Table of Contents Synopsis.

Chapter 1 - My Pathetic Life.

Chapter 2 - Rejection.

Chapter 3 - I'm Sick Of Pain.

Chapter 4 - Fight And Flight.

Chapter 5 - Saved By An Angel..o.

Chapter 6 - The Truth.

Chapter 7 - Hot And Heavy In The Kitchen.

Chapter 8 - Training.

Chapter 9 - The First Time.

Chapter 10 - Time Is A Healer.

Chapter 11 - Date Fright.

Chapter 12 - One Bad Thing After Another - Part 1.

Chapter 13 - One Bad Thing After Another - Part 2.

Chapter 14 - The Grieving Process.

Chapter 15 - Take My Pain Away.

Chapter 16 - Home Or Hell.

Chapter 17 - Mixed Feelings.

Chapter 18 - Perfect.

Chapter 19 - Mates Are A Pain In The Ass.

Chapter 20 - Death At A Funeral? - Part 1.

Chapter 21 - Death At A Funeral? - Part 2.

Chapter 22 - In The Wake Of Everything.

Chapter 23 - Torturing The Rogue.

Chapter 24 - If Boredom Were A Person, I'd Be It.

Chapter 25 - Forgiving The Past Is Easier Said Than Done.

Chapter 26 - Just Give Me One Chance.

Chapter 27 - I Wish I'd Stayed Asleep.

Chapter 28 - A Girls Gotta Do What A Girls Gotta Do.

Chapter 29 - Why Do Bad Things Happen To Good People? - Part 1.

Chapter 30 - Why Do Bad Things Happen To Good People? - Part 2.

Chapter 31 - No Pain, No Gain.

Chapter 32 - First Night With My Mate.

Chapter 33 - Unravelling The Faux King's Plan.

Chapter 34 - I Wish I Could Put Some People on Mute.

Chapter 35 - Meeting My Royal Family.

Chapter 36 - Life Isn't Always Be A Bed Of Roses.

Chapter 37 - It's The Mega Bitch.

Chapter 38 - Trouble In Paradise.

Chapter 39 - Accepting My Future.

Chapter 40 - Where's My Mate? - Part 1.

Chapter 41 - Where's My Mate? - Part 2.

Chapter 42 - Honey, I'm Home.

Chapter 43 - She's Back But Is She Really?.

Chapter 44 - Don't Let Your Fear Destroy Your Future.

Chapter 45 - Too Stubborn To Face The Music.

Chapter 46 - It's Time To Be An Adult And Face The Music.

Chapter 47 - You're My Destiny.

Chapter 48 - There's No Victoria Secrets Between Mates.

Chapter 49 - Halloween Mating.

Authors Note - I Need To Rant😡😡.

Chapter 50 - Life Is Almost Perfect.

Chapter 51 - Let's Move On And Up - Part 1.

Chapter 52 - Let's Move On And Up - Part 2.

Chapter 53 - The Luna Ceremony.

Chapter 54 - Hey Baby, I Think I Wanna Marry You.

Chapter 55 - Perfect Night To Make Love.

Chapter 56 - Cake By The Ocean.

Chapter 57 - Crazy In Love.

Chapter 58 - Mason's Back With A Vengeance - Part 1.

Chapter 59 - Mason's Back With A Vengeance - Part 2.

Chapter 60 - A Pissed Off Alpha And A Heroic Luna.

Chapter 61 - The Last Goodbye?.

Chapter 62 - This Isn't Real.

Chapter 63 - Fifty Shades Of Fucked Up.

Chapter 64 - It's Better To Have Hope Than Nothing At All.

Chapter 65 - Saving Nattie.

Chapter 66 - Capturing Mason.

Chapter 67 - Nine.

Chapter 68 - We Need To Talk.

Chapter 69 - Sometimes Goodbyes Are Really Hard.

Chapter 70 - And Sometimes Goodbyes Are Really Easy.

Chapter 71 - Punishments Can Be Fun Too.

Chapter 72 - The Finale.

Chapter 73 - Epilogue - Part 1.

Chapter 74 - Epilogue - Part 2.

Description Natalia Vasquez hasn't lived an easy life, she's been bullied, tortured
and abused ever since she was six years old by the very people who were supposed to
love, cherish and protect her and it's all thanks to a lie that was created by
someone who she thought was her best friend. At the age of six, Natalia shifted
which is taboo even for alpha wolves, all wolves shift at eighteen so for Natalia
to shift this early is bizarre, one day Natalia was running in her wolf form when
she found her best friend Aubrey being attacked by a rogue, she saved her friend
but when they got back to the packhouse, Aubrey lied to their elders and said that
Natalia was the one who attacked her because she was trying to run away and when
she tried to stop her, she went crazy and attacked her. Ever since that day,
Natalias life has been a living hell and she's literally endured every single thing
thrown at her including plates, chairs and insults with hopes of meeting her mate
and him saving her like Prince Charming saved Cinderella but all her hopes and
dreams are thrown down the toilet when she finds her mate and he instantly rejects
her. Natalia thought her life would end after being rejected but shockingly it
didn't, it was only the beginning of a brand new life for her, will her mate be
joining her for the ride? or will she leave him in the dust? only time will tell.
*******This is NOT an incest story*******
"Natalia"

"Go away"

"Natalia stop!!"

"How about you stop following me and leave me the f**k alone?"

"Don't f**king curse at me Natalia and remember who I am"

I scoff at his stupidity.

"How could I forget who you are Cole? you remind me near enough every f**king day
who you are"

I picked up my pace hoping the asshole would get the hint and leave me alone but
no, I forgot this is Cole Vasquez I'm talking too, he's not only a moron but he's
also a stubborn bastard.

I was startled when Cole grabbed me and forced me up against the school lockers
hurting my back in the process.

"AAHHH!!, Cole let me go you asshole"

He pinned his body against mine and held my wrists on either side of my head as he
nuzzled his face into my neck sniffing my scent.

"Oh goddess I've missed you, Nat"

What?.

"You've missed me? how the f**k can you miss me, idiot when we live in the same
house?"

He growled but I wasn't sure what at exactly, was he growling at my question? was
he growling because I called him an idiot? is he growling because I'm questioning
what he means?....what?.

"NO!!, I missed you, Natalia"

Still, I had no clue what he was talking about? because we literally live in the
same house and have done for eighteen years, he sees me every day sometimes more
than I want him too.

I tried to get out of Coles hold but to no avail, if anything the more I tried to
free myself, the tighter his grip got.

"Stop struggling, mate"

"Mate?....are you on f**king crack, Cole?"

He pulls away and looks into my eyes.

"Of course I'm not, Nat, why would you ask that?"

"Because you must be on something, fool, if you think we're still mates"
"We are"

He whispers sounding sad and looking deflated, I roll my eyes feeling fed up, Moon
Goddess please in my next life, can you please not pair me up with a complete
nincompoop.

"But we're not, you rejected me, remember, we're no longer mates"

Coles grip loosens and I use this opportunity to free myself and put some distance
between us.

"Even if you didn't reject me Cole, I still wouldn't want to be with you"

"Why?"

He asks sounding hurt and I mentally roll my eyes.

"Well since you've gone all Five Seconds Of Summer on me all of a sudden and got
amnesia, let me fill you in, you've beaten me, you've tortured me, you've pulled so
many nasty pranks on me, you helped turn this entire pack against me, you've called
me some of the worst things going, words that I wouldn't even use on a rogue and
for what? a lie, a lie that was created by your nasty, evil, vindictive,
manipulative girlfriend"

Yes, if you haven't clicked on already, Cole is dating my schools version of Regina
George who is also my ex-best friend, cliche I know but that's the story of my
life.

"She's not my girlfriend"

He growls.

"Yer and I'm GiGi Hadid with millions of dollars in my bank account and a super
famous baby daddy"

I roll my eyes for like the umpteenth time today, actually, ever since I found out
Cole was my mate, rolling my eyes has become the new norm for me, kinda like
showering or brushing my teeth or changing my knickers.

"She's not she's just a..a..a"

"A what? a bitch? a whore? a snake? or are those words just limited to me?"

Cole visibly flinches from my words but I don't care, he deserves it.

"I'm sorry Nat, I really am, I shouldn't have rejected you the way that I did"

"Ok, apology accepted, bye"

I attempt to walk away again but the asshat stopped me.

"Natalia please don't leave me, I'll do anything just please don't leave me,
please"

He begs sounding broken.

"You're begging me"

He nods his head.

"I'll do anything for you to stay with me and accept our bond Nat, even if I have
to get down on my knees in front of our whole pack and beg for your forgiveness, I
will"

"Kinda like how your parents made me get down on my knees in front of the whole
pack at six years old and beg for their forgiveness over something I didn't even
do"

Cole looks down at me looking conflicted he's got so many emotions running through
his eyes which hurts me because it shows that he'd still prefer to believe all of
the lies Aubrey cooked up over his own mate telling him the truth.

"Bye Cole"

"No wait, Nat, please"

"No Cole, I'm done, I'm sick of you and this whole pack, you all believed Aubrey
and her lies like it was the word of the bible but not once did any of you stop and
ask me for my side of the story and now you want me to forgive you and sweep
everything under the rug like it never happened, screw you"

"I can't let you leave me, Nat, I just can't"

"Excuse me, who died and made you the leader of my life, I'm in charge of my life,
Cole not you so why don't you just go back to your little slutty girlfriend and
your group of asshole friends and stay the hell out of my life"

I walk away hoping that was the end off it but nope, the asshole did something that
I never thought he'd do in a million f**king years.

"Then you leave me no other choice, Nat"

Whatever.

"I Cole Demetrius Vasquez accept you Natalia Isabella Vasquez as my mate and future
Luna of The Dark Shadows pack"

"What the f**k?"

I start to feel light headed and dizzy as a surge of power shoots through me, I
turn to look at Cole and through my blurry vision I could see the bastard smirking
at me with pride in his eyes, that was the last thing I saw before everything went
black.

Punch!!.

Kick!!.

Slap!!.

"You're so f*****g useless Natalia, you can't even do the simplest of things
without screwing up"

"P..please s..stop"
"Errrrrrm, nope"

"AAHHH!!, p..please s..stop"

"Why should I? you didn't stop when you beat Aubrey up"

My body ached as Cole delivered more kicks, punches and slaps on me whilst calling
me some nasty names.

"f*****g bitch, you're nothing but a useless lying whore"

"I didn't lie Cole, Aubrey did, AAHHH!!"

"YOU!!"

PUNCH!!.

"LYING!!"

PUNCH!!.

"f*****g!!"

PUNCH!!.

"BITCH!!"

PUNCH!!.

"ASS!!"

PUNCH!!.

"WHORE!!"

PUNCH!!.

I wake up with a loud gasp as tears are running down my face and my whole body is
soaked with sweat.

Thank the moon goddess.

"It was just a nightmare"

I'd love to say this isn't a normal thing for me but sadly it is and has been for
almost twelve years now ever since I was six years old and I became an outcast not
only in my pack but also in my own family.

My name is Natalia Vasquez, I'm seventeen years old nearly eighteen and I'm the
only daughter of alpha Lucas and Luna Maria Vasquez and younger sister of Cole and
Angelo Vasquez, I used to be the apple of my families eyes, I was a daddys girl, my
mommas best friend and my big brothers used to be super over protective off me but
all of that changed thanks to my former best friend Aubrey who told a big lie on me
and it dramatically changed my whole life.

You see what happened was....

BANG!!, BANG!!, BANG!!, BANG!!.

"HEY SERVIDORA, GET YOUR ASS UP AND MAKE BREAKFAST!!, f*****g LAZY BITCH!!"

Urgh!!.

"Yes sir"

I take several deep breaths before peeling my sheets off me and going into my
bathroom to have a quick wash, brush my hair and change into some dry clothes.

When I'm done, I leave my room and head downstairs, it's six o'clock in the morning
so everyone except alpha twatbag aka my older brother Cole is fast asleep and I
don't have to deal with any of them until later on, it doesn't mean that I can
relax or anything because Cole is still lingering around here somewhere.

"Morning servidora"

See what I mean?.

"G..good m..morning, a..alpha"

Yer that's right, Cole's not even alpha yet and already he's got me calling him
alpha.

"Get this shit tip cleaned up, I want this place spick and span when everyone gets
up and make sure breakfast is hot today"

I'll do my best considering I'm only one tiny woman making food for over three
hundred people.

"Yes alpha"

I walk into the kitchen and head over to the cleaning supplies cupboard.

"AAHHHH!!"

"Did you forget something bitch?"

"N..no a..alpha"

Cole's grip on my hair tightened causing me immense pain.

"P..please l..let m..me g..go, C..Cole"

Oh shit.

"What did you just call me?"

"N..nothing, AAHHHH!!"

"DON'T!!"

KICK!!.

"f*****g!!"

KICK!!.

"CALL!!"
KICK!!.

"ME!!"

KICK!!.

"COLE!!"

KICK!!, PUNCH!!, PUNCH!!, KICK!!, KICK!!, KICK!!.

"NOW CLEAN THIS BASTARD PLACE UP AND MAKE BREAKFAST, DON'T FORGET HOW I LIKE MY
FOOD, YOU EVEN GET ONE THING WRONG AND I'LL f**k YOU UP WORSE THAN THIS!!"

Cole shouted as he left the kitchen.

After several failed attempts, I finally manage to get up feeling pain in every
single part of my body and I get to work cleaning up this place and making food.

One of the shitty things about my life is that I've got the ability to heal myself
fully but I can't because it means giving away my secret which only one other
person knows about but she can't say anything because that means she'd have to
untangle her matted web of lies.

All wolves have got the ability to fully heal themselves but normally it takes
hours depending on how severe the injury is but I'm different, I can fully heal
myself within thirty seconds, I found this out when Cole broke my arm a few years
back and at the time I didn't know how I managed to heal myself so quickly but I
later learned from my wolf that it's just one of the many special abilities I've
got and that I don't have to put much effort or energy into it, sadly, I did have
to put a lot of effort and energy into controlling it because I can't raise any
suspicion with my family or my pack.

After I finished cleaning up and cooking, I went upstairs to my room to have a

quick shower an get dressed for school, I don't know why I even bother going to
school, to be honest, everybody from the students to the teachers treat me like
f*****g shit and I can't say anything because if I do then they'll make a complaint
to my parents which means I either get a bigger beating then what I normally get or
they put more chores then I can handle on my plate.

"And where the f**k are you going young lady?"

"E..erm, I..I..I'm g..going t..to sc..school"

"No you're not, you're staying home today and setting up Cole's birthday party"

"Yes sir"

I don't know if I should feel happy and relieved or sad and angry actually, I'm
neither because no matter what I'm gonna end up getting ridiculed and probably
beaten up because Cole is a perfectionist and if I get even the smallest detail
wrong, then he's gonna kick up a shit storm worse than two fat chicks fighting over
the last plate of food at an all you can eat.

