Chapter 1

Eclipsia POV:

I wake up early, grabbing my clothes and throwing them on as I look in the mirror at my tall slender body. At 18 years old I'm 5'9 and towering above most of my peers. It's first day of senior year, and my grey/blue eyes glint with mischief as I look at my outfit, black pants and boots with a purple tank and black leather jacket.

I smile at myself in the mirror as I straighten my jacket, my beta interrupting my thoughts through mindlink as he asks if I'm ready to go. See, not only do I have the cool girl title at school but I'm was also an alpha werewolf. My pack is one of the only packs with a female alpha so I have to be tough, or people will think that my pack is weak.

I race down the stairs to the waiting car outside. Jumping into the car as I flash a smile at my beta Toryn.

"Yo, Toryn! Sup?"

"You're gonna make us late to school. That's what's up." He rolls his eyes at me.

I laugh as I lean back, arms crossed, "Nah, you drive so fast there's no way we'll be late." I smirk at him before turning and watching the trees fly by outside the window with a sigh.

"Parents still bugging you huh?"

"Yeah, they want me to find my mate but..."

"But?"

"How am I supposed to do that? I can't skip school and go searching for him, otherwise the government may force me to step down as Alpha." I groan, "Besides, I'm not sure I'm ready to have a guy who'll take control of everything I do." I grumble at the thought of being submissive to anyone.

Toryn laughs, knowing how much i hate taking any orders. It made sense seeing as I'm the alpha after all

Sapphire, my wolf, growled in agreement before adding, Mate wouldn't dare do something we don't like. Moon goddess would never be so cruel as to give us a mate who doesn't listen to us.

I chuckle, "Sapphire has way too much faith in our unknown mate. I just hope we don't get a bad one like Jesse did."

I frown sadly as I remember my old crush. Once upon a Time I thought that we were going to be mates, so much so that I had already accepted Jesse's proposal for marriage on the night of his sixteenth birthday. The plan was to wait until we were 18 but that all changed when he shifted and found his actual mate, a girl named Silvia. I was heartbroken but gladly stepped aside so he could be with his real mate. Then the woman had the nerve to reject him. Jesse was so broken that he went into a deep depression and committed suicide not long afterwards.

I'm jolted out of my thoughts as we pull up to the school and I jump out.

"Hey, don't forget we have training after school!" Toryn called after me as I run inside, waving at him in acknowledgement.

I run down the hall to my last class, sitting down in the back, carefree as usual as the other students filtered in and I pop a stick of gum into my mouth. The school was mostly made up of werewolves from the other three packs. My pack, the Rose Heart pack, was the largest of them all and I smile as I see 3 members of my own pack sit down. There were a couple of human students mixed in, all of whom knew about werewolves, which was why they were in this school. Some of them had stumbled onto a pack by mistake and others had werewolf mates.

I sit up suddenly as a sweet smell fills the air. It smells like strawberry pie, one of my favorite deserts

"Hey, Solan," I turn to the guy beside me, "do you smell that?"

He shrugged, "Smell what?"

"It's nothing... Nevermind." I frown in confusion.

He shrugs, going back to doodling in his notebook. The smell became more intense as Sapphire starts bouncing in my head. The door suddenly flies open and a young girl steps in. It took all my will power to keep my mouth from dropping open as I swallow my gum in surprise. Sapphire howls in my head, repeating one word over and over.

Mate