--Warrick--
I can’t believe I let my dad talk me into taking Vanessa shopping. He has been pushing for me to date her for a couple years and had hopes that she would be my mate. Thank the goddess when she turned 19 and shifted for the first time, she did not end up being my mate. She is pretty, I guess, but I can’t stand her nasally voice and shallow personality.
I tried to get my best friend, Damien, to come with us, but he gave me some lame excuse not to come. Asshole. I was bored out of my mind sitting in that damn lingerie store and left to come sit in the food court. I DID NOT want Vanessa to come out of the dressing room again to show me the matching panty and bra set she insisted that she needed. You would think that a store like that would have my attention, but not when I had to go there with her. Goddess she was pathetic trying to seduce me by trying lingerie on for me. I just wasn’t in to her lik
I really am a bad friend. With everything going on I forgot all about facetiming Tia. I hadn’t even looked at my phone once since we got here. Normally, Tia would have been the first person I would have called to rant over the revelations of my life and gush about Warrick, but my mom and grandparents told me that I could not tell a human, not even my best friend, so I had resisted the urge to call her that first night because I knew she would be able to tell something was wrong. Then Gloria and Bren have filled my days and I totally forgot about Tia. Yup, I am a bad friend. I dig my phone out of my purse and my guilt builds in my chest ten-fold. Tia’s texts get more and more worried as I scan through them and I see that I have several missed calls from her. I send her a quick text: So, sorry! I am a horrible friend. Got caught up in the craziness here and starting school. I toss my phone back in my bag and groan. &nbs
I head to the office to pick up my schedule and get my locker number. Gloria and Bren are waiting for me when I step out, and Gloria snatches my schedule from my hands. “Ooh! We all have several classes together. Looks like the only one we don’t have together is History and you have that one with Greg so at least you will always have someone you know in class with you.” That’s lucky. I have a feeling this year would be tough if I didn’t have my new friends with me. My locker isn’t right next to Bren and Gloria’s, but it isn’t too far from theirs. I put my back pack in my locker and as I go to shut it, I feel someone’s eyes on me. I put the combination lock through the holes in the handle and spin the dial, then walk over to where Bren and Gloria are waiting for me. I have an inkling of who’s eyes I feel boring into me and can’t bring myself to look at him. I am already a nervous wreck
--Warrick-- Shit. Why the hell did Vanessa decide to target, Divina? As far as I could tell, Divina, hadn’t done anything to her. If she tells her dad that I got in her face, I won’t hear the end of it from my dad. Vanessa’s dad is the Alpha of the Blue Moon pack and our dads are best friends which, is why they were hoping that we were mates. I have always just tolerated Vanessa for the sake of my dad, but the last few years she has become possessive of me. It doesn’t help that we have had a casual sexual relationship since we were 17. Well, casual for me, I am beginning to think it isn’t so causal for her even though I set those ground rules the first time she came on to me. I don’t like to sleep around, and she was familiar and not a bad lay, but it was never anything more than casual sex for me. Plus, no other she-wolves really ever approach me, and I am beginning to wonder if it is more because of Vanessa and not my don’t give
--Divina-- Lunch was over and my next class was History with Greg, so he walked me to class. He was sweet and carried my books. How different was your human school from this school?” He asked. “Well, so far not too different other than the awesome cafeteria and not having a dress code. There were girls like Vanessa at my old school too, but I usually flew under the radar and they didn’t pay too much attention to me. I guess I am not going to be lucky enough to fly under the radar here.” I say with a sigh. “I wonder why she targeted you?” I shrug my shoulders. With the way he had been acting toward me, I didn’t want to say anything about the attention Warrick had been giving me. I didn’t want to deal with the questions, and I was afraid of how Greg would react. I wasn’t ready to admit to anyone including myself, that I may have feelings for Warrick. I doubted he would reciprocate them fully anyway
“Hey, Rima.” I call cheerfully, when I walk in the door from my first day of school and see her heading up the stairs. She stops on the steps and turns to look at me. “Hey, honey, how was school?” She asks with a smile. “Good. How was work today?” She smiles and I am surprised that she actually sounds like she means what she says. “It was great! Alpha Zane showed me around and I met my team.” “That’s awesome! I am so glad your day was good. When will I get to meet my uncle?” I ask. “At dinner, I believe. The pack is throwing a dinner party to welcome their Alpha and Luna home.” Luna? There’s another unfamiliar word. "Rima, what's a Luna?" "She is the mate of the Alpha and helps him lead the pack." she says matter of factly. "Oh, makes sense. I will see you at dinner then.” I say and head towards the stairs. &nbs
When Alpha Zane walks in, I note one other big difference, the reverence everyone seems to hold him and Luna Marie in is humbling. Where Grandpa Adrian was stoic and serious, Alpha Zane was larger than life and very charismatic. Joy and happiness radiated from him and the energy in the room rose tenfold when he and Luna Marie entered the room. Cheers erupted from the tables and I felt like the room was reacting as if a famous couple had entered the room. It was all overwhelming. Thank God I was in the crowd and not the center of attention. This was too much. Alpha Zane raised his hand and the crowd fell silent. He smiled broadly and when he spoke his voice was deep and booming. “Today, not only do we celebrate our return from our time overseas, but an even more important return. My sister, Rima, has rejoined our pack! She and her daughter, Divina, will be initiated into the pack tonight!” The crowd erupted in che
Just as I felt like I couldn’t take anymore a blue light burst from me and then settle around me and through me, washing away the pain, leaving me feeling raw and strangely at peace. I felt the pack link click into place and could hear and feel my pack around me. I grab my head getting blood in my hair and ask, “Is it always this loud and emotional?” Mom, steps forward and places her hands over mine and speaks to me through the pack link effectively shutting everyone else out. Rima: ‘We should have prepared you better for this. It’s my fault. I was too wrapped up in my own turmoil to prepare you. Please forgive me.’ I nod my head at her and
As I am laying in bed, my mind replays the events of the day and Warrick is the last thing I think of as I fall asleep and immediately start dreaming. In my dream I am following a shimmering charcoal thread and next to it is an iridescent thread. Somehow, I know the iridescent thread is mine, but I have no idea who the charcoal thread belongs to, but I am drawn to it and the longer I follow it the more my anticipation builds. I can see the landscape below me passing me by faster and faster as I eagerly speed along to see who or what is at the end of this thread. I feel it when I leave our pack’s border. Interesting. Who or whatever is at the end of this thread is not part of my pack. After a few miles, I see the high school below. It sets on no man’s land and is smack dab in the center of the six pack’s whose pups attend the school