Strength

2. Anna Salvatore

Anna's POV

I was Anastasia Williams. Now I am Anna Salvatore.

My wolf kinda made the decision for me. She was adamant that i'm a Salvatore. Which was odd to me, because i've only heard of the Salvatore Vampires. The royal family of Vampires. But i went with it anyway.

I have gone rogue for 2 years now. Living under a new name, a new identity.

The herbs have been keeping me safe. I've seen and heard that there is a country-wide search for Anastasia Williams. But that is not me anymore.

My wolf, Valencia, and I have had an agreement to be equals. In fact, she even allows me to call her Val. It's progress.

I have been blending in, going city to city, town to town. Taking up a couple jobs in the different places to help me survive.

I keep my attachments as little as possible, not wanting to be too attached to a certain place because i know inevitably i will have to leave.

Currently, i am in the Blood Moon Pack's territory. It was the riskiest thing to do, considering this pack belongs to the most feared Alpha Nathaniel Argent.

This pack is the strongest and largest pack across the country, pushing my old pack to second place.

It is known that the pack's hate for rogues is the driving force for their viciousness. So i knew i definitely did not want to be discovered.

But on the other hand, I knew nobody would expect me here. Unbeknownst to anybody other than my trainer, i was Alpha Williams' little delicate princess. So this is the last place they'd expect me to be at.

I was at the more unnoticeable side of town, where everyone was nice and friendly, totally unexpected.

Their patrols rarely come to this side of town, which works to my advantage.

I have been here for 3 months already and it is the longest i have stopped anywhere. But there is something about this pack, that i can't figure out, that draws me in.

Part of me wants to stay and figure this out, even Valencia wants to too. But i knew in my head that i can't stay any longer. I could be discovered, or worse, caught by the Alpha.

But my heart desired clarity. And we made up our minds to stay for another 2 months, and that was the limit.

I have steered off track too much in this town, and i could really be risking my life.

I have forged an amazing bond with Mason Lockwood. He is like another older brother that i never had, considering my own hated me.

I got to know him when i first moved to into the apartment complex and he just so happened to be my neighbor. He was welcoming and also helped me get a job at the cafe he was working at so i could pay my rent.

One thing i led him to know is that i was a Non-Bloomer.

Non-Bloomers are those who never found their wolves.

He was always there for me, looking after me, looking out for me. He never knew who i was, he never knew where i came from. The story i created was that i was rejected from my old pack because i was a Non-Bloomer. Whenever he asked questions, i'd always brush it off with "I don't want to talk about it.".

After a while, the questions stopped coming.

I got to know that he lost his mate to rogues and that he was one of the warriors of the pack.

It was still risky for me because he could turn against me in a matter of seconds.

My bond with Mason has been mistaken as a relationship multiple times. Many thought that i was his mate, or that we were together. Even our disgusting manager thinks so.