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s a child she had believed the stories that said anyone who rejected a mate, or a wolf that had been rejected would pine away and die a horrible, lonely death taking their human half with them. The first time it happened to her, she thought she would surely die, the pain had been so intense she thought she was losing her mind and she almost lost Sabine. It took her the best part of a year to fully recover and for seven months of that she wasn't strong enough to shift. She had also believed that wolves would only ever have one mate in the

an hour, then a ten- minute walk across Glasgow city centre to Glasgow Central Station where she caught a train home, which was another two hou

f through it but how much more she could take, Annie didn't know. The lack of sleep from the night before caught up with her and with the gentle rocking of the train, Annie was lulled to sleep until she was jolted awake as the train pulled out of a station. Panicking, she checked the route on her phone map and to her relief, realised the train had just left Pitlochry, not long before the change at Perth. The first change went smoothly, there wasn't long to wait, and as the train pulled into Glasgow Queen Street station an hour lat

painting, she was quite plain really unlike the flashy Reiver she-wolves but she was hardly unattractive. She took good care of herself and tried to live her life in a way that would have made her parents proud. Tears pricked at her eyes again, fighting them back she realised that it could have been worse, what felt like a huge traumatic event to Annie clearly hadn't been noticeable to a

, she would participate in the blood bonding ceremony which would mean giving up ties to her own pack becoming part of his. Was she really willing to give up everything, her pack, her job, her house, her friends? Her past human lovers crossed her mind, they hadn't expected her to gi

her to push the ridiculous feelings down. How could she feel jealous at an imagined scenario she thought rolling her eyes? That is what the mate bond does to wolves, makes them fearlessly protective of their mates, even if the mate in question appeared to hate them apparently. She balked at the unfairness of it all, why would the Goddess do this to her now, just wh

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had something to do with that. Sitting up he grabbed his phone and turned it back on, crap, his daughter had rung again, then the phone beeped to warn him the battery was low. Deciding he would have a shower, a change of clothes

t there was no answer. Sulking probably thought Hugh and continued to the kitchen. As he was reaching for a coffee cup an

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Then silence. Hugh

d enough to take Hugh's place as Delta and Reckoner of the Pack, and Lyall, mated with two pups, both girls whom Hugh loved dearly. Hugh assured her he was fine, he was just stressed with work and had driven for most of the day, he was just overtired he promised her. Putting her fears to rest he hung up, lay back on the sofa and closed his eyes. There she was again, in his head. He frowned when he thought of the memory, she had no shoes on....there was one un

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"retorted Knox who then retr

ead as he could. He stood, determined to do something, grabbed his jacket and car keys and headed out. The omegas at the pack house would know who she was he hoped, he grabbed the details of yesterday's deal with the intention of talking them t

and headed to the kitchen and asked a few of the omegas if they remembered the women in the blue dress but no one did. One of them suggested they speak to an o

e eventually found him taking linen down from the guest rooms to the la

, Aunt I believe, from the Lunar Meadows Pack, North

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sir, all her things ar

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the bride and groom's families, here in the pack house. Would you like me

ll take them myself. Wh

second floor, first t

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reached the corridor he stopped, he had no idea what he was going to say. He had no time to think as at that point a woman stepped out of a room to his right, Hugh's heart nearly flipped, he saw chocolate brown hai

s throat. Why wa

woman, she was at the wedding and was wearing a dark blue dress?" Hugh stopped, he looked and so

iting the room next door. He also had the same dark bro

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me rolled off his tongue. "Oh rig

g at him with his eyes narrowed. Did he know what happened last night and that Hugh was about to reject his sister, is that even w

left?"He ask

of work."replied the brother

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Hugh led them to the dining room and bolted before the brother

he thought he might be able to catch up with her. He found that the first train from Inverness on a Sunday was at 0940, she would have to change at Perth but he would never make there in time. To get to North Yorkshire she would perhaps have to get to Newcastle and go south from there. He looked for connections

s car. He realised he felt elated that he might get to see the wom

hat I'm going to do

et on his car and proceeded into the station. The station was busy but being so tall he looked over everyone's head as he studied the departures board. The train to Newcastle was leaving in twenty minutes, so he sauntered over in the direction of the platform, discreetly sniffing the air sure he would detect her scent before he saw her. He stood at the entrance to the platform so he coul

urgh heading for Yorkshire, Annie's train pulled

e felt a mixture of relief that he didn't have to decide whether to reject her or not and disappointment that he didn't get to see her again. Knox was furious, he blamed Hugh and let him kno

r I promise, now stop ho

d her and ma

ill find her." With that Knox quiet