Rain looks at the natural pool formed at the base of the waterfall. While it is not deep enough to actually swim in it, we can still have fun. When I was younger, during the hot summer days, I would come with Kevin, Dan, and other males to the waterfall and spend many hours collecting rocks or in the pool. Then Elly started coming here to dance, and it sort of became her place. Rain’s cheeks turn red. Fuck. It is the most beautiful thing I have ever seen. “I don’t want to get naked,” she says, her voice trembling. She is so stiff, I am afraid she will snap in two. I have been with virgins before, but Rain is too scared, too jittery. I can’t shake off the feeling that someone did something to her. If that is the case, then why isn’t she saying anything? “If you want to get your clothes all wet, then be my guest. I am still going to take mine off,” I tell her while I help her sit on the blanket next to me. Rain stands fast, her palms turning into fists. “I don’t want you to get

“Wait a moment!” I shout back as I rush to fix Rain’s shirt, not wanting any male to see what is mine.I help Rain get out of the water, put my jeans on and wrap the blanket around her.“Ok, you can come now!” I let Kevin know.Kevin appears from behind the trees with a backpack on his back. He looks at Rain and then at me, and I can see him getting angry. A moment later, he puts on a poker face. I really don’t understand why he is upset. Maybe he is worried Rain is the future Luna of the pack.‘He has nothing to worry about. Rain will be an excellent Luna.’I don’t know why Titan is so certain about Rain being an amazing future Luna, but I trust him. If the Moon Goddess paired me with Rain, it is only because she is my other half.Kevin hands me the backpack, and I unzip it.“Andrea says she has a dress and shoes Rain can wear to the party. Elly is over at Andrea’s house, and they said they would love to have Rain join them and get ready together,” Kevin lets me know while I take out

Glass shards pierce my skin, and pain erupts all over my back as I fall over a table, which breaks under my weight, and it takes only moments for everything to come crashing on the ground. Me included. The table was placed on the part of the backyard that was paved, and I hit my head on it pretty hard.I lay there trying to understand what just happened.After Andrea and Elly helped me get ready for the party, I went to look for Jordan, since I wasn’t sure what I was supposed to do. It is the first time I have attended a party as a guest. I just caught his scent when… someone pushed me?Pack members gather around me. Despite the loud music, I can hear laughter and cruel words directed at me. I knew coming to the party was a bad idea, but Jordan would not budge. I wish I would have stayed in my room, away from everyone and everything.Someone kneels next to me.Oranges.Jordan.“Rain, the doc is on her way,” Jordan tells me as he pets my hair.Someone laughs. “You can’t be really worri

I don’t know when I became so confident around him. Just hours ago, I was afraid he would… force me to do things… but he had never pushed me more than I could handle. I did not like him opening my shirt and looking at my chest, but his mouth and hands on me were like nothing I expected. I actually… enjoyed it. After I got over my fear of him hurting me.Jordan opens the door to my room, and I enter. He follows me. Suddenly the space seems so small, so cramped. I am alone with Jordan… in my room. It is the first time he is in here.He looks around, his brow furrowing as he sees the mattress I sleep on. Old stains cover it, and in many parts, the fabric is ripped apart. I tried many times to fix it or clean it, but without materials and proper cleaning products, there is so little I can do.“You are so exasperating, you know?” he says and pulls me to him, his arms coming around my waist. “You not only made me miss my party and my chance to find my mate, but also made me let two rogues g

I can see the confusion in her eyes, and I can scent it on her. “It had been Titan who told me about you been born today. I don’t understand either since I checked your birthday record, and you are listed to be born on the 28th of August, but here we are on the 13th of August, and you just barely turned nineteen. If not, how else could we feel we are mates? But regardless of what is happening, you are my mate, Rain.”She bites her lip—like she usually does when she is nervous. “Are you sure we are mates? That you want… me?”“I suspected it for days, and I wanted you long before that,” I finally tell her the truth. Even if I might have wanted her for selfish reasons, there is no denying that I fell in love with her. Even if I have been with many females before her, she is my first love, my mate, my Luna. “What do you say, Rain? Will you honor the mating bond and give yourself to me? All of you?”“I don’t know what to say. The pack hates me. Your mother hates me. And your father… Your f