Today is my birthday. I let out a yawn as I stretched my body across the bed. Realizing Damon wasn’t beside me I try and link him but I still can't.

Tessa and the girls decided at that moment to barge into mine and Damon’s room and climb into the big king sized bed with me. Singing happy birthday and each carrying gifts, I groan at how out of sync and high pitched they are. I was so glad once they were finished.

Tessa handed me the gift her and Jacob had got for me. Opening It I found a necklace. The pendant is a gold half moon and has two wolf's, one black the other white sitting on it. “Thank you, Tessa it’s absolutely beautiful.” I tell her giving her a thank you hug.

Violet handed me her gift next. She got me a nice long black woollen Jacket and a bottle of my favourite perfume, Panache. Giving Violet a hug I thank her as well, “Thanks Violet, Panache is my favourite perfume." I tell her.

Melissa then handed me the gift her and Boyd had gotten me. It was a dinner for two voucher at Montana’s Cookhouse. It was one of Canada’s popular restaurants and so hard to get into. I squealed with excitement as I had been trying to get there for like forever. “How did you get this?” I ask her.

“Boyd fixed the owners motorbike. So he gave us tickets.” Giving her a hug I thank her.

Tania was last, her gift to me was a Pandora bracelet with a few different charms, as well as a new makeup kit. Leaning over I give her a hug and plant a kiss on her cheek. “Thank you all for my gifts I absolutely love them all.” I say looking at each one of them.

A wave of sadness soon washes over me, knocking the breath clean out of me. Dropping my head to hide my glassy eyes from my friends I remember that dad wont be here to celebrate with me. The girls all lean over me trying to hug me as they picked up on my sudden sadness. “Its ok Phoebe he may not be here in body but he is in spirit.” Violet softly murmurs. They knew me too well.

“Well Phoebe we have to leave, Jacob has just linked me that your chef is about to arrive with your birthday breakfast.” Tessa informed me. “We will meet you in the Library shortly.” I raise my eyebrows at her “Damon told us what’s happened.” She clarified.

“Ella" I call out to my wolf as I remember last night, Still nothing. I hear the bedroom door close as my friends left.

“Happy birthday my love." I hear as Damon enters the room wearing an apron and carrying a tray.

“Mmm” I murmur as I sight eggs, bacon, choc chip waffles, pancakes, sausages, orange juice and a single red rose on a tray. “All for me” I ask. He lets out a chuckle. “No! I thought we could share." Damon answers as he slides in bed beside me giving me a peck on the lips. Peering into his beautiful eyes I answer him back. “Payment of a proper kiss, first Mr Alpha.” I see his eyes and nose crinkle up as he brings his lips back down to mine. I greedily suck on his tongue as it enters my mouth. I feel as his hands start to explore my body. He lets a moan escape as I run my fingers down his back. My tummy decides to let out a rather loud rumble, that has Damon pulling back grabbing for the tray leaving my lips cold. Letting out a whimper he raised his eyebrows at me before stating “I promise there is more where that came from love.”

“Good" I reply as I grabbed a sausage off the tray.

Finishing the last mouthful, Damon hands me an envelope. “Happy Birthday love.”

“What’s this?” I ask feeling excited.

“Open it and find out.” He exclaimed.

Tearing the envelope open, I gasp at seeing the contents. “Oh Damon this is too much, I can’t accept this.” In my hands were the title deeds to ‘Lady Phoebe' Damon’s motel he took me to.

“You can and you will. Besides we have 6 others. I just want you to be sole owner of 'Lady Phoebe'.” He tells me proudly. “Thank you so much babe. I love 'Lady Phoebe' as it's the place of our first kiss. ” I say throwing my arms around him.

“Anything for you my love. Now be ready by four tonight as I’m taking you to the Pickering Casino Resort for dinner.” He adds pecking me on the lips.

“Yes sir” I salute him “Have you been able to communicate with Edmund yet”

“No. I’ve got help in the library." he informs me.

Jacob comes flying in through the door, huffing and puffing. “Alpha! Luna! We have a problem.” he pauses between words as he is gasping for breath.

“What” Damon spits out from being rudely interrupted.

“Rogues. They are just wondering around the outside of our territory.”

Damon turns a worried expression my way, while wringing his hands together “I’m sorry my love I need to check this out. Meet for lunch in the dining room?”

“Sure.” Came my tardy response.

After my morning shower and getting ready for the day I headed to the gym where I engage my girls on a lesson about weaponry and what ones they are suited for. Half way through, my mum shows up “Happy Birthday sweetie.” She says pulling me into a hug “I came to give you this.” She then hands me a small package. The girls huddled around me as I opened my gift. It was a Diamond earring and necklace set. “Oh wow” I gasp in shock. I hear the girls as they start to whisper amongst themselves. “Thank you mum I love it.” I add as I take my old earrings out and put my new ones in. “can you help with my necklace?" I ask her handing over the necklace and turning around. “Sure. There is one more gift for you. It’s outside though.” she informs me clasping the necklace around my neck. The girls asked to be excused early as they had something they needed to do. I agreed as I wanted to check out my other gift.

I gasp when I reach the front steps of the pack house. Sitting there in all it's fine glory parked in a fresh lot of snow was a brand new 2021 Toyota Land Cruiser 4wd. I squeal as I run down the steps. Running my hands along the white exterior of the new paint work, I open the drivers side door. Hopping in I automatically turn the ignition on, she purrs to life. “Open the glove box” yells my mum. I turn my new 4wd off and reach over to open the glove box. seeing a white envelope I reach for it. I burst into tears at seeing my name scribbled across the envelope as it’s written in my dad’s handwriting. Opening it I find a letter.

