Danny's POV:
I was hanging out with my friends before the party tonight. “Ugh! I don’t want to go to this party, man. I have better things to do”, I said while trying to sink my little basketball into the hoop attached to my closet door. My friend Jason looked surprised. He said, “C’mon, Danny. The girls are all drunk on the promise of a mate that they are practically begging for s*x! There are going to be beautiful girls there tonight, my friend. If you don't find your mate then you can have an easy lay from one of them”. I scoffed at his words. I said, “I am sick of these girls that are looking for the mate with the highest ranking. What happened to waiting for your true mate? Half of these girls, if not most, are sluts, already having had s*x with multiple partners. I can’t stand girls like that. I don’t want to touch them at all. I would rather just stay home”. He looked at me incredulously and told me, “You are complaining about girls that will give you s*x? Are you nuts?” He can be so short-sighted. I shrugged my shoulders and replied, “I just think it’s a waste of time”.
I am Daniel Ravenwood; Danny for short. I am the son of Alpha Maxwell and am therefore the future Alpha of the Blood Fang Pack. I am twenty years old. My younger sister, Jaycie, just turned eighteen, so this will be her first time. She is all atwitter to meet her true mate. I was on the fence about going, but as I watch my sister pass us to go to the kitchen, completely oblivious to the way my stupid friends were checking her out, I fall to the side where I decide I need to go. If nothing else, I at least need to protect her. My mom, Luna Darla, called out to Jaycie and asked her whether she would need help with her hair for when we go out tonight. She tells her she doesn’t, while I continue glaring at my friends. She rounds the corner and continues talking to my mother when she gets to the kitchen, and I go over and hit my two friends in the back of their heads and motion to go inside my room.
“What were you doing leering at my sister!?”, I roared at them. They reacted by simply bending their heads to the side to show me their necks and showing me they are submitting to me. Jason shrugged with a sheepish grin, and said, “Sorry, Danny, we won’t do it again”. My wolf calmed down considerably, satisfied he had shown them who was in charge. I was still a little annoyed. I said, “Maybe I should just have Jaycie and myself in the car tonight”, I threatened, “Maybe you guys can find your own way”. I smiled as I watched their faces sadden. “Don’t lose your heads again”, I said to them very quietly calmly. They were more afraid of my quiet voice because it somehow promised more trouble for them in the future. I rolled my eyes and said, “All right. Let’s get ready to go”.
After we cleaned up a little bit, we went down to the living room to wait for Jaycie. “Say, Danny”, Jason started, “Why are you against these girls, anyway?”. I thought for a minute, trying to come up with the right words to explain. I took a deep breath and said, “Listen, I want you guys to have a fun night, but try to behave while you are doing it. We are all ranked werewolves, so the girls will try to flirt and flaunt whatever assets they have in our faces. I am interested in having a mate that has some sense of self-respect. She is beautiful but still dresses modestly because her beauty is so great it does not need to be flaunted. She is kind, and does not feel the need of putting down everyone around her just to try to make herself feel better”. I looked up and my friend Joel, who has remained silent up until now said, “I see what you're saying, Danny. You feel it is a waste of time to spend time with these girls who don’t possess the qualities you are searching for in your Luna. But maybe you are nervous that your destined mate isn’t what you pictured? Jason and Joel are my Beta and my Gamma respectively. Well, they will be when they take their positions as I take mine when I turn twenty-one.
Jaycie comes down and she looks beautiful. She looks mature but sophisticated. My chest puffs out with pride. I look over at the two numbskulls, and they are carefully keeping their gazes trained on the floor. Jason’s phone rings and he said, “Terrance just texted, he is waiting at the front in the car”. Terrance will be Delta. I nodded, pleased that everything was starting out well for the night. I should have known better.
As soon as I relaxed and let my guard down just a little, the universe decided to mess with me. A voice that gave the same feeling that nails on a blackboard do abruptly stops us. I do not even need to turn around to see who it is. It is Cindy Foxx, who the guys refer to as “Foxy”. I look at Jason and Joel and they try to run interference, but she was a determined woman. She made her way over to me while dodging my friends and throwing a discreet jab with her elbow at Joel when he tried to restrain her from me. I watched in astonishment. We haven’t taken our official titles and positions yet, but we were announced as future whatevers, but we needed to practice for when it is real. Cindy ducks under Jason’s arm, and said without missing a beat, “Hey Danny”, she purred as she started to push her not so covered chest into my line of vision while she pressed herself against me, “Can I get a lift with you? My car broke down, and I didn’t get a chance to find another ride before getting ready for tonight. I’m so glad I happened to run into you before you left”, she finished while trying to give me a sexy look. Jaycie made a scoffing sound and shakes her head, and just for good measure, she throws in an eye roll. Cindy did not miss this, and glares at her, knowing anything more than that would find her out of our car pretty quickly. I opened the car door for Jaycie, then I go to open the passenger side front door, and Cindy tried to put her claws around my arm. I looked back, and Jason decides he wants to mess with me, and slipped past me and sat in the front passenger side, and shut the door before locking it. Cindy pulled me into the car, and I fixed a glare at Jason’s head so he can feel my eyes burn holes into it, as I imagine it actually happening. I know he felt something because he would not turn around to look at us once on the drive there. He needs to race out of this car when we get there if he wants to have a slim chance of living. Let the fun begin