*Ashton's POV* (one year later)

"Stop it, your going to hurt yourself!" I laughed as I watched Justin doing some kind of trick off of one of the machines in the training room. It had been a whole year since the boys found me that day in the woods and accepted me into there pack, and I've loved every day of it. After are meeting in the woods the boys took me back to the pack house and introduced me to the pack. They tried to get me to go to school but I refused until I lost all my weight.

Now I'm a hundred and fifty pounds lighter and couldn't be happier. I now only weigh a hundred and twenty pounds and not to sound arrogant or anything but I'm hot. I let my hair grow out and it now reaches just above my butt, my eyes shine a bright baby blue instead of the dull they once were. My body is lean and has curves in all the right places.

My looks aren't the only thing that had changed about me though, gone is the shy girl who let everybody step on her and in her place is a bad ass girl who doesn't take crap from anyone.

"Ok guys go get cleaned up, we have a pack meeting in an hour." Reed said as he walked out of the exercise room. I nodded my head and motioned for the other three boys to follow me. As soon as I opened the door I felt myself being lifted into a pair of strong arms. I laughed and started to squirm.

I heard Justin and Jace laughing from behind me, so I guessed that it was Winston who was carrying me.

"Winston put me down!" I giggled. I felt the laugh vibrate in his chest and his arms wrapped tighter around me. Yes Winston and I were dating, we had been since three months after I arrived. He was perfect to me and I loved him with all my heart, my wolf even liked him, she didn't love him but she liked him. My wolf still whines for her mate, but only from time to time. Me? Well I'd learned to accept the rejection and move on.

Winston carried me all the way upstairs, to the third level of the house were my room was. He gently set me back on my feet and turned me around to face him. I stared up into his beautiful blue eyes and felt deep love. He slowly leaned down and have me a short but passionate kiss. It took my breath away.

"See you in an hour beautiful." He said with a smile. I smiled back at him and replied,

"See you then." We parted ways and I went into my bathroom to take a much needed shower.

When I got out of the shower I threw my bathrobe on and went to brushing out my long hair. I blow dried it and straightened it to perfection. Next I added a bit of mascara to my already long and full lashes, a light eyeliner and I was done with that.

I ran to my closet and pulled on a pair of black high waist denim shorts that reached about mid thigh and a cropped belly shirt with the word 'love' in it. I put my gladiator sandals on and was out the door. I walked down the three flights of stairs and reached the large living room. Most of the pack was already there. I walked over to Winston and he wrapped his arm around my waist.

"The reason that I called for this pack meeting today is to discuss the growing problem with the rogues." Many pack members growled at the mention of the horrid people. Rogues had been a growing problem for about six months now. "I know that it upsets you to hear about them and that's why I think that most If you will be happy about the new situation we've been put in, others might not but its what we have to do to keep are pack safe." I could've sworn that his eyes flashed to me when he said that.

"To help protect our pack from rogues, I have talked to a alpha of a nearby pack. We've both agreed that it would be best if we strung together to keep our packs safer." There were mourners from the crowd, some of agreement, some of disagreement.

"So we have to move in with them?" A random person shouted from the crowd.

"Yes. We will be moving into there territory seeing as its bigger and better positioned for war." I thought about this. If we're moving in with another pack and they are a neighboring pack who could they be? A thought immediately shot into my head but I quickly threw it out, Reed would never do that to me.

"What pack is this?" I asked. Reed looked at me and I saw a flash of sadness flash in his eyes. He didn't answer for a few seconds but when he did I had to do a double take.

"The Full moon pack."

Great. I get to go back to the pack that bullied me and made my life hell.

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I was lying in my bed, thinking about everything that has happened today, and sighed. Fist it starts with me finding out that I have to go back to my old pack, then I find out that the twins and Winston had already knew about this for months, and next I find out that Winston wants to mark me and officially make me his, I mean he hasn't even found his true mate yet.

'Flashback, earlier today'

I stormed off to my room, pissed that Winston had kept something so big from me. I knew that he was following me because I could hear his footsteps behind me. I opened my bedroom door and was just about to close it when I felt a pair of strong arms wrap around my waist, pulling me back into his chest.

"Please just let me go Winston, I need some time to think." I said softly. He sighed heavily and pulled me into my room, closing the door.

"I'm sorry I've kept it from you for so long, I just didn't have the heart to tell you." He whispered into my hair. I pulled his arms off of me and turned around so I was facing him. He wrapped his arms around me again and pulled me back to him, I put my head onto his chest and relaxed.

"I'm not mad at you, I'm just upset that you didn't tell me, I would have liked to know so that I had a little time to digest it all. I mean we leave in two days." I said quietly. He rubbed my back and and breathed in my scent.

"I know and I'm sorry, I honestly thought I was doing the right thing." I smiled slightly. He's such a sweet guy and he's always there for me. Why couldn't he be my mate instead of stupid Saxon. At the thought of his name, my wolf howled in joy.

"I'll get over it, don't worry." I said pulling back. I leaned up and gave him a small kiss. He immediately kissed me back. It was fiery and passionate, he licked my bottom lip, asking for entrance and I quickly gave it. Our tongues danced with each other and fought for dominance. He won and now had control of the kiss. I pulled away, panting for breath and I felt Winston move down to my neck. He planted kisses everywhere and had me tilting my head to my side.

