Gemini

Shame , toe curling shame, the kind of shame that will make you pray for the ground to open. When you feel like dying or just disappearing from sight, that's what I felt when I was standing in the clearing under the full moon, stark naked with my demon horns on full display but with my body covered in beautiful white fur mid change, But change to what? A werewolf?.

I forced my eyes open and looked around , I saw everyone who once were my family look at me like a freak. I felt my feet moving and I started running with Thier laughter preceding me.

My feet pound on the wet grass, I was running away, very fast . I skid to a stop before I could slam into a fallen tree, wait was I running on all fours?, but the stop was still late enough to stub my toe hard which hurt really really bad. "Gemini! Gemini!" His voice rang in my head through the forest as I ran, but I did not wait , I just kept running.

I turned a corner into a beautiful clearing with clear brooks and a wooden Mansion, Like who builds a house in this deep forest anyways? But that house was the least of my problems because by now I was fully changed into a beautiful mix of both worlds.

Snow White fur , large claws but then I had horns too on either side of my head and they were Snow White as well, then I noticed the long white mane , I always knew there was something wierd with me having white hair.

Then a creak caught my attention, I looked up to see two people step out of the mansion, Big towering men with kind eyes that were transfixed on me , then I started running to them desperately trying to just step into the warmth they represented.

But I never reached them before jumping off the bed drenched in sweat and realized it was all a dream.

Chapter One

Gemini's POV " Wake up Gemini , it's 6am" Alexa hollered in her robotic voice , totally startling me awake. " Uh Alexa , why do you have to be so chipper every morning ?" I grumbled before pulling the covers over my eyes, but I knew I had to wake up, today was the day I will be moving to Hawaii to live with my Aunt and her Husband.

Although I have not been there since I was 10 , I knew how much fun Aunt Claire was , plus my cousin Jeremy, but I would have preferred if I was going there with my parents and not alone, hell I would have preferred not being an orphan at all, but here we are. " Ok Ok Alexa am up" I got up and looked around my beautiful bedroom, knowing that I would be leaving this place for the longest time still broke my heart because of all the memories I had of my mum here .

But my therapist said I need time to heal , and since she is my therapist/Godmother, she made all the arrangements for me to be with my aunt for a while. Walking out of my bedroom into the bathroom, I stared at myself in the mirror, and beautiful heart shaped face looked back at me, with long white curls, which I can never change the color, it just goes back to white in a week or two and then my golden Iris , it's still morning so I have not worn my brown lenses yet, there is a lot of question about why I look like a freak and my parents were equally clueless .

Today is the day after the day of the funeral and I have not gotten used to the idea of being an orphan but the most scary thing is watching them just somehow slip into the water and drown, I still cannot wrap my head around that, yes I saw it go down, but it still does not make sense.

I remember how excited I was about the water camping trip, you know being a child who absolutely adored the water , and having my dad just come up one day and say that we are leaving in the next two hours to Philly water park with our yatch made my day totally, but I kind of noticed that they both looked too bright eyed and frantic, which I just dismissed as excitement.

But when we did get into the yatch I noticed something odd, my dad was the one steering it, he never does that and mum came out without any makeup too, but I still brushed it off, until I stepped out to talk to my dad and found him in the water hands flailing, but before I managed to pull him out he was white and dead , ran right back to talk to mum and found her dead in the jacuzzi. Technically my parents died from a drowning freak accident, what are the odds , but everyone said they drowned and I don't want them to start thinking am crazy so I kept mute but now I can't get close to water, not even to wash the dishes.

After getting dressed in jeans and a loose shirt , I came out of the house with just my carry on with me, because the only remaining help that aunt Evangeline left had already taken my box out into the waiting car. I was going away from my home , from my friends to a new world but I cannot help but feel that there is something that I don't yet know, it's like a shadow hovering over me.

Few hours later of deep thoughts I landed in Hawaii and started making my way to baggage claim totally consumed with thoughts of my parents and why they died in such a wierd manner when I bumped into a solid rock, that was holding water that spilled all over my shirt, I looked up ready to give the idiot a piece of my mind but I stopped short when I saw his eyes , brown kind eyes and I ran away.

No no no, what in the hell is going on with my life lately, I just feel like I am living in a telenovela and it's becoming suffocating, what are the odds that I would see those warm brown eyes just less than 48hours after the dream? None right?.

Totally shaken I jumped into the next taxi , totally forgetting my luggage at baggage claim , hastily told him the address and sighed at the back seat.

It took me half way to the house before I realized I had no other cloth with me, but at that point I'll rather die of embarrassment than go back there and get my luggage, I silently thanked my stars that I was rich.

I knew that right now I was not in my right frame of existence and I blame it on my parents dying the way they did ,but I still kinda feel like something is coming or something is off, just like I felt on the day that dad suddenly proposed that trip, which makes me realize that I cannot ignore the feeling I have now, just to avoid regretting it later on.

