Mate?
Tamara POV
I stopped in my tracks, and snapped my head to where I sensed it. Since I couldn’t see it, I slowly approached it, but the more I neared it, the further it went. Before I knew it, I was chasing it, sniffing it, feeling that strange irresistible pull. It reminded me of Matt. My heart ached for him, but I knew that it wasn’t him. He must have got married to Tulip and they probably had a few pups by now.
After he left on my fifteenth birthday, he never returned. Not once. He didn’t even call me. It was like he ghosted us all. Father was pretty amused by his behavior. Teddy and Shehla also never visited us. It felt like they wanted to sever the connection with us. It was odd, but how could I question it? Shehla stopped picking my calls. It was bizarre.
I don’t know how long I chased it, but I never saw it. Feeling defeated, I gave up in the end, and returned home because it was already dawn.
With Angel inside me, I felt like my life had taken a beautiful turn. I had a companion who would stay with me always. Her presence made me feel full.
A few omegas were standing at the door. They offered me clothes, since I was butt naked when I shifted back to my human form. I took a robe and wore it. As soon as I entered, I saw mom.
“Tammy!” she said excitedly as she jumped from her chair. “How was it? Your hair looks like birds have laid eggs. What’s your wolf’s name? Where is Brad? I’ve been waiting for you. Oscar and Hans have already slept with your dad!”
I laughed and hugged her with all the dirt I was covered in. She didn’t mind at all and hugged me tightly. “Her name is Angel.”
Mom pulled away as she looked at me with adoration. “What a lovely name…” She kissed my cheek. “Take a bath. I’m sure you’re hungry.”
“Ravenous!”
At breakfast, I came to know that Brad’s wolf’s name was Keir.
A week later we were standing in the admission office of our college in the human world along with Dad. He made us read the treaty between wolves and humans until we remembered every word of it.
“Bradley Vaslof, Tamara Vaslof?” the lady at the admission office looked at us. We went to her. She smiled and handed us Our welcome kit. “Here’s the keys to your dorms.”
“Oh, that won’t be necessary,” Dad said. “I have bought a house for them near the campus,” he added proudly. What he didn‘ t say was that the house was large enough to have a dozen warriors guarding us. But I wanted to go to a dorm because I wanted my privacy. Soon…
The lady grinned. “That’s good,” she blushed, looking at him, and I rolled my eyes. That was the effect my dad had on all the human women. “I’m yet to see people as beautiful as you are,” she blurted. “You all are going to be very popular.”
While my dad chuckled, both Brad and I snorted, understanding what she meant.
She continued, “Bradley is great at football, and the college has already integrated him in the team. And Tamara, you are in the beachball team.”
“Beachball?” I said, shocked. “I wanted basketball.”
She shrugged. “You can talk to the Dean about it.”
Gritting my teeth, I stomped out of the office.
“Hey, stop being such an ass!” Brad admonished me. “It’s a great start.”
“I wanted to-”
“It’s okay, Tammy,” father said. “You can always leave it. As such, next year, you both will be transferred to the pack’s college. You are here only for a year.” I huffed as we all walked to the car park.
Father returned to the pack after two days as we tried to settle in the college. While I had taken herbology, psychology, history, and art as subjects, Bradley had taken math, English, martial arts, and computer science. Yeah, he was a genius without even trying hard.
Honestly, the main reason why I wanted to get out of my world was because I wanted to be away from places which reminded me of Matt. And because I wanted to fall in love and do away with the feeling that festered in my heart. I wanted normal…
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A week went by and making human friends in the class was becoming difficult by the day. I didn’t know it would be so difficult to adjust. Another week later, I couldn’t stay in the same house as Brad and the warriors. So I took up a dorm and moved all my belongings there. It was a different thing that Brad asked the warriors to keep checking on me and guarding
- me.
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Mate?
Three weeks later, I felt lonely, bored, and pined to go back home. So when a group of girls and boys looked curiously at me in the history class, I wondered if I should talk to them. “Hi!” I waved at them nervously, boldly.
“Hey there!” said a brunette, waving at me.
Cautiously, I made my way toward them when all at once, I tripped over someone’s feet, falling flat on my face, but before I could fall down, strong arms gripped me and steadied me against a solid chest. Warm smell of honey and ginger wrapped me, making my mind go dizzy. My knees wobbled and my world started spinning so fast that I was breathless. My heart thundered as tingles spread all over my skin.
‘Mate, Angel growled inside my head.
Amazement wasn’t even the word that would explain how I felt. All I wanted was to hug him like a koala, like he was the honey I wanted to lap with my tongue from a tree. “Th–thank you.” I turned to look around and craned my neck to see him. Shock coated my insides as disbelief blasted my chest. My eyes widened, surprise washing over me.
“Are you alright?” he asked with a lopsided smile.
“You?” I snapped, taking a step back from Alpha Matt of the Everflame pack. “What are you doing here?”
Matt was my mate. Goddess above. How was this possible? All my life, I had looked up at him like he was my everything. Then he went on to marry Tulip, and now this? Confusion, anger, disbelief and a thousand other emotions warred inside me. My heart raced wildly, threatening to leap out of my chest.
Before he could answer my questions, the professor came in. I bit my lips, and we all settled in our seats with Matt sitting right next to me like he was attending the class with me. He took out his laptop and smirked.
His legs spread in front of him and his one arm was thrown behind my chair. Like he owned me. What was happening here? Where was Tulip? Why wasn’t she with him? How could I smell him as my mate, if he was already married to Tulip? Or wasn’t he?
Boys and girls who were smiling earlier were astonished. And the girls–they stared at Matt like he was Adonis. Well, he did look like a Greek God with that built, dark hair and beautiful piercing blue eyes. I wanted to claw their faces. But no. This was weird.
As soon as the class was over, I grabbed his hand and stormed out to a secluded area to have a tete–a–tete. As soon as we reached behind the building, I stopped and hissed, “Are you posing as a student, or is this some midlife crisis cosplay? Oh wait, you are Professor Wrinkles, right?”
