Emery's POV

 I stood in front of the mirror, starring at my reflection. The black gown I wore was beautiful, no doubt. It has a flattering sweetheart neckline that adds a touch of romance, with the off-shoulder sleeves that enhance the elegance, providing a touch of allure.

The fitted bodice transitions into a flowing A-line skirt, making it comfortable to move with the back opened down to my waist and revealing my flawless back skin.

 My long brunette hair was tied into a bun with some strands falling down and my curves just like before. Funny how me and my sister have the same body, but people find her more attractive the most.

 I stopped starring at my reflection and cascaded down the stairs as my legs took me to the road, and I entered a taxi heading to the pack house. My mother has been busy doing one thing or another ever since she came back, and I asked her to tag along with me, which she refused.

 For some odd reasons, she doesn't seem to go to any of these parties because she never likes it, but I think it's more than that. My mind couldn't help but wonder off to an earlier event.

After Sunny's mate came to pick her up, I left to the infirmary and learned that my mother had left already. Heading home, the first thing that welcomed me was my sister and her mate sucking on each other's lips like their lives depended on it.

 I looked around, but my mom was out of sight. They noticed my presence, and they turned at me as their eyes met mine. "Sorry," I said blatantly, walking past them when I heard his voice.

 "Emery?"

 I cranked my neck in his direction and saw him walking towards me. Three buttons of his shirt were down, revealing some part of his chiseled chest with bite kisses all over it. I forced myself to look down instead to stop myself from thinking too much.

 "Look at me!" It was more like a command, which I obeyed. He was taller than me, so I had to look up at me. He raised his hands and placed it on my left cheek, letting it stay for a minute as a frown found my face.

 What's he doing?

 "I guessed it's confirmed already," Beta James said, walking back, and I immediately understood what he did.

 He just touched me for confirmation, and I didn't feel the tingles or sparks, just anger. So I indeed felt my sisters feeling, cursed this twins bond.

 "I'm not your mate, and you aren't my mate, which is totally confirmed already; I apologize for the way I touched you," he said, grabbing Emilia back into his arms. I couldn't stare at them anymore, so I ran upstairs to bury myself in my bed, crying my eyes out.

 A big mockery I made of myself. Why did I feel it... The universe, the moon goddess, and my pack all hate me. Now I've lost hope in searching for my mate. I just don't want to be mated to anyone anymore.

I just want to go over the human's world and enjoy. I've always wondered what it's like to be there, how it's like to love a human... it's going to be lovely because I've heard how romantic they're.

 By this time tomorrow, I'm out of the pack for good. Going to start my life afresh, and when I'm married with kids, I will bring my family here to see my hometown.

 "Ma'am we're at the pack house," The driver said, and I smiled, paying him before getting down from the car.

 The packhouse was bustling with different cars everywhere. Today is going to be a big day, and I can't wait for it to end.

 "Emery?" Sunny's cheerful voice called me out as she ran towards me. Can she never not run?, I laughed.

 "I've been waiting outside for you, you look so so so so so so beautiful, baby," she screamed, forcing me to cover my ears.

 "You too, Sunny." She wore a short red dress that stopped below her thighs, revealing her goddess long legs. Her brown hair was combed neatly as it fell on her shoulders, covering her exposed back, not to mention her cute and pretty face. Gush, my friend is so beautiful, and Gamma Lucas will be so grateful to have her as his mate.

 "Let's go in, the place is just so full that I bet you're the last person coming in" She said making me laugh.

 We walked into the packhouse, and woah! The entire place is full, unlike yesterday. Gold Mist Pack is one of the most popular packs in North Central. We're populated compared to other minor packs and each year they keep renovating the packhouse to make it bigger for things like this.

 Everyone was dressed beautifully in different colored dresses, and I noticed that I'm the only one in a black dress. Was there a color of the day, and I wasn't informed?.

 Sunny led me to a table where the alpha's, beta's, gamma's, and their mates with other high-ranking wolves were seated. It was a large round table with chairs surrounding it as drinks and food were on it while they all chatted happily.

