Her chosen mate (The change series 2)

Chapter 1: Run

Natasha

I ran down the stairs so fast I crashed into dad.

“F.ucking hell, Natasha! Watch it!” He grabbed me before I fell, and then he got me into a headlock and started ruffling my hair.

“Dad, stop! I spent hours making it nice!” I yelled.

Laughing, he let me go and rose an eyebrow. “Oh yeah? Who you looking nice for?”

“None of your business!” I shoved past him and sat down at the table next to mum. You wouldn’t think I was a twenty-two-year-old grown woman, but I guess it was the omega way to be playful, while I embraced being an omega happily, both Kai and mum hated it, mum was alpha alongside dad these days, he was alpha so that automatically made her alpha too, but she was working her way up to being an alpha in her own right and not just by being the alpha’s wife.

She was a good fighter too. Kai had recently decided to work his way up to a more dominant position too, dad had hinted at wanting Kai as his second in command alongside Leo who used to be the alpha.

I had the biggest crush on Kai, not just a crush actually, I was in love with him even though he was forty-one, and I was only twenty-two, I didn’t care, a lot of werewolves didn’t as long as the two were consenting adults, and I was.

Kai didn’t look any older than mid-twenties anyway thanks to the slow aging of werewolves, another reason why age didn’t matter so much was because we lived three lifetimes, by eighty we’d still look only late twenties, early thirties.

Mum and I compared it to dating a vampire who was over a hundred, it was more or less the same, and Kai wasn’t exactly mature for his age either, he could be as much of a big kid as I was.

I’d been born a werewolf, but the change had failed and almost killed me, I’d been left with a damaged spine and a limp and the mental age of a ten-year-old, but as I grew older I felt the werewolf gene slowly kicking in again, not enough to change me, but enough to heal me, I slowly lost the limp, my senses kicked in, and my mental age caught up to my physical age when I was around seventeen.

I hadn’t told mum and dad, being an omega meant I enjoyed physical affection a lot more than normal werewolves, I didn’t want to lose that with them, then I’d been afraid that as I grew up, they would kick me out because I wasn’t a werewolf anymore and only human.

I knew dad hated humans, didn’t even put himself in the same category as them, and I’d been convinced he couldn’t wait to get rid of me, so I’d carried on acting like a ten-year-old, terrified that if they saw the truth, they would want me out because how could I be part of the pack when I wasn’t a werewolf myself.

Of course that had all been my own fears, dad did love me and told me himself that he would never have kicked me out, I’d always be his baby girl.

Another reason I played up to the act was because mum took me to book club every Thursday and I didn’t want it to stop, I’d met another werewolf there called Owen, it was a club for mentally disabled people like myself, and he had been one of the people to help host it, I hadn’t known at the time it was a ploy to get close to me and get me to agree to his experiment.

He had told me how he was convinced he could make me a werewolf and successfully this time, because I’d been born one and still carried the gene he thought I’d stand a better chance surviving the bite than a human, they rarely ever survived, but I was different because the gene was already there.

He’d had me hooked and desperate to try it, I wanted to be a wolf so bad that I sunk into a deep depression and began to comfort eat, piling on the weight until I was a size twenty in uk clothes, unfortunately I didn’t have the metabolism of a werewolf, only the healing, I didn’t have everything a fully turned werewolf had.

His offer was a lifeboat to me, and I had grabbed it with both hands, he’d injected me with his saliva before mum or dad could stop him and by some miracle he had been right, I’d survived the change.

Kai walked in from his own home a few doors down, and I smiled bashfully like a moron, now I couldn’t hide behind the persona of my young mind, I found all I ever did was blush around him.

Dad always got attention from girls, my father was one of those men that were traffic stopping gorgeous, no joke, drop-dead good looks with golden blonde curly hair, a golden tan, blue eyes and a chiseled jawline.

Mum seemed obsessed with his muscular build, and I was no different with Kai, he was almost as good looking as dad, drop-dead gorgeous looks with honey blonde hair that fell into his grey eyes, it wasn’t too dissimilar to dads hair with the curls, although it leaned more towards wavy.

He had a chiseled jawline too, with Cupid bow lips and with the muscular build, he was every girls wet dream. Werewolves were naturally well-built and had muscle, it was for survival the same with slow aging, it was our bodies way to make sure we stayed strong and healthy for as long as possible.

Unfortunately for me, I struggled like mum did, I was now considered a bitten werewolf like her and so while we still got the fast metabolism it took longer to work for us than it did the born werewolves. I was still waiting for mine to kick in.

“Hey, Tash.” Kai ruffled my hair as he walked by me, and I tried not to sulk. He never seemed to notice when I looked nice for him, he was more used to the slim long-legged blondes, they seemed to be his favourite.

I was a big girl, for now, and mum’s family were black on her grandads side, her mum had been half black, her father white, so she had light olive skin with dark brown hair that looked black and hazel eyes that looked brown until you got closer.

People mistook her for being Italian or Greek or something. I was rare in that I had been born black, a friend from school had mentioned it being a throwback in the gene pool or something.

I wasn’t as dark as my great-grandfather, if Amber had Halle berry’s skin tone, then I was two shades lighter than that, I got dad’s blue eyes, though mine were the darkest shade of blue. I had black curly hair with very small hints of golden blonde running through, my curls were tight ringlets and probably from both dad and my great-grandfather.

Kai sat down beside me and my stomach started doing somersaults inside. “You still on for the cinema tomorrow?” He asked.

“Definitely!” I grinned.

“Can I bring Sophia?”

