Marsai POV:
I frowned in displeasure as I looked at my reflection in the mirror. I almost couldn't recognize the breathtaking girl who was staring back at me. She was beautiful, confident, and oozing with sexual appeal.
“… Girl, you are having the best 18th birthday ever!” I heard someone shriek behind me, I didn't have to look back to know it was Elena. My best friend's twin sister.
For a split second, I thought she was about to bring up another one of her ridiculous ideas for my birthday party until I saw her gawking at my dress with a mischievous look on her face.
“That dress is a bomb!” She whistled, nodding her head as she further examined the black gown I was putting on. It was a corset gown with a split by the side.
I tugged the corset to adjust the cup, but I still couldn't shake off the anxiety that my breasts could spill out at any time. “It’s too revealing, I'm not a prostitute.” I sighed, administering my displeasure with the expensive black gown that my father had delivered from the vampire land.
“What if that's what the Alpha wants everyone to see?” She replied, pulling my door close as she strolled inside the room, joining Leah and me.
Surprised, I lifted an eyebrow before I let out a soft chuckle. “My father? No, I don’t think so.” I shook my head and turned my back to look at her, knowing I didn't sound convincing.
Since the preparation of my 18th birthday party, she has been hitting on the idea that my father, Alpha Brayden, was intending to turn my birthday party into a hook-up party because of my lack of a mate.
“Can’t you see Marsai, that's why he invited everyone. Even the crumbs of the pack also got invitations to your party. God forbid, one of them will turn out to be your mate.” She wrinkled her face in displeasure as if she could already envision how my life would be with a pauper.
“There's nothing wrong with having an omega as a mate, they have the gentlest hearts,” I replied almost immediately before impatiently tugging the zip of my dress. I despise the fact that Elena couldn't see past her judgmental impression of the omegas.
In a split second, I felt my best friend moving behind me to help me with it.
“Thank you, Leah.” I beamed at her with gratitude spilling all over my face before muttering, “Can you please tell your sister that there's more to being an Alpha, Delta, or Beta’s mate? Sometimes you really have to find who can love you more than an entire pack.”
“There’s also nothing wrong with an Alpha putting his pack first. You are an Alpha’s daughter, how can you not want one for yourself.”? Elena shook her head at me as if I were being ridiculous, but I still stood on my point.
“When there's love, there's no title. It's just two bodies of one soul,” I countered, staring at the mirror with a wistful expression on my face.
It was my eighteenth birthday today, and I hadn’t been emotionally or sexually attracted to anyone yet. Seeing and hearing tales from she-wolves in the pack about how they found their mates before 18 gave me a sense of hopelessness.
Ever since I was a pup, I've always wished and prayed to the moon goddess to bestow onto me a better man than my father. A man who will love me, cherish me, respect me and make me the center of his whole world.
I didn’t know if he will be an Alpha, Beta, Delta, or maybe an Omega, but whosoever he is, I will love and cherish him as much as he does to me.
“What if it's a woman,” I heard Leah’s gentle voice behind me for the first time since Elena got into the room, and I wrinkled my brows confused.
“No, it can’t be.” I shook my head, dismissing the thought from my mind. I didn’t know why it sounded unscrupulous coming from my best friend because we both knew that I'd also never felt any attraction toward a fellow she-wolf.
“But, what-
“Whoever they are, let’s just hope it's not an Omega because they are too weak.” Elena rolled her eyes in disgust, interrupting her twin sister, and I was suddenly curious about what Leah was about to say.
“Leah, why did you think-
“I'm done with the zip, I have to grab a drink.” Leah and I synchronously spoke to each other and I gave her a brief awkward smile.