Alex POV

My room remained exactly the same as when I left it seven years ago.

I smiled at the thought of sleeping in my warm cosy bed again.

I dumped my suitcase on the floor, stripping my clothes before making my way to the bathroom.

After a relaxing hot shower, I dried myself with a towel before rummaging through my clothes and taking out an oversized shirt and leggings.

They are comfy and would definitely allow me to take a good nap.

I collapsed on my bed, loving the all familiar lavender scented covers.

Alex POV

I have been on edge ever since I realised that she will be coming home. Although I am the one who pleaded with her father to ask her back to the pack.I am not sure whether I am ready to face her. I Know that I am excited to see her, but a part of me is actually anxious.

Seven years ago, I brutally sent her away from the pack. I didn't hate her, quite the opposite, I could not seem to be able to stop myself from claiming her as my own.

Tessa is a Silver wolf who and her shifting surprised us. She shifted early, something that's unheard of among werewolves. Usually, one shifts at the age of eighteen when they are ready to meet their mates.

That's not the only surprising thing, her wolf was silver coloured. There is a legend associated with silver wolves. It's said that they are a miracle from the moon Goddess. They have special abilities like possessing magic or being healers.

I had Just shifted when her intoxicating scent hit me before my wolf, Ryker howled in my mind, identifying her as our Mate.

The shock and the disbelief made me start avoiding her until my father noticed it.

I did not hide the truth from him and it's then we pleaded with her father to send her away. I was afraid I won't be able to stop myself from claiming our mate who was by then thirteen years old. She was barely a child.

It did not help that after her shifting, rogues started being spotted around our pack.

Her father expressed the concern that they must have sensed the power from her.

I have been peering through the window to see if my mate has already arrived.

" Will you stop that? We will know when she arrives. Father will definitely tell us." My beta, Leo said for the hundredth time.

Leo is my mate's brother and my Beta. I took over the Alpha position from my father at the age of nineteen. That was a few months after my mate left.

" I want to be the first person to see her when she arrives." I grumbled.

He has his mate beside him so he would never understand my predicament.

" Then why don't you just go and wait for her at the entrance? I am sure you will be the first she sees then." Leo challenged. I could tell he was enjoying my situation.

" I can't do that. She hates me." I replied, defeated.

Tessa hates me for what I did to her years ago. She had confessed her Love for me but I turned her down. The moon Goddess knows how I was dying to pull her into my arms that day and tell her that I like her too. But I could not do that.

After she left, she blocked me on all social media accounts. She hated me and didn't want anything to do with me.

Over the years, she never asked anything about me. Everytime she talked with her family,I would be anxious to know whether she asked about me. She never did and that made me conclude that she really hated me.

I could not blame her because I behaved like an asshole to her.

It hurts everytime I think that my mate doesn't want anything to do with me. Leo doesn't stop to remind me that it's all my fault.

The only person who gives me hope is my mate's father. He tells me that Tessa will never forget about me.

I stalk her on social media through Leo's phone, wanting to see how much my mate has grown.

I made sure to like her pictures until I liked one of her pictures and that made her block Leo too.

She looked sexy in a shirt dress exposing her milky thighs and long legs and I couldn't help myself.

" I Know you are an asshole but Tessa will not hate you for rejecting her. She is open-minded and too sweet to bear grudges for so long." Leo said, a smirk on his face.

Looking at him, you could not tell exactly whether he was consoling me or making fun of me.

"If so then why did she block you?" I shot back.

" Blocked you? Why would your sister block you Leo?" Susan, Leo's mate asked, confusion evident on her face.

" That's because that asshole liked one of my sister's pictures that I would not like as her brother." Leo accused.

" I don't understand though. You like her so why didn't you go see her and confess about your mating bond? Why should you suffer?" Susan asked.

I was in no mood to explain anything to her so I let Leo give her the answer.

I could see the two of them arguing through the mindlink. I wanted nothing to do with their argument so I shifted my attention back to the window.

I could never understand a lover's quarrels, I have never had one because I have been waiting for my mate to grow.

I watched as the cab pulled a few metres from the house before a man stepped out and retrieved something from the boot.

The passenger door pulled open and out stepped her, my mate in all glory.

My wolf howled, demanding we go to mate but I held myself back.

" Don't even think about going there Alex. She's tired and needs to sleep." Leo's voice boomed behind me making me turn to look at them. They stood behind me, Leo and his mate.

" I can't wait to meet her." Sarah said cheerfully and I fought the urge to growl at her.