THE LOST LUNA OF SILVERWOODS

"Mom, I'm home!" Hazel called out into the empty living room before glancing into the kitchen where her mother would usually be by this time, preparing for dinner, but wasn't.

"But her and Dad's car is packed outside" she muttered helping herself to a cup of cold orange juice.

She placed the cup into the dishwasher and walked up the stairs in search of her parents. She was about to climb the stairs when she heard her father's voice coming from the study.

"Dad, I'm home, did you leave something behind? Where is Mom?... " she asked, opening the door to see her parents had a visitor.  

"Oops, sorry" she apologised backtracking her steps out the door as she noticed her parent's nervous stare from her to the man opposite them.

The man looked up from the documents he was reading, his brown eyes meeting Hazel's onyx ones. His lips stretch into a warm smile, as their eyes meet. His smile sent Hazel's heart racing.

'Handsome!'  

She gasped in surprise as his brown eyes flickered gold filled with several emotions, excitement, lust and attraction.

He cleared his throat and beckoned her in "Why don't you join us miss? Your parents and I were just completing a deal" he asked in his heavy Italian accent, sending butterflies deep into Hazel's stomach as he patted the space beside him for her to take.  

Hazel took a step forward, trying to get closer to the handsome man but was stopped by her mother's shaky voice.

"No, No, she had just returned from school and she would need to get cleaned" her Mom argued nervously,  earning a raised eyebrow from the gorgeous-looking man

Getting the hint, Hazel clasped her hands together and bowed towards the stranger "Excuse me, sir, I'm sorry I disrupted your meeting, I need to clean up as I am sweaty all over "

"That's fine, what is your name?" he asked, bringing out a pen from his jacket pocket to sign the document he had been reading

"Hazel"

"You have a lovely name, Hazel, let's not be strangers when we next meet, alright?"

As Hazel disappeared behind the door toward her room, the atmosphere in the study became more tense.

"Lorenzo, I mean Alpha Lorenzo, is there a reason why your pack moved all the way here from Italy?" Mr Eric Halton, Hazel's father asked

A smirk and a mischievous glint appeared in Lorenzo's eyes as he maintained a deep and unshaken eye constant with the man sitting in front of him. "Oh, I thought it was going to take some time but I found what I have been looking for, Halton. Why have I never heard you had another beautiful daughter apart from the one, what was her name again?"  

"Ruby" Eric provided