Him

Of all people. Why him?

I screech and try to cover myself. That's when Jace ran forward and picked me up wrapping myself in his jacket. I inhaled his scent and my wolf howled again.

"Jace, I need clothes." I whisper to him.

He nods and begins walking toward my father. "Sir, I'm going to take her to get clothes. And I'm sure she has lots of questions and I'm sure you have lots of explaining." My father nods and follows us to our cabin.

When we get there Jace takes me to my room and sets me down closing his eyes so he won't see me. I told him to.

"Kay, I'm done you can open them." When he opens his eyes they darken and I smirk. I was in short shorts and a low cut shirt.

He steps toward me kisses me. "Why do you always wear clothes like this?" He growls at me into the kiss.

I pull away and smirk. "Whatever do you mean?"

He rolls his eyes and pulls me to the living room where my father is.

I sit down on the love seat with Jace across from my dad. "Why didn't you tell me?" I ask not even waiting.

"Because, when was I going to tell you!? Your mother was supposed to call me when you turned 18 so I could tell you and she never did. I was so busy being Beta that I forgot to contact you. Then we met this weekends and I realized I needed to get you here as soon as possible."

I nod. "Okay, so your beta. That means, your second in command. Alpha, is first?" My dad intterupts me and tells me his name is Jon. "Okay, Jon, alpha, is first in command?" My father nods and I continue. "Okay, well, how do I communicate with him and the rest of the pack!? Your the only one I hear in here," I point to my head. "Besides my wolf. Which you need to explain that too."

"You'll be able to communicate with them later tonight. You passed the physical training so you are going to join our pack tonight. There will be a ritual. You'll slice your hand and alpha will slice his hand and you'll join your blood and then you'll be a part of our pack." I nod and gesture for him to explain my wolf. "Okay, now about your wolf you never heard her before today right?" I nod and he continues. "Well, that's because changing activated her. She is basically a figment of your imagination but at the same time not. She's your conscience. Once you've practiced enough you can shut her out to. But only for a certain amount of time."

I nod and then ask shyly blushing up a storm, "so, I understand but how come when I look at Jace, she howls in satisfaction? It isn't like 'yeahh wooo!' It's like, I can feel she's happy to see him you know what I mean? I know I like him but, how come she does too?" I look at Jace and he's looking at me with admiration and thoughtfulness, I blush deeper, if that's possible.

My dad stares at me wide eyed and then smiles. "She's happy to see Jace?" I nod and his smile falters. "Usually in a regular werewolf story you would read how the werewolf has a 'soul mate' but that's just stereo types. In our world if you love someone or like them. Your wolf has to accept them or over time you'll lose feelings. But if she howls in satisfaction then that's awesome! Especially if you like them. Usually it's another Wolf but once in a while its your case. It means she accepts him. But um... I have bad news for you."

I look at my dad expecting him to continue. But when he doesn't I become scared. "What!?"

He scratches the back of his neck awkwardly. "I was waiting to tell you till after today but since you brought it up, and I already mentioned it. Being the betas daughter, you have responsibilities." I nod impatiently when he stops and looks at me. He sighs and continues. "You are supposed to have an arranged marriage to the Alphas son."

I gasp, and Jace groans angrily from beside me. I look at him and can visibly see anger in his eyes. "Him?! Really? Your kidding right?" He grits out.

I look at my dad and he's shaking his head no. "Who is it?" I ask almost timidly.

"Umm... it's..." He began to tell me who it was but his eyes glazed over and he stared off into space.

After a few minutes he looked back at me and smiled. "It's time."

I look at him confused. "Time for what?"

"Joining the pack." Jace says from beside me.

"Oh.. okay." I say before standing up, grabbing Jace's hand and following my dad out the door.

We walk till we get to the clearing from earlier and I see over 30 people here. Little kids. Old people. Teenagers. The 13 I saw earlier also.

I spot Leroy, Garret, Liam and Donny and wave to them. They all wave back and smile at me.

Next I spot alpha, with Gage standing next to him. I wonder why he's there but don't question it because I remember Alpha saying that he was there best fighter.

We walk over to them and Alpha greets us before asking Jace to join the crowd and getting everyone's attention.

"Alright everyone, we all know why we're here so I'm not going to explain lets just get started." Alpha Jon walks over to a knife placed on a podium in front of everyone. I follow him and he slices his hand. He hands me the knife and I copy him. He then puts our hands together and begins to recite some lines about how, he's excited to have me join, and how he's so happy his son will be marrying such a pretty young lady and last but not least he had me recite pack rules.

After I finished that he said welcome to the pack and let go of my hand. As soon as he let go I felt everyone presence in my head and instantly felt less empty.

I turned towards everyone and they immediately congratulated me pat me on the back and some of them even hugged me.

After about ten minutes of that, almost everyone has left and Leroy, his buddies, my dad, Debbie, and Jace approach and congratulate me.

"Congrats honey." Debbie says before giving me a hug and heading off toward a cabin.

'shes so weird' my wolf comments. I chuckle and agree.

Next Leroy and his buddies take me in a group hug and kiss my cheek. I chuckle and pretend to be disgusted by wiping my face. "Ewwww guys c'mon!"

They all chuckle and walk away.

That's when my dad steps up and hugs me. "I'm so glad your part of our pack now."

I hug him back. "Me too dad. But really it's after the ceremony. Tell me who Alpha Toms son is."

My dad looks at me seriously. "You haven't figured it out yet?"

I tilt my head and look at him. "Um, no."

"Oh, well, it's um," before my dad could answer though. Someone steps behind me.

"It's me."

I shiver, NOT in a good way, at his voice and turn around. My eyes narrow immediately. "YOU!?" I swing towards my dad, "HIM!?"

I look at Jace and run toward him. "Not him Jace. Not him, please tell me they're lying." My wolf is whimpering and growling in my head.

Jace hugs me back tightly and sighs angrily. "I want to tell you that they're lying. But they aren't."

I push away from Jace and see Alpha Jon standing there watching. That's when my wolf starts growling even worse and going insane.

"NOT HIM! Not him!" I scream to no one in particular.

Jace pulls me back to him and holds me close. "Shhhh, shh. C'mon. Ill take you back to our cabin."

"YOUR cabin?" Gage asks stepping in between Jace and the direction of our cabin.

"Yes, OUR cabin. I'm her boyfriend."

Gage scoffs and steps out of the way. Jace picks me up and cradles me to his chest leading us toward the cabin.

I hear Gage, my father, and alpha talking behind us but that slowly fades between my wolf whimpering and growling and my constant whispers of 'him? Why him? Of all people?'