Chapter 1

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Kendrick Riggs’s POV

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“Stop it, man!” Brad says , laughing as a stupid and mocking me. “Stop being a pussy.. That girl loves you and she would be thrilled to be your mate when she finds out about what you are.” and he passes me by and grabs the little velvet box that I placed on my desk.

“And even she will not be, with this” and he opens the velvet box, revealing the ring I bought, ”With this any woman in her mind would say yes!” and he starts to laugh.

“I would say yes too, you know?” James, my future gamma tells me “But I am not your mate, so… I am just a poor guy, I am losing here.”

I stare at them in disbelief. Are those two stupids really my future camarades in this life? My future beta and gamma? We’ve been friends since…since forever actually. They know me and they know how important is this for me, so why the hell are they mocking me at such an important moment?

“You know what?” I say and I grab the ring from Brad’s hands.

“You know that this is not as simple as it looks, so give me space, would you?” and I start to walk outside my packhouse.

It’s my packhouse because I am Kendrick Riggs, future Alpha of Crescent Moon Pack. I am nineteen years old and a year ago I found my mate. We’ve been in love since then and she is the embodiment of perfection. She is the best thing I found in this life and I have no idea what good I did to receive her as my mate.

We are classmates. Yeah you heard it well. Classmates. She is not one of my pack members and she…she is not even a werewolf. I always found her attractive and interesting, with her lonely spirit and shyness. She is different from all the humans I know and at the beginning I thought that was just pure attraction being around her, until I turned eighteen and all I could hear was Hades , my wolf, screaming loudly that she is our mate.

I should have known about it.Sincer the first time I saw her, in the first year, I couldn’t take my eyes off her.

It was damned hard to approach her, because she was always scared and alert. Like a lamb ready to be slaughtered. But I did it, and here I am today on her nineteenth birthday, ready to reveal my real nature and ask her to be my mate.

I imagined this moment the whole year. I prepared her for this, bringing her here,in my pack, meeting my parents, so she won’t be shocked and remember that we are not animals but humans too. I really wanted for her to see me just as I am , in my natural habit. When she was here none of the members of my pack were allowed to transform. She needs to know that I am a werewolf , but I will tell her everything in my own way, I will guide her every single step in this unreal world.

It was a long way to come here but it was worth it. At the end of the day all I can hope is to have her in my arms as my mate and fiance.

“So?” Brad asks running after me and jumping in my car as I just want to start the engine but he is so damned annoying! Why does he keep stopping me and asking me questions? He has been mocking me since I brought the ring.

“Would you give me space, man?” and I give him a growl.

“No.” And he makes himself comfortable and just when I want to start , the back door of my Lamborghini opens and James jumps in.

“I want to watch it too!” he says.

“Get out!” I growl at them, but these scoundrels ignore me.

“No. I want to watch the moment Jane will faint hearing that you are a werewolf.” Brad mocks me again and I just realize that I am losing my time with these two jerks.

“Just don’t show up and ruin my moment, would you?” I say and I'm putting the pedal to the floor.

“To the Anacortes High School!” James yells from the back seat, but I ignore him this time for good and he may feel that because he calms down and says.

“I know that is the last day of highschool , man, and that you can’t ruin this opportunity, “ What the hell is he talking about ?

“But just in case, if she says no, or dies in panic seeing your claws, you still have us” and with that Hades mindlinks them and using his Alpha command he says:

“Just shut the fuck up!”

Nothing will go wrong.

I park my car and as I get out of my car I sniff the air trying to find my mate. I know her every single move. I don’t even need to see her and I already know where to find her.

On the school lawn is an old oak. Every single day, I stop and look at her as she sits there reading her books. She is so delicate and she is a living angel.

Today the weather is a little bit windy. It is summer but in this place of the country it is normal to rain frequently. She leans on that tree and closing her eyes she inhales the air. I know that only I can feel her vanilla scent, but I want to imagine that she felt my presence too.

Her brown and medium curly hair blows over her face, making her turn her face a little and seeing her like this makes me feel even more in love with her.

“Do it, man!” Hades says. “We’ve played this game too much, I need her as my mate. This girlfriend game must end. I want her with me all the time.”

Hades is right. Just seeing her my heart started to beat so hard that I believed that it would explode. I need to finish this today.

“We’ve got our fingers crossed, man!” Both Brad and James mindlink me.” Bring us an honorable Luna today!”

“Just go, stupids!” I growl at them and close all the midlinks with them as I start to walk to Jane.

