Chapter 4

Zane’s POV

I don’t know what’s gotten into me, but why have I started to take an interest in Marissa. It’s been driving me crazy how Sean and Kyle are always hanging around her and talking to her, I don’t plan on telling anyone’s she my mate. I do plan on distancing myself from her and keeping her away from me, and finding someone that’s worth being alpha female. I never meant to hurt anyone, it’s just that I was set with the wrong person, and I cant do anything about that.

I walked through the halls, last period and then I can go home. I walked into the classroom and took a seat at the back away from my friends, they all shot me a confused look and in return I glared at them. I felt like being alone right now, I needed to get her off my mind and so far it wasn’t working. It didn’t help that I had this class with her either. She hasn’t shown up yet, and maybe she won’t. the class started to gradually fill up and she still hasn’t walked in yet. I kept looking around thinking I missed her, I had a sour look on my face and I looked pretty mad. Probably the reason why everyone is sitting away from me.

And she finally walked in just as the bell sounded, usually she sat with Sean but he wasn’t in this class and neither was Kyle. All the seats away from me as filled up with people, and as her eyes landing on the seats next to me she groaned softly making me chuckle. It was kind of funny how she was so uncomfortable around me.

She took the one in front of me, so that she didn’t have to be beside me. I wasn’t in her view, but now she was in mine. And it to say it wasn’t bugging me was a lie. I wanted to reach out and touch her silky straight black hair and feel it in-between my fingers. What the hell is wrong with me!

For the rest of the lessen I stared down at my desk to avoid looking at her, and when the bell finally sounded I was the first on to pick up my stuff and walk out. I couldn’t take seeing her anymore; I needed to get out of here. Even my distraction after lunch didn’t help much. She looked to damn much like Marissa and I voice in my mind is starting to say that why I chose her.

When I walked out I saw Kyle waiting there. I walked over to him, maybe we could do something later and clear my mind. “hey bro let’s go” he was the only person I was really in the mood for, he was my best friend. He looked a little panicked. “uh actually I'm supposed to walk Marissa home, Sean had to leave early and he asked me to make sure she got home ok since she walked” he said.

I grinded my teeth together and my jaw clenched, I wanted to do nothing more than punch him in the face right now. I nodded stiffly and walked away. Every instinct in my body was telling me to turn around and beat the shit out of him. normally I wouldn’t care what Kyle does with a girl, but my best friend and my mate is not a good mix. The wolf inside me was already restless, it was only him that wanted her. he was attracted to her wolf, I had no interest in her at all……. This day had turned out to be the worst ever already……. What else could possibly happen?

Marissa POV

Surprisingly Kyle was pretty fun to hang out with, he even gave me a ride home. We pulled up at the pack house and just as I was about to get out the car “oh and Sean said to go to 22 Highland street. That’s where he’s currently living, I could give you a ride there now if you want?” he suggested before I climbed out.

I really hope Kyle isn’t lying, but then again Sean did leave early so he’s probably telling the truth. “uh yea that’d be great” I still had to get Sean to come to the pack house and get him accepted. ‘hey I'm coming now k?’ I texted him, ‘great, tell Kyle to come in too, he’s actually not that bad’ that was a bit of a surprise, it was kind of weird how I went from having no friends this morning to actually having two by this afternoon.

“Sean said for you to come in too” I said to Kyle as he was driving. “ok I don’t have anything much to do today anyway” he shrugged. I wonder why a guy like Kyle hangs out with a guy like Zane. They are so opposite, and Kyle is so much nicer……. We pulled up at Zane’s place a couple minutes later, it was a apartment building about the size of our pack house. he would be way happier living with us. me and Kyle got out of the car and took the elevator up to the 5th floor, apparently Sean’s room was number 223. I knocked twice on the door before it opened. I inhaled his scent at once, and you could clearly tell he was a wolf. I walked in not surprised at all, while Kyle walked in surprised and wide eyed.

Sean smirked at Kyle’s reaction. I guess the plan was to tell Kyle. “well Kyle as you can see I'm a werewolf like you, I'm coming to the pack house later today to get accepted to your pack” he explained. The apartment was pretty bare, it was just a plain brown wit boxes scattered all over the place, there was a random bed placed in the middle of the living space, I guess Sean saw me eyeing the place because he started laughing “don’t worry this isn’t permanent, I got here yesterday and I just needed a place to sleep so I rented it for a week. My dad will be staying here after though.” I gave him a confused look.

“Why doesn’t you dad just come to the pack with you?” why would he stay on a werewolf land alone, that would be a rouge. “my dad’s a human, my mom was a wolf, and I took my mom’s side more” he explained and I nodded. That made more sense. “uh why couldn’t I smell you earlier? You know they’re going to question you about that right?” Kyle spoke out for the first time. “Well yea, I already have that figured out. I’m just going to say I don’t know how they didn’t smell me, and I'm going to say Marissa did” that was a pretty good plan, it’s not like I was expected to tell anyone because I thought they could smell him too. “I’ll back you on that too if you want” Kyle offered.

