A new life

All I can hear is the wind whistling past my ears as I run through the city. I am late to my first therapy session since I arrived here. I live in Sacred moon pack. I arrived here six months ago. I was a rogue, running for my life from my old pack. Since I got here I have been able to set up a nice little life for myself. I have a small studio apartment above a pizza place in the middle of town. I work most nights delivering pizza. It’s not a ton of money but it’s enough to pay the bills and have enough left over for some fun. I arrive at my therapists office and check myself in. I quickly check my appearance with the camera on my phone. I don’t want to go into this meeting looking crazy. I smooth down my light brown shoulder length hair and check my teeth. The last thing I need is food in my teeth when I am telling all my secrets. I have always liked the way I looked. I’m not gorgeous but not too plain. My complexion reminds me of a doll you see in stores but, freckles are across my cheeks and nose. My body is really not much different than any other shifters. We are lean and have a lot of muscle. I am not bulky muscle like a lot of the women in this pack but, I have enough. I sit in the waiting room for what seems like forever. All the magazines on the small wooden tables are out dated. The chairs are a room and board type chair in a deep purple color. There is a tv in the corner that is tuned into some news channel but, the sound is muted so all I can do is read subtitles. It’s a news lady gushing about the alphas son. He is coming home from training in a few weeks and the whole pack is gearing up for a huge welcome home party. My name is finally called. I look up and see a tall woman with long blonde hair and glasses. She is wearing a light grey pant suit with sky high black heels. I get up and make my way over to her. “My name is Dr. Grace. You may just call me Grace. We will head back to my office and get started.” She states. I nod my head and follow her through the door. I follow her to her office and she directs me to sit anywhere I like. I see a black leather sofa and plop down onto it. I’m nervous. I’m not sure why. “So Tinea, let’s start at the beginning. I already have your history since you came here but, I would like to know how you got up to this point. Let’s start with your childhood then work our way from there.” Grace states. She looks at me waiting for me to start. I take a deep breath and get ready to let loose all the things that ruined what was supposed to be a promising life. I grew up in a small house in a small town. My parents were pretty private people. My mother is a human. She now lives in a human town a few hours away. My father is a werewolf. I am half wolf. They weren’t fated mates. They chose each other after a few years of not finding their mates. I was born about a year after they chose each other. I had a pretty normal childhood until I turned 10. My parents split up when my mother went on a vacation with some of her friends and found her fated mate. It was just me and my dad for a year. That year was hard. I had to move schools into a pack school. I had to learn the ways of pack life and basically learn how to live very differently than I had known. My mother came back after that year with her new mate and demanded I live with them. I moved in with them after my father ran off to fight in a battle. I haven’t seen him since. Living with my mom was pretty good. Her new mate had money so I didn’t have to work as hard for the things I wanted. I pretty much got whatever I wanted. He owned his own business and I guess it was doing well. He often traveled to other packs so most of the time it was just me and mom. Once I started high school things started to get bad. I wasn’t a popular kid or even one that liked to talk to people. I was shy and awkward. I coasted through school with decent grades and kept my head down when around people. They didn’t pay attention to me at all. Since my mom is human, I am only half wolf. I may not even get a wolf when I turn 18. All the other kids disliked anyone that wasn’t full wolf. After school I had a job. I worked part time at a fancy restaurant down town. It was good money. I liked having money I earned on my own. I saved everything my mom gave me for college. Everything I earned on my own I used for things I wanted. I didn’t need all the fancy things the other kids had. I just liked different clothes than what my mom buys. Around my 15th birthday I met my ex mate, Kaine. We were too young to know if we were fated but we liked each other so we dated. He was nice at the start. Around my 16th birthday is when he started to get mean. He hung out with a crowd that bullied me. He would just laugh at me when around them but when we were alone he called it joking. Nobody else even showed an interest so I stayed with him. He was controlling and mean. He bullied me into having s*x with him and being his chosen mate. I agreed because I thought nobody else would like me or even love me because I was only half wolf. Once we turned 18 we would do the ceremony and mark each other. My senior year was a lot of the same. The only thing that was different was that the private school across town closed. All the private school kids came into the public school. That’s when I met Jeremiah. He was in my English class. We became friends pretty quickly and hung out all the time. Kaine hated him because he made me smile. They didn’t get along for a while but became friends. Jeremiah was always nice to me. My senior year went by quickly. I graduated when I was 17 years old. I had a month until I tuned 18. My ex had already turned 18. I didn’t see him as much anymore. He was spending all his time trying out any get rich quick scheme he could think of. Jeremiah left for college. I was pretty much alone that whole month. All the other teens went on vacations or met their mates. I was still a month off from that. I spent the month reading and studying so I could test out of some courses when I got to college. The day before my birthday Kaine came back. He was so nice and loving like he was when we first started dating. He promised me that he would choose me no matter what. Around dusk he left and promised he would take me out for the best birthday. I was hopeful that he actually would so I quickly got ready for bed and went to bed. I prayed to the goddess that my birthday was the best day. I hoped for my wolf but if I didn’t get one I’d still have my chosen mate.