Madoka's POV Carrie left early in the morning, to go to her second last shift. She was determined to leave on good terms, and I didn't mind, other than that it was hard to think straight when she was far away from me because my wolf wouldn't settle down. He wanted to go and drag her back, or follow her around. Either were acceptable options as far as he was concerned. I did neither, instead, I just spent the day at my desk working through the pile of things that needed to be done, mostly trying to do something besides idly wait for her to get home again. I'd so quickly been drawn into her orbit and already I couldn't imagine living without her. "You're spacing out, Alpha," Sinji commented. "Between you and our beta..." "What's Parker doing?" I asked looking over at him. "Nothing really. He's just really unfocused lately." I nodded. "I'll talk to him." Like a huge hypocrite, considering how I was having trouble thinking of anything besides Carrie, with those lovely dark eyes

"Can I help you?" I asked in a false friendly voice."Yes, I think you can," said the female of the pair. She looked unkempt, wrinkled clothing and fairly thin, but her brown eyes were steady as she met mine. She didn't look feral. Still, I held myself ready in case she tried anything."What do you need?""Sanctuary. We heard there's a new pack forming around here, and you're the first wolf we've found," she said, her voice a bit louder than I thought was wise in a place where humans could be around any corner. "You smell of pack."I looked past her to the male. He was quiet, but he seemed steady and in control of himself, although he wouldn't meet my eyes. Our pack did need more members if we were going to be taken seriously, but allowing in a lot of rogues could be a messy business. Some rogues were perfectly normal, but others had done things that made it difficult for them to settle into pack life, and others lost their sanity along with their wolf's isolation.This pair didn't se

The growl rang through the trees, and I watched a child ruuning towards me with a mangy wolf ran towards me. The sound hadn't been my imagination, and I instantly grabbed the child and run away, regretting running off on my own, even though I hadn't meant to. I could take this wolf but the child's safety come first, as the luna I really shouldn't be putting myself in potentially risky situations but the child would die and ended up being food if I didn't help him. The child climb on my back and held on my fur so tight. For a split second, I debated fighting, like I would have without a second thought back in my scout days, but I had other priorities now. I had whirled around to run through the forest, just as a second growl broke the clearing in the direction I had turned. My heart leapt as a large and lean grey wolf ran straight towards me. I scrambled to a stop, my paws struggling to find purchase in the loose mulch of the forest floor. Before I could dodge, Madoka's scent hit my

After I got off the phone with my gushing friends, I quickly dialled my sister whom I currently treated as my one and only family. She’s my father’s daughter from his true mate. We were so close that she would call me every other day just to check if I’m fine. It has been months since I was last contacted by her. Maybe she’s worried about me so it’ll be great if I just call and say hi. I knew her pups would be in school, so I dialled Mitch, because she would be pissy if she knew I'd found my third mate.I didn't give her a chance to get going on whatever was currently happening in Jace’s pack. “Mitchy,” I asked the moment she answered the phone after two rings. “Carrie? Is that you?” there was a little but excitement in her voice. “Yes it’s me. Who else can call you Mitchy aside from me?” I replied with a wide grin. "I found my mate," I said, skipping any prelude.She gasped. "You what!? Mate!? Tell me everything.""Like what?""Like everything. You owe me every detail. I've been

The news of Phantom's decision to try to block our pack spread through our small population like wildfire. Everyone was agitated.I did my best to try to keep everyone's spirits up, since panicking was the worst thing we could do. It made us less productive and more reactive. Probably exactly what that horrible alpha of Phantom would have wanted.It wasn't all bad. As former acting luna, both Madoka and I'd had some contact with the Alpha Assembly before, so we at least had an idea what we were up against. My dealings in the past were more businesslike and less antagonistic, but I was certain that we could prevail, because we had done nothing wrong except try to organise on an unclaimed expanse of territory. Madoka had even acquired the rights to the land through legitimate means from the humans, so there was nothing anyone should be able to say against it.And even if the assembly did try to block us, the assembly was basically a voluntary diplomatic group. While it would be better