Alpha's Prophecy

Chapter 8

Jake

I don't know why I thought it was a good idea to hold an 18th birthday for Hannah, it's not like she was going to be here anyway, I guess in a way it was about keeping the memory of who she was alive. As a pup, Hannah was popular, she was loved by everyone because she was just so fun to be around and she got along with everyone. Her Father was the Alpha of our pack and mine was the Beta so we were pretty much forced together from a young age, not that I minded, she wasn't annoying, like my sister Louisa could be back then, she was always up for an adventure and she would push me into trying new things and then one day she was gone and the adventures were gone with her.

"Ah I see you invited your guest to the party" Sebastian says, nudging me in the ribs. I look up to see Emma entering the basement with Serena, her long, wavy, waist length hair frames her face, even from across the room I'm drawn to her eyes, those beautiful apple green eyes.

"I told Serena to invite her, I didn't want her to feel left out" I explain to Seb and I hear him laugh to himself

"So the tin man had a heart all along, who would of guessed it"

"You're reading way too much into this Seb, I just didn't think it was right to have her all alone in the cottage by herself all night, that's it"

"Sure, sure Jake but you know as well as I do that any other rouge we had caught on the boundary lines wouldn't be put up in casa Alpha, they would be in the cells or dead but not little miss Emma over there, not only is she placed in your cottage, you even put her in your own bed last night"

"I'll admit, there is something about her that captivates me, watching how she took down that vampire all on her own, that was...." I pause, searching for the right word

"A turn on?" Sebastian suggests

"Yep, that girl was fierce but the girl who I ate breakfast with this morning was weak, small. I just don't get it. I want a Luna who is strong, who can fight side by side with me and I just don't know if that's Emma"

"I think you at least owe her the opportunity to show you who she is, if this is who you've been fated to be with. Go over there, get to know her" Sebastian suggests and I once again look over to where Emma is standing with Serena and Louisa, she got this giant grin on her face that makes her skin glow.

I begin walking over to Emma, as I get closer I pick up the topic of conversation, the mate bond, great, so I'm guessing the girls have told Emma all about how we are mates, this isn't how I wanted her to find out at all, I wanted it to feel natural. Knowing that her wolf isn't strong yet I knew that the bond was stronger for me than it is for Emma, she's probably not even aware that it exists between us yet and I liked that because it was giving me time to wrap my head around it too. Her head is down as she's talking to Louisa, she doesn't even realise I'm standing right there when she's going on about how romantic it all is. Is she joking? How can she think it's romantic to have your whole future dictated to you by the Moon Goddess?

"How is it Romantic Emma?" I ask her, putting her on the spot, she jumps a little when she realises I'm next to her. She smells so good, it's almost intoxicating really.

"How is it not? You don't have to waste time on the wrong person, it's all been decided for you" She counteracts, her wording 'decided for you' infuriates me, I don't want my life decisions taken out of my hands. I look her deep in the eye, those beautiful eyes

"Maybe I would have liked to made that decision for myself, not have it decided by the Moon Goddess who, let's face it, probably has no idea who I am. Fate isn't always right Emma, you could get fated to be with some psychopath, is that romantic?" I yell at her, I hated myself straight away for yelling, her eyes dropped from mine, guilt ran through me.

"So you're not happy with who you were mated with?"

I'm still trying to figure all this out, it's been less than a day

"I didn't say that, you're jumping to that conclusion on your own, I'm just saying that I would of liked to have had a choice in the matter, to know that the girl would love me, not because fate was dictating to her that she had to" I try my best to explain. Why did this have to happen today of all days when I'm consumed by the memory of Hannah and the Moon Goddess drops my mate into the mix. I just need time to process everything but I can hear Emma next to me, asking questions about the party and about Hannah and I'm not ready to talk to her about what Hannah meant to me but she just wont stop.

"Do you ever just shut the fuck up? You don't have to feel the need to fill every silence with your happy little voice" I say out of frustration, I knew I'd hurt her when I saw the tears form in her eyes, I felt like a complete ass.

"Do you know that today is my 18th birthday? I had been looking forward to this day for so long because my Dad always made my birthdays really special for me, being that it was just us two and instead of it being special I watched him have his neck snapped by that vampire last night and then that thing came after me and I don't even know how it got into our house considering it was never invited in. So instead of drinking a cup of tea with my Dad tonight and talking about how great my birthday was I'm forced to be here with you so I'm sorry if my 'happy little voice' pisses you off, believe me, I am anything but happy" She yells at me and then ran right past me, out of the basement.

Fuck, I'm a piece of shit, I never once considered what she had been through, I was so busy just thinking about how hard this day was for me.