Chapter 2

Makahi: POV

“KAHI! Are you even listening?!” My mother yelled so loud on the phone that even my Beta Montego flinched. Sighing, “Yes mom I heard you, but I told you I have a call with the other alphas in this region because of the recent rogue attacks. We’re trying to figure out if their growing in numbers and are planning an even bigger attack. I asked you to postpone the ceremony until we have this thing sorted out.” I growled into the phone not happy at all that I couldn’t get her to change her mind about inviting human women to our pack lands because they are far too weak to protect themselves and I will have to command all unmated males to not touch them. As well as make sure the children don’t turn in front of them. God forbid if they saw one of us turn into a Wolf that would be a nightmare to clean up. Some humans know about our kind but it’s mostly those who do business with us or had a run in with a random rogue but for the most part humans don’t know of werewolves, and we prefer to keep it that way. Still yelling “ Kahi I told you how important this was to me, and we need to expose our children to humans while their young and teach them how to act when they encounter them. I realized that we know very little about humans when your father stepped down as alpha and we went on a yearlong road trip visiting our relatives in other packs and sightseeing, which is how I met my beautiful chocolate drops. Besides, we’re the strongest pack in this damn country no rogue wolf would dare think of breaching our borders. We became the most feared pack in the country by being smart and also training our pups as soon as they learned to walk, that happened because of your great grandparents, grandparents, your parents and now you as the Alpha of Crystal Wolf Lake is why no one is worried about a few rogue attacks hundreds of miles away.” My mother said with confidence. Which was very true we were said to be the strongest and the most feared because of our strength and our ability to stay ten steps ahead of our enemies which all it really took was to observe and learn your enemy and plan and execute them before they even know we were there, that’s how those before me did it and that’s how I do it, which is why this phone call was so important I need every piece of information down to what those rogues were wearing. Yes I’m that thorough.” Hearing my mother sighing again I snap out of my thoughts.

“Besides Kahi I really miss my girls we talk every week I feel like I know them just as I know you they’re so beautiful with their milk chocolate skin and deep blue colored eyes except my Lynn she’s more caramel with dark chocolate eyes, and they are quite curvy as well not like that skin and bones you’re mating but they’re big girls who are smart, funny, very light on their feet for being humans but they’re total sweethearts and we bonded during our stay in South Carolina. They are like the daughters I never had.” My mother said sadly. Rolling my eyes “ You wouldn’t feel that way if you gave Summer a chance she will be your daughter in a few weeks.” I responded.. I smiled because I could literally hear my mother roll her eyes so hard through the phone. “Listen I told you I’ll be civil toward her because you’re going to mate her and have me some grandbabies but that’s all you’re gonna get. She is very rude, disrespectful, has no empathy or compassion, for none of the women in our pack she doesn’t spend time with none of the other pack members besides her uppity ass friends. Do you know she hasn’t started her Luna training yet, and that’s a big job because being a Luna isn’t about having a pretty face. You have to know how to connect with the entire pack make sure that they’re nurtured because the Luna is the heart of the entire pack.” My mother finished in a stressful tone. I sighed in frustration because I knew she was right. Summer has been putting off training and is totally focused on herself and her friends dresses and what they want the mating ceremony to look like they want a big glamorous mating ceremony. We have argued more times about that in the last few weeks then we’ve ever argued.

Summer was easily the prettiest alpha female in our pack, but she was also a skilled fighter and although she doesn’t show it often or hardly ever she was really smart and kind when she wanted to. Nobody thought that we would last because we are polar opposites I’m your typical alpha like a quiet storm reserved feared strong and protective of everyone within my borders I have been known to show compassion on occasions, but I needed my members to respect me as their alpha and not their friend. So, no one was happy about me and summer’s mating ceremony especially my mother but once she found out what Summer had in mind for our mating I thought my mother would blow a gasket, but she took that as the perfect opportunity to invite these human females which Summer was so shocked at my mother’s excitement that she accepted without thinking twice. She real life thought she finally softened my mother up and finally got her acceptance which was far from the reality, but she was so happy I couldn’t tell her the truth, so I made a deal with my mother that if she would be civil to Summer until the mating then she could hire her precious humans. Which she readily agreed. With everything that Summer wanted for our ceremony we will be flat broke once it’s over, this ceremony is so far out of the realm of the normal, which is usually our pack gathering at our moon goddesses sacred grounds which was a magical area surrounded by four big Boulders that were blessed by the moon goddess thousands of years ago with a mating stone in the center of the grounds. It is also where we go, the magic and power on the night of the full moon is when we’re the strongest. Although we are strong even without a full moon, we’re five times stronger during the full moon. During a mating ceremony we declare our bond to the moon goddess and ask for her blessing then we slice our hand and press it against the mating stone in the center of the circle while our elder performs the mating ritual by speaking the language of old. When the stone glows we know that the moon goddess has accepted our chosen mate. We then seal the mating ceremony by marking each other in human and then in wolf form. Once the mating is complete everyone shift and we go for a pack run in celebration, where we let loose , eat, play, hunt, and on occasion some even have sex. We do it that way when we choose our mate, which happens at the age of thirty-five. Once we have visited most packs without ever finding our other half mate, which is a piece of our wolf’s soul that the moon goddess took from each wolf and placed it into someone she has chosen for us. When our mate is near our wolf feels an instant connection, that piece of our soul that our mate has.

