Alice heard the beeping of the alarm and stretched to reach for her phone. She wanted to hit snooze, but there was something important and she knew that she needed to remember it. 

What was it again? If she missed another important pack meeting Lane would be pissed. Reaching out her hand she met only empty air in the space where she had hoped she would find him sleeping. No sex before breakfast. The sheets weren't even warm, which meant he was long gone.

Pushing herself to the edge of the bed she found her phone and shut off the alarm. There was a message from Lane. She still hadn't changed his name in her phone, even though she'd been sleeping in his bed for almost a year, so the message said it came from her "Alpha."

"Don't forget the Obsidian Moon pack will be here at eleven."

That was why she had set an alarm for nine.

Rolling out of bed she stood up and walked to the shower. Lane had gotten home late the night before and hadn't been in the mood for anything more than a peck on the lips goodnight. She had been so wet for him and he'd hardly looked twice at her, in her tiny white tank top and shorts. They hadn't had sex in almost a month and she was starving for his thick, hard cock.

Alice stared at herself in the mirror and frowned, letting out a sigh. She knew why Lane was avoiding her. She had basically assumed all the duties of the pack's Luna.

And Alpha Cadman, Lane, that is, had been pushing to mark her. He wanted to do it and he wanted to do it immediately to show the world who she belonged to.

Why was she so reluctant? She was nineteen now, or she would be in a few weeks, and she still hadn't met her mate. Every other girl in her year at school was marked and mated. Most of them had already walked down the aisle who were going to, since most werewolves didn't see a reason to wait once they'd found "the one."

Stripping her tank top off over her head and slipping her shorts down over her slender hips, Alice walked to the shower. Even Kate, Alpha Cadman's daughter, and one of Alice's two best friends in all the world, had found her mate two months earlier. And Ava, the other best friend in their trio, had found her mate, and the love of her life, Cleo, ten months earlier and they had been inseparable ever since.

Deep down, Alice knew what the problem was. She wanted to meet the man that the Goddess had created as her other half. She understood, logically, that if Alpha Cadman marked her, it would create a very strong bond between the two of them. But it wouldn't be the same as the bond he had shared with his destined mate, Kate's mother. And it wouldn't be as strong as the bond Kate and Ava had with their mates.

Alice felt an ache in her chest.

The problem was that their pack had been attacked when Alice was a little girl. Both of her parents, along with Kate's mother, who had been Alpha Lane's mate, had been killed in the attack. Everyone assumed that Alice's heartbreak had probably been compounded and that her mate was one of the many wolves who had died that day too. Not many children had lost their lives, but a couple had, a boy and a girl. What if Alice's mate had been one of those two?

Turning the water as hot as she could stand, Alice tried to distract herself from her thoughts as she scrubbed her golden hair clean and then conditioned it. She did not have time to be distracted today.

Twenty minutes later she was drying her hair and applying makeup and selecting a dress that made her eyes look aquamarine and was sexy, but not too sexy. She wanted Lane's eyes on her and only her, but she didn't want him getting in a fight over her. She settled on a long light blue maxi dress that Lane had bought for her when they went on a weekend trip to the ocean, back when things had been better.

It had high slits up both sides of the skirt and it showed quite a bit of skin on the sides, with a low plunging neckline. But it was also loose and billowing, everywhere it really mattered, and Alice thought that that more than made up for all the places that it showed off her smooth, tan skin.

Her phone rang and she turned to answer it, knowing by the ringtone that it was Kate.

"Ma, I need you over here right now!" Kate had started calling her Ma as a joke and as soon as she heard the silly title she rolled her eyes and shook her head.

"What's up Kate, I need to get to the packhouse as soon as possible, but if it's an emergency-"

"I think I'm pregnant. I took a test. Can you pick up another-"

"I'll be there in ten minutes." And with that she picked up her keys and walked out the door.

She would just have to be a few minutes late.

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Alpha Cadman glanced at the clock and narrowed his eyes. He was annoyed with the pretty little She-Wolf who shared his bed, yet refused to let him leave his mark on her neck. Not only would she not let him claim her, but he'd seen her flirting with a couple of his warriors earlier in the month. Well, not quite flirting, but talking with them. 

It was practically the same thing.

After the beatings they'd received in the training sessions the next day just about every male in the pack was afraid to look in their proxy-Luna's direction, which was just as well. He felt his cock harden in his pants at the thought of her. She'd looked so good when he'd walked in the previous night. But he'd promised himself he wasn't going to fuck her again until she begged him to mark her pretty little neck. No matter how much he wanted to bend her over the end of the bed and make her scream his name until she lost her voice.

"Alpha Cadman?" he looked up slowly as the scent of honey and lavender drifted into his office. Standing at the door was a young She-Wolf. He tried to remember her name, but drew a blank. In a rather large pack with 2000 people he recognized everyone but he couldn't remember seeing her around.

"My parents and my younger brother and I are the new pack transfers that you accepted a few weeks ago from across the border." She dipped her head shyly and then glanced up at him, pushing a strand of dark hair back from her ice blue eyes. A light blush rose across her cheeks as he stared at her, and after a long moment she giggled and looked away. He felt his massive cock grow harder in his jeans, straining against his button and zipper uncomfortably and he shifted, hoping she wouldn't notice.

"Oh, yes." he murmured after a pause that was a second too long. "Welcome to our pack-"

"Summer." she offered when he paused.

"-Summer." he smiled again, liking the way her name tasted on his tongue. He suddenly found himself wondering how she would taste. As quickly as it came he shoved the thought away, but the image that his imagination had conjured remained in his mind. In it she was sitting on the edge of his desk, just in front of him, the white lace skirt she was wearing that fell just above her knees was pushed up over her hips and her head was thrown back as she let out a scream of pleasure.

"Was there a reason that you stopped by?" he continued after another pause that was just a few seconds too long.

"I wanted to bring by these blueberry scones that I made for you and our Luna, and to introduce myself and thank you both for accepting my family into the pack. It means the world to us." She leaned over to hand him a heavy basket of scones that were wrapped in several brightly striped tea towels, his eyes traveling down the front of her pink tank top as she bent forward to set the basket on his desk. His eyes traced her two round, perfect, melon shaped breasts, which he could now see were only contained in the thinnest of bras.

"I don't have a Luna." He said without even really thinking about what his words meant. "My mate was murdered. The woman I have offered the position has refused my mark at least a dozen times."

"She must be insane." Summer whispered, her eyes leaving the basket of scones and meeting his heated gaze. "Maybe she just wasn't the right person."

Alpha Cadman stood and walked to the door, closing it, before turning back to his newest pack member.

"Alpha?" he returned to his desk, the hopeful sound in the small She-Wolf's voice music to his ears.

"Yes, Summer." he replied, turning his eyes to her, the smallest of smiles turning up the corner of his lips.

"What do you want from me?" 

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