Who is exactly is this and why is Greyson so excited to see her?

Koda runs over to an end table fetching clothes for Faye and Seb. He throws Faye a huge tee, and tosses Sebastian a pair of shorts. I turn away from them as they change, eyeing Greyson as he just now set that girl down. Koda then goes in for a hug.

I wish I could say she was ugly and haggard, but I can't because she's stunning.

Her fiery red hair ignites in the light as it curls perfectly falling over her shoulders. Her freckled face lights up as Koda hugs her tightly. Her teeth are perfectly aligned, white as can be. I mean her makeup and outfit is even perfect. She's wearing a beautiful white dress decorated in yellow flowers.

Can I hate someone off of first impression? Maybe.

Suddenly Faye and Sebastian run past me. Seb even bumps my shoulder as he runs towards Rayan. Does he turn around and acknowledge that he just ran into me? No.

I swear I'm invisible or something.

They both take turns hugging her smiling widely. "It's so good to see you guys!" She says too happily.

I grimace slightly, "You're staring." Greyson links me.

Blinking rapidly I take my eyes off of her and to Greyson. He smirks giving me a knowing look, "Oh really?" I deadpan.

I don't give a shit if I was staring.

So instead of staring at Rayan I stare at him. It's better this way, my eyes don't burn from anger.

Greyson stares right back at me, a staring competition across the room and I wasn't losing.

I'm not going to blink even when I see Rayan look over to Grey following his line of vision all the way to me.

She then gives me a look of disgust as if I was a dirty old man with missing teeth.

I blink.

"I win again," he remarks.

"Shut up," I tell him earning a little chuckle.

But then both of our eyes travel to a now staring Rayan. She studies me, sniffing the air. "Grey Grey who's this?" She innocently asks as if i can't speak for myself.

Stop calling him Grey Grey. It sounds like a dumb pet name. He may be a wolf but he isn't a domesticated dog.

"Um," he starts as he walks towards me. I don't take my eyes off of her dull green eyes that hide away all of her emotions.

Though suddenly Greyson places his hand upon the mark on my neck, I stiffen getting ready for a shiver to release through my body. That's until I hear, "Don't react, don't react Willa." He says it so seriously my body refuses to let out a shiver, a sound, a fluttering of eyes. Nothing.

But it's damn hard to contain as fire is pulsing through my body. "This is Willa," he lightly steers me towards Rayan until I'm standing right before her. She studies me intently.

As she does so I can see the trio standing together on the other side of her. Faye stands in the middle as she lightly hits the boy's shoulders. Their attention is pulled to her as she slyly points a finger to the base of her neck, and then motioning her eyes back to me.

The boys see what she's saying and look over to me, their eyes snapping quickly to Greyson's hand covering my very noticeable mark in this tank top. I see their eyes go wide, until Rayan speaks up. "She's human, and she knows?" Questioning Greyson yet again like I can't understand English or something.

"Yes she's human, and yes she knows."

"Why is she here?" She says almost too quickly and too bitchy.

For your information I'm here because I'm Greyson's mate, and I'm also the Luna of this pack so if you could just get out of here that'd be great.

Grey bows his head, looking away from everyone. "She was homeless and we offered her a home to stay at. She works as a maid, and we pay her for her duties so she can get out there again." My jaw instantly slacks as I look to everyone else and their reaction is the same. He didn't just say that. Why yes, yes he did.

"That's so nice of you Grey Grey!" She shrieks almost making my eardrums burst.

She places her perfectly manicured hand on his chest. His bare chest, and looking dreamingly into his eyes. I was about to reach over and rip her hand away from my man until Greyson squeezes slightly on my mark.

He intentionally does it to make me calm myself because at this moment I was getting very heated, and possessive.

It takes everything from me to not let out a shaky breath, or flutter my eyes shut as fire dances around my skin.

So I result to squeezing my hands together. I'm almost positive I'll have nail marks later. "I have so many stories to tell you Grey Grey," she jumps.

He nods, and I just gape up towards him.

Let me repeat myself once again, who is this bitch and why is she flirting so much with Greyson? More importantly why is Greyson letting her do it?

Finally he turns towards me, "Willa I think I have clothes to be folded in my room."

I can't explain the fury bubbling under my skin. Having Rayan being here is one thing, but having Greyson refer to me as a maid and not in fact his mate is another. And boy was a furious.

"It was so nice to meet you Wanda," Rayan says.

Wanda? Who is Wanda? Greyson literally just said my name a few second ago. "Willa just go to my room. I'll be there in a second," he links me sternly.

I bite my tongue so I don't say anything to Rayan, something that might get me slapped.

So I turn my body as Greyson's hand falls off my shoulder finally letting my body rest from so much restraint.

My mark faces away from Rayan so she can't see it as Greyson wishes.