Few minutes and we arrived at the house, with my Aunt and Uncle outside waiting for me, and seeing them especially my aunt brought tears to my eyes as I ran to her and enveloped her in a hug, but then she started patting my head round as if searching for something, and then drew me closer so she can observe my eyes? and then sighed in relief , wait what is that about?. " Oh Gemini , you have grown so big and beautiful dear " my aunt said smiling from ear to ear as she pulled me inside their beautiful condo, Her husband silently just walked beside us, I was not surprised because he has always been the quiet sort. She made me sit on the couch and then sat opposite me holding my hands and that was when I saw the sad look on her face. " Am so sorry about your parents , but I know they will be happy that you are here with me" I nodded suddenly too emotional to say a word and she immediately came over and enveloped me in a hug and we both cried together with Uncle Viklan looking very uncomfortable.

"Gemini?" We both turned to the sound and found my favorite cousin in the world Jeremy, he walked up to me, no longer the shy 5year old , but now a grown man , with how tall he was and then he hugged me right on my sit and whispered

" Am so sorry about Aunt and Uncle but am here for you ok?"

Somehow coming to Hawaii was looking up already for me right?

Chapter Two

Nate's POV

Having just returned from closing a major deal in California, I was totally exhausted, being an Alpha and also a business man meant handling the pack business and the money business without fail , I am only grateful for one thing , the fact that atleast we are two , because Jace too is probably on his way back from Newyork city. Jordan our pack Omega came to pick me up from the Airport , I just needed to pick up my bag from baggage claim, I loved flying commercial while Jace loved prancing about in our private jet, I chuckled lightly anytime I remember how different I and my twin brother Jace truly are from each other. For one I loved the nature and people but he preferred to sit in his lab for years than interact with the normal people, so he is brooding and dark and I am all sunshine and rainbows. Lol but that is not even the most daunting difference , but the fact that he hated the moon goddess , well I kinda do too but I still want to find my mate and fall in love, but he has not been able to let go of how we lost our parents. He always felt like if not for the mate bond that father would have been alive, which is true but I refuse to sulk and feel pity for myself, yes father died after mother was captured by a demon maniac and killed, so that meant we have been orphans for a long time ,even though deep down inside I knew that I was scared too, but unlike Jace who has taken a fiancée for himself, I will wait for my mate and then I felt Ace my wolf try to take over , I growled to surpress it and then I smelled it. The most intoxicating smell, earthy and flowers, I looked up but then slammed chest first into a girl. " Mate" Ace my wolf said and then sat up on his hunches totally excited but scared, but we did not have to worry because immediately she looked up at me she ran towards the opposite direction " why did she run? " Ace asked but I shrugged and looked at where she ran to , but my wolf looked wearily at the same direction but shook his head " Her smell is off and I did not sense her wolf" but before I could answer I saw Jordan walking towards me with my bag . And then we headed out of the airport, I was shocked and scared, I just met my mate who saw me and ran , what the hell? I like to think that I and Jace are easy on the eyes, with our big frame and gorgeous brown eyes, although Jace had blond hair , I had Black hair , so this happens to be the first time a lady ran from either of us. "What is wrong Alpha?" Jordan asked as we got into our car, I looked at him and sighed , debating whether or not I should tell him what happened but after much thoughts I blurted out . " I just met my mate" he jerked in surprise knowing how sensitive the mate business thing is for our family knowing what happened to our parents a long time ago since he has been our friend long enough. " Um Wow! so where is she ? " he asked me skeptically and I laughed without humor. " she saw me and she ran away" he raised a brow totally as surprised as I am . " She ran away from you?But how possible is that? did she not feel the mate pull? " I shrugged and then he kept quiet knowing it was a sensitive topic and then we continued the ride in total silence. I need to let Jace know what happened , I already knew what he will say but there is the issues of her running and my wolf not sensing hers, I needed my brother for this. I just let it go knowing that I will have my shot today , because we were both due for a pack emergency meeting today at the pack house , the one father uses, but first I had to go over to the office to discuss with the acquisition team about our latest baby, so they can have everything sorted out. "What's the status of the Demon invasion Jordan?" He turned towards me with so much hate in his eyes then he sighed and looked away. " Some rogue demons crossed into our territory and so far 7 men and women are dead including wooden ridge's Luna , so the Alpha is at his sick bed and almost dead himself, kinda like.." he trailed off because we both know whose situation was similar to that, my parents . I nodded and then , I chuckled lightly surprising him, I knew one other person who would be screaming bloody murder right now and although I feel same way am just tired of Demons and werewolf's fighting, I have met some pretty awesome demons and they are not borderline psychotic like this people . Deep down I knew better than to hate all demons but it is quite hard to not hate them , they have done so much evil to us and because of them we have deep scars but to what end really? We arrived at the office and I got down and quickly made my way to the penthouse where the executive offices are located, meanwhile I had Jordan inform them of our meeting asap and asked them to come right to the conference room. Few hours later and we were done with the meeting and I was so bone tired that if not for how important this pack meeting was I would just have headed home instead of going over to the meeting. But I still got into the car and drove myself down to Bloodmoon brook pack house, totally lost in thoughts while driving till I got there , I met some cars already parked there and some people just standing by their cars waiting for the meeting to start before they head on inside. " Well lookie who showed up, Mr Tall dark haired and handsome " I turned to see Maxie my brothers betroth sashaying towards me in her usual carefree manner. I hugged her sideways and then we both walked into the pack house but instead of following me she stopped at the living room while I continued inside to father's study where Jace would totally be. And I found him there standing in front of album shelve staring at the pictures of our parents together.

