To be his mate

At midnight, the howling wind was so strong that it swirled around making weird sound. The air swayed the curtains and a stranger wind penetrated through the window. Aurora sprang up in the bed. She just had a nightmare and it was a frightening one.

"Anyone out there?" Her teensy-weensy voice couldn't be heard. She removed the duvet and climbed down the bed. She wore a pair of flip flop slippers. "What could that be?" She mumbled to herself as she made the way toward the windows and shuttered the windows.

She headed back to the bed, just about to get on it she heard a strange voice in her head. "Aurora. Aurora, come to me" The voice echoed her name. The sclera in her eyes dilated blinding the dark spots at the center. She looked at the door abruptly. She walked out of the room leisurely following the echoed sound. The bodyguards were fast asleep, none of them noticed when she walked through the back door.

Aurora made her way deep inside the woods. On a normal day her parent had warned her never to cross the forbidden lane but she just did. She wasn't in her right sense though. As she got closer the voice also got louder in her head.

A dying old woman was resting her head on the tree. Blood gushed out from the wounded part in her stomach, she was at the verge of death. She sensed someone was around. Perhaps her spell worked as she wanted but when she saw Aurora her eyes fell in disappointment.

"Why would my spell lure out a werewolf?" She was perplexed, thinking she might had casted a wrong spell or missed a word.

Aurora kneeled in front her. She couldn't do anything or talk because of the spell.

"I don't want to hurt you Aurora,but you're the one my spell choose. I should do it." She was going to die but the hatred in her heart that was burning with rage wanted a revenge. She needed a soul, the one that would avenge her when she died but she was perplexed when the spell lured Aurora, a wolf girl to her.

She cut her palm and Aurora's hand then held her hand in hers. She casted the enchant spell with her last strength. Light surrounded them, wind swirled around the woods as all her power pierced Aurora's heart. She slumped to the ground. The witched groaned in pain as Aurora also fell unconscious.

The witch body vanished in a puff of smoke.

The next day, Miranda stalked inside the room to wake Aurora. She lifted the duvet but she wasn't under it. She checked the bathroom and her dressing room but she wasn't in. She dashed to her parent's room.

"Ma'am, Aurora is missing." She announced nervously.

"What? Again?" Mrs Hammond gasped as she turned to look at her husband.

"She might be playing around. Check her favorite place." Mr Hammond assumed as he was preparing to go out.

"Sire, she's not anywhere around the mansion. I had the maids to check out but they couldn't find her." Said Nadine, her nanny. He dropped the jacket he was holding.

"Aurora?"

"Hammond, my daughter." Mrs Hammond panicked.

"Useless, how could you not find her? Did I employ you for nothing. Send all the bodyguards out to look for my daughter if a strand of hair went missing I will not spare any of you." Miranda rushed out to inform the guards. "Nothing must happen to my daughter. You know she's a frightened rabbit when her mother isn't around. Find me my daughter." She yelled at everyone.

"Calm down honey. They're going to find our daughter." She paced around the room impatiently.

"Nadine, what time did you leave her room last night?"

"Immediately I was sure she's asleep. I checked on her at midnight and she was inside. I don't know how she was able to leave the mansion without the guard's notice." Nadine replied. She was a bit nervous.

"Let's go."

"I'm coming with you." Mrs Hammond followed them out.

They waited impatiently for all guards to return with Aurora but none of them found her. It was twilight when the last bodyguard arrived with Aurora.

"Oh my goodness. My daughter." Mrs Hammond wept when she saw them. They rushed to them. "She's still in her nightdress. She must have sleepwalked into the woods." They all headed inside. The guard laid her on the bed and covered her with duvet.

"Call the doctor now." Nadine told Miranda.

"Her body is cold." Mr Hammond examined her body but it was cold as ice and paler than usual.

"I found her lying on the ground in the woods. She walked through the forbidden lane sir." the guard reported.

"She must have sleepwalked. But her body is cold and she's not, she's not b-breathing." Her mother stuttered frighteningly.

"She'll be fine. Aurora, wake up sweetie. You're home now baby." Her father shook her body vigorously.

Aurora. Aurora.. Please don't do this to me. Where are those useless fools? I swear to God I won't spare any of you." He seethed.

Her father never left her side. He waited till the doctor arrived. When the doctor examined her, he found nothing wrong with her.

"Nothing is wrong with her." He declared the result.

