Chapter 21 Blood Moon

• The blood moon day finally arrived. Every young wolf was happy and getting ready to meet their mates tonight. Aliyah watched from her balcony at the preparation going on. Each pack always threw a party on the blood moon night to make it more lively for their young cubs and the parents always lurk around, sipping a drink and watching them find their mates. Aliyah used to look forward to the parties even when she hasn’t found her wolf. She used to imagine how finding him would be like and when they would be running in the woods and howling to the moon before they mark themselves. It used to be a pretty sweet dream for a young wolf until her first mating ceremony came and passed.
• She could remember her first mating ceremony, how she had gone shopping and bought the most expensive dress she saw in the boutique. She had wanted to look her best and had even met Amelia to do her makeup. She had been so happy and was looking so beautiful. She still had one of the pictures she took that day as she had angrily torn the others.
• The pain and embarrassment she felt that day has never left her, it hurt even more than the second and third ones. She had sat where every other she-wolf sat and had watched as males walked up to them one after the other, saying the word mate. When she was the only one remaining, she had forced herself to look around, to move around. Maybe he was stuck somewhere, maybe something happened and he couldn’t meet up in time.