Prince Damian's Fairy Mate

Cassidy I’ve been a little sad lately. Why? Let’s see… first I lost my best friend Mandy when we graduated high school a few months ago. Her parents’ car veered off the side of the hill with the three of them inside. They didn’t survive. I cried so much. Mandy was the only one person in this whole world who understood me. She and I had been friends since we were kids, and now she is just gone. I know… it’s been months already, but I still don’t seem to believe it. I miss her so much. And that’s not even the half of my troubles. I just turned 20 like two weeks ago, and I still haven’t gotten my wolf yet. I was sure that when I turned twenty she would come but still nothing. Mom keeps trying to help me connect with her but, I just… I don’t know. Mom says my wolf is there, I just need to break through to her, but every time I do what she says it just doesn’t work. And the craziest part is that I don’t even feel anything there. I don’t feel her… my wolf. Is something wrong with me? I stand up from the side of my bed where I had been sitting and walk over to peer through my window to the outside. The sky outside is brightly lit by a full moon up there. It looks kinda beautiful actually. That reminds me, tonight is the alpha ceremony here at the packhouse but I don’t even feel like going. Simon is taking the Alpha mantle from his Dad, Alpha Eric, and I know every pack member is supposed to attend, but I think I’ll just hide here in my room till its over. I don’t want to go out there. Everybody knows I’m the only wolfless 20-year-old in this pack, and they don’t really seem to shut up about it either. I wish Mandy was here. That girl was my ride or die. If she was still around here with me, I’m sure I wouldn’t even care about the whispers I hear everywhere. But now that I’m all by myself, I’d best just stay out of their radar. It’s a good thing I won’t be here in this godforsaken place for much longer. I’m starting college in two days time. I got accepted into the most prestigious college on this side of the kingdom. The Blueridge College for the gifted. It’s just off the edge of town, and it’s where all supernatural students from all over the kingdom converge. Since the Moon Goddess hasn’t given me a wolf, and it seems my chances at ever finding my true love are so very thin, it looks like I will just have to be a nerd when I get over to that college. But even Mom never met her fated mate, but she still ended up falling in love. So I guess I don’t have to be this extra about being wolfless. But still, Moon Goddess what’s going on? Why haven’t you come through for me yet? What in the heavens is the hold up with my wolf?? I look up at the brilliant full moon in the sky while thinking this. “Cas, are you home?” I hear Mom’s voice from the living room and it makes me turn around. “I brought pizza!” she adds. Oh thank Goddess I was starving, so I hurry up across my room towards the door. My Mom is a nurse. She has morning and afternoon shifts at the hospital, and she is pretty much my best friend. If it wasn’t for her these past few months, I have no idea how I would have gotten over losing Mandy. Mom and I have really gotten so close lately. We weren’t always like that before. Ever since we lost Dad in that rogue attack seven years ago, she and I kinda grew apart as we processed what had happened. We were still close, but we weren’t as tight as we are right now. It seems it took losing my best friend to reconnect with her again. That’s pretty much the only good thing that has happened to me lately, reconnecting with Mom. She is amazing. I quickly enter into the living room and I meet her just as she enters from the door on the other side. I see the box of pizza in her hand and it makes me smile and hurry towards her… I’m starving. “I will take this,” I say, and take it from her hand. “Why aren’t you changed dear? The ceremony is almost starting,” she says, throwing me a look as she takes off her shoes. “Oh, that… I don’t think I’ll go,” “Why not?” she says. “Because I hate being given the stares Mom, my presence there will probably just ruin the party for everyone, it’s best if I don’t go,” I tell her. “Oh my sweet Cassie, don’t beat yourself up like that. What anybody thinks about you doesn’t matter, let them talk. And besides you will be with me, and you know I will cut a b***h down if they so much as look at you wrong,” she says. I look at her and chuckle. Yeah, my Mom just said that. She gets extra sometimes. but I think she’s just trying to cheer me up, and it’s working. Because all of a sudden, I don’t care about anyone out there. I’ll go and try to have some fun as Simon becomes our new Alpha. Besides, this is pretty much the last pack event that I will attend here before I go off to college the day after tomorrow. I might as well just have the time of my life. And who knows, it’s a brilliant full moon outside… maybe tonight is when my wolf makes her long awaited appearance, right? Mom kinda knows just what to say to make me feel better, doesn’t she? I look over at her and send her a slight smile. “Okay, we’ll go together then,” I say. She smiles. “But first, I’m going to devour this pizza, I’m starving,” I add. “Okay you do that while I go take a shower, then we’ll leave,” she says. “Okay.” While Mom walks off to her bedroom, I open the fridge and grab my fruit juice box container. I pour some onto a glass and then return the rest before walking over to the dining table. I open the box of pizza and it stares back at me looking all delicious, and so I dig right in and sit on the chair. As I bite into the slice, I can’t help but really wish that my wish could come true. That I could just get my wolf tonight. A full moon night is usually when our connection to our wolves is the strongest. So when I get out there under the full moon, I will try to reach out to her again. Oh Goddess I really hope this is it. Please let tonight be the night. Please… pretty please.