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“Alright, Kiara, what is going on in that head of yours?”
I shrugged. “Everything in my life has been one disaster after another.”
She snorted and laughed. “Uh, being sold is more like traumatic and fucking horrific. But sure. Let’s go with disaster.”
Her joking helped me push a little of the latest and greatest anxiety storms from coming on.
“Okay. So my life has literally been a nightmare, but there’s worse out there. Girls who didn’t get rescued. Girls who got qualified as breeders. But I still can’t wrap my head around any of this. One minute I’m a runaway slave, the next I’m hopping into bed because fate deems us mates.”
Sarah stopped everything and came around to face me.
“Your trauma is yours and no one gets to tell you that yours isn’t as bad as someone else’s. And as far as Devon goes? I can’t say anything about fated mates, because I don’t have one. But yeah. No one blames you. Let’s just put it that way. Not one single female would ever question hopping at the opportunity to mate with someone like him. Kind, strong, and alpha.”
She winked, and I couldn’t stop the giggle that seemed to replace the nerves.
“Yeah, that’s it. Let’s not talk about how his muscles have muscles. Or the fact he seems to just get me?”
One curl at a time seemed to find a place on my head.
“I can do my own hair, you know that, right?”
Sarah tapped my hand as I tried to help. “I’m sure you could. But something tells me that you enjoy our little chats.”
I started to shake my head at her and got a glare, so I just stopped and let her do what she wanted. I wouldn’t win and I couldn’t tell her how many times I had tried to do Nessa’s hair and how when I messed up, I found myself in the basement with no food.
Breathe.
Her voice brought me back to the moment.
“I can’t tell you what your timeline is to heal emotionally, but I wouldn’t tell you that you ever made the wrong choice by giving into fate. I think you make him whole, and I appreciate that every day. I don’t know what you remember from childhood Devon, but adult Devon forgot how to be, well… him.”
I could stay in my head or I could just embrace that my life would forever be different. It didn’t matter what I’d done or what I would do. This was the path I was on and I needed to just embrace that the moon goddess might know what was best for her children.
“I don’t remember much of what was real about him or what I made up to get me through the lonely nights. But I always thought he smiled more.”
Sarah just laughed and finished my hair.
“He smiles whenever he talks about you now. So that is a win. Now, let’s go down and deal with the packs and make them know exactly who owns the alpha.”
I wrinkled my brow in response.
“Oh, Kiara, He is so wrapped around your little finger, you just can’t see it yet.”
It didn’t matter if I didn’t see what she said yet. It didn’t matter if I agreed or not. What mattered was that between her, and Devon, and the pack, I had to admit this was all worth trying to push aside my past and thank fate for the change.
* * *
If I focused on the differences, this didn’t seem so scary or so much the same. Except when I looked into the eyes of my old pack. Acid burned the back of my throat.
Devon released my hand and pulled me into him.
Breathe, princess.
“This is my mate, Kiara. Your new Luna.”
Cheers ripped through the crowd of the Black Creek Pack. The Cripple Creek pack—orformerCripple Creek pack, I supposed—was nearly silent. I scanned where they all stood. Anger? Fear?
They have not yet been marked into the pack yet. They will come one by one and pledge their wolves to us.
