Elizabeth Summers Jasper held his hand out towards me. He had just told the whole pack that I was his mate and now he was expecting me to run into his arms when all I wanted to do was run away. I wanted to sneak out of the back door then run into the forest and never come back, but I knew that would only make things worse for everyone. It would embarrass Alpha and Luna Hartford and undermine Jasper’s position as Alpha when he took over. That would put them and the rest of the pack in danger, I couldn’t do that to them, they were the only family I knew. Besides, Jasper’s wolf was an Alpha so if I ran from him he would be compelled to chase me and when he inevitably caught me he wouldn’t be able to stop his wolf from marking me. The best thing I could do for the time being was to play along and act like the perfect future Luna. I would talk to him about how I felt later, but at that moment I needed to do as he wished for the good of the pack. I walked towards Jasper and brought my han
Jasper Hartford I was so happy. I have been walking around with a huge grin on my face ever since I told the pack that Lizzy was my mate. I declared her mine, I even kissed her and she didn’t push me away or tell me to leave her alone. She may not have come to bed with me but that didn’t matter as long as she was mine. I would wait as long as it took for her to be ready to take that step with me. I took longer than usual to get ready this morning. I wanted to look perfect for my mate. I kept trying on different outfits but nothing felt right. I didn’t want to look too formal but I also didn’t want to look too casual in case she thought I wasn’t making an effort for her. I spent so long worrying about how I looked that by the time I got downstairs to breakfast, she had already eaten and left the table. The only people left in the dining room were my parents. I sat down opposite them and poured myself a cup of coffee from the jug. “I am not sure that was the best way of telling Liz t
Elizabeth Summers I paced my room as I waited for my date with Jasper. He had really worried me earlier when he walked into the library. I was sure that he was going to mock me for spending my Saturday morning in the library but he didn’t. He sat with me reading for a while and then he started holding me. He wasn’t reading or looking at his phone or anything. He just sat there for hours with my head resting on his chest as he watched me read. He stroked and kissed my hair but what was even more surprising was that I actually enjoyed it. The closeness, the warmth and even the scent of his masculine grooming products. It felt really nice just to be held in his arms. I had intended to keep Jasper at arm’s length until I turned nineteen in case he decided that he wanted to reject me, but that wasn’t working out so well. It has been less than a day since I found out I was his mate and I am already feeling the effects of our bond. That was the only possible explanation for the way I felt
Jasper Hartford I could smell Lizzy’s arousal while she was straddling me, so I was surprised when she suddenly stopped kissing me and pulled away from me. I thought the kiss was perfect, I never wanted it to end and I thought she felt the same way until she jumped out of my lap as though I was on fire. At first, I was worried that I had done something wrong but seeing the blush spread over her cheeks I could tell that wasn’t the problem. She wanted me but she was embarrassed, probably because she was in such an intimate position with me in a public setting. There was something about her innocence that I found completely adorable but I had to remember to take things slower with her. I didn’t want to scare her or make her feel pressured to do something she wasn’t ready for. She had to be the one who set the pace, we literally have the rest of our lives together to work out the details. We walked back to my car mostly in silence but it wasn’t an awkward kind of silence. I had my arm
Elizabeth Summers Patti watched as Jasper walked away. She waited until he was completely out of sight before turning back around to face me again. She was looking at me as though I had lost my mind and I couldn’t really blame her for thinking that way. “Now tell me, what the fuck is going on?” Patti was almost screaming in my face. “I am dating Jasper.” I would have thought that was obvious by this point. If the cosy table for two wasn’t enough to prove this was a date then the way Jasper just kissed me should have made everything crystal clear. “Why would you do that? He is mean and cruel.” “He makes you cry all the time,” Oliver added. “It was all a misunderstanding, he’s different when you get to know him.” I couldn’t believe I was sitting here sticking up for Jasper but I wasn’t sure what else I was supposed to do. I couldn’t exactly tell them that Jasper was my mate and I was trying to work out if I wanted to accept him. Not only was I sure that they would think I had take
Jasper Hartford Lizzy has been different around me since last night when her friends crashed our date. She still kisses me but there is a hesitance that wasn’t there before and it is terrifying. When I think back to the way she looked at me after kissing me goodnight last night I feel sick. I hate seeing her look so worried but knowing that I am the one who made her feel that way is ripping me apart inside. I know she can’t reject me until her wolf is awake but even the idea that she might be thinking about it sends both me and my wolf spiralling into despair. I have to show her how much she means to me. She is the most important thing in my life and she needs to know it. After spending a couple of hours sulking in my room I decided that I needed to come up with a better plan. I still had some time before I had to be at training so I arranged to meet my friends at the nearby coffee shop. It only took me a few minutes to get ready and walk there but Adam and Nico were already there w
