“Don’t play hard to get, play hard to forget,” Aurora mutters as she stands on the field staring up at the podium. “Unfortunately I failed both, I didn't play hard to get and apparently I am easy to forget too.”
Aurora Wells stands at the side with a glass of champagne in her hand, her blank eyes fixed on Maverick Prill and Phoebe Brian who are standing beside each other on the stage and welcoming guests from the other packs.
“What is Cliche? It is your everyday life, I am so tired of seeing this, they look so much like the perfect couple, the kind of ones the councils want, I am sure they are glad,” A familiar voice says sarcastically before the person stops beside her. “Do you want to get out of here? We can go to my dad's attic and discover some cool things.” Easton says beside her and Aurora shakes her head at her best friend, the best kind regards of friend she can ever get.
Sometimes she wished that she was mated to this nice ass fine man instead.
“No I can manage,” She says. “Besides, Luna isn’t supposed to leave the welcoming occasion in the middle of the ceremony.”
Yeah, that's right.
She is Luna of Moonlight Pack, she has been Luna for the past three years and the man standing on the stage with his arms wrapped around another lady is her mate and that has also been going on for the past three years.
“Ugh. Aurora, stop this. It has been three years since he announced you as Luna, he makes no effort to let them recognize you as one, the pack members still sneer at you and call you all sorts of names, it is worse than it had been when you two were dating. See him over there, he is parading Phoebe around again like she is his wife!” Easton snaps in irritation, he wants to knock some sense into his friend’s head.
Maverick Prill announced her as the Luna three years ago, that's when they found out that they were mates, but before those three years, they were lovers for three years.
Aurora and Maverick have been friends since she was thirteen, very close friends at that. They had always knew each other all their lives since they love in the same pack but it was Maverick that approached her that he wanted to be friends with her, the son of the Alpha of the pack with a bastard is unbelievable at first, but as time goes on, Aurora starts to believe the it too.
They did every normal thing that friends did even though it is in secret because no one must see the next alpha and the runt together.
They started catching feelings when they were sixteen and after a lot of awkward and cringey moments, they finally decided to date, their friends were the first to rebuff the motion, both Easton and Alec_ Maverick's best friend and the present beta of the pack were against it, they were convinced the it will end badly but both her and Maverick didn't listened.
It was thrilling and exciting, sneaking glances at each other, crawling around the pack at night to meet at all their secret spots, sneaking out of their rooms to go on late night drive around the pack and it's territory, going on simple but peaceful date, kissing under the full moon, on top of a cliff with a beautiful lake in sight before getting tangled up to each other's naked body on the bed of the motel that is just a little bit out in the next territory while they had forced and begged their friends to cover for them.
None of them feared the punishments they receive most times when they abruptly go missing from the pack.
The loads of scoldings and paperworks that the Alpha dumps on Maverick or the whips from Aurora's mother and slaps a few punches from her stepfather?
They consider it as a small price for their scarlet love.
It is not good for mateless werewolves to date each other because they might end up not being mates but Maverick is so sure, even hellbent on the fact that they will be each other's mate, he claimed that he knows and feel it deep in his soul, that even his wolf agree with him, he told her that nothing will keep them away from each other, that they would always be together, that she is his other half
She tells her to endure everything until the night of the Mate Awakening Ceremony of Moonlight where he will announce her as Luna and no one in the pack will look down on her. And if worse comes to worst, they will elope together.
For gleeful and naive Aurora, everything was in its right place, it was perfect, but she seemed to forget that perfect doesn't mean that it will work out.
And for the love of the heavens, it worked, not for her but against her.
“You are right, but I am used to it, this is not the first time that he is doing this.” Aurora says and Easton huffs.
And for the record, there's no one that hates Alpha Maverick more than her best friend.
“Move out of my way, bitch!” She hears behind her and jumps a bit, she turns to face the girl who glares at her and rolls her eyes. “And get your damn bad luck away from the damn way while you are at it.” She adds, her thin red lips are pulled into a sneer and disgust is evident in her black eyes.
“Mom would have your head for letting her stand too near in the first place, Tessie,” Another girl chirps, coming to stand beside Tessie. They are twins who look exactly the same, Aurora almost can't tell them apart.
“Shut up, Jennie!” Tessie snaps at her sister but Jennie just shrugs, she turns to glare at Aurora. “Well? Aren't you getting the fuck out of the way?!”
