The hot water washing over my body as I try to calm down my breathing, “I can’t believe that happened.” I whispered to myself. It was as if my body had a mind of its own as soon as he caught me with his rough hands. Flashback Asher came around the corner from the kitchen as I was descending the stairs, I wasn’t watching where I was going as I was thinking of all the things that my friends and I were going to do today because I’m officially 18. I practically face planted right into his hard sculptured chest except he caught me just as I was about to. Grabbing onto my shoulders and embracing me into his thick tattooed arms as if I was some delicate flower that would break which I am by far anything but that, he leaned his head right into the nape of neck and whispered “Happy Birthday my little treasure.” He than placed a gentle kiss on my neck, slowly backed away from me he turned and left me standing there baffled, confused and might I dare say flustered. I ran back up the stairs to my room as if my ass was on fire, slammed the door behind me and headed straight to the my bathroom. I stripped my clothes off and got in the shower and turned it on as hot as it would go. End of flashback I’ve known Asher since I was born, well relatively speaking as I wouldn’t know him exactly when I was a born but you know what I mean. We grew up together as both our parents were close friends. My name is Amelia Black and I am the Alphas only daughter. Like most often we grew up best friends along with a couple other kids in the pack, Asher was the son of the Beta couple and Wyatt and Miles were the sons of the Gamma couple. Asher and I were always together growing up, where one was the other was not far behind. It was like this till Asher turned 15, Asher is a year older than me. We get our wolves when we turn 16 along with reaching maturity to identify our mate. As soon as Asher turned 15 he started distancing himself from me. It started off small like him saying he couldn’t hang out because he was with the guys or that he had school work or training to do. I didn’t think much of it at first, this went on for weeks then It turned into months till one day I got tired of asking him and just stopped. It was the night of Asher’s 16th birthday the whole pack gathered around him in the backyard for his first shift. I watched as Asher stood in the middle of the clearing waiting for it to start. Minutes past and then he crouched over in pain as the first snapping sounds of bones echoed throughout the clearing. After what seemed like hours Asher stood up on all four paws and let out a triumphant howl to the moon. After he slowly lowered his head he searched the clearing for one person and one person only and stared straight into her eyes but nothing happened. Amelia stared back at Asher in confusion as to why he was looking at her that way. A moment passed and his wolf eyes pierced into hers as if willing her to understanding what he was wanting. Asher looked away in pain, his life just shattered before him. Amelia was not his mate.