The Indifferent Luna 1 - Austan wolf

Adjusting to the Kirjan clan and my new mistress’s home wasn’t much of a task. She was rather kind and I made sure not to offend her since I had a bad habit of remembering only bad encounters with people. I had written to my parents the day after I arrived but never got a response, not that I expected any, I was perfectly satisfied here, no one expected too much from me other than me fulfilling my duties of cleaning the house. Thus no one knew of the fact that I had no wolf.

As painful as the thought of that sounds, I have to go on with my life, I have been blessed with gifts too after all, it was just a little different. I told myself this many times to console myself.

As for the house and the weird scent of my mate that it reeked of, I never went back there. In fact, I avoided it altogether, I had no desire for trouble or adventure, and being an Alpha’s mate I fear would give me just that.

“Silveen!”

I stood up from under the short tree, where I had been sitting lost in my thoughts when I heard Lady Freya call my name and I rushed into the house, lifting my maid dress as I did, to prevent it from tripping me over.

The house was a duplex building with the Gamma’s master bedroom and visitor’s room situated upstairs, the small kitchen and living room were downstairs, and under the stairs was a small empty room, which became mine the moment I arrived. The gamma and his mate had no children yet and the only other person who helped around the house was Marie, a short heavy set woman with a beautiful bright smile, she was mated with cubs and so always went back to her family at night.

“Lady Freya, you called me?” I asked humbly as I walked in through the side door which led past the front of my room to the living room. I met her at the bottom of the stairs all dressed up.

She had always been one to want to get to know me better but I always avoided her.

“You are like a little sister to me.” She had said to me when I first arrived and wanted to know what my childhood was like. But as we already know, I had a secret that I would rather not disclose, so I shrugged her off with an ‘it wasn’t bad’ speech. But I liked her very much in my own way, even though she didn’t know that.

“Yes,” She said, eyeing my outfit.

“Go change into something more befitting, I have been invited by the Alpha’s mother for brunch and I want you to go with me.”

My heart skipped a beat at her words and I began to fidget on the spot.

“What are you waiting for Silveen? Go on.”

“Lady Freya, I haven’t been feeling too well, I....”

“No more excuses Silveen, if I didn’t know better, I’d say, you are avoiding the Alpha’s house.”

“Well, you don’t know better,” I thought to myself as I tried hard not to bat an eyelash at her because that was exactly what I was doing and that was how I had been avoiding the Alpha’s house since my arrival. I always feigned an illness whenever Lady Freya invited me to go with her and trust me when I say she practically lived there.

It didn’t take long after my arrival five days ago to realize that Lady Freya worshiped the previous Luna and loved to spend every little time she had with her, so imagine how she would feel right now that the Old Luna invited her over.

As for me, It wasn’t that I didn’t want to meet my mate, I was just scared. A lot was going on in my life right now, that was out of the ordinary, in fact, nothing in my life had ever been ordinary, not the fact that my parents didn’t love me, nor that none of my siblings wanted to associate with me, even while I lived with them and no one had fought for me while I was being sent away. I loved the ghost life I lived here and I didn’t want anything ruining it.

“You are going.” Lady Freya ordered in an authoritative voice that she rarely used, as if in response to my thoughts. I could only sigh helplessly, tension building in my chest as I walked back to my tiny room below the stairs.

The room was big enough for a tiny wardrobe that wasn’t big enough to contain my belongings; the medium-sized bed, which was now mine was placed directly opposite the door; a vanity mirror with a bedside drawer below it was placed beside the bed. A small door was just beside the wardrobe, which led to the small bathroom I used.

I looked through my bag which was at the foot of the wardrobe. I owned no nice clothes, all the ones I had were given to me by my siblings, back at home and they were not good enough, especially when I might be meeting him for the first time. I began to look through the wardrobe at the clothes Lady Freya had given me.

“Who could he be?” I asked myself, murmuring as I ransacked my room anxiously looking for a better outfit.

“I hope he is not the Alpha,” I said to myself, even though I knew that I was probably just deceiving myself. The only man who lived in that mansion was the Alpha and his mother, who is a woman and cannot be my mate.

“What am I doing? He wouldn’t even look at me! I am an omega for crying out loud!” I said in frustration as I threw aside the clothes I had chosen.

“He’s our mate! Of course, he would accept us.”

I heard a bitter voice lash out in the back of my head, I looked around the room confused, and seeing no one there I frowned.

“Just great, now I’m hearing things.”

I said to myself as I shook my head wearily, picking up the casual dress I had thrown, going to put it on now, deciding to stay within my rank in the pack and avoiding pipe dreams of any sort. The Alpha could choose his mate after all and it wouldn’t be me and God help me, there was no way I was adding the fight for a man to the list of my troubles.

I walked out of my messed up room, locking it behind me to hide the terrible sight of the mess I had made, and walked back into the living room to see Lady Freya smiling at me. She walked to me, pulled a small comb out of her purse, and began to comb my messy red hair, then packed it into a ponytail.

