CHAPTER 73

Edna's POV
Maya and Asher's wedding had ended early today and no party or reception was held because Maya needed to rest. I was surprised at how she still managed to pull everything off, despite the fact that she was far gone in her pregnancy.
The penetrating and hideous howls echoed through the woods for the rest of the evening. I stayed indoors as the blood moon appeared in the pitch-black sky. The woods were close to the windows in my apartment. I kept pretending not to notice the wolves nearby and the night overall. It has been a long and stressful day. I couldn't add more stress by paying any attention to the reason for the day. Plus, it wasn't like I'd be getting another one soon. It's been a little over one year since Killian died and I was so sure the goddess hadn't made plans for me yet. I was so sure that the goddess was not yet ready for me but my wolf was trying to prove otherwise—she was craving the touch of our mate.
I stood by my window and just stared into space, my mind hovering all over what led me here.
Even as I stare into the pace, there's only one thing my wolf wants and that is to go out. She hit her stomach on the wall of my mind. In an attempt to get her to calm down, I prepared myself a black coffee and went to sit on my Balcony. The howls continued to echo through the dark woods. My wolf instinct clawed from the inside.
"You wouldn't be misbehaving like this if Killian was still here" I mumbled to myself. After Killian died, it took me several months to finally get over the agony that comes from losing a mate. I wasn't ready to go through one again, so if the goddess so please, she should keep out of the pairing game.
The caffeine helped calm my wolf a bit, if saying that wasn't a fallacy though. All I knew was that my wolf suddenly became calm and no longer disturbed me like earlier. The Balcony helped me relax but the occasional strong breeze that came through there made me back out and went inside my room.
A lot had happened in the space of one year. Unlike before when they majorly lived in their room in the packhouse, now, it seemed every member liked it better at their houses. The Packhouse is barely a place they went to anymore. It was now more of a meeting venue than their home. Most times if there's a meeting that would be held, it would be done there and that would be one out of the few times they normally see themselves
But ever since Maya's pregnancy got nearer and nearer to her due date, Edna and Shalom had made this never spoken about the rule where Maya is never meant to be alone for a long time.
"I should probably go check up on Maya" I mumbled to myself before downing the last bits of my black coffee down my throat. I squeezed my eyes tightly shut from the bitter sensation that we threw through my mouth, destroyed the tissues there, went through my throat, and finally settled in my stomach.
I dashed back into my bedroom, and after trying to look a bit more chick and decent than I did minutes ago, I stepped out of my house, climbed into my car, and zoomed out to the packhouse… or maybe not.
How the fuck did I got here?
I groaned when the woods showed in front of me. This was totally not my idea. I intended to go to Maya's house or the packhouse and up till now I was pretty sure that was what I was doing so why the hell is the woods appearing a few meters away from parked…my bones elongated and snapped as I changed into my wolf form.
"Uhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh".....
A chilly breeze swept through me as I made my way, on foot into the forest. I'm suddenly very proud of my choice of coffee. I had just recently taken that I gave myself a mental pat on the shoulder.
My bones elongated and snapped as I shifted into a werewolf. Canines purged out of my mouth and hair immediately covered my feminine body like a feline creature. My skin ruptured, causing extreme pain. The transformation was always dangerous and painful but I was used to it all—I was used to shifting from my light skin to not-so-small statues looking human to a black-furred wolf.
My heart thundered against my chest as I fell to the ground with this. The transformation was completed. With a snap, I sprinted into the dark woods again, branches snapped and cracked as I ran through the partly dried woods into the place where there was a little rock.
More breeze swept through me as I continued to slash through the air. It was just a few minutes till I joined the other wolves. The howls grew louder as I approached. The treacherous mountains appeared in front of me and I stopped in my tracks. I had heard about the mountains that kissed the sky but I've never been able to see them! But here it was...
To tonight, it felt different and almost too hot to stand here in my wolf form like this and that was why my wolf decided to give it up for our human form
This has got to be some trick….I did one last round and got closer to the base of the mountain and the amazing smell of citrus and freshwater hit me. My heart started to pound and the sweat from my run dripped down my back and in between my breasts causing me to shiver. I stop running and look around, feeling my hair stick out in all directions, some strand stuck to my face because of the stickiness thereof and I use my fingers to rip them off. I took another deep breath and my wolf confirmed it was my mate …or not?
A very black familiar wolf suddenly dashed out of the woods at a very high speed and probably because he didn't see me, it crashed into me and I was thrown to the ground with a thud. A musky scent reached up to my nostrils as my eyes fluttered open and I growled from the impact of my back on the slippery wet floor of Kentucky woods.
One more look into the wolf's eyes and the realization hit me and I felt the effect of it stronger than I've done even the contact of a brick with my head. Above me, I saw my mate, in his wolf form. His brown eyes sniped into my blue ones and I shivered.