"Tell me why my daughter isn't waking up. You said nothing is wrong with her so why is she unconscious?"

He examined Aurora's eyes and found the dark spots weren't visible anymore. "She's dead." He hesitated.

Mrs Hammond moved closer to him. Her eyes widened, she gaped and dragged her feet ponderously to her side. Her body weakened and her face fell.

"What did you say?" She asked to be sure she hadn't heard wrong.

"She's dead."

"She's not dead. Look at her, she doesn't look dead to me." Said Mr Hammond .

Her mother broke down when the doctor couldn't help. Nadine walked the doctor out.

"I know where to take my daughter to." He said with a stern look.

"Aurora look at your mother. I'm right here beside you."

Hammond carried her, he existed the room. He made the way out to the car park. He put her in the back seat and hopped in.

Nadine and Mrs Hammond joined them. The driver drove out after he told him where he should took them to.

"Are you sure about this?"

"She owes me. I'm sure she will save my daughter."

There were still in the woods. Night came and it was really cold. The driver halted the car. They alighted, Hammond carried Aurora on his shoulder. He walked with his wife and Nadine to the hut where smoke was coming from.

"Celeste, please open the door." He called out. It was cold and snowing outside.

The door was yanked open and an elderly woman in her late fifties showed up. She raised an inquiry look.

"What brought werewolves to my house at this midnight?"

"Celeste, we need your help." She looked at the six years old Aurora.

"Come in." She moved out of the way. She gestured to them to lay her on the rug.

"Please save my daughter." Mrs Hammond sobered.

"What happened to her?" She touched her auburn hair that had little gray hair at each side.

"We found her like this in the woods."

"Let me take a look at her eyes." She shook her head when she saw how ugly her eyes had become.

She recited a spell to cure her but a strong wind blew in instead. She casted another spell but nothing happened. A small light appeared on her forehead in a symbol.

"I don't know why a witch enchanted a werewolf's soul"

"A witch?" They exclaimed.

"I can't save her." Celeste uttered grimly and stood away from Aurora's body.

Mrs Hammond kneeled down in front of her and clasped her hands. She appealed to her in tears.

"She's our only child, she is the reason we left the pack because we think leaving the pack will save her from any disasters. Please Celeste, save my daughter." Mrs Hammond begged as she wept.

"Aish." Celeste shook her head.

"Celeste, you said I should call you whenever I need you."

After a long awkward silence. "How can I forget the one that saved me. I owe you so it's time I should repay you. Hammond, I can perform a ritual to bring her back but I can't reverse the power she possesses now. To get rid of the power means to kill her. She had made a promise with a witch, their souls are enchanted and inseparable." Celeste explained as she glanced through her book shelf. She grabbed an old book and put it on the table.

"I don't care, I just want my daughter alive." Mrs Hammond snapped impatiently.

"The ritual might have side effect on her. She's not human but a werewolf. She'll have to sacrifice something for the ritual. I'm afraid she might not be able to have her werewolf form when it's full moon. She'll be fine if she learns how to use the power." Celeste explained. She brought awaken needles from the drawer. A force lifted Aurora from the floor. Celeste used a spell to control the needles as they hung so close to her face.

"The witch must have casted a wrong spell out of desperation. Since she'll lose her wolf, I think she should leave far away from home till she gets back what she has lost." She suggested and sighed as she continued with the ritual.

"Will she be okay?" Hammond asked with a concern look.

"Literally. Let's wait and see."

"My aunt is human not a werewolf, I'm sure she'll be fine living with her in the city. I'll take Aurora to her and keep her identity a secret." Mrs Hammond uttered, grieving.

Chapter Two

Aurora lay facedown with her hair touching the floor. She had remained calm to subside the roar of unpleasant blood stream in her ears. She felt lonely in the house and her prince charming was yet to reply her message. She glanced over her phone for the tenth time and still there was no popped up notification from him.

"I just have to think he finds another woman if he doesn't reply my text message or call." She pouted her lips while using her finger to control the cup on the stool.

The door yanked open and Celeste stomped in. "I knew it. Aurora, how many time..."

"Have I told you not to use your power. Don't recite a spell. Don't touch any books. Don't leave until I tell you so." She interrupted Celeste while laying on the sofa bed.

"Did you just interrupted me young lady?" Celeste frowned at her, at the way she was using magic to make the chair next to the book shelf move toward her.

