I hugged my knees, sobbing into the satin fabric.

A soft knock echoed through the room as I cried.

"What?"

"Hey, uh, you okay? Can I come in?"

"Ashley?" I sniffed.

"Yeah, it's me. Can I come in?"

I stood and cracked the door open. She pushed it enough to get her head in.

"Hhheeeyyyy. How are you?"

I whipped my head around to look at her.

"That's what I thought. So, I kind of bribed the bartender and got this." She held up a bottle of champagne and two glasses. "Wanna drown your sorrows?"

I nodded my head and held out my hand.

"So, I saw what happened."

"Everyone saw!" I wailed, flopping onto the bed. "Can you believe this? Like, why? Why? I don't understand!"

"I wish I could say I know. I can't. The whole mate thing is so weird."

"But Harmony? My sister? If Alex isn't my mate, then who is? Is there anyone for me?"

"Oh, I'm sure there is!" She exclaimed, anding me a champagne flute. "This honestly sucks."

"Yeah, it does. Like big time. I feel so lost and empty now. How can I go back to school now? I can't face everyone!"

"It's not that bad."

I rolled my eyes while chugging the bubbly in my glass. "It's worse than bad. It's completely humiliating. My boyfriend mated with my sister."

"Yeah, that is pretty bad. I doubt anyone's going to care."

"Ashley, they're going to care. They're going to talk about it. The future alpha mated with his girlfriend's sister. This is the biggest news to hit the pack in years."

She sat next to me and put an arm around my shoulders. "If anyone says anything, you want me to beat them up? I can do that."

I let out a small chuckle. "No. Just give me more champagne."

"I don't think anyone would really blame you if you took a few days off of school. Since we are graduating in just a few short months, maybe there's a way that you could rework your entire schedule to not go to class."

"How would that be possible?"

"So, you know I work in the office as an office aide."

"Yeah," I said.

"I happen to know some rules when it comes to senior wolves and their schedules."

"What kind of rules?" I queried.

"A rule that says the wolf with the highest grades, who is eighteen and desires to run for local council after graduation, they can work closely with the head of the strategy department and not go to class."

"I do like strategy," I mumbled. "And Council President Andrew is knowledgable and nice."

"Indeed."

"Yeah, that can work. I can do that. But I am definitely taking like two weeks off of going back to that place. I don't want to see anyone."

As we sat on the bed the door flew open. Harmony jumped up and down in the doorway.

"What do you want?" I growled.

"Oh my god! Can you believe it Elanor? The future alpha mated with me!"

"Yeah, I fucking know. My boyfriend. Get out. I don't want to see you."

"What? You're not happy for me?"

"Are you dense? Happy for you? You ruined my life! I never want to speak to you or him ever agian! Get out!"

Her smile vanished as she stood staring at me.

"But, you're my sister."

"Was."

"I was hoping you could help me when the time came to become Luna."

"Are you out of your absolutely ditzy, airheaded, idiotic mind? I'm not helping you. I'm doing nothing for you! Go away!"

She pouted and stared for a minute.

"Uh, you heard Elanor right?" Ashley asked, glaring at my sister. "Shoo."

"Oh, okay."

She shut the door and was gone.

"Was I too mean?" I asked, staring at the wood.

"Too mean? Hell no! You have every right to be pissed!"

"It's not really their fault though. I mean they can't help that they were mated. That's something that's determined before we're born."

"They didn't have to rub it in the way they did. They could have done it privately like you're supposed to. I mean we're wolves, we're not uncultured animals. Some things are meant to be done in private."

"I guess."

I poured more champagne and sipped it slower. I still felt a little bad for yelling at Harmony.

"What are you going to do with two weeks of nothing?"

"I don't know. Travel around the packs? Experience life a bit."

"Find your mate?" she asked, nudging me.

I smiled a bit. "No. I don't even want to think about that right now. I think just doing some traveling will do me good. I have been having this weird feeling lately. Like something is not right."

"Okay, weird."

"There's something else." I pushed my hair out of my face and showed her the moon and bow marking on my forehead.

"Okay, that's weird. What is that?"

"This is going to sound so incredibly crazy and insane. I'm still not sure if it's real or I was hallucinating."

"Okay."

"When I shifted, I went into this black void. The Goddess Artemis was there."

"I'm sorry...what?"

"I'm not finished. That's not even the craziest part."

"There's more?"

"Uh, yeah, Ashley."

Her eyes were as wide as saucers.

"So, she approaches me and tells me, get this, I'm her daughter."

"We're all Artemis's daughters and sons."

"No, like her legit daughter. Her child."

"What?"

"Right?" I asked.

"How? You and Harmony are twins."

"That's where I was confused. But Artemis said that since mom was pregnant with Harmony at the time, it was easy to put me there. Since she's a goddess she couldn't give birth. She said something bad was coming and wanted her child to help save the packs."

"Something bad?"

"Yeah, the feeling I've been getting the past few weeks, what if that's it?"

"And not turning eighteen and shifting for the first time?"

I shrugged my shoulders. "I told you it sounded crazy."

"Are there other children?"

I shrugged my shoulders again. "I don't know. She didn't say there were."

"Maybe there's something in the archives?" she suggested.

"Maybe. I'll go there before setting off on my great adventure."

"I want to adventure."

"Come with me."

"What?" she asked.

"Come with me."

"I don't know. I mean, you think I should?"

"What are we going to miss? Sitting in class doing nothing for the last few weeks of school?"

"Finals?"

"We can do finals and then leave. I can postpone taking a few weeks off."

"Okay. Yeah. Yeah! That'll be fun! That'll be awesome."

"Yeah, it will!"

"Wolves don't travel without their pack though?"

"No, but we're not leaving forever. Just a little bit."

"Okay. I can do that! Yes!"

We finished drinking the champagne and made our plans for going on an adventure. I hoped that it would be nothing but fun, but that nagging feeling was in the pit of my stomach.

As the sun started to crest the horizon, I heard the jovial sounds of laughter below my window.

Everyone must be leaving.

I stood and watched as everyone filed out of the house and towards their cars. I spotted Harmony, hanging onto Alex, as he left. She giggled and kissed him as they walked to his car.

I hope she just leaves.

She kissed him long and hard before turning back to the house.

There's that electricity again.

I felt a tingling in my body and that was so odd. My gaze was drawn to the royal family. Prince Edmond stopped and looked around before looking up at my window.

My throat seemed to suddenly feel so dry. Our eyes met and the feeling intensified.

No. It's nothing. You're crazy.

"Who are you staring at?" Ashley called, laying on the bed.

"Oh, nobody. Everyone's just leaving my birthday party."

"You're party! Did you even get cake?"

I shook my head. "I don't really like cake."

"Let's get some sleep so we can get these plans put into motion!"

"Sounds good."

I lay next to Ashley and talked until the sun was high in the sky, eventually drifting off.

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