I woke up to the sun shining in my face and the smell of pine needles in the air. A smile was brought to my face as my eyes stayed shut. The nature that surrounded the Blood Moon pack was the only thing that I missed from the pack.

We didn't have anything like this in the Dark pack. The Dark pack had its own special landscape. The Dark pack was in Alaska. In the middle of two mountains, it was stuck in a constant state of winter. It was beautiful there, but I grew to miss the constant state of green that Washington gave to the Blood Moon pack.

I stretched getting ready to get out of bed. In the middle of my stretching though, my hand hit a really hard object. I froze hoping that the object wasn't the thing that I was thinking it was.

I slowly removed my hand from the hard object while opening my eyes to the sun blazing down on me. Once my eyes adjusted to the light from the window, I brought my eyes to the object my hand had touched. I slowly began to trail my eyes up the object or rather the person.

The first thing I noticed was the toned muscular chest that my hand touched before. My eyes went farther up to the person's arms and then to their neck noticing they did not have a mark on their neck. Then, my eyes reach the person's face. I felt all the breath leave my lungs in a bust of relief as I recognized the person that was sleeping next to me in my bed, Ryan.

As I stared at Ryan all the memories from last night came to me like a fist in the stomach. I covered my face shaking my head in embarrassment. I couldn't believe he saw me like that, he saw me so weak again after all these years.

Last night, I was emotional after seeing Ace. Even after all this time away from him, it was still hard to see my ex-mate after all this time. I thought I wouldn't feel anything towards him, I thought that time would heal all wounds. But time doesn't heal all wounds. You could only hide them until they make themselves known again.

When one of the Blood Moon Pack's members led me to my room, I shut myself inside. I didn't leave the room for the rest of the day. I didn't even open the door for anyone no matter what pack they were a part of.

I was lying face down on the bed in the middle of the room crying out all the emotions that were strangling me from the inside. I knew I needed to let out all the emotions that were consuming me before training tomorrow or else I was going to kill something/someone, literally. I knew that when I don't let my emotions out, it usually gets ugly for the people that I was training.

As I laid down crying on the bed, I heard a barely-there-gentle knock on the door. I ignored the knocking. I didn't want anyone to know that I was in here but who was I kidding, these people were werewolves. The person at the door could probably hear me from a mile away sniffling and sobbing.

But I entertained the person for a little longer. I continued to cry as the person behind the door continued to knock. The knocking was the only thing that interrupted my quiet sobs until the person finally got tired of knocking. With a sigh from the person, he stopped knocking and gave up.

Well, I thought he gave up until I heard the guy slam his heel into the door causing the door to give out and for it to come crashing against the wall. I jerked my head up ready to fight if the person was a threat. But when I saw it was only Ryan, I let my head drop and I forced my body to turn away from him wishing he would leave me alone.

I stared at the wall willing him with everything in me to just walk back out that door, to let me be by myself for just this one day. I heard him ignoring my silent pleads, his quiet footsteps softly pounding against the hardwood floors. I tried to slow my breathing to convince him I had fallen asleep but it didn't work.

I heard him snort before he pulled up the covers causing me to shiver. He slid into the covers and pulled me closer to him. He started to hum a song to me waiting until my breathing slowed and I was calm enough to actually listen to him. He slid closer to me bringing his lips to my ears.

He whispered in my ear, "Kat remember that I love you, the twins love you, and our pack loves you. The only time you should cry is when something makes you so happy you have no choice but to cry. You shouldn't be crying over a guy who doesn't deserve you or a pack who is not worthy of you. You are the strongest person I know and the Moon Goddess knew that too. That is why she brought all this tragedy to your life because she knew you were the only person who could survive through it. So wipe those tears away and show that bastard of an Alpha the strong girl I know and love."

Ryan kissed my cheek and pulled me deeper into his arms.