"Good, now everything you need is in my office, get it and get out, if I find
anything out of place you'll be punished, do you understand me?"

"Yes sir"
I head back up to my room to wait for everyone to leave, if I start now whilst
people are here then I'll end up doing twice maybe thrice the job because they'll
mess everything up.

"AAHHH!!"

"It's time to give you your birthday punches"

"B..but i..it's n..not e..even m..my b..birthday"

PUNCH!!.

"Shut up, come on guys"

Oh no.

"This is gonna be fun"

All four guys including my brother smirk as they viciously beat me up.

As usual, I didn't make any noises or cry and I didn't show them they were causing
me any pain because I refuse to give them anymore satisfaction.

After a good few minutes of these imbecilies kicking, punching and slapping me,
they eventually leave but not before Cole lands one more kick on my face and ribs.

"See you at midnight for round two, servidora"

They leave and I lay on the floor in really bad pain.

"L..Lucky p..please....p..please h..heal m..me"

"I really wish I could Nat but I can't"

I let out a sigh.

"I really hate my life, why don't they just kill me? at least then I'll be happy"

"Don't say that Nattie, our life is gonna change soon, I promise just hold on for
me, please"

Urgh!!.

"Ok Lucky"

"Good girl, now you better get up and get started before they do worse to you that
I won't ever be able to heal like last time"

"Don't remind me"

I stand up ignoring all of the pain that I'm in and I go up to my room to clean
myself up.

I once again change my clothes and brush my hair into a ponytail, I then go into my
bathroom to clean off all of the blood and clean up all of my injuries.

I look in the mirror and gasp when I see all of the damage they've inflicted on me,
my eyes sting with tears and for the first time in a very long time, I let it all
out, I don't like to cry about my problems because crying won't fix any of it but
every now and then I have to let it out so that I don't end up showing my tears to
this disgraceful pack.

"Lucky, what am I gonna do?...they've really done a number on me this time, I don't
think I can take another beating at midnight"

"Just hold on Nat, please"

I don't know if I can, if Cole and his friends beat me up at midnight like they
promised then it's gonna be ten times worse because they're gonna be drunk and they
may end up taking me to the torture room like last time.

"Don't worry Natalia, things are gonna get better, trust me"

"I trust you Lucky"

"Good girl"

After cleaning up all of my injuries and trying and failing to get Lucky to heal
some of them, I went to my dads office and got everything that I needed to set up
this stupid party.

I give the to do list a once over and realise it's not as bad as I thought, I just
have to put up all of the decorations and greet the DJ, caterers and baker when
they come later.

I go into the living room to get the worst job done first but I was stopped in my
tracks when I heard my phone ping, I take my phone out of my pocket and groan when
I see a text from Cole.

'You better have everything done to perfection, servidora because if you don't, the
torture room is ready and waiting for you'

Oh lord.

'I know what you came here to see, if you're a freak, then ya coming home with me
and I know what you came here to do, now bust it open let me see you get low, it's
going down for real, it's going down for real and they already know me, it's going
down for real'

As you can tell, Cole's party is in full swing and luckily that's all that's
swinging....for now.

After I spent nearly the whole day setting up Cole's party and cleaning up his
messy ass room, I went up to my room and got to work on my homework which I wasn't
able to do yesterday because I was too tired from my numerous chores as well as my
many beatings and when I was finished, I read one of my favourite books on w*****d,
I love reading and getting lost in somebody elses world and many dramas, it's a
nice little break away from my own pathetic life.

I was grateful that nobody's bothered me all day, apart from the nasty messages
that Cole has been sending me, I haven't seen or spoken to anybody which is a good
thing because if I had then that would mean they had a problem with how I set up
the party and I would've gotten another beating.
For the past few hours I've been down in the laundry room washing, drying, ironing
and folding clothes, this is my favourite chore to do because it's a great stress
reliever for me plus it gives me to time to think as well as time to talk to my
wolf without fear of being caught.

Myself and Lucky talk about numerous different things mainly our plans for the
future, most of which we disagree with each other on, like for example, I wanna go
to college so I can get a degree and be an accountant, I also want to experience
everything that every normal person my age gets to experience and I want to meet
new people but my wolf, on the other hand, doesn't want any of that.

Lucky is an old school wolf and she'd rather we completed the marking and mating
process the moment we meet our mate and then get married and have pups which is
something that I also want but not yet, I don't wanna be one of those she wolves
who settles down and devotes her whole life to her mate and pups at the young age
of eighteen...no thanks, I wanna live a little.

Despite our many disagreements, me and my wolf always agree on one thing which is
our mate and I think it's because he's the only thing that has kept us going and
kept us sane all these years.

We often talk about what he's like? what he looks like? and what his scent smells
like? but at the end of the day, all we really care about is that he's a really
nice guy who will love and protect us and treats us like a princess and hopefully,
he'll take us away from this hell hole but I doubt that will happen.

Even though I'm really excited and happy to meet my mate, I'm also feeling very
apprehensive and extremely nervous about meeting him because I don't want him to
treat me like how everybody else does but I know he will and I also fear that he'll
reject me as soon as he sees me because even though I'm a really pretty girl, I'm
not somebody who people would gush over and sadly that's all a man needs to reject
his mate these days.

Years and years go, rejection wasn't as common as it is today and people happily
accepted who the moon goddess had paired them up with for life but these days
people prefer to have a chosen mate, especially alphas who would rather have a
beautiful, sexy woman on their arm over their true mate so the likelihood of my
mate accepting me and giving me a happy life is slim to none.

"Oh my goddess, will you stop being such a negative Nattie for once, our mate is
gonna love us and protect us from this pathetic pack"

Yer says every bitch whose life is a hot ass mess and wants nothing more than for
her prince charming to show up and save her.

"NATTIE, STOP!!, our mate is gonna love us just you watch"

"Well excuse me for being realistic, my delusional wolf"

"Correction, you're being negative, not realistic, not everyone in this world is
like our so called family and pack, Natalia"

"Whatever Lucky"

My wolf was about to say something no doubt rude or cocky to me when she was
interrupted by someone walking into the laundry room, I look up from the pile of
clothes I was folding and I smile when I see my best friend Emily walking into the
room, Emily is just like me, she was born into the beta family but after her family
were killed by rogues, my asshole parents made her an omega and forced her to be a
maid to the whole pack alongside myself.

"Hey Em, what are you doing here?"

"I came to give you this"

She hands me a small gift box which has been wrapped perfectly.

"What is this?"

She scoffs and rolls her eyes.

"Girl, have you forgotten what today is?"

"Errrm"

"It's your birthday idiot, you're officially eighteen"

What?, I pick up my phone and see that it's ten minutes past midnight...it's my
birthday.

"Oh...I must've been so lost in doing laundry that I didn't notice"

"Whatever just hurry up and open it, I wanna see your face when you see what I've
got you"

I chuckle at my friend, she's like a little kid sometimes.

I unwrap the gift and I gasped when I saw what Emily had bought me.

"Oh my moon goddess"

"Do you like it?"

Emily asked with an anxious look on her face.

"Like it? Em I love it, thank you so much"

I stand up and give her a hug which she quickly and happily reciprocated.

"You're welcome, Nat"

"How could you afford this though? it must've cost you a pretty penny"

I take out the necklace and put it on, it's so beautiful.

"It did but you're worth it"

"Am I?"

I asked her whilst looking down at the necklace.

"Of course you are Nattie besides everybody deserves at least one decent present
for their eighteenth birthday"

I look up at her and smile.

"Thank you, Emily"

"You're welcome"

Emily stayed down in the laundry room with me and helped me finish up with the
washing, she then helped me to take all of the washing around everyone's bedrooms
before we went to our own rooms to get some rest.

"Goodnight birthday girl, I'll see you in the morning"

"Goodnight Em, I love you"

"I love you too, Nattie"

I walk into my room and go over to my bedside table, I take one last look at the
necklace before putting it away in my drawer, you're probably wondering why I'm not
wearing it, well, if anyone in our pack sees it, they'll most likely steal it or
take it away from me because in their words 'I'm not allowed nice things', I was
just about to turn my lamp on when out of nowhere.

BANG!!.

I was startled when my door burst open and I was hit with the most delicious scent,
oh my goddess this is the most delicious scent ever, I could literally live off it.

"You're supposed to idiot, that's our mates scent"

Lucky said whilst rolling her eyes which I didn't know was possible.

Wait....did she just say this is our mate's scent?.

"Yes, yes I did now go to mate Nat, go to mate"

Lucky bounced around in excitement eager to meet our mate, I look over at the door
where I see an all black silhouette of a man.

"C..can I h..help y..you?"

At first, he didn't speak, he just stood there breathing heavily which wasn't
helping my anxiety at all neither was not knowing who he was, all I knew was that
he's tall, he's got a delicious scent and I can tell that he works out just from
his outline.

"Wh..hat's y..your n..name?"

Urgh!!, why can't I stop stuttering? this is my mate for god's sake, I should feel
comfortable in his presence not scared or nervous.

"MINE!!"

In the blink of an eye, my mate had me pinned to the wall and his hand was wrapped
around my neck, I placed my hand on his wrist and tried to remove his hand but I
ended up getting lost in the pleasurable shocks and tingles that spread throughout
my whole body from our skin making contact.

"What the fu...mmm"

Oh my god he's kissing me, my mate is kissing me, my mate just stole my first kiss
and I don't even know his name or what he looks like, does that make me a slut?, I
guess Cole was right, I am a whore.

Just this thought alone made me feel horrible and I tried to push him off me but he
just tightened his grip on my neck as he wrapped his free arm around my waist, he
licked my lower lip wanting entrance but I denied him.

SMACK!!.

I gasped when my mate smacked my ass and he took advantage off it, his tongue
invaded my mouth and my god did it feel and taste good, it didn't last long though
because he quickly left my mouth and started to kiss along my jawline and down my
neck.

"Oh god please, p..please s..stop, I....I d..don't know your n..name"

He continued his assault on my neck and I started to panic when I felt his teeth
graze over the part of my neck were his mark will eventually be.

"N..no stop, i..it's too s..soon...AAHHH!!"

"Don't ever tell me no again, do you understand me?"

He growled out.

Wait....that voice, I've heard that voice somewhere before.

"Answer me mate, do you understand me?"

I nod my head.

"WORDS!!"

He growls and I cower away.

"Y..yes"

"That's a good girl"

He whispered as he moved his hand from my neck up to my face, I closed my eyes when
he gently caressed my cheek with his thumb calming down my racing heart, I was
dying to know who my mate is and what he looks like but I couldn't because we're
surrounded in darkness, well, apart from the moonlight shining through the window
which isn't enough for me to see anything.

"Mmm, you smell divine, mate"

He rubbed his lips over my soft spot and I shivered in pleasure.

"I really wanna mark you"

He kissed my neck and I once again panicked and tried to push him away from me when
I felt his teeth on my soft spot again.

"No, it's too soon, I don't want to be marked yet"

My mate grabbed my chin in a tight grip causing me to wince.

"What did I tell you about saying no to me? HUH!!"

"Y..you're h..hurting m..me"

"I DON'T CARE, YOU WILL NEVER SAY NO TO ME AGAIN!!"

AAHHH!! f**k, he's really hurting me now.

"YOU WILL SUBMIT TO ME, DO YOU UNDERSTAND? I'M YOUR DOMINANT ALPHA AND YOU ARE MY
SUBMISSIVE LUNA, THAT IS HOW IT'S GOING TO BE!!"

Alpha?....my mate is an alpha?.

I look up into his eyes hoping to see if I can recognise them but unfortunately,
all I can see is jet black eyes with a huge tint of red in them, shit, this means
that not only is he fighting his wolf for control but he's also horny as f**k.

My eyes drift down his body to see if I can recognise anything that may give me a
clue as to who my mate could be and unfortunately, I do recognise something, I
narrow my eyes on his neck hoping that what I saw was just a figment of my
imagination but it wasn't.

There sitting on my mate's neck is a bright red flower, the same red flower tattoo
that my brother has got....no way, there's no possible way my brother, my blood
brother, the guy who has been abusing, tormenting and bullying me for twelve god
damn years is my mate.

What the f**k?....is this a joke? is the moon goddess playing a horrible prank on
me? I mean how is this even possible?.

"C..C..Cole?"

He narrows his eyes down at me and I gasped when I saw his eyes flickering from
black and red to green, the same colour green as Coles's eyes, oh god, this isn't
happening.

"How do you know my name?"

"Y..you...y..you're my..m..my b..brother"

Cole is silent but I can still feel his heavy breathing on my skin.

"What?"

I flinch when he growls, I hate it when anyone growls around me even though I
should be used to it considering I'm a wolf and I've always got someone growling at
me for something small or stupid.

Cole switches the light on and I grimace blinking my eyes several times to get used
to the light again.

"No...no, no, no, no, no, no, NO!!"

Cole paces up and down my room whilst roughly tugging on his hair.

"This is a joke, this has got to be a f**king joke"

"No shit we're siblings, we can't be mates"

I was holding my neck which was in a lot of pain as I looked down at the floor, I
could feel tears brimming my eyes and I was hoping they wouldn't fall but the
traitorous bastards did.

"AAHHHH!!"

I screamed in pain when Cole viciously grabbed my chin again, I look up into his
eyes and cried more tears when I saw so much hate and anger in his eyes, why does
he hate me so much? it doesn't matter if I'm his sister or his mate, shouldn't he
love me unconditionally?.

"Cole pl..please"

"SHUT UP!!, I AM NOT COLE TO YOU, I AM ALPHA COLE, YOUR BROTHER AND YOUR SUPERIOR"

"Y..you're m..my m..mate"

I whimpered but it wasn't all me, it was also Lucky who was trying to fight me for
control.

Cole laughed evilly as he smirked at me.

"You're nothing to me, Natalia, never have been and never will be, you're weak and
pathetic, you're so f**king useless, how can I make you my Luna?"

"Please"

Lucky whimpers.

"You disgust me"

He shoves me and I fall banging my head on my bedside table.

"I Cole Demetrius Vasquez reject you, Natalia Isabella Vasquez, as my mate, my
sister and my future Luna of The Dark Shadows pack, don't you dare f**king tell
anybody about this otherwise I'll f**king kill you, not that anyone will believe
you anyway since everyone already knows you're a habitual liar"

I slump on the floor feeling my heartbreak and shatter into millions of pieces.

"Happy birthday Nattie, I hope you have a wonderful day"

Cole taunts and laughs as he leaves my room, leaving me a heartbroken mess on the
floor.

Urgh!!, I feel like shit and I can guarantee you I look like it as well.

