Chapter 140
After feeding Asher, I know that there can’t be anymore stalling. As much as I’m dying to feel our mate
bond snap into ce, I’m still a bit nervous about the change. When I drudgingly make the descent
down the stairs, Den is waiting for me with his devastatingly, handsome smile. He, along with others,
think this is a good thing happening, but it’s not them that it’s happening to.
Cici, bless her heart, argued with me for twenty minutes before I went up to feed my son, wanting to be
at the training field when the change takes ce. Her exact words were, “I am your best friend, through
thick and thin, good times and bad times, always and forever. I’m going to be there whether you want
me to or not!” Even me threatening to use my Lunamand on her didn’t deter her, so I reluctantly
agreed. Of course, because we don’t know if it will be dangerous, Spencer insists on being there as
well, you know, to protect his mate.
Only seeing Den at the bottom of the steps, gets my hopes up in that maybe my best friend changed
her mind, “Are you ready?” Den asks as he holds out his hand for me to take.
“Does it really matter if I’m not?” I chuckle dryly.
“Hey, this may be a good thing. Yeah, there is going to be drama thates with it, but we will handle it
together.” He takes hold of my chin and lifts it, so he can brush his lips against mine.
“Hey, are we chopped liver? She has us as well!” Cici’s loudmouthes from down the hallway.
When I turn to look at her, she’s carrying a huge bag of popcorn and a six-pack of beer, “What in the
world are you doing with all
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that?”
“What? You don’t think I’m just going to sit and watch you go through this change without having my
favorite snack!” she responds with a wink.
“This isn’t a f*cking movie, Cici, this is my life!” I snicker.
“Well, it should be. It’d make for a great streaming movie!” She grins and both malesugh.
“Life must be very interesting for you with this firecracker as your mate, Spence!” Den ps my Beta
on the shoulder.
“Oh, you have no idea!” Spencerughs.
“Okay, okay, enough of making fun of Cici,” my friend says dryly, “It’ s time to go watch Luna turn into
Super Luna…..”
“Really? Super Luna?” I c*ck a brow at her.
“Hey, I find it kinda hot!” Den grins as he pulls me towards the door.
“Yeah, until she w**ops up on your a*s, Alpha!” Cici gives Den a cheesy a*s grin.
“Nothing wrong with that, as long as we can have make up sex afterwards and she allows me to
dominate her again.” He brings my hand up to his lips and kisses it.
I gasp, “Den!”
“Oh nice,” my best friend fist bumps my boyfriend over him dominating me, “I love it when Spence
makes me his b*tch in the bedroom.”
I face palm myself, “Why am I even friends with you Cici? You are
way too much sometimes!”
“Because you looove me!” She jumps up and drops a kiss on my cheek before s*ipping ahead of us.
I smirk, “I honestly wonder why and question my sanity some. days.”
When we round the bend that opens up to the field, I notice others are already here. I stop and look up
at Den, questioningly. It was only supposed to be the two of us because I don’t want anybody to get
hurt, but now there are ten other people here to witness my change.
“What are they all doing here?”
He shrugs, “They wanted to be here to support you, and I thought it would be a good idea. I’m sorry for
not telling you but you would have argued with me.”
“What if I hurt them by ident?”
“We don’t even know what’s going to take ce. It may be a boring ordeal where nothing physically
happens, or it can be a s*it show. Either way, they all love you and want to be here for you regardless.”
I stare off in the distance where Amelia, my G*mma couple, Storm River’s Beta couple, and Head
Warrior with his mate, and Alpha Deke are all standing and chatting with one another. They must sense
our approach because they all turn and wave at us.
Rolling my eyes, I continue forward until I’m standing in front of the small group with my hands on my
hips, “Is it that hard to follow orders?”
“Maybe next time you should roll out your Lunamand,” Deke chuckles, “Not that it would have
worked on me.” He pulls me in and squeezes me, Happy birthday, Luna!”
“Thank you…”
They each take turns pulling me into their arms and wishing me a happy birthday. Carter is thest to
pull me in, and I just can’t help myself; I start to scream and curl into myself.
“What the f*ck?” The Beta jumps back holding his arms up.
“It’s starting! Oh, my Goddess, the pain!” I drop to the ground and start thrashing. There are gasps all
around and everybody, but Den, is staring in horror.
Den crosses his arms and smirks, “Stop f*cking with them, Quinn. You’re scaring them.”
“I stop and re up at him, “Seriously, you are such a party pooper!”
“What?” Multiple voices say at once.
“How did you know?” I ask him as he holds his hand out to help me off the ground.
“Duke ratted you out. T didn’t want him to be concerned unlike you with me.” His snidement
makes me chuckle.
“That’s what you all get for not listening to me!” I huff.
“Oh, em gee, you’re such a b*tch!” Cici shoves me, “But seriously, that was awesome acting; I give you
a ten!”
