To Rule Them All

Still unmated

Iris

As I followed Lachlan up to Thea’s room I could feel my eyelids getting heavy, actually bed sounded great.

I curled up on the sofa bed I liked to sleep on when we stayed here and half watched Thea get ready. I wasn’t going to lie I was not the least bit fussed that I was missing the ball. I just couldn’t be bothered with the amount of effort it took.

Thea has just spent ten minutes choosing the correct colour of eye shadow to complement her dress. If I was being honest they all looked good to me.

Finally she declared she was ready. She was wearing a beautiful gold dress that attenuated the curves she was starting to show, much curvier than me, she already had decent boobs and an hourglass figure.

“I don’t know why you are making so much effort, it’s not like you will meet you mate” I yawned.

“I can’t help it if I look this good Iris, it just comes naturally” she teased, then seriously asked “do you believe that rogue wanted to kidnap you?”

“Honestly Thea I don’t know what to believe but right now I’m so tired I can’t even begin to think about it. Go have fun and wake me up if Lachlan finds his mate.” I wasn’t lying my brain hurt from trying to process everything I had heard today. All I wanted to do was sleep.

Oliver

I was still reeling a bit from all the news we had just heard. Luke and Jackson didn’t know how the rogue had died yet but it was now time to head down to the ball. The excitement that Jackson and Lachlan might meet their mates had damped with the news of what happened to Lachlan’s mother’s pack.

It did make sense why my grandfather moved to Wild Water, and stayed there he probably felt tasked with protecting Sally once my mum had found her mate and moved to Blue Moon. I must ask him about it when I next visited.

Silver Oak balls were always great fun, less formal than the ones held at Blue Moon.

Claire was coming over, normally wolves didn’t get to travel to other balls until they were 18 but as Thea and Iris liked her they had invited her specially. Those three had somehow managed to cement a firm friendship during a hockey tournament or something. Claire adored them both so was always desperate to tag along with me if she could.

This meant spending more time with Iris though. Which never ended well, we really never got on. She seemed to go out of her way to annoy me. I often hoped Ruben would get a girlfriend so we could ditch the others sometimes but his family didn’t like the idea so he had to keep things low key.

Claire and I had actually been dating for a while now and it was pretty obvious she hoped to be Luna. I wasn’t averse to the idea. I didn’t really buy into the fated mates thing thing like Lachlan, Jackson and Ruben did but I could do worse than Claire.

She was pretty, popular and basically did anything to please me. Also she was pretty good in bed too, being younger I had expected her to be pretty inexperienced but what she lacked in skill she made up for with enthusiasm and her skills had improved rapidly.

I had been starting to bore of her but thankfully Alpha training had come along and I was looking forward to seeing her again, later, naked in bed.

Jackson

We walked down the stairs to enter the ballroom. Mum and dad leading the way with Thea holding my arm looking radiant as always. She really would make the prefect Luna when her time came.

I scanned the room looking for my friends as usual they were standing by the canapé table, discretely trying to sneak as many as possibly without mum seeing. Oliver’s girlfriend Claire had arrived and was attached to Oliver’s side much to his irritation. I didn’t quite understand why he was seeing her, she was a lovely girl but Oliver didn’t seem to care for her much.

Lachlan was busy scanning the room, clearly trying to see if his mate was here. He had been never been the playboy that Oliver and Ruben were, possibly why they got along so well.

Ruben didn’t have the same pressures as Lachlan and myself as he was expected to be Lachlan’s beta, a job he was pretty content with.

While I wasn’t in a rush to find my mate, as long as I found her before the alpha of alphas trial I was happy but Lachlan would settle down tomorrow if he got the chance.

Spotting Luke and Patrick I wanted over to the other side of the room.

“So any luck?” I asked my future Gamma and Beta.

“ Nada” replied Patrick “ and we are now bored. Permission to get drunk and have fun boss.”

“Granted” I laughed “ but let’s take Lachlan with us and then we can maybe keep the others from disgracing themselves”

With that we made our way to the patio outside the ballroom, generally this is where we hung out once we had the formalities over, it meant we could pop back into the ballroom often enough to be polite without having to deal with the masses of hanger-ons and wanna-be lunas paraded before us by their parents.

As Blue Moon was one of the biggest and richest packs around Oliver got it particularly bad.

As I watched Lachlan make another lap of the room my thoughts wandered to Thea.

It was no secret everyone hoped she would be Lachlan’s mate. I just couldn’t see those two together, it would feel a bit strange if she was mated to my best friend.

I motioned for us to move out to the patio. I had already circled the room twice but there was no sign of my mate. Mum and dad had coached me not to fool around and make false promises to girls that they would be Luna so unlike Oliver and Ruben I had only had one girlfriend, and that ended a while ago.

Iris

Thea woke me on her return from the party. She had clearly had enough of the boys. Lachlan and Jackson clearly haven’t found there mates as she wasn’t excited but she was smiling about something. I was guessing that it looked like Luke hadn’t either which I’m secretly glad about as I think she has had a crush on him for ages.

Mum is sure she is going to be mates to one of my brothers so I wanted it to be Bodhi as he is my favourite.

Ruben might the most handsome but he is such a playboy, much to everyone’s outrage, Thea would not be impressed.

She has been groomed to be Luna since forever and I know she will be excellent so maybe she will be mates with Lachlan. Jackson is really strict with her so I know she has never been allowed a boyfriend, I don’t think I would either if I had any interest.

“Any news ?” I asked sleepily.

“Nope!” She replied and instantly my head was back on the pillow.