I slightly roll my eyes at Greyson before I smack my hands together, mocking a bow. "Yes Master Hudson," I say coldly before I continue walking towards our bedroom.

Once I get up there I'm fuming.

I pace back and forth stomping my feet. Who is this bitch? Why is this bitch here? Why is this bitch flirting Grey?

Suddenly the door opens and my head snaps to it. As Greyson closes the door behind him, I explode. "Who is she? Why is she here?"

He sighs crossing his arms leaning against the door. "Rayan Michaels. She was friends with Faye, Sebastian, Koda, Jared, and I as we were growing up. Her parents died and so she had to switch packs to move in with her cousins. I've only seen her a few times since." He runs fingers through his dark hair, "I don't know why she's here. She usually just stops here like twice a year." He shrugs walking over to our closet. He disappears for a second until walking back with a charcoal grey hoodie. "Please wear this while she's here." He pleads throwing the hoodie to me.

I have no choice but to catch it as it was about to impact with my face. "Why can't she know I'm your mate? Are you embarrassed or something?" I spit.

"No Willa," he groans. "Like I said she moved to a different pack. I don't trust her to keep the secret and not tell her pack mates."

I laugh coldly, "Then why are you letting her flirt with you Greyson? She obviously has the hots for you!" I yell getting frustrated.

He presses a hand to his forehead, "She's not flirting with me Willa! Oh my God this mark is making you so jealous. This is insane Willa!"

"I'm insane?!" I yell not being able to stop. "You're the one who's making up stories so no one outside of our little circle knows you have a human mate!" I scream stepping closer to him. "Just admit that you're ashamed to not have a werewolf mate who can fight alongside you! Rule alongside you without you worrying if I'm going to get hurt in the process!" He stares dangerously down to me, testing me. But I'm not going to stop now. "Admit it you fucking coward!"

"Yes I'm ashamed to have a human mate!" He explodes. "My whole life when I imaged my mate I saw her as a strong she-wolf. But you're the complete opposite Willa! Your a weak human!" I'm taken back by his words. I never expected him to actually say he was ashamed. I was just caught up with my doubts that wanted him to reassure me and say he loved me for who I was.

Oh no, I just thought of the L word. The L word that I didn't know even existed until this very moment until it was crushed and torn into pieces with Greyson's hurtful words.

I love Greyson. Now it hurts even more because the person I love doesn't love me back.

The hoodie drops from my hands, as silent tears stream down my face. I'm in total and complete love with Greyson. But my heart feels as if it's breaking 4x the amount from when Jack kissed Addie.

It hurts so bad.

"Just put on the fucking hoodie before you come downstairs," he fumes slamming the door behind him.

I collapse on floor letting my tears consume me. Why do I fall in love? Why do I do it even though I know it will always come out bad?

Something deep inside of me is breaking, is depressed, is in disbelief. But I reassure that feeling that Greyson has always and will always be ashamed of me, his human mate.

30 minutes later after no more tears will fall from my face, I decide to go downstairs to get something to drink. After all the tears that released from my eyes I wouldn't be surprised if I was dehydrated.

I put on the hoodie, I don't want to make Greyson more mad at me than he already is.

I don't bother looking in the mirror, I don't bother fixing my hair. I want them all to know how devastated I am even if they don't know what's happening.

"So that's how I became the replacement Beta!" Rayan says happily. I roll my eyes instantly as I come down the stairs overhearing their conversation in the lounge.

They all woah in amazement, "That's so cool Ray!" I hear Greyson's voice speak up. I want to burst out crying just hearing his voice. Be strong, I'm trying.

"We're both Beta's now!" Koda then says as I enter the lounge. I intend to walk through with no attention being pulled to myself.

They all bicker quietly as I'm only a few steps until the kitchen entrance until, "Wanda!"

Oh great.

I freeze slowly turning around to where Rayan called me. Firstly I make eye contact with Greyson who is currently sitting so close to Rayan that she's practically sitting in his lap.

I look at him with so much despair, and longing. I feel even sorry for myself.

His look is sorrowful, I can see it in his eyes. I see regret, and something else that's unclear.

He starts to push off the couch, but I can't handle talking to him just yet. I'd probably end up bursting into tears.

So I stop him, "Yes? May I help you?" I respond to Rayan's call even if it isn't my name. Greyson instantly stops his attempt to come and talk to me.

She smiles, which is the fakest smile I've ever seen in my entire 20 years of living. "Can I have a cup of water?"

I hurt my teeth, biting my tongue hard to not say anything snarky to her. So I just smile, sort of snotty. But she can deal with it and so can Greyson.

I turn, in the process I see Faye start to get up off of the couch. She sees how much I'm hurting, she sees the tear stains running down my face. But I can't deal with talking about it right now. I shake my head slowly, warning her to stay where she is.