"Have a seat. I want to ask you something?" She ignored her question and sat upright, she ribboned her long curl auburn hair into a ponytail style.

"I hope you're not planning to ask me a spell to silent someone this time." Celeste drawled as she sat down on the chair. Aurora faced her with a solemn expression.

"Why do I have to come all the way from this city to this old house?"

Celeste resisted the urge of rolling her eyes as she huff miserably.

"If you're tired of coming here I won't stop you. You can quit but remember, what I'm doing isn't for me but you. You should learn to stabilize your anger or you might end up killing someone. "

"Is that why you make me do yoga everyday? Clean your dirty desk and dust your dirty shelf?"

"You still haven't learned how to speak with respect. You're not going back to the city today."

"You get to be fucking kidding me right?" She blurted out and swayed her hand. A force lifted books from the desk next to Celeste. She looked at Aurora and shook her head. She controlled the books and arranged them back on the desk before facing her.

"Dare to be wise. I took you in when you were nine, remember you almost killed your nanny because she provoked you. If not because of what your father has done for me in the past I wouldn't have took you in." She stood up. "I'll teach you how to stabilize your anger so after that you and I have no business." She declared.

"I'm a grown up woman, I know how to stabilize whatever you call it. My father asks you to be my guardian but he never asks you to be harsh on me. I come all the way down here after work just because of what? I'm getting bored. I don't really have a time for myself or Kevin and it's getting me upset. To be honest, he might just breakup with me someday."

"I'll love that if it happens."

"Really?" Celeste refused to say a word. Aurora looked really upset since no one ever cared about how she felt, she would have to walk away from their path. She had been living a life without her parents, they took her to her Aunty after the incident. She had been attending witch class and now that her life was becoming a disaster, she wanted to quit. Focus on her goal, visit home and go on a picnic with Kevin.

She deserved to know who she truly was but whenever she asked the question they always found a way to steer the conversation. She couldn't call herself a witch because they told her she was never a witch. What was she truly?

"I've had enough of this. I'm leaving." She took her phone.

"If you leave now don't ever come back to me for any sort of help because I'll drive you out of my house." Celeste snarled, a bit upset.

"Be my guest." Aurora stalked out of the house. Darkness had took over the cloud as the moon was set to come out. She checked her watch and it all came to her that she had over stayed at her place.

She had to walk through the woods before she could get to the road. Luck her, she found a taxicab right in time. She hopped in.

When the taxicab finally came to halt, she alighted after paying him. She was about to walking into the apartment when her phone rang. A delighted feeling arouse in her as her face lighted up with a grin. She dipped her hand in the purse and brought the phone out. When she saw who was calling her, her face fell disappointedly. She didn't bother to pick up.

"I've been staying here for hours and finally you're here. Wouldn't you at least say hi to the phone. " She heard the voice she hated most behind her. She stood steadily without turning back.

"What are you doing here?"

"To see you. Today's your day off so I come over to take you out but unfortunately I'm not luck enough to meet you home." She turned around and faced him as she crossed her hands over her chest.

"Doctor Harry, it's a pleasure to have you here but you're not welcome at all."

"I love you Doctor Hammond. Aurora I love you." He confessed before he could control himself.

"It will be my honor to smoke your heart into ashes."

"You can start with his." He leaned his pouted lips. Aurora gritted her teeth, trying to calm down but the pervert before her wasn't helping as he kept moving closer.

"If I stay another second with you I'm just going to kill you." She opened the door and walked inside.

After she locked the door she turned around to head inside but bumped into a figure. She startled back.

"Gosh! You scared the craps out of me."

"Oh. Did I?" Aunty Charlotte teased her. She gave a little shrug and walked inside.

"Today isn't my day." She mumbled.

"What's wrong? Did anyone find out who you are?" She rolled her eyes at her and scoffed.

"Was that the only thing you could think of? I sent mum a message she hasn't replies, including dad. Kevin has been trying to avoid me and that perverted doctor has been trying to get in my head." She complained.

"What do you want me to do?"

"There is this spirit in me that want to kill all of them." She uttered foolishly.

Charlotte wasn't surprised. She was always like that whenever a little thing pissed her off and she couldn't vent her anger on anyone.

"Including your parent?" Aurora looked at her and shook her head pitifully.

"You always get me wrong so talking to you is futile. "

"Talking to your Aunty is futile?"