After Cole walked out of my room last night, I sat on the floor crying for god
knows how long before getting up and laying down on my bed and crying some more.

I don't know exactly why I was crying, all I know is that I couldn't stop.

Was I crying because the moon goddess played an evil prank on me making my brother
my mate?.

Was I crying because Cole was my mate?.

Or was I crying because he rejected me ruining my last chance at happiness?.

I didn't have any answers to my questions but it didn't matter, my heart is broken
and my life is over, my last chance at happiness has been cruelly snatched away
from me and now I'm doomed to spend the rest of my life in this godforsaken pack,
serving the very people that I despise and most likely watching my mate live a
happy life, getting married and having pups with his chosen mate.

I don't know why it hurts so much that Cole rejected me, I mean we're siblings for
goddesses sake, it's wrong for us to be mates, just like it's against the law in
the human world for siblings to have sex and be in a relationship, it's against the
law for us weres to commit incest as well, so why our beloved moon goddess would
play a mean trick on me like this is beyond me.

"Lucky"

No answer.

"Lucky"

Still, no answer and this is what it's been like since last night, ever since Cole
said those dreaded words that no werewolf wants to hear, Lucky has completely
blocked me out and hasn't said a single word, actually, I tell a lie, she did speak
to me once and that was just to tell me that Cole was having sex with not one but
two bitches.

You see what happened was, after I finally fell asleep, I was woken up by the most
intense pain ever, if you're a girl imagine the pain you get from your period and
if you're a guy imagine the pain from getting kicked in the balls except the pain
is amplified by twenty, my whole body was in agony but more specifically my stomach
and lower region, I was hot all over like I was being cooked from the inside out
and I was sweating profusely, at first I thought I was going into heat because
that's common after you've met your mate especially if your mate is an alpha but
no, it turned out that Cole was having sex and according to Lucky, the pain was
amplified because he was having sex with more than one girl.

I was heartbroken and hurt that Cole would do this to me and I had a feeling that
he must know what type of pain he was causing me which Lucky confirmed to me that
he did know and she even told me that she'd spoken to Coles wolf who repeatedly
apologised to her and told her to tell me how sorry he was and that he didn't
condone Cole or his actions.

Ever since then, Lucky has been silent but every now and then I can feel her pain
and hear her whimpers.

"Hey Nat"

"Hey Em"

"Are you ok? you look like you've been put through the wringer"

That's putting it nicely.

"I'm fine Em, I just had a sleepless night, that's all"

"I'm not surprised, you're eighteen now, you can finally meet your mate, I bet you
couldn't sleep because you were too excited"

"Yer, something like that"

I grab my things out of my locker and put them in my bag hoping that's the last she
mentions of my mate but unfortunately, it's not.

"Urgh!!, don't look now but here comes alpha cockhead and his brainless bimbo"

I quickly glanced at Emily before looking to my left and seeing Cole and Aubrey all
over each other.

Urgh!!, why didn't I listen to Emily?.

I look away when I heard Lucky whimper.

"Are you ok, Lucky?"

Once again she ignores me, poor thing.

"I feel sorry for whoever his mate is, I'd hate it if the moon goddess paired me up
with a douchebag manwhore like him"

I chuckle and I swear I even heard Lucky chuckle slightly.

"Don't worry Em, the moon goddess has picked out a great guy for you"

"Do you think?"

She asked whilst looking at me hopefully.

"Of course, you're a beautiful sweet girl, you deserve only the best"

"I hope so"

"Look who it is babe, the runts of our pack"

Pfft, runts? she's calling us runts? the girl who is the daughter of a pack warrior
is telling an alpha and betas daughters they're runts, what a joke.

"I know babe, how disgusting"

I didn't pay the morons any attention even though I could feel Coles eyes burning
into me.

"I've got an idea baby, why don't we banish them from the pack when we become alpha
and Luna?"

"That's a great idea, babe"

"What? you'd actually kick your own sister out because of this tramp"

"What did you f*****g call me, runt?"

"I called you a tramp, you know a floozie, a whore, a tart, a hoochie, a hussy, a
trollop or to put it in layman's terms for a brainless bimbo such as yourself, a
slut"

What the f**k?.

Go Emily, I didn't know she had it in her to be so bold.

"Why you little?"

Aubrey was about to charge at Emily when I stood in front of her.

"Get the f**k out of my way, Natalia"

"Or what? what are you gonna do if I don't?"

I know exactly what she's gonna do because she does it every single f*****g time,
she'll stomp her foot, throw a tantrum and then tell Cole to sort me out, even
though she's the daughter of a warrior, Aubrey can't fight for shit, she couldn't
kick a rock without hurting herself, she's more of a slapper...in more ways than
one.

STOMP!!.

"Urrrgh!!, baby, sort this bitch out"

"My pleasure"

Punch!!.

As expected, Cole beat the f*****g crap out of me and just like every other time
he's beat me up, a crowd of students surrounded us cheering him on and filming us
like they were at a f*****g WWE event.

"You're lucky you're my mate otherwise I'd f*****g kill you for insulting my
girlfriend"

"I'm not your mate remember jackass, you rejected me or did you forget?"

"Pfft, forget? how could I forget one of the best moments of my entire life"

Ouch!!.

As much as I hate to admit it, that actually hurt.

"Apologise to Aubrey"

"I'd rather stick pins in my eyes"

KICK!!, KICK!!, KICK!!.

And there goes some of my ribs, f**k.

"Apologise to her now"

"If you make me apologise, Cole, I'll tell everyone I'm your mate"

He laughed evilly at me.

"Go ahead, no one will believe you"

"That's a risk I'm willing to take, I've got nothing to lose if nobody believes me
Cole but you...you've got a lot to lose if they do believe me"

Cole looked at me with so much anger, his eyes were black and his pupils were red.

"f*****g bitch"
He shoved me on the floor and gave me one last kick before walking away laughing
with Aubrey.

"Are you ok, Nat?"

"I'm fine...ouch, Jesus"

Emily helped me up but I could barely stand.

"Come on, let's get you to the infirmary"

After School....

"I can give you a lift if you want"

"No it's ok Em, I wanna walk"

"But you're injured, Nat"

"Nothing new there"

"Are you sure?"

"Yes now go, I'll see you later"

"Bye Nat"

"Bye Em"

After leaving Emily, I head towards the woods and walk home.

For the past few hours I've been trying to contact Lucky so she can heal me but
she's still wallowing in self-pity, I don't blame her for being upset but come on,
she's acting like a teenager who's had her heartbroken for the first time and the
worst thing about it is, the guy she's crying over isn't f*****g worth it, his wolf
maybe but Cole isn't worth the shite of my shoe.

As I walked through the woods, I listened to some music to take my mind off my shit
life.

'You promised the world and I fell for it, I put you first and you adored it, set
fires to my forest and you let it burn, sang off key in my chorus 'cause it wasn't
yours, I saw the signs and I ignored it, rose coloured glasses all distorted, set
fire to my purpose and I let it burn, you got off on the hurtin' when it wasn't
yours, yeah, we'd always go into it blindly, I needed to lose you to find me this
dance, it was killing me softly, I needed to hate you to love me, yeah'.

"Oww...oh goddess"

I was almost home when I was hit with a nasty burning pain which was slowly
spreading throughout my whole body and I know exactly what is causing it.

"Oh g..goddess not a..again"

I lean against a tree and take long deep breaths, the pain was excruciating and I
felt like I was gonna pass out so I sat down leaning against the stump, I close my
eyes and continue to take deep breaths.
"Mmm, oh yeah, just like that baby, yes"

What the....who the hell is that?.

I look around the forest but I don't see anyone or anything.

I'm probably just hearing things.

"Yes Cole....h..harder"

I freeze when I hear Coles name being moaned.

I stand up on my wobbly legs and look around the forest which is behind me and my
heart breaks further when I see Cole and Aubrey having sex against a tree.

f*****g asshole.

I hid myself back behind the tree I was standing by not wanting them to know that
I'm here, there's a huge chance Cole already knows that I'm here because he'll be
able to sense me and smell my scent.

"Oh yes, Aubrey, yes....goddess you're so perfect"

Urgh!!, I hate him....I hate him goddess, I hate him, I hate him.

I sat on the ground-hugging my knees to my chest and cried my eyes out as I

listened to my ex-mate and my ex-best friend have sex.

I don't know how long they were going at it for because I passed out not long
afterwards, this is how bad the pain is when our mates mate with someone else, it
causes us to pass out for hours sometimes days on end.

When I eventually woke up, I sat up and looked around feeling groggy and I was
shocked when I saw that it was now dark outside, goddess, how long have I been out?
I grab my phone from my jeans and check the time, 7:30 pm, shit, everyone's gonna
kick-off when I get back because I wasn't there to make dinner.

I stand up and stretch out my limbs before making my way back home, I wasn't
looking forward to getting another beating but what can I do?.

I hesitantly walk through the back door expecting to be hit instantly either
verbally or physically but instead, I was hit with the smell of citrus, what the
hell?.

"There you are, where the hell have you been?"

A frantic Emily asked whilst embracing me in a bear hug.

"I went for a walk, why?"

"You've been gone for hours, Nat, I thought something bad had happened to you"

I smiled at her concern, at least someone was worried about me.

"I'm fine, Em, where is everyone?"

"Oh, they've all gone to their rooms"

"What about dinner?"

"I cooked, I thought you deserved a break on your birthday"

She's so sweet, what did I do to deserve a friend like her?.

"Thanks Em, you're a diamond, what would I do without you?"

"Oh you'd probably live a very boring and dull life"

We both chuckled.

Even though my life is about as miserable as it could get, it's not completely
horrible and that's all thanks to Emily.

"How am I gonna repay you for all of the nice things you do for me, Em?"

"It's simple....you can pay me back on my birthday"

She chuckled and I smiled sadly.

This girl deserves a lot more for her birthday than having a day off from making
dinner and doing chores, thankfully, her eighteenth birthday isn't for another
couple of months so I've got plenty of time to find ways to spoil her.

"I'm gonna go up to my room, I'll see you in the morning, Em"

"Ok, goodnight birthday girl"

We both give each other a hug and I leave the kitchen heading up to my room, on my
way, I bumped into my parents who scolded me for many things including not coming
straight home from school, not doing any of my chores or preparing dinner and for
disrespecting my future Luna in school, I should've known that bitch would once
again play the victim when even the cockroaches in the dungeons know she's anything
but.

My parents then dragged me to the torture room telling me that I needed to be

punished for my attitude and actions, I don't wanna say what they did to me but
let's just say it was a horrible way to end my eighteenth birthday and I must've
passed out from the pain because I went from being tied up in the torture room to
laying on the cold hard floor in my bedroom.

"Nattie please, don't do this"

"Shut up, Lucky"

"No, I won't, I need to stop you from making the biggest mistake of your life"

"Biggest mistake of my life? HA!!, you've gotta be joking me right, the biggest
mistake of my life was staying here and expecting too much from our moon goddess
and a group of people who don't know their ass from their elbows"

"Cole will regret it, I promise you, Nat, he'll regret it and we can forgive him
and live happily ever after"

"Wake up and smell the coffee would you Lucky, for goddesses sake, life isn't like
a Disney movie or a story, isn't that what you told me after Cole rejected me"

"I don't remember"

"That's convenient"

This is what it's been like for the past half an hour ever since I woke up in
terrible pain on the cold hard floor of my bedroom and I decided that enough is
enough and I had to leave, I know you're all probably rolling your eyes like bitch
that's so cliche, well, welcome to my life, I'm an alpha wolf made an omega for a
shit reason, I'm a maid to my own pack getting beaten up and insulted on a daily
f*****g basis and today I was rejected by my mate who just so happens to be my
future alpha and older brother, leaving this shit hole is the least of the cliche
shit to happen to me.

Anyway, ever since I made this decision and I started packing up my things, Lucky
thought now would be the perfect time to come out of her pity party long enough to
try and stop me from leaving, pfft, as if that's going to happen, I'm not staying
here any longer than I have to and once everyone is asleep then I'll be gone faster
than The Flash.

The sad thing is, Lucky's acting like us, Cole and his wolf Ace have been in love
for all of these years and he's done something small to betray us and that's it, I
don't think she fully grasps everything that he along with everyone else has done
to us.

"I do understand Nat, I just don't think that we should leave because he rejected
us"

"I'm not leaving because he rejected us Lucky, that shit is just the tip of the
iceberg for me"

"Then why are you leaving?"

I sit on my bed and let out a sigh.

"Because I'm mentally, physically and emotionally drained, Lucky.....I need a

break"

"Will we ever come back?"

I hope not.

"I don't know Lucky, never say never"

"Whatever you say, Justin Bieber"

Urgh!!, bitch.

I don't know what's going on with my wolf today, she's acting so bipolar that it's
actually worrying me, after Cole rejected me, I lay down on my bed with only two
thoughts running through my mind either I was gonna commit suicide or I was gonna
leave and I was pretty determined to do one or the other but my strong as f**k wolf
managed to stop me and convinced me to not only live but to stay, she had this
strong and powerful aura around her and she wasn't acting like she was heartbroken
but all day she's been acting the exact opposite, hurt depressed and sad.

What happened to my strong wolf?.

Flashback - (After Cole rejected Natalia).

"Nat.....Nat, are you ok?"

"Mmm-hmm"

"Everythings gonna be ok, Natalia, I promise"

"How?....how do you know that?"

"Because...erm...."

"Exactly, you don't know....you don't know anything"

"Actually missy, I do know, I know a lot"

"Like what?"

"Well, I know that we can get through this, I know that we're strong alpha females,
I know that this isn't the end for us, can I ask you a question, Nat?"

"Sure, go ahead"

"Do you know what we need to do now?"

"Yer I do, we need to either commit suicide and put an end to all of our misery and
pain or we could run away and find ourselves a better pack who will train us to be
badass bitches and I'll find myself some pretty amazing friends like in Deepest
Regret, who knows maybe I'll even find my second chance mate who is a lot better
than the prick I was originally paired with"

"You do remember how that story ended right"

"I....erm...shut up, Lucky"

"Exactly and that shows what you ultimately want, Nattie"

"No it doesn't, Lucky"

"Yes it does, Nat"

Whatever.

Lucky then spent the next hour convincing me not to give up and to stay with the
pack because first of all, I shouldn't be running away from my problems or from the
pack where I was born and raised even if they are a bunch of assholes and secondly
because Cole may eventually give in to the mate bond and take back his rejection
which I wasn't sure if I wanted him too because even despite everything that he's
put me through, we're still siblings at the end of the day and I'm not into incest.

"Ok fine, I'll stay"

"YAAAY!!"

"But one more thing Lucky, I mean it, they do one more thing to hurt me in any way
and I'm f*****g gone, do you understand me?"

