This story is a bit of a new one really and one that I have been planning for a long time. I hope you like it. Once again it is a grey wolves fan fiction.

SUMMARY

Alina Albescu is a usual teenager. Well except that she is a Canius Lupis (A werewolf of some sort).

She wants what most people want. A life. A life away from the pack and the responsibilities that come from being the alpha's daughter. She wants something new, something exciting.

Except with her father still hanging around that wasn't going to happen. So with her desire for freedom in mind Alina is sent to a large gathering where she meets Vasile, the prince of all Canius Lupis.

Vasile is a standard male wolf willing to do anything for his pride. He is everything Alina has been running from her entire life, everything she wanted to escape. Except for some reason she is drawn to him. There is something about Vasile that makes her think that life in a pack could be eventful if he was the one by her side. He was different. A little more relaxed than her father and she knew that one way or another she would be with him.

Because he was the other half of her soul. Her one true lover. Her Mate!

Alina

"ALINA VIVIENNE ALBESCU DO NOT MAKE ME COME UP THERE AND GET YOU!" My fathers voice yelled as I stood in the hallway. My heart beat against my chest hitting my rib cage hard.

I was being made to go to a gathering. A place where high up men would go and search for their mates. A mate. I tried to hold back my laugh. A mate was someone you loved more than anything, the other half of your soul. The one person you could not live without. I didn't believe in trying to find them. I thought the great Luna should decide where you meet and how you fall in love but my father disagreed.

As an alpha's daughter I had learnt from a young age that what I wanted really didn't matter. I was just there for display in my father's eyes. He had my brother to spoil. I sighed and looked in the mirror pulling at my dress and my curls. I hated it. I was a doll to them. I would be passed around at a party in attempts for me to find my mate and it was awful.

Tonight we were going to the Romanian pack's mansion. Home of Greyson and Marianna Lupei and their son Vasile. My father was hoping that perhaps my mate would be there. However I hoped for the exact opposite. I didn't want them to see me fall in love. I wanted to be allowed to fall in love when I wanted. Not when I was forced into a room.

"ALINA!" He called again and I sighed walking down the stairs.

"I am here Da" I told him and stood by the door to his study in my formal evening where. Not that I saw the point in that either. Why dress up for first impressions of the man who will love me no matter what? If he loved me he should be able to deal with my casual clothes and my hatred for all things that were false.

Falseness. Something that I had grown up seeing. My father and mother had always taught me that first impressions meant everything. That I should try my best to please people no matter what. I should be who they want me to be and not who I am. I had seen my father and mother do it a million times when we had guests and as soon as they were out the door they would return to themselves moaning about other Alpha's and the affairs that had taken place on such an alpha's land.

"Ah there is my beautiful daughter" my mother smiled. She too was in evening wear. Her blonde hair laying on her shoulders not a single strand out of place. That was my mother. Perfection. It was hard to be her daughter when she was always trying to turn me into something that I was not.

My father stood and walked out from the side of his desk. He wore his dark tuxedo and looked every bit the alpha that he was. I only wished he was that good a father. Then perhaps he would listen to my ideas instead of blocking my opinions at every turn.

I sighed and looked at them both as they joined hands. My parents were in love. No matter how many times I argued with them or they argues with each other they would always be there for one another. That was what mates did. They loved each other unconditionally, they would until they took their last breaths together.

Thinking about loving someone like that should have brought me joy and excitement for what was yet to come in my life but I couldn't get excited. Instead I got fearful. I was terrified of finding my mate. If I found him I would be unable to be me and I would lose my freedom forever. I would have no escape from him. I wouldn't be Alina any more I would be Luna. That was it. I would lose my name and I would lose myself. Alina would be replaced by a woman who would cook and clean and look after her mate because I loved him. To me that wasn't paradise. It was hell and I didn't plan on visiting any time soon. I was not prepared to lose any ground I had made in my first century. No way.

My brother was the next down the stairs. He was dressed in an outfit similar to my father's his darks hair set in place. I sighed and moved out of the way to let the golden son through.

My mother embraced him and smiled. I scowled. He was under no pressure to find a mate. My mother wanted her baby boy to be young for as long as he could even if he was older than me and it sucked big time.

"You all packed?" My mother asked us and my brother nodded and hugged her before looking at me, and smiling

"Hey there sister-mine" he smiled.

"Hello there Logan" I smiled and he pulled me into his arms.

My brother was perhaps the only member of my family who understood me. He knew exactly why I didn't want to be married and surprisingly he understood. He had told me it was okay and he would sort it but neither of us had been successful so far.

"Come on you two let's get going" my father told us and I nodded letting go of him and looking at my father who was now walking out the door helping with the bags.

My father, mother and I all got into our family carriage and headed off to the Romanian mansion.