I barely even noticed anything else outside of the fiery lips on my neck, that is until I felt Winston's sharp canines on my neck. He was trying to mark me, and forever make me his. I quickly pulled away and pushed Winston off of me. His eyes were pitch black with lust clearly written all over them. I touched my hand to his cheek and tried to calm him down.

"Winston why did you try to mark me? I thought you were waiting for your mate?" I asked when he was fully calmed down. He frowned and took my hands in his.

"I don't want to wait for my mate Ashton. I love you and I always will." He said as he kissed each of my knuckles. My heart skipped a beat and I knew he heard it because he got a big smile on his face. But I couldn't let him mark me, if he does he's bound to me forever and he will become my mate, if I let him he would surely hate me later on when he finds his true mate.

I smiled at him, a genuine smile and said,

"I love you to Winston, more then anything, but you know why I can't let you mark me. You have to wait for your true mate." He growled lowly and looked irritated.

"I know I have a true mate but I love you and always will. She'll never be able to be what you are to me. Please just let me mark you baby, I want to be your mate." He had so much love in his voice that I almost said yes, almost.

"Winston I can't. I'm sorry." I said quietly. He looked at his lap sadly and nodded his head. I got off my bed and led him to my door. Wrapping my arms around his waist I kissed his chest, knowing he loved it. He smiled and hugged me back. After a few minutes of holding each other we separated and I opened my door for him.

"I love you Winston. Good night." I said as he stepped out.

"I love you to Ashton. Forever and always." He said back. He blew me a kiss and walked down the hallway to his bedroom. I slowly crawled into bed, feeling the tears start to leak out. I wanted nothing more then to let Winston mark me, but I can't ruin his chances at eternal happiness. With that thought on my mind I quickly fell asleep.

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The last two days had past in a blur. I had packed up my bedroom, only leaving out what was needed, and I helped pack up the rest of the pack house. We didn't tell everything because we would be back In a few years. It was moving day and the day I had been dreading. Winston hasn't brought up the marking thing since we talked about it, but I knew it would come up again.

I was walking down the stairs, carrying the last box from my room, when I felt a hand clamp down on my moth and my eyes. I dropped my box and was about to start a full blown fight when I got a whiff of the air. The twins. They were always sneaking up on me and playing tricks. In the pear that I had been here the twins and I had gotten very close. We were like brothers and sister.

I pulled Jaces hand off of my mouth and Justin's hand off of my eyes. I turned around and playfully glared at them. They put there hands up in mock surrender.

"You guys are so lucky nothing important was in that box." I said motioning to the box on the floor.

"Hey we were just trying to get you back for what you did to us last thursday." Justin said in defense. I laughed just thinking about it. I had snuck into there rooms while they were sleeping and blew a blow horn right in there ears. They were so startled that they fell out of bed and Justin ended up screaming like a little girl. It was hilarious.

"You have to admit, that was pretty funny." I said as I laughed. They both rolled there eyes at me and continued to walk to the front door. I picked up my fallen box and continued on with my journey to the moving van. I loaded my last box into it and set off to find Winston, we were driving there together.

I found him talking to Reed but as soon as I walked up to them they went silent, and I knew that they had been talking about me.

"Hi guys!" I said with a smile. Reed smile at me and Winston attempted to. I guessed that they had been talking about the marking thing.

"Hey babe. Why don't you go wait in the car. I just need to finish talking to Reed about something and ill be right there." Winston said. I raised an eyebrow but shrugged and walked off to the car. Climbing into the large SUV I turned it on and blasted the radio. One directions 'live while we're young' blasted threw the speakers and I started singing along at the top oft lungs.

'Let's go crazy, crazy, crazy till we see the sun. I know we only met but lets pretend it's love. And never, never, never stop for anyone. Tonight lets get some and live while we're young!' Before I could go all ninja on the rest of the song Winston hopped into the car, laughing at me because of my crazy singing.

The first five minutes of the hour long car ride was made up of me singing along, and horribly might I add, to songs on the radio, and Winston laughing at me. When it went on a commercial break I took the time to look down at what I was wearing.

I was wearing high waisted, red denim short shorts, with another cropped belly short. This one was all black and it had red hearts randomly slapped ed around. I matched it with red flip flops. I had straightened my hair and slightly curled it towards the end. I had in little mascara and light eyeliner. I honestly thought I looked good. I had decided the day before that I was not going to take crap from anyone, I was gonna put my foot down and show them the new and improved me.

A long hour and a half later we had arrived in the Full moon packs territory. It was a five minute ride to my old house were me and the boys had decided to stay, the pack house would just be to crowded and there was plenty of room at my old house.

"Are you sure your ok baby, you seem a little tense." Winston asked worriedly like the caring boyfriend he is.

"I'm fine hon. Just a little bit irritated to have to see them again, but I'll live." I replied with a smile. We stopped talking from there and we just took in the scenery, the beautiful tall trees, the wildflowers, the blue sky and everything else.

"Wow." I heard Winston mutter. I looked up and realized that he was wowing at the large house in front of us, my old house.

"Ya my family has a lot of money." I murmured back. We pulled into the drive way and I looked up at the large house, nothing had changed. Reed and the twins had already arrived at the house and were just getting out of the car. The front door to the house opened and out walked the two people I hated most, my brother and my mate.

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