Prologue
“They’re so cute together,” Gertie said, staring down into the crib her little boy shared with a little girl. They’d been born just a week ago, on the same day, at the same time. Within pack wolves, it was very rare to have two babies born together. Landon Gorman and Alexa Coin were their names.
Marcel gripped her shoulder, and she looked up into her mate’s and alpha’s eyes, and smiled.
They had done good. A beautiful baby boy.
“You two need to get a room,” Penelope said, laughing.
Gertie smiled and rested her head against Marcel’s shoulder before turning toward Penelope and Dan. Their little girl rested so quietly in the crib, curled up, hands wrapped in small little mittens to stop her from scratching, just like her son.
“Do you think the rumors are true?” Dan asked.
Dan and Marcel had been best friends since children. They’d done everything together: hunted, transitioned, and learned how to be wolves. Together, they ran the Gorman Pack, keeping the whole pack safe while also building a tourist attraction and town. They allowed the pack to run businesses, to have a chance at a future.
Gertie’s old pack, they hadn’t allowed such things. They had to be kept to the shadows, secretive, hidden. Ashamed of who they were. Meeting Marcel was the best thing that had ever happened to her, and she was so grateful to him for stumbling onto her pack that day so many moons ago.
“That our children are destined to become … mates?” Gertie asked, smiling.
Just the thought of it was enough to make her happy. Her baby boy, already finding his mate. It was so hard to find your one true mate. She had to wait so long for Marcel to come and find her.
Not all mates were found within one pack. They did if they were lucky, but that also accounted for all wolves.
“I hope so,” Penelope said. “I never knew true happiness until I found you.” She kissed Dan.
Marcel tightened his hold on Gertie, and she smiled up at him.
Staring down into the crib, she couldn’t believe how beautiful, how sweet these two babies were, and she hoped the rumors and myths were true. That two babies born within the same pack were destined to be mates. If that was true, then her son was a very lucky boy.