Love Of A Werewolf - Forest Ostrander (top 20 books to read txt) 📗

while checking out the camp the best I could, I could smell somewhere they were roasting marshmallows which set my mouth watering, I haven’t had Marshmallows since the packs annual get together where we would meet with other pack members and get the scoop on things or find potential mates long before we were ready for them.

"Well, we're here. I wonder what he wants us for." I heard James asked as he opened the door and allowed me to enter the building first, the entire place was made out of logs and a nice, cozy looking fireplace sat on the far right side where a plush rug laid in front of it with two leather chairs on either side and a small table and lamp. The wall above the fire place hosted a variety of animal heads which made me a bit worried that this man might not be one of the good guys as I had imagined him to be, plus the head of a wolf on the wall didn't make matters any better for me either. Noticing where my eyes went me head James say.

"Don't worry, he won't kill you, the wolf on that wall was rabid and attacked out camp so he had to kill it." I knew he was trying to calm me but I still could not get the shaky feeling that someone in this camp isn't a good soul.

"Ah, welcome you two!" I heard the man's voice and turned his way, he was now wearing tan shorts with a tie dye colored shirt, and his hair was messy so I figured he must have been doing something outside.

"Hello sir," James said and I just looked at him.

"Is there something you wanted from us?" James asked the camp leader who smiled.

"Yes, I wanted you to formally welcome our new friend and to let everyone in the camp know that she is an honorary guest and should not for any reason be harmed. Maybe introduce her to Luna while you’re at it, I hear she really loves wolves." James nodded and I just cocked my head. Luna? Why does that name sound so familiar? I couldn't put my paw on it but I swear I heard that name at some point in my life and it bugged me that I could not recall where.

"Yes sir, is she allowed to eat with us?" James asked.

"Why of course! What would people say if we did not offer her something to eat? She looks almost as thin as a rail!" I scoffed at his comment, my fur may be sleek against my body but I was far from being too skinny, all werewolves looked thin, we just have a high metabolism that prevents us from ever putting on too much fat.

I followed James out the door and looked at him.

"You know, I'm not that skinny," I said.

"You're not? You look it to me," James replied.

"All werewolves look like this, any were creature will look skinny. Our metabolism is too high to let us keep too much fat on our bones."

"What do you do during winter?"

"We either rely on our fur or we have our own houses that we stay in until spring and summer come back. We have been doing this for eons and not once have we had problems with it."

"So, who is this Luna girl?" I asked him, hoping that what he would have to tell me would strike a chord in my mind and recall where I had heard the name.

"How do you know it’s a female?" James asked me looking down at me from the corner of his eyes.

"Come on James, I'm not stupid. Luna is a girl’s name, at least in our world it is."

"I've meet a guy named Luna once," James said in defense.

"Ya, well you humans don't really do perfect names for your genders. In our world, your name is a symbolism of your gender."

"Well, if you must know. It is a girl so you were right about that, and as for Luna; well you can say she is quite an odd ball. Not many people like her around here, there is a rumor going around that she can change into a bear." My ears perked at the mentioning of bear, so I was right; I had heard of the name before! Luna was one of the daughters of the neighboring bear clan near my territory! She and I were friends when we were only cubs! I felt delighted that I would be seeing an old time friend and I wondered if she would recognize me or if our friendship had lasted. We hadn't seen each other in almost three whole years when our families split apart and forbid us to be friends anymore due to the war between the wolves and the bears.

"Is something the matter?" James asked. I came out of my daydream and replied.

"Nothing at all, just going back to old memories. I think I do know Luna; I had a friend named Luna when I was just a pup. Our families used to be best friends but ever since the battle that took place between the bears and the wolves, our families split us up and forbid either of us to remain friends or see each other again. I wonder if this Luna is the Luna I knew from back then?" James was silent until we arrived at a lonesome looking little cottage. Walking up the stairs, James knocked on the door and we waited for a few minutes, each minute my anticipation grew and grew to the point where I was anxious to see if this Luna was in fact the Luna from my childhood. When the door finally opened and a somewhat tall girl with mossy brown hair stepped out I knew for a fact that this was indeed Luna from the bear clan.

