Moonlight Queen

"I hope you're ready Yvonne" Kayne asked clenching my hand into his.

I looked up at him and shook my head in silence.

He chortled, I took a quick glance at his fair face wondering if that was necessary.

Kayne smiled at me as if he read my thoughts "you should be ready my beloved, you have waited for this moment for eighteen years."

I looked away, twisting my legs on each other as we sat under an oak tree in my large compound.

I hated it when Kayne addressed me as his beloved, I was tired of getting reminded over and over again that I'm betrothed to someone I don't love.

"Are you okay?" He asked me pulling my hand.

I nodded "sure."

I stood to my feet feeling very nervous "Kayne what did it feel like the night you first turned into your wolf form?" I took a glance at him with my ears wide open.

I heard his smooth giggling "It was the most wonderful moment of my life, It was like being reborn and invisible."

I turned around to stare at him, the sparkle in his eyes while he spoke was a huge relief for me.

"What if I turn into a wolf and never turn back into a human?" I asked him.

My mother once told me a story of a queen from another clan who turned into her wolf form and never turned back into human, I can't deny how scared I have been after listening to that story.

His eyes widened at my question but then he shrugged "it simply means you were actually meant to be a wolf and not human."

"What???" I screamed with my heart almost jumping out of it's place.

"Is that supposed to be a joke Kayne?"

"You know I never joke" he answered.

I looked away, that was one thing I didn't like about Kayne, he was always serious with everything he does, for him everything is business and a duty, which includes eating.

It was getting really cold and I needed to get back into the mansion but Kayne has already began with his long tales that had no end, I wasn't sure I was listening, I only sat there cause I wasn't ready to hear him nag about how I disrespected him to my father.

I clenched my fists biting softly at the end of my lips while waiting for him to stop talking, I shut my eyes for a moment, I couldn't bear it anymore "Kayne..Kayne..." I called out cutting him off from whatever he was saying.

"What is it?" He asked coldly looking straight into my eyes.

I was so sure he didn't like what I did.

"I'm cold."

"Don't worry, tonight you would get stronger after you must have tasted the blood of an animal" he winked.

I gasped wondering how stiff he could be, I expected him to help me with his jacket or ask me to go back into the mansion. I started wondering why my father would ever get me betrothed to a man like him. He was cold hearted and wasn't romantic at all.

"I'm going inside Kayne, I'm cold" I walked away without looking back.

I didn't care if he would report me to my father, "he should do his worse" I said to myself.

"I met a crowded living room, it was large enough to contain up to fifty people. The living room was a lively mixture of the Moonlight park and Boldclaw pack which are the only surviving parks in Latan city after the great war.

There was always a party which takes place every full moon, this celebration brings the two packs together which I was told that they once turned enemies after the great war though I am yet to know why but that was the least of my worries, I loved parties but certainly not a wolf party.

Everyone looked cheerful as they anticipated the full moon.

I was the only wolf who was up to eighteen in my pack so I was the only one who was about to get turned, I walked passed them forcing a pleasant smile trying my best to be nice.

At home I was never myself, so many rules about every single thing, I hated rules and this makes me so uncomfortable at home. I only get to be my real self at school when I'm with my human friends.

Yeah, I just gained admission into the university and I was already having fun exploring life before my family turned it all to sadness with the news of being betrothed.

"Yvonne...." I heard my mother call me from behind.

I was about climbing the staircase to my bedroom to lock myself up like always.

I took a deep breath before I finally turned around exposing my white set of teeth which I feared might turn red soonest once they have made me devour an animal.

"Mother...." I turned around grinning.