Rejection On The Blood Moon

4

~A month later~
~14th of July~
~Lydia's House, her bedroom~

(Lydia's bedroom colour scheme is black, white and blue)

~8:30AM~
(Lydia's Outfit)

(Darla's Outfit)

(Lydia's POV)
The last month has been busy for me. I set up my house and my business. I used the two spare empty rooms as a home office and a home gym. I made up the other 2 bedrooms as guests bedrooms for whenever anyone (mainly Darla) stays over. Me and Darla have become great friends. We're both really similar. We always spend time together and practically live at each others houses. Today was the opening of my new bakery/herbalist's store. I even made the bakery side a bit of a cafè. I was down there with Darla making sure everything was set up before I opened up.

(The shop is halved down the middle. The herbalist side has a colour scheme of dark green and browns. The bakery side has a cream and wooden interior with some pink embellishments and a cream and brown exterior.)
I had already hired some people to help me run the store. Some to run the herbalist and some to run the bakery. I'd work both sides and divide my time equally between both sides. Darla had helped me advertise it around town and it seemed like people were generally interested. I would have the shop run from 8:45AM to 17:45. I'd get in a little earlier to make sure everything was prepared. I had an office upstairs as well and everything. I was excited and happy. My new employees came in and I helped them get set up and then I opened the store. Surprisingly quite a few people came in for some breakfast pastries. They asked me about the store. Would ask me about me because they hadn't seen me arooound before. Everything was running smoothly. I was happy and proud. I had put so much effort into this. My employees are a mixture of wolves, vampires, witches and humans. Some of the wolves are rouges and some of the wolves are from the Dark Claw pack (the most powerful pack in the country) that's only an hour from here to its barrier. Apparently their Alpha is incredibly powerful and noble, but I'm not looking for another pack to join. I made a website and everything for my business. I decided that I didn't care if anyone from my old pack found me. They couldn't force me to come back, they could try talk to me, but that didn't mean I'd listen. I haven't heard from them or seen any of them anyway, so I guess they stopped looking. I could hide my entire life, plus it helped me get me business off it's feet. The day was going well and I made quite a lot of money by 12pm from both my herbalists and bakery. A lot of people were really shocked when they tasted my baking. I had made some of the items and some of my employees made others, but overall they were my recepies. Or rather my mother's. She baked a lot and everything she made she would write down on some little cards. I took all of them from my old home after mom and dad died and I kept them safe. It felt good to feel like I could pass on my mother's recipies. Darla helped me a lot these past couple months and I'm forever grateful. I went through my first heat a couple weeks ago and she was there for me the entire time. She even stayed at my place to make sure I was ok. Having your heat without a mate feels like your body is being set on fire over and over again. It didn't help that I could feel that Ezra was fucking someone else. Even though he rejected me and I accepted it, it would take a couple years for the bond to be truly broken and for me to even feel the prescence of my second chance mate. 3 years is the minimum wait, but some wolves have to wait almost decades to feel their second chance mate. It wasn't something you could predict and determine. Not that I care. I don't care about mates anymore. I could still feel the pain of Ezra being with someone else. Not that I wanted him or anything like that, I just wished he had some decency to not put me through this even when I want nothing to do with him, but I guess I didn't think about the type of person Ezra was. Darla helped me through it anyway. She even made me a potion to help suppress the pain a mateless heat. I had forgotten my supressants back in Shadow Paw, so I'd have to try and find a way to get some more before my next heat at least. To be honest, I feel closer to Darla than I ever did to my old friends. She's awesome. We even go motorbiking together. We workout together. She has my back and I have hers. She badass like me and we're both rebels. We don't hide anything from each other. She's even been helping me with my powers. We've determined what powers I have thanks to some testing and it turns out I have way more than I thought. Every Thursday after work for both of us, Darla comes over to my house and we go into the forest and I use my abilities there where it's safe. I've actually improved my control so much even in a month. It nice to have someone with magical abilities that can help me. I love my new life and I'm happy with how my life is going so far. Who needs a pack?
Hope you enjoyed this. The next chapter will be a characters and aesthetics. Also after that chatacters and aesthetics, it there will have been a three year timeskip. I'm going to use chapter 5 to introduce you to Dark Claw and Levi and it'll be all a Levi POV. See you next week beautiful people, love you guys, blessings and peace.
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