Werewolf Compilations novel Chapter 118

Many strangers greet us as we make our way inside. Though I am familiar with the building from the gathering, it looks completely transformed. Sure, it was dressed up before, but everything is switched around now. There are fewer tables and instead more room for standing and chatting or whatever leaders do. As my eyes scan the area, I see most people standing with a drink, in groups of two to five people. And unlike the gathering, there are guards at the doors outside and inside. Coincidentally, I spot Theodore with one other guard towards the back, and I immediately make plans in my head to see him.

James places his hand lightly on my back, reeling me back to the current situation. Knowing that we'll have to welcome everyone, his movements towards the grouped people don't surprise me. I take a quick breath before we reach the first one, a set of three.

"Can we interrupt?" James says to the woman and two men, in a friendly way. His free hand gently touches the woman's shoulder as he speaks, causing her to swiftly spin around.

"Alpha Grant," she cheers, the other two facing us as well. "I was wondering when you'd get here. You always keep me waiting," she scolds in a motherly way. "You know I've been dying to meet her."

She turns to me as she says it, and I smile. Oddly enough, the woman gives me a loose hug and I glance up at James. "Rae, this is Renee. She was good friends with my mother," he explains, and I make sure to smile even more when she pulls away. "She is Alpha Alder's Luna."

The man standing next to her moves closer and reaches his hand out, so I shake it and assume he is Alpha Alder. It is difficult to tell who is an Alpha when in a crowd stuffed with them. "It's nice to meet you."

"We won't be Alpha and Luna for much longer, I'm afraid. Our son is taking over any day now, all he has to do is let him," she nudges her mate.

Alpha Alder says, "He's getting there."

"Anyway, when I saw that you were having an announcement party I nearly fainted. I've been waiting for this day, your mother and I both. Oh, she'd be so happy, James. And you," she switches back to me, "you even look a bit like her, so beautiful. Which pack did you come from, dear?"

"The Waters Pack," I say, thankful that's she's asking easy questions.

"And where did you two meet?"