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‘Wait for what?’ I ask in my head. If it’s not my wolf, I won’t get a response.
‘I had to wait for the Guardian spirit that was meant to be ours. His life was longer than it was meant to be. The Moon Goddess granted the wish of another Guardian and spared his life. I’ve been waiting to awaken until I received my Guardian spirit.’
‘So, you’re real? You’re my wolf?’
‘Yes Grace. You won’t ever be alone again. I will always be with you.’
I hadn’t realized just how lonely I felt until now, causing tears to run down my cheeks.
‘Maia. It’s good to finally meet you.’
‘It’s good to meet you too Grace.”
At work, I told Benny that I needed the evening off. When he asked, I told him it was my birthday and I hadn’t planned to celebrate, but I changed my mind. He grabbed me a cupcake and told me to go enjoy my evening.
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That night, I went into the forest surrounding the small town. When Maia confirmed that we were alone, I stripped off my clothes and let her begin the first shift. It was agonizing. Usually, the human form shifts at age 10 when the body isn’t fully developed. My first shift being at 18 and without any family or a mate to assist made it excruciating.
After hours of my bones slowly breaking and rearranging, I lay panting on the forest floor. Maia pushes forward and picks us up off the ground. We’re wobbly, not being used to being on four paws.
I’m mesmerized by everything. Suddenly, I can hear things in the forest that were quiet before. I can smell the river where my mom and I hiked on my birthday two years ago. I can hear and smell the small animals of the forest, foraging for food or moving around in their little dens for the evening. My eyesight is sharper and where I couldn’t see in the dark before, now everything is clear.
Maia takes off at a run and I let her have control. Her yip of excitement causing me to be excited for her. We run until we smell a stronger scent of the forest. ‘It’s a pack. We should be careful to stay off their pack lands.’ Maia tells me.
We tu and run in another direction, until we come to another pack territory several miles away. Again we turn, being careful not to cross into the pack’s lands and continue our run. When we get to the river, Maia slows to a walk. She takes us to the edge of the river and looks into the water. My wolf is mostly black, with colors of light and dark brown intermixed giving her fur an exotic look that I’ve never seen on another wolf.
“You’re beautiful Maia.”
After running all night, we head back, and I’m able to get some sleep before going to work the next day.
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It’s been over a week since Maia showed up and I’ve settled into a new routine. I go to work, during the day and at night I let Maia run, Now that I have her, I’ve begun thinking about what I should be doing. She says that as a Guardian, we have a purpose, but she either doesn’t know what it is, or she’s not telling me.
I’m enjoying my enhanced senses. Everything is new. I’ve learned that the cook has a crush on me and has since he started here. I learned that Benny tells everyone my mother made him my guardian before her death, and that’s why no one ever bothered me. I learned that humans have a rather boring smell, but werewolves smell great, like the forest.
Maia and I skirt along the pack lines at night, taking in the scents. I can tell she misses being a part of a pack, but I have no intentions of going back to my father’s pack and she agrees, knowing everything that my mother and I endured. So, it’s a bit startling when I hear the doorbell chime one evening, as I’m getting close to getting off work. The first scent to hit my nose is the forest. It’s the first werewolf that has come in since I got Maia. I’m not sure how to react. Should I be nervous, or will it be fine. I don’t know if I smell like a rogue to other wolves. Since I didn’t get my wolf when I was 10, I wasn’t technically banished from a pack like a normal wolf. It’s different when a human is banished.
Maia jumps up in my head. ‘Maia, is everything okay?’ I ask her.
‘I need to see him.’ She says. So I brace myself and walk out of the kitchen.
As soon as I do, I smell it, sandlewood and cedar. It smells like the forest, and home and something sensual and mouthwatering all at once.
I turn to look around the room, wanting to know who the person is that smells so good and that’s when I see him. It’s the man from over a week ago and he’s looking right at me.
Maia pushes forward. “Mate.” She says quietly.
I huge smile spreads across his face. “Mate.” He repeats.
The irony of this situation is not lost on me, proving that the Moon Goddess does, indeed, have a sense of humor. I kidnapped a Guardian nearly a year ago to forcibly take her as my mate. She ended up being underage, so me trying to mark her didn’t work.
While I’ve seen the error of my ways and realize what I did was a terrible thing, here I am, looking into the eyes of my mate, who is also a Guardian.
She walks over to me, eyeing me cautiously. “What can I get you to drink?” She asks me.
“I’d like a water, your name and what time you get off work. I think we have some things to discuss, don’t you?”
“Water. Coming right up.” Before she can turn away from me, I grab her hand. ” And your name?”
I hear someone standing up behind me. She looks past me. “It’s okay, Benny.”
She turns back to me. “My name is Grace and I don’t think we have anything to talk about. Are you going to leave before you order food, or should I really bring your water this time?”
Okay, the sass is turning me on. Well, if I’m honest, anything my mate does will most likely turn me on, but I love a girl who is strong and sassy. Not that I have much experience with them. I’ve been on the run for years and in a cell for the past 6 months having my ass beaten nearly every day.
“I’m not going anywhere Grace.”
She nods and turns to head in the back to get my water. I feel the man, Benny, walking up behind me.
“Son, unless you want a world of trouble, you better leave that little girl alone.”
I stand, turning to face the man who may be tall, but he’s not as tall as I am, he’s lean where I’m broad, making him half my size, physically, if that, and he’s at least twice my age, not to mention, he’s human. “Sir, with all due respect, I don’t have any intention of hurting Grace, but I do need to speak with her.”
To his credit, he doesn’t back down from what is obviously a fight he can’t win. Before he says something that will piss me off, Grace is there, getting in between.
US.
“Benny, go sit down, I’ve got this.” She turns and looks up at me, but not a lot, my girl is tall. “You!” She points her finger in my face. “Sit down.”
And I know in that moment that my girl is an Alpha. I can feel the power of her aura pushing out. I’m not even sure she realizes it. I do as she commands, not entirely of my own free will. Damn.
She leans over the table and her delicious scent of cherry blossoms fills my nostrils. “I get off in 30 minutes. I’ll talk to you then. Do you want food?”
I smirk at her because I can tell that her being this close to me is having an effect on her too. She may be acting like she’s all kinds of pissed off with me, but I can smell her arousal at being this close to her mate. “I’ll take whatever your favorite is.”
She smirks back at me, and I realize I may have made a mistake.
When she returns, I chuckle. A banana split. Not my choice of dinner, but I’ll deal with it for one night.
I eat slowly, watching her as she goes around taking orders, cleaning tables, and talking to any customer that isn’t me.