Chapter 2

• Lucianna’s POV
• “Hi!” I greeted over a group of girls, female wolves like me. We just arrived at the Shadow pack and the van we ride to get here just dropped us in front of the pack guesthouse. And of course, I need some friends! Shadow pack will be my new home, it is better to know someone.
• The three of them looked at me without any sign of friendliness. They eyed me head to toe and I felt a cold feeling down my spine.
• I know that look, I’m familiar with it.
• They didn’t said a word or greet me back, instead they walked away. Okay, they don’t like me. I get it.
• The nerve!!! We came from the same pack, we are of the same age, I know one of them even! That’s Leslie, one of the Regal pack’s whores! How can they ignore me like that?! Argh!
• Okay, calm down, Lucianna. There are other girls who’s from the other pack. You will gain a friend.
• I tried trashing the negative vibes out of my system and looked around. It’s better to befriend strangers than from my former pack, as it seems.
• Looking around, I watched as most of them are in group, in two’s or more. Every girl, we are around forty-fifth, and all of them is getting along.
• Except for me.
• I sighed.
• Back on Regal pack, I only have one friend. Ashira. And seeing that its hard to get friends here even, made me miss her so soon.
• I thought the reason that no one wants me back at Regal pack was because I grew up alone, I’m without anyone. I got no parents to save me from bullies as I grew up, I have no other relatives. I thought that was the reason but coming here…
• Maybe I’m just unfriendable. If there is such a word.
• Okay! No worries! I will find my mate tomorrow and he will be my one and only savior from this lonely world!
• I’m sure of that! One wolf is only destined to one. It’s how it works. Male wolf can only produce a child with his fated one. The mate bond is too strong that no one can bend it. One look and boom! Just amazing. He will love me full and whole, I’m sure of that.
• Ahhhh!
• I can’t wait to meet you, honey, hubby, love of my life! I’ll call you every name I could think of once I found you!
• Just like that, just thinking about my mate and finding him made my negativity washes away. Its been helpful to me since I learned about mate and bonds.
• When I found out that there is one guy destined to be with me until my last breath, I felt like I was given a chance to live.
• Reminiscing about it, I’m around eight and a half years old when the mate lessons were taught to us. At that age, I was in the middle of giving up, letting my loneliness eat me, hopeless as I knew my parents died and I have no one else.
• That one school lesson about mate made me live up to this day. It made me hope that I won’t live the rest of my days alone, that there is someone waiting for me to come!
• Oh my! I also heard that having sex with one’s mate is mind-blowing! I can’t wait to have my mind blown or even burst to pieces!
• “Hello, everyone.” said a deep voice that made my head turn to the guesthouse entrance. There, a man in early twenties stand, facing us. He wears a suit, and his expression seems too formal.
• A man made of stone. Is what I thought of him.
• “Welcome to the Shadow pack. You have the rest of the day to enjoy yourselves but it is highly suggested to not stray beyond those red signboards.” he pointed somewhere and I saw boards with words ‘Do not go beyond this point.’. “The purpose of that rule is to prevent your mates to catch your scents and cause ruckus before the Ball.”
• Mapping Ball will be held tomorrow night. It’s a pack tradition, an event where the she-wolves who’s mate resides in a specific pack, will attend the ball and meet their fated one in that party!
• Ahhhh! I’m so excited!
• I’m in awe to have my mate from Shadow pack, this is the second strongest of the North Region which also means there’s more werewolves here than my previous pack. I always loved the crowd, though the crowd don’t love me but anyway, I love people! I’m a sucker of get-together and such. We seldom had those at Regal and I wonder how often Shadow pack held parties here.
• “Everyone will have each room to stay in, the invitation for the Ball will be given together with your breakfast tomorrow. Never lose it. That’s all and-”
• “I’m sorry, but can we ask your name?” one of the girls asked and screaming like a fan girl with her newfound friends.
• I will agree that the guy looks handsome but he never smiled even once. The guy looked pissed that someone interrupted his speaking and his jaw are clenching right now.
• And I can’t believe the audacity of these girls! I haven’t met my mate but I feel like I devoted my whole life for him! But these girls are crushing over that guy in the front like craaazy! Hello! You will meet your mates tonight! And that guy surely is not theirs!
• He wouldn’t answer them. I’ll bet my coins, he wouldn’t.
• “Have a great day, everyone.” the guys said and walked away.
• Pfft! I knew it! I’ve been observing people since, oh well, I can only observe because no one wants to be with me! But! That made me read a person well.
• “Ugh! What a snob!” said the girl who asked for the guy’s name. Everyone was starting to get inside the guesthouse and get the keys to their designated room while I waited for the line to decrease. It’s okay to be the last, I don’t want to blend in now since my first attempt was a fail.
