Rachel's POV

Before we went back to our dorm room me and Emily decided were going back to our pack house for a visit but we slowly began to notice many of our pack members gathered outside.

"What's going on?" Emily shouted to our pack members. They all stopped and looked at us, that's when I noticed the queen's royal guards talking to our Alpha.

Nudging my best-friend with my elbow I silently signaled her to the guards. She silently gasped before dragging me to join the pack members outside, all of us waiting on an explanation of what's going on.

"They don't know?" Many of them were whispering words among the lines of that.

Very confused I tried to clarify, "Know what? Tell us!"

That's when our alpha came up to us, "Calm down R, the queens guards are inviting us to their ballroom as a way to sort out our problems with the south." He clarified.

"Oh! Also the event is tomorrow at 7 am be sure to be ready by then."

What? Why would the queen pay attention to our problems. Based on the rumors she's not one to try and prevent problems that have been going on, maybe a change of heart?

"Okay... but do you need any help with stuff, Alpha?" I asked kindly.

He smiled gently at me before shaking his head, I began to mingle and conversate with our friends dragging my bestie Emily along with me.

After I'd say about 10 minutes of this comfortable conversation among our pack the queen's guards began to move towards their cars eventually leaving us.

Alpha Adde began to speak making sure to capture our attention. "Everyone! It has come to my notice that the queen wants the north and south to come together in her castle specifically the ballroom!"

I drowned out his voice as I have already heard what he's saying so far but I couldn't help but hear a snippet of what he's saying which grabbed my attention.

"The queen WILL be down on the ballroom floor as well, it has come to my concern that we should be respectful and behaved, I want absolutely no complaints."

Nodding our heads Alpha Adde dismissed us seeing as we got what he meant.

Me and Emily stayed a little longer at the packhouse before stating our leave and returning to our car.

"I am kinda nervous to meet the queen, i've heard shes intimidating and scary." Emily said.

"I don't know E, maybe the rumors are wrong and she might be a total sweetheart." Somehow I felt the need to back her up, why? I have no clue its just this deep distant gut-feeling that I should.

"Yeah maybe your right...hey! wanna bet on it?" Emily has always been a big gambler and risk taker, I guess fueling this hobby of hers wont hurt.

"Sure Em whatever you say." I said lightly laughing at her enthusiasm.

In about 5 minutes we made it back to our dorm, as soon as we opened our dorm door we went straight to our beds. It's like 11 pm.

Why is this floor so hard and itchy!? Opening my eyes I gathered my surroundings only seeing a bunch of trees.

Its so dark, should I stay here or go and find a way home..? Choosing the latter I began to get up and walk around.

Dude where are we Rachie?

WHAT THE FU- oh its you Jae...wait Jaedene!?

I looked fully at the wolf that was by my side, "where are we Jae?"

I'm not so sure myself, if I knew I would've told you by now. Jae said

We continued walking until I started mindlessly talking mid-walk, well that stopped when my wolf hit me with her paw.

"Huh-?"

SHUT UP Jae said.

She silently nudged me with her head towards the direction of a lake, over there was a beautiful gold colored wolf with white tips on its fur. A silent beauty.

I can feel some sort of connection with this wolf but I cant pin down what. "She's beautiful." Jae spoke.

"RACHEL GET UP YOUR GONNA MAKE US LATE!!" Someone screamed in my ears.

Jolting up I spotted Emily who was the one violently shaking me and screaming. "Em...what's up?"

"What's up? WHAT'S UP? WE ARE GONNA BE LATE TO THE EVENT THATS WHAT'S UP." She mimicked my voice on the first few words before resorting back to screaming.

The next few minutes flew by in a flash a mixture of me getting ready, eating, stressing and i'm sure you can imagine the rest.

When I was done getting ready that's when I decided to check the time. Its exactly 6 o'clock perfect!

It takes about 15 minutes to get to the packhouse and 45 minutes to the castle. Both of us ran to the car and sped to the packhouse.

2 hours later

I've been here at the ballroom for 1 and a half hours, its been pretty fun but in the mix my best-friend somehow got lost and ended up trying to sway a guard who didn't budge.

I'm sitting alone at one of the few tables the queen assigned for us. Until someone joins me, I think her name is Margaret? I'm pretty sure she's from the pack.

"How are you, Rachel? I haven't spoken to you ever since...you know." About a year ago me and Margaret hooked up but it never happened again because right after she found her mate, to say the least he was not very happy with me.

Maybe its because I have a bigger member than him or because I hooked up with his mate....whatever though right?

"yeah I understand and I totally respect it Mar just let me know if he does you wrong and ill swing by." My words earned a chuckle out of both of us. We kept talking until we were interrupting by a booming voice.

"The Queen has arrived!" With those words the guards swing the doors open.