 I pulled her back, almost getting to where they were with a frown.

 "What are you doing?" I whispered, glancing at them briefly.

 "Trust me and just follow me," Sunny said as she pulled me closer.

 "Love," She called her mate, jumping on his arms as he wrapped his arms around her, kissing her softly.

 "Good evening, Alpha, Luna, Beta, and Gammas." I greeted the people I knew around the table with my head bowed slightly.

 "Emery." They called in respect.

 "Emery," Luna Alicia called me with a smile on her face. "Luna," I called back with a bow.

 "It's been long since I've seen you, how're you doing?"

 "I'm fine, Luna," It wasn't a surprise that the Luna was checking on me. This is who she was and how she has always been: lovely, sweet, and kind.

 "Emery, Meet Alpha Bruce of Silver Mist Pack, Alpha Lincoln, Beta Lawrence..." She started introducing them to me, and I immediately knew what she was doing-helping me find my mate.

 "It's an honor to meet you all, milords," I said, accepting their handshake one by one and getting to the last, my stomach tied up into a knot, and the same urge that forced me to say the word 'Mate' was begging to be set loose.

 I quickly pulled back in shock when a girl brushed past me, rushing to him.

"Mate!"

She shouted. My eyes narrowly moved to Emilia, who was at the table, and she had a frown on. She saw it too, she knows I felt it, I felt the bond, but it just wasn't mine but that of someone else.

 What's wrong with me? I removed my eyes from her, and it fell on Beta James, who was starring at me in some strange way, making my inner tighten.

 Geez Emery, what are you doing? They can smell your dirty arousal. Bowing at them again, I turned around and squired from their present without saying anything to Sunny.

Guess she brought me to the table to find my mate too. My legs found the dancing floor instead, but I wasn't going to dance. My dirty mind got me on this one, as my body wasn't relaxed.

 I needed to be touched, but why? I don't have a mate yet. Suddenly the music stopped as everywhere was silent, and I knew Alpha Roland was also about to say something. But nothing came, no talks, no sound, no music, nothing...nothing, just people around me in the hall.

 All of a sudden, the hairs in my body spranged up in acknowledgement to something as my heart raced loudly against my ribcage.

 My stomach tied into a deep knot as butterflies danced all around. Cold yet soft shivers ran down my spine as I felt the pull, a strong one, in-fact much stronger than anything.

I felt drawn to someone, and I immediately knew it wasn't from me, but still, I swept my head around in other to see who found their mate, but it landed on the unfamiliar face of a man in front of me.

 His side lip stretched slightly into a smile as we both stared at each other, and I swear....I swear I heard him mutter the word....

 "Mate"

 Holy heavens! My mate is here....!!

 But now no human world for me...fuck     

Emery's POV

 No, no no this can't be.

"Mate!" He called out again, drawing closer to me, and I stood rooted, staring at me. Am I dreaming or what?

"You're my mate?" I asked with a low voice. I'm not too sure that he's actually my mate, what if he was there when Emilia said that nonsense about me yesterday and he's just trying to tease me.

Even if he's pretending, one thing is for sure, my racing heart and anxiety. I feel so nervous and shy, like the ground should open up and swallow me.

He brought his hands close to me and brushed my cheeks sweetly, and I felt it, I felt the sparkles. I took two steps back away from him in shock. How's this even possible? I thought, I thought I was human? How am I feeling the sparkles?

 "You..."

I bit my lower lips, not knowing what to say, when I heard a low growl coming from him, forcing me to stare at his dark, pitch-black eyes. I opened my mouth to say something but was grabbed forcefully by someone shutting my mouth

"What are you doing, huh?" Came the voice of the rudest girl I have ever known... Cami.

She's Emilia's best friend and my second worst enemy. I do feel like she's the reason why my sister treats me the way she does, and I hate her for it.

"And who are you to question me?" I asked, staring back at her annoyingly.

 "Aren't you supposed to be home with your mother instead of playing around with boys?" She scoffed, eyeing the gentleman in front of me.

