I think the perfection of love is that it's not perfect. - Taylor Swift

I opened the door to my bedroom, the basement. As 'our' house was a small one-bedroom house, the basement has been my home all my life. This is where I felt safe, as strange as that may sound.

As I walked down the stairs, I put on the light and walked towards my bed. I was exhausted, my head hurt and I think I still had a hangover.

'No, you don't, It's me, I've been trying to get through to you since you blocked me out!' Ella snapped at me.

"Oh feel my pain, Ella. Think about how I must have felt when you blocked yourself away from me. Leaving me alone! He WAS also my mate. I also saw him fucking her, I heard her moans and screams and I also felt the words of his rejection! My heart also broke Ella. Not just -"

I was cut off by my phone ringing in my backpack. Now, why is Nicola calling me?

"Hello," I said answering my phone

"Did you get your letter?" She asked, sounding extremely nervous.

"What Letter, Nix? And, Hello to you too!" 

"Just go look in your mailbox, quickly before your parents get it. Call me back once you've read it," she cut off the phone, just like that... hmm.

I placed the phone on my bed and decided to go check the mailbox in the front yard. On the walk out of the basement, I realized I was alone. Great.

Once I opened the mailbox I saw only one item inside. I took the envelope and walked back to my room.

Inspecting the letter my name was neatly written on the top in black ink. I sat on my bed and opened the envelope, followed by the letter.

Dear Lone Wolf.

You are selected to appear in front of the Royal Council and King, Attendance is mandatory.

Tonight at 8.  City Hall. Be there.

Royal Beta

William Jones

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What the hell. Royal Council. King. Great...
 

I picked up the phone to call Nicola. She immediately answered her phone.

"Okay, What crap is this Nix and how the hell am I going to get out of my home with my parents? You know how they are."

"Come to my house, we can go from there" she responded. 

"Okay, see you then," I said cutting off the connection. 

As the day progressed I felt an uneasy stir within me. Something I haven't felt before. "Ella...are you there?" I asked.  "Yes, I feel it as well," she responded. 

I decided to take a quick shower, washing my dark brown hair, and scrubbing my body. Only once entering the bath did I realize how much I needed it. My body was tired and sore. Even though Ella tried to heal me where she could, she was still weak after being out of touch with me for so long. We had to rebuild everything we've worked so hard on the past few years, not that I was strong or anything. I was average. After my bath, I got dressed in dark skinny jeans, and a black long sleeve V neck shirt. I normally don't do short-sleeve shirts, but these past few months changed me, in some way. I grabbed my favorite hoody out of my closet and put on my plump shoes. I decided to put on some black eyeliner, making my hazel eyes pop. Plain and simple. That was me.

Sneaking out of the house while my parents were in the kitchen proved to be much easier than I thought. I found my way to Nicola's home within ten minutes, taking every known shortcut and back alley I knew. 

After about 10 minutes Nicola decided to show herself and we were on our way to the City Hall. There was a silence between us, both of us not knowing what to expect. We never asked to be the lone wolves, as they called us, it just happened. None of us knew who our parents were and why were dropped at the doorsteps of strangers. Strange enough, it all stopped happening 26 years ago. No pups have been dropped since. I doubt the human parents knew who and what we are. We all kinda figured it out by ourselves.

Arriving at the City Hall, my eyes scanned the room. There were not a lot of us in this town, more or less about 15 of us. The building was highly guarded and everyone sat in chairs, that were neatly arranged to face a small stage. Nicola and I took a seat and waited.

To say I was scared, would be an understatement, so I'm not going to lie, I am shit scared. Ella was pacing like some kind of lunatic. "Ella, stop. Please. You are driving me crazy." I told her.

"I can't, Monica. Something is not right," she said back, growling at me.

"Don't growl at me, you dog! I'm just saying!" 

We waited about ten minutes until other wolves started entering the building. There were a lot of them and they reeked. Like in BAD!  "Rogues" Nicola whispered to me.

"Great, this is going to be exactly like the fucking Hunger Games," I said to her.

"I hope not," she said, fiddling in her seat. Note. Nicola can become very nervous and her wolf is exactly the opposite and when they mentally fighting, Nicola fiddles with basically everything she can find... 

The large oak doors opened with a bang and a few men came out in suits. Each of them took a seat on the stage. I was so focused on the stage and the strange smell, woodcarvings, and chocolate. Oh, how I love chocolate.

Ella started purring and to be quite honest, I haven't felt her being so happy in a long time, a really long time. Then, the source of the smell entered the room through the oak doors. The source? A tall 6.9ft man stood at the center of the stage. He had dark brown hair and blue eyes. His suit was fitted tightly around his body. He was gorgeous... 