They all startying into me as I stand here andugh. I notice Den straighten up and then look at
his watch and then at me,
and as soon as our eyes meet, I feel it. Actually, I feel a couple of things, but first and for most, I feel
the fated mate bond snap into ce at the same time his scent hits me ten-fold.
“Mate!” Both T and Duke growl out, but before we can celebrate, there is a warmth that starts in the
pit of my stomach.
My hand automatically goes to my stomach, and Den watches, knowing what it is that I’m feeling. I
don’t know how I know this, but I do. The warmth grows slowly, and it almost feels like when I was I
was pregnant and Asher would move around in the
beginning, just a little flutter.
The others haven’t noticed; they are too excited about us being mates, but Den never takes his eyes
off me. His own hand mimics mine and is ced over his abs. He nods slightly, like he’s telling me that
he can feel it and that it’s going to be okay.
The warmth grows into what I can only describe as a me, flickering at first, but it doesn’t hurt; it’s like
something is trying toe out and whatever it’s in, is stretching. I must gasp or make a sound
because the others finally take notice. Neither Den nor I can look away from each other, and I
wonder if this is how it’s supposed to happen.
“Is it starting?” I hear Cici question, but I can’t speak, I can’t even nod my head.
I do hear myself whimper, though, just as the stretchinges to aplete stop. Everything halts, as
if on pause, and just like my mother’s notes say, it’s an ufortable feeling.
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“Uh, how, about we all get back a little bit,” Alpha Deke suggests, “Something big is about to happen
and I don’t want to be caught in
it.”
I see them all move in my peripheral vision, and I thank the
Goddess that at least one of them had enough sense to move everyone back. Suddenly, like a bubble
bursting, whatever it is that built up inside of me, frees itself and I drop to all fours. The same thing
happens to my mate. I can’t say it hurts per se, but it definitely doesn’t tickle.
As though we are shifting for the first time, our bones begin to realign themselves. I can hear Den’s
doing the same as mine and I nce over at him. He’s got a curious expression as he returns my
stare. I watch as Duke emerges, or at least I think it’s Den’s wolf. He’s got the same deep shade of
ck and looks just like Duke, only much bigger!
Gasps go all around as I paw at the ground. When I turn to the group, I am eye-to-eye with Alpha
Deke, and he’s a tall guy! Poor Cici looks like a little person and onlyes up to maybe the middle of
my chest.
“Holy s*it, you two are monstrous!” My friend stares up at us in wonder.
“They are gorgeous!” Deke states as a slow grin appears on his face, “D*mn cousin, I won’t be messing
with you anymore!”
“The two of you truly do look like royalty. I…” Carter doesn’t get to finish what he’s saying because in
this moment a quietness rushes through field and I feel some kind of other bond snapping into ce
and suddenly, everyone that came to watch the change drops to a knee and bows their head. “I feel it,”
Carter states excitedly, “I feel the pull to both of you, the power that you hold as Queen and King!”
“As do I!” Alpha Deke grins, “The legend is real; the two of you now rule over us all!”
“Oh great, just what I really wanted.” I state with an eyeroll and
then gasp just as the others do, “Did I just say that out loud?”
They all stare at me in amazement as they nod, and then they nce at Den, “This is actually sort of
cool.” I gasp again when I see and hear the wordse out of his mouth. Well, technically, Duke’s
mouth but it’s Den’s voice.
“Where is Duke, can he talk out loud too?” I ask. T is already in my head telling me what I want to
know but I want to hear it for myself.
“Yes, I’m here.” Comes a rough and s*xy voice.
“Hello, Duke.” It’s T thates forward to greet her new King.
“My Queen…” Duke bows down to me and T and Iugh.
“Uh, can we get up now?” Cici asks with a little irritation in her
voice.
When I look over, I see that they are all still on a knee, “Oh, I’m sorry. I’m still learning all of this s*it.
Stand…” It’s the onlymand that pops into my head at the moment, but it releases them, “Well this
is going to get old really fast if I have to keep doing this with everybody.” I groan.
Delcan chuckles and nuzzles my cheek with his own, “I think you will get used to it.”
“I don’t mean to break this up, but should we go and let the rest of the pack know what’s going on? I
mean I’m sure they all felt what we felt and are probably wondering what is going on.” Spencer, who
has been quiet this whole time, finally speaks up.
“I guess you’re right, and then we should probably head over to Storm River and let them all know that
their true Luna and Queen has arrived,” Den grins at me, “but first, I believe we have a
mating and marking to go through before we do anything, don’t you agree?” His brow quirks as he
waits for my answer.
“Well, what are you waiting for? Last one to the house has to cook breakfast for a week!” I state and
then take off, once again knowing that I’m going win because nobody wants me in the kitchen cooking.
Sorry about only the one chapter, but I had family stuff to attend this weekend, but I did give you a
much longer chapter because of it. I hope you enjoyed it! =)