No one seemed nearly as nervous as me. I am about to meet the largest pack in Tempest. Everyone here must have been accustomed to this gathering, whereas I am not. Being new here made me feel out of place in this situation.
"You'll be fine," Erina assured me. "You'll have to get used to us being presented as family sooner or later. You're my brother's mate, after all. It's customary."
I didn't think I could feel any more nervous than I was, but her words only worsened it. They echoed in my mind.
Family.
Is that what we were? Erix and Erina are; I knew that, but not me. At least not yet.
Being mates in the werewolf world was much like being married in the human world. It made you one, whether in the eye of Heaven or a pack of wolves. It would be just like that for us as well.
