Meet the Pack

Elyna wanted to bury herself to avoid the curious gazes of the many people who kept watching her. Elyna hasn't finished digesting all kinds of things taught by Val. However, as soon as she finished wearing the clothes that Val had worked so hard to bring, she was immediately taken out by the man.

Outside her room, Elyna saw that there were many people wandering around out there. They all look busy. But as soon as they saw him, everyone would stop just to stare at her curiously.

Elyna wanted to hide behind Val's strong body if only she could. But Val continued to walk in front of her with big steps, which even made Elyna have to half run to keep up with Val's footsteps.

"Are you done, Alpha?"

Because she was too busy looking down, Elyna accidentally bumped into Val's back, who suddenly stopped because her brother had just appeared from a room. Elyna rubbed her sore nose. Val's back felt very hard.

Val turned back to see Elyna's painful face, with her nose red after being hit. His face remained the same. He was just looking at her mate, who looked like she wanted to cry after hitting his sturdy back.

"Aw, are you okay, Puppy? Your nose looks red. Alpha, I just found out that even your body is dangerous to others," grumbled Zen, the cause of Val's sudden stop. Zen rubbed Elyna's nose gently, hoping that the pain would go away soon.

For some reason, Val pulled Elyna's hand, who was still wincing, and then rubbed her sharp nose slowly. Elyna was amazed to see Val's treatment. Before her mind came back to reality when Val held her hand.

"Don't look down. You are my mate. We will go to the dining room to introduce you to the core members of my pack."

Elyna nodded shyly. Her eyes were still focused on looking at her hand that was linked with Val's.

It felt warm and pleasant.

Zen followed the two as Val started walking again. It was also unbelievable to see the polar bear holding someone's hand after so long.

The reactions of the dining room's residents were not much different. They looked amazed to see their ice leader come with a cute girl in his arms.

"Alpha, you certainly know that you are not allowed to kidnap other people's children, right?" someone with piercings around his ears was the first to raise his voice, then was rewarded with a spoon hit by a beautiful woman around his age.

"Don't talk so carelessly, idiot! How could our Alpha kidnap a little girl like her?!"

"Hera, Jake, stop fighting, or I will throw you both out of the dining room."

A woman in a black suit glared at her two children sharply. They both immediately fell silent while a man in a white suit got up to greet Val and Zen.

"Is she your mate, Val?" he asked curiously. Val nodded briefly, then led Elyna to sit near Val's chair.

Elyna, on the other hand, felt very nervous, afraid that they would reject her presence. She tried not to bow her head like Val ordered. But that request felt very difficult for her to obey when the people who looked strong and scary kept staring at her without blinking.

"Wow! How old is she, Alpha? She looks so cute," said Hera excitedly. Her eyes stared at Elyna sparklingly, while Jake could only gape and hold back his saliva after seeing Elyna.

The people out there were indeed no less beautiful. But Elyna... she seemed to have a mysterious attraction from her blue eyes that looked brighter than the usual blue color.

"Welcome to this pack. Ah... Alpha?"

"Elyna. Her name is Elyna," Val answered, informing her.

"A sweet name like its owner," commented Hera and Jake's mother softly.

Elyna wanted to cry, seeing that her presence was warmly welcomed in that big pack.

"The woman is named Siren, with her partner Duke. They are the Gamma in this pack and the parents of Hera and Jake," Val said briefly. Elyna looked at each person Val introduced to her. Elyna smiled. Imitating Val, Elyna introduced herself in front of everyone.

"Hello. My name is Elyna. The previous pack leader said that I was 21."

"You, what?! I thought you were sixteen. Or, at most, eighteen!" Jake commented in amazement. Elyna did not reply immediately. Even her age was an estimate of her Alpha pack because no one knew her real age.

"Hey, hey, you scared her," Zen said as an intermediary. Elyna did not know that her anxiety was interpreted differently by them. Elyna looked at Val, then was confused when the man stroked her head as if to say that everything was okay.

After feeling that Elyna was okay, Val pulled his hand away and looked back at his pack members as if what he had just done was something he usually did.

"I want you all to tell this to the other pack members. Now that I've found my partner, I hope everyone treats her well. Now, where are Aesir and Eir?" Val asked.

"Aesir is training the young members. And Eir... I think she's still asleep in her room," Duke answered calmly.

Zen rolled his eyes lazily. He was bored seeing his annoying stepsister's behavior.

Zen and Val's father had indeed remarried and had a daughter, Eir. Even though she was a stepdaughter, that didn't make Val put aside his youngest sister. Especially because Eir was a woman, Val usually paid more attention to her sister.

"Zen, wake Eir up," Val ordered. Zen frowned in disapproval. He was the laziest when his brother had told Zen to wake up 'that girl'.

"Woah... am I late again? Damn, I didn't know my alarm clock was broken again," someone muttered, still in her pajamas. She came in when Zen was just about to wake up. Without the slightest guilt, he sat on an empty chair near Val, which was opposite Elyna.

"Eir, I don't want to hear your curses in this place," Val said firmly.

"Hey, who is this kid?"

While ignoring her brother's words, Eir's eyes were fixed on Elyna, who was silently staring at her. Her lazy gaze turned sharp in an instant. Thanks to that hostile gaze, Elyna felt like hiding behind Val's sturdy back.

"She's my mate. The Luna pack's candidate," Val answered briefly.

In contrast to the reactions shown by the people before, Eir frowned even more and made the atmosphere suddenly awkward between them.

But Val didn't care. He even opened another conversation amid the silence.

"Elyna, you will be going to the academy starting tomorrow."