“Thank you, Lady Freya,” I said, wondering why she had a comb in her bag.

She only smiled at me in response, “You know sometimes, I forget that you are still just a child,”

She said and I resisted the urge to roll my eyes, what was it with this pack and calling younger people children? She was in her early twenties for crying out loud?

“Come on, we can’t afford to keep her waiting.” Lady Freya said again, drawing me away from my thoughts as she hurried off holding her blue satin dress with one hand and her purse with another.

I followed after her, patting my neatly packed hair which I tried to glance at through the bronze shield by the door. “Maybe I should have put some lipstick on or something,” I said to myself as I looked at my bland face for a second before running off to catch up with my mistress.

***

The journey to the Alpha’s home wasn’t a long one, so we actually decided to walk through it. Lady Freya seemed to be in an excellent mood as she got herself busy greeting the people we met on the street. I, on the other hand, knew no one, except of course Marie, who worked with me at the house. I never wandered around because the last thing I needed right now was to meet him in some forest or even on the street while I was busy looking around, so I just settled for the small tree behind the house.

And yes, he was occupying most of my thoughts these days, I mean what else could occupy the thoughts of a teenage wolf like me if it wasn’t the thoughts of her mate who she was desperately trying all she could to stay away from?

The smell of the ocean, filling my nose was what brought me back to reality and I knew I was here, at his home. A tall and beautiful female servant opened the front door for us and we walked into the mansion.

Someone here certainly had exquisite taste, I thought as I looked closely at the dark and golden striped drapes that lined up the bow window of the hallway, and the expensive floral displays that were placed in strategic places as decoration. If I didn’t know better, I would assume this was an art museum or gallery.

What would it feel like to live here? I couldn’t help but wonder as I took in deep breaths trying to contain the twirl of excitement in my stomach as the scent of him got stronger.

“It’s beautiful, isn’t it? No matter how many times I come here, I never seem to get enough of the beauty and peace this house brings.” Lady Freya said to me smiling as she closed her eyes and breathed in the air.

She was right. It felt peaceful and safe here, in a way that I had never felt before but somehow, it wasn’t the decorations that brought about that feeling, it was his presence here.

“Ah. Freya, you made it. Good, I thought I would have to go to the meeting without you.” We heard Luna Misheal say as she walked, along the corridor towards us, followed by a big boned woman who was obviously her right-hand maid.

“Luna.” Lady Freya greeted, bowing a little as she did, I followed suit after taking a good look at the luna.

She was a tall woman with shoulder-length white hair, wrinkles hadn’t quite found their way to her face yet, but of course, that was no surprise as we werewolves aged slowly. She had the stance of a warrior and I would be damned if she hadn’t fought and won many battles. Her eyes however had the perfect shade of sky blue, making her look exceedingly stunning. She had the perfect look for a Luna and whoever becomes the new Luna would of course have to compete with this look.

I thought as I wondered about myself, I was a pure contrast to her, I wasn’t as tall as many my age and I had not the slightest idea what combat was nor how to defend myself in a fight. My red mane, large brown eyes, and thin lips were also a contrast to hers. she was more good-looking than me in every way possible, I thought to myself sadly.

“I see you brought someone.”

“Yes, this is Silveen, she’s my new maid.”

I stepped forward and bowed my head to the old Luna, as Lady Freya introduced me. She stared at me intensely for a while before she spoke.

“I have never seen you around here”.

“Oh, she’s from Estradol, her father sent her to me as a maid because she is a troublesome child” Lady Freya replied lightly and I frowned a little at her statement as it was the first time I was hearing such an excuse.

Was that the excuse Father had given her for sending me away? how convenient that must be for him.

“You’re welcome to the pack then,” Luna Misheal said to me, a faint smile appearing on her face.

“Thank you, Luna,” I whispered, barely finding my voice.

“Your hair, is it natural?”

“hun?” I looked at her confused then realized she was talking about the color.

“Yes. Yes it is”

“It’s beautiful.” She said and my cheeks blushed pink.

“Thank you, Luna.”

“You can help Mathilda around the house, while you wait for your mistress, we have some duties we need to attend to,” Luna Misheal said hastily, a seriousness filling her voice as if she hadn’t just given a compliment.

“But Luna, I thought we would stay in the house and chat over tea?” Lady Freya said in an almost tiny voice, I could tell she really adored the old Luna and didn’t want to offend her in any way.

“Not today Freya. Let’s go.”

Was all the Old Luna said in response, before leaving the house, walking past us. Lady Freya gave me a concerned glance before rushing after her, reminding me of how I had done the same earlier. I guess everyone had someone they feared.

“Let’s go, Silveen.” I heard the big boned woman, who was obviously Mathilda say to me, before turning around and walking down the hallway. I followed quickly.