Aurora’s Life of Dreams

My Truth

Drew’s POV

**She is running through the woods, I see these men chasing her, screaming at her. I try to run to help her but I can’t move. It’s like I’m trapped in a bubble, forced to watch as this happens. The one in front is right on her heels, she is about to hit the water when he tackles her “you’re mine now”, he says filling me with pure rage. Seeing her fight against him made me think of her mother and how much she favors her from looks to spirit they could be twins. It made me angry and sad to think this is how my mate spent her time after she took her chosen, fighting constantly for her life and the life of our daughter. I’m snapped back to this reality when suddenly she disappears from sight. The men are confused and shouting at each other when I start listening in closer I hear a voice one I recognize she’s hiding me in a mindlink. “Faith,” I mutter under my breath, I smile at the sound of her voice. She is talking about helping her and some greater evil coming after her. And that’s when I know, I must protect her. My daughter, my Aurora Mae.**

This is the third time I’ve had this dream, I know it’s Faith. She’s sending me these messages, she was always very good with her craft. No where close to Jenna though, her telepathic abilities, healing and spell practice were far greater than anything I’ve ever seen. I remember her trying to convince me to take her as Luna, “it’s bigger than the two of us,” “I don’t want to live without you,” “I’ve seen things happen, good and bad depending on your choice.” These are the words that have haunted me since I rejected her. She was never allowed to tell me what she saw, but she always tried to use her gift to help people at the time and in the future. I ignored her and I hate myself for it.

After we mated the one night, I begged my father to let me take her as luna. Of course, he just laughed in my face. Regardless of her powers, she wasn’t high enough ranked to please him. When I returned to my room to speak with her, she was gone with a note on her pillow. The note read, “I know what you have to do, please meet me at our place.” I did as she asked, she wanted to be rejected at the place we first kissed. We had been meeting in secret for weeks and since I wasn’t alpha yet I had to have my father’s approval to mark her which I knew I’d never get.

Once I rejected her, my father made me take the Greensfield Pack Alpha Daughter as my Luna, Helena. She and I have never gotten along, we make our public appearances together and keep things civil but when it came down to it she hated me, she slept in a separate room and swore she’d never give me an heir. I felt when she found her mate, they’ve been mating in secret for years. It is easier for me to pretend I don’t know, although Helena doesn’t even try to hide it most times.

I also felt when Jenna took a new mate, the pain that came with that was beyond anything I could have ever imagined. What was weird is I never felt the hurt of her mating with this wolf. Why would she have a ceremony and not mate with this person? I never thought anything of it until 5 years later I felt her death and my half moon mark appeared. Something about this pain wasn’t normal, it felt brutal. I started to ask around to see what happened to her. After a couple of months I found out she had moved to Mount Fern Pack, Tennessee. She reigned as Gamma Daughter to the Rocky Wood Pack in North Carolina with her family prior to this new mate so I was unsure why she would relocate there. The man she took as her mate, Thomas, had beaten her to death and chased her daughter with intent of killing her. When they told me of her daughter I was so confused, she never mated with this Thomas so how could she possibly have a child? I would have felt her mate with someone else, and that is when everything started to piece itself together in my mind. I needed to see this girl.

*Flashback*

I reached out to Alpha Dominic, we had been friends for years, and planned a visit. He insisted that I meet his adopted child. When I pulled up it was like looking at a young Jenna but with my eyes. I couldn’t even move to open the door, so my driver came around and did it for me and slowly helped me out of the vehicle. As I was getting out of the car I realized I still had the look of utter shock on my face so I quickly regained my composure and started walking towards Alpha Dom. Before I could reach him, the young girl ran to me and wrapped her little arms around my legs. Everyone let out a gasp, Luna Magan covered her mouth.

“She hasn’t spoken or shown any affection since her mother’s funeral two months ago,” Luna Magan spoke with tears in her eyes. I bent over to return the hug she was yet to release when she looked up at me with her beautiful hazel eyes, it was like she was looking into my soul.

“Hello there little wolf, I’m Drew.”

“Hello.” She said at a whisper that only I could hear.

“I’m very sorry about your mommy, she was a really good friend of mine.” She started to hug me again when she got a glimpse of my hand.

“I’m sorry too...”

“For what sweet girl?”

“That your mate went to be with the Moon Goddess.”

She rubbed the mark on my hand not realizing that only someone of kin to you could see it. It took everything in me not to cry, if only you knew little wolf that your mommy was my mate. She was my whole world. And somehow you will be too.

*Flashback Over*

She had already started adapting to life in their pack house whenever I came to visit so I decided to let her continue to live her life within their pack. Dom and Magan had always wanted a daughter and now they had one, I didn’t want to uproot that happiness and I didn’t want to tear her from this life she was coming to know. Instead I make five yearly visits, one for each season, and always make an appearance for her birthday. I want to know her without stealing her away, I’ve always thought it was in everyone’s best interest. But now, with this dream I have to wonder if I was wrong.

Aurora’s POV

It has been about a week since Hayley’s mating ceremony and almost a month since I found out about my biological father. My mom and I spoke about my options of reaching out to him before his summer visit, which just so happened to line up with Jett’s Alpha Ceremony and my Luna Ceremony. I told mom to keep it a secret that I knew, I needed to speak to him and my dad together because I had a feeling that this wouldn’t be a surprise to my father. Remembering the first time I met him and even all of the visits throughout the years, I was drawn to him in a way I couldn’t explain. I think my dad knew that it was because I am Alpha Drew’s daughter. Thinking that still blows my mind, Alpha Drew. The first person I spoke to after my mother’s funeral, the man who has cut my birthday cake every year, who never missed a school dance or a Christmas. He was always involved, even from a distance, but it made me wonder why he never told me? As his biological daughter and only heir you would think he would have told me as soon as he knew. I will say he had been dad like to me without ever really getting that acknowledgment. I was going to talk to him and dad together, but now I need to have a hard conversation about my decision. One that will change everything.