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Chapter 4

Sapphire

I run straight to Emily’s house. I can smell cookies and the door is open. I shift back into Mila’s human form, but I stay upfront. Before I open the door, Emily is standing there. She knows it was me.

“Sapphire, what’s wrong?” she says, sounding worried.

“We got a man whore as a mate from that new pack. And they want to come here to see the town,” I say with a growl.

Emily looks at me, stunned. “Mate, you found your mate. Sapphire, does Mila know?” She asks. I shake my head. “No, I was going to tell her until he spoke about bedding another woman and taking her as his mate instead of us. Mila already hates wolves. He will only make it worse. ”

Emily looks stunned, but whiffles her head.

“We need to tell my dad. Can Mila hear us?” She asks.

I shake my head. “No, I blocked her. I blocked the bond. She couldn’t tell.”

I am a powerful wolf and Mila knows that, but I only know to use a few of them. Emily also knows the powers we have, but she thinks we should not tell George yet till we know what other powers we have. My powers are slowly coming in. I think when Mila turns 18, which is in a few days, we will know more about what we can do.

I hate lying to Mila, but I was told by the Moon Goddess to protect Mila at all costs. I don’t know what happened to her, but I trust the Moon Goddes.

I look at Emily as she gets her phone out to call George. I can start to feel Mila trying to break through again.

Emily gets off the phone and sighs, “Dad thinks we should keep it from Mila till she turns 18. As for her mate, he has been in a meeting with a few council members about the pack that moved in. Dad doesn’t want them to come to the town as many of the supernatural beings here hate wolves. However, they are still considering it as it might help with the whole rogue situation. The new pack seems to be looking for someone, but we have no clue about who they are looking for yet.”

I sigh. “I best let Mila come through. She has been trying to break through."

I close my eyes and let the barrier down for Mila to take over.

MILA

I open my eyes to find Emily smiling at me.

I was in complete darkness.

“What the hell Sapphire? Why did you do that?” I ask more sharply

than intended.

Sapphire stretches out her legs to lie down in the back of my mind to get comfy. “That stupid male human got to me about mates. Mates are our

soul mates who are hand-picked by the Moon Goddess herself. I think he was out of order and I needed to get away. I am sorry about that Mila. I was on edge due to the lack of sleep you had too.”

“Please don’t do anything like that again. We are one and I don’t want you to feel like that, especially about a stupid man.” I say with a snarl.

I look up at Emily, who has been staring at me this whole time with a smile on her face. “Talking to Sapphire, are you?” she says as she hands me

some new clothes. I just realized that I was completely naked while in front of her. I throw on the pair of jeans and T-shirt, forgetting a bra as I

remembered Sapphire shredded my clothes, including my underwear, so that means I will have to go back to my apartment to change. “We best make a move. I need to get back as we got a shift at the cafe today.”

Emily nodded but looks at me. “You ok, Mila?”

I look at her and smile, “yeah I’m ok just didn’t sleep much again. The dream I had as a child made an ugly appearance this morning.”

“That’s strange. I thought it went away. Does it come back often?” She asks, sounding more worried than normal.

I look at her for a moment, trying to figure out whether I should be worried or not.

“It’s the first time in a long time that it has made a comeback,” I lie to her mainly because something inside is telling me too. I know Sapphire will

bring it up and luckily I blocked her from this conversation. I am starting to think something is off between everyone, especially between me and my wolf lately. They seem to be keeping stuff from me.

I look at her. “It’s ok, maybe it’s a one-off. Let’s go before Gloria sends a search party for us,” I say with a smirk, knowing full well Gloria would actually do it, especially if it meant Emily getting embarrassed. It is so funny to see. She loves her grandmother but Gloria likes to make Emily feel embarrassed as she thinks it will help her come out of her shell more. Emily is so quiet and shy when she is around people. I am the same, but I try to make an effect, whereas Emily would rather sit back in a corner or something.

We head straight to the door and go to her car.

Once Emily’s car is parked in her usual space behind the cafe, we head inside. I run upstairs to change my clothes and put on underwear while

Emily goes to find Gloria.

I come back downstairs and the cafe is open already. Some regular customers come in for their morning coffees. The cafe holds everything you can think of especially when it comes to the supernatural kind of food such as blood for vampires and herbal teas for the Faes and witches. We have a code and form that if anyone wants a certain item, they have to fill in the request form, which is very rare it happens, but Gloria will always try to find it for them.

Humans also live here in the Shadow Valley, but they are mates to someone here and they know about the supernatural world. I take my position behind the counter while Emily is filling in the basket trays on the back counter by the door with biscuits and packed muffins.

The door rings out, the scent hits me quickly and I know straight away it is George. “Hi, George, the usual black coffee with one sugar?” I ask, knowing full well he will never change his order.

“Yes please Mila, how are you?” He asked with a smile on his face. I look at him. “I am fine, how about you?” I ask as I hand his coffee to him. He takes a sip as I look at him. George and Emily look alike, with black hair and green eyes, but she has Sybil’s petite size. George is built with muscle as I know this is to do with the training we had many times. I have the bear shifter Barry to help me train in the wolf form while George trains me in human form.

“I am good. I have a meeting about the new pack that has moved in behind the town. They want to come for a visit. I am trying to decide whether it is a good thing,” he says while looking directly at me. He must know what happened this morning as he would never have mentioned it.

“What do you think?” I ask casually, even though I would like to know if he will.

I would like to see that man again. Sapphire growls in my head.

“MMM...I think I will see what they can offer us first. We don’t want them thinking they can take over the town as we have made a haven for all who live here. But....they may be able to help us too.” He says, turning around to go out but stopping suddenly to look back at me. “Mila, if they come here, you need to make sure your ring is on to mask your scent. We can’t let them know about you, not till we know we can trust them. Do you understand?”

I look back at him, a little stunned. “That’s okay with me, but George, when will they come to town if you agree?” I ask. I know Emily is staring at us and hearing everything we said.

“It will probably be soon, maybe in the next few days. The Alpha wants to know who lives here to make sure we are not a threat to them. I will let you know what happens so we can make sure you are safe, Mila,” he said and walked out the door.

“George will keep us safe Mila,” sighs Sapphire. She feels deflated and not herself. I’m worried about her.

“Okay, Sapphire, you ok?” I ask, hoping for some honesty from her.

“I’m okay, Mila. You need to get back to work. It looks like it’s going to be a busy day,” she says, and I see eight customers walk in to order their coffees and some breakfast rolls.

Here we go again. Let the fun times begin.

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