Chapter 6
The Iron Hide pack house was muchrger than the rustic pack house of Silver Moon pack. It was
obvious from the size of the ce that the pack was both extremelyrge and extremely wealthy. I felt
ridiculously out of ce as Tristan led me inside.
He led me by the hand to his office, not bothering to stop for introductions to any of the wolves we met
as we passed by. Their stares made me more nervous than I had been since the night I met him in the
woods. I didn’t know anything about pack life, but it seemed odd that an Alpha wouldn’t stop to
introduce his mate to the pack.
Once inside his office, he gestured for me to sit before making his way to his own seat behind his
oversized desk. I felt my face drop at the loss of physical contact. Simply holding his hand had me
running on a high I had never experienced before. I was afraid that he was changing his mind about
epting me as his mate.
“When is your birthday?” he asked quietly.
“July second.” I responded quietly, looking at my hands as I sped them in myp.
“Hey, look at me.” He encouraged. “You’re underage until July second. Until then, I think it would be
best if we took things slow. Get you settled in as part of the pack and get to know each other before we
“I.. Well, I don’t really know what any of that means. I was studying the packw information from Barb,
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but that’s all I know about packs.” I blurted out.
To my surprise, Tristan burst outughing beforeing around the desk and kneeling in front of me. I
wasn’t sure what he had found so funny, myck of knowledge about my own species was making me
ufortable.
“I promise I will teach you everything you need to know.” He whispered, taking my face in his hands.
“First, I think we make you part of the pack. You won’t scent like a rogue anymore and it will make it
easier for me to keep you safe.”
The sincerity in his honey colored eyes was all it took for me to nod my head in agreement. He rose
and grabbed a letter opener from his desk. I gasped as he drew it across his hand, slicing open his
palm. Instinctively, I withdrew when he reached to do the same to mine.
“Hannah, I promise it’s ok. In order to make you a part of the pack, I have to mix my blood with yours,
ok?”
I nodded and he quickly cut my hand with the letter opener.
“Ok, now repeat after me. I swear to protect the happiness and wellbeing of the pack and my alpha, to
the best of my abilities, for the rest of my days.”
I repeated the words as Tristan pressed our bleeding palms together. As soon as the final word passed
my lips, my mind was filled with voices of the pack, weing me. Sensing it was overwhelming me, I
heard Tristan’s voice in my mind telling them to calm down. I looked at him in awe as the roar of voices
subsided.
“What was that? I whispered.
“That was our pack weing their Luna through our mind link, though you won’t officially be made
Luna until after your birthday.” He grinned at me, obviously pleased with the reaction from the pack.
I threw my arms around him and felt him stiffen causing me to pull back, my hurt evident on my face.
He sighed and grabbed a cloth from his desk to clean the blood from our hands, the cuts having
already healed. I sat silently, feeling rejected, and watched him return to his seat on the opposite side
of the desk once he was done cleaning our palms.
“Hannah. I need you to understand. I’m almost twenty, you aren’t of age yet. As much as I want to feel
you close to me, it makes it difficult not to give in andplete our mate bond. It wouldn’t be right for
me to do that before you’re eighteen.” He pled.
I wanted to understand, but the age gap seemed trivialpared to the need to touch him that was
currently raging in my body. Logically, I knew I was still a minor and a ward of the state at that. He
couldn’t do anything that could risk the emancipation suit he had mentioned in Bruce’s office. Sexing
me up, no matter how badly I wanted it, wouldn’t look that great in court. Being mates would have been
much simpler if my parents were still alive.
I was still stuck in my mental tantrum when there was a knock on the office door. A in looking girl
entered and informed Tristan that my belongings had arrived. He took that as his cue to lead me to a
room, where my things from the orphanage had been stashed.
“This is your room, until weplete our mate bond. You can decorate it however you want. My room
is just next door.” He told me.
I looked around in awe. The room was at least twice the size of my room in the orphanage without the
en suite bathroom. My few belongings looked out of ce in the massive room. I squealed in delight at
the thought of decorating the ce, flinging myself onto the queen-sized bed as I did. Tristan plopped
down beside me chuckling.
“If a bedroom gets you this excited, I am sorry that I have to miss your first run of packnds.”
“You want me to run alone?” I gaped, his words recing my excitement with fear.
“No. Jaxon, that’s my beta, and his mate are going to take you on a run around packnds.” He replied,
lowering his voice before continuing. “I can barely control myself around you as it is, I can’t risk letting
my wolf take over with you around.”
My mouth formed a silent O as heid down on the bed beside me. I found myself moving closer to
him, his scent enticing me to get as close to him as I possibly could. Heid there for a moment, his
body stiff, as I pressed my face into his side an inhaled his scent.
“Hannah.” He said, his voice as tense as his body. “I’m going to go now. Jaxon and his mate will be
here shortly to take you on your run. If you need anything at all, let them know and we will get it taken
care of for you.”
I couldn’t help but feel saddened as he left the room, the pain of his absence greatly outweighing my
excitement at being a member of the pack and about to take my first run in packnds. I sighed and
forced myself to get up from the bed to find something appropriate to wear on a run. I didn’t have much,
so I quickly unpacked as I looked for my oversized sweatshirt and basketball shorts.