"Yes ma'am"
End Of Flashback.

As you can see me and my wolf have switched roles, she's gone from being strong and
confident to depressed and sad and I've gone from being depressed and sad to being
strong, don't get me wrong, I'm still very hurt and sad but I can't think of those
feelings right now because I need to focus on getting myself out of here without
being caught.

Knock!!, Knock!!, Knock!!.

Shit.

"Wh..who i..is i..it?"

"It's me, Emily"

Oh thank god, I walk over to the door and open it.

"Come in"

"Hey, I heard what happened to you so I came to....what's going on here?"

"Oh nothing"

"Then why are you packing?"

"Erm...."

"Are you leaving?"

"Em I...."

"Don't say another word to me"

I was shocked when Emily ran out of my room faster than anything confusing me.

What the f**k?.

A few minutes later, Emily comes back into my room dressed in an all black
tracksuit, a pair of runners and her coat and she's got a holdall in her hand.

"It's about f*****g time we left"

"Emily..."

"Don't Emily me, Natalia, you're not leaving without me, you got that? we're best
friends and where you go, I go, do you understand?"

I smile at my beautiful best friend as tears brimmed my eyes.

"You're truly one in a million, Emily Thomas"

"I know, I know, now when are we leaving?"

"When my dad goes to sleep?"

Emily checks her watch.

"We haven't got long then, hurry up and go change into something warm and black,
it's cold out tonight"

"Why black?"

"Because we'll blend in with the night if anyone on patrol sees us"

"Oh"

"Now go, we haven't got long"

"Ok Mrs Bossypants"

I changed into some clothes that were all black and that would keep me nice and
warm, I also put on my necklace which Emily had given me, when I was ready, I went
back into my room and waited with Emily for another fifteen minutes for my dad to
go to bed, when he finally did, we grabbed our things and quietly snuck through the
house, we were about to leave through the back door when Emily stopped us.

"Wait, shouldn't we leave them a note or something?"

"And say what exactly? hi assholes, I'm sorry for my abrupt departure but I wish I
could be a fly on the f*****g wall to see you lazy, incompetent asses trying to do
something for yourselves"

"That could work"

Emily said whilst chuckling.

"Let's go before someone wakes up"

"Ok"

We leave the mansion and run straight towards the woods.

We ran for around twenty minutes dodging patrol guys who seemed to be everywhere,
Emily mind linked me several times panicking about us possibly getting caught and
what my parents would do when they found out we tried to escape but I managed to
calm her down.

"Emily stop"

We stop running and hide behind a tree, huffing and puffing trying to catch our
breaths.

"Why did you stop?"

"L...Look"

I pointed to the area right in front of us.

"Do you see that?....we're only a few yards away from being off the territory"

"Oh good, wait....where are all of the patrol guys? shouldn't there at least be one
person here to guard this area from rogues?"

I shrug my shoulders.

"I don't know and I don't care, it's none of our concern anymore"
"You're right....should we go?"

"Yer"

"WAIT!!"

"What? what's up, Lucky?"

"Do you smell that?"

I sniff the air and I freeze when I smell Coles scent as well as the foul scent of
a rogue, I look around the woods but I can't see or hear anything even with my
night vision and great hearing skills.

"What's wrong, Nat? are you ok?"

"Yer I'm fi..."

"AAHHHHH!!"

"f**k, what was that?"

"It's Cole, Natalia, Cole's in pain"

"WHAT?"

"Nat..."

"Emily, do me a favour ok, take these and run"

"But Nat..."

"Don't worry I'll be right behind you, I just need to check on something ok"

"Ok"

"Good, now go"

Emily was hesitant to leave me but eventually did, I then ran around the woods
sniffing the air trying to find Coles scent but I can't smell it anymore, did I
imagine this?.

"No, you didn't"

"Why can't I smell his scent anymore?"

"I don't know"

An ear-piercing scream and a growl brought me out of my conversation with Lucky and
I was confused, I clearly smelled Coles scent and I heard him scream in pain but
this one sounded like a girls scream.

"Shift Nat, your senses will be heightened and you'll be able to find him quicker
then"

"Ok"

I quickly shift into my beautiful white wolf which has got a stunning rose gold
tint and almost instantly I can smell the strong scent of Cole, a rogue, another
wolf and blood, shit, I need to find him now.

I run as fast as I can darting passed trees and jumping over boulders heading
straight for where Coles scent is the strongest, when I found him both mine and
Lucky's anger boiled over and Lucky took full control when we saw the rogue on top
of Cole and he was about to rip his throat out.

"Oh hell to the no"

Lucky growled a really strong growl, one that I didn't even know she had in her and
she launched herself at the rogue knocking him off Cole, she continued to growl at
him causing the ground and everything on it to shake.

The rogue growled back trying to intimidate and scare me but that wasn't going to
happen, You came after our mate buddy, you crossed a f*****g line.

"Erm Lucky, what are you doing?"

Lucky didn't answer me instead she saw red and launched herself on the rogue
ripping him to shreds before finally ripping his throat out, I watched in horror
and I couldn't believe it, I can't believe Lucky has just killed a rogue for an
asshole who isn't worth it.

"Yes he is Nat and now we can stay, once he knows who we are and that we just saved
him, Cole will accept us and...."

"Baby...baby are you ok?"

Lucky was harshly brought out of dreamland by a screechy voice and my heart broke
for her and for me when we saw Aubrey crawling over to Cole and upon looking at
them closely, we can see they're wearing nothing but their underwear.

"Maybe...m..maybe they shifted"

I sighed hating how sad and hurt she sounded.

"Yer maybe"

Lucky whimpered seeing Cole and Aubrey embracing each other even though Cole's eyes
were on her, she was still really hurt that he had another woman in his arms and to
be honest with you, so was I.

"Let's go, Lucky"

She nods her head and runs away ignoring Coles shouts for us to wait and come back.

We had to hide out when we noticed that Cole was chasing after us but he quickly
gave up for some reason and ran back to his whore, I guess even his saviour isn't
as important as that bitch.

I shift back into my human form and I was shocked when I noticed that I was fully
dressed when I shifted back, what the f**k? how is this possible?.

"Lucky, what's going on? why didn't my clothes shred when I shifted?"

She shrugged her shoulders and lay down, poor thing, I run back to where I told
Emily to leave and when I stepped over the invisible line, I felt this jolt like
I'd be shot but I hadn't, it was just the pack link breaking within me.
"Psst Nat, is that you?"

"Yer Em, come on"

Emily comes out from behind a tree and I take my bag off her, Emily tried to find
out what happened but I just told her it was nothing, I could tell she didn't
believe me but she didn't push me any further.

"Are you ready?"

At first, I was hesitant, I don't know why, I just was but in the end, I nodded my
head and we left running away from our hell which also happened to be the only home
we'd ever known.

Two Days Later....

It's been two days since myself and Emily ran away from our old pack and what a
rough two days it's been, we've barely eaten or slept but luckily we've had enough
water on us to keep us going otherwise we'd probably be dead by now.

All we've been doing is running and we've barely stopped and if we have, we haven't
stopped for too long through fear of being caught on someone elses territory which
would be a really bad thing considering a lot of packs that neighbour my parents
pack are some of the strongest in the country and don't take lightly to having
rogues on their land not to mention that they've got a good relationship with my
family and their pack so if they catch us and recognise me, they won't hesitate to
call my parents and send me back.

"Nat...Nat can we take....take a b..break, pl..please?"

I stop running and look at Emily who looks like she's about to pass out.

"Yer sure but we can't stop for too long remember"

She nods her head.

"Just five minutes, I promise"

She sits down by a tree resting her back against the stump and I sit down next to
her.

"Here you go"

I hand her a bottle of water from my bag and take another one out for myself.

"Thanks"

We sit in silence for a few minutes just enjoying the peace and quiet whilst trying
to catch our breaths, I also used this time to try and talk with Lucky who hasn't
spoken a word ever since we saved Cole.

"Lucky....Lucky, are you ok?"

Nothing.
I'm really starting to worry about my wolf, I tried several more times to contact
her but she just stayed silent which angered me and I ended up flipping out on her.

"Lucky for god's sake, if you don't f**king speak to me then I'll make sure you'll
never and I mean never have contact with Cole or Ace ever again"

She whimpered making me feel bad, I didn't want to use them against her well, more
specifically, I didn't want to use Ace against her because even despite how much
hatred there is between Cole and myself and despite all of the shit Cole has put us
through, her and Ace are madly in love with each other and before we left, Ace was
always apologising to the both of us for the actions of his human and it's hurting
her being away from him so that's why I feel bad but at the same time I don't
because her wallowing and being depressed is having a huge impact on me and I can't
have that if I expect to survive, I need Lucky to be there for me like I am for her
and I need her to be my strength and support system.

"Hey Nat, can I ask you a question?"

"Of course you can, what's up?"

Emily looks down at her hands as she fidgets with the zip on her coat.

"Em, what's wrong?"

She lets out a breath and looks up at me.

"Why...why did you stand up for me in school? why didn't you just let Aubrey hit
me?"

I look at her confused.

"Why are you asking?"

She looks down again.

"You got hurt because of me, Cole beat you up because you stood up to his
girlfriend, if you hadn't then maybe he wouldn't have hurt you"

"If you're asking me this because you feel guilty then stop it right now because no
matter what whether I stood up for you or not, Cole would've found some stupid,
insignificant excuse to beat me up later on anyway so stop feeling guilty, do you
understand me?"

She nods her head and we both smile at each other.

"Besides, I stood up for you because you're my best friend, actually, you're more
than that, you're my little sister and my only family besides my brother and I
wouldn't have forgiven myself if that trashy disease-ridden bitch did something to
hurt you, she's already caused enough damage"

"What do you mean?"

I let out a sigh.

"You know the story of what happened when myself and Aubrey were six, right?"

"Yer"

"Well, Aubrey well and truly f**ked my life up because she decided to lie about
what happened that day instead of telling the truth"

"Hmm, I feel you"

"Huh, what do you mean?"

I look at Emily confused, how could she know how I feel?.

"You know how the alpha and Luna made me an omega because they quote 'have a
witness who saw and heard me plotting to kill my family'?"

"Yer"

"Well....the witness was Aubrey"

"What?....are you being serious?"

She slowly nods her head whilst looking down at her lap.

"She claimed to have seen me talking with the same rogues who killed my family and
overheard me telling them when and where to attack"

"How do you know all of this?"

Emily let's out a sigh.

"She told me....she told me word for word how she'd created this lie because she
knew the alpha and Luna would punish me and take my title away from me since I'm
the next available beta after my brother and that when they did, Cole could rule
with his brother by his side and not me or my 'stupid, weak brother'....her words
not mine"

Urgh!!, what a f**king bitch?.

"Dalton wasn't stupid or weak, Em, Aubrey was just projecting her weaknesses onto
him, trust me Dalton was a great guy and he would've made a fantastic beta"

"Thanks, Nat"

"You're welcome, now let's go we need to get going before someone catches us"

"Too late for that"

A strong male voice says as three men appear in front of us, I was shocked at the
size of these three men as well as the power dripping off them.

I stand up and almost fall from how weak I am as well as from having head rush from
standing up so quick.

"I'm sorry we're on your land, we were just passing through"

"I don't care, you're still on my land and I wanna know why?"

"I just told you, idiot, we're passing through"

"Don't piss them off Nat, he's clearly an alpha"

Emily whispers to me as she hides behind me.

"And? I'm the daughter of an alpha, do you really think I'm gonna be intimidated by
these three?"

"You should be"

One of the twins says whilst smirking.

"Well, I'm not so..."

"Who's your father?"

"Huh"

"If you can huh you can hear now answer my damn question?"

"Why do you wanna know?"

"Because I want to know why an alpha's daughter is on my land looking and smelling
the way that you do"

"Excuse you, are you trying to say I stink?"

I mean, I probably do considering the fact that I haven't bathed properly in two
days but I don't care, I'm not gonna have this prick insult me.

"No idiot, he's referring to the fact that you both smell of rogue"

"Already?....that was fast"

"So, are you gonna answer my question?"

I shake my head.

"Nope"

"Why?"

Thing 1 asks me.

"Because I don't want you contacting him and telling him where I am"

"Why?"

Thing 2 asks me.

"It's none of your business why now can you guys just forget you saw us and let us
past, we're not here to cause you any trouble"

"I can't do that, you see if I let you guys go then more rogues are gonna think I'm
a softy and they'll take advantage coming and going on my land as they please and I
can't have that"

"Your land?....are you the alpha?"

He smiles and nods his head.

"Yep, my name is James Anderson and these two are my third in commands Ben and
Ethan Woods"
"Third in commands, where's your beta?"

"He's..."

"Here I am to make your days"

A hot guy appears singing and I would've thought that he was gay after his very
campy entrance if it wasn't for him checking me out, urgh!!, men.

"Where the hell where you, Brody?"

"Chill out bro will you, I had to wait for...."

"Angelo?"

Oh my god, is it really him? I know he was sent away for beta training but I didn't
know he was this close by.

Angelo was walking towards us with his gaze fixated on his phone, nothing new
there, when he heard my voice he looked up and his eyes widened upon seeing me just
like mine had with him.

"Natalia?...is that you?"

I forget about everyone and everything and rush over to my brother who embraced me
in a tight bear hug which really hurt me because of some of my injuries that
haven't healed yet because of Lucky but I didn't show it because I didn't want him
to let me go.

Goddess, I've missed him so much, I haven't seen him in just over a year.

"What the hell are you doing here? why do you smell like a rogue? and....WHAT THE
f**k HAPPENED TO YOUR FACE?"

I flinched from my brother's anger and tried to move away from him but he stopped
me by grabbing my arms and holding me close to him.

"Answer me, Natalia, what happened?"

Angelo cupped my face and ran his thumb over the cuts and bruises that were left by
Cole.

I tried to tell Angelo what happened but the words got stuck in my throat, Angelo
knows about all of the abuse I've suffered at the hands of our family and pack but
he was unable to do anything about it, he was even hesitant to leave for beta
training because he wouldn't be able to protect me but our parents forced him to
leave.

"It was your delightful big brother, he beat her up at school because she stood up
to his slaggy girlfriend who was gonna hit me"

Myself and Angelo look behind me at Emily.

"What? Cole did this?"

I nod my head and look down.

"f**kING BASTARD!!"
Angelo shouts as he punches a tree splitting it in half.

"Angelo"

I gasped seeing my brothers reaction, I knew he wouldn't be happy but I wasn't

expecting this.

"Why?....why was he at the f**king school in the first f**king place? he's twenty-
one for goddesses sake"

"He's the future alpha Angelo, he can do whatever he wants and go wherever he
wants"

Angelo didn't seem to like what I said and sneered.

