Love Of A Werewolf by Forest Ostrander (universal ebook reader .TXT) 📕

"Aren’t you going to give that mutt a bath already?" The girl from earlier before said and I once more felt a growl rise up my throat but I pushed it down.

"She's not a mutt; she's a wolf so I would do best to respect that. A wolf is so much more majestic than a mutt Elise," the boy spat in her direction and I felt a sense of contempment at his jumping to my honor.

"Whatever, she stinks either way. Mr. Jones wants to see you after you are done giving the wolf a bath," the girl said with a sneer to her face before leaving the room to go who knows where.

"Come on, don't mind her. She is just a bitch at times when she is away from her million dollar mansion," the boy said and I had to suppress a chuckle. Million dollars? She was poorer than I thought; my family could easily purchase the entire world and then some! A million dollars was chump change to my family.

When we made it to the bathroom area, I looked up at the boy; this was going to be one awkward bath so I figured I would save him the trouble.

"There is no need to give me one," I said hoping he would be able to understand me, being mates your mate should be able to no matter what form you're in. I laughed with victory when the boy looked down on me with scared eyes.

"D-Did you just talk?" I rolled my eyes, humans can be so over dramatic at times.

"Yes, I did. Problem?" I asked. He backed away a bit shaking with fear.

"H-How is that possible?!" I could smell he was going to have a freak out so I grabbed the bottom of his shirt in my teeth and yanked him into the bathroom before throwing him near the tub with me by the door.

"D-Don't eat me!" The boy said cowering and holding his arms up over his face, I couldn't help it; I pitied the poor sap.

"I won't hurt you," I said in the best, most calming voice I could muster up and was rewarded with a slight peek over his arm at me.

"You do not need to be afraid of me, I won't eat you," I said in a mocking tone at him.

"H-How can you speak? And how the hell am I able to understand you?!" I bared my fangs at him to silence him, the boy was getting over to dramatic and his voice was rising.

"Silence! Do you want people to come and see you being crazy?" I hissed through my teeth and the boy shut his mouth.

"Good," I said and continued. "I have always been able to talk because I'm sure as you are probably guessing right now I'm not fully wolf. There is a part of me that you can understand only because you are my mate," I said and felt totally awkward announcing it out to a human. The boy looked at me confused and I sighed.

"Do you not know what a mate is?" I asked him cocking my head and he shook his.

"A mate is like a lifelong partner, something you humans do is I right? Do you not get married and stay with your partner when that happens? Do you not love that partner? Well, a mate is practically the same thing as a marriage only there are no rings." I was thankful for my mother for explaining weddings and what not to me when I was little.

"H-How am I your mate?" He asked, his voice wasn't quivering so much now but he still had the scent of fear on him mixed in with curiosity.

"I honestly don't know. Mother moon does weird things to all of us at times and apparently she denounced us as mates, why? I do not know but she must have something planned for it to happen. Werewolves don't normally have human mates." I said. He sure is a scardy cat isn't he? My wolf said with a snicker.

Tell me about it, I could have sworn he was going to wet his pants! I said back to her trying to contain my own laughter.

"I don't understand though, who is mother moon? And how are you a werewolf?"

"Mother Moon is the moon you see in the night sky. We call her mother moon because she was the one who blessed us with the gift to change our forms at will and make it painless, she also blesses us with a beautiful night every night and lights our path when times are rough. In all sense, Mother Moon is like a human mother, caring for us as if we were her blood." I could see he was still confused so I explained more.

