== Simon’s POV ==

She wasn’t hard to find, not only I could smell her all the way from here, but I could also hear my mom laugh continuously until I reached the door of my bedroom. Enna was seated on the bed, looking at my mom curiously while she was literally rolling on the bed laughing and saying “Oh my goddess….Oh my goddess…hahahahaha…it was so good……funny…hahaha….oh my…..hahahahahaha”. Enna’s lips transformed into a little smile until she saw me. It dropped out of her face, and holding my gaze, she gently placed a hand on my mom’s shoulder to make her look up.

My mom promptly stood up, her shoulders still shaking with fits of laughter as she exited the room. She didn’t even look at me, her face was damp with tears. Enna looked up at me, biting her bottom lip like she was in trouble before letting her gaze drop. It seemed like the bed spread was the most interesting feature of this universe suddenly.

I dropped on the bed next to her but she didn’t seem to want to look up at me so I grabbed her hands which were rubbing and twisting the fabric. The move made her look up at me. Her unique eyes were searching my face, wide with worry. Before I could ask anything, she pulled her hands out of my grasp and stood up, putting a couple of steps in between us.

“I know you are mad, I’m sorry. I didn’t mean to slap her, but it just….came out. She was yelling at you and…I just…I’m sorry, I should go apologize” she said twisting her hands, looking at her feet. I stood up to reach for her but she shrunk down, hiding her head in between her shoulders and squeezing her eyes shut, as if she was waiting for me to hit her. Did she really think I would hit her?

“Enna?” I whispered. She didn’t move, her frame almost shaking out of fear. With my height and her odd way to shrunk down, I was towering over her and I guessed I was probably scaring her so I dropped to my knees. The noise made her look up only to find me at the same height as her belly.

“I’m sorry if I scared you. You don’t have to act like I will hit you, I will never do that” I explained, taking her hands in mine. “Do you understand that however mad I could be, I would never raise a hand on you?” I said, looking into her eyes. She nodded, her eyes watering. “And I’m not mad anyway. I would have slapped her myself. For all it’s worth, I think you were in your right to slap her and no one will hold that against you.” I explained to her, pulling her closer to me. “Well, Ash might but she will already hold against you the fact that you are my mate, so the slap is just the cherry on the cake” I said chuckling at the thought.

“I thought you would be mad at me…” I let out in another whisper. Her eyebrows raised to the sky then fell back into a frown, “why?” she asked.

“Because of what Ash said about me “doing” her…” I answered lowering my face out of guilt and shame. She scoffed at my reason which sent me snapping back up at her face. She was now towering over me but she didn’t seem mad or even disgusted by the thought. She cupped my face while my arms encircled her legs and she smiled at me.

“Would you have let me to die in the woods if I had told you that they tried to get me pregnant multiple times with other shifters?” she asked me. I didn’t even need to think about my answer, I would never have done that, not only because she was my mate, but also because it wasn’t her fault and honestly, I couldn’t even bear to see her face in pain ever again, so I shook my head.

She smiled at me with little sparks in her eyes. “This is why I like you a lot right now. We didn’t meet long ago but I told you my past and you just accepted me the way I am, broken and all. I can’t hold your past against you either. I’m not a wolf but if the Moon Goddess decided to pair us together, it means that we are good for each other, our pasts included.”

She smiled at me after explaining and I just wanted to freaking eat her. I buried my face in her stomach, holding her tightly with my arms which made her laugh. “You are just too good for me” I mumbled into her.

“Well, you had a pretty poor taste in women before me” she joked, which made me laugh against her. I lifted her up from the floor, my arms supporting her just under her butt. It made her laugh and I slowly let her decent, her face back to mine’s level. “You are the only taste I want” I whispered to her before taking her lips with mine.

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== Enna’s POV ==

Simon had to leave soon after the whole Ash incident. He said that he was meeting with other Alphas about their borders being attacked, hopeful that he could gather some information about my torturers. He also told me to try to think about it, even the vegetation around the compound could help him known where it was, but I hadn’t been allowed outside much. When I was, I spent most of it running away for my life. I think that at some point I fell asleep, buried in my own head.

Lara came to find me and pulled me out of my bedroom. “You are the greatest daughter-in-law I could have asked for” she said laughing again, “and don’t worry about Ash, she’ll come around.”

