Alicia...
A nice girl among wolves who has a big secret that must never be exposed...
Killian...
An alpha of the southern pack who has been searching for a long time after his mate.
Two people, fundamentally different, are reunited and must learn to deal with each other, even when the past threatens to destroy everything around them.
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"Are you ready for your last day of school?"
"Yes."
"I'm really very proud of you Alicia"
"Thank you Dad ."
So on this sunny day it was time. It was officially my last day of school and while my idiot classmates must have been super happy about it, I was a little sad about it.
Waving to my father, I crossed the busy parking lot to the wide front door and quickly made my way to my classroom. Of course, like my classmates, I could have prepared silly pranks for the teachers, but basically it was just wasted time for me. Also, I liked my teachers. After all, they had taught me everything I needed to know over the years...
When, after several corners, I finally arrived in front of my classroom through the crowds of cheering students, some of my classmates were still standing in the hallway and chatting animatedly. But since none of them would speak to me anyway, like they never did in the last few years, I hurried past them, sat down at the front and stared lost in thought at the blank board in front of me.
It felt unreal that this would really be the last time I was sitting here. I wasn't ready for it and the more I thought about it, the sadder I got again, but when I noticed from the corner of my eye that everyone was now entering the room, my wistful thoughts fled and I focused on the here and now.
My teacher, Mr. Micels, also entered the room immediately after them and only greeted us briefly before rummaging around on the desk in his brown bag.
Like the last few days, we would probably just serve our time and watch uninteresting films and as if I had guessed it, he already threw a cassette into the old recorder.
It didn't take long before the first pictures flickered on the small TV and of course my classmates started whispering again and although I would have preferred to watch the film, I couldn't help but listen.
They talked extensively about what they would do after graduation, how their lives would go on now and what goals and dreams they had. Since the whispering got on my nerves at some point, I simply devoted myself attentively to the boring black-and-white film.
Nobody talked to me anyway and that was fine with me, I liked being invisible because I didn't have much in common with anyone at my school.
I basically only had one real friend in my life and that was Melina.
She was one of those girls who could be cute but extremely sexy at the same time. With her black, long curls and sparkling brown eyes, she could really wrap the boys around her finger at any time, so that she always got exactly what she wanted at every opportunity.
Of course, her strong sense of fashion also helped her. Every day she surprised me with a new unique outfit and there was nothing that didn't look good on her.
Unlike me.
I had almost no sense of fashion. I was more of a practical type of person and didn't want to attract too much attention. Jeans and a t-shirt, I felt comfortable in them. I didn't do much with my hair either. I usually wore my brown natural waves in a high bun. Plain and simple, just the way I was and I was more than happy with it.
In fact, there was one thing about me that even Melina was jealous of. my eye colors One was dark brown and the other dark blue. I was ashamed of it, but she seemed to like it.
Despite all the differences, we had one thing in common that nobody was allowed to know about us...
We weren't purebred werewolves...
We were half-breeds.
How was that possible in a pack? Very easily...
Our mothers were human and both died in childbirth. At least I was lucky enough to be raised by my father, who loved me more than anything else.
She, on the other hand, ended up with her grandmother. She had never met her father, but that was probably what made her so incredibly strong.
Back in first grade, we knew right away that we were going to be good friends. Mixed breeds could sniff out one another immediately. Luckily for us, the others couldn't, otherwise we would have been rejected from the pack at birth... or even worse. I didn't want to imagine it and that was the main reason why I kept away from my classmates as much as possible.
There wasn't much difference between them and us, but apparently it was enough to despise the likes of us to the utmost. Why? I didn't know it myself, because basically our senses were just less well developed and where real wolves didn't know exhaustion, we had to take a break or two. A life between man and wolf.
Oh yeah, there was one more thing. For wolves it was probably by far the most important thing in life.
Finding the mate... that was forbidden to us mixed races by the moon god, but I didn't mind at all. On the contrary. I was even glad about it. Who would want to meet a stranger who suddenly thought they owned you? I certainly don't!
That's about it in terms of differences and that's why I've been wondering my whole life why half-breeds were expelled at all because of such trifles.
I just couldn't understand why the majority of wolves would dislike us so much because of such unimportant things, but I couldn't think too much about it anymore, because the ringing of the bell for the break snapped me out of my daydreams and I just jumped, startled stared at the already switched off television.
How quickly did two hours go by?