“thanks man that would be great, so the real reason you two are here is to pretty much highlight be so I can get into the pack, what’s the name anyway?” I had to laugh, he didn’t even know what the pack’s name was? “we are from the blood rosé pack, and make sure to tell them the last pack you were in” Kyle said. “uh well that will be a problem, I was never in a pack because me and my dad moved around a lot” the alpha should still accept that though, because his father was human after all. “oh and don’t forget to tell them your father is human and about your mom” I felt uncomfortable mentioning his mom, because I was still that way with my dad but I had to say it. “ok is there anything else I need to tell them or not tell them?” he asked.

“no just don’t tell them if you have a bad past, and act shy and nervous, it make the alpha see you weaker, like you don’t have another choice” Kyle said, that was pretty good but now I wonder how Kyle knows this. Then I remembered Kyle transferred to this pack with his sister after his pack was massacred by rouges. Only he and his sister survived out of the family, Kyle was 14 and his sister was 18. And now four years later he is still here. “Well then I guess we should get going?” I nodded and followed him out the door. Zane walked ahead of us as I walked beside Kyle.

We pulled up at the pack house minutes later, “ok so how about we go and get this over with. Me and Marissa will come in with you” it was always good to have some support or someone there when you were joining a new pack, that means that at least someone in the pack approves of you. “I don’t think I'm going to have to act nervous, I kind of already am” Sean admitted and hopped out of the car. I followed them into the house. Everyone was giving Sean weird look, no one has saw him or smelt him before. We walked up to the alpha’s door and I knocked twice. “come on in” He called out. I opened the door and walked in. Sean and Kyle followed behind us. the alpha lifted his eyes from his desk and looked at us, surprise took over his face when he saw Sean though.

My skin started to heat up, and I felt some sort of attraction, I looked across the room again and I saw Zane there, glaring at Sean and Kyle. I didn’t notice him before I could feel him and now I couldn’t tare my eyes away from my perfect mate’s body. “and who do we have here?” the alpha asked. His name was actually Alpha John, but I rarely called him that, there was only one alpha around and I was used to calling him simply alpha. “I’m Sean, I just moved in with my dad yesterday and I wanted to join your pack” Sean stepped forward and introduced himself.

“Well Sean why isn’t you dad her and why didn’t you come yesterday?” alpha asked. That was a normal procedure though, “well my dad is actually human and we came in late last night so my dad wanted me to get a rest, today I went to school and met Marissa and Kyle here and my plans were to come here after school and see you” that was a good answer. “how come I couldn’t smell you today at school?” Zane growled from all the way across the room, he sounded really angry. For what reason I don’t know, but he needed to calm down.

“I don’t know why you couldn’t smell me, Marissa and Kyle could” Sean shrugged and look innocent. “ok Sean, so I assume your mother is there werewolf then? Where is she” the alpha commanded again. “my mother is dead sir” Sean bowed his head, I know how hard it was to say that because I went through the exact same thing. “oh I'm sorry. What was the name of your previous pack?” it was question after question, I wonder when the alpha is actually just going to accept him. I looked over to Zane and saw that he was practically burning holes into my eyes, his stare was intense and intimidating. I looked away quickly and focused my attention back on alpha john and Sean. “I didn’t have a previous pack. I moved around a lot with my dad and most of the time it was human settlements and there wasn’t a pack around. This Is the first time we are settling down” a smile appeared the alphas face, I guess Sean passed then. “well then welcome to the Blood Rose pack son” the alpha stood up from his chair and walked over to Sean. They shook hands and I noticed that Sean also had a smile on his face.

“so I guess these two are the first you met?” he asked looking over at me and Kyle. “yea, actually Marissa was the one to show me the ropes and Kyle was friendly, it was great to have the two of them around to help me on the first day” he smiled brightly. “well then thank you Marissa and Kyle, I want to see you both later tonight, My office at 10 please. And Sean, shall we exchange the blood?” Sean nodded as the alpha pulled out a pocket knife. They cut there palms and put there bleeding palms together, sharing blood and the alpha recited ancient pack ritual and accepted Sean into the pack.

I was worried what the alpha wanted from us, I was normally just another member in the pack that never concerned the alpha. I was born into Blood Rose and I never had any business with that alpha. “thank you alpha” Sean bowed his head respectfully and wiped his hand off with some paper towel. “your very welcome, and call me john” . a smile made it’s way to my face, it had been a pretty good day. and it was nice to have some people on my side for a change. My luck was really starting to turn, and it started with Sean arriving. Maybe I would be ok after all?