Healing Alpha's Heart

Seeing two people who love each other almost lose their chance at being together, because they were too stubborn to see the truth and trust in the moon Goddess to lead them down the right path makes you question things, and makes you see things a bit differently. I love my brother and sister-in-law, but I always thought that they were stupid to almost lose their chance at true love for stupid reasons like a duty to the pack and politics. Don't get me wrong, I love my pack and all that, but there is no way that I would ever miss a chance at true love, at my destined mate like that. Sorry not sorry, alpha and pack, but nothing will stand in my way between true love and me. Seeing my sister-in-law, Valerie turn down her chance to be with my brother Colin, just because it was better for her father's pack, the same pack that tried to kill her that same day, made me see things a bit differently and I guess it is no surprise that I made a little pack with myself a few when I was sixteen and it was happening in front of me. It also did not help the case that I was always a hopeless romantic, who sighed over every fairy tale and romantic story that I had read over the years. But hey what else a girl got to do when she was born with a disease that no one in your pack knows how to heal? If would have been born like that let's say fifty years ago, I would have been left to die in the woods after I was born, because the pack had no use to a sick wolf, even if they were born in the alpha family. Hell, I am sure there were moments when my father thought of that himself, but he never had the chance to do anything about that because my mother, the stubborn woman she was, made it clear that she would love me and raise me no matter what. That is the only memory of her that I have of her because we lost them when I was six and my brother was sixteen. So yeah... call it trauma or filling a hole left by not being raised by my parents... or maybe a delusion... but I promised myself that no matter what, I would never turn down a chance for love. I guess it is mostly because I never felt like I belonged and there is no place you belong more than next to your soulmate, right? Sure my brother loved me to no end, but there was always the pack and the immense responsibility that fell on his shoulders when he was far too young for it. My pack saw me more as a burden than anything else. I was told that to my face on multiple occasions. In their eyes, I was just a sick kid who would never be of use to the pack and that only uses up pack resources. It is a fun thing to hear when you are eight, right? No one said any of that to me when Colin was around because they knew that they would be dead the second those words would leave their mouths. Instead, they would make me aware of my uselessness when my brother was away on his missions and jobs, which he took up to make enough money to keep the pack afloat. So I was left in the care of the pack that did not want me and made it their mission to make me see how useless I was. Okay, that sounds a bit mean, and I am probably remembering like that because they hurt my feelings, but looking back at it right now I think they were just trying to prevent me from getting my hopes up about my future because who would want a sickly wolf for a mate? A mate that could not take care of a home or their kids on her own. Who would want a wolf that could barely make it through the day without help? But still, their words stuck with me in a completely different light. Good thing that my brother never gave up on the hope of healing me and he succeeded, to an extent. Sure the illness I had was a very rare gene mutation that made me much more susceptible to all sorts of diseases as well as a lot weaker physically, but he found a treatment that battled the main issue, the main disease that made my life living hell when I was a kid. It was a lung infection that I got when I was born. There was very little research on it and our pack was never very advanced or interested in medical things, the general principle of survival of the strongest applied to daily life more than anything, so my brother went out of his way to search for a way to help me. He found a healer who specialized in breathing and lung problems, but they were in the Phoenix pack. And this is how we ended up in the Pheonix pack. This is how my brother met his destined mate Valery and their story was a mess of its own... But this is also how I met my destined mate. Did I know that he was my destined mate the first time I saw him as I expected? No... not really, but this was not the only thing that went as I imagined it would happen. Well, the first problem was that the first time I saw my destined mate, the man who was supposed to be mine, who was supposed to love me and all that, he had his hands wrapped around his girlfriend at the time. That very same night, he proposed to her on stage in front of everyone... so I guess I should have taken that as a sign that this would not be as easy as I expected it to be, but I am not afraid of a challenge.