"LUNA!" I exclaimed happy to see her. Her eyes widened like saucers before she screamed.

"FOREST!" I jumped at her and she wrapped me up in her arms as we hugged each other, my tail was going a mile a minute.

"Well, I guess you two know each other then?" James asked. Luna put me down and motioned for us to come in, once inside I changed into my human form which rewarded me with a shocked gasp from James. Luna motioned for us to take a seat on the couch and I plopped down putting my feet up over the edge.

"Yes, we have known each other since we were kids," Luna said and I smiled, James looked so lost it was almost funny.

"Luna and I were inseparable from birth," I said. "We were like two peas in a pod until our families had to get involved in the war."

"Yes, we would still have been together till this very day if they hadn't." Luna then turned to me and asked.

"So what are you doing here?"

"I could ask you the same thing Luna. I would never have thought you would mingle with humans."

"I had no choice. Hunters whipped out my entire territory, my family is scattered all over the place and some are already buried. What about you?"

"I left my pack as I am sure you already know. I felt it was time for me to take a stand on my own. I recently encountered some problems with hunters as well until I ran into James's camping group in the woods. Thank God the hunters didn't think twice when they saw me with them. As for why I am here, I felt drawn to this boy here and have found out Mother Moon has destined us to be mates." Luna looked at James and me and beamed.

"That's wonderful! I always knew Mother Moon worked in mysterious ways but now I see she has more up her sleeve than I would have thought! What do you think of this James?" Luna asked. James was silent for a bit before answering.

"Honestly, I was shocked at first and had totally thought she was joking with me, but when I first met her in the woods I couldn't deny that what she said was true. I felt a connection with her that I had felt with no one else. When she finally revealed to me that we were supposed to be mates I felt over joyed but at the same time worried about what would happen in life between us. I'm a human and she is a werewolf so if anyone did find out we both would be in big trouble. If the kids in camp knew about her they would surely kill her or get hunters to do it, if her family found out about me I'm sure they would not hesitate to kill me."

"You're right about that one," I said and frowned. "My people have made a set of rules for us to follow. Rule one was that no humans were to be mates and to be found with one would mean instant death to both human and wolf." James lowered his head and I could tell that information bothered him but he needed to know, it was not right to keep something like that from him.

"Don't worry James. If I know Forest it's that she would never let anything happen to those who she cares about." Luna said and I had to smile at her, she always knew the right things to say.

"That is so true Luna. Remember when we got into trouble once with a trap? I swear I thought we were going to truly die that day," I said shacking my head thinking back to how stupid we were when we were no more than just teenagers.

"Oh tell me about it! I thought I was going to wet my fur!" Luna said and we broke out laughing.

"What happened?" James asked now looking at us with curiosity.

"Well, Luna and I decided to run away once when we were only teenagers. We did not know that the path we had taken was rigged with hunter traps," I said.

"We were not thinking at the time to pay attention to our surroundings and look for traps as we wanted to get far away as we possibly could," Luna added.

"Our parents had sent out a search party for us to bring us back so we were to busy running to really bother with suck a boring task but when we walked right into one, we regretted not paying attention more. I was caught in a snare trap and Luna was caught in a spiked trap, we were both in sever trouble as the traps would only tighten the more we struggled and each one had a bell on it to let the people who placed the traps down know that they caught something." I continued. "Luna and I were petrified, her leg where the spiked trap had closed around it was bleeding like a waterfall and I could not get enough oxygen in my lungs and everything became dizzy, when the hunters finally came I had nearly passed out due to the lack of air in my lungs but I knew I had to keep on fighting."

"If Forest hadn't managed to snap out of it despite being half dead and attacked the hunters and freed me, we would both have been slaughtered right then and there. After the hunters were gone she passed out and we found ourselves in the packs infirmary," Luna added. James stared at us in fright.

"Oh don't worry, we don't have too much damage on us though it is still hard at times to breath every once in a while," I said.

"Ya, and walking is still a pain, despite our fast healing rate the traps were encased in silver so it dealt us permanent damage to our bodies despite what the elders did to heal us," Luna added.

"I'm so sorry," James said and I noticed tears well up in his eyes.

"Don't cry James. It was really our fault. If we hadn’t been so careless it would