My Dearest Phoebe,

Wow your finally 18. I’m sorry your mother and I couldn’t be there to celebrate your big day, but I had been planning our holiday for years. Please understand we are getting old and it's now our time to experience life to the fullest. We are so very proud of the woman you have become and your going to make an excellent Luna. We will call you later tonight. We hope you love your presents.

Love and kisses

Dad and Mum.

Mum got in the passenger side and hugged me. “You were planning on going on a holiday and not tell me?” I ask her wiping at my eyes. “I only found out a couple days ago when your father’s phone rang. He was planning on taking me to Hawaii first, then Bali, and a few other places.” She explained as she dabbed at her eyes with a tissue. “Oh mum you should still go. You’ve always wanted to go to Hawaii and Bali.” I say pulling back and looking directly in her red rimmed eyes. I watch as her pupils become dilated with her emotions. “You know what. I think I may just go.” she informs me as her eyes became brighter and the corners of her mouth lift up with the smallest of smiles. “Now, how about you take your mum for a drive in this thing.” She adds buckling her seat belt up. As I start the engine I see Damon tap on my window. Rolling my window down he informs “Babes, you need snow chains on before you drive. Boyd is on his way now.” “Oh! ok” I answer, then ask “You knew about my 4wd?” Turning the ignition back off. He nods his head giving me his signature smirk. “Everyone knew" he replied.

Taking mum to place some flowers on my father’s grave later, both of us became emotional wrecks. We held each other as we both spoke to him. Bothof us deeply missing him. Deep down I knew that the both of us were going to be ok.

Dropping mum back off at the pack house later I decided I needed to go to mine and dads special place. So grabbing my jacket, gloves and scarf I heading to the mountain. Being in my 4wd is totally different to being in my wolf form. I almost got lost, but I made it. Trying to call my wolf forward I forgot she wasn’t responding so I decided to take the half hour trek up.

It was beautiful on top of the mountain during the day. Looking down at the snow filled valley of our pack lands, the water of the river glistened as the sun hit it. It was breath-taking. My eye sight could see the children of the pack throwing snow balls at each other. I chuckled at seeing a little boy chasing his father with a snow ball in his hand trying to hit him. I can remember when I was a small child and doing the same thing with my dad.

My joy ended with pain. Lots of pain throughout my body. It felt like every bone in my body was breaking. I realised it actually was when I heard the bone chilling snapping of bones. My body became hot, like lava. I let out an agonising scream. The wind howled as it roared through the trees, the ground lifting as the roots pulled and stretched with the force, snow that had accumulated in the trees got swept away with anything that the wind could carry. The sky blackened with really low snow clouds I thought they were going to smother me. All of a sudden they separated as bright flashing web like lightening, lit up the darkened sky. It sizzled and hissed as it hit the ground trying to ignite a spark of fire in the snowy ground. A ferocious roaring loud boom was heard as the thunder struck, the sound over powering my screams. The rain bucketed down just slightly cooling my over heated body as my body awkwardly bent and reshaped, bones continued to snap. Rain turned into snow covering me like a thick blanket but quickly melting as the fire in me still raged. I felt my body rise off the ground as I spun around and around. Voices, the sound of so many voices in my head as I continued to scream made me want to be sick. Then as everything stilled I was back on the ground. No more pain to be felt as I hear. “HAPPY BIRTHDAY PHOEBE" It was Ella she was back. “Look at our reflection” she tells me.

Standing in front of a large puddle I looked down. Letting out a scared howl as I see a rather looking huge golden wolf with a half moon symbol on its forehead starring right back at me. “Don’t be scared Phoebe it is us.”

“I don’t understand.” I reply tardily.

“We are a direct descendant from the moon goddess herself Phoebe on mums side. We are a true Royal. We are born a Queen. A leader. A ruler over all werewolves. Most importantly we have Elemental Powers. No other Wolf, Vampire or Witch hold the powers we have.” I was confused. “But how" I ask. “6000 years ago the Royal family got wiped out by Vampires as the power they held had them scared. So one night they attacked. But little did they know before they had attacked the Queen had just given birth to a baby girl. As the baby Princess was sick the Queen paid a visit to her best friend who was a witch. Leaving her daughter overnight with the witch, so she could be healed the Queen returned home to return the next day. But that night the Vampires struck killing everyone in the castle, along with the King and Queen. Upon finding out what had happened the witch cast a spell on the baby Princess hiding her true identity until the next white wolf was born and on the white wolfs 18th birthday the spell would be broken, that being us. She then raised the Princess as her own. You look exactly like her Phoebe apart from a different shade of hair colour. I was that Princess'es wolf.” So mum is a royal as well?” I question my wolf. “Yes. That’s why dad's death never affected her the normal way. Royal wolves always get a second chance mate. We also will be able to shift without tearing our clothes, and Damon will also share our powers as he is to become King. When you shift you will bare a circle on your left foot with different colour swirls representing water, fire, earth, and wind. We are written in the books Phoebe. Oracle’s predicted that we would be born 6000 years in the future. Now all I need to do is teach you how to use our powers.” Shouldn’t we shift back to human form so we can tell Damon?" I enquire. “No. Damon went through exactly what we went through. Edmund is having the same conversation with Damon as we speak. But we can shift back I’ve missed my hunk of a man. Oh and we have our very own castle.” Ella exclaims excitedly “I believe that same witch cast another spell it hiding it until now.

Making my way back down the mountain I didn’t sense the person that came up behind me. Nor did I smell the Chloroform that was held to my nose until the last minute. But as my eyes started to close I realised it was to late.

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