Moving across the country to a new pack is difficult for a wolf. They have to uproot their entire lives and cut ties with the other members of their previous pack, something that can be a painful process. Luck for Jadie, it wasn't necessary to break the connection with her born pack if she had plans to return. Jadie made the decision on her nineteenth birthday to contemplate chasing her dreams and go to college in Michigan, thousands of miles away from her home in Northern California where her mother, father, and two older brothers reside. Now that she's twenty-one, she finally decided to follow through. Schooling is a rarity for werewolves; their positions are already given within their packs the moment they are born. Jadie's father, Gerald, is the former beta of their pack, which meant her oldest brother Jack was destine
Jadie's trip finally ended after two separate flights and a long layover in Chicago. It was safe to say she was ready to be in bed for the night once she was finally able to stretch her legs from the crammed cabin seats. Alpha Lincoln told Gerald the day before that he would send someone to pick her up and bring her to their pack house where she would be staying. A sleek black town car was waiting just outside the main door with a man in a dark, finely-tailored suit and shaggy blonde hair that cascaded over the sunglasses he was wearing. Jadie laughed under her breath at the way he was dressed - he looked like he had just stepped off a Hollywood movie set. "Jadie Spinx?" His cold, raspy voice spoke over the rush of people filing out of the airport as they flagged down taxis
Jadie's trip finally ended after two separate flights and a long layover in Chicago. It was safe to say she was ready to be in bed for the night once she was finally able to stretch her legs from the crammed cabin seats. Alpha Lincoln told Gerald the day before that he would send someone to pick her up and bring her to their pack house where she would be staying. A sleek black town car was waiting just outside the main door with a man in a dark, finely-tailored suit and shaggy blonde hair that cascaded over the sunglasses he was wearing. Jadie laughed under her breath at the way he was dressed - he looked like he had just stepped off a Hollywood movie set. "Jadie Spinx?" His cold, raspy voice spoke over the rush of people filing out of the airport as they flagged down taxis
Lincoln was in a state of shock. He just stood with wide eyes, staring down at Jadie on his office floor and not paying any more attention to his Beta who had just dismissed himself to find his casual fling.He moved cautiously towards the tense woman, trying to straighten his mind enough to figure out what to do. He dropped the angry look he had been giving her since she stepped into his office, instantly regretting the way he treated her.Lincoln and Wilson grew up together. They were raised by the same powerful women that taught them to cherish mates and look forward to their long lives together. This man that just rejected his other half in front of him was not the best friend he knew his whole life. He would never have made this kind of decision.Maybe Lincoln didn’t know him as well as he thought he did.The pain became to much for Jadie as she finally let out the piercing wail that echoed through the halls. Lincoln dropped to his knees at her
The next few days were difficult. Jadie had a week from when she arrived until she started classes, so that meant seven days of being trapped in the same house as her betrayer. Lincoln popped in once in a while to start random conversations with her in between meetings or traveling to neighboring packs, making her reserve against him start to break a way little by little. He was currently at a pack almost four hours away, so the number of people she was comfortable enough to talk to diminished to zero. Jadie made a dash to the kitchen to find something that her stomach would allow her to snack on. She woke up every night in a cold sweat, her screams echoing off the blank walls and haunting her thoughts for the rest of the day. If members of the pack heard her, they didn't make it obvious. They hardly even sp
Jadie woke up in a cold sweat. She had managed to change into a pair of gym shorts and a t-shirt last night in the midst of her breakdown before she ended up asleep in the middle of her floor. The burn from the rejection was only becoming worse as the days progressed, and she didn’t know how much more of it she could take.The grumbling of her stomach woke her up the rest of the way. She once again didn’t eat dinner, so her body was struggling to hold her weight.‘You need to eat. We can’t live like this forever.’ Emerald interjected. Jadie rolled her eyes and peeled her sweaty hair off her face, tying it into a loose ponytail.Her bath yesterday was meant to be relaxing and calm her down, but instead she became lost in thought about the situation she had found herself in. She concluded that she was just meant to be alone, dragging her way through life without anyone there to help her.‘That’s just ridiculous. You
Jadie didn’t realize that when Lincoln said they were going on a hike, it meant they would be trudging over twenty miles deep into the woods, far away from any form of civilization. If she didn’t have a wolf, she would have been scared out of her mind.“How much further is this place you’re taking me?” She asked as her surroundings all started to look the same after a while.Lincoln chuckled and jumped over a small stream. “It’s not much further. We’re almost there.” He reached one of his hands out to help her over without slipping on the wet rocks. She took it and carefully found her footing on the other side before they continued on.They ventured deeper into the woods until the sound of flowing water distracted Jadie from her sore feet and growling stomach.“Don’t worry. We can run back in wolf form. It’s just better to be fully clothed in case humans are around.” He chuckled
Lincoln helped Jadie slip her sweatshirt over her injured shoulder when they returned to the pack house. He was eerily silent the rest of the trip home, on guard from the slightest noises around them.“Lincoln?” Jadie tried to get his attention, but his mind was elsewhere. The two silently walked through the back door of the pack house, Jadie wincing in pain when she accidentally bumped into the door frame.Lincoln froze and looked over his shoulder at her with a foreign emotion. “I’m fine. Just clumsy.” She assured him. It was already starting to heal anyway, just not as quickly as she had hoped due to her situation.He just nodded and continued to walk deeper into the house. Jadie followed him to his final destination, his office, and stepped in so he could close the door behind them.It was almost like he was moving on auto pilot, his mind too focused on whatever he was thinking about to understand what he was doing or whe