Lara explained that she was James’ sister. She was younger and had been away to visit her older sister at her mate’s pack when I arrived. She had always been “terribly infatuated” with Simon, enjoying the fact that as her brother’s best friend, she was often close to him, which made her get the “Most likely to become Luna” title for years.

“I thought wolves only fully mated with their mate” I asked. There were a few wolves at the compound. Of course, the people holding us there were not going to teach us about the wolves and their ways, but some of the captive ones did tell us that they would only fully mate with their “destined one”. That it was the way of the Moon Goddess for centuries and that it was a sacred bond to wolves. But Lara shook her head at my question.

“I wish it was that simple, but some never find their true mate. We live longer lives than humans but we still die. There is a moment when hope is….just an illusion. It does happen that wolves take on mates they like as people although they are not “exactly right” or some just mess around until the right one comes” she explained while preparing diner. “It is rare for Alphas thought. Most of them meet their real mates, which makes their blood line much stronger that way.”

She sighed, putting another dish of lasagna in the over. “Ash would have been a terrible Luna. She liked my son more for the prestige than the person. I always told her parents that she was spoiled rotten but she’s the precious last daughter they had before all of those boys.”

“James has more siblings?” I asked surprised.

“Oh yeah, they are like a small army. There is Elena, the eldest, then James, whom you met, Ashley, and then Daniel, Andrew, Jonathan and the last one Mark. They are like a baby factory. All of them are too young to work yet, they just do the weekend trainings like all the youngsters of the pack.”

“How old are they all?” I asked, curious. James looked like he was in his twenties but Ashley looked younger than that.

“Well, Elena is nearly 35 now. She’s mated with her own children. James is 26, like Simon, and Ashley will be 21 in a month. The rest of them are 16, 15, 13 and 7. I hope they will stop no….why are you looking at me like that?” said Lara looking at my face which probably looked like a tomato. “Did I say something wrong?” she asked again.

“He’s 26?” I whispered to Lara. She frowned like she didn’t understand me before her eyes went wide with surprise. “You didn’t know how old he is?” she half-asked half-laughed. I shook my head, my face still as red as a beetroot.

“It doesn’t really matter, you guys are….wait, how old are you?” she asked me, frowning again. I shook my head. “You don’t want to tell me? Don’t tell me you are under age?!” she asked, a shocked expression painted on her face. I tried to find the right words but all that came out was “I don’t know”.

She looked at me even more surprised but she didn’t get to ask me any further as a girl came in the kitchen with a large smile on her face. She walked right to me.

“Are you the girl who slapped Ashley?” she asked, grinning at me like I just did her a huge favor. I nodded, waiting for the repercussion, but all she did was jump on me and hug me.

“Oh My Goddess! I’ve been DY-ING to do it myself! So is it true? Are you really Alpha Simon’s mate?” she said, taking the seat next to me but bouncing in place like an excited child. I nodded again and she let out a little squeal. “You have no idea how happy I am right now. I don’t know who you are and how you are but I’m certain you could not be worse than Ashley. Technically, it’s impossible. One time, when we were in school…”

Her story was cut off by Lara who cleared her throat very loudly. “Enna, this is Nathalie, she’s a captain in our defense troops. Nathalie, this is Enna, Simon’s mate. Be nice and talk quietly.”

“Aaaah you know me! I’m always the quietest in the house!” she answered loudly as heck.

“I can tell” I answered with a little smirk. She turned to me and smiled. “Oh, it talks!” she almost screamed at my face. Dang, that girl has got energy. “I love you smell by the way, what is it? Are you really human?” she asked looking at me suspiciously. I nodded, seeing that Lara was looking at my reaction from her side of the kitchen.

“Oh whatever! You and I will be fast friends! We’ve got to go shopping together or something. Girls around here are so….” She rolled her eyes but Lara cleared her throat again. “She can’t leave the grounds. Alpha’s order.”

Nathalie rolled her eyes again. “He’s such a party pooper. But this is why they invented the internet!” she squealed again.

“Who’s the party pooper?” asked a deep voice from the door that led to the garden. Simon stepped in, with a bright smile on his face. My heart raced at the sight, I had missed him. He walked towards me, ignoring his mother and Nathalie but as soon as he stepped closer, I screamed.

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Cliffhanger :D

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