finally free by Lili lopez (book club suggestions TXT) 📕

The girl behind the desk was still a little scared but brushed it off after I smiled at her one more time. “here you go, my name is Mrs. Jackie.” I passed out the schedules to my pack. They were excited as they looked at they're schedules, we all had the same classes well except those who were in a different grade which was Jack, David and Steve, but they had few classes with that mixed the grades. I told them we’d meet at lunch and waved good bye.

The rest of us went to our first period, which had already began. Our first teacher had the same reaction as the Mrs. Jackie. I sighed, is this going to happen in every class I thought. Lily looked at me with a worried expression, I smiled and waved her off. “c-class, these are the new students.” I rolled my eyes, why did they fear us we didn’t do anything. While I was lost in my thoughts I didn’t notice the other asking me permission to speak until Lily nudged me. I snapped out of it and introduced myself. “I am star moonlight starlight.” The rest followed my lead, when everyone finished the teacher asked if anyone had questions about us.

Most of the classes’ hands were up. Teacher picked a boy with black spiky hair to ask the first question. “I have a question for star.” The other shifted uncomfortably, “calm down its just a question.” I told them through the bond, they relaxed a little. I nodded to the boy, “do you dye your hair?” I should’ve saw that coming I thought. “no and my eyes are naturally this blue, they're not contacts.” The classed didn’t seemed to believe me but I didn’t let that bother me. The teacher picked another student to ask a question, this time a strawberry blonde girl. “Luke, do you have a girlfriend?” Luke blushed and lily growled under her breath, before he could answer Lily answered for him. “he’s engaged to me.” Luke’s cheeks got redder.

Well, that was new to me but didn’t surprise me, its common for betas of the different gender to become mates. The blonde girl seemed to be disappointed but didn’t say anything else. I was tired of standing, “may we sit together?” I asked with a shy smile and puppy eyes. The teacher gulped and pointed to the back that had three seats open. I smiled and made my way toward our new seats but stopped mid way because the blonde from earlier had stuck her foot out as if she tried to trip me.

I ignore her as I stepped around her foot but Lily thought otherwise as they stomped on her foot, the blonde let out a little shrike of pain. lily smirked and said in a innocent tone, “sorry didn’t see you foot there.” I rolled my eyes but let it pass she deserved that. The rest of the class seemed shocked by Lily’s actions. I see, she’s the ‘queen bee’ of this class, I thought, fun. The rest of the class went with out disturbance and before we knew it, first period ended.

I gathered my things and walked out of the class with lily and Luke by my side. “I didn’t know you guys were mated.” I said in a low voice so no one heard us. “we didn’t know until the packs started living to gather last week.” Luke said. I smiled, “you guys make a cute couple. Make sure you protect her Luke like a good mate and same for you lily.” They both blushed deep red, that made me laugh but stopped once I notice them staring. “what?” I asked. They looked at each other for a moment and then lily said, “this is the first time, we heard you laugh alpha.” I dropped my smile for a second as I thought about it. “hmm…I guess your right, this is the first time in years.” I smiled again.

Chapter 7

Knight joined us in second period, and then the rest of the classes before lunch had seemed to flash by in a blink of an eye. We meet up with jack, David and Steve at a empty table. Everyone seemed to have their eyes on us, we didn’t know why until the blonde from first hour, came up to us, well knight to be exact. “hey, I’m Brittney.” She said trying to be flirtatious, I couldn’t help but feel disgust as she made goggley eyes at my mate. the pack seemed to think the same thing as me but instead of mate it was alpha male. Knight frowned and introduced himself, “knight” was all he said as he turned back to me. Brittney didn’t seem to like that, “well, knight this is mine and my friends table.” She said pointing to a group of standing jocks and cheerleaders. Typical human teen behavior, I thought with disgust.

“I'm sorry but your going to have to sit some where else, Brittney.” I said looking at her, then she made her first mistake by looking me in the eyes. The pack jumped up and almost attacked her, until I said, “stop!” in my alpha voice. “she is human, she does not know of pack rules.” I said through the bond. They nodded but didn’t sit down. “I suggest you leave Brittney, I don't think I can hold them off much longer.” I lied. Brittney made eyes contacted with me again, this time she immediately broke eyes contact, I smiled as she quickly walked away.

“knight, may I have a word with you, alone.” I asked knight. He looked up from his food and nodded. We left the lunch room and went outside. “so what did you find out about the intruder?” I asked, we had an intruder on our land last night. “it was a pair of lone wolves, they don’t smell of any pack but we still need to do something about it. No wolf can go with out a pack without going mad.” I nodded, “a wolf can only be alone for so long before they go mad” I repeated. He looked at me with the saddest eyes I’ve ever seen “its okay, knight, it wasn’t your fault. Now we must tell this to the other.” I said then headed back inside.

When we went back inside, I heard a lot of notice from the lunch room and got a bad feeling, “uh-oh” I said before running into the lunch room. I saw to twin girls fighting with lily and Luke. I scanned to look for the other three but they were no where to be found. “Knight, go find the others. I’ll meet you at the house in 20 minutes.” I told knight, he nodded then ran out the door.

I pushed and shoved people out of my way. When I finally reached them, lily and Luke had the two twins pined. “I though I warned you guys about making a scene on our first day.” I said mad. They shivered at the sound of my voice but didn’t move from on top of the girls. I walked over and took a closer look at the twins. They were wolves. I smiled, “oh my, me and my mate were just talking about you.” I said. They looked at me and froze. “you guys can get off of them now, before a teacher comes.” I told the betas and they nodded making their way to my side. “I think you girls will like to come with us.” I whispered in the girls ears say the last part in alpha voice. They nodded and dusted themselves off and followed me out of the school.

Chapter 8

I rode in the car with them leaving my bike at school. “now, will you like to tell why you guys were on my land last night?” I asked. They were scared, so scared that they were shivering with fear. I sighed, these girls were probably new wolfs, and me scaring them wouldn’t help me get answers. I put both of my hands on each girl and looked into their minds. This power was still new to me since I broke the seal completely, my power were coming back slowly.

When I want into their minds I discovered that they were indeed new wolfs from a now destroyed pack. They went to our territory because they wanted help, but ran off after being chased by one of the protecters.  I sighed and removed my hand from their shoulders. “its alright, I wont hurt you. I’m the alpha female of the starlight moon pack.” I gave them a reassuring smile. “will you like to join?”

They looked at one another and both nodded. I smiled and bit into both their neck and sent my alpha voice through their bodies, “you are now mine, you are now only loyal to the pack.” They both seemed to have relax after I made them pack but lily and Luke seemed to be trouble by that. “its okay guys they mean no harm an if they do I’ll take responsibility.” I said reassuring them. they both looked at me, of course not meeting my eyes but they looked at me and smiled. I sighed a breath of relief.

 When we got to the house, knight was waiting with the rest of the pack. “star,” knight said in alpha voice, he knew what I did and wasn't happy about not asking him. “knight these girl have done no harm to our pack. They were once part of a pack but its was destroyed in the war.” I thought to him then added, “like mine” now he looked as if I had slapped him in the face.

“fine” he finally said out loud, “David! Steve! Show these two to the pack house,” knight and I said in alpha voice. David and Steve hurried to other twins sides but I stopped them, “what are your names?” I already knew them since I was into they're mines but they didn’t know that. “rose” rose introduced herself, she was about the same height as lily, had long dark brown hair, she and her sister looked the beside the two had different eye color. “daisy,” daisy also introduced herself, same has