Sold to the Alpha

Settling In

'Soooooo' Chloe grinned, 'tell me all about yourself! don't leave anything out, I want to know everything!' she threw herself down on her elbows and stared at Charity, giving her best, I'm completely listening to you, pose.

Charity couldn't help but smile, Chloe's friendliness was infectious and having spent so many years being beaten and broken she ached for the friendship that exuded from Chloe as she lay on her bed looking expectant.

'There isn't much to tell' replied Charity, lowering herself onto her own bed and gasping at how soft it felt beneath her, 'My mother passed away when I was five years old, my father tried to raise me alone but felt I needed a woman's input so remarried a few years later, my father passed away when I was in my early teens leaving me with my stepmother and her children, she found Alpha Alistair and they agreed to me coming here'

Charity purposefully glossed over the horror that was her life, having only just met Chloe she didn't want to scare her off with her story, especially as she was the only person to show her friendship in years.

Chloe smiled, 'So are you full werewolf? or half?' she asked, 'I'm full' she boasts before hurriedly saying 'but it doesn't matter if you are half honest!'  Charity eyes dropped, 'i'm human' she replied, suddenly worried that this would be a huge issue.  A still silence followed her words before a shriek filled the room, 'NO WAY!' Chloe squealed, 'I've never met a full human before! mum would never let me anywhere near, cos you know. .', she tossed her hair over her shoulder and said in a high pitched scolding voice. 'humans just want to kill us, and all that jazz.' Chloe rolled her eyes and then laughed before bouncing off the bed and hugging Charity tightly, 'this is so awesome, I can't believe I got picked to have the human roommates! I expect you to tell me all about humans and what you do, where you like to go for fun, and the BOYS! are they dishy? do you just melt at their gaze? do you have that pull when you find your mate like us?' 

Charity burst out laughing at the eagerness written all over her new roommates face and held up her hands to calm her down, 'OK!' she giggled, 'I promise I'll tell you what humans are like, but I guarantee it's not that interesting, I'm sure living with werewolves is much cooler than us boring humans, you do fight training and are all super fit and . . you can turn into wolves . . ' she whispered the last part, suddenly feeling in awe of the young girl in front of her that she suddenly realised had the ability to turn into a creature that could rip her apart in the blink of an eye.  Obviously sensing her sudden unease, Chloe smiled soothingly, 'hey, we do all that, but we don't just like attack people! and never our own pack unless that person does something so terrible it cannot be forgiven, like I don't know, attempt to murder the Alpha, even those that go against the pack get banished rather than like killed!'.

Charity blushed, realising her thoughts must have been obvious and was relieved that Chloe didn't seem to have taken her hesitancy the wrong way.  'Thank you for being so nice' she said looking at Chloe, 'I was really worried about coming here and being so different to you all that no-one would want me here.' she looked down at her hands so that Chloe couldn't see the tears that had suddenly sprung to her eyes.  Charity was suddenly overwhelmed with the realisation that she had literally had no-one for all these years, and to suddenly have a girl who was so different to her accept her and befriend her with no qualms at all broke down part of the wall that she had built around herself all those years ago.  Before she knew it, Charity was sobbing like her heart would break, Chloe gasped and ran to her bed, throwing her arms around her protectively.  'It's OK' she whispered, 'you are safe here Charity and I will always have your back, we are roomies, that means we are best friends . . BESTIES!!'  Charity couldn't help but laugh through her tears at the vehement way Chloe had shouted besties like she was binding it in a blood ritual or something.  'Besties' she replied, 'i'd really like that'.

Suddenly the bedroom door crashed open causing both girls to shriek in shock and Chloe to topple backwards into a heap on the floor, arms and legs flying.  Gathering herself up she glanced toward the door and yelled 'Kimmy! how many times! you are to knock before you come in! I could have been getting changed!', a young girl of about 12 years old with long brown hair tied up in a ponytail, had entered the room looked completely unbothered by the older girls shouting, 'what?' she asked, feigning innocence, 'it's not like you'd have a boy in here is it . . . mateless!' and then laughed and dodged out the way as Chloe threw a pillow at her head.  'Get out little miss can't shift before I come over there and make you' she glowered and when the young girl didn't move, started to walk menacingly toward the door until the child squealed and ran.  

Laughing, Chloe shut the door again, 'sorry about that,' she said grinning, 'little sisters, can't live with them . . yeah, that's pretty much it, you can't live with them!'.  Charity smiled, 'she's your sister? that must be such fun, is she your only sibling?', Chloe smiled and replied, 'nope, There is Connor, my eldest brother who is 19, he and his mate Melanie live in the married quarters, then me, my sister Christine who is 15, then my brother Caleb, 14, and finally Kimmy who is 12, I think my mum ran out of C names by the time she came along' she laughed before plopping herself back down on her bed.  Charity just stared at her, imagining how wonderful life would have been if she had so many siblings with her.

A loud knock startled her from her thoughts, 'come in' called Chloe and sat up.  The door opened to reveal a tall athletically built man with short rugged black hair and a powerful jawline, he stepped in and said 'Chloe, Alpha has asked that you take the new girl . . 'his voice trailed off as his eyes connected with Charity's. . . 

Charity felt her heart skip and her skin raise in goosebumps as the piercing blue eyes of the stranger met her own, from somewhere deep in her mind she heard a single word

'MATE!'