Book 3...Frozen Lake......Chapter 1
Five years later.
Ashley pov
Tomorrow is my 18th birthday my fathers are planning a huge party. It's the first big party for the new packhouse. My father took a lot of what auntie Leigha's old pack did with their packhouse. Sharon and I along with several other witches and fae helped connect to the land to carve out an underground city of sorts. Everyone is coming to it nova has been here for the last few days. She came early this week. Either she comes here for the weekend or my brother Jordan goes to the royal pack for the weekend. Jordan being under five was open to all the bonds of the world through our fae blood. This made it so he felt the mate bond with baby nova. She didn’t feel the bond like a wolf would but she was always more comfortable with Jordan around. Jordan is now seven and nova is five. She demanded to come early so excited about the party. My fathers and her parents have never hidden the bond from them. They did have it muted so they both can grow up and have normal-ish lives.
Our packhouse is so big that if it were not for my wolf I would hate it. The packhouse is like a giant hotel one of the like ten-star ones. But instead of being built up my fathers had it built down. Over the years I have practiced my magic and shifting. What we had not seen coming was a set of wings I could call upon in a pinch. We had not been sure what fae my blood belong to but when I shifted for the first time at thirteen. The shift was one no one had seen before. First I shifted into a bright orange glowing fairy with silver and gold lined wings traced out on my back before springing free from my back. The body of the wings has a clear iridescent membrane. Large butterfly-style wings. Beating a few times creating a song that danced on the wind. They soon pulled back into me marking my back with the silver and gold outlines. Then my wolf took over. My fur shimmers in the sun like my wings. My coat is so gray it looks silver bleeding to black socks on all four paws. My eyes are a swirl of silver and blue. I was as big as my father and that's saying something. He was born a beta meant to be a Lune turned alpha.
I was born in this pack but my father was not always the alpha. My father was supposed to be the Lune of the green lake pack but was rejected. It was years later that all hell broke out through the country hitting us the hardest. Small packs were destroyed by the half-brother of the alpha I was born under. After too long of a battle and too many deaths my father killed him. When I was younger I saw how my mother and father treated each other and never wanted a mate. Then after their death and alpha, Daniel winters takes over as the alpha. Meeting me by chance fate stepped in and he and his second chance mate Noah sparks took me and my brother in. They soon adopted us and named me the alpha heir. All of us took the spark's name. A way for my father to shed the last part of his old life. My aunt and uncle twins mated twins and took on the family name of uncle Zane and James.
A knock on the door attracted my attention. Sniffing I soon know I don’t need to answer the door. Addie my beta is here she was nine when I met her now at 13 she's no longer the scrawny little pup running for her life with aunt Leigha. My birthday being at the peak of summer means I start school at moon’s academy in two months. The terms always start the first Tuesday after the last harvest moon in august. You have to be 18 to start classes and get a dorm room. The whispering winds hybrids and witches placed an age spell on the grounds. This helps keep anyone under 18 on the grounds and away from the school. Being close to several packs some with gifts from the goddess. Others with their magic and others with heightened scents. The royals wanted to make sure things were fair. And there is no way for a spell to tell if you graduated high school. They chose an age spell. This ensures that everyone at the school is an adult and has the highest chance of finding their mate. Aunty Bridget had asked the queen to add an option to mute the bonds with a mate while at school. To perform the muting it has to be done by both parties before marking and or mating. If any part of the bond had been completed the spell won't work. This is an option I ask my fathers if I could do if I found my mate before entering the university. It's not that I don’t want a mate because I do. I see the way my fathers look at each other. My aunt and uncles. The kings and queen. Even the way Jordan and nova are muted but still, they know they have a bond. I want that one day, but I want to finish school and become the badass alpha. First female alpha of the green lake pack. The first female in the green lake pack to be seen as more than a bed warmer.
When my fathers took over this pack they were shocked to start. The pack I grew up in didn’t care much for same-sex mating or women. My father alpha Daniel was supposed to be the Lune of the pack. But alpha Abel rejected him for being a male. My uncle Zane killed Abel in a battle leaving him the alpha. He and aunt Kari are the royal betas and refused to give up a spot next to their best friends. They are so close to the queen November-Anne storm and the twin's Blake stone and Jackson Mani share a birthday. Last year uncle kade and uncle James adopted a set of triplets. They are three days younger than the others. Identical boys and a girl. They were all born seconds apart in an emergency c section on a dead she-wolf. Their mother had been killed in an attack on their pack from Kane Greene.
