THE BLOOD OATH

THE GRAND BALL

 ASTERA

Here I am, trying out my dress for tonight. I like to look dashing and I always make an appearance when attending to these kind of events. In one hour, my pack’s private jet will fly me and the few ones who wanted to join me at this Ball, and here I am, trying out my dress and choosing my accessories.

-knock knock – I heard at my door. “Yes?” I answer surprised. I did not expected anyone.

- b*tch, where do you think you go without me? – Dina’s hoarse voice coming out from the back of the door.

- OH MY GOD! You woke up!!!

- “of course I woke up. Only death will put this beauty to sleep.” Said Dina with a smirk as she displayed her voluptuous body.

- “yes, death and her FATED MATE!”, I said as I started laughing.

- shhhhhhhhh!!!!!!! I haven’t told the others yet, and I preferred it this way until I figure out what to do!

- ohhh, I see. Ok. But still, you are in no condition to join me. You should rest, sleep, eat, repeat.

- the hell I am not! I will come! I will be better once we will take off. I will have plenty time to sleep in the plane. The vampire venom is out of my system along with the wolfsbane and the other stuff, the wounds healed almost completely, my dress is ready and here I am! Let’s go! You will make everyone late, as usual…

I laughed at her crazy idea and accepted to got along with it. She was the only one who could call me “b*tch” and I would laugh, because I know this is how she expresses her loving feelings towards me, towards us. She was terrible at displaying emotions, she would always joke around and made fun of everything and everyone. She was just full of life and of joy and I loved her for the natural and simple way she was!

Soon, we got in the jet and we flew at the Ball. 5 hours flight went by like 5 minutes and in no time we were landing. I felt Saradi unsettled, and that made me unsettled. I was with my pack members, at least, the few ones who wanted to come, hoping that they will find their mate: Beta Dina, Gamma Michayla whom we convinced to come with us, Delta Olympia, 3 male wolf warriors, Johnny, and 2 she-wolves warriors, one of them a lovely Omega named Lorra. I could not care less about all the nonsense ranking and rules. The only rule that mattered to me was: is that a good wolf or not? And we all were very good wolves. We all looked dashing, like old-school movie stars. I was wearing a long tight backless silk yvoire dress, that revealed my legs when I walked. It had a few spaghetti straps along my back, that caressed my hips as I walked by. This dress's color complimented my natural-bronze skin tone. I had very sexy golden high heels sandals that complimented my feet and some gold long earring with diamonds at the end. My wavy hair was loose, softly combed on my left side, and a small gold pin caught some rebellious locks from falling down my face. I looked very classy and very sexy at the same time. Everything matched perfectly. “Breathe in”, I told myself, “relax, and enjoy”. When the valet announces our arrival, I have to enter first, since I am their Alpha.

-           “Alpha Astera Black from the Blackmoon Pack” – he said trying to hold back his curious look. Every single soul from the room stopped breathing for a second. They were shocked! First, I was a female, a small one, second, I was The Alpha. And third, I was without mate. All eyes were on me, everybody knew about me, but not everybody knew my face. Well… now they do.

I walked down the red carpet in full confidence, letting my very strong Alpha aura fill the room. Lots of heads involuntarily bowed down to me because of my strong dominance. This only happened in the presence of the Royal family. And, surprisingly, now in my presence. The Alpha King and his Luna Queen came to greet me. Luna Queen Larra was very fond of me, she liked me very much because of my evolutionary way of leading. Alpha King Albert loved that my pack was so prosperous, because that meant prosperity for everybody. Luna Queen Larra was part wolf, part witch, but she was the fated mate of Alpha King Albert and they loved each other deeply. Their bond was like no other bond, full of respect, of trust and of love. I looked up to them, and I cared deeply for them. They have 3 sons and 2 daughters. The daughters and the older sons are mated, so all the eyes were on the youngest unmated son, prince Maximus. I have never seen him, but I heard that he was the only one of his siblings that inherited only the wolf side from his father, and also the Royal Alpha strength. He was all Royal Alpha male.

As I took a seat at my table, I noticed that Saradi patters around my head like crazy. She was pretty off even since we left the pack house. I tried to talk to her but she was all fussy so I let her cool down, as I put her in the back of my mind. All of a sudden, my heart started to beat very fast, which was very unusual for me. A rush of emotion took over me. My warm skin became warmer, and I felt a drop of sweating coming down from my neck, making its way between my breasts and going all the way to my belly. Something was really off, and my Beta started to notice my strange behavior.

-          “What’s up?” She linked me

-          “Nothing, I just think is very hot in here and I don’t like it.”

-          “B*tch, the only thing hot in here is you. Cool down. Have a drink!” and she offered me a glass of champagne.

-          “Thank you… “ I said unconvinced of her “fix”.