Chapter 1: Months ago

Iris POV. 

I am standing in front of a mirror, watching my gorgeous self, I look splendor in this body-fitted sleeveless  lovely blue gown and it grabbed my curves in the right place, I was about to give my face some final touch when the door of my room flee open 

"Oh, my sweet daughter, you should come over here." 

"Dad, please, let me add this to my face, I want to look super lovely and I don't want anyone to look more sheen than me." 

"And why is that?" My father the alpha asked, how could he ask that, today is the mating day and I have found my mate, the beta's son, Damien, today he is going to claim me publicly and I am excited about it, oops! I didn't introduce myself, my name is Iris Bill, the only heir to Alpha Bill. This makes me the next alpha after my father but since I am a she-wolf, my mate will become the alpha after my father, in my pack, a female can only rule after her father if she already found her mate. 

I rolled my eyes at him, he smiled pulling me towards himself, and then the door cracked open. 

"What are the two most important people in my life doing here?" That was mother, the Luna, her beauty is something, they say, I take after her. 

'We were..."

"Stop that chitchat, people in the ball are waiting they are waiting for their alpha." Mom said pulling me and father out of the room, causing me not to be able to add that final touch to my face, do I really need that?

I and father walked hand in hand into the ballroom with Mom on the other side, it wasn't a new thing to me, I have attended a lot of them and this will not be the first nor the last. Father had always wanted to marry me off, but he didn't want to marry me off to someone that is not my mate, but two days back the moon goddess finally made me meet my mate, my best friend and the son of the beta, Damien, he is going to claim me today right in front of this crowd, I smiled as the thought that I will soon be someone mate creep into my mind, I unknowingly, look at myself, trying to fix myself. 

"Oh darling stop it, you look amazing, eighteen look good on you." 

Mother is right, I am super attractive, Mom and Dad had jokingly called me, a seductress, a woman that always catches everyone's fancy. With my beautiful long brown hair, which is like the wave of the sea, with my blue eyes, and spotless skin, one will admit, that the moon goddess must love me when she created me. 

I will admit, that the moon goddess took extra time to create me but she forgot to make my wolf strong, I am stalked with a weak wolf. 

That is not my worried because my father is there to protect me and my mate will also protect me, but is it true, will Damien protect me, I make my way from my father and mother that is having a political conversation with his friends and some alpha from another pack.

I walked to my friends and circled my hand around their shoulders. 

"Did you miss me that much?" I said behind them. 

"Oh, the wolf goddess is here." Helga said I blushed badly at her words, Helga is a beauty with a brain, she is the daughter of the pack gamma, she loves to look good and she always dreams of being claimed by the son of an alpha or an alpha, which means, she could go to another pack to get what she wants, she hadn't met her mate yet, she is eighteen as well. I am sure, she is hoping to meet her mate today, most time, my father invites different Alphas from another pack to the ball. 

"And who said she is the wolf goddess?" "It's bad to compare a mere wolf with the moon goddess." I could feel some bitterness in Hilary's voice while Hilary turned her gaze from me. 

Hilary is also very beautiful but very cunning, she is as cunning as her father, the Delta, he also loves royalty, and with the way she carries herself, one will think that Hilary is the daughter of the alpha, not me. 

"Oh come on, it's not a crime to compare a perfect wolf with the moon goddess, I am sure the moon goddess will not be mad at us." Helga added, I could see Hilary roll her eyes. 

"Perfect indeed." She said then sip on her juice. 

"Hey, you two should stop, I am not like the moon goddess and I am not perfect the thing is I am excited that I will finally get claimed today." My voice is filled with excitement, I am excited that my mate is not just someone, I have no idea of but my best friend. 

"Have you already met your mate?" Hilary questions, that was when I realized that, I hadn't told them that, I had met my mate and my mate is no other person but the son of the beta, my one true love Damien. 

"Yes, my wolf has finally been able to identify our mate, even though it's as weak as one from the family of omega." 

"That is because your mom is an omega." Hilary said

"Hilary!" Helga called in frustration, I could always feel that Helga had some hatred for me but I don't know the reason behind it since she and Helga are the only she-wolves I could mingle within the pack, I was stalked with them, it's difficult to be the daughter of an alpha, people expect too many things from you, you have to be strong, always prim and proper, to mingle with some class of wolves and above all, your mate must either be an alpha or the son of an alpha or a beta's son. Anything outside of that, you should as well forget it

"Stop calling me, I mean no harm just stating the obvious, so who is your mate?" Hilary asked I parted my lips to take Damien's name but the sound of trumpets came up, announcing my father, the alpha, his beta, Jason, his Delta, Bolton, and his gamma Leonardo but what surprised us, was another man walked behind them, he was elegant

Curiosity was written over the face of everyone, it's normal for other pack alphas to attend the ball but never had they walked in at the same time with my dad and his council. 

And to think this man is very handsome, his eyes were alluring, his handsomeness could make any woman fall for him, his handsome is way too much for a man, his age. 

One could tell he is no longer a young man, he should be the same age as my father or a bit older but he looks younger and his movement is elegant, people are murmuring silently and curious to know who he is and those she-wolves are whistling. 

"Who is that man?" Helga was the first to ask.

"Don't you know him?" I and Helga turned to look at Hilary. "He is the alpha of the Wildfang Shadow Pack, that pack is blessed with so many good things, from precious stones to fertile land, to riches and their she-wolves are very beautiful talk more of their men, they are handsome." Hilary who always knows everything keeps explaining to us. 

"Wait, does he mean he is the father of that beast?" Helga questions, then my eyes move to the man, he can't be, he is way too handsome to be called the father of a beast.