To a pack Elders are very important because they are wise, strong and they were very few. To a pack an Alpha is everything because he is their leader and without him they were lost. So what happens when a bond is formed between the two and not just any bond................ The mate bond.

After he has been abandoned by his parents at only eight years old, Teddy was found by a mysterious man and brought into Cambodda, one of the biggest mafias into the shifters' world. Now at fourteen years old, shifting for the first time and realizing his inner animal is a bear, the boy is forced into training to become a bodyguard...and no mere bodyguard, the one supposed to protect the new leader of the Cambodda clan... Sirius Yahontov. Shifters don't find their inner animals until they reach the age of fourteen. Being adopted by the leader of Cambodda clan when he was only seven, Sirius has never known what kind of shifters his parents were and what his animal was supposed to be. So when he finds out he is a Neko, it's plain obvious he is going to be ashamed, terrified and enraged. Especially when he finds out the boy he used to bully has a bear as an inner animal. So what better way of venting his frustration than starting to make Teddy's life a living hell? No weakling is supposed to have such a powerful inner animal anyways. Sirius will make sure to show Teddy who the dominant really is.

Noel has spent his life floating in the background. In foster care, he was the glue that held his little family together and in the operating room, he makes sure he's supporting the doctors. After years of feeling useless, he begins to believe that he has no purpose and almost gives up. With depression weighing him down he gives up until some who can give him a reason to live walks into his life.

Malcolm Nolan, future Alpha of his pack, turns eighteen in exactly a week, and there's nothing he's looking forward to more than meeting the other half of his soul, his true mate. Easy-going, happy-go-lucky, kind-hearted Mal only wants to find his mate, whom he prays will be male, and make him happy, but unfortunately for Mal, it might not be so easy... Nicholas Clancy is a sixteen-year-old depressive loner with a sarcasm problem, who's already been through far too much in his relatively short life. After the arrest of his abusive father on assault and drugs charges, Nick is forced to move to a new town with his crazy-ass cousin Eimear and her moody step-brother Nate. Nick hates the world in general and people in particular, would rather cut off his own head than form a relationship with somebody (especially a wildly optimistic teenage werewolf), and is mildly suicidal- he needs all kinds of help. Can Mal help Nick fight his demons, or is Nick a lost cause? Can Nick heal himself in time to take his rightful place beside Mal at the head of his pack? Or will Nick's demons come back for him, and destroy whatever pieces he's managed to put back together? ...