Chapter3
I shook my shoulder from his grip as I turned and ran for the woods.
‘Mate.‘ The word sent shivers doen my spine.
My wolf relished in it.
I would prove my parents wrong, my mate was out there.
She was waiting for me.
-Rose POV-
It had been two weeks since the bond between Jack and I was broken. I looked myself over in the mirror and came to the conclusion that this was a good as it was going to get.
Kayla stayed by my side through it all and as she stood in the doorway of my room I felt a small smile make its way to my lips.
“Wow, you look amazing!”
“Thank you Kayla, for everything.”
She grinned and took me by the arm as she led me towards the staircase.
“You’re beautiful, the anti–biotics have worked and now that you’re no longer his
look so much more alive.”
“If only I felt alive.” I mumbled.
She sighed and shook her head tugging my arm along.
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“Well if it isn’t the Alpha’s Rose, how are you? I mean now that you aren’t with my mate anymore.”
Jamie sneered as we entered the room, adjusting her dress.
“I’m doing well.”
I replied, she glared at me as if she were expecting a different answer.
After about ten minutes of listening to Jamie and Amy exchange insults towards me I’d had enough.
I excused myself and prepared to make the descent down the stairs.
Almost immediately I bumped into someone and steadied myself.
I looked up into the same green eyes I would look to in times of desparation, laughter and love.
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I felt nothing.
“Oh, sorry. I wasn’t watching.”
I moved past Jack, keeping my eyes down as I did so.
“You look beautiful.”
He whispered as he grabbed my arm, but I refused to look at him.
I didn’t reply.
I gave myself another once over, my blue ballgown clung nicely to my body, not informal, not too
flashy.
I knew what this event was for, Alpha Michaelangelo was coming to visit our pack for our yearly
invitational ball.
This is where Jack and I used to host my birthday, he would put up streamers in the private ballroom and we would dance together for a while until it was time for me to go home.
How badly I wished I could forget those memories.
I prepared myself to descend the stairs as the annonuncer called my name.
“Rose Burnett.”
Suddenly everything grew quiet, all eyes were on me.
Whispers moved about the crowd about my dress, my composure, whether or not I was still Jack’s
Luna.
I took a deep breath and bowed as everyone bowed in return, as soon as the next name was called I made my way over to the open bar.
“What can I get you?”
“Just water please, lime on the rim.”
He nodded stiffly.
He soon returned with my water and a glass of champagne.
“On the house.” He smiled kindly and pushed the drink towards me.
“Thank you.”
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I whispered before taking a sip of the bubbly drink.
The party had been going on for about three hours, I conversed with a few pack members and Kayla was no where to be found, probably out somewhere with Lucas.
I had only had two glasses of champagne and a few hors d’oeuvres before I became restless.
Alpha Michaelangelo had yet to show up and I was thinking of sneaking out the back door and going for a run when a certain smell caught my attention, provoking me to stop in my tracks.
Chocolate.
There was something so alluring about this chocolate, it wasn’t so much appetizing as it was purely seductive, it took on an almost musky scent.
Eventually I turned around, my eyes searching the crowd desperately for that enticing scent.
Our eyes connected at the same time.
—Alpha Mike’s POV—
“Do we have to go?” I asked for the hundredth time on our way to the ball.
“Yes, what if your mate is there?” Mom replied.
I rolled my eyes in doubt, my mom had said that every year for the past six years we had been going to the Weisler Ball.
We walked through the big oak doors, onto the red carpet.
“Alpha Michaela-”
I snarled as a warning to the announcer, no one called me Michaelangelo not even my own mother.
“Alpha Mike and his family, Mr. and Mrs. Jacob Christoff.” I nodded curtly and walked down the
steps.
We immediately started conversing with other Alpha’s and Beta’s about our little rogue problem down in the East.
“So as I was saying, if we moved our fighters West then slowly trecked Eastward we would have them by now. What do you think Mike?” Alpha Rick asked, I replied,
“Well yes that would have been effective-”
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Just then the most amazing scent filled my nostrils. I scanned the crowd for her, her scent matched
that of a strawberry and it was so delicious to both me and my wolf.
My eyes connected with hers and I immediately felt drawn to her, we walked towards each other
and met in the middle.
“Rose.”
Her name escaped my lips as she spoke.
“Michaelangelo.”
Mate.