"And aren't you supposed to be with your mate instead of poking your nose into people's businesses, and oh, your mate is dead, I'm sorry"

 It feels so good getting back at her. Cami had her mate by 18, and she thought that was the end of the world for all of us, but unfortunately her mate lost his life on the battle field when she was 20, and ever since then she hasn't been with a mate.

She's a year older than us. "What did you say?" She asked, showing me the corner of her sharp canine, and I gulped hard but still kept my emotions neutral on the surface.

 "I said what you heard." We locked gazes at each other, and then she let out a melancholic laugh before bursting into tears holding her eyes.

 "Ahh!!" She shouted, and all of a sudden blood found its way down from her eyes. What the hell!!!

"Ahh!!" Everyone immediately gathered around us, and Cami crutched on the floor crying. Fuck, she's trying to manipulate them by acting all emotional and playing the victim.

"Cami, what happened to you?" Emilia rushed to her and kneeled in front of her, holding her tight.

"Oh, it hurts a lot, Emil," She cried out, and some people started casting their glance at me.

"Cami, come on, tell me...how did you hurt your eye?" Emilia pushed in.

 "What? I can't possibly hurt myself; it's all Emery's handwork." She wailed, and then I got everyone's full attention.

My palms immediately became sweaty as I rubbed them on my gown. The Alpha will punish me because he personally made a promise to Cami that he would be her supporter when her mate passed away and Cami almost died, but she survived, and her wolf hasn't been in full, her wolf is weak, but she's still a bit stronger than me anyway.

 "I didn't do any..."

"Oh will you shut it!" Emilia snapped at me.

"You know how fragile she's yet you're harming her!" Her face was squinted up in anger and I felt a pain in my chest.

My twin sister doesn't believe me, she's in support of what her best friend said. What if I had a wolf and lost it? Would everyone also show me pity like they show Cami and also care for me.

 "Believe me, I didn't harm her, why the hell are you lying, Cami??" I shouted, glaring hard at her.

 "Alpha you promised to come to my aid at all times, right?" Cami asked with a low voice, and I immediately glanced at the Alpha, who stared at me before returning his eyes back to Cami, and then he nodded.

 "Emery here is a threat, she has been the one inflicting all those scars on me, I'm so scared, I don't want to die by her hands...I want to die as Henry's mate, I miss him so much and..." She buried her face in Emilia's shoulders, crying loudly as everyone threw their angry glare at me, which I'm used to already, but today is different.

"Guards!!" Alpha Roland called after a while, and they immediately sprang forward.

"Seize Emery, I will tell you what will be her punishment later," He ordered and they immediately lunged at me.

"Touch her and kiss your lives goodbye!" A mighty voice said behind me, forcing everyone to stare at the man who has been watching silently all along.

 "Touch my mate, and I will kill you!"

"Alpha Kaiser," Alpha Roland called in disbelief, and I stumbled forward before starring at him.

No way!

Without knowing what to do, I turned around and took on my heels.

Alpha Kaiser POV

 I looked up at the sky from the car, staring at the stars and moon shining down brightly. This is my first time on Golden Mist Pack, and I would admit how beautiful it was.

Their facility was almost matching mine, while other packs still live in the past. Coming here wasn't my intention, but ever since I became ally with them, I had to accept their invitation.

 "Alpha," I heard my beta Lucky call out to me, and I turned towards him.

"So, we would no longer dominate this pack?" He laughed, and I smiled slowly. Yeah that was our intention from the start, raiding this pack and taking over, but each time we planned about it to attack them, I always feel a strange feeling like I would be losing something special to me, and it won't sit straight to me.

So I decided to become an ally with them to know that thing that's special to me that I haven't found.

"Too bad!" The car stopped in front of the pack house, and it was so magnificent, unlike other pack houses. I came along with my beta, and a young lady quickly ran to us.

"Good evening alpha, good evening, Beta, I'm Brianna, and I was asked to lead you in," She said with a plastered smile on her face, and I nodded at her before walking behind her.

