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I’ve applied for a transfer out of my pack, and the Alpha has granted my wishes, with the understanding that I am to come back when needed. My marks have been above average, and I’ve been accepted to apprentice as a midwife underneath the guidance of a much-esteemed female. The healer helped me with my application, I was interviewed, and my grades were looked at. My commitment level was assessed; they just don’t want anyone who will drop their training once they meet their mate. She was made aware of my situation, accepting me instantly. A sad smile tugged at her eyes as she welcomed me into her home with a hug.
For the first time in two years, I have a smile that reaches my eyes with what my future might be.
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Book1 Chapter3
Coming Home
Insomnia is a great company to grief. Like two old friends unable to part, they mingle with each other, never letting the other go completely.
“Couldn’t sleep.” My mentor is sitting by the fireplace that holds no fire, with a cup of tea in her hand, looking at me with
caring eyes.
“No,I couldn’t sleep. Big day today.” I can’t even disguise my sadness. “Are you all packed up? Do you have everything?” Her voice cracks as well. Mentor and student at first, but once my training was completed, we became good friends.
“Rya, it’s going to be okay. You’re going to be okay.” I wish I could believe that.
“It’s going to be okay.” I say it out loud over and over again, trying to fool myself.
“I just need to thank you for everything you’ve done for me. I appreciate all your teaching, but especially your kindness when I needed it the most.” Standing up, she walks toward me, opening up her arms so I am pressed against her ample
chest, cheeks rubbing together.
“You’re going to be great, my best student I have ever had the privilege to teach. You’re a beautiful female inside and out. Remember that,” She wipes away my tears as I try to control my breathing like she taught me.
“I need to go. It’s a long drive. Thank you again.” Walking out of the house we shared for the last four years is so hard. This has been my fantasy land, protecting me from a life I am not forced to go back to.
In the rearview mirror, I see her waving in the open doorway. I give a little wave as I pull out. I start to drive toward what
gives me my nightmares at night.
Pulling up to the pack house,l need to sit in the car to gather my wits. I need to check in, get the keys to my new home. The Luna felt it’s better if I just take over the old midwife’s house, seeing as it’s empty now.
The day the phone rang was like any other day for me, a birth in the early morning hours that went well for both mother and pup. I was just coming out of the shower when I picked up the phone. It was the Alpha. I almost dropped the phone.
You’re needed back here. That’s all he said to me before the Luna took over the conversation, telling me the midwife has passed back to the moon. How I need to come home. I knew this was inevitable. I just thought I would have more time. I haven’t seen my father in four years. My mother and sisters have visited once, but there was an awkwardness to us that never existed before. My mother wanted to visit me more, but I just pretended that I was too busy, that Ihad lots of work,
that it was impossible for me to get away.
As soon as I open the door, his scent hits me hard, so hard that I need to go back inside my car and close the door. I hold the steering wheel, gripping it so tightly my knuckles are white. I wasn’t prepared for it. I haven’t even seen him yet, and I’m reduced to immobility. I stay like this for a few minutes, or ten, I’m not sure. I try to give myself a talking to, scolding
my own reactions to something that is so natural like breathing.
How do you tell yourself not to breathe?
Unclenching one hand, then the other, I wipe sweaty palms on my shorts. The car is starting to heat up with the sun’s hot
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rays beating down on the metal. Big breath in 1 open the door, making my shaky legs take me toward the front door, I knock, waiting for it to open. The Luna greets me with a smile on her face. Ismile a decaying smile back.
“Look at you, Rya.” She lets her eyes roll over my body. “You have grown into a beautiful female.” She presses her cheek against mine in welcoming. I’m not the small juvenile I once was. I’m a full-grown female wolf.
“Your eyes, Rya, stunning.” Glacier blue, my greatest asset as I was told once. Almost the color of a blue moon that only comes around every few years.
“Thank you.” His scent has tentacles that wrap around my body, seducing me with something that I sometimes dream about. It’s extremely hard to concentrate on anything she tells me. Her mouth is moving, smiling. I just nod my head, pretending she holds my eyes.
She walks me inside slightly, her office is the first door to the right. Isit in the chair across from her, and she pushes an
envelope toward me.
