A/N: Due to having to attend my uncles funeral, this chapter has not yet been edited at all. I will edit it in the following days, but for now I just wanted to get it up on Watt pad for everyone to enjoy.
I apologize for any mistakes and I will be correcting them later.
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Human hands are funny things. Never in my life have I had to use such complicated appendages. I couldn't even get into a sitting position without the help of Detsy and Grace.
"How are you feeling?" Grace asked me as I finally got the hang of balancing while sitting down on the edge of the bed.
"Like I'm in a body that doesn't belong to me." I answer through the mind link.
"Would you like to see yourself?" Detsy asked as she was coming back from fetching a huge portable mirror that the pack uses so new shifters can see themselves.
"Do I look bad?" I answered her question with a question of my own through the mind link.
Grace snorted before replying. "No, just like Detsy you're incredibly beautiful."
I closed my eyes as Detsy positioned the mirror in front of me and mentally psyched myself out to look.
When I finally opened my eyes I was greeted by a tall human girl in the mirror. She had silver hair halfway down her back and my silver eyes. She had a long face and a pale complexion. All in all I was surprised with just how stunning this girl was.
I had to remind myself that this was in fact me, as I started to get jealous at how close the girl in the mirror was to Grace. Only Detsy and I were allowed to be that close to her.
"What do you think?" Grace asked from next to me as she played with some of my soft hair with her fingertips.
"I can't believe this is me." I replied through the mind link. "Did you know I was a werewolf?"
"Not for certain." Grace said. "But I'd had a suspicion from the very moment I met you."
"I thought the same thing when I met you." Detsy interjected. "Besides from the fact that you were our third mate."
"Wait, you KNEW I was your mate, since when?" I demanded down the link.
"Since Detsy and I saw you for the first time together at the lake. Our wolves told us then." Grace replied hesitantly.
"If you've known for all this time when why didn't you tell me." I was furious by now.
"Because we thought you might be a werewolf and didn't want you to be disappointed if we were wrong and you never shifted, or sit there for a month being afraid of the pain to come." Detsy took over from Grace in a calm, caring voice. "There's also the reason that you being our mate makes you a princess and we didn't want to throw that on you when you were just getting used to being around werewolves."
To say I was not happy was an understatement, but it helped a bit to know that the two of them were looking out for me and not just toying with my emotions.
I simply nodded at Grace and Detsy to let them know that I understood, but still wasn't happy that they kept such important information from me.
"Ok Eva." Grace said from her position sitting next to me. "Can you try to speak out loud for us instead of using the mind link? All werewolves gain an understanding of the wolf language when they first shift and I'm hoping it will be the same for you, but with English."
"L-l-like t-this?" I stuttered out loud before moving my jaw around to settle it after the movements it made to produce the sounds. It seems that I did in fact know how to speak English with my human mouth, it's just that it feels so unnatural I'd prefer to stick to mind linking.
"Exactly like that." Detsy said with a smile on her face.
"That feels so weird, I think I'm going to stick to mind linking." I admitted to my mates through the mind link once again.
"Unfortunately that won't work as well as you'd think considering that you're only able to mind link your pack mates and of course Detsy and I because we're your mates. You need to learn to speak out loud so you can communicate with people outside of the pack and yes there will be plenty of need to." Grace told me a little bit like a school teacher. "So from now on unless Detsy and I are out of ear shot, no more mind linking us."
I groaned out loud. "Fine." I said out loud and even got a little proud of myself as I heard the attitude I'd managed to put into the word.
Detsy giggled at me before continuing. "So now comes the fun part Eva, trying to walk."
"It couldn't be that hard considering every werewolf and human here does it all day, every day." I thought to myself as Aurora laughed at me from inside my own mind.
As I realized almost immediately that standing on two legs is not as easy as it seems and didn't come as naturally to me as speaking did. In fact if I didn't have Grace and Detsy holding me up I would have face planted the moment I tried to shift my weight off the bed.
Saffron was still watching us from the corner where she had settled hours before as Derrick was helping his father clean up the first shifters building. She thought it was hilarious to throw unhelpful bits of advice at me randomly then watch my reaction. I was so going to get her back for that later.
"Please don't gang up on me with your mate". I begged Derrick as he came over to get some of the equipment off the floor to pack away.
"You're safe from me Eva." Derrick replied as he made sure his gaze was on the other side of the room and he didn't accidentally glance in my direction. Alpha Leyton was also as far away from me as he could get.
"Why are all the males avoiding me?" I asked confused.
Saffron actually doubled over laughing before explaining. "It's because your naked Eva. It's making them uncomfortable and also because you're the mate of two princesses and they want to live through the night."
At her words, I realized that I was indeed completely naked and I became embarrassed. Damn these human ideas and how they were affecting me.
"Well make yourself useful and get her some clothes Saffron." Detsy growled at the still giggling woman. "And stop looking at our naked mate while you're at it."
"Relax." Saffron replied as she got up to head into the storage cabinets for some clothes. "I'm a straight girl who is confident in her sexuality. The female body doesn't bother me and I'm not going to give your mate googly eyes. However teasing my best friend is a completely different matter."
Detsy rolled her eyes as her attention went back to me trying to put one foot in front of the other. I remembered wondering how humans walked on two feet when I first came to the Roaring Hills pack and I still don't know how they do it. Although I am managing to lean less on Detsy and Grace than I was a few minutes ago.
"Here you go." Saffron said a few minutes later as she came back into the room holding pants and a shirt.
"Sit down Eva." Grace instructed as she took the clothes from Saffron. I sat down quite willingly as it was much better than trying to stand or walk.