I can’t breathe! What the hell is going on with me? I am scared for the first time in my life.

Please Goddess, I never asked for anything. I’ve always done what was right. PLease make her accept me….please…

I have so many things in my mind right now. What if Brad and James are right? What if she says no?

Suddenly she opens her eyes as if she felt me and I am mesmerized by her beauty. She is wearing a pair of black skinny jeans and a long shirt with a turtleneck. Also, she is wearing makeup, and that is strange because she hates it, but when she looks at me with her gorgeous blue eyes nothing matters anymore.

“I missed you!” I tell her and grab her hand. I pull her from the ground directly into my arms and I kiss her.

“Well” she whispers and tries to turn her face and look in another direction. “Can we talk?”

Talk? Talks? Is she kidding me? Wait…she is avoiding my gaze?

“Man…”Hades whispers. “She didn’t say that she missed us too”

I stare at her . Hades is right. Usually she would say “I missed you more” but not this time.

I grab her chin and make her look directly into my eyes, because I don’t know what is going on but today I will return home with her as my Luna.

“What's going on, babe?” I ask her, not leaving her the chance to ruin my plans.

She looks around as if she was searching for something, or someone and her gaze suddenly becomes scared, making me look in the same direction too, but I can’t see anything strange.

“Jane!” I call her name and grab her chin. I make her look at me again. What the hell is going on?

“Can we go somewhere more private, please?” she asks in a whisper, as if she was barely able to talk. As if she was in pain. I feel her stress, but she is human and I'm not able to bond with her until I will mark her.

“Let’s go!” I say and grab her hand in my hand. I am not letting her go. Brad and James are staring at me as I pass near them but I ignore them and walk with her directly in the forest behind our school.

“Let me go, Kendrick !” she says, trying to pull her hand from my grip but I keep her tied with me until we are far enough from school.

“What the hell is wrong with you?” she asks, looking around.

“You wanted to talk,” I say. “I am listening” and my heart is like a little flea right now.

I put my hands on my jeans pockets and I felt the velvet box in one of them.

“I thought about us” Jane starts but she is avoiding my gaze.

“Look at me Jane!” I almost growled at her, making her startle and she finally looked into my eyes.

“I think,” she says and looks at the ground. “That we should avoid each other from now on.”

And my heart just stopped right there. “School is over and we will start new lives as students, in different places and thinking about everything we had in the last year I realized that I don’t want this anymore.”

Her hands are trembling in my hands and feeling her acting like this I finally let her go.

“You just realized that? After a fucking whole year?” I ask her , gritting my teeth.

“Yeah..I just realized that I don’t want to be with you anymore.” she whispers.

“Look at me, Jane!” I commanded her and she flinched hearing my alpha command even if she is human. “At least look at me when you are spreading all this shit in front of me!”

She raises her eyes and they are teary.

“Shit, man!” I tell Hades . “Something is off about her” and without a second thought I pull her at my chest, holding her tight, but she groans in pain.

“What the fuck?” I ask and look at her. “Are you hurt, Jane?”

“No “ she says and pushes me, taking a step back and pulling her sleeves as if she is trying to hide something.

“I need to go” she simply tells me and starts to walk away from me. She is leaving me? Is she kidding me?

“She is our mate!” Hades says. “She can’t leave us just like that. We were meant to be!”

Of course we were, but she had no idea about that.

She is really leaving us.

And out of nowhere I snap and growl at her:

“Stop right there or I am going to break your feet, Jane Pike!” and starting to walk in her direction I ask:

“Why?” and that made her stop. “Tell me why. Was it something real or I was the only one who loved you?”

Her back is facing me.

“Do you want a sincere answer?” and she turns around, with a strange gaze.

“Speak!” I command her again, and I feel how every single emotion I had for her is leaving me. I feel rejected, even if we are still mates and she doesn’t know what she is doing .

“I just used you” Jane says just like that. “For popularity” and she turns around and continues to walk away from me.

Is that all?

I am punching my chest because it hurts like hell. I am a fucking alpha and yet I brusted in tears. I am crying like a little baby.

I watch her leaving and I fall to my knees as soon as she is out of my sight. I hear Brad and James, running in my direction and seeing me, they asked.

“Where is our Luna?”

How to tell them…?

“Kendrick!” Brad calls me and I look at him and burst into tears.

“Man, you are scaring the shit out of me.” James says this time. “Tell us what happened.”

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.”My mate left me!”