Elizabeth Summers I hate training more than anything else, even more than I hated doing trigonometry. At least in trigonometry I can hide near the back of the class and pretend not to be there. I can’t really do that when the Alpha walks around the room assessing each of us. There’s nowhere to hide. Training was also the only time until recently that I interacted with other members of the pack outside of those I lived with. It never went well. Nobody wanted to be paired with me, on a good week someone would be away and I would be allowed to practice my moves alone. On a bad week, I had to pair up with one of the other pack members. They hated being paired with me and when they fought me they would make it very clear just how much they hated it. They wouldn’t pull their punches or stop when they were supposed to, so I would come home with cuts and bruises all over my body. I pulled the sleeves of my oversized hoodie over my hands as I left my room. I wished that I could be doing anyt
Jasper Hartford I took Lizzy out of training early. After Frankie nearly clawed her throat out I didn’t want her anywhere near anyone else. I would lock her in my room and never let her out again if I could but that would just be hurting her to cover for my own inadequacies. I felt so useless watching Frankie shouting at my mate and getting ready to attack her. I knew that if I went after him when he was shouting at her the anger would have caused me to partially shift. Everyone in that room would have seen that I was an Omega and the news would have been around the whole pack in minutes. I let that hold me back for just a few seconds and she nearly died because of it. I should have just shifted straight away so I could protect her. Her safety was much more important than my secret. I was such a terrible mate, I hesitated just when she needed me most. I didn’t deserve her. “I’m so sorry,” I said. My voice didn’t even sound like mine. It was quiet and shaky, barely even a whisper. W
Elizabeth Summers’ POVWe had only been at our new pack for a few days but it was already clear that it was going to take a lot of work to get this town back to its former glory. The town had been abandoned over ten years ago and a lot of the buildings were well on their way to falling down. I didn’t care about that though, this place already felt more like home than my old pack ever had. There was nobody telling me that my omega parents made me inferior to other werewolves. Everyone here respected each other and worked together. I would take that over the alternative any day. There was no denying that it was hard work though. There was so much physical work required to get the buildings fixed and then there was everything else that needed to be done. Our pack members needed to find paid employment and I had to spend countless hours forming alliances with the surrounding packs. It was exhausting. “What are you doing in here, baby?” Jasper asked. “I’m making you dinner.” He had bee
Jasper HartfordI had been suspicious of the black vehicle following us ever since I first noticed it, shortly after leaving the forest. It looked like one of the cars my father would give to people who worked for him so I was sure it would be one of the pack’s warriors. That was until it continued to follow us for the next half an hour without trying to stop us or being joined by vehicles. If it was one of the pack’s warriors then they wouldn’t have let us get this far from the pack.“Someone is following us,” I said. Lizzy glanced in the mirror, I had no doubt that she recognised the vehicle just as I did because concern crept over her face.“What are we going to do? Can we lose them?”“I don’t think so,” I replied.I could try speeding but they would only increase their speed too. If they had been instructed to follow us then they wouldn’t let us out of their sight. Trying to outrun them was only going to endanger Lizzy’s life, I couldn’t do that when we were so close to obtaining o
Elizabeth SummersJasper had spent the last week reassuring me that there would be at least a few Omegas who wanted to join our new pack. I never really believed him. I thought all of the Omegas in our pack would be too afraid of getting caught to take a chance on us, but as it turns out he was right.There were hundreds of them crammed into the small clearing we were using as a meeting place. Many of them were people who our pack had classified as Omegas just because one of their family members was an Omega. In most other packs they would have remained unranked and not had to endure the treatment that packs like ours forced Omegas to endure.They were probably coming with us in the hopes of getting a better life for themselves and their children. It was a huge risk on their part but I could understand why they would take it. It was probably the only chance they had of gaining their freedom, I would have done the same thing in their position.“Shouldn’t Sasha have arrived by now?” Nico
Jasper Hartford“Did you pay attention to anything I said?” Michael complained.The answer was no, although I would never admit that to him. He was looking at me across the dining table as I was trying to eat breakfast. The smug look on his face was putting me off my food, and I could really do with having a good breakfast this morning.I was up till late last night finalising all the plans for our escape later this afternoon. I was exhausted, much too exhausted to deal with Michael’s bullshit. If he was going to insist on talking to me then I was going to need a lot more coffee.“Of course I was listening, you were talking about your pack,” I replied.It was a guess but it was a calculated one, he was always talking about his pack. Trying to convince Sasha that her life would be better if she came back to his pack with him. Not that he was planning to give her a choice. He had made it clear on many occasions that it didn’t really matter to him what she thought. He was going to take he
Elizabeth SummersIf I thought Michael was annoying before he realised his ex-mate was here then I was mistaken. I clearly had no concept of how annoying Michael was capable of being. He was still following us around everywhere but now he was bringing a reluctant Sasha along with him. He kept one hand on her at all times even though it was clear to everyone else that his touch repulsed her.“Michael, please let go of me, I have to help with breakfast.” Sasha objected as Michael tried to pull her with him into the dining room.“No, you aren’t an Omega any more. You are my Luna.” Michael pulled her over to the dining table and sat her down beside him. He wrapped his arm around her shoulders and placed a kiss on her cheek. Sasha responded by shuddering and trying to put some distance between the two of them, I wasn’t sure if it was from fear or disgust. Other Omegas were flooding into the room, bringing everything we would need for breakfast with them.“I’m not worthy of being your Luna.
