Prince Reagan

A stand Lana | can feel my energy slip away every second | keep on breathing. This heart wrenching feeling has turnedinto this dull frail girl with little to no willpower.

| haven't been myself lately, locking myself up in my room, skipping classes, eating less, partying less, interacting less with others...I'm slowly slipping into depression. And it’s all my fault for being a coward and hiding from my mate.

| cto remember the first and last t| saw him. Fur as dark as the night, canines that he'd bared atthat were thick and sharp enough to pierce anything, and red eyes that peered straight at my soul. His wolf had been the epitof beauty, and | had wanted to caress his fur even though | was scared shitless to the bone. | haven't seen his face before, but | imagine he would be just as beautiful.

| want to leave everything behind and run miles to Red Moon Pack so | can be with him. But | can’t, at least not yet. | wasn’t sure if | was ready to give everything up for him.

Red Moon Pack is isolated with the little education system in there. If you wanted to have a proper education, you would have to leave the pack. There are licensed teachers there, but those were for middle schoolers and high schoolers. No college. | can’t travel all the way from Oakland to LA every day for school. It's basically impossible forto do that. And there's no way I'm transferring to an online college.

I'm not even sure my mate would allowto leave the pack if he gets his hands on me. I've heard a lot of rumors about their pack, strue and snot. But | do know for a fact that they can be very possessive of their mates. Once you get in, you're never getting out...at least not alone.

| haven't even told my mum yet about him. She would only worry, and with how fragile her health was, I couldn't afford that. Ever since her mate, my dad, died, she has been as frail as glass. The littlest thing could make her break, and | didn’t want that. I just have to deal with my mate’s business on my own.

Jace. That's what Ellie had called him.

Alpha Jace. I'm surprised I'm mated to an Alpha, a powerful leader of a pack. It's exciting as well as scary. | wonder what he’s like. Since he’s an Alpha, he would be more territorial than an average wolf. And | can only imagine how pissed he would be if he finds out the truth abouthiding from him.

But what scaresthe most is the possibility of him marking another before I cto him. | honestly don’t think | can survive that. I'm not as strong as Ellie and would crumble from such devastating news.

“...and that’s all for today. Hope you're all getting ready for your finals...” | sigh, drowning out the voice of the lecturer as | pack up my stuff and head for the door like every student in the class. Another tiring day is done with. | just wanna flop on my soft bed and bury my face in the pillow as | drift off to my dreamland, where can imagine my mate with me.

But as | reach my dorm room, | see a figure already waiting forthere. Gina.

“I apologized for that,” Gina whispered after a long silence with her face contorting in guilt. But | don’t budge as | continue to glare at her. “I thought we were past that!” Troll my eyes at her statement. “Oh, yeah. Like I'm supposed to just forget that | saw my best friend *****kg my boyfriend.” Cory and | had been the best couple in highschool. He had the looks and charms enough to make fall hard for him, and | had already started to envision us getting mated in the future even though we weren't bonded by the moon. | was okay with forming a bond with him, even if he wasn’t really mine. But then | had walked into Gina's room one day, unexpectedly, and | found her bouncing on my boyfriend's lap as echoes of their moans filled the room. | had been so disgusted at the sight, | puked my guts right there.

Being friends with a b***h like her after all that was probably a mistake. Maybe | was stupid to do so, but | took pity on her. At that time, she was going through a rough period in her life, since her mom died from a terrible accident, and a few weeks later, her father was exiled from the pack. We never knew why, as the Alpha had kept it a secret. Gina never toldthe reason either, and | didn’t pressure her for it.

She cried toafter what she did, pleading within tears to forgive her and using her parent's misfortune as an excuse. She claimed Cory had approached her to console her when it all happened. She sounded desperate and even tried to end her life seeking a way to makeforgive her.

| felt bad for her, as she had no one to lean on. | was her only true friend then, and others were all fake. When they tried showing their sympathy, it was evident in their expressions that they couldn't care less about what was going on with her. Gina didn’t want to losetoo, having just lost her parents, and | couldn't abandon her then because | was scared she would do something to harm herself.

Over the years, I've learned to tolerate her. She wasn't the best person to be around as she was a first-class b***h. But something had snapped inthe night of the ceremony when she just kept on accusing and insulting Ellie. Maybe it was the years of having to deal with her, but | just got so irritated by her, and still am. | don’t even know how | managed through all these years tolerating her.

“Goodbye, Gina,” | state while closing the door in her face. But she stops by placing her palm flat on the door to halt it.

“Waiti” i stare up at her wide eyes with mine drooped with tiredness.

“You can’t possibly want to throw away years of friendship for a little argument we had...because of her.” She snarls the last part with disdain as she eyes Ellie's part of the room behind me.

| sigh as | open the door wide so | could look properly into her cat-like eyes. She just doesn’t get it.

“Do you know why you never make real friends, Gina?” | arch an eyebrow at her while she stares atin confusion. | nod, “It's because you're f*****g dumb b***h!” | hiss before slamming the door shut in her face.

| flop on my bed, exhaling a sigh of vexation. My eyes dart around the empty room, and | can feel the absence of Ellie. She didn’t talk much when she had been here, but she was still a joy to be around. So sure of herself and always confident. | had adored her strong spirit and never thought she had a weak bone.

Thad suspected something had happened to her to have molded her into the strong willed lady she was, but | never thought it was because her mate had rejected her. It was truly sad. But who would have thought that her luck was so high, it got her mated to a fricking Lycan Prince! How cool is that?! From an Alpha to a Prince! Her stars are destined for something great it seems.

If I hadn't followed her to Red Moon, | wouldn't have found my mate. | don’t know if it's a blessing or a curse. But I'm in now, and | just have to deal with it.

| decide to play scandy crush to brighten my mood a bit. It’s late in the afternoon, and | haven't taken a look at my phone’s screen all day. | had switched it off so it wouldn't blare off in class.

Treach into my pants pocket for it and turn it on. I'm surprised to see about ten text messages waiting for me, and about eight were from Ellie, pleading withto call her as soon as possible.

With a worried frown, | did, and she answers on the first ring.

“Ellie? What's wrong?” | ask as soon as she picks.

“Eh... Lana? Could you cover to my home...not the penthouse but my parents’?” My frown deepens at her words as | wonder why she isn’t at her mate's right now.

“Why?” “You're gonna have to sit down for this one.” She states forto know something really bad had happened.