Book One: The Right Choice

A Bit Of The Past

Sawyer's Pov

Growing up it was more stressful around are town because living amongst humans were difficult. Our town didn't have a school so when we got older mom sent us to the high school in the next town. However when we were younger mom home schooled us. We were aware of other shifters in this world, however unlike other shifters that formed when they sensed danger or when they come of age like 16 or 17 us bear shifters transform around 4 or 5. Because of us being more peaceful then fighting, our clan had a good chunk of bear shifters around 200 hundred. It was never painful to shift just uncomfortable the first few times. We didn't get violent unless we had a reason. Growing up we were taught to care and provide for our mates. The meat we have aren't from the animals on our ranch no... they were from the hunts that us men went on. It was tradition to hunt for our women once every week to prove that we deserve the beautiful women or man we were mated to. 

I met Izzy a few days after my shift...she was injured I helped her and brought her back home to mama. My mama made sure she wasn't bleeding anymore from the glass in her knee. We found out later her mom was drunk and through a glass at Izzy. She was a year younger than me. I shifted at 5 when she was 4 but ever since that day, my bear did not want to leave her, my mama and papa were unsure if she was my mate because of how attached my bear got. As years went by and they seen me and Izzy only get closer they started to know for the most part we were mates.

One night when Izzy's mother lied to her about us saying we hated her and didn't want her to come back. She yelled at me...It hurt so bad I didn't eat for days my bear hid and I didn't hear from him my parents got so worried to the point my mama marched me up to their house as she starts screaming at Renee. Izzy soon got what had happened and we ran to our treehouse later on and slept there for a few nights. My parents' understood why we did this. We needed time for ourselves just me and Izzy.

After we made it back to my home Izzy got more happy. My family was raised as a country family for so long no person in our clan wasn't country, Izzy loved it she became one of us everyone loved her she was the only human my parents let into the clan. She was the sweetest child, she loved all the food the women showed her to make and she copied them just the way they did but for some of the food she made it into her own sweet recipe. Which was what the women were testing her on each women of our clan made a recipe then twisted to their own special ways. Each women in our clan had something special they could do. 

Most of the women were good with animals. Some only good with salty food or savory food. Only few of the women with sweet treats. But when Izzy showed them that she loved it all that can do it all and twist the food to make them sweeter and more savory the women praised her. She was small but so smart. But that wasn't Izzy's special talent no.....Babies, women had struggled with the babies because having a bear shifter child was painful and sometimes stressful. They were more difficult to take care of over the human babies. But Izzy she made it look so easy she knew exactly how to help each child no matter the age. With such ease to, my mama was shocked that Izzy could do this. Which made others support Izzy being amongst them.

Everyone from that point on loved Izzy to death. She was always one of us and the fact she was so good at all the things handed to her made me fall in love with her more. When Izzy turned of age to start looking for a suiter my mother asked her questions. Such as, if she had her eyes on someone. What life she wanted. And to me and my siblings and my papas' shock state Izzy always answered with the same answer. I want a life like this, When my mama asked her what she meant Izzy explained. The country life, the fairs, the rodeos, the homestyle food, the animals, the men, the women, the home like ours, the kitchen, the children, the husband like my dad and the other bear shifter males were. Then she looked at my mom smiling as she said something that was heartwarming to us all. She wanted a small cafe in town for all the people in our clan so they could have a place to eat together. She always wanted to make food weekly for the children that didn't have families. 

Hearing that my dad patted my back I was 16 and Izzy was 15. I was nervous to ask if she wanted me as her suitor. My bear loved the idea a little to much I thought but when my dad mentioned Izzy might be my mate I wanted it more. However before I could Renee found out I wanted her as my partner and took her to Phoenix. It hurt everyone when she was forced away from us with her mother and this random man Renee was marrying. We haven't seen her since. Thinking about her like mama and papa. I knew Izzy was from forks and who her dad was. My dad use to live in a small part of Canada that was mostly country people. However my mom was from Tennessee. Which was where we were living.

Izzy texted me a lot until she moved to forks. Then only texted me every so often, by the point my dad was questioning if Izzy was my mate. But like my mother pointed out my bear had not spoken to me much since Izzy left. Even when I shifted. Which after that conversation my dad started to know for sure she was my mate. However we were suppose to find out when Izzy turned 16 the rightful age of the start of looking for your mate. She left at 15 so we never knew. Until now, when I found out about Izzy's life in forks it upset me she had kissed another not only another but a leech however, she didn't know. But I knew she was sided with me, forever. I was thankful jacob and the shifters backed off from the dating idea of those two. My dad had contacted sam when he got into town explaining about us but not to much like they have with us. 

I was happy and so was my bear at the fact that me and Izzy are back together and the fact she will be coming back home with me to Canada to my bear clan, my papa and mama were proud they were the chief and chieftess of there clan and I was the chief of mine in Canada since my papa's dad got sick and couldn't lead anymore he offered me and I happily accepted. This also making Izzy the chieftess I had told my friends Kesten and Levi about her being my mate last night before I fell asleep they informed me that the rest of the clan were informed of this my clan wasn't as big as my parents but there were around 160 of us. The only problem was the one female bear shifter that was always after me. 

I made sure to let my parents know a while ago about her. Sending a text to my friends making sure she was removed from my clan and back to her old clan in america so she would not cause trouble Kaylee the female bear was always after something. Since I had the biggest land and place, the leader of our clan and the bear with the most money she wanted it. Which pissed me off I built that nice home for my Izzy no one else. I made sure it was for her needs and no other female's needs. Izzy is the only female I would need now, sure I need my mother but even my mother told me she knew Izzy was more important just like papa was more important then I was at most times.

Seeing my mom defend Izzy and my papa making it known to Izzy she was accepted by both of them made me and my bear proud. Soon, soon she will be my wife as soon as I get her back to our den. Then she will bare us many cubs and support the whole clan. The only things I need now is to get this leech off her back and for me to explain everything to Izzy.