Finally

Same Ol Dream

At the ripe old age of twenty-five, Laurent has yet to find his mate. His mama has told him, time and time again to take his time, that it will happen when it is supposed to happen. Even though Laurent has tried to be patient, his patience is wearing thin. And since the night of his sixteenth birthday and his first shift, he has had the same dream of a beautiful white wolf roaming around the pack grounds with six equally beautiful wolf pups. Laughing, howling and playing around joyfully without a care in the world.

As Laurent dreamt of the unfamiliar/familiar white wolf and the pups playing. HIS longing for his mate has continued to increase to almost desperation. His mother use to tell him bedtime stories of the importance of a mate. Not just any mate though, but a True mate. She would tell him countless times how the mate bond was an unbreakable bond intertwining two souls together for eternity.

Laurent listened to his mother night after night her retelling of the heartfelt love from one mate to the other. The need of their lifeline, their heartbeat, their reason for living...their soulmate.

Yet year after year Laurent has yet to find his mate. He traveled all around the world from one pack to another hoping and praying for his mate to be within that pack territory he visited. Yet after his visit he was left alone and heartbroken.💔

Laurent reluctantly returned to his pack on the eve of his twenty-sixth birthday, again heartbroken and lonely. Tears rolled down his cheeks as he walked towards his room trying to avoid his parents.

Unfortunately his father summoned him to his office, and one to not disappoint his parents he reluctantly walked to his father's office after cleaning his tear streaked face, in hopes of his parents don't notice his heartache in his eyes.

Once he double checked and made sure he looked fine he walked into his father's office. Laurent's mind is all over the place so, he absentmindedly walked in without knocking. Still in a daze of his thoughts Laurent hadn't realized he was standing in front of both his parents staring off into space.

His father growled gaining he's attention. As he stood watching his mother trying to calm his father down before he spoke. Not sure what his father wanted to talk to him about. He impatiently waited for his father to speak, wanting to get this day over with.

He knows his parents can feel how impatient he is, but honestly he could care less. After years of waiting for his mate with no luck he's beginning to think he has no mate. Another growl from his father brought him back out of his mindless thinking. But what his father just told him brought out an earth shaking, window shattering growl, a growl of his own. How in the hell can his mother be okay with what his father just said?

Year after year his mother had explained the importance of a TRUE mate, but here his father is telling him (who has a TRUE mate his self) on the eve of his twenty-sixth birthday that if he does not find his mate by his twenty-seventh birthday, he is to chose, no not chose, he is being forced to take a mateless she-wolf, of his father's choosing.

To say Laurent is angry would be an understatement. His wolf was itching to escape, but with much restraint Laurent was able to reel in his wolf. After slightly calming down, he stormed out of his father's office ignoring his mother's pleas to finish talking.

'Does she really think we would be okay with being forced to take a mate, instead of having our TRUE mate'? Beast, Laurent's wolf asked, growled at him.

"I don't know what she is thinking". "After every word she spoke about the importance of a TRUE mate." Laurent answered his wolf back angrily.

As hours pasted and Laurent had yet to calm down he decided to go for a run and let his wolf run free. Normally a run would calm his wolf down, but after a four hour long run Laurent was still angry and tense. After taking a long hot shower Laurent laid on his bed trying to find some comfort of sleep.

His mind ran with the thoughts of the beautiful white wolf and the pups he kept dreaming about. Slowly Laurent drifted off to sleep once again dreaming, the only dream he has ever dreamt. With all of Beast's praying to the Moon Goddess of his mate to show soon Laurent finally slept peacefully.