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He says, shivering at the memory. I chuckle, my father was a big softy at heart, he was hated by many clans for his attacks on their pack, but really he was hand picking the perfect pack, one that was always told to the seers about our people generations ago, it was always meant to be. Seer’s had seen our pack become the royal family, cutting off the witches and making the pack the most important thing.
The world in which we live was set with many rules, the main one being that the coven always came first. But we did not live by those rules. We are the only pack who put our people first, it’s extreme but it works and our people are so happy here. They all live as one, celebrate as one, die as one. It’s what life was always meant to be until the witches took over and overpowered us. But our pack proves if you work together they can’t do s**t to our people.
Iv seen many covens be destroyed by my people, iv seen how there people lived, the lycans lived on water and very little of all else, the Lycan did the work, they built the houses, they watched and cared for the coven babies, they hunted and guarded the coven with there life but they never reaped the benefits.
They would not get paid for the work they did, they did not eat the food they caught or grew, they were starved and treated like slaves as they lived to serve the coven at all costs.
Gideon nudging me pulls me from my thoughts. He c***s his head to the side smirking at me, he always did that when I got lost in my mind. Remembering our conversation I answer him immediately.
“He’s just careful incase my mate see’s and thinks I’m spoiled”
“Nothing could ever spoil my Olivia”
He answers immediately, I grin looking around to check the cost was clear then I quickly kiss his cheek, giggling and running off as his eyes widen in shock.
He grabs his cheek and his face splits out into a huge grin.
“Olivia, do you want him to kill me!”
“And why would I kill you?“
Dad asks, stepping around the corner, his arms crossed looking between us with a knowing look in his eye. I chew my lip scratching the back of my head shrugging my shoulders like I was innocent of any and all wrongdoing.
“Emm alpha, oh em, well, erm, no I didn’t mean that—“
I can’t help but giggle at him as he stutters, tripping over his words, the ground shakes as father starts to laugh, so loud I could tell it a mile off from the vibrations through the forest floor. It always made me smile.
“Don’t worry, today is a good day, no one dies tonight, now come take your seats the moon is rising fast and you need to eat so your strength is at its peak for your first change”
Dad tells me, placing his hand on the bottom of my back and he leads me towards the growing crowd of people at the feast.
As we arrive my mother stands up greeting us both, my parents were never mates but after both of them lost their first mates my father chose my mother and honestly their love may not have been fate but it turned into that. They have the strongest love I've ever seen, they have fought many battles yet they still laugh with each other everyday, they still kiss and hold each other.
The day the curse was placed on me and my family was the day my father and mother met. I remember it like yesterday, I would never forget it. But as awful as those events were, they were also the best thing that’s ever happened to me.
Yes I can not hear, but I have a happy mother who is in love with my adoptive father, who is honestly a better man than my original father was. He may have triggered the events of the curse but I would never feel bad about it. I would never regret it because it gave me my life, my family and a purpose.
I take a seat, yanking Gideon down beside me, mum smirks at us but I didn’t care, I think it was obvious how much I loved him, I always have and he loves me too. I just hope tonight solidifies the bond.
Mum jumps up
“Carry on, I must steal my daughter for just a moment”
She tells the table, I nod getting up and I rush to her side as she leads me over to a bench by the fire.
“Tonight could be the night you find your mate”
I nod, she chews her lip thinking about something before relaxing and smiling
“If you do find your mate tonight there will be a private ceremony, it will be just you and him. Before you mark each other you will change in the forest after you have ran, then you will mate for the first time and finally you will mark each other before returning to the celebrations. It may hurt a little but I promise it’s worth every pain”
My stomach drops, I hadn’t been told about this before and it honestly made me a little nervous.
“What will happen?”
I ask her with my hands.
“He will push himself inside you. You will become one at that moment and the bond between you will click into place. I promise it’s natural and it’s what we all do”
I shake my hands out nervously, suddenly not so hungry anymore.
“Put what inside me?”
I ask, wondering what the hell he has that goes where, looking down at my body I couldn’t understand where the hell his body bits went. She lifts my chin with her finger, smiling at me
“Where you pee, he enters you there”
I jump up of the log looking down my body
“What the hell! Why would he do that? What does he put in there mother, I don’t think this is a very good idea”
She starts to laugh shaking her head at me
“Where he pees from is different to what woman have, it’s like a stick and it fits inside you”
“HE POKES ME WITH A STICK INSIDE MY PEE HOLE!”
I shout out loud, I had few words that I still remembered” but sometimes the words just come out without me stopping them. she slaps her hand against her face laughing and looking over my shoulder, I look behind me only to see the entire table had heard my outburst. Going bright red I look back at her
“Yes but I promise it’s a good thing, why don’t we get you a drink to calm your nerves a little?”
I nod my head, fanning my face to try forget about the entire conversation as we rejoin our table.
After that the night goes smoothly, we eat until we are full then have drinks by the fires. But as the moon reaches its peak something from deep within me lunges forward, I scream grasping my stomach as I fall head first to my knees.
Gideon is by my side in a second, as he touches me I gasp, little sparks spread across my skin, taking with it a little of the pain. Lifting my head I see he has tears in his eyes, holding my face as he smiles at me
“Mate”
He whispers, looking behind me he nods smiling back at me
“I've got you, don’t hold your wolf back, let her come”
At his words she lurches forward, my vision suddenly shifts as I scream out in pain. I feel his hands on me as every bone in my body breaks and rearranges, hair sprouts from my skin as my fingers turn to paws, my nose breaks and reshapes itself into a snout.
“Almost there now”
A voice tells me, making me jump
“It’s just me Olivia your wolf, Odelia”
I don’t answer, in too much pain.
“One last push”
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