Bree Apollo is an average fifteen-year-old girl: she loves chocolate, baking cupcakes, and her neighbor, the hunky and all around popular seventeen-year-old Foster Quinn. Except Foster is clueless about her feelings for him, instead treating her like a kid sister and begging for her homemade desserts. As a fellow chocolate lover, he should be Bree's for the taking, if it weren't for his oh-so-perfect girlfriend.
After she overhears Foster making fun of her to his friends, she's devastated. And not even chocolate can take away the pain. She intends to wallow in grief for a boy that was never hers to begin with, but Austen, her eccentric new neighbor has other ideas.
The strange boy down the street always wears a black fedora, walks barefoot, and focuses all his energy on building a treehouse in his backyard. For some reason, he's elected Bree to help him. At first, she turns him down because he acts too awkward and takes everything she says literally. But after learning of his autism, she decides to help with his construction (forgiving him for not being a chocolate fan), even though she doesn't know a think about power tools.
As Bree and Austen grow closer, Foster notices Bree no longer worships the ground he walks on. He wants her to go back to that doting version of Bree, but Austen has become more important to her than she's ready to admit.
Austen may just be the one to help her move on from Foster.
Like two pieces of a puzzle, they fit together perfectly.
(IF YOU DON'T READ ALREADY DONE FIRST IT WILL GIVE AWAY ALOT OF SPOILERS, THIS IS A WARNING)
My mate is what we call special. Actually that's an understatment. If I had to get a mate why couldn't he be like, normal. Just a normal guy that will love me for the rest of my life, and put me before him, like mates are supposed to! Instead the Moon Goddess gives me him! The cocky asshole. Our story isnt as cliché as you may think. I guess that we sort of have a past and that's what makes things worse! The best part... he is the Alpha... for a pack across the world! I know, how can I even explain this to my family! This is horrible.
Chapin (pronounced exactly as spelled chæ pin) could deal with not having a mate, but those dreams were crushed the day she felt the pull when she was only fifteen. Like any good story things don't go as Chapin planed. Especally the part where her mates pack is on the other side of the world. Things get complicated and she is starting to go nuts. She cant help thinking that she might just have to reject him. The thought is unbearable but it might be the only way. Maybe the Moon Goddess made a mistake.
(This is a short story, Takes place a couple months after the epilogue in AD)
Publish start date: October 2016
Publish end date: January 16, 2017