"Can I use your phone?" She requested politely.

"For what?"

"Just to inform mum that I'm coming home tomorrow. Since she refuses to return my call and message, I'll pay them a surprise visit." Charlotte gasped. Not now, Mrs Hammond had told Charlotte to stop Aurora from coming over. They used to be the one that visited her not her so why was she acting up. Charlotte knew it had something to do with Celeste.

"Charlotte." She snapped her fingers annoyed at her face as it jolted her out of her thought.

"Um. Oh... I." She stammered.

"Your phone." She extended her hand. Charlotte put the phone in her palm and watched her walking away.

"Thank you Charlotte. "She twisted the door handle and yanked the door shut behind her.

"Aish. What do I do? What do I do?" Charlotte wandering around the sitting room, thinking of a way to Aurora. She finally came up with an idea.

She ambled toward the door and planted a soft knock on it. "Luna. May I come in?" She called her by her other name.

She got no response from her. She knocked severally. "Luna, I need to use my phone please open the door." She thought saying she would opened the door.

Aurora wasn't in the room. She had locked the door from inside and jumped out through the window after hearing loud groan coming from somewhere not far from their house.

She walked through their backyard, tracing where the groan was coming from. She past the route that led to the forest. She turned on the flashlight and checked around. She couldn't find anyone around. She thought the sound might be one of her imagination as she tried to head home. Fortunately, she heard the sound coming behind the big tree.

"Argg." It sounded more like animal's groan.

"Who is there?" She asked, a bit frightened to move closer. She stood far away from the tree while pointing her flashlight at the tree. She was too anxious to move closer, she hadn't see the person or the animal. She couldn't tell if it was actually human or animal either.

She flashlight went off and by the time she on it. She saw a wolf standing not far from her, looking at her the same way she did. She startled back as fear gripped her and the phone slipped her hand.

"Oh my God. " She moved backward frighteningly.

By the time she took the phone on the ground, the wolf was gone but the blood trace was on the ground and leaves. She didn't wasted another second as she took to her heels.

The elderly believed that a fair judgement should be passed. At the edge, some of them knew how Alpha Griffin ruled with iron fist. He wouldn't think twice before giving everyone what they deserved and put them in their places.

He was confident and wouldn't hesitated before saying no to what he didn't like. A few of elders agreed with him while others did not, they hated the fact that he was dominated over them. What would be their fate if he found his mate? What if she was also a dominant female of their pack?

Those were the questions that perturbed them. Griffin Whitefield, one of the youngest Alpha. Right from the birth he was born to rule. He was the only one that could take power over the elders. The full moon power. He possessed special abilities other werewolves didn't. The empathy ability has progressed to telepathy, ability to communicate without using words or any signal. He had the ability to hear the thoughts of others. When it was full moon, he could control his wolf form. Those were the qualities of true Alpha.

They parent had brought him up to be great and follow Alpha's rules. He had duties and responsibilities. He didn't had to kill before they could call him overlord, it was how you rule with justice. And because of this, all the bad doers feared him.

"He's coming." A man announced to informed others. The noises subsided and everyone glanced at each other before gazing at the door. He walked in the most sacrosanct courtroom. Whatever he said would be final. His words were laws.

The other elders stood up and bowed to show him respect. It wasn't his figure they respected but the power and authorities he possessed.

"Please have your seats everyone." A guard was about to draw the chair for him but he stopped him with a hand signal. He preferred to stand. Lawrence took his seat next to his seat.

"As you all know that the defendant is guilty why did you call for the meeting?" He directed the question to Darklona's Alpha, Holmes.

"Blake didn't wiped out the whole pack, there are some survivals from the Pack house. If you don't mind, I can present them to you as my witness."

"It is a minor case. He didn't really have to kill anyone for what they did."

"They are betrayals. Alpha Griffin, please try to understand what we elders are trying to say." Holmes protested.

"They kill the werewolf because he tries to steal from them. So what they do isn't worth killing the whole pack!" He snapped with his voice full of authority. "It could be any of your pack. The defendant is from Blake's pack why can't he training his pack? He also fails as a leader of his pack. Anyway, you should set the survivals free and Blake shall be punished for what he did according to the law. That's all I have to say and if anyone has a complain, speak up before I change my mind." The elders murmured to each other. None of them could say a word, including his uncle that hadn't uttered a word ever since he stepped in.