No soothsayer is needed in order to know that these girls hate Aurora, in fact, almost everyone in Moonlight Pack does and even though she is the Luna, none of them is afraid to show it, they let her know to what extent they dislike and disrespect her, some even asks their kids to do it, because what would a bastard hybrid do to anybody?
People dislike anything different from them, it doesn't matter what the people themselves are, once they see something different, they hate it.
In a town full of werewolves _ half human and half wolf, a half witch and half wolf would be a subject of mockery and disdain, not like she lives up to the species since her wolf is an omega wolf who is practically dead inside her and refused to show up and she doesn't have the littlest knowledge on what if takes to be a witch.
“There's no reason for you to yell, you should be civil, simply because you are a werewolf doesn't mean that you should behave like an animal,” Aurora replies in a calm voice which makes Tessie's gray eyes turn red, Jennie snickers in mockery, Easton stands to the side silently watching them because she knows that Aurora got it handled.
“What?!” Tessie yells, her long layers of hair flying in a direction because of the swift movement.
Her shriek has directed a lot of attention to them and the folks on the field have started to whisper among themselves, most of them giving Aurora the death stares which she and Easton gladly return.
“Are you deaf now? You are supposed to have enhanced hearing, your father, Mr. Brian is the gamma of the pack and your mother is one of the pack warriors, surely they passed their positive traits to you little Brians,” Aurora sasses.
It didn't matter that they are the favorite kids of their powerful parents and she is an outcast who her own mother finds disgusting, she isn't going to keep her mouth sealed while they talk trash to her, they are temperamental and she is allergic to tolerating shits.
“What did you just say bitch?! How dare you involve my parents in this, huh?!” Tessie snaps, her face is so red from extreme anger, she starts to walk towards her in order to ‘deal with’ her.
“Tessie, your three o'clock!” Jennie is standing quietly Tessie suddenly says and Tessie looks to her left, she clears her throat when she sees Maverick walking towards them with Phoebe's hand linked around his arm.
“What the hell is going on? Aurora why the fuck are you ruining the gathering?” Maverick's calm voice asks as soon as he is standing right in front of her, he doesn't bother to look at the twins, he just continues staring at her whilst demanding an explanation with his eyes which makes Easton scoff and Aurora stares at him in total disbelief.
“What the hell are you talking about? She was just standing on her own when they approached her, why would you accuse her when everyone here clearly saw that?!” Easton is the one that yells at Maverick which breaks Aurora out of her staring spell.Maverick's eyes landed on her and Aurora wondered how on earth they became so cold over the space of three years. Those frozen blue eyes are the same ones that used to stare at her with warmth, they are the ones that used to assure her.“It doesn't matter that they were the ones that approached her first or looked for trouble. As the Luna of this pack, she should know how to dismiss them or get out of their sight so as not to ruin my gathering.The dignitaries present won't remember them but they will hold on to the fact that the Luna of this pack is an immature brat who don't know how to bite her tongue when she needs to,” Maverick replies, not raising his voice a bit but those words rings too loud in her ears.“I…I…_” She stutters but he c
Easton wraps his hand around Aurora's shoulder when the latter turns stiff, he glares at Maverick in anger. Even though he flaunts Phoebe to every guest, this is the first time he shows affection so brazenly.Aurora and Maverick's eyes meet briefly and she is sure that she sees a strange emotion in them but before she can figure it out, Easton drags her away and she lets him.Easton finally stops when they get to the car, Aurora opens the car and sits on the passenger seat, the other man starts the car and they drive off.“Why the hell did he even accept you as his mate if he doesn't love you? At this rate rejection will be better than all this, at least we can go to Connor or Sally to take care of you, this constant rejection sucks!” He stares angrily, Aurora knows that it is a rhetorical question but she answers anyway.“Because we had sex that day, the mate awakening ceremony, we had sex that night at the pack house,” Aurora says quietly but Easton hears anyway and he slams on brak
“You guys have finally decided to do it, especially you spineless, idiotic, selfish, asshole and jerk of an Alpha! First you turn your back on her for absolutely no reason and now you want to kill her?!Everyone knows that Aurora's wolf is the weakest in the pack, a broken bond will kill her!You decide to follow this headless leader and councils and do whatever shits they tell you to do? You turn to the embrace of her worst enemy even though she meant the best for you, wasn't she nice enough to all of you?She put all of you above herself and endured your one sided nonsensical sneers with absolutely no sense, she bit her tongue when you spat out shit and what?You aren't satisfied? You want to end her!” Easton yells, there's nothing to lose, he is all alone and an orphan, what more can go worse?“You…” the council leader and former Beta stands up in anger to rebuke this rude man who is running his mouth but stops when Aurora starts laughing hysterically, it is supposed to be tears bu
