Girl Meets Wolf

Epilogue

The chapter is a little mature, towards the end, so read at your own discernment.

 Thank you to everyone who has stuck with this novel. It's been almost a year since I first began posting it and almost 6 years in the making. I know it has a lot of errors and isn't the best, but I'm just proud that I was able to finish it.    

You guys are real ones for sticking with me through this crazy journey. Enjoy the epilogue! 

Ashlyn

I glanced outside the window of the pack house. Below children played in the yard, while the adults monitored from the edges. It had been one week since I arrived at the pack.

I thought back to that time and it felt like years ago. Practically dying and then being revived. Sometimes when I thought about it I wanted to die all over from embarrassment. Apparently, Axel had lost his shit when he had thought I died. Or maybe I did die, when I think back to that in between world everything goes grey and blurry.

I had opened my eyes and saw that I was surrounded by hundreds of werewolves. Some were in their human form, while others opted their wolf form. There reactions were all different. Some looked at me with awe, while others seemed fearful and skeptical. Then there were the ones that looked at me with disdain and disgust. Axel's father was among the latter.

I turned away from the window embarrassed by the memory. He had picked me up and brought me to the infirmary. The doctor seemed shocked to see me. It was as if she'd never seen a human before. Axel noticed her hesitation and growled menacingly at her. She snapped to attention in seconds and moved with a quickness that could only be described as supernatural.

I vividly remember Axel's reaction when he saw my back. The sharp inteak of breath. The doctor too seemed at a lost for words. I could feel Axel come closer and press his hand against my back.

I was later told that my back was all black and blue, but from everyone's reations I knew it was worse than that. I laid down on the bed as the doctor applied medicine to my back. Axel held my hand the entire time, his eyes never left my bad. I asked for a picture, but no one would take it for me. When my Dad saw it tears welled up in his eyes.

I had to lay on my stomach for three days after that. Axel stayed by my side growling at anything and everything he deemed as a threat. He seemed more beast than human during those days. He fed me and re-applied ointment as needed. His mother looked worried, but said nothing as she visited. Just looked.

Axel's mother seemed like a nice women, but she was very reserved around me. I don't know if it was that she didn't like me, or it was the fact that she was just uncomfortable around black people.

I had learned during my time in the hospital that the pack hadn't really had many interactions with people from outside the borders or outside of the wolf world. An african american girl from the outside world was something unheard of and sometimes something to hate. This pack was going to have a long way to go if they were going to accept me as Axel's mate, not mention Luna.

If I was being honest, I didn't really want to be Luna. I didn't want to stay at this pack forever, but it was where Axel was, and for now I had no choice. I knew that if I ever choose to leave, it would be a big deal.

During my stay in the infirmary Izzie had visited. During one of Axel's rare disappearances, she told me that she thinks she also had a mate. She said it was the red wolf that attacked during the bonfire. She was sure of it. She described the tingles and the feelings that rushed through her as she connected the dots, but in the end he had left her. She cried as she told me of their unfinished story.