•𝑺𝑻𝑶𝑳𝑬𝑵 𝑴𝑶𝑶𝑵•【√】

ᴄʜᴀᴘᴛᴇʀ ᴛᴡᴇɴᴛʏ ᴏɴᴇ

Yugyeom is talking to me but I don’t think I have paid any attention to what he is saying. Something about the visit to Gunnar but I can’t bother. I am standing by the window, looking out at the lake like I have one a thousand times before. But this time the view is different.

Emery is out there, running on the shore, in her wolf form. Her black fur is shining under the sun, her strong legs are pounding on the earth. She moves so flawlessly, so gracefully. I have never seen a more beautiful she-wolf.

"Go to her!” Henrar demands.

I look down and see her run with Thane. Seeing Emery with another male even if it is her bodyguard is making my wolf angry and taking me on edge. I want to be with her all the time, just to look upon her, talk to her. When I leave home, all I can think of is when the time to go back to her will come. Before her, I slept here, on my couch. I couldn’t go back there, but now... I can’t wait to go back to her and cook for her.

“Jinyoung?” Yugyeom chuckles right next to me.

I still don’t turn to face him. Emery has gone in the water and I see her shift. Thane halts his wolf and guards the shore. Wise move! I scowl. My look turns to Emery. I know she is naked under that water and I shift uneasy on my feet.

“Jinyoung?”

“What?”

“I am happy for you, Alpha,”Yugyeom pats me on the shoulder.

He is not just my Beta. He is my oldest friend, my most trusted advisor, my family more than the royal one.

“What for?” I use all my strength to turn away from Emery.

Yugyeom says nothing, just beckons at the lake. I raise my brow and look over his shoulder.

“Nothing to be happy about, Yugyeom. The pack needed a Luna to be strong. She is strong and her presence will stop any doubt on my power and the unity of our pack.”

“Sure,” Yugyeom smiles. “She is strong, I give you that. Strong and strong-willed. And hot.”

I react without thinking. I grab Yugyeom by the throat and I push him to the wall. I am fuming with rage. No one calls my mate “hot” and lives. Emery is mine and no one else gets to look at her like this. No one will have. I have enraged the Goddess enough. One more kill won’t make a difference.

“You got it bad, Jinyoung,” Yugyeom struggles to let out.

At his words, I drop him and he gasps for breath. I avoid his knowing look and I pretend to look at the papers I was holding.

“You really love that girl ?don't you?”

I keep my mouth shut. “Love” doesn’t even begin to describe the perplexed feelings I have for her. I needed a Luna and though I could have my pick, but the moment I saw her my mate, I knew that idea  of  holding someone is most fucked up.

Then, for the first time ever, I felt something I thought I have left behind in my adolescence: lust. Pure lust for her scent, that irresistible, all-female scent. And when her body responded to my attention, giving off that powerful smell...

But there is more. Damn it, there is more. It’s the way she defies me, the way her mind works in overtime, the love and worry for her friend , her sharp intellect. She speaks her mind, she shows courage but cunningness at the same time. A true Luna, a born leader.My Mate.