Her Possessive Alpha

“Hello! Earth to Ava, hello!!!” Nicole didn’t know what was going on with her friend today, they had just been served their meal, and she knew something was up when the usual food lover didn't dig in the minute the waiter placed the tray in front of them.

She snapped her fingers multiple times in her face to call her attention, but Ava wasn’t listening, neither is she focused on anything Nicole is saying, all her concentration was placed on the young man who just walked into the restaurant: her mate; and yes, she’s meeting him for the first time.

Nicole’s eyes followed in the direction Ava was looking, she found it strange that her friend’s eyes had been pinned in that direction for a good number of minutes and she wondered what was up. When she saw who Ava was looking at, she understood exactly what was happening. It’s Ava’s 18th birthday of course, and Ava is experiencing the mate bond. This landmark is usually common for she-wolves to meet their mate, that’s why Ava’s eyes had been glued on that man for so long, and his eyes had been glued on hers too.

Nicole couldn’t have been happier for her friend, everyone was worried she wouldn’t meet her mate on time, but now here he was; she would have the chance to reject him before the joining ceremony and then she wouldn’t have to worry about him anymore when she is introduced as the new Luna of the moonlight pack, with Alpha Ray, her betrothed standing by her side.

“What are you waiting for?” Nicole threw the question at her, but Ava still wasn’t listening, she might have been better off talking to a mannequin.

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The mate bond, Ava always knew she'd experience it one day, the very day she'd find her mate, but she never expected that day to be so close, she never expected that day would be today, she'd always thought that when the day came, she would be prepared for the rejection but she clearly wasn't, not with the shock that burst right through her the moment she saw Lucas. That very moment he stopped in his steps as they both began to experience the most powerful force; the only attraction in the world that can never be felt for a different person besides your fated, the only feeling greater than love itself; and he felt it too. She'd read in the past that no matter who you ended up with as a wolf, the attraction that overflows in your heart due to that powerful mate bond lives within you forever.

And as she saw him for the first time he walked into that restaurant in Bandera, the small town she’d visited, their eyes collided into each other's suddenly and none of them could look away from each other for even a split second, even from the distance between them, she could see his face and observe his handsome features clearly as he was standing across the room watching her too. It suddenly felt as if everyone and everything surrounding them had disappeared, and it was just the two of them there imprinting on each other for the first time. In the normal werewolf world, meeting your true mate for the first time, the one the moon goddess has paired you with, was a good thing worth celebrating, as from that moment onward, your life would never remain the same as you would no longer live as one person, but as the other half of a romantic destined by the moon goddess herself. But for someone like Ava Maynard, who had been groomed her whole life to be with someone else, meeting her mate was not something to be happy about.