Rejected and Possessed by the Alpha

Chapter 1 : Lost Wolf

Everyone gets their wolf when they turn eighteen. But on my eighteenth birthday, I lost mine. *** Steam rose from the pot of stew I was stirring. I watched the wisps tangle and dance as they ascended toward the night sky. I shivered a little when the steam tickled my bare arms, causing the hairs on them to rise. It felt good in a strange way, even though the warmth from our dinner made the cold on the rest of my body more obvious. I fought back another shiver, straightening and focusing on the task at hand. Uncle Ben would be back from his hunting trip at any moment and he would likely be painfully famished after a full day of finding food for us. I couldn’t let something like the weather keep me from putting warm food in his stomach. I needed to be strong. Soon, I would be a child no longer. Tonight, when the moon was at its highest point in the sky, I would be eighteen years old. I stared down into the pot of stew, watching the chunks of meat float in the murky broth. It was ha