Acted like I didn’t hate him with all my guts.įuck him. She had cried for most of the weekend, made me curl up in my bed and think about everything that I could’ve done to please him. My wolf wouldn’t even let me think of his name. I dedicated my whole life for one moment, but he didn’t think I was good enough for it. I felt terrible, my insides were turning over and over, shriveling up, squeezing me tightly, making it hard to breathe. It wasn’t just my inner-brat making me feel bad. Though today was the first day of assignments, I literally couldn’t pull myself out of bed to go. When the front door shut softly behind Mom, I rolled onto my side. But-truth was-I didn’t care about the fact that my birthday was days away and that I might find my mate. All weekend she’d reminded me of my special day. If she said that one more time, I would probably scream. “Cheer up… can’t have you sad on your birthday! It’s just a few days away! Maybe you’ll find your mate.” “Please think about it, Sweetie.” She smiled and tossed a pillow at me, her blue eyes as bright and lively as the moon. I should be training with the pack right now, not sitting in the hospital bored out of my mind.”Īfter pulling me into another hug, she stood. No, he wanted to keep the Roman in his pants happy. “Now, why would he do that? He’s dedicated to this pack and has been since he was fifteen. “Your father and I work at the hospital… maybe Alpha Roman thought this was the best for us.” It was prophesied that these wolves had the strength that the original werewolf had been granted and even possessed powers close to that of the Moon Goddess. Pups who were born under the Wolf Moon in January were thought to be the best warriors in a pack. To have one of the wolves born under the Wolf Moon become a nurse and not a warrior. The Moon Goddess wouldn’t even call it a blessing. I shook my head, a stupid tear falling from my eye. “Maybe this is a blessing in disguise, Izzy,” she said. She sat next to me on the bed, wrapping an arm around my shoulders and drawing me closer to her. I gnawed on the inside of my lip and sunk deeper into my grey sheets, fiddling with the keychain. They were dull and their leaves felt brittle and I couldn’t stop thinking about that sinister look on his face when he told me I’d be a nurse for the rest of my life. Without the light from the moon, the Moonflowers didn’t glow as brightly. I just wanted to peel them open to see the moon, to find some comfort in the forest, but I couldn’t get myself to do it.
Every single night this weekend, I sat by the window, staring at the Moonflowers glowing off of the curtains.
I didn’t even want to think about him, but I couldn’t stop. “Morning Sweetie, I’m heading to the hospital. I just had to get her to see that she meant more to me than she thought she did.Įarly Monday morning, Mom peeked into my room with a soft smile on her face. Light from Isabella’s room glowed through her curtains. Rogues hadn’t sniffed around these parts for seven years, when they had tore Mom’s heart right out of her chest, when they had taken Dad from me, when they had ruined my life.