Today is going to be one hell of a frustrating day because I personally I don't like parties; I don't like gatherings of people and crowds. I hate seeing lots of people gathering around me, but for my pack sake I adapted, while for others it's irritating and annoying.

We stepped into the hall, and everywhere immediately went silent. People stopped dancing and chatting, it was like they freeze and started starring at a particular place, and I wondered what was going on.

 I walked further when my legs stopped abruptly and turned towards a direction. A scent, a strange feminine scent, strawberry, and ocean blue.

My wolf Darkson leaped up to my front in excitement and shouted the word ,"Mate"

What the hell? Finding a mate wasn't part of my budget list. I don't want one, and I don't need it but still, the mate pull dragged me close to her, and starring at her from behind, I could tell how beautiful she was, but why? Why would I find my mate of all time now?

"Shut up, human, and touch her!" Darkson jumped up happily.

"What the hell, Darkson, have you forgotten so quickly?" I asked him, and he stopped suddenly going quiet before scoffing.

She was shorter, and her black glittering gown was all for it, I felt the urge to touch her so she could look up at me, when she turned around and my breath seized.

"Mate!" The words left my mouth subconsciously, and I could see shock written all over her.

She kept quiet, starring at me with her strange yellow fleeks eyes, then she said, "You're my mate?"

She asked with her voice low, but I heard it, and for some odd reason she didn't look convinced by my word. Isn't her wolf supposed to say it to her too, or are Darkson and I mistaken.

 "What? I can't be mistaken, she's our mate," He said. Without replying to her, my hands went up to her cheeks, brushing them slightly as the sparks ran through my entire body. I saw it in her too because she titled her neck sideways, enjoying it.

"You..." She paused and bit on her lower lip as my body immediately heated up by her action.

I wanted to have her, and I needed her to be marked by me badly, but fuck I can't, I can't have a mate. A low growl escaped my lips before I could stop it, and she raised her head, starring at me.

I wanted to ask for her name when she opened her mouth to say something, and then an ugly-looking girl grabbed her from behind forcefully.

The girl stared at me lustfully, and Darkson roared, not liking the stranger any bit.

"What are you doing, huh?" I heard her ask my mate, and...oh fuck I'm already addressing her as my mate.

"And who are you to question me?" My mate retorted.

Ooh, she's a tough girl, human," Darkson sounded happy. I was about to pull her to my side when my Beta walked to my side and pulled me back.

"The elders are in our pack," He said and I frowned. What do they want this time around,

 "Why?" "I don't know, but it looks urgent," He replied. I opened my mouth to say something when I heard a loud cry forcing me to turn around, thinking it was from my mate, but no, it came from the ugly girl.

 She was on the floor crying with blood spilling from her eyes. I glanced at my mate, who looked pissed as her eyes were fixed on the girl, and in a matter of time we were surrounded by everyone in the hall.

My eyes didn't leave my mate as the commotion broke out, and I stared at both her and the other girl arguing with my mate, without being told, I knew they were with their similar resemblance.

"Believe me, I didn't harm her, why the hell are you lying, Cami?" My mate shouted frustratingly, and with the looks of everything she isn't loved in her pack and anger surged through me.

I don't want to be a part of all this show, and it's just so frustrating to stare at. I glanced at my Beta about to take my leave when I heard Roland's voice.

 "He's seizing our mate!" Darkson pumped in anger, and I glanced at him.

Is he and every other person in the favor of that girl?. I saw the guards launch at my mate, and I growled, saying, "Touch her and kiss your life goodbye" I sounded cold and authoritative, and they stopped as all eyes were fixed on me.

"Touch my mate and die". My word was final, and I met all of it.

"Alpha Kaiser?" Alpha Roland called out to me surprisingly, and everyone immediately looked shocked as they back away from both me and my mate.

She turned at me, shock was also written all over her, and something in me tightened up. Without her saying anything to me, she turned around and ran away.

"Chase her human," Darkson shouted.

Shit!!!