Waiting [Part 1]
Author's Note: I've always had ideas about things that I wanted to write for 'Wolf Lake' but none of them actually moved me enough to write them down. This fic just begged to be written, so I did at two in the morning. I hope you enjoy. Part II is being written currently so any reviews/criticisms will be accepted gratefully.
LukeShe was supposed to have loved him forever.
Despite his lies and betrayals, his constant broken promises...
She was supposed to have waited for him.
Loved him.
She must have missed the memo.Sophia
She had waited.
Even after the pain and agony he had repeatedly caused her with his one night stands and brief 'flings'.
For a while she had believed that if she allowed him to run wild, be animalistic, be Luke, He would eventually come back to her.
Only he didn't.
Luke
When he had claimed Prestly for his mate, he had somehow believed in the back of his mind that she would still wait because she knew him better than he knew himself.
She would somehow know that his choice of Prestly had been a rash decision made in greed.
She would somehow know that when he realized that the woman he desired, the woman he loved, the woman he wanted to spend the rest of his life with was her, he would turn his back on his selfishness, the status of Alpha, the pack, and return to her.
Too bad she hadn't known.
Sophia
She thought she could wait until he returned to her- for good.
Her mother had always told her, 'if you love someone, let them go. If they return to you, they're yours. If they don't, they never were.'
She had let him go time after time, hoping that he would return.
When he didn't, she had reassured herself, telling herself that he didn't know his mind yet.
After all, he somehow always wound up back in her bed, her arms, her body, didn't he?
He couldn't touch her with such passion, with such heat, with such care, without loving her at least a little, could he?
The day he had announced to the younger pack of his choice of Prestly, she had realized that Luke had always known his mind.
His choice wasn't her.
Luke
He had thought he loved being the leader of the pack more than being with her.
Only he had been wrong.
Mindless fucks with Prestly in the woods didn't do anything for him but leave him feeling unsatisfied and empty.
He had attempted to convince himself that it didn't matter.
Being the next Alpha was his main priority.
And choosing a half-breed for a mate didn't bode well for the next Alpha.
Besides, he had thought, if it turned out that he had made a mistake, he could always return to her because she would be waiting.
More importantly, no other self-respecting skin-walker would take up with a half-breed.
Too bad he had been wrong.
Sophia
If she had not flipped, she would have run away- abandoning all that was wolven.
But she had flipped.
Which meant that she was trapped.
After Luke's choice, there were jibes.
The jibes she could take. It was the pitying glances that made her want to crawl up and die.
Being that Wolf Lake was to be her permanent home, Sophia planned on remaining where she had always been- in the shadows.
She had planned on living her life as quietly as possible- alone.
She hadn't counted on there being a new arrival to Wolf Lake.
A new arrival who would give her a new life.
One where she was in the spotlight, not the shadows.
One where she was respected, not disdained.
One where she no longer waited for Lucas Cates to return to her waiting arms.