Our wolves although are strong and fearless they always feel incomplete without its mates soul and its always this ache that we both feel that will be there forever and only get worse as we age we get angrier and more aggressive, and some wolves have even lost their mind after they hit forty. That is why as the alpha I’m required to take a chosen mate if at 35 I still haven’t mate and claimed my mated half. I’ve loved only Summer for the past 3 years and we have talked about what we would do if we met our other half before we mate, and she feels that we should reject them immediately before we get consumed with the need to mate and mark them. She believes that she cannot love another as she loves me, and I feel the same, but I also have no idea how it would be if I ever met my other half. Other wolves have rejected their mated half for another, but it is very few but has happened . It’s very painful for a wolf to reject their mated half because it’s said to anger the moon goddess, because she chose your mated half, so she made it painful to go against who she has chosen for you. Which is why I didn’t agree to it, but I didn’t disagree either. I kind of let it float in the air because I didn’t feel like it was important to make that promise when I felt that I would never meet my other half anyway.

“I swear Kahi I will hang up this phone and send your father to drag your ass out of there if you don’t show up to our party tonight at the very least. Because my girls will be performing for me and your father.” My mother yelled. “OK Mother I will do my best to get to your mating anniversary which isn’t a real thing by the way. But as soon as I’m done I will be there to meet my human adopted siblings. You just make sure you put them in the house on the west side at the very end, away from the well-populated area in the back. That is practically deserted except for the older pack members who rarely shift anymore.” I said trying to end this call with my mother so I can find out what is going on with the sudden random rogue attacks so far I’ve heard it was a small number of rogue attacks maybe 20+ rogue wolves, but they seem to be excellent fighters like they were being trained which was unusual because rogues tend to be mindless bloodlust beast that thrive on the most basic elements of wolves which was to hunt and kill any and everything. So regardless of my mother’s confidence I can’t let our ego make it the reason we lose any of my wolves for being overly cocky we can’t take these attacks for granted and be unprepared. “Ok fine, be there by 10pm that’s when my girls are to perform. Ok I gotta go they should be arriving soon, and I need to get ready and meet them at the main gate to make sure Shadow doesn’t scare them away. I hope he doesn’t scared them half to death. I don’t know why you didn’t put Montego on duty he’s easier on the eyes then Shadow who never smiles or show any kind of human trait. My mother said snapping me out of my thoughts. “Mother you know Montego has to be a part of the phone call and Shadow isn’t that bad I tried to hold in my laughter when Montego nearly spit out the water he was drinking, because I purposely put Shadow on guard at the main gate hoping the humans would turn tale and runaway. Shadow is the scariest and deadliest wolf out here after me and Montego of course, he was a man of very few words, and he always sticks to the shadows. He doesn’t like anyone; he has always been a loner since his mate died a few years ago. Some say he used to have a beautiful smile and he was kind, passionate, and talkative. But I’ve never seen it, so I label that as a fairytale. “Ok mother, see you later tonight at the never before mating anniversary party.” I said, before hanging up hearing, my mother threatened to smack my nose for speaking to her like that. So, we’re really letting human women in our pack for 3 weeks are you sure that this is a good idea? “ Montego asked seated across from me at my desk . Nope this is a horrible idea, but this is the only way to make sure my mother behaves, until my mating ceremony, and Summer was on top of the world thinking she has finally got my mom’s blessing. She has even started calling her mom. You should have seen my mother trying to not curse her out and tell her don’t ever call her mom. I almost passed out holding in my laugh, when my mom was trying to say something nice to Summer. So, if these human women can keep mom on her best behavior I’ll have to make sure nothing goes wrong which is why this call is so important. But remind me to double patrol around the area where the humans will be and tell them to stay out of sight in their wolf form for god sake. I said already getting a headache because of these humans and they haven’t even gotten here yet. The phone rings breaking my chain of thoughts time to find out what the hell these rogues are up to.