"Is everyone alright?" Mylo asks worriedly as the door is shut on them. The three out of the four boys who were touching their toes glanced at each other, annoyed that Mylo was butting in, stopping them from receiving their complete punishment from the Alpha and they will have to get punished again, even harder.
"Nobody asked you for this, you brought this upon yourself."
"How can you be so stupid?"
"Woah, wait, I helped you guys," Mylo said, surprised.
"You should mind your own business," One of the boys nudged Mylo out of his way with his shoulder, leaving the restroom in a hurry.
Mylo doesn't understand, he turns around and squat down to the merely breathing boy, "Are you okay?"
"Don't fucking touch me you filthy piece of shit."
Mylo is surprised and steps backwards, "I'm only trying to help you, I can take you to the medical center."
"Are you new?" The boy behind Mylo asks gently, "I'm Zeke, you shouldn't bother with him, he is going to heal."
Mylo steps away from the boy even more, surprised by this Zeke guy's statement. He hasn't seen anyone who can heal themselves, even God couldn't heal himself at the cross even though he had the power to.
Zeke smiles at Mylo's surprised face, skipping to the sink to wash his own face before putting on his glasses, "You haven't seen a werewolf before?"
"What is that?"
"How could you come to school here without knowing that?"
"This is my first day," Mylo answers quietly.
Zeke's shoulders slumps as he picks up his backpack from the floor, "You're the transfer student from Pentoville?"
"Is there anything wrong with that?" Mylo walks behind Zeke as they walk out of the restroom.
"Are you really asking me that? I have never met someone so unlucky as you."
Mylo doesn't give up, he sticks beside him, "What do you mean?"
"Not only did you wander into floor 3, you challenged one of the Alpha Twins."
"That guy is a twin?"
Zeke abruptly stops in his tracks, "I will advise you not to speak casually about them. And I advise you to pray, whatever you believe in, pray so hard that you don't cross paths with any of the twins again."
Mylo swallows hard, his eyes wide, "You are not making any sense."
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Ryker rubs his nose with his middle left finger as he walks downstairs with his Betas trailing behind him. He walks like the true king, gathering attention not only for his good looks but for possessing one of the greatest and strongest wolves of their time.
Girls were swooning, screaming but he didn't spare any of them a glance, his mind, heart and nose filled with the scent of fresh peony.
Mate.
That boy was his fated mate.
He is human at the same time he isn't… he doesn't smell like a human.
"Alpha," Lenn, Ryker's best friend, calls out when the Alpha takes his seat in the lecture hall, "Why didn't you allow me to punish that boy? What if he is a spy from the White Cloaks Pack? He looks like trouble, he is pretending to be innocent and pure, his eyes are evil."
"Hazel sharp eyes," Ryker hears himself say and Lenn pauses to look closely at him.
"I'm going to kill him if I see him again, Alpha. What if he was sent by Alpha Royce to spy on us?"
Ryker stays silent, thinking.
"How could he talk to you that way and you let him? Floor 3 and the whole building belongs to you and he trespassed without any care. It's as if he knew you were going to be there to meet with the Beta of the White Cloak Pack and he showed up, putting on a show."
"Don't bother with him, Lenn," Ryker said, his words final.
Lenn wants to continue agreeing, make the Alpha see reasons why that impure breed should be punished for his actions but he knows better than anyone else to anger the Alpha by disobeying him.
He takes his own seat, clenching his fist.
Ryker might seem unbothered, his expression and emotions unreadable but his heart rate is spiking at the thought of that boy, his mate. He doesn't understand how someone like him could be his mate but he knows better, so he is going to keep him at arms length and watch him closely.
Ryker wakes up from sleep at the end of his lectures and heads over the school private car garage with Lenn. While he was passing there he stopped in his tracks at the scent of fresh peony, he looked around slowly and noticed Mylo getting into a black cheap sedan car.
He watched the back of the car leaving the building, totally infested with the thought of the boy that he doesn't pay attention as Royce walks up to him.
"You have a bad taste in cars, how can you be interested in such a cheap model?" Royce gets a glimpse of the black sedan car before it disappears in the driveway, "I can point you to a better model."
Ryker doesn't spare him a glance, hating the thought of seeing a reflection of him at any time, any day.
He climbs over his bike, putting on his helmet.
Royce stands in front of the bike, "You should be respectful to your older brother, Ryker."
"And that should be you? By the way, you are only six seconds older than me, does that count?"
"It does, under any laws," Royce leans forwards, "You are a kid to me and you should act like one."
"What do you want, Royce?"
"Father wants to see us tonight at the Waning Villa. He wants you to be there on time, he has an announcement to make."
Ryker turns on his engine, "Tell Father that I can't make it, I'm busy."
"Who do you think you're? Stop causing father trouble and act nice."
"Get out of my way."
"What if I don't?"
Ryker rotates the bike's handle, steaming the engine, getting it ready to bolt at a push of the gear. He knows its speed and how fast it can run down anyone… but he also knows Royce and his wolf are even faster.
"Is that the Alpha twins?"
"Are they fighting?" Two girls passing, whispered, covering their mouths.
"Out of my way," Ryker ignores the onlookers, glaring at Royce.
"The Alpha will try his best to attend the meeting, Alpha," Lenn bows at Royce, trying to cut the tension between them, knowing they could start a serious fight at any given point or time.
Royce smiles mockingly, "At least listen to your Beta, he has a little bit of senses."
"Repeat that, Royce."
"Or else what?"
Ryker is about to get off his bike when Lenn stops him, pressing him down.
"Alpha, please. This is an order from the Alpha King, your father, you can't fight your brother right now."
Ryker pushes Lenn away from him, stepping on his bike as he drives out.
Royce jumps out of the way before he could get hit, he presses the remote of his car as he walks towards it, making a phone call in the other hand.