"Now we're going to help you get dressed." Detsy informed me as Grace shook the clothes out of their folded state. "It's going to be a bit awkward sorry, but please bear with us."
Well Detsy was right, it was extremely awkward. At one point I managed to get tangled in both the sweat pants and my tee shirt.
"I'm blaming my lack of familiarity with these goddess forsaken limbs." I defended myself as Saffron sat off to the side have a good laugh at my expense.
"It's ok, it won't take too long to learn how to use them." Detsy promised me.
"You say that, but I think it would be much easier to stay as a wolf. How do I turn back anyway?" I asked.
"We will teach you that tomorrow." Grace promised. "But right this second you're setting into you're human body and trying to shift back now will be 10 times more painful than your first shift was unless you get a good night's sleep. Which is the same rule for any of the new shifters and the reason we have wolf accommodation prepared for them."
"Fine." I said dragging the word out like a child. "At least I'm fully clothed now."
Which was true. I'd never worn clothes before but even though I knew I was still missing underwear, the protection the clothes bought me from the cold night was welcoming and quite comfortable. Which was the same reason I liked my fur in wolf form.
"We'll keep going with walking practice for a bit before we head back inside." Grace decided as she got up and held out her hand to assist me up.
We practiced for another hour. Thankfully I'd learnt to more or less walk unaided, although very clumsily, by the time 1 am came so we could all head up to bed.
I even managed to make it all the way up to our room without needing someone to catch me. Although there were a few close calls. I was just glad that Saffron had separated from us by this point and she couldn't keep adding things her to ammo of stuff to tease me about pile.
Of course the next challenge of my human form was going to the toilet. I have no idea how humans can sit on that cold bowl to do their business in the same place each time. Even after trying it out all I could think of to describe it was unnatural.
"Are you coming to bed or are you going to spend all night in there?" Grace asked as I turned on the tap to wash my hands. Yet another human custom I didn't see the point of, why are big humans afraid of things so small they couldn't see them?
"Yes, yes. I'm coming miss impatient." I replied while drying my hands. I walked into the adjoining walk in closet and took my clothes off. No way was I sleeping in the fur of something else.
Detsy wolf whistled me as I came into the bedroom without clothes and Grace clenched her jaw.
"What's wrong Grace?" I asked as I climbed over her to get in between my mates as Detsy was signalling for me to do.
"Don't worry about her." Detsy replied for Grace. "She's just holding herself back because she desperately wants to mark you."
"Really? Even though I just shifted and found out you were both my mates a few hours ago?" I asked surprised.
"Grace nodded at me and Detsy once again answered. "We've been holding ourselves back for a month Eva. Now that it's official of course we want to claim our mate."
"Ok then." I said as I sat up against my pillow and used my hands to move my hair away from my neck. "I give you my permission to mark me."
Grace's eyes nearly bulged out of their sockets. "Are you sure about this? You do know that once marked, it can never be undone? There is no pressure to jump into anything Eva."
"I know." I replied. "But the three of us have basically been living as mates since Detsy got here. I know that I never want to have to live my life without the both of you so I have no issues being marked."
Grace had tears in her eyes as she embraced me. "Only if you're completely sure Eva."
"I'm sure." I replied while looking over Grace's shoulder at Detsy and showing her how serious I was.
"This will hurt for a few seconds then the pain will fade away to pleasure." Grace informed me before nuzzling her nose into the crook of my neck.
Detsy was smiling at the two of us like an insane clown that couldn't keep her happiness down. Grace pulled away from me and I knew she was bringing out her incisors.
A couple of seconds later and a white hot pain seared into my neck. Even though I had just gone through the pain of shifting I still cried out. Detsy covered my lips with hers in my very first kiss as the pain rapidly faded away to be replaced with an indescribable pleasure. I could feel Grace's teeth in my neck and damn it felt good.
All to soon Grace pulled her teeth out and covered the rapidly healing wound with her tongue to help stop the bleeding before pulling back to smile at me. My face was full of bliss.
"My turn." Detsy announced from beside me. Grace and Detsy traded places with each other while I was still in my world of pleasure.
"Are you ready Eva?" Detsy asked while grabbing my face softly in both of her hands.
The action brought me back to the real world and I nodded at her, rather eager to be marked by Detsy as well.
Detsy pushed a clump of hair that had resettled off my shoulder as she nuzzled into the crook of my neck as Grace had done only minutes before.
Once again Detsy's face pulled back from my neck as she bought out her incisors and I looked at Grace who was also smile like an idiot at the sight of one of her mates about to mark the other.
I felt Detsy's teeth enter my neck in the same place that Grace's did, except this time there was no pain. The pleasure came back immediately and started to get more intense the longer Detsy's teeth were in my neck.
Just after Detsy had bitten me Grace moved in and connected her lips with mine. Just like Detsy, my first kiss with Grace happened as our other mate marked me. Although I can now see why humans enjoy the act of kissing.
Once again Detsy pulled her teeth out all to soon and I was just left floating in a sea of pure bliss.
I vaguely heard Grace talking to me. "Lie down Eva. Being marked always makes a werewolf tired and getting marked twice in one night is even worse. We both love you and will be here when you wake up."
"Sweet dreams our beautiful girl." Detsy said as she guided my body down into a comfortable position on the mattress.
Once I was comfortable both of my mates pressed themselves into me. Conscious had almost left me as I realized that I was both the little spoon and the big spoon to both of my mates. I couldn't be happier.
"Well done today." Aurora whispered to me before I slipped into a dream. "Just remember that I'm going to mark those two as well. So rest up, you're going to need it tomorrow Eva."
And just like that, Aurora was silent and I was asleep.