Oh fuck. That's the wolfprick. The hot one.

Suddenly my heart started beating faster like the darn thing was put back together and nicely fixed from all the hurt Mitch caused. "Mate. Mate. Mate" Ella screamed in my head and with that, I felt the air leave my lungs. This cannot be. Mitch was my mate, the one who rejected me. I would not have slept with him if he was not my mate.

"You okay?" Nicola asked.

"Just peachy, Nix."

She wanted to respond back but then he spoke, his voice loud, husky, powerful, and sent shiver's down my body. This is worse than the feelings Mitch gave me, this is just much more intense. No one seemed to care that he entered the building, well at least not the rogues. The lone wolves were silent.

"SILENCE!" he shouted using his Alpha command, dominance, power, and anger dripping from his words like poison. 

Everyone in the room went silent. "Now, you are here as we have been receiving threats at the royal palace and within our pack. You are some of the last few wolves who will be interviewed in this part of the country. Everyone will stay seated until your name will be called. If you are found stable and not a safety risk, you will be freed. If not. My cells are awaiting new tenants." With that said, he left the room.

Wolf after wolf was interviewed and called before me, there were about 20 of us left in the room, Nicola was already interviewed. I just don't know if she made it home safely.

"Mate, Mate, Mate" Ella purred like a lovesick puppy.

"No Ella, we can't have another Mate, we already had one. Who did not want us, remember?" I said back to her and then she wined, cutting me out once again.

Hours passed when it was finally my turn to go into the room everyone has been going into. I stepped through the door and there he sat. His blue eyes looking straight through my soul, which made Ella come out again, driving me crazy. With every step, I gave towards him my heart rate picked up. I don't understand, why now? I've seen him at the club but I did not- wait a second... the sparks, the darn sparks...

"Have a seat, Monica," he said coldly, but making my body react in unnatural ways. I took a seat at his desk, holding my hands in fists on my lap. This was so awkward, he said nothing about being my 'mate' so, I chose to ignore it.

"Now, tell me, do you know who I am?" he asked, his voice sending my body straight to pleasure. 

"uh...I..." I thought about it. I really don't know who the hell he is, so I decided just to be honest. "Honestly, I can sense you are powerful and an Alpha. That's all I know Alpha, I'm sorry but I don't know who you are." I said truthfully, deciding not to say anything about the mate situation.

"My name is Alexander Black. I am the Alpha King," he said looking quite amused. I gasped and felt my head bending down in submission. Gosh, how stupid could I be?

"Mate is the King," Ella said once again, purring like a kitten that found some milk.

I chose to ignore her. "I'm sorry Alpha, King, I apologize, I really did not know. I... I am not really, well, I've never known much about the were-wold." I said, stuttering on my words.

He did not say anything and for a moment, I thought I saw his eyes turning black, which made me even more nervous. 

There was silence in the room and I wondered if this is how the other interviews, or interrogations, or whatever went. He kept looking at me like I was some kind of piece of meat he wanted to eat. It was driving Ella crazy.

"Alpha, King... My wolf says you are supposed to be my mate." I blurted out, nervously.

He looked at me for a moment and then started laughing at me, like a full-on laugh. Which turned me on, as crazy as that may sound it's true. 

"I would never be that stupid again pup, you are not my mate, you never will be, and quite frankly, I don't think your wolf even has enough strength to realize the reality of life." he spat out.

Okay...that hurt allot. Ella whined, feeling defeated. Once again by a mate. Mates are supposed to be our other halves, but it seemed like mine was at the top of the dick ladder.

"Ella is not wrong," I said proudly. Ella is a lot of things but she has never lied to me. Despite everything with Mitch, she was always there when I was in real danger.  "Just reject me, Alpha King. I've been through it once and I survived. I can do it again! Both me and Ella." I said, tears forming in my eyes. He did not say another word. I stood from the chair running out of the room and slamming the door behind me, not caring about anything else. One thing I did know is that this has to be some mistake. Me a thrown away child, mate to THE Alpha King. It's crazy and can't really be true.

I was halfway through the room when I realized I was in the middle of a war zone. Wolves in human form and wolf form fighting like crazy. Bodies lying on the ground and blood everywhere. I heard a loud growl, which made the walls tumble and dust fell from the roof. 

I ran. I decided to just run, as fast as my legs could carry me. I was out of that building in seconds and once in the parking lot, I headed to the woods when I picked up a little sob and screams.

Like the idiot I am, I ran towards the sound of crying, and what I saw made my heart drop.

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