Mate

Lucas's POV

Out on my typical nightly run. The moon was full and beautiful tonight, I shed my skin and started barreling through the woods on all fours, the wind skimming through my fur, this is when I felt the most alive. I just turned 18 at midnight and the only thing I wanted to do was run, it was later than I usually go but I wanted to wait for my birthday. As I was enjoying my time running to my favorite clearing I heard what sounded like sobs, not a wolf but a person, a girl, I sniffed the air and could smell lilacs and peppermint wafting through the breeze towards me, I stopped in an instant, frozen in my tracks, I followed the scent, overcome by it when I saw her, running, terrified but looking like she was about to collapse, I ran shifting as I got to her and grabbed her. She screamed and swung her arms trying to hit me, she was weak, tired and from the looks of her she had been running for quite some time. Her clothes where ripped apart barely covering her. I spoke softly to her to calm down and she finally stopped, opening her eyes and looking into mine, those beautiful deep blue, almost gray eyes staring into mine, so much fear and panic within them, yet so much beauty, kindness and love too. My wolf jumped inside my head yelling to me but I couldn't hear him as I stared into her eyes, finally letting him in, I heard him telling to me 'Mate! Our Mate!' I couldn't believe it, I started asking her where she came from, who she was, why she was scared, but she said nothing just maintained perfect eye contact until she went limp in my arms and her eyes closed. In a daze, I came to and panicked, scooping her in my arms I ran through the woods to the pack doctor, shoving my way inside yelling for help. Anabel came around the corner in a hurry and saw the girl, looked at me and I told her what happened and how I found her, we rushed her into the room and Anabel went to work.

"She is going to be okay Alpha Lucas, she has cuts and bruising and she has never shifted so it will take some time for her to heal completely. Do you have any idea where she came from? She has no signs or scent at belonging to another pack, yet she doesn't smell like a rogue either" I looked her in the eyes and couldn't even fathom what or where she came from or happened to her.

For the next 2 days I stayed by her side, waiting for her to wake up and tell me her name. My wolf wad going stir crazy at finding our mate and yet knowing nothing about her. I would leave to eat and shower and change clothes but then be right back at her side, holding her hand, I could feel a constant tingling sensation while holding o to her, waiting to see if it would wake her but nothing. I had run home to deal with pack things reminding Anabel to mindlink me if she woke. Sitting in my office, I. the middle of a meeting about border control I hear Anabel 'Alpha, she's awake and trying to speak' I jumped up and everyone looked to me, I looked at my father a d told him she has woken up, he nodded and I ran out.

When I arrived she was in a full blown panic, ripping out her IVs and trying to get up, yelling about her mom and needed to get home to her parents. I didn't know what to do so I threw myself to her and wrapped my arms around her. After I did that I could feel her becoming calm and then she looked at me, so much fear and panic in those beautiful eyes.

"It's okay, you are safe here, please, stay still, I don't want you hurt anymore than you already are, please calm down" I say to her as she stares at me and I brush the hair off her face, feeling tingles in my fingertips as I gently grazed against her face. Words couldn't compare to her beauty. Once it hit her that I was holding her she wriggled a bit till I let her go. 'Her name is Chloe she said, she also was talking of a beast that attacked her parents in the night and started panicking about going home to them, how they couldn't be dead, she was very agitated until you calmed her down, she is scared, a rogue most likely attacked her family' Anabel told me as I looked down at her sitting there crying softly. She just lost her family and I don't know of she knows what she is, calling a rogue a beast, tells me she doesn't know, but how can that be 'if her parents are humans, they may not have been her parents' 'absolutely and now she will have to come to terms with being what killed them, she is going to have a hard time, we need her though, need her with us, we will move her into the packhouse with us, keep her safe'. I sat down next to her bed, staring at her as she drifted back off to sleep. She looked so peaceful as she slept, I hated that she was hurting but I was so happy that I found her before she was seriously hurt. My mate. I could feel the connection but could she? Not knowing what she is and I still don't know her age, but the way she looks at me and calms at my touch, some part of her has to know, right?