Mate

Third person's POV

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After minutes of walking drunkenly, Layla finally reached the said enchanting forest with the help of the full moon serving as a source of light in the dark.

Feeling like the forest was a bit exaggerated, she lifted the caution tape used to seal the entrance and bent her way in.

There was no way she could have known the decision to come out wasn't hers at all, it was all her 'subconscious'. A force of attraction which is all because of the part she had to play in a particular male's life.

"It's funny how there are no fireflies here tonight or were they ever there?" she thought out loud, feeling sad since particularly she wanted to see the 'fireflies' which was said makes the forest more beautiful at night but honestly even if she had, she wouldn't remember the next day since she was a walking possessed and drunk woman with only half of her brain working.

Walking deeper into the forest she was awed by the sight in front of her.

Flowers glowing in the dark and littered everywhere, the sight felt so magical to her and that made her so happy that she decided to lie down for a while and embrace its goodness under the soft glow of the moonlight.

After a while, she heard a rustling in a distance and she became alert

"Wait a moment, is the rumor true?" she questioned her drunk brain, unable to find an answer, she decided to move forward and find out herself.

The rustling she heard was just the night guard who was busy guarding the gate to the Bane Borders leaving his post to go take a leak.

By the time she got to where she thought she heard the rustling, she found nothing which was very weird so she decided to dig more into the forest.

Losing a bit of the alcohol in her system through walking, she thought back to what she was doing

"Why the fuck am I being so nosy?" she asked absolutely no one, but not having full control of herself, she moved further

All guards had by then moved into the city square getting ready for the moon rite.

The rite is performed every three years so their Alpha can successfully find his mate.

It is only performed by Alphas who didn't find their mate before ascending the throne which is very rare since almost all wolves have their mates close to them since birth and even if they don't, 'fate' brings them together by all means.

Encountering no hindrance other than flies and moonflowers, she made her way into the city.

Thinking she was still in the Cashville she knows, she wondered if the forest was just a lead into another part of the town.

Looking behind her, she saw how truly beautiful the forest was, it was a 'glowing piece of art'

Deciding to just find her way back home and take a good nap since she 'luckily' wasn't caught by the officials or animals, she moved forward in her 'journey'

After thinking a bit and hoping she chose the right path since her brain couldn't really direct her, she took the left path of the road.

After walking for a while she wondered if she was lost since she couldn't see any trace of houses or people around so she decided to turn back.

As she was about to turn back and take the other route, she heard people clapping and wondered what was happening

"Wait a moment, who are those? I thought we were on curfew, is it off already?" she questioned as her legs took her to where the noise was coming from.

With people facing their back to her at her front, she stood rooted to where she was.

"A party was going on and no one told me?" she thought, feeling betrayed "so I just thought they liked me, they didn't, they were only showing what they wanted me to see," she thought feeling bad

She started questioning why she trusted these people and loved them, why she even considered staying in the city.

With her thoughts still flowing everywhere, she didn't realize the people in front of her were now looking at her and among them was the male she belonged to.

As she raised her head, she saw him.

Growling under his breath, which she thought was weird since humans aren't supposed to be growling, and rapidly moving towards her was a man, not just a man but the most ravishing, mouth-watering, and 'down to earth' handsome man she has ever seen in her life, just as it should be.

"Mate," he said immediately he got to her, therefore, bringing her out of her reverie.

She couldn't look anywhere else, not that she had to, she was being pulled by the mate bond which has been used to bind them from above, and here is where its work begins afresh.

She realized how awfully close they were, close enough to see his eyes which seemed to be glowing red under the moonlight, 'very very strange' she thought, but still, she couldn't look away, she felt more like she was trapped in it.

After another long second, she decided to look around her to see the people around staring blatantly at her with a little or maybe more contempt than she's seen in years and immediately, she knew she was in trouble.

It wasn't the people's fault though, they knew her scent was different and they knew she's human and none of them could have thought in a thousand years that they would have a human as their Luna.

It has never been recorded in history and they didn't think it could be.

Well, history is about to have a new page in it as the Alpha of the most popular and ferocious pack now has a mate, a Luna and she is a human.

Some of these people staring at her she recognized as they are from Cashville but most of them she doesn't but something was just off to her very curious mind.

Everyone's eyes were glowing brightly under the moonlight and that alone made her feel like she was in some kind of occult.

'Probably 'mate' is something they say to the person they want to use for sacrifice' she thought as the hair on her body started rising and she started feeling cold.

"Maybe I shouldn't have come out of the house, no, I shouldn't have drunk too much and lost myself in the woods. I'm very, very sorry for interrupting this peaceful gathering but I'll love to go back now" she said and got ready to run for her dare life.

Because with the sinister smirk on this man's face and the way it turned her stomach and also made her heart skip some beats, she knew she was a goner.