Choices of the Moon Book 2 : the human and the wolf

Ellie

I drove back as fast as I could, I wanted to just leave with Louis, but I had the whole wedding ceremony for my parents. I arrived at Pack House and went straight to the front, where we had organized a stage and where a member of the Council would give them the blessing, my father was already at the altar, and my mother was about to enter when I arrived halfway breathless.

"Ellie, where were you?" My mother asked with wide eyes, behind her was Jaque and Janeth adjusting her dress, and Jaque looked directly at me with wide eyes.

I didn't know what to say, but I had the bouquet of flowers that Louis brought for me.

"I came to get you this." I handed it to my mother who smiled broadly.

"Ellie, thank you, I forgot about the bouquet." She took the bouquet and took the opportunity to enter with it.

I couldn't believe it had worked out so well.

When the music played, my mother entered and Janeth, me and Jaque followed closely behind.

"That was close." I whispered to my friend who shook her head laughing.

The party was beautiful, emotional, and I loved experiencing my parents' love up close. My father insisted on introducing me for the thousandth time to the sons of the Alphas in the region who were still single, as if that would change something about the mate that the Moon chose for me, I danced, drank and had fun, but nothing compared to how I had freedom among humans, it was lighter, easier. And even though I tried to avoid thinking about Louis, I found myself constantly thinking about him, I constantly found myself remembering the hottest man in the world.

Was it too much to ask for him to be born a wolf?

Please Goddess.

And if that wasn't enough, one moment of celebration I went to look at my cell phone to find a message from him.

I miss you already.

Me too. Just 6 more days…

There were 6 days left until the Moon Ball, and I had never been so nervous, not even when it was my first Ball and I swore I would meet my mate.

I arranged with Louis that he would meet me at the reserve next to the Pack, I would drive there to get him, and I would hide him in Jaque's room, until the party was full, and after a lot of alcohol and the party was already happening a while ago, I would go down with him to the party, amidst so many wolves no one would smell him, and my own smell would already be on him.

I could wait longer, but I didn't know when another opportunity to see him would arise, especially because my father said we would talk about it after the Ball, not that he would let me.

And I needed to see Louis, feel Louis...

Damn, how much I missed him...

And it wasn't just me who was looking forward to that day, Louis said he spent the week taking double his anxiety medication.

To facilitate my plan, I convinced my mother to turn this year's ball into a masquerade ball.

It was perfect.

And she accepted.

Louis in a mask would be much harder for my father to recognize.

And I couldn't believe the day had come.

I couldn't contain my anxiety and my parents felt it at the dinner table.

"Ellie, you seem more nervous than usual." My father said as he drank his glass of wine.

"True, honey, you look like a nervous wreck." My mother added and my gaze went to Jaque, who was staring at me with wide eyes and choking on his food. She, and Clair, they were the ones who knew about the plan.

"I'm nervous about the Ball, I think it's today that I'll meet my mate." I responded with a shrug, trying to sound as convincing as possible.

We finished dinner early, and I ran to my room to get ready, Jaque came right after and we were both nervous, but for different reasons. I wanted to find Louis soon, and she wanted to find her partner, it was her second Ball, and Jaque thought that this time she would find her predestined one.

But I was looking forward to seeing Louis, and I hoped everything would go well with this crazy plan of mine.

I got ready as quickly as I could, at the same time I wanted to look as beautiful as possible for him. I put on my green dress, and my hands were shaking so much that Jaque who did my eyeliner, I finished getting ready, grabbed my mask and used the commotion at Pack House with the organization of the Ball to sneak out again.

My mother was fighting with the decorators because they had put the decorative tree in the wrong place, and I was grateful that she didn't even see me walk by.

I drove to the reserve point that I had agreed with Louis, and found him in the same place, and he looked even more beautiful than last week, I felt my heart, which was already beating fast, accelerate even more, I could barely stop the car and I jumped out, ran towards him, and I missed him so much that my chest felt tight and it seemed that only with him could I breathe again.

I kissed him, wrapped his tongue around mine, and he kissed me back with such intensity that I knew that wasn't just me who missed it.

I pressed him tightly against me, my hands ran all over his body, for two reasons, because it seemed that no amount of contact between us was enough, and because I needed to impregnate him with my scent so that we could go unnoticed, and now paying attention to the smell, Louis almost didn't smell like a human, I could only smell the woody perfume he wore, I even wondered why he didn't have that damp smell that humans carried, but at that moment I just mentally thanked him for that.

"Do you brought the mask?" I asked, slowly letting go of him, to find Louis taking the mask out of his pocket and placing it over his face.

Damn, I didn't know how he could get any more handsome.