| ranked #1 | | 4.24.16| | completed | | wattpad featured story 8/17/16 | | winner of a collectors edition WATTY 2016 | "How many times do I have to say this until you accept it? Those people are mine, those soldiers are mine, you are mine." I freeze. "Well," I straighten my spine, tightening my fists," I am not to be owned by anyone, least of all you. And my people aren't either. I will not allow you to do this." "You won't allow me to?" He scoffs. "And how are you going to stop me?" "If you do not call off this awful plan, I will reject you, as my mate." highest rank: 1

(This a prequel to "Octavius", so if you haven't read that yet, please read that before this!) Some monsters are born as devils But others are created formed from a life of heartbreak and sin. Ranked #397

If you can see them, then you're already dead. If you can hear them, then you're not far from it. If you can smell them, like the forest they live in, then avoid danger at all conceivable costs. Because they're the monsters in the shadows of Harvey Hill's forests, and their king needs his queen.

I, Aimi Clarke, was sixteen years old when I moved to Blue Moon Pack with my older brother the summer after my first shift. I was the new kid in town, the new wolf, and the wild child. That's all anyone ever saw me as just because I had blue tipped black hair, rode a motorcycle, and dressed like I was ready for battle. I was everything a girl my age wasn't supposed to be and people made sure I knew it. But under it all there was more to me but none took the time to figure it out. I never thought that the tragedies of my life could lead me down a road that I never thought about let alone wanted. I was always a fighter and defender of those I loved and for things I believed in but as life starts to show me new things, maybe it's time I took a good hard look at what's really worth fighting for and what's worth loosing.

Predator: one that preys, destroys, or devours. He was always the predator, always the one stalking and preparing to strike. Failure was not an option to him, not achieving what he desired was not an option. He spent his whole life with this mentality, that he was the predator. In the wild it was the survival of the fittest, and life was no different. Those were the rules he lived by. And everything and everyone could be prey in his eyes. Including her. Prey: one that is helpless or unable to resist attack. She had lived on her own for years, taking care of herself. She had survived even against the odds, with her dignity still intact in the process. Maybe her life wasn't what others expected or would want, it wasn't even what she wanted. But it was hers and she made the best of it, surviving on her own and under her terms. Until she meets him and turns her life upside down. She is no longer surviving on her own terms, but his. And there is nothing she can do. *The story will have underplays of power dynamics. Teasing, taunting. He is the predator and she his prey, but who is really going to be captured by who?*

For Aimi Clarke, it was easy to say yes to the man that had become the other part of her soul, but is it just as easy to live up to what saying yes means? Never in her 16 years of living did she expect to be marring and mating the Alpha of the Blue Moon pack. But life is full of surprises and her life just kept proving it. But with marring him came more than just being his mate and wife, but the Alpha female of his pack, of her pack. Life is full of adventure, and she was one to never turn away from the next great one. But as life keeps throwing her curve balls can she handle the changes life brings?