Chapter 1

Dear Lily
I have to admit your last email got me mad as hell. They have no right treating you like they do and the fact that your brother isn’t sticking up for you is really sick. I’m sorry I know you’ve told me a million times not to talk about your pack and your brother but I can’t help it. You’re too nice Lily and don’t believe a word they say you’re beautiful, don’t protest you’ve sent me pictures remember? Look my offer still stands, the whole pack agrees you should come from what I’ve told them about you. And they don’t mind you living with us and becoming one of us. Just leave that stupid place with the stupid people that don’t care and come here, no one will treat you badly I won’t allow it. Future Alpha remember?;)
Sincerely, your pen pal
Xavier.
I looked at the email wondering what to write back. I first started emailing Xavier two years ago and we’ve been best friends ever since. We know everything about each other, and I love him to death. Recently he’s been telling me to run away and live with him and his pack but I just couldn’t do that. They may all be mean to me but I couldn’t help but think that maybe they cared, plus I couldn’t just abandon them, thats wrong.
I shut my laptop and decided to answer him later. It was about 6:30 AM and I had half an hour to get dressed and go to school. I put some baggy clothes and tied my blonde hair in a ponytail. I looked in the mirror and sighed. As good as it gets, I thought to myself.
I didn’t consider myself pretty, not at all. I had blond hair and blue eyes, which would look great on most girls but on me just weird, and I was sort of fat. Not like obese but fat nonetheless.
“Come on Lily we need to go,” my brother Keith yelled obviously irritated from behind my door.
“Why so early?” I yelled back ʀᴇᴀᴅ ʟᴀᴛᴇsᴛ ᴄʜᴀᴘᴛᴇʀs ᴀᴛ.net
“Did you forget Ethan turns sixteen today? He’ll find his mate, so he wants to go early and see all the girls.” My heart did a flip at the mention of Ethan. Ethan was my crush for so long and the future alpha of the pack; he’d be the official alpha at seventeen. Every wolf finds his mate at sixteen. He just looks at her and his wolf tells him that she’s his mate, as for her she has to actually touch him to know. If she feels like an electric shock went through her when she frst touches a peron, then she knows he’s her mate.
I was fifteen, a year younger than Ethan and Keith but because I was smart I was in the same level as them and had the same classes.
“I’ll be right there,” I checked myself in the mirror once more before I got out and followed my brother to his car, I couldn’t help but wonder who would be Ethan’s mate. I knew she had to be pretty and couldn’t help feeling a bit jealous knowing she’d have him. Ethan and I used to be friends before we ended up in highschool and he turned mean. But it was the memory of him being nice to me that made me like him, Ethan used to always cheer me up whenever I was sad.
“Why do you take so long, it’s not like you’re going to get pretty anytime soon,” my brother said driving to school. I just ignored him and stared out the window. It was normal for my brother to insult me, he became mean as soon as he reached highschool too. To be popular you couldn’t be nice with the fat nerd of the pack.
“We’re here,” he parked the car right next to Ethan’s car and I saw Ethan leaning on the hood of his car watching the parking lo,t looking for his mate eagerly.
“Have you found her, man?” my brother asked coming up behind him.
“No but I swear I can smell her scent, it’s amazing,” he said not even turning around. I stood there awkwardly thinking about leaving; I still had time before my first class so that meant I could hang out at the library.
“I’m just going to head inside,” I said making Keith and Ethan turn around. When Ethan looked at me his eyes grew wide and he stared at me for a moment before flashing me the disgusted look I was so used to. I just ignored him and walked to the school, all the while feeling his eyes on my back.
The rest of the day went by as normal, I got constant remarks about my weight and how ugly I am from everyone including my pack members. Yeah that’s right, even my pack members hate me and wish I was never in their pack. They think I’m weak and chubby but it’s not my fault they never paid me enough attention to help me train the way they do with everyone else.
It wasn’t until I was heading to my brother’s car that I saw all the guys from the pack crowded around Ethan’s car, hence making it impossible to get to Keith’s car. I started pushing past some people but when my shoulder brushed someone else’s I felt an electric shock course through my body. I gasped and looked to see who it was and my eyes widened when I saw it was Ethan.
“Oh my god,” I said and he looked at me like he wanted to kill me, “You’re my mate.” I was sure everyone heard me because suddenly everyone stopped talking and looked at me and Ethan.
“What are you talking about?” Ethan snapped at me. I was confused, how couldn’t he know I was his mate?