"Long ago, before man walked the earth, there were ancient wolves that walked in the time of the great Mammoth. No not the Dire wolves thank God though there is a bit of their blood in our DNA which gives us the booster height and long strides when running; I'm talking about their smaller cousin, the grey wolf. Mother Moon did not like how their older cousins bullied the younger ones so she had rounded them up in one area and told them 'I am going to give you a gift. The gift to change forms, use this gift wisely.' She took a beam of her light and cast it on the grey wolves giving each the power to switch forms from human to wolf whenever they so choose. As years went on and man finally walked the Earth, we wolves were still there only your kind feared us and hunted us down. Fearing for our own safety we had no choice but to go in hiding, some changed human and stayed that way while others stayed in the form of a wolf and could never change back from that point on. Years went by and we still refused to show ourselves so your kind wrote us off as just fantasy and fiction, that of only nightmares. From then on, a law was made that no wolf was to have a mate in the form of a human; to have a human mate would be exile or instant death. Pups from a young age had that drilled in their heads and were forced to watch the execution of the wolves that violated that law to better implant in their brains what would happen. We wolves were trained by our older generation to fear and hate humans for what they had done to us in the past history as I'm sure you humans were trained to fear and hate us due to your stupid movies and stories."

"If it's against the law to have a human mate, than how am I yours?"

"That is the same question I have been asking myself over and over but it seems Mother Moon has a new change to her plans, I have a theory that she wants us to show to my kind that love can come in any form or shape and that it was not wrong to love humans and humans to love wolves. Though I am not sure if my theory is correct or not, I am only assuming this is so." I noticed the boy wasn't shaking anymore and his eyes seemed too lit up.

"What does your human form look like?" He asked slightly leaning forward.

"You've already seen me as a human," I said casting a slight smirk on my face.

"I have?" He asked thinking back.

"Yes, when those hunters were chasing this form, I was forced to change to get them off of my tail and you guys seen me in my human form, your camp leader grabbed my arm." Recognition lit up in the boy’s face.

"That was you?!" I smiled and nodded.

"Now, if you don't mind, I would like to take a bath without you being in here," I said stepping away from the door to allow him leave.

"Can I tell anyone?" He asked getting up and putting his hand on the door handle, I shook my head.

"If anyone knew about me and told the hunters I would be forced to show you a side that does match with your movies and books about blood thirsty monsters. I do not wish to do that, once a werewolf has human blood in its mouth it’s hard to refrain from getting more." I watched as he left, making sure the door was locked behind him I shifted only this time I shifted so I did not have any clothes on, luckily this bathroom provided enough products for me to use. Quickly getting the grasp of how the bath handles worked I poured myself a nice hot bath with grape bubble bath soap; climbing in I sighed at the relaxing feeling of the water as it wrapped around my bare skin, warming my bones and chasing out the cold that my fur barely kept at bay from the outside, I could feel my muscles finally relax as the heat seeped into the skin and relaxed them, embracing them in warm arms, I imagined this must be why humans loved baths so much and would buy many scented soaps to go along with it.

I cupped my hands together and picked up some of the bubble bath in them, blowing a few bubbles I giggled as they danced in the air before popping on the tips of my fingers. After a few hours in the bath and me being scrubbed both human and wolf form, I hopped out and let the water drain, by now the water had turned cold but I did not care, I was well relaxed and rejuvenated. Taking out a spare brush I found I combed through my wet hair so that it hung straight, lightly draping over my shoulders and molding to their outline. I admired my blue eyes in the mirror and how much I had fully changed since my time leaving my parent's pack. I wonder what they are doing now. I thought, thinking back to my mother's sad face as we said our goodbyes. Finally deciding it would be best to change back I transformed into my wolf and opened the door with my paws, I may be a wolf but my paws still kept the ability to open doors like a human hand, it’s how we can easily grip on many surfaces that normal wolf paws could not. Peeping around the corner, I headed out to the dining room where the boy was waiting for me, upon seeing me enter he smiled.

"So you still are going to remain as a wolf?" He asked.

"For now at least, until I see no reason for me not to. By the way, what's your name?" I asked him.

"My name is James.”

"Well nice to meet you James, so what is there to do around here?" I asked.

"Well, my teacher is waiting for us so let’s go see him first then I can show you the rest of the camp."

"Ok, that sounds nice," And we left.

I stuck close to James’s side all the