She gets the warning and takes her place back in between the two boys who have just as much worry in their eyes. Looks like Rayan is the only one not affected my my distraught state.

Bitch.

Quickly I get her water that I may have or may have not spit in.

I walk over to her handing it to her outstretched hand as she chats with Greyson. She doesn't say thank you, hell she doesn't even acknowledge an actual person is standing right next to her. I roll my eyes turning around not daring to look at him.

But when my wrist is quickly caught, I feel the heat of the touch quickly knowing who stopped me.

Yanking my hand from Greyson's grasp I make my way back to the kitchen to get my own water.

"Sorry the weak human doesn't want to speak right now." I link Greyson as I walk calmly towards the kitchen. I try to keep myself together, but one single traitor tear escapes my eye. I wipe it away before it has time to fall.

"Willa-" he tries to link me back, but I cut off the line before he has a chance to. I guess that's a thing? Severing link lines? Oh well I did it and it's the best decision I've made all day.

Staying in the kitchen for a few more minutes was what I had to do to calm down. I tried to keep all of the tears in, but they refused to stop.

So that's why I just said fuck it, wiped any remaining tears off my face. Then marched into the lounge to go back up to the bedroom.

But as I go back in there, Greyson and Rayan were nowhere in sight.

My eyebrows furrow as I look over to the trio, once all of them see me they stand running towards me. "What happened girly?" Faye asks sincerely.

I shake my head, "I can't now." I choke upon my words taking a deep breath in and then out. "Later. But where did the happy couple go?" I ask spitting venom in my voice. They all raise a surprised eyebrow, all of them drawing two and two together.

"Ray said she had something important to tell Grey, so they went to his office." Koda tells me. I huff wiping another tear off my face.

Stop crying goddammit!

I start to turn to go upstairs, but my arm is caught. I peer behind me to see Sebastian his face sympathetic, "Remember when I first met you and I asked if you were 'this week's girl?" I nod understanding. I was so confused when he asked me that. "Well every time Rayan has come to visit, her and Greyson always get together. Not saying Grey would do anything, but Ray-" I'm already sprinting towards the office.

I huff as I stand just outside the door, perfect place for seeing and hearing. Speaking of hearing how did neither of them hear my heavy breathing as I got here?

"Come on Grey Grey," she pleads about something.

My eyes go wide as I peak into the room.

Rayan stands in front of Greyson as he leans his butt against the desk in his office. "No Ray, I don't want to." He refuses to whatever she's asked of him.

She then starts inching her way towards him, and my skin crawls to just run in there and push her away from him. But I don't.

I almost growl as she plops down in his lap. He keeps his arms crossed as she grabs onto his hips. She moves, grinds, and presses herself against him. But, Greyson has no reaction. "You know how good I am in bed Grey Grey, do I need to refresh your memory?" She whispers seductively.

"No Rayan, I'm seeing someone else." He stares her down not budging at all as she throws herself all over him. I smile to myself, yeah that's my loyal man. The loyal man that called us weak. He seems sorry for what he did.

She presses her finger against his lips and pulls the bottom one down, I grip the doorframe so hard I think it's about to snap beneath my fingers. "I'm always number one, and don't you forget it." She tells him.

But then she lurches forward attaching her lips onto his.

Fury, rage, lividness raises in my stomach at the sight. How dare she kisses my mate. How dare she grind herself against something that isn't hers but mine. He's mine!

A growl rips through my lips, I pay no attention to it as I'm in the room in an instant.

I go for the easiest target as I reach the knock off little mermaid.

Her hair.

I grip it harshly in my fists pulling her back harshly sending her to the ground.

That's one way to get someone to stop kissing your property.

I hear her puny growl and I almost chuckle because it was so pathetic. She scrambles off the ground standing face to face with me. The tip of her nose touching mine.

I stare into her eyes showing no emotion whatsoever. "What the fuck are you doing Wanda? Pulling me away from my mate, who do you think you are?!" She screams in my face and I grimace.

But her mate? Nice try.

Quickly I pull the hoodie over my head throwing it to the floor. I tilt my neck pointing to the crescent moon mark permanently marked into my skin. Her eyes become wide laced with fury. "Who am I? I'm Willa Anderson, Luna of The Hudson pack. My mate is Greyson not yours," I tell her breathing out heavily.

She gapes at my mark as I show it off. But then that gape quickly turns into a smirk. "Greyson and I have been inseparable since we were kids. Even until now, we haven't been able to be away from each other. Especially when we have sex. Not just once, but many, many, many times. Each and every time we were in bed together he'd say how I was his mate no matter what."

Rage bubbles more in my stomach. It makes it twist and turn, bubble a boil until it erupts out. In one swift motion I pull back my fist and I swing with all of the power I have, "He's mine!" I scream before landing a punch right on her nose, this earns me a satisfying crunch.

My body acts it on autopilot filled by fury and there's no stopping me now.