Damon leads Mary out the front door and they turn right. They follow a beautifully landscaped pathway which leads them to a street. Mary looks up and down the street and sees beautiful homes all well maintained… “not one is overgrown or run down!” Mary marvels.“We pride ourselves on ensuring our home is welcoming, clean and maintained. Littering is unacceptable and letting your house fall into disrepair is as well. We are a community and if one needs help with upkeep or repair all they have to do is ask, so there is no excuse for letting things go.” Damon says this with such pride and love, Mary can see and feel his love for his community and people. Her respect for him grows more and more.As they walk down the street passing homes, they pass by people that love in the community. Damon introduces them as they go, but Mary knows she will never remember all the names. “Don’t worry little love,” Damon whispers to her “the names will come with time, no one expects you to remember them
As they enter the double doors of the hall Damon looks at Mary. “You ready to meet the pack?”“Meet the pack? Now?” Mary asked nervously.“It will be fine, I will be with you the whole time.” Damon took Mary’s hand and led her into a large room full of people.They walked hand in hand up to the front of the room, climbed the few steps to the stage and went to the center of the stage. “Good day, goddess bless you.” Damon said calmly and kindly.“Goddess be with you.” The pack returned in unison.“I want to introduce you to my mate, your future Luna, Mary.” Damon said with pride pulling Mary as close to him as he could. Mary looked around the room. Some people were smiling and Mary could feel their instant acceptance of her…. But there were a few who did not seem at all happy with her presence beside the alpha. A few of them radiated anger and if looks could kill Mary would be dead. Mary swallowed hard and mustered as much courage as she could. •Hi everyone, nice to meet you.” She sa
Mary turns the corner running at top speed, “Come on, I need a place to hide” she thinks to herself. Behind her she can hear the pounding footsteps of the two men chasing after her. “Why did I have to stop in that restaurant, I didn’t need food that badly.” She thought to herself.“Come on little lady, we just want to play.” One of the men yells out.”“Yeah, play” chuckles the other one. Mary picks up her speed and turns another corner looking behind her to make sure they haven’t caught up yet. “Ouch” Mary spams into something solid and nearly falls to the ground, but a strong hand grabs her and keeps her from falling. “Oh my god they caught me” Mary thinks in a panic and tries to pull away.“Hey, it’s okay, I am not going to hurt you.” The voice is deep and rough and Mary feels a chill run through her body. She looks up and finds herself looking into the bluest eyes she has ever seen. “I am sorry for running into you” she says while trying to catch her breath. “ There are two men
Damon’s povI was just leaving the local human bar after a meeting with some other pack alphas. There has been trouble with rouges and all the packs decided to have a meeting at a neutral location. I was walking down an alley towards my car happy that a pact had been made to work together to rid the area of rouges when around the corner came a little wisp of a girl. She crashed into me and I barely had time to catch her before she fell to the ground. The instant I touched her, I felt my skin tingle and the second I caught a whiff of her scent my wolf screamed out “our mate!”It took everything in me to restrain my wolf and I tried to calm this beautiful little creature that was fated to be mine. When the two men who had the nerve to even think about harming my mate turned the corner i wanted so badly to tear them to pieces, but there were rules and hurting humans was against those rules. Everything happened so quickly, i put my mate behind me to protect her and warned the men to g
“It’s been 3 days. I am healed, I need to find her” My beta Greg didn’t believe me when I said I found my mate in a human village of all places.“Damon, I understand you want find her, “Greg pleaded,” but what good will you be to her or anyone if you are not 100%? Besides, I have sent people out looking based on your description of her and no one has come up with anything. Mind you a better description would be helpful, small beautiful, blonde, blue eyes and smells like vanilla and honey doesn’t really narrow it down.” Greg chuckles.“I don’t see the humour in this!” I can’t believe he doesn’t understand how important this is to me.“Do you have any idea how important she is to me? I am already up against it being such a young alpha, and then not having a mate? Finding her will make such a difference and will help make our pack more powerful and united.” “I know that” Greg admits,” and honestly I agree having a mate will help, but your pack backs you and knows you had no choice but
Mary povI have been hiding out in this shelter for 3 days now. No sign of the man that turned into some sort of monster. I have spent the last few days trying to figure it out. My instincts about people are usually bang on, but my instincts were telling me I was safe with that man when clearly that wasn’t the case. Now I am not sure if I can trust myself to know who’s good or bad, and living on the streets on the run that is a very important ability to have. “Why did I ever go into that restaurant “ I mumble to myself not for the first time. “Mary, if you plan to stay another night you need to join group” Kristen says. Kristen is the head of the shelter and has it in her head that if we as a group talk about our lives and problems we can get past them and make better lives for ourselves.. sure like that’s gonna work. I roll my eyes and get up to follow her to group, after all it isn’t like I have anywhere else I can go tonight. “Ok ladies and gentlemen, today I want some new voic
Damon’s pov“Come on man, we have been searching for hours.” Greg complains. “Can we please go home and start up again tomorrow?”“Not yet, there are still two more shelters in the area, I have to make sure she isn’t in one of them.” I say quietly. “What makes you think she’s in a shelter? Maybe she has a home and is safe and sound inside it, while we run around shelter to shelter looking for a ghost.” Greg argues.A loud growl escapes me.“She is out here somewhere, I know it and I will find her.” I state firmly. Part of me is trying to convince myself as much as I am Greg, after all, I didn’t even get her name. “Fine, I will go check this one out… wait here, you get too pushy and make people nervous.” Greg gets out of the car and walks towards one of the last shelters that maybe be housing my mate.Greg knocks on the door a few times before a tall thin lady probably in her mid 30”s opens the door just enough to ask what he wants.I overhear Greg telling some ridiculous story that
Mary’s pov“Good morning Mary” Kristen says when I walk out of the bathroom.“Morning “ I mumble. I barely managed to get any sleep and while I know I have to get moving on to a new town as far away as I can get, I would like nothing more than to curl back up and get a few hours sleep first. “Breakfast is in the kitchen, get it while it’s hot.” Kristen smiled and walked into the common room area.I will never understand how she does it. Every day she cooks, counsels, comforts, houses and protects 50-70 kids with a wide variety of problems. She never gets crabby(at least not that I have seen over the last few years when I have stayed here), and she never makes you feel like you have overstayed your welcome. I know if the situation were different, I could probably stay here for a month or more as long as I was willing to participate in group and work on myself. “Stop stalling” I say to myself.I go into the kitchen and eat until my stomach feels like it might bust (might be a few days