Rose Rose watched the last of her guests leave her pack. Most had waited until after lunch to leave, spending the last few minutes of their time in the pack trying to talk to her about her need for a mate. She had received many offers of dates and pack visits but all the time she couldn’t help thinking about the first offer she had received. The offer from Alpha Drew for his youngest brother, James. He was handsome and supposedly very intelligent but it had not been the fairytale meeting with her mate that she had dreamt of. He had not swept her off her feet and marked and mated her like she had seen so many others do on finding their goddess gifted mates. He had left the pack before everyone else and with her in tears. It was far from perfect, but she couldn’t deny the longing she had to

