Chapter 31

Wyatt

I stalked across the island over to the boy's stilt cabin. It was bigger, and a little more homey, than ours with Beau’s mother’s touches. My mom had been more of a plain Jane kind of human woman, quick to bite when you did wrong and her praise wasn’t easy to win. All the same, I missed her just as much as I missed Beau’s mom. Even her haphazard dinners and lack of putting any effort into the finer parts of life, she was simple and practical, gave no shits , yet was easygoing all at the same time.

‘Pick your battles wisely Wyatt, or the world will eat you alive," she once told me. I wish I had remembered that 45 minutes ago.

My mom wasn’t a Luna, being a ‘Rougarou’s Luna,’ meant the Rougarou found and chose his goddess-chosen match without knowing if the bond was there or not. The only way to find out for sure was to do the mate rite under the full moon when The Beast was most forward. We often found ourselves paired with chosen human mates, but changing them was possible and