Something like this should have been a regular occurance for me and I should have been bored by now but this trip seemed to excite me. For the first time we were going to stay at the Romanian mansion for a week. I suppose, thinking of it, that it was part of my fathers scheme to get me to stay there but I could not care. I was excited to see somewhere new. Explore.

Vasile

It was late when the alpha of the north Serbian pack and his family arrived. I sat up in my room watching as their carriage pulled up and walked downstairs to greet them along with my father and my mother.

The first person I noticed was their daughter. She stepped out of the carriage and my eyes fell to her. She was perfect. Long curled brown hair her formal dress a light shade of green as she stood waiting for, who I assumed to be, her brother.

Mr and Mrs Albescu greeted my mother and father nicely and so did their son, who introduced himself as Logan, but their daughter was reluctant and a little bit scared. This made me wonder why. She wasn't rude and did not refuse to greet anyone she just seemed shy.

"Marianna, so lovely to see you again" my mother smiled embracing the alpha female of the North Serbian pack and that's when I remembered that Marianna Albescu had once been a member of our Romanian pack.

"And you Nina!" Marianna smiled and then looked at the rest of her family.

"So these are your kids" my mamma smiled and Marianna nodded.

"Alina and Logan" she smiled but I could tell who she favoured her son. She smiled at her son but did not even glance at her. I felt a wave of resentment roll through me but I was sure it was not my own.

Except I wasn't. I was too tired to really tell anything. I had been up almost twenty four hours now and it was getting to be tiresome. All I needed was my bed. Except the greetings still weren't done.

When it came to me I smiled reassuringly at her. I wanted to make her feel welcome here and not afraid and she smiled back at me sweetly. I kissed her cheeks and she turned her face away and I frowned. Had the kiss made her upset? I wondered for a moment but was interrupted by my father.

"The rooms are upstairs to the left" my father told them and all four of them nodded picking up your bags.

"Vasile could you lead Logan and Alina upstairs for me. The rooms on the left of yours" my mother told me and I nodded taking Alina's bags from her but she frowned. However she didn't say anything.

I walked the both of them upstairs talking to Logan about pack life. He was okay to talk to I guess but he was like most soon to be alpha's a little bit cocky but I could see that he was protective of his sister. That I couldn't blame him for. I was an only child but if I had a baby sister I would be protective of her too.

I gave Logan the room farthest away from mine and then Alina the one in the middle thinking that if something went wrong both of us could be in her room in moments to protect her.

Damn Vasile you have barely known the girl five minutes get a life I snapped at myself and looked straight ahead as I walked into Alina's room placing her bags by the wardrobe.

"Thankyou" she smiled at me and I smiled back walking towards the door.

"No problem Alina" I told her and she nodded to me with a smile.

"Hey, can I ask you a question?"

"Sure you just did" I laughed and then smiled at her " I am kidding go ahead"

"How old are you?" She asked and I smiled.

"Almost a century" I told her and she smiled.

"Me too" she told me and I nodded thinking for a moment curiosity filling my head.

"Really?" I asked shocked. She didnt look like she had been on this earth for a whole 100 years. She looked too fragile. Too fresh.

"Really. And you aren't mated" she smiled and my heart filled with joy at the slight hope in her eyes.

"No ma'am waiting for the right girl" I told her and she smile going to pick up the bags and her jacket fell showing her shoulder.

Covered in bruises.

Rage built up inside me as I watched her pull the jacket back over her shoulder blushing.

"Alina?" I asked and she shook her head.

"It is nothing" she told me but some part of me didn't believe her. I couldn't.

"Do not lie to me" I told her and went to touch her shoulder but she moved away from me.

"Some guy was being too harsh I delt with it" she told me and I frowned.

"You are lying I know" I told her but I really had no clue if she was lying or not. I just wanted it to be someone close so that I could go and beat him.

" I am not. I have had worse. Now I am tired please go to bed" she told me and I sighed.

"Fine, but if you need anything or want to talk some more I am just next door" I smiled and pointed to the door as she nodded.

"Thank you I think I might need to"

"Don't hesitate" I smiled and she nodded genuine happiness shining in her eyes. I smiled at her and left my room with a smile on my face as I walked into my room laying on my bed.

I lay there for hours thinking of Alina. Her hair, her eyes lit up with happiness. Her smile. The bruises.

I growled as I remembered the purple marks marring her beautiful skin. She was too beautiful to be hit and I only hoped her family had hung the man responsible. He had deserved it to hurt for even thinking of touching her let alone doing it. Stupid fool. Alina was a prize.

Alina. Her name ran through my mouth and I found myself saying it aloud as I lay on my bed.

"CRAP!" I snapped and that was when I realised.

Alina Albescu was my mate.

Well Shit!