You're my mate... I will never let anything happen to you

Prologue

A cliche werewolf story! I know! Just wait until you read the ending and find it not so cliche!

© Countess12 2012. All rights reserved and all that other stuff where you can't copy my work until 80 years after my death! 

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December 12

(6:00 a.m) 

"Natalie?" My mate whispered in my ear. 

I smiled. I turned over in bed to see my handsome mate lying over me smiling with his ever blue eyes. 

"You know it is six in the morning right?" I joked.

He simply smirked. "You were late for class yesterday, I might as well keep you awake." 

I laughed at him as he kissed my neck. "I don't think that will keep me awake, I will fall asleep if we mate again." 

"It's still fun," He breathed down my neck and went planted kisses down to my breast-bone.

A knock came from the door. "William!" The loud voice of our alpha male called.

William kissed my cheek as he pulled his shorts on. William answered the door to our alpha male, Kirk.

The entire pack lives in a large mansion in the forest. We keep to ourselves, very rarely do we have contact with the rest of the packs. We are peaceful... I suppose.

Kirk looked pissed off as he stared at William. Kirk is my cousin, he took over shortly after my uncle's death a four years ago. In all honesty, the position of alpha should have gone to me instead of Kirk. Kirk is an arrogant wolf, he sees no need to ask the rest of the clan whether or not we should do this or that. 

Kirk has no mate, if William hadn't have marked me, I would have become Kirk's mate. Which is one of those ancestral objects that I would prefer not to enter. Kirk was supposed to mate before becoming alpha, however, his age at the time was still young and no one in the clan is allowed to mate before the age of 16. 

Most females go into heat at the age of 16, some later on. Once the female is in heat the males go absolutely insane over her, trying to make her the mother of their children. When mating here, males fight for the females the one who wins keeps her, the ones that lose can wait until the next female goes into heat. Rather barbaric, however, we have to keep with tradition. Otherwise the humans would win.

William and I have one child, and he is the only child we will ever be able to have. Shortly after I had my son, I developed an infection that caused me to become infertile. This happens to some females, generally after a long time of producing children for the clan. For me, it happened after one little one. 

My son sleeps in a small bed in our bedroom here in the clan's mansion. I can see him from bed, still asleep, thank goodness! I don't need him awake for a verbal brawl between Kirk and William... again! 

As a female, I should sit back politely and listen carefully to understand William's emotions later on. That, and try not to fall back to sleep! 

"You are on border patrol with Kyle, Noah, and I at 4 this afternoon, be back from school before then." Kirk said through gritted teeth. "And I don't want you late again! Last time you were late we nearly had a human invade our territory! Think about it! Humans get into our territory and everything goes right back to Hell!"

"Yes, sir." William replied. 

"Good," Kirk somewhat playfully slapped William's hard chest. "Watch out in school!" 

"Yes, sir." William replied. 

William is very emotionless when it comes to speaking formally, no matter what the topic is he is serious. When it is just William and I he is very humorous and kind, not so frozen and numb while talking in a formal manner. 

William stood there and stared at Kirk for what seemed like ages. 

Kirk shut the door loudly, waking up my nearly four year old son, Sean up. Sean shot up out of his bed across the room from William and I. Sean jumped onto the bed and then onto me. 

"Momma! The house is under attack!" Sean yelled in panic. 

Sean grabbed my neck and held tight, preparing for me to begin to run off to protect him. The thing that gets me out of Sean is his problems with worry! When he was a small infant, if I wasn't in the same room as he was he'd cry until I got into the room. William was very envious when it came to our son longing for me more than him. It is still that way!

I began to pet his back as he gripped me tightly. "Sean! It was just Kirk," I whispered softly. 

"Oh," Sean jumped off of me, kicking me in the bladder with his feet. 

I pulled back the covers of my sheets. I pulled my fallen bra strap up onto my right shoulder. 

William pulled on his gray t-shirt on. "Why did Kirk want to talk to you?" Sean asked as he jumped back onto the bed. I grabbed my night gown from the floor and pulled it over my head. 

"He just wanted to talk to me about border patrols." William said as he grabbed his socks. 

Sean didn't seem interested because when William started to talk, Sean began to mess with the blanket on the bed. 

"That's boring!" Sean whined. 

William smiled. "I know, but someone has to do the job. Do you want humans in our territory?" 

Sean immediately shook his head. "No! Humans are weird and they always smell like fancy soap!" 

I snickered. Sean jumped off the bed as soon as he heard me laugh. 

"Do I have to go to pre-school today?" Sean whined as he lied down on the hardwood flooring. 

"Sadly, we all have to head to school today." I sighed. 

William and I, like most couples, stopped our education to raise Sean for 3 years. I am 19 years old now, I only have to take a few more classes next semester and I can graduate from High School. 

After high school, I am going to work full time on this children's television show called, The Ballerina and her friends. I am the ballerina. The pay is grand and I love dancing for little kids. The shows ratings are through the roof, we have a spot on ABC saturday morning television and PBS kids. 

I get made fun of at school for working on a children's show, however, in all honesty I care. I am more focused on my school work and acting/dancing career. The show is filmed one episode a week, we film on Saturday's and Sunday's the week before the episode airs. Rehearsals, are from monday-thursday, every once in a while we film on Friday instead of rehearsing. 

"Momma!" Sean said suddenly.

Sean ran to the window of our bedroom. "Momma! Look!"

I stood up and walked over to the window, William carefully following behind me. 

I looked out the window. 

"Oh my God!" I whispered.  "It is an albino squirrel!"

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