Where you belong

The truth

Shortly after, she smelt the smell of hot food. Specifically meat being cooked, and he soon reappeared carrying plates of food.

Lily had completely forgotten about her stomach and it suddenly grumbled loudly as if to make a point.

Jake patted the bed and she ran over to see a delicious plate of steak and sweet potato wedges.

She drawled and grabbed her plate before tucking in.

She looked up and paused when she saw Jake was watching her shovelling the food in. Embarassed she slowed down and ate in a slightly more ladylike fashion.

“Sorry, I was famished and it tasted amazing!” she shyly explained.

“It’s fine silly” Jake said as he got up and took her empty plate, kissing the top of her head as he did. “I”ll always love the way you do anything”.

Lily felt her heart skip a beat at his words. She knew she shouldn’t feel this way so soon, but it just felt.... right!

Jake placed the empty plates on the side, and turned to look at her.

“So what did you want to know?”

She paused, a thousand questions racing around her mind. 

Crawling over she pushed (or tried to) Jakes leg until he moved so she could sit between his legs and lay her back against his chest.

“Erm....I want to know everything Jake!” she exclaimed, eager to hear more about him.

At this, he wrapped his arms around her and pulled her closer to him. He leans down and sniffs deeply at her neck before placing a gentle kiss on it.

“So I am a werewolf as you now know, I was born this way.

My family are of course all werewolves, we are in a pack called the ‘Gold Moon’.

Many years ago packs consisted of just families with the father running the pack and looking after it. However over time, for many reasons families started to come together. This created much bigger packs. The fathers fought each other for control, and the winning male became the Alpha of the pack.

These Alpha’s remained in charge of their packs, expanding their lands and their numbers. They then passed the role onto their first born sons, and this continues unless another Alpha comes and challenges them for their pack and the existing Alpha loses the fight that follows. 

Alpha’s are much bigger, stronger, faster etc than other werewolves. They need to be, to protect their packs. However they also feel emotions and feelings more intensely than any others.

Werewolves pray to the Moon Goddess that created us. She is also whom chooses our mate.

Every pairing is chosen for a reason, even if it is not always evident at first. 

When Werewolves find their mates they are instantly drawn together. They know their mate the instant they first catch their scent, often before even seeing them.

Once they have found each other the bond starts to form. The more time they spend together the more it builds and intensifies.

When they mate this builds it more, and when they mark each other the bond is fully formed. The connection between them being so close that they can feel every emotion the other is feeling. They can sense where the other is, and so always find them. They become inseparable. 

The loss of a mate via death is extremely hard for a Werewolf and usually results in them dying themselves. 

Mates can reject the other one, which is also incredibly painful for the rejected one.”

Jake looked down at his Lily and found her gazing at him, an intense look of concentration on her face.

She spoke up whilst he had paused, the sound of her voice like music to his ears.

“So who is the Alpha to this pack?” 

He replied “ I am”. Being able to tell his mate this gave him an unexplainably intense feeling of pride.

She smiled up at him and let out a small “Oh”.

They sat there in silence for a few minutes, both deep in thought. 

“Did you reject me when we first met then Jake?”

He looked down at her and saw a small frown set on her face.

“No Lily, I was so happy when I found you. But when certain others pointed out to me that a human mate would weaken the pack and be vulnerable...... I panicked. Just the thought of you being at risk, getting injured because of me...... I just couldn’t live with that. So I tried to send you away, hoping you would forget about me. I felt the pain I caused you, and I am sorry for that. 

But that moment you were taken, and I felt your fear. I felt my heart was going to break.

I was so scared I was going to lose you Lily, and it would have been all my fault. 

If I hadn’t sent you away then you’d have been by my side and I could have protected you!”

Lily felt the pain in his voice, saw the tear trailing down his cheek. 

She wriggled up and turned around. Grasping him firmly eother side of his head she said with conviction.

“You made a mistake yes, you were an ass yes! But you rescued me again, and I am by your side now!” with this, she kissed him forcefully.

He pulled away, 

“Lily, I am honestly truly sorry for not protecting you. But I will spend the rest of my life trying to make it up to you..... if you’ll let me?” 

She nodded at this, and he continued. “I will always protect you Lily, and I will not let what happened before, occur again whilst there is life left in my body. I swear I will find out who took you. I have already found somebody involved and have them held in the dungeon for questioning”

Lily pulled out of his arms. “YOU HAVE WHAT?!?”