Chapter 1: Alpha meets Omega

"I love you" came the voice From the shadows, so deep, so hoarse, I was tempted to believe in his love. "But how can you?" I asked puzzled, nothing seemed to make much sense to me today. With the way the day began, I never expected to be in a dark place with a stranger. "How can I not?" the voice returned so confident and assured that I really needed to know more. I needed to find out how this stranger could love me. "But you don't even know me" I questioned looking straight at the direction of the voice but still not seeing anyone. "But I do" again the voice replied confidently and I began to ask myself where this stranger could know me from when I had been ostracized for being an Omega all my life. "How? When?" I shook my head. Nothing was adding up. Was this a trick from my stepsister Roxanne? She always liked to make my life complicated and get me into trouble. "Calm down" the voice was gentle and for some reason, it calmed me. I really wanted to see the face behind the voice that gets me worked up and calms me at will. "Fine I will" I said finally then took a few deep breaths to steady my heart "But I still don't know you" "Would you like to?" the voice had a playful tone and I could almost tell that the stranger was smiling at me. "Yes I will" I said, trying to hide a blush even though I was not sure if the stranger could see me too "Step where I can see you" "Alright" was all he said and with that came the sound of a footstep and then another. With each footstep, my heart beat faster. "Oh my!" I said as I stared deeper into his direction. I still could not see him fully but somethings were becoming clearer than they were before. We appeared to be in the woods although I did not know. All I could see was that it was really beautiful and a full moon was up in the sky and the stranger… "Can you see me now?" he asked and I focused my attention solely on him. I could finally make out a figure, tall and bulging but nothing specific. "Come closer still" I pleaded and heard yet another footstep that made my heart skip. The blurry figure was becoming clearer to me though. "Is this enough?" he asked again with that playful tone of his. The stranger knew what he was doing to me, how his every voice and step made my heart skip and he was enjoying it. He really was ruthless. "Closer still" I said even though I knew he was baiting me. I could not resist, I had to see the face of a man who could love me. "And now" the stranger asked with another step "Closer" I breathed "And now?" spoken with one more step "Closer" i whispered still. "Closer?" he teased but he was a considerable distance close to me now. I could see to the extents of his height and abs and broad shoulders. All of it making butterflies flutter around my stomach. He had a thick fur over one shoulder signifying he was a werewolf and as my gaze started moving to his face, I almost lost my breath. He was so handsome. "Diana" he breathed my name as he came closer still, too close for comfort, way too close. "Yes" I managed to say. "Diana" his voice was deep and seductive much like his blue eyes. "Yes" I whispered as the intense emotions brought a tear to my eye" "Diana" that voice did not sound like the stranger's at all. In fact, I was quite familiar with the owner of that voice that was now calling out to me "Diana! You wretched girl!" the voice screamed at me, causing my stranger and the woods we were in to disappear. Alas! It had only been a dream. "Would you wake up this instant?!" the new voice screamed even louder. I blinked a few times and confirmed my suspicion that it really belonged to someone I knew. My stepmother. "Mo…. mother" I answered, trying to find my bearings but the floor, cold, hard and unforgiving found me. "Disgraceful!" my stepmother yelled as she gazed on at the sight of me, fallen flat on my face with no pity in her eyes, not even in the slightest. "I'm sorry mother" I said as I tried to get back up on my feet. I had been so tired from all the work earlier, I had leaned on a wall and fallen asleep. "Save it! We have work to do" was all she said before moving to another room and gesturing for me to follow her. "Work?" I could not believe my ears. After all the work I had done so far while she and her daughter did nothing, this woman still wants me to work? "Don't you dare complain you ungrateful girl" and so she began our usual tale about how they saved me and gave me a life that I should be proud of. "Yes mother" I made sure to say occasionally as she continued to list all the worst things that could have happened to me if they did not put me under their roof and gave me a name. "Now let's go!" she said and this time I followed her till we both entered another room in my foster parent's estate. Today was a big event and everyone was busy somehow. "Mother! Mother!! Mother!!!" my stepsister squealed as soon as she caught sight of us. She was beautiful in her flowing red dress, all her time was spent wearing. "Yes my darling Roxanne" my stepmother replied with the affection that I had never seen her use on me. It was always Roxanne, their blonde beauty, their only biological daughter. "He is here! The alpha is here!" Roxanne even became more excited than before. Having the alpha of the Diamond Moon pack at your party was a very big deal. "Yes! You have given me the best news daughter" my stepmother continued to feed off her daughter's news and they were soon lost in conversation. I used that opportunity to run as far as I could and get a few moments of peace. I just went wherever my legs took me and I landed on the roof. "Who's there" I whispered not wanting to alert my my step mother or daughter of where I was. But I still could not shake the feeling that I was not alone. "It's me" came a voice in the shadows again. I wondered if I had fallen asleep and the stranger in my dreams had some back. "Who are…" before I could complete my sentence, he was already out in the open. Seeing him, my jaw dropped. "Please don't yell. I don't want anyone knowing that I am here" the way he begged made me know he was not used to doing so, like he was royalty or something. "You're him" I breathed out both word and air "You are the stranger in my dreams.