Chapter 5

Alora's POV

I waited for them to finish their silent discussion. I didn't get a sense of malice or disbelief from them. They seemed to understand and believe me. I was hesitant to hope for something good to come out of this talk, but I was getting a sense that this was fate, that the Goddess brought these two wolves to me while bringing their sister to Darien.

I could feel the power they had, deep and strong as the Mountains they worked and lived on. Something told me I was going to be connected to them somehow. I just didn't know how I knew that. There was also still the sense of foreboding in my gut. I still couldn't get rid of it even with this deviation.

"We'd like to be friends, you shouldn’t have been so isolated because of your sister." Galen said, speaking first.

"Your sister is evil incarnate, and it looks like we'll be hanging together now anyway, with lover boy being our sister's mate." Kian adds.

"Plus, we need someone who'll be an outsider with us while they make googly eyes at each other" said Galen, amused.

That last comment makes me giggle. "I don't know what's worse, that you're right or that a wolf as big as you said googly eyes."

That made them laugh as we watched the couple, they're no longer standing in the parking lot but on the lawn not that far from us. They were indeed making googly eyes at each other, the term making me giggle again. Then I hear a familiar engine sound and the blasting sound system.

My sister and her friends pull up in my sister’s cherry red convertible all singing badly and off key to the song. It was some song about brushing their teeth with a bottle of jack, which I found disgusting. But that just showed you how much of a party girl she was.

As her and her cronies are getting out of the car, having parked not far from us, another vehicle races into the school's lot. This one is another off road Jeep, it's red color, and it belonged to Matthew, or his friends.

Matthew is my sister's boyfriend, the second son of the Alpha's Beta, Beta Boris. Technically Darien and Matt should have been best of friends. But his like of Sarah and his treatment of me had made that impossible for Darien. He didn't approve, and to Matt that, was unacceptable.

They had a big knock down, drag out fight that Darien won. They haven't been friendly to each other since. They would outright avoid each other. If they did meet, there were no words between them. Just glares.

"I don't like that guy" I hear Kian say. It's funny, but now that I've talked to both of them I can recognize which one is talking, without having to look at them, despite their voices being nearly the same.

My sister noticed Serenity's Jeep. Being incredibly stupid and un-observant of everything not pertaining to themselves, so they stupidly start to make comments.

"Ugh, it's that raggedy Ann wolfs Jeep." Agatha starts. "Who gets one in purple, it's so gaudy." Beatrice adds.

Like she was one to talk about, she actually wore a leopard print tube dress that threatened to leave her breasts hanging out, leopard print stilettos with gold heels and a big chunky gold necklace, earrings, and bracelets. A wolf in leopard print, now that was tasteless.

"That little heifer is so ugly I feel sorry for whoever her mate will be." Sarah said viciously.

"I'll just have to step in and show her mate what a real she-wolf is then." Lauren said boastfully. They all let out screeching laughs.

They were like a group of hyenas, instead of a group of She-wolves. Matt is out of his Jeep and joining the group. Galen and Kian are angry and growling.

"Easy boys." I say. "It's not you two, who needs to defend her right now."

They look at me in indignation, so I explain. "She has a mate now remember?" I let that sink in a second "It's now his job to defend his mate's honor, and put them in their place, and he will." I gesture in Darien's direction. "Look."

The fury Darien felt was plain to see on his face as he held his mate in his arms, she was angry too, and had tears in her eyes. I know Darien. He's going to make them pay for the tears in her eyes.

"I wouldn't touch a skank like you with a ten foot pole, and If you weren’t a werewolf, you'd probably be littered with diseases. You disgust me." The anger and loathing in Darien's tone was like a whip to the face for Lauren. He had the group's attention, their eyes widened when they saw his arms around Serenity.

Sarah's expression is particularly vile. "You have a pig for a mate, how fitting for someone who likes to hang out with the trash." She spits.

Matt is trying to shush Sarah, to get her to stop, but she never stops, she's an evil bitch and won't be satisfied till she's made everyone feel squashed beneath her black and pink stilettos.

The wind blows his scent my way as the confrontation goes on, and I smell it, the scent of my mate. The conversation melts into the background as I stare at Matt, and my heart instantly breaks.

It couldn't be.

Why would the Moon Goddess be so cruel as to choose him for my mate?! My sister's boyfriend.