"Alpha? he's unfit to be an alpha"

"What's going on here? are you two siblings?"

James interrupts us whilst the twins and Brody look at us with curious gazes.

"Yer, she's my little sister Natalia"

"You're Lucas and Marias girl?"

I nod my head.

"And what about her? who is she?"

James points at Emily who scurried over to me and cowered behind me.

"This is my best friend Emily Thomas"

"Are you any relation to Dalton Thomas?"

Emily whimpered behind me.

"Yes she is, he was her brother"

Brody makes a noise which sounded like a scoff as he sneered at Emily.

"We can keep Natalia but there's no way I'm gonna have a killer stay here"

Emily once again whimpered as my anger started to rise.

"Excuse you asshole, who the hell are you calling a killer?"

"I'm calling her a killer because that's what she is"

"And you know this because you were there, right?"

That quickly shuts the idiot up or at least I thought it did.

"No, I wasn't there but Aubrey Taylor was and she witnessed everything"

Now it was my turn to scoff.

"I wouldn't put so much trust in someone who can't even spell any of the STI's
she's got, if I were you"
Everyone but Brody chuckled as he glared at me.

"Enough you two now, why are you both rogues if you're part of a strong pack?"

"Erm..."

Shit, what do I say? I can't tell them about my parents or the pack because that
will ruin their reputation and I can't tell them about Cole because....well because
it's f**king weird.

"C..can we talk about this back at the packhouse, alpha? the girls need a shower,
some food and rest"

Thank you, Angelo.

"Sure, come on girls but I need to know eventually what's going on with you two, do
you understand?"

I nod my head.

"Ok, let's go"

The boys led us to their packhouse which was pretty magnificent, it's not as big as
my parent's packhouse but it's still pretty big.

Angelo never left my side, he walked right next to me with his arm wrapped around
my shoulders and I had Emily on the other side of me, she looked scared shitless
which I couldn't blame her for considering some of the glares we received but it
didn't affect me because of my alpha blood, alphas aren't easily intimidated unless
they're in the presence of the royal family.

"Ignore them, Em"

She nodded her head and I grabbed her hand to give her some comfort.

As we entered the packhouse, we were greeted by a bubbly blonde who was holding a
little girl in her arms, James introduced them to us as his Luna Amy and their
daughter Charlotte, he then showed us to our rooms which were stunning and
absolutely luxurious then again anything is luxurious compared to the rooms we had
back home.

After having a nice, hot, well-needed shower and changing into some fresh clothes,
myself and Emily went downstairs to the kitchen with the help of one of the packs
omegas, her name is Ashley and we learned that even though she's an omega, she's
treated just as good as the rest of the pack unlike how Emily was treated in ours,
anyway, when we got to the kitchen, we were greeted with the most amazing smell of
Spaghetti Carbonara.

"There you are girls, come and sit down, I made you both some food"

"Thank you, Luna"

"Ah, ah, none of that, it's Amy"

"Ok Amy"

We sat down and tucked into our food just as Angelo came in with alpha James and
his lapdogs.
Angelo sat next to me but from the corner of my eye, I could see him stealing
glances at Emily, even when everyone started talking amongst themselves, I could
still see him looking at her, he was looking at her like a....no way, I gasped when
I realised what was going on?.

"Oh my god"

Everyone snapped their heads towards me.

Shit, did I say that out loud?.

"What's up Nat, are you ok?"

"N..nothing, I'm f..fine"

Everyone looked at me weird but quickly forgot about it and went back to their
conversations, I noticed that Brody was glaring at Emily quite a lot which he
stopped when he saw my glare and heard Angelos growl which by the way, confirmed my
thoughts.

"Ok girls, let's go"

"Go? go where?"

"Up to my office, we need to talk"

Shit.

"But babe, they haven't had their desserts"

"Yer and they need to rest alpha, they look tired"

"It won't take long now let's go, Angelo you too"

Urgh!!, this is gonna be about as much fun as walking on hedgehogs barefoot.

3 hours, 24 minutes and 16 seconds, that's how long I've been in alpha James office
with him, his Luna Amy, his beta Brody, Emily and my brother, I thought this
wouldn't take long and I'd be able to go to sleep in my new comfy bed but nope,
alpha James wanted to know everything and I mean everything about mine and Emily's
lives and what happened in the past few days that made us want to leave.

"This Aubrey girl sounds like a right bitch"

"Babe!!"

"What? she does"

I chuckle at Amy and so does Angelo and Emily.

"Oh trust me she is and sadly she's my brother's girlfriend as well, I just hope
that they're not mates because our pack will be doomed with her at the helm"
"She's that bad?"

"Look at my face Brody, this is what happens when you stand up to that psycho&……

Two Weeks Later....

"No Cole for the thousandth time, I haven't seen or heard from Natalia....why would
I lie to you Cole? you're my brother for f***s sake....ok, I will....ok bye, bye"

Angelo hangs up the phone and runs his hand through his hair.

"What did he want this time?"

"He wanted to know if I've seen or heard from you"

"How did he sound?"

I don't know why I'm asking this because I really couldn't give a shit, it must be
Lucky.

"Don't blame me bitch, this is all you"

Whatever.

I think to myself whilst rolling my eyes.

"Honestly...he sounded desperate, hurt and sad"

"What? why? he hates me, shouldn't he be happy that I'm gone?"

"You're his mate, Nat"

"Ex-mate, Angelo, he's my ex-mate he rejected me, remember"

"Yer,……

"Focus Natalia"

"I am focusing"

I sigh in frustration.

"Ok, are you ready?"

"Yes"

"NOW!!"

We start sword fighting again which is what we've been doing for the past couple of
hours and I've gotta say I'm pretty damn good at it even if I do say so myself but
I'm finding it really hard to focus thanks to Brody.

"AAHHH!!"

Like I said I was finding it hard to focus and because of that, Brody was able to
accidentally nip my cheek with his sword.

"Dammit Natalia, I told you to focus"

"f**k you, Brody, how the hell am I supposed to focus when you're standing there
looking like you're about to audition for dreamboys?"

It's not exactly easy to focus on the task in hand when your tutor is topless and
has got an amazing set of abs.

"I'm sorry, sweetheart"……

Natalia's P.O.V.

Snacks and the Salvatore brothers, that's all that a girl really needs after a day
like I've had.

After having my shower and changing into some comfy clothes, I went to the kitchen
to get myself some snacks before going to the theatre room to continue on where I
left off last night with The Vampire Diaries.

I don't know how long I've been in here for but thankfully, I've been left alone
and I haven't been bothered by anybody, actually, that's a lie, I did have a very
angry argument with Angelo in a mind link not too long ago because alpha Jay wants
him to contact our parents to find out any information that they may have on my
real family and we ended up arguing about it which ended up with me shutting off my
mind link and blocking him out.

"Hey there beautiful"

I……

Three Months Later....

"Come on Em, harder...faster, faster, faster, keep it

going....dodge...dodge...dodge...good now it's my turn"

"Whoa, that was amazing, I love a good workout"

"I know you do, you've really grown over these past few months"

"Yer, I'm not the only one"

She says smacking my ass.

"Hey, leave my ass alone, weirdo"

"Yer Em, only I can touch her ass"

I turn around and smile when I hear Brody's voice.

"Hey handsome"

I run over to him and jump into his arms wrapping my arms around his neck and
kissing him, we've become really close the past three months and I've grown to
really love him, I'm not in love with him, I just love him, he's a really great and
an amazing friend.

"Urgh!!, ca……

I walk down the stairs to a series of wolf whistles from the guys and compliments
from the girls.

"Damn Nattie, you look amazing"

"Yer sis, you look stunning"

"Thank you, guys"

"Don't you think it's a little too revealing though?"

Emily rolls her eyes as she slaps Angelo's chest.

"Angelo, for goddesses sake, shut the f**k up"

Everyone chuckles at Emily except for Angelo who was pouting like a little child.

"Don't pout babe, it doesn't suit you"

She kisses his cheek and he smiles at her.

"Ok you guys get lost, we need to go"

"You're damn straight we do, I'm so f**king hungry"

"She dresses like a respectable, classy lady and curses like a drunk dude"

Alpha Jay jokes and I flip him off.

"You're not helping yourself there, sweetheart, now com……

Angelo's P.O.V. - (After Brody And Natalia Left).

"Stop frowning babe, you'll get wrinkles"

I look down at my beloved mate and smile, even with how I'm currently feeling, my
beautiful mate is the only one person who can make me smile like this.
"How can I be happy Emily when my sister is dating the second biggest player I
know?"

"Natalia's happy babe besides have you seen Brody with any other women since we got
here?"

"Well...."

I think about the past three months expecting to think of at least one time that I
saw Brody with someone who wasn't Nattie but I can't, apart from Emily and Amy,
Brody has only spent time with my sister.

"Exactly...they may not be together forever but they're what each other needs right
now"

"My sister deserves more than being ……

"Natalia's here b..but you said...."

"I lied"

I sigh feeling my shoulders drop.

"I lied to you"

Cole looks shocked and hurt that I'd lie to him but he can't honestly blame me
right, I mean any good person would lie if it meant keeping someone they love safe.

"Why? why would you lie to me?"

"Seriously, Cole"

I use all of my strength to push him away from me which didn't take much to be
honest, considering we've both got alpha genes.

"Are you seriously asking me that question, Cole? you and the rest of our pack have
spent the past twelve years beating, abusing, bullying, torturing and doing god
knows what else to my baby sister and the sad part about it is that it was all
orchestrated by her own f*****g family"

"And you were a saint were you Angelo? yo……

Natalia's P.O.V.

"Mmm, aahhh f**k"

"Nat, oh thank god, are you ok?"

"I'm fine, aahhh"

I tried to sit up but Emily quickly stopped me.

"Oh no you don't, stay right where you are"

"Urgh!!, Emily I'm fine"

"Really? you've been awake for less than a minute and already you've shown your
pain twice"

I give up trying and lay my head down on the pillow in a huff.

"Good girl, now, how do you feel?"

"Like I've been beaten and bitten by a rogue"

I say with a chuckle which Emily didn't appreciate, she gave me a stern look which
resembled a look that a mother would give her child to scare them straight.

"I'm fine Em, I promise, I'm just in a little bit of pain"

"Ok, I'll go and get the pack doctor, hopefully, he can give you something for
it"<……

A Few Days Later....

Natalia's P.O.V.

Running.

The adrenaline running through your veins, the feel of crispy leaves and soggy mud
under your trainers, the perspiration drenching your body, the fresh air hitting
your skin and filling your lungs but most importantly, how clear your mind gets
just from one single act, running.

I love to run because it's just me on my own, no family, no friends, no pack and
best of all no mate, it's just me, a clear mind and the wide open forest.

Ever since I came home from the hospital, I've been taking any opportunity I can
get to put on my runners and run until I can no longer feel my legs or until I can
barely breathe, I love it and best of all it's taking my mind off thinking about
all the bad things that are happening in my life at the momen……

Natalia's P.O.V.

"NATALIA!!....NATALIA, ARE YOU READY YET?....NATALIA!!"

"You do realise he's not gonna stop shouting until you answer him, right"

"Yer well, hopefully, he'll get the hint that I don't wanna go and leave here
without me"

"NATALIA!!, WE'VE GOT TO GO!!"

I roll my eyes.

"You can't miss your grandparents funeral, Nat"

"Why not? it's not like they're my real grandparents"

"Don't talk like that sweetheart, please"

Brody comes over and places his hands on my shoulders.

"Don't shut off your emotions again, Nat, you really scared us all yesterday"

"Yer, please don't remind me off that, I don't exactly want to be reminded of the
moment I went all Hulk smash on my bedroom in front of the one person I didn't want
too"

"Well, ……

"You can dance every dance with the guy, who gives you the eye, let him hold you
tight, you can smile every smile for the man, who held your hand beneath the pale
moonlight but don't forget who's takin' you home and in whose arms you're gonna be,
so darling, save the last dance for me"

Click!!.

"The service starts soon, sweetheart....we need to leave"

"Do you know that was their favourite song?....they danced to it on their first
date, my grandpa took my nanny to one of those outdoor cinema things and during the
interval, they played some songs...Save The Last Dance For Me was one of them, my
grandpa asked my nanny to dance and she said yes, they danced under the moonlight
and it was then that they planned out their futures...my grandpa even predicted how
they'd die, d……

"Ladies and gentlemen, on behalf of the Vasquez Bennett families, I thank you all
for being here today as we pay our respects and bid our final farewells to our much
beloved former alpha and Luna of The Dark Shadows Pack Grayson and Gail Bennett"

The pastor talks about my grandparents and the amazing lives they led from the
moment they met each other to their peaceful deaths, he also spoke of all their
achievements as well as all of their contributions to not just our pack but also to
other packs as well as helping out the human world, my grandparents were great
benefactors, they were always doing everything they could to help out a cause or a
charity, they were pretty incredible people and the world is now a sour place
without them.

The pastor talked about my grandparents never endin……

"And voila you're done"

I look into the mirror next to me and smile, Emilys really got a way with making
someone look good with a flick of a brush whether it be a hairbrush or a make-up
brush.

After the funeral, I looked like a car wreck and Emily being her usual self said
that I can't be walking around my own grandparents funeral looking like a hobo that
has been on a four day bender so she brought me up to her room so that I could
clean myself up and fix my hair and make-up which now looks immaculate thanks to
Em.

"Thanks Em, you're a diamond"

"You're welcome, babe....are you ok?"

Emily asks whilst packing all of her make-up and make-up brushes away.

"Am I ok?....well, I feel like a vase that has been broken and glued back together
numerous times and each time it's been……

If someone had told me a couple of months ago that the man who I love and adore
with every fibre of my being, who I trust wholeheartedly, the man who is my best
friend would one day have me pinned against a tree and was roughly kissing my neck
whilst groping my body because he's in a mad state of denial thanks to the fear he
has for his own destiny then I probably would've laughed in their face....or I
would've told them to lay off the liquor.

But no, here I am trying and failing to stop Brody from doing something that he'll
regret but despite my many protests and incessant pushing to get him off me, it
only fueled him and pushed him to carry on.

I hoped and prayed to our moon goddess to either bring Brody back to his senses or
have somebody come and save me from him but neither happened so ……

Cole's P.O.V.

Great, just f*****g great, I finally get a chance to declare my love for my
beautiful mate without us fighting or Natalia being angry with me or anyone
interfering in our business and these filthy mongrels have come along to ruin it.

"GET THE HELL OFF ME YOU BASTARDS OR SO HELP ME GOD, I'LL TEAR THE f*****g LOT OF
YOU APART!!"

