Game of Destiny – A Thrilling Tale of Power, Love & Fate

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Game of Destiny

Chapter 1

I walked over the grass, carrying a pile of wool blankets. We were selling up for tonight’s full moon celebrations. I love these monthly gatherings of the pack. We eat, laugh, tell stories of the pack’s history and of the gods‘. Then those that can shift will run in the woods. The rest of us, we stay behind and pretend we aren’t vious of the others. For eighteen years I have been part of the group who is left by the fire to watch the pups and make sure the fi stays in the firepit. It was getting old, I wanted my wolf to come to me, I wanted to prove I wasn’t a dud,

“Hi, pumpkin.” I turned toward the sound of my father and smiled. I had been out checking the woods together with the Alpha and Gamma in preparation for the night..

“Hi, dad,” I called as I placed the blankets down on a log and then took some of them and placed on other logs we used to sit on around the fire. They were more for coziness than for warmth, all werewolves ran hut. Even those like me who didn’t have a wolf. Tet. I added.

“Looking forward to tomorrow?” the Alpha Mark asked as he, Gamma Jonas and my father walked up to me.

“Kind of,” I said.

been all of their friends, had

Gamma

“What do you mean, kind of, green bean?” Gamma Jonas asked. He, my father and the Alpha were

te best f lives. No one had been surprised when Alpha Mark had named my father his Beta and Jonas his Gamma as he took over the running of the pack from his father. That had been years before me and my brother were born. We grew up with the Alpha and

an extension of our own. My brother, Elder, was best friends with James, the Alpha’s son. Everyone expected best friends with Cindy, Gamma

think my pumpkin is nervous. Turning eighteen is a big step,” dad said, placing his arm around me and pulling me to his

will be able to identify her if they both are over eighteen,” the Alpha said with a

kind of thing,” my dad scowled and both of his friends burst out laughing. My dad and Alpha Mark were

there was more. My wolf still hadn’t come to me, been able to shift and for each full moon that came and went 1 looked weaker in the eyes of other werewolves. You started to be able to shift between the age of sixteen and twenty–five. Everyone knew the younger you were when your wolf came, the stronger it) and therefore you, would be. James had shifted for the first time a month after turning sixteen, my brother seven months after his sixteenth birthday. Cindy had been a little over seventeen when she shifted. I was almost eighteen and I hadn’t even felt a slight tingle during a full moon. I was afraid that if

to you,” he said. I flinched as he used my full name. My mother has a thing for

know, Alpha,”

pumpkin,” my father said and kissed the to

of

you’re my

if some boy tells you anything else, you tell us and we will beat his

you uncle Jonas,” I

and kept me in place. I hated when people

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big poof

little one, and after midnight we will colebrate your big day, the Alpha

and some other women prepared the food. But I had been put on other duties and I’m guessing, and hoping, it’s because they are working on a surprise cake for my birthday. As I walked over to Sally, Jonas mate, to get information about which games she has

It was just after midnight when the pack started

sweetie,” my mother

“Thank