Why Me?

Chapter 2

     Griffin
        I am sitting at the dinner table trying to ignore my mother and sisters constant chatter about an upcoming ball for another alphas daughter. I turn to my father for help, but all he is doing is staring lovingly at my mother as she goes on about dresses, hair, and highlighters. Why would you bring a pen to a ball? I will never understand women.
I was lost in thought over how you would use a highlighter at a ball when my ears suddenly pick up part of the conversation.
"This will be the perfect opportunity for Griffin to find his mate! All the young alphas daughters will be in attendance! I was talking with Camilla and she said......."
I sigh as I zone out again to contemplate what I had just heard. Ever since I passed 21 my mother has been harping about how my mate was late, and how I needed to find her so she could have grand pups already!!! Thankfully my younger sister Gail had found her mate 2 years ago and that took some of the stress off of me, but as future alpha I needed to secure a heir.
Lately my beta and best friend Kaiser has been after me to think about the option of a choice mate. It wouldn't be hard, I have been approached by many alphas about their daughters, concerning mating.
I am 6'4 and have hair as black as the night, I am extremely fit, and have been told that I have the body of a Greek god. It doesn't hurt that I am heir to the Pure Blood pack, one of the leading packs in the pacific north west.
At age 23 I am starting to get a little worried that I won't find my mate, considering that I am an alpha I should have found her at 18. My wolf is getting more agitated by the day, wondering if our mate has given up on us and mated another. Just the thought of another man touching what's mine has me clenching my fists. Suddenly I am snapped out of my thoughts as I hear my mother gasp.
I look down and realize that I have shattered one of the glass glasses. Both my parents and sisters are staring at me with open mouths. Gathering my composer I shove my chair back and start to shake the glass off of me. This snaps my mom out of her trance and soon she is calling for a maid to help her clean up the glass.
As I am laying on my bed that night I can't help but wonder what will happen when I find my mate. If my wolf is this possessive and jealous before before even meeting her, I cant imagine what it will be like once she is in my arms.
With these thoughts I drift off to sleep, imagining that my mate is right here beside.

Griffin

The party for Camilla's daughter Athena was taking place in just a few days. I don't know why but my wolf has been getting more antsy as the party draws nearer. Preparations are being made, last minute packing has the whole house in a frenzy. My mother is running around looking like a very frazzled Luna indeed. Suddenly I hear a wail coming from my parents bedroom and I immediately run towards the sound. There sitting on the floor is my mother, clutching something in her hands and crying her eyes out. Seconds later my father bursts through the door scanning the room until his eyes land on his mate crying on the floor. He doesn't hesitate and goes to her, he carefully draws her into his arms, saying soothing words and rocking her slowly back and forth. I can't help but stare in aww as my father calms my mother down in a matter of minutes. Once my mother is calm my father questions why she is on the floor crying, and clutching a dress.
She wipes her tears and I can barely make out what she says, but what comes out has me trying very hard not to laugh. Apparently my dear dear mother, was trying to fix a stitch on the dress that was going to be Athena's birthday present, and ended up sewing the sleeve closed. And as she tried to fix the sleeve she accidentally seem ripped the skirt also. So not only was there a closed up arm hole, there was now a giant hole in the skirt. My mother is very talented and I love her to death but I do believe that everyone in the house knows that she is accident prone.
My father comforts my mother by telling her that we can go into town tomorrow before we leave to pick up a new gift for Athena, and that no matter what we giver her it will be special as long as it is from the heart. Now my father is a tough stern man, but all that melts away when he is with my mother.
I wonder what my mate and I will be like? I leave them to have their private moment and finish getting ready for the trip ahead.