“Why the hell are you even prancing around in a matter like this? You are just the pack doctor!” Dan says.“I don’t know. Maybe because I would be the one who would treat the fallen warriors when we decide to attack the Night Pack.” She says with a raised brow.“Alpha. You have to understand this is not beneficial to us in any way. It would look like we are submitting to these people if we do this, we are the Moonlight Pack, we don’t submit_” Gary, the second leader of the pack council says to Maverick but was cut off.“So this is a matter of pride? We won’t have any when the valley is empty too.” Hilda, the assistant pack doctor chimes, which makes Gary glare at her. “There is nothing more, if you also talk about how they have an evil witch too, I would be so disappointed.”“You…” The man is speechless.“The Night Pack is the brutal rogue Pack that has been turning on other packs, within and outside their territory, they murder brutally and are fierce, they are senile rogues blessed
How many people does it take for an unwarranted headache to sizzle up in one’s head and prick one's nerves?That was the question that the women she was out in the woods with just a moment earlier had been asking each other. They all had different answers, the numbers varied a lot too but they had one united answer despite their differences.There is none for Aurora, no matter how many people it takes, no matter how irritating or intimidating they are, they can never shake the rock that is Aurora and she had agreed with just a smile on her lips.How wrong had they all been?Aurora never thought that she was going to see him again, they were going to cross paths but it is supposed to be later in life and even if they meet, she is not supposed to feel anything.But looking at his face, she is in a trance, a lump is stuck in her throat, a barricade of conflicting and contradictory emotions that she had never felt in the last five years hit her _ the emotions she thought she has under loc
Maverick does a mental nod in his head when Layla says that Aurora has been using a scent masking spell since she entered the room, it now makes sense when he realizes that must be the reason why he can't smell her when she walks into the room and only realizes that he still can't.Not until she whispers some things to herself and her sea-like scents hit him, the problem is that it hits all too well.Aurora smells like the scent of the breeze that hits you when you have been standing at the ocean while staring at a sea shell and he has always liked it.One doesn't get to see too much of the sea when one is a werewolf and has to be in the woods and forest and small town, so her scent was a fresh difference from the others in the town and calmed him.When those scent play with all the nerves of his sense organs and his wolf rumples at the prospect of finding a another mate, it is happy but the happiness dims and it whines when he sees that it is still the soul that hurt them and they br
Layla leads them from their room in the morning, Maverick and Alec have just finished dressing up when the bubbling woman knocks on their door. She says that she can't let them stay cooped up inside their room while she can take them to see the beauty of their pack.“Is it really necessary that you come and get us so early in the morning?” Alec grumbles and Layla bobs her head.“Of course. It is absolutely necessary, you people have already woken up and got dressed already and all you would do is stare at your phones and laptops in your room before we had to talk at the meeting again.” She replies with a wide smile.“And does it have to be only us? There are others too.” Alec says and Layla rolls her eyes at him.“You are the ones I find most likable among them all, except that beautiful brunette and her sidekick of course, but a woman must get her beauty sleep, I heard that she is the Pack's doctor. So she must have a lot on her hands already, the poor woman must study till late at n
Fucking Zach had to delay the documentation of the contract, apparently there is some freaking glitch in the system of the thing so Alpha Maverick and his representative have to stay here for a few more days, tell your freaking Beta to act like one Easton!” Layla snaps and Aurora rolls her eyes at the drama queen while Easton just ignores her and continues playing some video games on his phone.A lot of things have changed over the years but not his love for freaking games, he can sit with the thing from morning till night and not get bored, Hilton doesn't discourage him since he joins him to play too and Aurora often wonder how they get anything done as the Alpha and Delta of the rogue pack.“Don't you like the presence of them here?” Hilton asks, not bothering to glance at her, Aurora buried herself comfortably in the beanbag.“I definitely don't.” Easton says and Layla glares at him.“Of course you don't, but I do, why won't I like that hunk parading around in our pack, he looks to