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I sat on my bed with my best friend, Jake. It was 12 o'clock at night, all the lights were off. The only light source available was a single lit candle which was placed in the middle of a small cupcake held by Jake.

The candle light flickered across Jakes face. Jake pushed back a stray hair that some how escaped the overwhelming amount of hair gel Jake applied that morning. His brown eyes twinkled as he handed me the cup cake.

"Happy seventeenth birthday, B. What do you wish for?"

"I wish that my school girl crush for Alpha Luca will vanish" I laughed blowing out the candle.

I took a bite of the cake and passed it to Jake. "What do you mean school girl crush? You are head over heels for that man."

I thought about it. I have had a crush on Luca for as long as I could remember. It wasn't as innocent as a school girls crush either . Although, I did strangely have feeling for the alpha, I don't know if I would say I was "head over heels" for him.

It was kinda a Romeo and Juliet situation. Even though I knew my feelings weren't reciprocated. My father, Alex, was the Alpha of the second strongest pack, the Luna Rossa Pack, which is Italian for blood moon pack. The strongest pack is run by Alpha Luca, who just so happens to be my dads best friend.

It would be weird to date my Dad's best friend. He wouldn't be to fond of me dating any of his friends, so his best friend was totally off limits.

Both packs run in unison due to my dads friendship. Dad and Luca have been best friends for 5 years. While my Dad is 36, Luca was 24.

Luca was born into the role of being the next to run the Vaffanculo pack. Even to this day, I still don't know what that translates to. All I know is that the Vaffanculo can also be translated into Italian.

Luca was a very feared man by many, for multiply reasons. The main being that every wolf who turned 18 finds their mate, either on their birthday or a couple years later. Wolfs who have not found their mate within 3 years have known to go clinically insane. Yet, Luca hasn't found his mate in 8 years of becoming of age and is still unbelievably sane because of this many people have an extreme amount of respect for the alpha.

Lucas is also very ruthless, would tear you to pieces in seconds. With the amount of muscle on Luca's arms without a debt he would be able to if needed.

Jake snapped his fingers in front of my face causing me to flinch. "Babe, stop dreaming about Luca" I looked down at Jake's hands and he had already ate all of the cupcake.

"Fat bitch" I mumbled standing up and stretching.

"Have you ever thought that maybe, just maybe. You and Luca might have a chance ?" Jake raised an eyebrow at me as if he didn't just say the most far fetched thing to have ever came from his mouth.

"And how would that come along?" I sat down on the fluffy chair I had in the corner of my room.

"Well, you won't find your mate until you are 18, which is one whole year away. You have never had a relationship before, you may as well try to get in with Lucas before your mate comes along. Do you really want to have just on relationship in your whole life?"

"No?" I shook my head. It is true I have never been in a relationship. "Maybe, I could try and date someone before I am 18? Who knows I could fall in love with them and reject my mate"

Jake started laughing witch made the whole bed shake. I was surprised he didn't fall off the bed from how hard he was laughing. "Yea, sure babe. You reject your mate" he nodded at me sarcastically.

Once people find their mate, they are usually inseparable. My parents have told me, the feeling is like no other. A happiness like no other comes over you when your with your mate. I was told it felt like if they died you too would die with them.

"People have done it before" I defended. "But honestly I think I am gonna go and find myself a boyfriend, who isn't Luca " I wiggles my eyebrows at the idea of a boyfriend. It was a new subject to me but I was keen to see what would come of this decision.

Jake bit his lip thinking "Ok, by the time you are 18 you should have fucked Luca and had a boyfriend. Done"

"I said nothing about wanting to fuck Luca" I pointed my finger at him accusingly, not that Jake cared. He rolled his eyes and smiled at himself.

"I am your best friend, you didn't have to say it. You don't have to date him if you don't wanna, just have a little one night stand. Get a boyfriend, find your mate and done. There is no more too it."

"One night stand? I like the sounds of that" I smirked as I lazily got up. I jumped on my bed with Jake making him move over so there was room for me.

"But what makes you think that Luca would even have a one night stand?" I frowned. Luca didn't really seem like the type of person to sleep around. He was always so devoted to his pack. He hardly got any time to his self. So he doesn't really have times for one night stands. That I know of...

"Well, he does have a daughter. He never has met his mate so he must have fucked someone or had some secret relationship." Jake turned the tv on with the remote for some back ground noise. I looked up as The Batchelor was having a rose ceremony.

"Yea, that's so true." I yawned resting my head on Jake's shoulder. "Conspiracies theories"

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