Wilde Creek Volume Four by R.E. Butler

Author:R.E. Butler [Butler, R. E.]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: R.E. Butler

Chapter Two

Kismet Thorburn lifted the goblet to her lips and took a slow sip of dandelion wine, looking around the room and trying to hide how bored she was. Her father was a highly decorated member of the fae military, and no one liked parties to celebrate achievements more than the fae. There were military balls every few months, for one victory or another. Her father had joined the military when he was a teenager. He was known as a lifer, a womb-to-tomb male who wanted to do nothing else but serve. And since he was unmated, he always asked her to be his date, and she always played the dutiful daughter and stood with him.

After the receiving line, the speeches by other highly decorated males in the military, the handing out of medals and awards and other such niceties, a seven-course meal was served followed by dancing well into the evening.

She normally would stay for a dance with her father and then discreetly leave, finding a place to portal home so she could get out of her ball gown and into something comfier, like leggings and a well-worn t-shirt. But she’d been feeling strange all day, and she knew it had less to do with her lack of interest in the military ball and more to do with the dream she’d had of a wolf with dark-gray fur and a white patch on his chest. She’d spoken to the alphas of a wolf pack in Wilde Creek and discovered the name of a male fitting that description.

Ren.

She’d been tempted to open a portal back to Wilde Creek since she’d learned his name, but she’d held back. It had been driving her slowly crazy, though…the idea that Ren was her mate.

Not that fae had mates, per se. Traditionally, parents chose appropriate mates for their children when they were old enough. Thankfully, by the time she’d come along, that tradition had all but disappeared, and fae were allowed to choose their own mates based on whatever criteria they had. Her father, no matter how old fashioned he was, had promised he wouldn’t choose a husband for her unless she asked. And she wasn’t about to do so. Her father knew a lot of military males, and because of his high rank, she was a sought-after bride. A male who was son-in-law of the prestigious E’lahn Thorburn would be respected by proxy. She’d had too many marriage offers to count, and not once had she ever felt like anything but a stepping stone to a male’s military success. She didn’t want a male to choose her for a mate because he wanted to get in good with her father. She wanted to be chosen because the male couldn’t live without her.

She wondered if Ren would choose her. Just because she’d had a dream about him and believed he was her mate based on nothing but that dream, didn’t mean he would feel the same way. If she could ever get up the nerve to go to Wilde Creek and seek him out.

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