Chapter Three

Jace's POV

I stood outside the pack house building, that we don't usually come to anymore except for when we have some really important issues to discuss or deal with, which is exactly what was going to happen today , Jac my wolf growled angrily and i clamped down on him trying to get him to control himself. I know the amount of pain we are both going through and I was angry as well but the meeting had to hold. Walking inside the empty pack house since the other wolves has not yet arrived I had the whole house to myself , and looking at the fire place in the lounge room, I remembered how father and mother would lie there together totally enamored with each other. Where everyone else just fades away except from them. But that place also reminds me of how father looked very pitiful after mothers death and he too was dying , I remember him crying there like a baby, and it made me hate the concept of love because it made you weak and the moon goddess mating bond kills you period. I made up my mind never to love any woman or get a mate, and I chose a marriage of convenience when I get to be with a woman that I can tolerate , that way no matter what happens I will be strong enough and not die and leave my children to fend for themselves. I see how everyone turns into idiots when they fall in love and mostly how they all go raving mad when they find their mate but that will never happen to me, because even if I meet my mate I am definitely rejecting her and continuing with my wife no matter what. I stepped into the study that once belonged to my father, hearing that another Alpha will soon die after a demon killed his Luna nearly made me go mad today with rage, and I know how ridiculous this sounds but we have to stop this mating bullshit from continuing if not we will be totally extinct in a short while. I know my twin brother Nate would stand against it as well as our omega Jordan who just found his mate but a decision has to be made and it has to be made fast before we all loose our minds or in this case die. I was still lost in thought when I felt my brother step into the study, one of the things that scares me daily is loosing him because of some weak woman who would not even be able to fend for herself, because even though I don't say it, he is all I have remaining. " I see you came back in here , I am impressed Jace , you have not stepped foot in here for 10years , I am the only one who comes here" I turned and faced him, scanning his body to see that he was alright before sitting on dad's chair . " choosing to come here has its own significance Nate, I need all of you to see exactly what I have been talking about for ten years now, am tired of people dying because of love or some mating bond, it has to stop" He shook his head and pinched his nose before looking me in the eye " They are not dying because of love or the mating bond, we have werewolf's who has been mates and in love for over 50years, they are still very much alive and kicking " He sighed and continued " Love is not the killer , neither is the mating bond, demons are and you need to realize this bro, I know we lost our parents because of this but it was not their fault or the moon goddess or love" I just shook my head, my brother was a romantic and it was ok but that does not mean that I would not go on with my plans today , it is definitely going to start today , so I just nodded but the way he looked at me he knew I had a plan for today, maybe it's the twin thing but we are somehow able to tell what the other is thinking about. "What are you planning Jace, don't be stupid" he said looking at me like I have lost my mind, I just gaffawed . " I am going to do what we should have done a long time ago , and you will do well not to stand in my way" I stood up and walked to the door intending to walk out. " I found my mate Jace ; and based on our bond you will find yours any moment from now" Later on in the meeting I could not put my thought's together properly, we deliberated on making the pack houses safer and to make sure the women do not go out alone no matter what, then we deligated some wolf warriors with the duty of guarding the pack houses and escorting the ladies when they step out, and to also host a meeting with the Deman chief Viklan to know what he is doing about his rogue Demons. We concluded that if the right measures were not taken, we would appear before the magic council and have a verdict, but all through that meeting i was not there, I kept remembering my conversation with Nate. " What do you mean by you found your mate, when , who is she?" I immediately turned from the door and faced him, he just shrugged and then looked away from me. " yea I found her today , Ace confirmed it, but I don't know who she is, neither does Ace know who her wolf is" " why did you not follow her atleast, knowing how eager you are to have a lover and a mate , you are very slow bro" I spoke up angrily because knowing who she is would have been easier to deal with. Then I heard him laugh, but it was painful . " She ran away from me immediately she saw my eyes" "Wait what?"