I was sitting on the bed of my new room meditating. Its been two days and dear alpha still doesn't like me. Luna and I have bonded. She knows about my powers. I didn't tell her but she knew and I'm a horrible liar. She says she won't say anything though. With her knowing of my secret puts her in a lot of danger. There a reason I didn't want to be in this pack and didn't want anyone to know. Werewolves have a balance. The only thing we're supposed to be able to do is shape shift and some of us are healers. Me being the moon goddesses daughter breaks that balance and people want to kill me for it. They want my power and since they can't get it, they want to kill me.

Knock.

"Come in." I say with my eyes still closed. I feel the bed swoop down beside me. I focus more so that I can see who it is and what their doing without opening my eyes. It was Logan. I opened my eyes.

"What do you want?"

"I want to take you out tonight.." He says and after a while I was still quiet. "But I mean you don't have to-um I would like for you-I don't want to-you know what I should just go-"

"I would love to." I say.

He looked like a kid in a candy shop. "Really?! That's great! Your great." he says standing up and heading toward the door. "im gonna start getting ready." he says.

Then he ran into the door and I laughed. I laughed and he smiled while blushing.

"️Bye Autumn." he says. I wave.

••••
After I got out of the shower I had no idea what to wear. I looked in my new wardrobe. I normally wore ripped jeans and an old flannel but now there's so many choices. I settled on a white dress. Nothing special to it. Just a simple white dress that hugged me at the top and was flowy at the bottom. It stopped right above my knee. I look in the mirror not sure what else to do. I don't know how to do my hair. I've never used makeup. My long dark brown wavy hair and green eyes popped, in contrast to the white dress I suppose.

Luna came in seconds later.
"Hello darling." she said.
"Hey Christina" I say. Luna is too formal so I call her by her first name. Surprisingly she doesn't mind.

"Do you know how to drive?" she asked.
"No"
"Come on im gonna teach you. Don't worry I made Logan wait two more hours for the date." She said making me laugh.

"Alright."

••

We had been driving for about 5 minutes.

"I need a beer." she said "now I know why my uncle became an alcoholic, he taught me to drive." she said making me burst out laughing.

"Are you always like this?" I ask.

"Nope. I always have to be 'professional' around everyone but my mate" She said smiling widely. "My son and now you."

After about thirty minutes of her directing, me braking way too hard and swerving into opposite lanes, she made me pull into a clearing. We were surrounded by trees.
It was beautiful. I made sure to note how we got here so I could come back.
"Could you show me your powers?"

"What?"

"I just want to know more about your kind. Like is it true that your eyes turn as red as fire. Is it true that when your angry you grow extra teeth. Can you actually bring people back from the dead?" She said rambling. "I mean there's several book about the moon goddess and her prophecies but i'm actually standing in front of one!" she exclaimed.

"Yes. All of that is true." I laughed.

"Use your powers on me." She said.

"I might hurt you."

"I'll heal."

Hesitantly I close my eyes to focus and when I opened they were fiery red. I put my hand out making connection with her soul and pulling. Then I let go. For her it would've felt like her lungs were closing. She fell down gasping and I ran to her aid.

"I told you I might hurt you."

"It's amazing how much control you have over what you're doing. You could kill someone so easily." She said.

"Are you ok?" I asked.

"Yea fine." She says and I smirk.

"Check your stomach." She looked confused at first but eventually lifted her shirt. There was a massive hand print.
"I touched your soul." I say.

"My mother used to tell me the story of Esmeralda. She was a child on the moon goddess, but didn't fulfill her destiny. The whole species of werewolves suffered from it. " She spoke out of no where softly. "Why are you here,Autumn?

I thought about it for a second. "I don't know."

••••

"So how was your day with my mom?" Logan asked.

"Great." I say.

He brought me to a deserted beach. He had a picnic set and for a while we've been looking at the stars in a comfortable silence.
"She really likes you ya know." He said making me smile.

"Yea I know."

"I really like you as well. "

I laugh and look back at him, "You're growing on me,dork. "

I looked back up at the stars. "What's your favorite color?" he asks.

"Red." I answer quietly thinking about my moms crimson hair.  "What about yours?"

"I like blue. "

"Predictable" I say and he laughs.

We continued this for awhile. Just learning eachother.

He was afraid of spiders. He didn't want to be an Alpha and he hated the reputation his pack. I learned he killed someone for the first time when he was 10. His actually favorite color wad purple but he was embarrassed to say that.

He's been staring at me for a while now so I look back at him. We make eye contact and my stomach starts to flip. His eyes flip to my mouth and he starts leaning in. I close my eyes and his mouth is on mine. Here comes the fireworks.
It lasted about 2 minutes and then we decided to leave. Smiles glued to both our faces.

When we go back to the pack house, Dear Alpha was pretty pissed.

"You." He hissed. Pointing at me.
"You left a bruise on my mate."

He says. I cocked my head to the side.
"Little ole' me?" I say only making him scowl more.

He walked up and got very close to me. Let him make the first move, thats all I need. I kept repeating

"You need to leave."

"Luna wouldn't want that and if you think I'm leaving my mate now your crazy." I say shocked at my own words. Damn soul mate.

He raised his hand and only a couple centimeters away from my face I grabbed his hand probably breaking his wrist and pushing him back making him fall. He quickly recovers though. We were circling eachother until I felt my eyes going red and those extra teeth were coming. I covered my eyes quickly.

"AHH" I yell hitting the floor. I got up quickly trying to get to my room.

Dear Alpha features soften.
"Esmeralda?" he says.

"AUTUMN" I growl out. Im sure it scared a few people . Since I was angry my voice was doubled making it sound like there were multiple people say the same thing when I spoke. I got to my room taking deep breaths trying to calm down my anger.

What's happening Mom?