My Mate Chose My Best Friend, So His Uncle Claimed Me

It had been a year since I found out that my fated mate was none other than Redmund Franciosa. During that year, our relationship had been a secret just as he wished.

"Soon, love. Soon." He would lovingly whisper those words to my ear whenever I pressed him about it. His warm breath shivered against my skin, and his voice was low and hypnotizing was enough for me to agree with his promises.

Yet to my disappointment, those words had never changed. I wanted more. I had been eager to tell the world that I had finally had a mate I could call mine and couldn't wait for the day we would get married in the near future.

I couldn't wait to be marked by him and have a family with him. I had already dreamed about us living in his pack, where we had a pup we both created.

Redmund, was first in line to inherit the Golden Eclipse Pack, already holding a respected position as one of the captains in the royal military. His uncle was the current Alpha of their pack and hadn't married yet, which served him as the next in line in case his uncle retired. He entered in the royal military to make himself known where his uncle was working as a commander as he had a very supportive parents who were so proud of him aiming this position.

I, on the other hand, was working as a tactical keeper in the same field as him. Unlike him, I came from a smaller pack, the Starry Shadows Pack, which never held much influence outside its borders. I was already an orphan, living in the pack house only, after Father died from the rogue ambush when I was eight, which happened in our pack. I grew up not knowing who my mother was and became one of the gammas when I joined the royal military as soon as they allowed women could join.

Thanks to Commander Rachelle, the first woman to enter the military, the one who proved women were just as capable as men to serve.

He was twenty-seven. I was twenty-six. 

Yet despite our differences, status, age, and pack, I believed the Moon Goddess had chosen us for a reason.

I could really hope that Redmund would finally introduce me to his parents soon. I couldn't wait to meet them.

When the royal military finally granted me a short leave, after begging it from my superior for a month, I decided it was the perfect chance to see him.

Even though we were in the same field, Redmund and I had a little time to spend time to each other. Other than that, to the eyes of our comrades, he and I were nothing more than colleagues... or rather, friends, which hurt me the most because we couldn't expose our relationship yet.

So under that pretext, I planned to visit him. I wanted to see the glad and surprised etched on his face