Jasper HartfordMichael was quickly becoming the bane of my very existence. He was refusing to allow Lizzy and me any time alone together, yesterday morning he even managed to come crashing into our room while we were having sex. Lizzy was about five seconds away from reaching her climax when Michael broke the lock on our door and tumbled into our room. Lizzy screamed in frustration and threw the covers around us so he wouldn’t be able to see anything but she was incredibly pissed off with him. If she hadn’t been naked then I am sure she would have strangled him right there and then.Later that day, once I had managed to calm Lizzy down somewhat, I confronted him about it. He claimed that he had heard screaming and thought that I was hurting her. It was a clear lie, he was trying to do anything in his power to annoy us so that we would retaliate. I hated how close he was to getting what he wanted almost as much as I hated him.In contrast, my parents seemed to be completely enamoured w
Elizabeth SummersThere was something off about Michael even though I couldn’t quite put my finger on what it was. He seemed to be nice enough as he spoke to me in the back of Jasper’s car but there was something in his voice that sounded put on and fake. Even the questions he was asking about my life didn’t seem to come naturally to him. He was acting like someone who was learning how to have a conversation for the first time.“What food do you like to eat?” Michael asked as he placed his hand on top of mine.Jasper sighed. I could feel his anger through our bond even though he was trying his best to hide it from Michael and me as he drove us home. He wasn’t trying hard enough though, we both saw him roll his eyes in the rear-view mirror. Michael smirked before turning his attention back towards me.“I personally like ice cream and cake the most.” He continued. Jasper sniggered.“What are you, ten years old?” Jasper replied.“That was mean. There is no need to be mean to me, I just ha
Jasper HartfordLizzy had been quiet since the meeting with my father yesterday, I didn’t like it. I wanted her to tell me about how she was feeling, I didn’t like being shut out like this. It was my job to look after her, how was I supposed to do that if she wouldn’t even talk to me?One thing she had mentioned to me was that she was trying to think of a way of getting out of the arrangement my father had agreed to on her behalf. That was pretty much the only thing on my mind too. Even if I wasn’t a strong Alpha like my father, I still had to protect my mate from people who were trying to hurt and use her.“What is wrong with you? You have been distant all day.” Nico said as he sat down beside me. I had somehow made it to the last lesson of the day without really speaking to anyone other than Lizzy. Although I was disappointed I couldn’t make that last for just one more lesson. Also, why was my supposed future Beta the only one who couldn’t tell when I didn’t want to be disturbed?“It
Elizabeth SummersJasper’s lips moved slowly along my neck. We had only just made love a few minutes ago and yet his erection was already pressing against my pelvis. Over the last few days, since we had marked each other, we had been insatiable. The need to strengthen our bond was incredibly strong and we were both more than happy to give in to it.“We should probably start getting ready for college,” I suggested.It was the last thing I wanted to do but we had missed a couple of days already and we needed to at least try to get back to normal life. However, that would mean I would somehow have to keep my hands off him for a few hours.“No way. I need at least one more day before I am ready for that,” he replied, pouting at me.He leaned forward and pressed his lips firmly against mine while rolling me onto my back. As our kiss became more passionate I felt his weight on top of me. It was impossible to resist him now, I needed to feel him inside of me. I moaned and thrust my hips upwar