Prologue: A birthday Surprise

I stared at myself in the mirror; my light brown hair fell in natural waves that curled into ringlets. I pulled it back away from my face with bobby pins letting a strand fall in front of my face. My eyes were a warm light brown framed with black eye linear, mascara and eye shadow giving it a smoky effect. My cheeks wore a slight blush and my skin was clear and creamy. I wore a black long-sleeve dress that clung to my curves and fell mid-thigh with black strapped heels. I would never admit it but I was happy with my appearance.

My hands shook with nerves as I clenched them into fists. It was my eighteenth birthday today and today was my official coming out party, when a young werewolf turns eighteen there is a party at the pack house known as their coming out party, today was mine. Although I wasn’t technically a werewolf since the gene skipped me leaving me human, but all of the rules still apply; live in the pack, do what your Alpha tells you and don’t do anything reckless. I was the opposite to all of those rules, I dreamed of running away and leaving this place and have since my parents died, I never do what I’m told, in fact I go out of my way just to do the opposite and I have done my fair share of stupid things my grandfather calls reckless.

Taking one final look in the mirror I pulled my two fingers to my lips and placed a kiss on my fingers before touching the photo that hung in the top corner of my mirror, it was a picture of my mum, dad, brother and me; I was only about five and missing my two front teeth while my brother was about nine. It was the last photo ever taken of my family, a few days later they died, attacked by a small group of rouge moon wolves trying to make a name for themselves.

I came out of my room and saw my grandfather with his head in two hands siting at the small round kitchen table. “Hey pop, are you ready?” I asked grabbing my nude coloured handbag and hanging it on my shoulder.

“I’m sorry but I won’t be going with you tonight” I stopped in my tracks; my pop never lets me anywhere near that house without being glued to his side. What was up with him? The look on his face as he looked at me was like he was attending my funeral.

“Are you sure?” I questioned looking back at him with a wide eyed expression.

“I’m sure, and Melody, be careful ok” He was starting to have me worried now.

“Sure Pop” I walked over to the door, and put my hand on the door handle.

“I love you Mel, remember that” I nodded and walked out feeling like I had left something behind.

 A voice in my head was screaming at me to run back into my house and hide under my bed. The sound of a car horn caught my attention and I saw my two best friends sitting in the car, they waved their hands out the window at me, screaming for me to hurry up and get in the car. My thoughts forgotten I ran over to the car and got in to the hot pink bug, it was cramped but it bet walking all that way.

“Oh my god, happy birthday, ok so we are getting you blind drunk tonight.” Stella said as she patted my knee from the front seat while Julie drove her car.

“Thanks but I don’t want to get blind drunk ok” but I had every intention of getting tipsy, I just wanted to be able to remember tonight.

“A little bit drunk” she asked. Yeah like there was such a thing as a little bit drunk!

“Yes, a little bit” I said with a smile, hey I was eighteen I was going to at least have a little fun.

It was about a fifteen minute drive until we finally got there, the three story building stretched out across the meadow, made of dark red bricks with a black framed windows and doors with a black pointed roof. Green vines travelled up one side and the black gates were patterned with iron vines. The meadow the house was on stretched vast and wide with a few pine trees before ending in the dark forests known as the whispering woods. It was a beautiful house if you could get past the dark eeriness of the first glances.

We walked into the front door and were struck with the sound of loud music and the smell of hard liquor hit me like a brick, you could get drunk off of the fumes. Stella grabbed my arm and tugged me to the dance floor while Julie got drinks, Stella had found someone to grind on in no more than five minutes while I awkwardly danced by myself waiting for Julie. I saw some of the guys who we went to school with last year staring at me, their expressions guarded and eyes dark, they seemed tense. I tried not to let their stares get to me too much and went over to find Julie, I found her by the table that had numerous bottles of alcohol. I saw her horrified expression as someone whispered in her ear. Her face was pale almost white like she had seen a ghost. I called her name to get her attention.

“Hey what’s up?” I asked a little curious what was going. Was I missing something?

“Nothing, just pack business” she smiled sadly at me, but the smile didn’t reach her eyes. What was it with everyone today and looking so sad, today was supposed to be the best day of my life.

She shoved some shots in my face with the statement “Drink up; you’re going to need it.” And then she pulled me back to the dance floor. I had once again disregarded some of my inner warning voices telling me to run and continued dancing with my friends and some guys that came to dance with us. I had relaxed and was starting to enjoy myself when I felt hands go on my hips; my body froze up and stopped all movement as I felt the hot breath on my neck. The voice in my head was once again yelling at me to run now but I couldn’t move even if I wanted to.

I looked at my friends and noticed their heads were bowed down which told me all I needed to know about who had hold of me. The Alpha. I panicked and found the strength to move; I all but ran in any direction and found myself in a dead end corner. Shit! I turned and found him staring at me intently his blue eyes as dark as the night sky, a devilish smile on his lips. I tried to make a run for it but his arms snaked around my waist pulling me to his chest, I couldn’t get out if I tried.

“You shouldn’t run” He said in the commanding tone of any alpha.

“Please let me go” I cried, my voice was barely a whisper.

“Not a chance baby” He began pulling me off around a different corner, I screamed out for help but no one came, not even Stella and Julie, I now they could hear me, they had to hear, they all had werewolf hearing god damn it! I kicked out and screamed as tears ran down my cheeks, he stopped and lifted me over his shoulder and carried me up the stairs and down a hallway into a big bedroom. This was not good, I was in trouble.

I was still kicking and screaming when he threw me down on the bed, my head rushed as the shots I took began to take effect, I sat up and went to move when the room began to spin. Why is the earth moving so much? I saw him rip off his clothes out of the corner of my eye, his strong jaw line was set in place, his eyes burning into me, his hard chest defined every muscle in his body which in any other circumstances would have been mouth-watering but no, he was an asshole. He grabbed a hold of my ankle and dragged me closer to him; I squealed and started to cry out again. He tore at my dress and pulled off my panties.

“Please, stop” I begged, tears streaming down my face. How do you fight a werewolf?

But he didn’t listen, his body loomed over me his hands pining me down to stop me from moving, I bit my lip and clenched my knees together. Holding my hands above my head with one of his he used the other to  pry open my legs, I shivered, tears still streaming down my face as I begged a few more times in an attempt to stop his assault. He positioned himself between my legs preventing me from closing them again.

In one swift motion he thrust himself into me sending a piercing pain through my body, it hurt, it hurt so much which only caused more tears. He thrust into me again and again each one harder than the other, the pain stopped after the first few thrust which I was grateful for and my body began to respond against my will, the building of pleasure I had heard my friends talking about aimlessly began to take hold of my body while he kissed and suckled at my neck. The moaning slipped out of my lips regardless of my efforts to stop it.

My body climaxed in an array of sensations and exploding in pure pleasure in loud moans before his teeth sunk into my neck. I gasped and cried out in pain as the fire of the bite shot through my body, hotter than one of the shots I had taken earlier. It hurt. My body was exhausted and aching all over, I needed to get home, but I couldn’t think, I couldn’t walk and now that I think of it I had no clothes to get home either. I felt his arms come around me and pull me to his chest. I couldn’t fight even if I wanted to.

“Your mine now” he whispered in my ear before kissing my neck where the burning from his bite was still travelling through my body.

I closed my eyes and gave in to the darkness. 

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