"Tut, tut, tut alpha Cole, you're in no position to threaten us"

The bastard rogue says whilst smirking at me, he's standing at a good distance away
from me and he looks like a mafia lord, he's dressed in all black and he's even
wearing black leather gloves which didn't intrigue me at first but then he pulled
something out of the bag that he was holding and it's then that I realised why he
was wearing gloves.

"Angelo....ANGELO!!"

<……

Cole's P.O.V.

"Please, please, please save her goddess, please"

I whispered under my breath, I can't lose her, I just can't.

"Don't worry Cole, she's a fighter our Nat"

"CLEAR!!"

Thump!!.

BEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEP!!.

"Let's go again"

The pack doctor revs up for another go and I prayed to the moon goddess to save my
mate.

"CLEAR!!"

Thump!!.

BEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEP!!.

This happens several times each time my heart broke even further when I saw that
she was unresponsive, the pack doctor tried again and the steady sound of a beep
sent instantly relief throughout my whole body.

"See brother, I told you she's a fighter"

I smiled brightly feeling relieved...very, very relieved.

A Few Hours Later...

"Alpha....A……
Two Weeks Later...

Cole's P.O.V.

"EMILY...DON'T WALK AWAY FROM ME, EMILY!!"

"GET LOST, ASSHOLE!!"

Oh god not again, every single day for the past two weeks, these two have been
arguing like cat and dog and every day it's getting worse.

"DON'T TALK TO ME LIKE THAT, EMILY!!"

"I'LL TALK TO YOU HOWEVER I DAMN WELL PLEASE, I'M YOUR MATE NOT YOUR BITCH!!"

"YER AND AS MY MATE YOU SHOULD HAVE FORGIVEN ME A LONG f**kING TIME AGO, IT'S NOT
LIKE I INTENTIONALLY FORGOT TO TELL YOU!!"

"WHATEVER, ANGELO!!"

"EMILY...EM..EMILY, WILL YOU STOP ACTING LIKE THIS?, I'M SORRY OK, I'VE TOLD YOU
UMPTEEN TIMES A DAY HOW SORRY I AM, WHY CAN'T YOU JUST LET THIS GO?"

"BECAUSE YOU NEVER TOLD ME THAT MY BEST FRIEND IS DYING, OUT OF EVERYONE, I SHOULD
HAVE BEEN……

Set during the events of chapters 22 and 23.

Natalia's P.O.V.

Flashback 1 - 11 Years Ago.

"She's so lucky, she's a star, but she cry-cry-cries in her lonely heart, thinking,
if there's nothing missing in my life, then why do these tears come at night?"

I'm laying on my bed in my new room singing along to Britney, I chose this song
because it's got my wolfs name in it and she's the only one who makes me happy and
keeps me going lately.

"Everythings gonna be ok Nat, I promise you"

"How do you know, Lucky, you're just a wolf?"

"Correction my little Nattie pie, I'm your wolf and you need to trust me, your life
is gonna get better"

"You've been saying that for over a year now and things still aren't getting any
better, I'm still being abuse……

Natalia's P.O.V.
"How are you feeling Luna? Are you in any pain or discomfort?"

Luna? who the hell is he calling Luna?.

"My name's Natalia and yer, I'm in quite a bit of pain actually"

That's the understatement of the century, I'm in so much pain that I feel like
crying.

"Ok Luna, I'll give you something for that now"

What the f**k? is he deaf?.

"Don't call me Luna, I'm not your Luna"

"Sorry ma'am but I have too, I've been ordered by our alpha to do so"

Oh, have you now, wait until I get my hands on that bastard.

The doctor pulls out a needle and injects me with it, I immediately felt the
effects of the pain medication and sighed in relief when I felt all of the pain and
discomfort in my chest and head quickly disappear.

"Hmm, that feels better"

I rest ……

Dear moon goddess, I've been a good girl my whole life, I've taken everything
you've thrown at me, I've suffered from mental, emotional and physical abuse, I've
been tortured until I can barely breathe and bullied by a bunch of imbeciles, all
I'm asking from you is to f*****g WAKE MY WOLF UP SO I CAN HEAL AND GET OUT OF THIS
GOD DAMN PLACE!!.

If you haven't noticed, I'm fed up and angry, it's been a week since I woke up from
my coma and guess what? I'm still not f*****g healed, my wolf is taking her sweet
ass time waking up which means that I'm stuck in the hospital until she wakes up.

One day I got so angry that I asked Cole to get his wolf to try and contact my lazy
wolf but he wasn't able too and he said that he hasn't been able to contact her
ever since my attack.

Another reason why I'm g……

My body was shaking, my breathing was rapid and my heart was racing so fast that I
thought I was gonna have a panic attack.

"Natalia...it's so good to see you"

"S..stay away from me"

I panicked and accidentally backed up into a table knocking over a vase.

SMASH!!.

"Nat"

Cole raced over and stood next to me wrapping his arm around my waist, a part of me
wanted to push him away but the other part of me didn't because strangely enough, I
felt safer with Cole by my side then I do on my own in front of these people.

"It's ok, Nat"

Cole tried to reassure me but it wasn't working.

"Natalia baby, please don't be scared of us, I promise we just..."

"Are you kidding me?"

I chuckled slightly even though I found nothing about this situation funny.

"You've done n……

A Few Weeks Later...

'Pour some sugar on me, ooh, in the name of love, pour some sugar on me, c'mon,
fire me up, pour your sugar on me, I can't get enough, I'm hot, sticky sweet, from
my head to my feet, yeah'

"Hey Natalia, get your sexy ass off my counter"

"Hey Cole, suck it"

I said whilst flipping him off, well, as best as I could whilst squirting cream on
my pancakes.

"Hey, baby girl"

"Hey, Angelo"

He leans in and kisses my temple, I look past him and notice Brody and Jason are
here as well.

"Hey guys, do you want some?"

I asked whilst offering them my plate not that I was actually planning on sharing
any with them but it's nice to offer, right.

"Erm, no thanks sweetheart, I'm too young to have diabetes"

Brody says whilst kissing my cheek……

"Are you ok, baby?"

"I'm fine, this place is just...it's disgusting"

Cole chuckled through our mate link.

"It's my dungeons baby, not the Ritz Carlton"

"I know but still"

"Hmm, I thought I smelled the sweet scent of sex on a plate, how are you doing,
sexy?"

"Watch it, rogue"

Cole had a murderous look in his eyes and wanted to kill the rogue, I gripped his
hand to not only calm him down but to keep him near me, nobody's killing this fool
until I've gotten all of the answers that I need.

"Calm down, Cole"

"I can't calm down, babe not whilst this asshole is gawking over what's mine and
talking to you like that"

"Don't worry, he won't get away with it"

Cole looked down at me with narrowed eyes looking confused, f**k he looks so sexy
r……

Running, that's all I could do and I had no plans in stopping.

I didn't care how fast I was running, where I was gonna end up, I didn't care that
my chest was burning like it was on fire or that my legs were turning to jelly, all
I cared about was getting as far away from the packhouse as possible.

"Let me take over, Nat, you're gonna end up killing yourself"

I was in two minds about whether or not I should listen to my wolf or carry on
running in my human form, one of the reasons why was because I was afraid that
Lucky would head back to the packhouse and back to Cole which is something that I
don't want to happen, I want to stay as far away from him as I possibly can.

"I won't go back, I promise Nattie just let me take over"

"No"

I growled as I continued to run until I fel……

"Ok Emily, I'm coming, I don't know why you couldn't just mind link me instead of
calling me"

"Because I like to be a little annoying sometimes, Natalia"

You're always annoying.

I thought to myself.

"I heard that, Nattie"

"I didn't say anything"

I said whilst putting on my white heels, I'm wearing a really cute outfit today and
these shoes go perfect with it.

"I heard you through our mind link, anyway, hurry your ass up otherwise you'll miss
out on all of the good food"

"Yer, yer, whatever, I'm on my way"

"That's what you said an hour ago"

"Well, I'm definitely on my way now"

I quickly grab hold of my bag and leave my room.

"Hey Em, is Cole there? I haven't seen him since last night and that's not
normal"……

"Well, well, well, don't you two look cosy"

Huh, I looked down at myself and Cole and blushed bright red when I realised I was
still sitting in his lap.

Oh my god, this is so embarrassing.

I quickly jump off Cole making sure not to hurt him which I thought I had when I
heard him growl but when I looked at him, I saw he was just angry probably because
I got off his lap.

"I erm...I'm gonna go and get something to eat"

I briskly leave the room feeling embarrassed yet relieved that Cole didn't kiss me
because I would've died of shame if they'd caught us kissing.

The guys chuckled as I left the room and I swear I heard one of them make a joke
about how red my face was, jerks.

"Hey Nat, wait up"

Emily shouted as she ran up to me linking our arms, she didn't……

Cole's P.O.V.

"To my beautiful future wife, I hope you like your gift from me, I can't wait to
see you in it on our wedding night, see you soon baby, love your future husband
Scar, IS THIS SOME KIND OF f*****g JOKE?"

"Do you see me laughing, Angelo"

"Calm down guys, the last thing Nattie needs is you two arguing"

Brody said and I looked away trying to calm down my anger.

Natalia managed to calm down the raging beast deep within me when she kissed me
which by the way, was f*****g amazing, she tastes so freaking delicious and her
lips are so juicy and plump that I couldn't get enough off them, I could literally
kiss this girl all day every day for the rest of my life.

Anyway, when we pulled apart from each other to catch our breaths, Natalia cupped
my face and placed he……

A Couple Of Months Later...

"Natalia, get back in bed, it's too early"

"Maybe for you lazy ass but I've gotta get ready for school"

"Urgh!!, f**k school babe, you don't need an education to be Luna"

"Yer says the guy who spent three years in college just to get a business degree so
he can be alpha"

"That my love is because I'm a man and I needed it so I can run this pack
efficiently and keep us in the money"

"And what about me? am I just something pretty on your arm because if that's the
case then you can start shopping around for a new girlfriend"

Yes, you read right, Cole and I are now a couple and have been for about a month
now but I didn't make it easy for him, I've still got a lot of trust issues and I
told him that if he was really serio……

"Momma"

My mother smiled brightly at me.

"Come to me, baby girl"

She said with her arms opened wide for me and I wasted no time in running over to
her and giving her the biggest hug possible.

Tears were running down my face which I tried to control because I didn't want to
look like a hot mess in front of my family for the first time but I couldn't stop
them especially when my momma tried to calm me down.

"Sshhh!!, it's ok baby don't cry, mommas here now"

My mother gently stroked my hair as I rested my head on her shoulder.

I don't know how long we stood like this for but we eventually pulled away from
each other when we heard the sound of a throat clearing, I assumed it was Cole and
turned to look at him expecting to see him looking at me but instead he was looking
at someth……

Today has been a funny old day from the abrupt arrival of my friends who made
themselves very much at home this morning at breakfast to putting a bitch back in
her place at school to watching my real family quite literally fly onto my lawn in
their fancy helicopters to now where I'm sitting next to Cole in his office with my
family scattered all around as we talk about everything from the past eighteen
years, Cole actually wanted me to sit on his lap but I made it very clear to him
that this wasn't the time or the place for anything like that.

After Angelo and Christian almost came to blows in front of everyone, my dad
thought it would be a great idea for us all to sit down and talk in private so
whilst myself, Cole, my parents, my grandmother and my three brothers are all in
Coles office, ……

Early The Next Morning....

Bad times are only temporary, don't solve a temporary situation with an irrevocable
solution.

Emily used to tell me this every day sometimes twice a day if she'd felt the need
too because she was always afraid I'd do something stupid that I'd forever regret.

It's not like her fears were unfounded, she had a very good excuse apart from the
obvious to be worried about my well being, you see a few years ago on my birthday I
was feeling really lonely, I hadn't received any cards or gifts, I'd been forced to
clean the packhouse from top to bottom on my own because my so-called parents were
throwing a stupid party and the worst part was that I wasn't allowed to see or
speak to Emily and Angelo.

I spent the whole day on my own, well, except for times when ……

Cole's P.O.V.

"Hey there handsome"

"Aubrey"
What the f**k does this bitch want?.

"Hey baby, did you miss me?"

"Yer about as much as a prostitute misses having herpes"

"Aww baby, don't be like that"

"What do you want, Aubrey?"

I asked with a sigh whilst rolling my eyes.

"You know exactly what I want"

She said in what I assume was her seductive voice as she tried to wrap her arms
around my neck, I was startled by this and tried to push her off me.

"What the hell are you doing? don't ever touch me again, do you understand me?"

"Oh come on babe, you don't mean that"

"Yes I do"

I growled whilst grabbing hold of her wrists and pushing her away from me when she
attempted to touch me again.

"And stop calling me pet names Aubrey, you ……

A Few Days Later...

Emily's P.O.V.

I've never been one to have murderous or impure thoughts even after everything the
Dark Shadows pack has put myself and my best friend through, I've never wanted to
think or fantasise if you will about torturing, harming or even killing those that
harmed us because it's just not in my nature to be as vile as these people and also
because I never wanted to drag myself down to their level but lately....lately I've
started to change especially when I see Cole or Aubrey, that's when my killer bitch
switch flips and I have to control myself from destroying them like they have done
Natalia.

Speaking of my beautiful best friend, she's been struggling and suffering really
badly ever since Aubrey came back, she's been trying to hide it behind her ha……

Cole's P.O.V.

"Come on Cole, can we get this started already? I promised Emily I'd meet her and
Nat at the ice cream parlour"

Urgh!!, Natalia....just hearing her name is enough to send waves of pain and
sadness throughout my entire body.

I've barely seen or spoken to my mate ever since we had that huge argument a few
days ago and to say I've been struggling without her would be a big freaking
understatement, I haven't been able to sleep, eat or do anything without her by my
side and I've also taken to practically drinking myself to death because I fear
that everything I've done as far as my plans to expose Aubrey is gonna be in vain
and I'm gonna lose her for good.

The only thing that's keeping me sane and giving me hope of a reconciliation with
my beautiful mate is the fact that……

I finally have her.

Four words that have been circling around in my head ever since it was discovered
that someone has taken my precious mate.

I've tried to stay calm and focused so that I can find my Nattie as quickly as
possible but every now and then, I lose my focus and I wanna rip someones head off
or beat someone to a pulp, luckily for me I've had Angelo by my side ever since and
he's been helping me to tame the raging wolf in me literally and figuratively.

"Ok, so....we found Natalia's necklace here which is also the same spot where our
patrol team tracked the kidnapper's scent"

I said whilst pulling out a map of my territory and pointing to the area where
Natalia was taken.

"Did you guys track any other scents in or around this area? or was there only this
one?"

"……

"Are you surprised to see me, baby?"

"Wait, I'm confused...are you my uncle or my teacher?"

He smirked as he came over to the bed and sat next to me, he then tried to caress
my face but I wouldn't allow him which caused him to get angry and he gripped my
chin.

