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❄︎𝑪𝒉𝒂𝒑𝒕𝒆𝒓 1❄︎

•Isadora•

Fuck mates.

I have never believed in this mates stuff. It's complete bullshit for me.

Like why do we have to be bound by someone without even knowing them or having any previous connection with them just because the Moon Goddess has decided.

Why would she even do this to us?!

It infuriates me whenever people talk about how magical mate bonds are or how it sweeps you off your feet.

Blah blah blah.

I could care less about all of this. For now, all I care about is preparing to be the next Beta. Our Alpha believes his eldest son and I, are ready to take over as the next in lines, and my papa wants to spend his chill days with ma so he's coronating me along our next Alpha, or Cory, my childhood bud.

Papa even got some trip planned, after my coronation, with ma-to do Goddess knows what-far away in some mountain land.

I'm just glad to be stepping up and be a responsible Beta everyone will forever remember and cherish and respect, even fear a little bit. I don't mind.

With my moody and snappy personality, people already fear me and try to avoid crossing my path. I even heard some whispers here and there about how they think I'd be hard to approach as a Beta.

I don't mean to shoo my subjects away, I just want the fear so that they respect me, and not cross any boundaries.

So far, no one has ever crossed any lines with me and I'm good, training hard to prove that I've earned this position with my skills-and didn't just get it on a silver platter.

Someone else did have this opportunity on a silver platter, someone who left it.

I have an older brother-about whom we do not speak. The rightful Beta to rule next to Cory.

He had gone berserk before he even hit the age of 16. He used to cross territories to do drug and sex with random males and females till he hurt some Alpha's mate and ended up getting tortured by them for a month till papa and Alpha Moore, Cory's dad and papa's bestfriend, had to beg for their forgiveness and bring him back.

He was grounded for life after that, because obviously mates are sacred and pure shit, any harm to anyone's mate is considered a gravely crime. But he escaped. Not only that, he killed his own pack members and ran away.

No one has ever heard of him after that. That was 8-9 years ago. I was 11 years old then and he was 17.

I don't have much memories of him since he mostly stayed away from home, and whenever he was home, he'd lock himself in his room and do pot, heroin and many other stuff I don't even know the name of.

Papa has started preparing me since then and now at 19, I'm more than ready to be the best Beta the world has ever seen.

I know ma wishes for me to have found my mate before the coronation, but why?

I'm perfect just as I am. Why would I need someone else to be more strong? I'm already stronger with the Beta blood flowing in my veins.

If anything, I think having a mate would only jeopardize my missions, mates are weakness. They'd only pull you back and become the reason of the enemies' target.

So, yeah, it's better to have none.

There's ranks in werewolf community. Obviously, there's Alphas. Then there's Betas, Gammas, Deltas and Omegas.

All the ranks are equally respectable and good reputated, though they vary in strength and power.

There's also normal werewolves who do not belong to either of these ranks.

They're called commoners and they're a very smaller portion, because it's rare for a werewolf to be born without a rank. It makes them almost belong to nowhere. It's hard to live a commoner's life.

I've even heard that some commoners don't even shift all their life, and their mates eventually reject them.

Worrying about ranks, commoners and mates is a hassle I prefer to remain free from. I'm better off without this burden.

Because together with Cory, we'd be awesome either way.

Till Cory found his mate and ruined it all.

Yeah, you could say I had a tiny lil itty bitty crush on Cory since childhood. Well, how could I not?!

Our fathers have been feeding us rubbish about how we could be mates since we were always so clingy and inseparable. How we are compatible to each other and etc. etc.

Also, he's so damn handsome and kind and generous and big-hearted. One look at him, and my heart would melt like lava.

But it's all in the past now. Cory just recently found his mate, Estella. She belongs to the Alpha rank and her father is a very well-known Industrialist, so she's perfect to be our Luna from all angle.

Anyway, as I was saying, our coronation would be held on the next Full Moon, which is two weeks from now. Along with Cory and I, Janice and Troy would be coronated as well, as the Gamma and Delta.

We all are pretty excited to become the best team of rulers and make our parents proud.

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Tonight is really special for me. It's the night when I first shifted, all those years ago, when I was 3 years old.

So, every year, on this night, I go for a run and just roam around the forest all night till I'm too tired, and just rest by the lake or something.

"Don't be too reckless and stay amidst the borders." Ma reminds like always, making me groan.

"Ma, I'm 19! You don't need to keep babying me all the time."

She kisses my cheek to annoy me further, giggling afterwards.

"So what? You'll always be my baby. My little girl." She says the last bit with a twinge of sadness lingering in her tone and I know she's thinking about my brother.

"I'll be careful." I kiss her cheek to lighten up her mood and race out of the house before she can add any more restrictions.

We live in the Beta quarters which is almost as big as a mansion, nothing less than the Alpha quarters. But it's just the three of us so we let other people stay here if they need.

We're pretty good people.

I take off in a sprint towards the forest, inhaling the soothing scent of damp soil as the leaves rustle, and they call for me.

"Ready?"

"Just let me in already."

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A/N:-

Here goes the first chapter.
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The italic bold sentences are the wolves talking. I do love when the wolves have an individuality despite residing within the humans.

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