But why do all these feel familiar? Like a deja vu?
Unable to move, I froze underneath his wolf as I tried to get control of my running thoughts. The world backed away from me and just looked at me, allowing me to stand up. If I hadn't known better, I would say the wolf was shy or maybe shocked. My claws dug inside the mud as I looked up straight at him.
Why is this wolf so familiar?
The aura surrounding him was familiar too and even the scent.
The wolf stepped backward to the place where the light of the moon couldn't reach—shadows. It suddenly snapped and shifted. I could see the outline of his lean body, I began to hear shuffling footsteps from the fallen leaves, my mate was coming from the leaves where he went to shift from amongst the treeline….
Daniel!
My whole body freezes, eyes wide with shock.
No. No. No. No. No. No. No!
Even my wolf was shocked, I never knew it was possible.
I stood frozen to a spot and Daniel walked towards me, in nothing but black shorts with a shocked and sheepish look on his face. His hand at the back of his neck, apparently he was having a nervous tick.
It was at that moment I lost myself in his eyes. His hair was jet black, messy but still tamed. He had a stubble beard that hid his sharp jaw. Oh, those lips. Masculine body, his shoulders were broad, muscles inched on his flesh and when my eyes went further down, I backed away.
This was definitely not what I had in mind.
He walked slowly towards me as if I could flee at any moment. Which in all fairness I could.
He stopped a few feet away from me and his eyes traveled to my body before darkening. That immediately pulled me out of my lustful haze and made me sick in my stomach. But it was just the nerves, nothing more. I cross my arms around my bare breast, praying my nipples don't harden under its prying eyes.
"Edna?" I would have sworn I heard him call my name unsurely but that wasn't what my head focused on, it was his voice. His voice caused his body to erupt in pleasure. Don't get me wrong Daniel has always had one of the best male voices I've heard if not the best but right now, the whole thing just seemed, leveled, spiced and sexed-up.
He bounced from foot to foot with nervous energy radiating off him. He took a step toward me but I backed away.
"Ed—na…." He stuttered and nothing had ever sounded so beautiful as the sound of my name coming off his lips. His voice was enticing, it made me want to melt but I didn't respond, not because I didn't want to but because my throat was scotch-dry, words could scratch it. I gulped the bile growing inside my throat as my stomach churned. A small purr escaped his mouth and made me smile a little but I quickly changed it back to a frown.
Daniel's pov.
I needed to blow off steam. And that was the sole reason I had shifted into my wolf form and run. I was doing a nice job, running on my will until my wolf suddenly had a mind of his own and ran into the woods at full speed. My nostrils were filled with a very nice alluring and pleasant smell and it was like my wolf was run-tracking it. I saw a figure standing before me but before I could dodge this creature, I slammed into it and we both fell on the floor with my body on top of it…the smell suddenly became stronger. I looked down and I came face to face with the most beautiful blue eyes I've seen, but it does feel like I'd seen them a thousand times before.
Why does this feel like déjà vu?
Twelve years ago…..
It was when the fairies wanted to take out over the werewolves pack. Although I was a kid then I knew what it meant to battle with the fairies—what it meant was that there was going to be enough food. That much I knew as a child but the bigger part which I didn't know came much sooner.
I never knew battle meant that kids in the monastery would be shoved out because there wasn't enough food to feed the original members.
On the same day, I was tossed out from the monastery, I met a boy a little older than me who was tossed out of his home as well because of the first and we clicked immediately. We lived together on the streets and did everything together. On this day, we both decided to go check the town's outskirts by ourselves but we'd go in separate directions to enable us to gather more information. I was on my way coming back from east Kentucky but suddenly decided to go through the woods. In my quest to get to my friend on time, I doubled the space of my wolf as I ran through the woods, but unexpectedly I clashed with a figure I hadn't seen coming. The figure was beneath me writhing in pain as I get off it, I saw it was a female wolf, with the most beautiful blue eyes I've seen
Edna!
I stood frozen to my spot as the realization hit me. I was confused and dumbfounded. However, it didn't take long for the mate bond to begin to manifest. I had many questions to ask and plenty of things to say…but the mate bond wouldn't let me. My wolf was up and running in my head—he had found his mate after all these years and it was our best friend.
I moved closer to her, but for all the times I tried, she stepped back, making my heart go up in flames.
"Ed-na" I stuttered like a pup, but somehow she found it amusing and the corners of her mouth lifted up in a small smile…
I was about to talk further when I felt my heart thundered —the look on Edna's face meant she had felt it too.
"Guys! Maya is in labor" I heard his heavy voice resound in my heart, and before I could register what was happening, Edna was already running her way to the Pack's clinic.