I winced in pain as his nails dug into my skin, Jesus Christ hasn't this guy ever
heard of nail clippers.

"Look at me, Natalia....I SAID LOOK AT ME!!"

He shouts and I angrily narrowed my eyes at him, he chuckled making me even

angrier.

"You're so sexy when you're angry, babe"

"Urgh!!, don't call me that, you don't have the rights too"

"Oh and who has...Cole?"

My heart filled with the familiar pain that I've been feeling for the past week
only this time it's intensified because our bond is ……

"Honey, I'm home"

Natalia said before fainting.

I used my werewolf speed to get to her before she could hit the floor and I cradled
her in my arms holding her close to me.

"Nat...Nattie baby wake up"

I gently tapped her face to try and wake her up but she remained unconscious.

"Here Cole put this on her and get her to the pack hospital now"

Angelo handed me his shirt to put on Natalia which I did, normally I wouldn't be
happy with other men's clothes being on my mate but he's our brother so it's not
really irking me or Ace as much.

After putting the shirt on Natalia, I quickly stood up with her in my arms and I
used my werewolf speed again to leave my house and take her to the pack hospital.

"Cole, I can't sense Lucky"

"Don't worry buddy, they probably just used wolfs……

The moon goddess....I'm talking to the freaking moon goddess, wait, if she's really
the moon goddess then that means I'm the goddaughter of our beloved almighty.

How is this possible? how does she know my momma?.

"I know what you're thinking, you're thinking how is it possible that the moon
goddess is black right?"

"Yes..NO!! no, I mean..."

"It's ok baby, I get it a lot, you won't believe how many of my children I meet who
believed I was a white woman, in fact, I've met quite a few who have thought I was
a man"

What the...the clue is in her name Selene the moon GODDESS, urgh!!, some people in
my species are really dumb.

"Actually, that's not what I was thinking at all, I was thinking about how this is
possible? how am I talking to you right now? how are you my mommas ……
I gasped loudly as I woke up from my unconscious state.

I sat up and looked around the room which is now empty but it doesn't look like
it's been empty for too long because I can see some personal stuff such as coats,
bags and phones scattered all over the room.

I didn't feel any pain in my body which I thought was weird especially since I
couldn't contact Lucky which is probably from the copious amounts of wolfsbane that
Mason so generously gave me.

Not wanting to be in the hospital any longer than I needed to be, I rip the tubes
and wires out of my hands and arms which wasn't easy or pain-free to do, I then
flip the blankets off me and slowly get out of bed because I knew I was gonna be a
bit wobbly on my feet even though I haven't been unconscious for a long period of
time, my body has sti……

Upon arriving at Coles mansion, we walked through to the dining room and I noticed
that it was a packed house which isn't something out of the norm lately, everyone
seems to flock over here whenever they smell either my cooking or my mommas
cooking.

"Oh, there's my grandson, where was he?"

"He was with Nat"

I walked into the dining room and was met with a bunch of happy smiley faces.

"Oh my baby, it's so good to see you"

My momma said whilst engulfing me in a hug.

"Erm m..momma you saw me yesterday"

I managed to say despite the fact I was being squeezed to death by this tiny
Hawaiian.

"I know, I know but yesterday you were as pale as a ghost and you still had that
god awful bruise on your neck and now you're back to your old beautiful self"

"Thanks momma, I gue……

"NATALIA!!, HURRY YOUR ASS UP, WE'RE GONNA BE LATE!!"

"OK!!"

I don't understand why she's in such a rush, we're only going to school.
"WE'RE WAITING IN MY CAR, NAT, HURRY UP!!"

URGH!!.

"OK!!"

I grab my bag and phone before leaving my room and heading outside.

I woke up this morning feeling blissfully happy because myself and Cole are back
together again but my mood quickly turned sour when I woke up to an empty bed and I
was unable to contact Cole because he had blocked our mate and mind link, my mood
was then made worse when Emily came bursting through my house like a bat out of
hell because she wants to get to school as soon as possible for some bizarre
reason.

Anyway, I left my house and made my way over to Emily's car.

I stopped walking when I saw one of Coles……

A Few Days Later...

"Stop it, Natalia"

"What? I'm not doing anything"

I said with a huge smirk on my face.

"You know damn well what you're doing you sexy little minx now stop it, I'm trying
to concentrate here and I can't do that with you sending me mental images of
yourself in the bath which are giving me a raging f*****g hard on"

I chuckled as I messed with the bubbles in my bath.

"I'm sorry babe, I'll stop, enjoy you're meeting"

"Not as much as I've enjoyed your little show, my love, I'll see you later"

"Bye baby"

"Bye babe"

We cut our link and I get out of the bath, I then get ready for the day ahead
before heading downstairs to my kitchen, I'm in the mood to do a bit of baking.

The past few days have been very happy and stress-free for ……

"I'm just an average man with an average life, I work from nine to five, hey, hell,
I pay the price. all I want is to be left alone in my average home but why do I
always feel like I'm in the twilight zone and? I always feel like somebody's
watching me and I have no privacy (ooh ooh), I always feel like somebody's watching
me, tell me is it just a dream?"
Where is that bluddy man?.

The Dark Shadows packs halloween party has been going on for over an hour now and I
still can't find my stupid bluddy mate.

The guys have been working their butts off for the past few weeks coming up with a
plan to not only protect me but to put a final end to Mason, their plans have
included training warriors from both ours and my daddys packs and picking the best
of the best to form an army to help ……

Hey guys,

I'm sorry to all of you who thought this was an update and it's not, I just need to
have a big f*****g rant and get a few things off my chest before I continue on with
this book.

Firstly - Updates.

My plan for this book is to update every Tuesday, Thursday and Saturday, it's in my
bio and I post it at the end of each chapter, however, as much as I would love to
update on these exact days which I'm trying my damn hardest to do and also as much
as I would love to give you guys daily updates, it's not possible for me, apart
from having a life, I also suffer from severe depression and anxiety which for
those of you who aren't aware is something that can come on you at any time and it
can leave you in a terrible state for days, as for my case, December is a really
bad month for me for personal reasons I really don't want to go into and for the
past few weeks I've been feeling like complete and utter shit, I'm feeling at my
lowest all of the time and I have no motivation to want to do anything except cry.

I LOVE my book and I take great pride in it and I don't want to put out shoddy work
because that's just not me and you all deserve better than crap chapters, I like to
proofread each chapter carefully to make sure that it's good enough to go out and
lately especially this week, my head has just not been in it with Christmas and
depression kicking my ass, that being said I'm truly sorry if I don't update on the
days I say I will but please understand that my mental health is more important
than anything else and if I have to deal with that before my book then I'm sorry
but I will.

Finally, I will be updating Tuesdays and Thursday's chapters tomorrow and

hopefully, Saturdays will be posted on time, please don't hate me, I'm really
trying.

Secondly - The Story.

I made it very clear in the very first chapter that this was going to be a cliche
story and the reason I said that is because I know a lot of readers don't like
cliche stories of boy meets girl, boys hurts girl, girl forgives him and all is
right with the world so by saying this it gives them the option of wanting to
continue or not, it really irks me when people get midway through the book and say
I don't like how this is going because I just know Nattie and Cole will get back
together and I don't like stories like that, well, I did say it was cliche so it
can't be that surprising.

Also, another thing that really irks me is the whole idea that this is an incest
story, yes the title is called My Brothers Mate, yes for the first few chapters
both Natalia and Cole believe they are siblings BUT, I did make it clear in the
description that this is NOT an incest story, do people not read the descriptions
anymore? I always read the story description before I read because just a book
cover and title alone doesn't do it for me so I don't understand why I still get
comments by confused readers who are sickened by incest (rightfully so) or are
confused that Nattie and Cole are mates when they're 'siblings', I did make it
clear it's not an incest story.

Thirdly - Team Brody.

It really hurts my heart when I still get messages from readers who are all Team
Brody and don't like how I made him gay, let's start off with Brody and Natalia
first, they were never going to be a couple and I'm sorry for that but it was never
part of my plan for them to be second chance mates or a couple, I always hated
reading rejection books were the girl is rejected by her asshole manwhore mate who
f***s anything with revolving doors for legs whilst she remains a virgin mate in
waiting hoping that her manwhore mate will grow up and take her back so she can
give her virginity to him and I wanted something different for Natalia and I wanted
her to lose her virginity to someone who is worth it and even though Cole is now
proving himself to be a stand-up human being, I felt Brody was more worthy than him
and I don't regret that decision.

I also recently read a comment by someone who didn't understand why I made Brody
care so much for Natalia just to turn him gay, first of all, it is possible for men
to deeply care for women and there not be any romantic or sexual feelings involved
and vice versa, Brody and Natalia are best friends even though they've only known
each other for a short while, I know you all have probably got or had at least one
friend who you met and almost instantly it was like you knew them your whole life,
this is what it's like for them, I don't wanna say they're like brother and sister
because it'll spark the whole incest shit again even though they're not related,
all I can say is Brody and Natalia are very special to each other and care deeply
for each other.

As for Brody being gay, the way I've always envisioned the moon goddess to be is
that she gives werewolves a gentle nudge to their destiny through their mates
whether that be a woman and a man, two men or two women, I know people see it as a
really shitty and or unrealistic move to have Brody be gay when he's a manwhore
with women and has been having a sexual relationship with Natalia but I honestly
love the fact that Brody is gay and his relationship with Jason is just adorbs as
some folk in England say.

As for his little freak out where he tried to 'attack' Nattie, this was something
that happened to a guy I know, he was with his girl for a year and was in major
denial about his sexuality, it was only when his girl confronted him after finding
gay dating apps on his phone and looking through the web history on their shared
laptop and found links to gay porn that she confronted him and he lost control with
her because he honestly believed he was straight and he isn't and if it wasn't for
her brother coming home in time then he may have succeeded in hurting her because
of his denial about his sexuality.

I never put this in the book so that Cole could look like a hero, I put it in
because sadly, even in 2020, a lot of people are still in denial about their
sexuality and I think it's wrong to be that way even though they've probably got
their reasons like maybe because of how they were raised or they're scared to admit
to who they are because of their religion or just society being so stuck in the god
damn stone ages when it comes to homophobia and racism.

I believe if Brody were a real person and not a character then he would want to do
everything in his power to prove he's straight when in fact he's not and sadly
Brody's way was to force himself on his best friend which a lot of you know, he
didn't succeed in and it was just because he didn't want to face the reality that
he's gay, with that being said, I hope all of my readers are proud of who they are
and didn't take any offence to this, I'm a big supporter of the LGBTQ+ community
and I always will be❤️.
️‍

Finally.

I happily accept all constructive criticism but I won't tolerate abuse, I've had
several abusive DMs from people who are nasty with a) how I update b) the story
I've created c) how I write and d) just being plain vulgar, I don't stand for
anyone being abusive towards me in any kind of way, this is MY book, it's MY story,
I'll write it however I want and I'll update whenever I want, I may update daily,
three times a week like I have or try too or I could not update for months or even
a year, it's hard enough trying to put three chapters together a week for you all,
I don't need negative shit to add to my stress, however, I do love reading all of
your comments and take any constructive criticism to heart and use it to make me a
better writer, all of your comments have made me smile and some have even had my
crying with laughter, I'm sorry if I don't respond to any of your comments it's
just I'm so busy with day to day life and writing the next chapter that I never get
five minutes to just sit down and respond to you all.

I'm sorry if I come across as a huge bitch or ungrateful and or disrespectful

because that's not how I wanted to come across as, it's just that the past few days
have been super stressful for me and I don't wanna go on either facey or Instagram
lately in case I receive another nasty message.

Thank you to everyone who has read my book whether it's just one chapter or the
whole lot, thank you for all your comments and adding my books to your libraries,
it really does mean a lot to me when I see your comments or see how many reads my
book has gotten and it's only been five months, I just had to do this to clear up a
few things and get some stuff off my chest also last but by no means least, I got a
message from someone the other day asking me if I'll ever have my readers pay for
my book, the answer is in the words of Justin Bieber never say never but it won't
be anytime soon seeing as I don't know how the whole process works even though I
have seen a few authors post that it's happened without their knowledge so I don't
know‍
♀️.

Natalia's P.O.V.

"You're mine forever, Natalia even in death you won't be able to get away from me,
you own every inch of me now as I do with you, only I can kiss you, touch you, f**k
you and worship you like this, I love you, Natalia Vasquez"

"I love you too Cole Vasquez, I'm sorry I can't give you a big beautiful speech
like you just did....you've literally f**ked the life out of me"

Cole threw his head back and laughed as I placed my forehead onto his shoulders
feeling exhausted.

"Don't worry about it babe, sometimes less is more"

He said whilst gently grabbing the back of my head and placing a kiss on my temple.

"Pfft, the moon goddess clearly didn't think so when she was handing out inches to
you"

Cole once again laughed as I lifted my head up to look at hi……

"f**k"

Cole growled as he ran his hand through his sopping wet hair.

"What's he talking about, Cole? what's going on?"

Cole looked at me with pity before turning back to look at Angelo.

"Can you leave us alone, please Angelo?"

"Sure"

Angelo smiles sadly at me before leaving the room.

I stood in the bathroom doorway waiting for Cole to say something but he didn't, he
didn't even look at me, he just stood with his hands on his hips looking at the
floor.

"What was Angelo talking about, Cole?....why is Max's life in danger?"

My voice quivered as I started to worry about my poor little nephew, Cole must've
noticed it because he immediately looked over at me before coming and standing in
front of me.

"Please don't get upset babe, everything's gonna be ok"

I looked ……

A Few Days Later...

Cole's P.O.V.

BANG!!.

"And there goes another punchbag"

Angelo says with a chuckle.

I let out a sigh as I run my hand over my face and through my hair, I don't need
this f**king shit.

"Angelo, go and check on her for me, please"

"Why? what makes you think she's gonna listen to me?"

"Because you're the only person she'll listen too lately"

"Ok fine"

He says with a sigh whilst placing the papers that were on his lap on the seat next
to him.

Angelo leaves and as he opens up the door, I hear the very angry voice of my future
parents in law reverberate throughout my mansion.

"DID YOU HEAR THAT, KOA? DID YOU f**kING HEAR IT? THAT'S THE TWENTIETH f**kING
PUNCHBAG SHE'S DESTROYED IN FOUR DAYS!!"

"I KNOW BABY, ……

Natalia's P.O.V.

"Why white?"

"Because"

"But why, Emily?"

"Because I said so, why what's wrong with it?"

"Nothing, there's nothing wrong with it, it's beautiful, it's just..."

"It's just, what?"

Emily says whilst stretching out the word just and looking at me like she's about
to lose her patience with me.

