My Off-Limits Second Chance Mate

The air is cool as the moon shines over the mountains. Samantha sits by a small bonfire that she has started. Burning boxes, old mail, and anything else that would feed the flames till she was ready to turn in for the night. With a glass of sweet white wine in one hand and a lighter in her other, she sits and watches the flames dance around. Her view of the mountains and forest reminds her of how big the world really is. How her problems seem so huge to her but so small to everyone else. This includes her husband. Zack is her high school sweetheart who agreed to leave their hometown behind along with all of those problems so they can finally start a family. Something Samantha has always had tunnel vision for. She has been waiting for him to get done with college, get a good job, and for them to find a house, but that was years ago. Years of waiting and hoping for a child to call their own but still nothing. They had decided to sell their house in the city and move out to the countryside. The only noise they hear now are the birds' churp during the day and the wolves that howl into the night. It was a nice and peaceful place to raise a family. Samantha had just had her 30th birthday and she could feel her internal clock ticking away. They had tried to conceive for the last 2 years but nothing. All the doctors visits, testing and just to find out that they can't have a baby. The doctors can't pinpoint which of them is the issue. Zack is shooting anything, but blanks and Samantha is as fertal as they come, but together, they can't reproduce. Zack, Samantha, and every doctor they've seen find it a mystery. To Samantha it's just frustrating and Zack seems to only care about his job. Samantha's miniature Australian Shepard stands to attention, snapping Samantha out of her trance. "Calm down, Fin." Samantha tells the black tri colored K9. "It's just a deer or something." Deer and other wildlife have gathered in this backyard multiple times over the past few weeks. Samantha was envious over the doe with their fawns but still couldn't help but admire their cuteness. The last thing she wanted was for her dog to scare them away. Samantha patted her lap and the little dog ran over to her, jumping up and licking her face. He then snaps his head back towards the forest, hearing a sound too low for Samantha's human ears to hear. Fin let's out a growl as Samantha pets his coat in hopes of calming him. She sets down the wine glass and lighter next to her on the wicker end table as Fins chest rumbles with a low growl. Samantha tries to see what her dog sees but can't. She strains her ears but doesn't hear a thing. "It's okay, Fin." She tells her dog, this time trying to believe it also. Samantha could hold her head high well walking down a busy city street at night, but this part of the world was still new to her. She couldn't help but think about all the movies she's watched over the years about the monsters who hid in the night. Little did she know, the only monster who was near was the only one who would never hurt her. Jake sat in his wolf form just inside the tree line of the forest watching Samantha. The way she smelt hooked him from over a mile away. The sweet smell of strawberries and vanilla. Such a difference from the pine trees and the fresh smell of snow from the mountains. As his wolf ran to find that smell, they came across a beautiful woman sitting in a patio chair by a bonfire. They could smell the K9 she kept by her side but they knew that dog wasn't any match for a werewolf. The little growl coming from the tiny beast made Shadow, Jake's wolf counterpart laugh. He's killed bunnies bigger than that thing but yet he still had the balls to defend his owner. Jake liked the dog already. The women held the dog and spoke softly to it, making Jake and Shadows heart do a flutter. "Is she our.." Jake asks Shadow. "Yes Jake, she's our second chance mate." Shadow thinks back to Jake who is just a voice in his head at this moment. "She's beautiful." Jake tells him as he admires the women threw his wolf's eyes. Shadow nods I'm agreement as he watches the women too. Jake sees the dog calm down and jump over to the other chair. He lays down but never takes his eyes off of them hiding out amongst the trees. Good dog. Jake thinks to himself. He liked that she already has a small form of protection. He would help the little dog with that roll once he actually meets this women. The two sit and watch the women as she picks back up her glass of wine and takes a sip. Just then they see a sparkle of something on her hand as the fire burns bright. "She's married." Shadow tells Jake. The women wears a wedding band, most humans wear them when they are spoken for. Werewolves normally don't because you'd smell their mate on them once the mating process is over. There's no use for those in their world, but in Samantha's world there was. It ment she was off limits. " I don't care." Jake tells Shadow confidently and wholeheartedly. "We have to be smart about this." Shadow argues with his owner. He knows why the Moon Godess would give them an off-limits human second chance mate. Jake wanted to forget about that time in his life. A time where he had everything but ended it with his own hands. Shadow would rather live without a mate than hurt another one again, even if they weren't the ones to cast the first blow to the bond. They had been the one to end it.