Every generation, a pool of teenagers are selected to go and be sampled off of the alpha families, in hopes that their sons or daughters will find a suitable mate. Katia finds herself selected as one of the few and having to leave her three siblings, goes. Alex, heir of the biggest werewolf pack, does not want a mate, and so finds himself in a predicament when faced with the choice of who he's picked.
Sweetheart, you're mine. You don't get the decision in it, you don't get to choose what happens, you do what I say. Or you face the consequences," his eyes never leave mine, and I find myself quivering under his piercing stare.
"What if I don't?" I say indignantly, maintaining my eye contact. If I break it I'll seem weak, and talking to an enemy 101 states that you never want to appear weak to your enemy.
He laughs which is music to my eyes, a deep rumbling note which deepens the dimples on his cheeks. I find myself wanting to reach out to caress his cheek, to explore the contours of his --
Enough Katia!
Eventually he stops laughing, and he gives me a dark look. "You'll be sorry,"
My mum always used to tell me what it's like to see your mate for the first time. She used to say that at that moment, everything around you stopped, that nothing else mattered.
And nothing else would matter. If it wasn't for the little girl clinging to my leg right now. That little girl that trusts me with her life, that beautiful little girl that made me hold on and not give up on life. That little girl, whose father is standing in front of me right now. He's my mate.
The edges of his lips curve and he looks up and down as if checking me out.
"Long time no see." Are the words that first come out of his mouth that break the silence.
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Lexie is an Alpha's daughter. She faces a hard few days and thinks a night at the club will help her get through this. A few drinks won't hurt, right? At least that's what she thinks. Yet that night will change everything sooner than she would ever imagine.
When the next day, her pack gets attacked, everything is chaos. Her mother and father are killed and her world shatters. She's forced to run away and leave everyone that she still has left behind. She thinks she has no one... that's until she finds out about another heartbeat in her body.
Raising a baby on your own is hard enough. After a few years she finally meets her mate though and it turns out she knows him after all. How will she confess that her mate is actually her daughter's father? What will happen now?
We don't live in a fairy tale where every story has a happy ending though. Real world isn't that easy...if you can call a world full of mystical creatures very real.