Future Luna

Jade Pov 

"Are you boys ready?" Father asked, barging into our chambers. 

I and my twin brother, Jude were yet to find our mate and it had now become a thing of concern in the pack that's why Father had gone out of his way today to host a selection ceremony for Jude and I to select a mate and die down the rumours in the pack; But, neither of us was in the mood to do so. 

"We're ready" Jude replies father in a chirper mood than I am. Well, he was the twin who were out to pleases everybody. 

I on the other hand does whatever that pleases me. 

"I didn't hear a response from you, Jade" Father directs at me. 

"I'll be there. It's not like I have a choice"

"Then I'll leave things in your hands, Jude. See you boys downstairs in 15"

Once father was gone, I moved towards my wardrobe; bringing out my hiking gear--heading for the window--

Jude holds me back. "Where are you going?"

"Hiking. What does it look like?"

"Father kept me in charge here"

"Then you better come along with"

With that said, I was out the window with Jude trudging behind me whining repeatedly how we have to get back home within 15 minutes. 

"Shut up" I groaned, unable to take more of his whining as we started our journey towards the mountain. "How are you so cool with all this?"

"I'm not"

I scoffed in disbelief. "You sure don't act that way"

"That's because--whether you want to hear or not-- this issue of being mateless is also affecting us not just the pack or father."

Jude was right. I was greatly disturbed by the fact that I was mateless. Plus there was this belief that we would go rogue if at least one of us doesn't find a mate. 

And that's why I needed to hike up in the mountains right now; because I needed to clear my head and deliberate more on my decision. 

"Why won't you say anything?" Jude inquires of me. 

"Because I just need to hear nature speaking" And not the truth. 

"But you can't avoid this conversation forever.." 

As Jude rambled on, I started perceiving a sweet fragrance. My wolf, Khair suddenly woke up reacting to the sweet aroma. "What is this sweet fragrance?"

"Jude!" I called out to him, bringing his rants to a halt. "Do you perceive that?"

"Perceive wha-- oh, I do"

As soon as Khair was able to locate where the scent was coming from and what it was, he roared. "MATE!"

Without wasting even a single second, Jude and I dashed out towards that direction of the sweet aroma and there and then, we saw a girl passed out beside a huge rock. 

Rushing towards her, I crashed to the ground beside her body before looking up at Jude. "She's.."

I couldn't complete my sentence. My shock wouldn't let me to. 

"Hurry. Let's take her to the pack's hospital" Jude chimed with a matter of urgency. 

Picking up the girl to my back, I super speed out of the mountain back to Colley valley pack's hospital.

My entrance back to the pack with a girl on my back seemed to have stirred around a rumor as it wasn't a behaviour expected of an alpha who was to choose for himself a mate today. 

But screw all those rumours. The one person that really mattered to me right now was right in front of me. 

Bursting through the hospital door, I called out for Nurse Wnell, one of the pack's most treasured member as she had a special gift of healing as she was half witch- half wolf. "Wnell! Wnell, where are you?!"

Wnell stepped out of her office. "What is all these ruckus about?"

"I need you to heal her. Like right now"

"There are tons of people that I have to attend too right now, Jade. You can't just skip turns just because you are--"

"She's my mate!" I yelled, cutting Wnell off. My sudden revelation seemed to have left Wnell utterly speechless. "Wnell!?"

Instantly, she snapped out of her trance. "Oh, yes. Bring her in right away"

As Wnell moved my mate to the emergency room, Jude and I waited outside in deep thought.

Neither of us wanted to talk about it but the situation couldn't be easily avoided so I brought up the subject first. "She's our mate" 

Not just mine or Jude's but both of ours. 

"Yes. How did this come to be?" 

"I don't--" I was cut short as Father walked right through the hospital door, approaching me. "Fat--"

He lands a hot smack across my cheeks. "How could you do such a thing!? Today is a very important day--you know that too-- so how could you enter the pack with another lady?!"

I looked away from father. "I have no excuses  for my actions but it wasn't my intention to bring another girl home. I found her unconscious in the mountains so I couldn't just leave her there"

"That's even all the more reason why you should have" Father spat. "How dare you bring a random stranger into our pack? Who knows she might be a spy?". 

"She's not a spy, father!" I counter-attacked. 

"And how do you know that?" Father challenged. "Nevermind, don't answer that" Turning to face Jude, father questioned.  "And you. I left you in charge of Jade but you still let this happen?"

"That's because Jade did the right thing bringing that girl home. She's not just anyone"

Father chuckled as this was the first time he was seeing Jude and I agreeing on one thing. "Really? Then who is she?"

"She's my mate" Jude responds. Giving him a look, he adds. "Correction, 'OUR' mate"

Father's eyes widened in shock. "What did you just say?"

"Let me spell it out for you, father and I'm going to keep this brief" I declared, pointing to the ER. "That girl in there whom you claim to be a spy, whom you keep constantly insisting that we should have left in the mountains to die is the future Luna of this pack"