Werewolf’s Heartsong

Alora’s POV

My sister Sarah, loved to torment me, taunt me with the things she would do to me. She had no plans to let me leave and live peacefully. She had a boyfriend, the youngest son of our Pack’s Beta. She’s already told me that once she is mated to Matt, she’ll find a way to have me exiled from the pack, and declared a rogue. This is so she can kill me, or have me killed. She said it was only right for her to remove the embarrassing dark stain that was me from their lives.

Sarah doesn’t know we are from a very respected bloodline, not that she’d want to claim it. I also found where my coloring might have possibly come from. I’m the doppelganger for the first of our ancestors, Luna Heartsong. She had been an Alpha warrior, she was reputed as one of the strongest and fiercest wolves of our history. My family would want to deny any relation to her because of her skin, hair and eye color. I still couldn’t figure out the reasoning behind this, no other Clans cared as they did about coloring.

Forcing myself to shake off the depressing thoughts, I start thinking about the day ahead. I had turned eighteen over the four day break, making me somewhat excited for today. I might be able to meet my mate today. Xena is excited as well. Probably more so than I am.

Oh I know I’m more excited she remarks.

“Why is that?” I inquire teasingly.

Because our mate will love us, we’ll have someone who appreciates us for who we really are she says excitedly.

“That’s our hope at least, it would be nice if our mate accepts us. Hiding away, with graduation just around the corner, has become exhausting. School ends officially in two weeks. The University’s finals have been taken, only tests left, are the High School’s finals.”

Tests, more tests, how long are they going to take, I’d rather be running she grumbled.

“Just the first three days this week, then the last week and a half will be full of nonsense, we’ll go running later tonight” I say soothingly.

When do we stop hiding everything you’ve accomplished from your family she demanded.

has a suite of rooms at the Pack House he’s going to assign me the moment I graduate” I

the daughter he’s never had

to be our next Alpha of the Pack. He’s finishing up his final Alpha training,

to us when he comes back to start

found me on the side of the river, covered in mud and blood, I was just a pup, he was a teen wolf. He helped his father rescue me, and helped his mother nurse me back to health. He was always protective of me after that, and you, after you came to me. Then once we were able to

the same day Sarah tried to drown me. It had been raining for a week, downpour after downpour before we finally got a sunny day. One of our neighbors had given me some used clothing, and there was this

down just past my knees, my sister tried to wear it but she had been to big for it, I had saved it for that day. We had been attending the pack picnic, a celebration for the end of winter, and the beginning

of my face. They were saying how beautiful my skin tone was next to the color, how it made

pink dress, that was just like all her other dresses, so while she got a “You look nice, as always darling”, she had became increasingly infuriated at all the compliments I had been getting. She went and told our parents I was making a public scene in front of the Pack, drawing attention. My parents then walked over and stood near, but still at a distance, from the group of wolves complimenting me on how beautiful I

was everything. They had always told me I was ugly, and that I was a dark mistake, because I was not pale, my hair was not blond, my eyes were not blue. I was the blight upon the family, the shameful blot of imperfection in the Clan, and those wolves at the picnic had praised all of

She had grabbed my arm in a tight painful hold, and said, “Mommy and Daddy are looking for you” in a bright childish voice. So

as soon as she could get away with it. “You ungrateful wretch, how dare you disparage your sister, how dare you go out in public like this, you’re an embarrassment to this family you ugly child, a stain that I should have drowned at birth, go

hand and tears running down my face, my

do it on purpose” I had hoped she would understand, and not punish me for it, how

is an eyesore” Agatha

something about

get rid of

enough?” Sarah’s tone had made my belly tighten, fear had

swollen river behind me