her tonight, “ Now, where were we?”“Sister? Alyssa is Alyssa Shaw?” She asked in disbelief.“Yes?” I replied, hoping in vain that it would not turn out to be a big deal, unsure of her reaction.It came quickly and swiftly.I had placed my hands on her waist and was about to dive in when she pushed me away.It was not harsh, she was surprisingly not as strong as a wolf of her age should be. Now that I think about it, Spike had mentioned not feeling her wolf at all. As an Alpha, Spike could sense the wolves of other people, even if they didn’t belong to my pack. I didn’t have time to focus on that part as I heard her decide.“I, I can’t do this right now. I’m, not ready yet.” It should n
>I had every intention of slipping past him and not giving him another reason to make me feel worse than I already did.As I was close enough, he stepped into my path, blocking my way home.I tried to side-step around him but he roughly grabbed my arm and pulled me closer, until it hurt, “Where do you think you are going, bitch?” Since I found him cheating on me and we broke up, every conversation had shown me a frozen face of John that I had failed to notice before. Each time he had humiliated me and hurt me worse than ever.I didn’t want to give him the satisfaction of talking to him, even though my heart yearned for the whole last week to be a nightmare that I would wake up from in the middle of the night to find John working hard as the new Beta of our pack and not backstabbing me and my father.But this was the reality. He was an awful person and that's all he had always been. He just revealed his true colors now. Who knows how many times and with how many women had
>I stood in the snowfall, numb and hopeless, before my legs started to lose feeling due to the cold and I rushed to get inside.I twisted the key in the keyhole with trembling hands, and not only because of the cold.I walked in to find a swollen-teary-eyed, Aunt Julie blowing her nose in a tissue before sobbing more.“Oh, Goddess! What happened? Was John here? Did he say something? I promise you he will pay for every crime he is committing against my family. Did he do something to you?” I threw questions at her in panic. If he was not ashamed of acting cruel towards me and my Dad who had loved him like a son, what was preventing him from disrespecting Aunt Julie?“Slow down, Zoe.” She pulled me gently to sit beside her.“Please, Aunt Julie, tell me, who made you feel like this?” I needed to know why she was in such a mess. Usually, she was the one to help me and hold me when I had my bad days.“It’s just, that I feel disappointed regarding your father’s case. He might b