I ignored the sinking feeling in my stomach, I was used to his never-ending supply of girlfriends. “No! That’s so cringe, I’m not being your third wheel, plus you’ll just spend it making out the whole time.”

“True, fine, just me and you then,” he grinned.

He grabbed some meat from the plates of food on the table and stood up to leave. When he reached the door, he leaned back around to me and called out, “run later?”

“Yes!”

I ran up to my room to try to find something nice to wear for the cinema tomorrow.

I didn’t want to appear too obvious, so I chose some jeans and a white tank top, the one good thing I had was big b.reasts, maybe wearing a low cut top would draw his attention to me.

When it was time to run, mum called up to me and I ran down to join them. Usually mum and dad ran together, it was their thing, but since I was a werewolf too now they always made time for me during the week as well, Kai would be joining us along with Leo and Amber.

We all went outside together when Leo and Amber were back from shopping. Leo ruffled my hair and I shoved his hand away. “What is it with you men and messing my hair up,” I grumbled.

Laughing, he dropped his arm around my shoulder and said, “sorry, I keep forgetting you’re not a kid anymore.”

Great, I really hoped Kai didn’t still see me like that, I’d worked hard at becoming his friend, his adult friend, now I just needed to get him to see me as more than that.

We all found our own spots to change, and I got onto my hands and knees and began the painful process. It was excruciating as bones shifted and realigned, lengthening and shortening, skin stretching taut over bones.

I gritted my teeth and tried not to scream, it was impossible not to make any noise and I groaned and gasped through it. The end was the worst, the pain so bad you wanted to die, thankfully that only lasted about ten seconds.

When I was done I lay there panting, waiting for the last ebbs of pain to fade away. Dad was never one for patience, and he was also overly protective of me, apparently I took too long because he padded into the bush to check on me, snuffling my body for injury or something, if I could have rolled my eyes I would have.

When he was done checking me over he nuzzled me and then backed out. I stretched my body, shook myself, and then followed him out. Mum came and nuzzled me next and bumped her body against mine as we followed dad into the forest.

It was a big forest, and it was all ours, the land belonged to Leo along with the massive ranch we lived in, it was a cool set up, Leo used to be a builder, and he had built this place himself.

The main part of the ranch was where me, mum, dad, Leo and Amber lived and then the adjoining building consisted of smaller homes, think of a motel all ground floor, that’s what it looked like.

Kai came barrelling towards me knocking me to the floor. He bit my ear playfully, and I knew it would leave a mark, as wolves we didn’t play lightly. I bit his leg making him yank it back then I got up and pounced on him. We rolled across the dirt, fighting for dominance, I almost had him, but then he pinned me and put his jaws around my throat.

I huffed in annoyance, but he didn’t let go until I gave a small whine of submission. When he let me up, I s.lapped his muzzle with my paw and whipped my tail in his face as I trotted past.

He bit down on the tufts of fur on my tail and I snapped at him, but he didn’t let go. He was so focused on me that he didn’t know anything was amiss until dad came and threw himself at Kai, knocking him sideways. He did some rough play with Kai for a while, Leo joined in along with Amber while mum came up beside me and rubbed her face against mine.

I licked her letting her know I was fine and when the others stopped playing we all ran together getting rid of all the pent-up energy, it was exhilarating and calmed the wolf.

As trees whizzed by I was careful to duck the outstretched branches, or to jump the big logs on the floor. When we began to tire we hunted. As wolves, we needed to keep a raw meat diet.

Dad led the way as alpha alongside mum and Leo was next with Amber, Kai was still working his way up to second in command so for now, he was at back with me.

We were in luck as we came across a female deer, dad didn’t like hunting them too much because as cute as they might look, they were still dangerous to wolves, one hard kick could kill us. A stag had killed dads whole family when he was little, they’d lived like real wolves spending all of their time in wolf form and when they had died he’d been accepted into a pack of real wolves before Leo found him, he was more wolflike than the rest of us.

We surrounded the deer as it ran, Leo and Amber stayed at its sides encouraging it to sprint at full speed which would exhaust it quickly, we kept close to it until it began to tire, then mum darted back and forth in front of it to confuse it, while it was distracted dad pounced, clamping his jaws around its nose.

Leo and Amber attacked its sides and when they managed to bring it down to the ground me and Kai joined in to help, wolf instincts taking over, humanity gone.

When we’d killed it mum and dad ate first and when they were ready dad wanted me to go next lest his precious pup go hungry, pfft.

Leo and Amber joined in, and then Kai. When we’d all had our fill Amber and Leo started cleaning one another and mum and dad did the same, when dad looked ready to come clean me I quickly shot up and went over to Kai.

I put my paw on his muzzle, lowering it to me and started licking it clean. To him, it was only cleaning, but to me, it was intimate, it was as close as I could get to his mouth, did I sound desperate? Hell yeah, but I didn’t care.

He licked mine clean next and after some more playing around we all headed back to change.

I rolled my eyes when mum and dad disappeared back into the forest, we all knew with the adrenaline rush from the change they liked to, well, ‘help’ one another if you catch my drift, if you don’t, then I mean s**x, lots of s**x meaning none of us would see them for a good few hours.

I tried not to stare at Kai as he stepped out topless, his chest covered in a light sheen of sweat from the change, his eyes glittering from the adrenaline.

When he hugged me goodbye it took a lot not to just jump him, I always felt bolder with the adrenaline coursing through me and every time I had to work really hard to control my impulses towards him. As always, the run ended with me going to bed frustrated.