• I chuckled to myself as I watch the girls feeling rejected and heartbroken. Nah, they were ashamed. No one might talked about it or teased them with what happened but they still felt embarrassed because of that snobbish guy.
• I was in my deep thoughts and kinda observing the ladies around me when I was suddenly pushed down to the ground!
• Ouch!
• “Oof! Sorry!” said a guy with shoulder-length dark hair. He was holding some boxes which smells like meat, probably for dinner. “Wait,” he placed the box down and extended his hand to me. “Here, let me help you up.”
• Okay, he seems like a good guy. Though, clumsy. And he is not my mate, I can’t feel the connection even though we are looking eye to eye.
• I grabbed his hand and he pulled me up. “I’m really sorry. I was in a hurry.” he apologized.
• I nodded and smiled at him. He didn’t mean it to why would I be angered, right?
• “It’s okay, just be careful, some girls can be bitch anytime.” I said in a friendly voice.
• Jacob’s POV
• It’s her.
• It’s my mate.
• I looked at the girl from afar using my enhanced vision. I can’t be seen closer to the guesthouse and I know I’m breaking the rules but fuck! I can’t stand the sweet scent lingering all over my pack since they arrive. Since she arrive.
• She is tall, and even from those shabby clothes, I can tell she’s fit and curvy. Her long golden-brown hair has natural curls at the edge. I love how the shape of her eyes matches her high cheekbone and-
• Oh, fuck. Not again.
• I can feel my cock reacting from just looking at her. And even from this distance, her scent is intoxicating that I can’t help but be enticed by it.
• Fuck. If only I’m not an Alpha, I won’t have this much control! I might have run down this hill to reach her, claim her, mark her, kiss her--ohh, fuck!
• Watching, I saw how she approached three girls. Was it her friends?
• I enhanced my hearing and decided to listen to their conversation.
• “Hi!”
• Oh, fuck! Her voice even sounds so fucking erotic into my ears! Damn, I’m killing myself! Why did I even come here and check on her!
• My jaw dropped when the girls she greeted turned their back on her. Did they just ignored my mate?!
• A low growl escaped from my chest. I hated how her cheerful face turned gloomy because--
• Oh, wow. She is smiling again.
• I guess she was not bothered by those bitches, huh. I smiled as I felt more intrigued by my mate, craving to know her more.
• Okay. Time to check her shadow now.
• Move forward, mate. Expose yourself to the sun, let me see your soul.
• I’m an Alpha of the Shadow pack, second strongest pack of the North Region. Our pack’s name is not made without meaning, it has a secret behind it.
• A Shadow ability.
• For centuries, this ability was passed down to our bloodline. It was a gift given by a powerful enchantress when mated with my ancestor, an Alpha at that time.
• If one possesses this ability, he or she is called a shadow eye. And I have it. I can perceive a person’s intention, and either they are weak or strong. If they are happy, sad, envious, angry, even horny, I can see it by their soul.
• A person’s shadow is colorful in my eyes depends on their emotions. It’s still black but a shade of a specific color touches their shadow based from how they feel.
• Red when angered.
• Green when envious or insecure.
• Yellow when happy.
• Blue when sad.
• Purple if horny or turned on.
• The strong has a pitch dark shadow, while the weak has gray shade.
• And to my dismay, my mate possess a full gray shadow. What the hell!
• I’m in a daze as I watch her shadow, I’m not mistaken. She is just a weak wolf, I was matched with a weak being!
• I watched her as she talk with a guy who bumped her. That’s Lawrence, one of our experienced wolf in fighting. Out of instinct, my hearing enhances and focused on their conversation.
• “I promised, I will.” Lawrence replied to my weak mate. And why the fuck is she being too friendly with a stranger?! What’s with that smile? Does she like him?
• “Oh, let me help you with this.” my mate offered and grab on the box the same time Lawrence grab on it. Their. Fucking. Hands. Touched.
• A loud growl escaped my throat and its my wolf, feeling possessive over our mate.
• I saw how Lawrence’s shadow turned purple! The dog is getting turned on by my mate!
• Enhancing my eyes more to my mate’s shadow, I can’t see any other shade of color on her gray shadiness. How come she don’t-- fuck, no one has no emotions! And she’s smiling sweetly to a male wolf, how come her shadow doesn’t react?!
• “Oops.” my mate almost whisper and her fucking voice sounds luscious! Is she trying to seduce Lawrence?
• I find myself trembling as I watched the two of them parted their ways.
• My eyes never left my mate as she follows Lawrence with her eyes. I can feel the anger inside me growing from that filthy sight.
• I got a weak, flirt wolf as my mate.