Pack of Her Own by Elena Abbott

Author:Elena Abbott [Abbott, Elena]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Bold Strokes Books
Published: 2023-03-02T00:00:00+00:00

Chapter Twenty-four

Wren

It was a good thing I only spoke to Misty on Natalie’s phone that one time. If I’d caught her scent from meeting her in person, I couldn’t promise I wouldn’t do something drastic. When we returned to our lunch, my darling woman spilled her guts, telling me everything that happened between her and her psycho ex-girlfriend.

The worst part of it was that she’d probably never have become the person she was now without knowing Misty. The girl was Nat’s only support during her teenage years, and that evolved into a dangerous codependency that threatened to destroy them both.

But now Natalie had me, and I had my mate.

I shuddered at the thought. I couldn’t even fathom yet what it really meant. I only sensed how intense my wolf’s feelings for Nat were. But when I was given a moment to think, I couldn’t help but remember that she was human. Could I really mate with a human?

Growing up in my pack, I knew that to mate was supposed to be for life. In the Cardinals, they tended to assign wolves to each other, dictating the dominant and submissive bullshit that was so ingrained into our culture. The dominant wolves, wolves higher in the hierarchy and closer to the Alpha, were gifted with promises of wolves they considered submissive, the ones who didn’t care, or weren’t high in their standing in the pack. These were the wolves that weren’t active about fighting their way up a brutal and flawed system. I watched the way the so-called dominants treated the submissives and knew I couldn’t be a part of that world, that way of life. It was one of the many reasons I wanted to be a lone wolf, with no one and nothing to answer to. And no one expecting me to abuse them on a regular basis.

My Alpha had promised me to someone else, back in my old pack. This was before I was old enough to even understand what this meant, and before I grew into my nature as an Alpha. I’d been promised to the pack enforcer, Craig Reid. Once I became Alpha, I was out of his reach, and he had been hounding me ever since. No one could force me to mate, now that I was an Alpha.

Maybe other packs were different. I had to hope they were, but I didn’t have a lot of experience. To me, a mated pair were supposed to be something special, something more than just one wolf having complete control over another. We were only given a single mate in our lifetime, and that person would complete us. That was the lore anyway. Sounded like a crock of shit for most of my life.

And then Natalie happened.

I needed more information. I needed to learn so much that I never had the chance to. Hikaru seemed to know a lot, but I needed to hear it from a wolf’s mouth, not a vampire’s.

These were the thoughts on my mind three days after our date at the diner.

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