Ana laughed some more.
"You don't have to be so shocked, it's true. You could call it a classic case of Cinderella but in wolf style where the poor girl turns out to be mated to the Alpha. My dear Elsie really couldn't believe it at first, and she was worried because she thought the Alpha would reject her.
She was just a poor girl after all and certainly no match for all the girls she had seen flocking around the Alpha but Alpha Richard surprised everyone when he accepted her as his mate.
He accepted her and told her he would love to get to know her better because she was surely his fated mate and the goddess makes no mistake when she mates her children. They got married about a year ago, and my daughter now lives in the palace," Ana said, and I really couldn't help sighing.
It's funny how in life, some people get to be so lucky while others just have a truckload of bad luck. Elsie is surely living her fairy tale life with her mate. She is now Luna, and she has a mate who loves her—a classic Cinderella tale, but here I am, trying my best to survive and running away from my own mate who turned out to be no less than a beast.
From Ana's example, my story would be titled Beauty and the Beast but just not the happy kind. I'm talking about the one where beauty not only escapes the beast but learns and grows to one day slay that beast.
I wrote down the next question that popped up in my mind. "If you're the Luna's mother, then why are you still living out here alone, in a cottage?" She read the question and smiled.
"The truth remains that no matter how destiny becomes kind or cruel to us, we are who we are. I'm used to living in this small cottage, not too far from the border. I've lived here for most of my life, so I find it hard to just pack my things and move to the palace.