I look at myself in the mirror and I've gotta say, the women have done a remarkable
job with everything from my hair, to my dress and shoes, I look absolutely
stunning, it's just that I'm getting more wedding vibes from my outfit than I am
I'm about to become the Luna to the worlds strongest pack vibes.

"I'm just getting weddingy vibes Em, if that's even a word, I feel like I'm about
to marry Cole not become his Luna"

Emil……

I look up at Cole shocked.

Did he really just suggest that we get married today...as in right now?.

"Are you being serious?"

He looked down at me and smirked.

"As serious as I am about our bond"

Oh my moon goddess, he's being serious.

"But we can't, we've got nobody to officiate it"

"Actually darling, you have"

My daddy says as he stands up from his seat.

I look at him confused.

"What do you mean, daddy?"

My father comes over and stands in between myself and Cole with his hands in his
pockets and a weird glint in his eyes.

"As king of the supernatural world, I can officiate any wedding as long as both
parties are consenting to it"

Shit, I should've known my father would be able to do stuff like this.

"And I would be extremely honoured to marry you both……

"Cole, tell me"

"Nope"

"Tell me"

"No"

"Urgh!!"

He chuckled which annoyed me even further.

"You're such an asshole, Cole"

"Yer but I'm your asshole, babe"

Whatever.

I rolled my eyes whilst crossing my arms over my chest and looking out of the
window.

After the reception started to die down
left to drink and party, Cole was quick
he can have some much needed alone time
alone with him too, it's just that he's
clue where.
and it was mostly just the young wolves
to whisk me away from the packhouse so that
with me and to be honest, I wanted to be
taking us somewhere and I haven't got a

"Come on baby, don't pout"

He grabbed hold of my hand and entwined it with his as he caressed the back of my
hand with his thumb.

I continued to ignore him hoping ……

Cole's P.O.V.

If I could describe the past twenty-four hours in a few short words then I'd
describe it as the most amazing and magical experience of my entire life but the
overall experience of the past few days would be best described as stressful and
nerve-wracking.

For the past few days, myself along with my family, Nat's family and our friends
have been working around the clock to pull off the perfect ceremony for my mate
without her knowing that we were also planning our wedding, there were times that I
thought our plans had been foiled by Natalia especially when she walked into my
office and found me talking with both my dad and her dad but luckily she didn't
find anything out.

I've also been feeling extremely nervous about proposing to Natalia because a small
part of me thought ……

'To my beloved wife, when you wake up from your much-needed rest, please shower and
get dressed, I'll be waiting for you on the beach, all my love your sexy husband X'

This is the note that I woke up to this afternoon after having what my husband
describes as a much-needed rest which he's right about.

After spending the majority of the day at the beach soaking up the sun and having
sex, Cole carried me back to the beach house to rest, in fact, the last thing I
remember was him placing me on the bed and telling me to rest because I've got a
long night ahead of me and I knew that if he intended to do to me all night what
he'd been doing to me all day then I needed as much sleep as possible so I welcomed
a peaceful slumber with open arms.

Anyway, after I woke up and read the note, I went ……

Natalia's P.O.V.

"Are you ready to go, baby?"

"No"

I muffled because my face is currently buried deep in a pillow.

"Come on baby, we have to go"

"No we don't, that's why we have second in commands, Cole"

My asshole husband laughed as he climbed on the bed next to me, he moved my hair
out of my neck and started to kiss and suck on my mark.

"Urgh!!, you're not playing fair, Mr Vasquez"

"And you're acting like a child, Mrs Vasquez"

He huskily said in my ear.

"Asshole"

"Ouch!!"

I turned to glare at Cole after he harshly smacked my ass.

"I heard what you said"

"You were supposed to idiota, I said it through our mate link"

He glared at me and I bit my lower lip at how sexy he looked.

"Carry on giving me lip Nattie and I'll smack you……

Carl Jung once said 'the healthy man does not torture others, generally it is the
tortured who turns into torturers' and I couldn't agree more with that statement.

I've had to put up with more pain and anguish than anybody my age should have to
put up with in their young adult lives and I'd like to think that everything I've
experienced has made me a stronger and better woman but I don't think it has
because normal people who have been through traumatic experiences generally just go
on with their lives and don't try to avenge themselves through violence against the
person who tortured them but me, I'm far from normal and I actually find it fun and
relaxing to inflict pain onto those who did it to me.

"You know Aubrey, this could all be over if you just give me the answers……

Cole's P.O.V.

"It doesn't matter Cole because I've already made up my mind"

"What do you mean?"

I looked at her confused as I felt fear and panic rise within me because if Natalia
orbs on her own then there's nothing I can do about it until she shows her ass up
here again, it's not like when we shift into our wolves were if she shifts then I
can too and I can go after her and try to stop her from doing something stupid and
dangerous, she's completely on her own with her powers.
"I mean Cole, that long before I was your wife and even longer before I was
discovered to be your mate and the long lost daughter and princess of all
supernaturals, I was and still am a badass f*****g bitch, if I can survive twelve
years of abuse and the infamous torture f*****g room then I'm……

"You're my what?"

I growled not believing what I'd just heard.

"You heard me, Nat...we're your sons, yours and Coles"

This isn't real, this isn't f*****g real.

"No, no, no, this isn't real, this isn't happening"

I break out of Coles hold and move away, I didn't realise I was pacing until
Dimitri spoke again.

"I know this is a lot to hear and it's scary but..."

"No...y..y..you're lying, why are lying to me?"

"I'm not lying to you Natalia, you're our mother and Cole's our dad"

"LIAR!!"

I shouted.

SLAP!!, SLAP!!, SLAP!!.

"Natalia stop"

Cole grabbed me and pulled me away from continuing to attack Dimitri.

"Babe, calm down"

"No, he's lying to us Cole"

"What reason have I got to lie to you, Natalia? think about it, the very f……

"Dalton...wh..what the f**k?"

"Please don't be scared Nattie, please"

He begged when he tried to approach me and I backed up on the bed away from him.

"Scared? are you freaking kidding me?"

He lets out a sigh as he drops his head and places his hands on his hips.
"What are you?"

I asked in a whisper as tears fell from my eyes.

"I'm me Nattie, I promise I'm still Dalty"

"No, you're not, I..I..I watched you die, I watched your parents die"

"Yer about that"

He said whilst nervously sitting on the bed next to me.

"You didn't see us die, Nattie, it was all a trick"

"A trick?...what do you think I am Dalton, stupid?...I'm not a little girl anymore"

"No you're not, you're definitely not"

He says whilst looking me up and down with a smile.

Mos……

Natalia's P.O.V.

"I Cole Demetrius Vasquez reject you, Natalia Isabella Vasquez, as my mate, my
sister and my future Luna of The Dark Shadows pack, don't you dare f*****g tell
anybody about this otherwise I'll f*****g kill you, not that anyone will believe
you anyway since everyone already knows you're a habitual liar"

"I'm sorry, Natalia, I know you don't believe me but I am and I promise, I'm gonna
do everything I can to prove to you just how sorry I am"

"That's my point, Natalia...I abused you, I bullied you, I f*****g rejected you, I
had sex with other women knowing it would hurt you, I even threatened to take you
to the torture room which I never would have done but I still threatened you with
it and you've forgiven me for it all"

"I Cole Demetrius V……

Two Weeks Later...

Natalia's P.O.V.

"That looks really bad, Nat"

"It is and it hurts like a motherfucker"

"Why aren't you healing?"

"Because your highness has been slipping me something every day since I got here to
stop me from healing, shifting or mind linking anyone"

I say your highness mockingly because the asshole has got all of his lackeys
calling him it and even tried to get me to call him it but I told him it'd be over
my dead before I bow down to anyone, I haven't bowed down to my parents or brothers
and they've earned my respect as well as their titles so why am I gonna bow down to
this little bitch?.

Urgh!!, f**k this is really painful.

"Why did he do this to you? it doesn't make any sense that he'd hurt you like t……

Angelo's P.O.V.

"How long is this gonna take, Angelo? my sister's life is on the f*****g line here"

"She's my sister too, you know"

"If you say so"

I narrow my eyes at Christian as I feel my already bubbling anger about to explode.

"Don't f*****g push me, Christian, I've been putting up with your bullshit for two
f*****g weeks and I'm just about at the end of my f*****g rope"

"Oh shut up Angelo, you're not gonna do diddly squat to me"

He said whilst crossing his arms over his chest and looking annoyed.

"Oh really? and what makes you so sure?"

"Because I'm a royal hybrid, idiot, you can't take one of us on unless you've got a
death wish"

He said in a bored tone.

"Shut up Christian will you, you sound like a jealous little brat"

Nathan said ……

A Few Hours Into The Battle...

Mason's P.O.V.

"How many men have we lost?"

"A lot, at least the majority of our pack"

f**k!!.

"Your highness there's something else you should know"

"What is it?"

I growled wanting him to hurry up and f**king speak, I need to get back to Nattie.

"It's your brother...he's here"

I stopped in my tracks when I heard what he said.

"Anyone else?"

"Yes sir, his sons are also here"

My face changed from a scowl to a smirk.

"Perfect...it's time to end my brother's reign and start my own"

I was about to head out when the voice of a female stopped me.

There aren't many females in my pack, actually, there's probably only a handful and
every single one of them are afraid of me and never speak with this much……

The Next Morning...

"What am I supposed to do when the best part of me was always you? and what am I
supposed to say when I'm all choked up and you're ok? I'm falling to pieces, yeah,
I'm falling to pieces, they say bad things happen for a reason but no wise words
gonna stop the bleeding 'cause she's moved on while I'm still grieving and when a
heart breaks no it don't breakeven, even, no"

The very worst part of grief is that you can't control it, the best we can do is to
try and let ourselves feel it and let it go when we can, the only thing is that I
don't wanna let it go, I don't wanna end the grief because that means finally
letting go and I'm not sure I'll ever be ready to let go of Cole.

"Urgh!!, can you please not kick me so hard? mommas going through enough...……

"Oh god Cole, not again....fuck"

"Yes again baby, I can't get enough of you"

Cole growled before locking his lips with mine and picking up his thrusts once
again.

Ever since last night when everyone left the mansion, Cole and I literally couldn't
get enough of each other and we christened almost every room in this house and I
say almost because Cole really wanted too but I refused to do so in rooms that my
family are currently staying in.

I don't know how many times we've done it so far but I'm guessing this time is
sending us into triple figures and I don't think my poor body can take it anymore.

"Cole please...a..are you trying to FUCK...shit..."

"What was that, baby? I couldn't quite hear you over the sound of me f*****g my
beautiful wife senseless"

"Oh god"

I……

"What's going on, guys?"

Cole asks Dimitri and Massimo as we all take a seat in the living area.

The boys were looking really sad and also a little pained which gave me a bad
feeling about what the boys wanted to talk about.

"We have to go back"

"Back...what do you mean by back?"

Massimo looks at me with sad eyes.

"Ma, this was never a permanent trip...we have to go back to our lives in 2039"

"What? no"

I panicked.

"Babe, calm down"

Cole grabbed hold of my hand and held it close to him as Dimitri came and knelt
down in front of me grabbing hold of my free hand.

"We have to go back, ma...in a few months time you're gonna be giving birth to us
and it'll totally mess with the balance of nature if there are two versions of
ourselves in the same time"

"Bu……

Cole's P.O.V.

Life isn't perfect, there are highs and lows, happy times and sad times.

When I woke up in the hospital after being shot several times and left for dead by
Mason, I was hoping to hear the good news that Mason was dead so I could go home to
my beloved wife and live a happy life with her and our children, I wanted nothing
more than for all of this crazy shit to be over and done with so that we can move
on with our lives but then Angelo informed me that not only was the bastard still
alive but that he'd kidnapped my wife and my whole world fell apart.

I was heartbroken and filled with so much rage that I just wanted to go and find
Mason and kill him ripping all of his organs from his body and ripping his head off
his shoulders but I was stopped by Angelo who told me that as ……

"Natalia"

"Hmm"

"What are you thinking about?"

"Nothing"

"Nothing?"

"Mm-hmm"

"Baby, you do realise you can't bullshit me, right?"

I look over at Cole who is looking at me sternly, he's leaning against the wall
behind him with one foot resting on the wall and he's crossed his huge arms over
his chest.

"I'm not bullshitting you, Cole"

He lets out a sigh.

"I can read your thoughts, remember"

Shit.

"Why are you debating whether or not to kill her, babe? she deserves to die and I
can't think of anyone better to end her"

"I'm not debating anything Cole, it's just..."

I let out a sigh as I look towards the room where Aubrey is.

"I spent twelve years defending myself to everyone that I didn't attack her, it's
practically been ……

A Few Days Later...

Tap, Tap, Tap, Tap, Tap.

"Baby, I'm nearly done I swear just give me one more minute"
"You said that ten minutes ago"

"I mean it this time"

"Mm-hmm"

I said whilst rolling my eyes.

The barbeque started over an hour ago and everyone is literally out in the pack
gardens having fun and eating delicious food whilst I'm stuck in Coles office
waiting for him to finish up with some stupid paperwork.

"There, I'm done"

Cole says putting his pen down.

"Finally, can we go now? I'm so hungry, I could eat eight horses maybe nine"

Cole chuckled as he made his way over to me.

I was too busy thinking about all of the delicious food I could be eating when I
felt a pair of lips on mine.

"If you wanna wrap your lips around some meat babe th……

Six Weeks Later...

"Why are you crying, Nat?"

"Because it's just so sad"

"Is it?"

"YES!!"

I snap at Emily who looks at me confused.

"But you've seen this entire series like a bazillion times, why do you always cry
when we watch the final episode?"

"Because it's really sad"

I stated once again whilst wiping my tears away.

"I don't understand this, you didn't cry when Gabriella left Troy but you'll cry
over this"

"Yes"

"Why?"

"Because he died"

"So"
Emily drags out whilst looking at me like she really doesn't understand what I'm
saying.

"So, Gabriella and Troy got back together and they're probably married with babies
now but him...he's dead"

"Again so"

I glare at Emily, I really wanna slap her face r……

Two Months Later...

Emily's P.O.V.

"AAHHHH!!, GET THESE BABIES OUT OF ME!!"

Six hours, forty-five minutes and thirty-three seconds, that's how long Natalia has
been in labour for and the same amount of time that we've been sat waiting and
listening to poor Nattie in pain.

I had a feeling that Nattie was gonna go into labour today even though it's not the
date that Dimitri gave us for his birth because Natties been feeling weird all day,
she's been having contractions that she passed off as being Braxton hicks which are
fake contractions and she's been feeling really uncomfortable to the point that
Cole had her put on bed rest because she couldn't move without feeling some type of
pain or discomfort.

I look down at my watch and see that it's five minutes to midnight whic……