Elizabeth Summers Jasper held his hand out towards me. He had just told the whole pack that I was his mate and now he was expecting me to run into his arms when all I wanted to do was run away. I wanted to sneak out of the back door then run into the forest and never come back, but I knew that would only make things worse for everyone. It would embarrass Alpha and Luna Hartford and undermine Jasper’s position as Alpha when he took over. That would put them and the rest of the pack in danger, I couldn’t do that to them, they were the only family I knew. Besides, Jasper’s wolf was an Alpha so if I ran from him he would be compelled to chase me and when he inevitably caught me he wouldn’t be able to stop his wolf from marking me. The best thing I could do for the time being was to play along and act like the perfect future Luna. I would talk to him about how I felt later, but at that moment I needed to do as he wished for the good of the pack. I walked towards Jasper and brought my han

Elizabeth Summers I paced my room as I waited for my date with Jasper. He had really worried me earlier when he walked into the library. I was sure that he was going to mock me for spending my Saturday morning in the library but he didn’t. He sat with me reading for a while and then he started holding me. He wasn’t reading or looking at his phone or anything. He just sat there for hours with my head resting on his chest as he watched me read. He stroked and kissed my hair but what was even more surprising was that I actually enjoyed it. The closeness, the warmth and even the scent of his masculine grooming products. It felt really nice just to be held in his arms. I had intended to keep Jasper at arm’s length until I turned nineteen in case he decided that he wanted to reject me, but that wasn’t working out so well. It has been less than a day since I found out I was his mate and I am already feeling the effects of our bond. That was the only possible explanation for the way I felt

Elizabeth Summers Patti watched as Jasper walked away. She waited until he was completely out of sight before turning back around to face me again. She was looking at me as though I had lost my mind and I couldn’t really blame her for thinking that way. “Now tell me, what the fuck is going on?” Patti was almost screaming in my face. “I am dating Jasper.” I would have thought that was obvious by this point. If the cosy table for two wasn’t enough to prove this was a date then the way Jasper just kissed me should have made everything crystal clear. “Why would you do that? He is mean and cruel.” “He makes you cry all the time,” Oliver added. “It was all a misunderstanding, he’s different when you get to know him.” I couldn’t believe I was sitting here sticking up for Jasper but I wasn’t sure what else I was supposed to do. I couldn’t exactly tell them that Jasper was my mate and I was trying to work out if I wanted to accept him. Not only was I sure that they would think I had take

Elizabeth Summers I hate training more than anything else, even more than I hated doing trigonometry. At least in trigonometry I can hide near the back of the class and pretend not to be there. I can’t really do that when the Alpha walks around the room assessing each of us. There’s nowhere to hide. Training was also the only time until recently that I interacted with other members of the pack outside of those I lived with. It never went well. Nobody wanted to be paired with me, on a good week someone would be away and I would be allowed to practice my moves alone. On a bad week, I had to pair up with one of the other pack members. They hated being paired with me and when they fought me they would make it very clear just how much they hated it. They wouldn’t pull their punches or stop when they were supposed to, so I would come home with cuts and bruises all over my body. I pulled the sleeves of my oversized hoodie over my hands as I left my room. I wished that I could be doing anyt

Elizabeth Summers When I woke up for college this morning Jasper was in bed beside me. At some point in the night, he must have pulled the covers over us but other than that nothing had happened. Surprisingly Jasper had acted like a perfect gentleman for the whole evening, we kissed for hours but he never tried to push me to do anything other than that. Jasper must be a heavy sleeper because I managed to remove his arms from around me and sneak out of bed without him waking up. I left him in my room while I went to get showered and changed. When I came back into my room a few minutes later he had already left and I didn’t see him again until halfway through breakfast. When he walked into the dining room my heart fluttered at the sight of him. His hair was still wet from the shower and his t-shirt was sticking to his body slightly. It was almost as though he was so excited about seeing me that he didn’t wait around to dry himself properly. That was a stupid thought though, why would