Edward cleared his throat from his seat. He stood up to say something. He was the first youngest among the Alphas.

"I don't have anything to say about the current matter. Since Blake killed their Alpha, why don't we take the pack members in. They might later misbehaving and cause choas in their pack house which might later affect other packs."

"I'll see to that but that's not a colloquy of today. We will discuss the matter tomorrow, I adjourn the meeting." He ordered solemnly. That was how the meeting ended.

He was on the walkway with Lawrence when a call interrupted their conversation.

"Who is calling?"

"Who else? It's Roseline. She get into trouble and wants me to come over."

"Did she still think you're her mate?" Lawrence inquired.

"Literally. That is why I need to find my mate. "

"Why don't you just go to the city since your mate isn't from the packs houses. Perhaps your mate is human?" It sounded more like question to Griffin. He stopped to look at him.

"Did I hear you asking me that?" Asked Griffin unbelievably.

"It's only my imagination. I'm sorry."

"It's nothing to be sorry about." He said and smiled at him.

Lawrence lowered in eyes as he sighed. He thought he had gotten him angry or abused him in anyway when he wore a solemn look.

"You don't really have to act that way. I had to ask myself if I have offend you or abuse you." Griffin smile grew bigger.

"That is why I'm smiling. You're my cousin so why should I get sulky over a joke."

"The way you talk in there, I can't imagine getting on your wrong side."

"And you shouldn't. "

They took the next exit door out of the hall. "Are you going somewhere?"

"Nope." Lawrence shook his head.

"Come with me. I'm going to the city. Roseline had an accident and she told me the injury is quite severe."

'I don't know why he cares so much about her when he knows she is never his mate.' Lawrence thought while looking at Griffin.

"I have to be there for her at least as a friend." He replied to Lawrence's silly thought.

Lawrence resisted the urge of rolling his eyes at him. "I knew you would do that."

"Get in the car. She wants me to come over and check her at the hospital." Griffin got in the driver's seat while Lawrence hopped in the passenger seat.

GRIFFIN DROVE INTO the parking lot. It took them hours to reach the big city in California. Apparently, the city was mostly alike like the one in the pack house. They also lived like other humans.

They concealed their wolf scents. Griffin had to conceal his aura whenever he wasn't in the pack house.

"Do you know the way around?"

"Of course. Follow me." Lawrence led the way in the hospital. It wasn't his first time coming to human city.

They stopped by the ward entrance. Lawrence peeked in before opening the door. When Roseline saw Griffin, her face lit up a smile. She stepped down from the bed and rushed toward him.

"I thought you won't come." She mumbled.

"Are you all right?"

"Someone finds out who I am and he tries to kill me. That motherfuker stabs me but luckily it isn't a silver knife." She divulged quietly.

"Is he human?"

"Nope. He's a vampire." Roseline mumbled to him.

"You need to be more careful."

"I know. Unfortunately the knife is poisoned by him. That is why it takes my wound much time to heal."

"You should come back home."

"No, here is much more fun. I make a lot of friends, should I throw them away like that?" Roseline always acted innocently whenever Griffin was around.

"I need to be somewhere else. We will meet in the pack house if you change your mind." He wouldn't waste much time talking to her. Roseline could delay him and make him stay with her.

Roseline nodded. Seeing Griffin alone had ease the pain she was feeling. She wouldn't tell him the truth until she figured how to win Griffin over.

Griffin and Lawrence exited the ward while heading out.

"She is such a troublesome werewolf."

"Yeah I know. I only come here because she says on phone that someone is planning to kill her. I'm curious but I can't stay back. "

"You are curious or you want to convince her to go with you?"

"I'm curious..."

'Look behind you Griffin.' His wolf interrupted their conversation. His wolf rarely did that unless it has something important to tell him.

'Turn around.' He understood his wolf feeling. He abruptly turned around, looking at the back of the lady walking out of the hospital. He could only see her auburn hair not her face as she exited the door.

"Just a moment." He told Lawrence. He walked after her hurriedly. By the time he reached outside, she was driving away.

"Griffin." Lawrence called out as he stood behind him. Griffin looked back perplexingly.

"I think I found her." He said still looking at the moving car.

"Who?" Lawrence enquired.

"My mate." He uttered with a prick of confusion.

'The connection isn't strong so I'm not sure she notice us.' His wolf said to him.

"Your mate?" Lawrence lifted a brow.

Griffin nodded.