Epilogue 5
Elenor POV:
I decided to search for a mate. My mother and father wanted me to be sure of what I wanted and worked to make sure there was time for me to find somebody. Yes, there were very cute boys in our pack but at the end of the day, I wasn’t interested in them especially since I could toss them around like ragdolls.
I know Mom would prefer me to stay, to keep myself here where it was safe, but she had taught us to find our place in the world and defend it. What could I say, I followed that belief.
We set up something similar to what my mom had when she looked for a mate. Granted things went a little awry.
Instead of her and Dad picking mates for me they let me pick the suitors, and I talked to them and asked them if they wanted to meet me, if they wanted to be there for me. It was easy to root out the ones only interested in power, yes they might have prestige but they were also cruel. I found packs similar to ours with good morals, not necessarily the most powerful, the wealthiest, or the strongest.
I ran my hands over my dress and breathed out a long breath. They were all here downstairs waiting for me. I’m sure if I unleashed my brothers they’d run scarce, Goddess knows what would happen if you included my cousins.
I had chosen a silver satin gown my dark brown curls and grey eyes piercing forward. I felt confident beautiful, and overwhelmed.
“You can still send them all home, Simon concocted that sedative for the heat in case you need more time,” My mother reminded me.
I know she was scared. She had a very hard time after marrying my father and only through luck and bloodshed did she and my father live to see their life together. I don’t ask much about it but i know enough of the story, and I know it haunts her in a way I’ll never understand.
She had run background checks on every single bachelor downstairs, she would have their heads in an instant if they disrespected me in any way.
I shook my head at her my voice shying away. I was sure this was what I wanted, but I was still nervous. The rest of my life started today, I would meet the man I would marry today, the man who would be the father of my children, I would help lead his pack and protect his lands.
My hands shook as I thought of everything that lay ahead of me and felt lightheaded. There was that horrible feeling.
*what if, what if it all goes wrong like it did for my mother?
They had done a lot to protect female alphas since the war with my parents, but that didn’t stop the scum of the earth from trying to get what they wanted.
“Let me go and get you some water,” my mom ran out of the room.
I sat down and tried to control my breathing. I heard the door open and my fathers large hands wrapped around me.
“It’ll be alright little one, you’re stronger than any of them,” he told me.
“I’m so nervous,” I laughed.
He gave me his very thin smile, never one for showing a lot of emotion. “You are ready I know you are, and when things are thrown at you that you are unprepared for you can count on us,”
I trusted my family with everything I had and if something did go wrong. There was a good chance nothing would go wrong.
I nodded to him and my mom returned with a glass of water and cold cloth.
“Here darling drink this,” she set the cloth on my head and the glass in my hands.
“I’ll be okay, I just got excited,” I told them and brushed myself off.
I stood back up and looked myself over one last time.
“Alright let’s do this,” I told them and my mother laughed for a second.
“Sweetheart,” my mom held my hand. “They’re not all here yet, you still have time,”
I felt a little odd about making a grand entrance but I don’t think I had much of a choice. This was all about me and what was I supposed to do to welcome them at the door. No I much preferred taking them all on at once, they couldn’t pester me right away with a swarm of them.
A knock came at the door and Jamie entered the room.
“They really talk a lot about themselves,” he rolled his eyes and jumped on my bed.
“James Matthew Addams!” My mother warned him knowing I was nervous enough.
“It’s fine. They’re just nervous they want to bring me home, but I know I’ve selected kind men and their background checks are all good,” I told him.
The door opened again and my little sister walked in coming over and sitting at my feet.
“Sissy,” she ordered my attention and I knelt down smiling.
“Yes Eveie,” I asked my four year old sister.
“Can I dance with you at your party?” She asked me.
My mother laughed a little at us. Her girls she always called us, I know that she wasn’t sure how she got blessed with another girl. I think it was the delayed timing like the goddess forgot she’d already given them a daughter.
“Alright I know he’s funny but that pompous Green Moon pack is dreadful,” Benny came in and laid beside Jamie.
“Let our sister form her own opinions,” Christian scolded him as he entered the room. He came over to me and gave me a nod. “You’ve got this,”
They all started jabbering around me and I felt a melancholy grip me at the thought of leaving my family. They were the best thing in the world to me, and not seeing them every day made me terrified.
“They’re here,” my grandmother poked her head in. “And they’re anxious,”
If there was one person I bet on to keep me safe today it was my grandmother. She looked deceiving but I had a suspicion she’d gut a man without blinking an eye.
Every time I asked about what she did during the war everyone always got very quiet and told me they weren’t sure.
I adjusted myself one last time, my parents gave me a kiss on the cheek and walked out ahead of me. Christian looped his arm through mine and led me out.
Nothing would go wrong and I would be happy, I would see to that. No challenge would steal a good life from me.
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