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Anger blasted in my chest. And a little fear. I didn’t want Xander to come here or anywhere near me. I leaned on a pillar next to me and placed my hand on my head to calm my nerves. My life with mom and dad was so secure and suddenly I was thrown into this ocean called world, where I had to navigate all alone. How could I take my problems to my uncle and aunt, who were already doing so much for me? My eyes welled up and silent tears rolled down. I needed a simple and an uncomplicated life, and that was what I was going to strive for.
Taking a deep breath in, I pushed away from the pillar and wiped my tears. Determined, I walked to the principal’s office, where the secretary asked me to wait for a few minutes. I prepared my speech in that much time, and as soon as I was called in, I requested, “Sir, I’d like to change my schedule. I mean, everything is fine, but-“I bit my lips. Now I didn’t know how to tell him about Kael, because that would sound so ridiculous.
“If everything is fine, then what is your problem, Miss Astrid?”
he asked, resting back in his chair.
Since I couldn’t form words on how to go about it, I blurted, “I don’t want classes with the football captain!”
Principal Henson raised his eyebrow and then sighed deeply. He cocked his head and looked at me as if studying my demeanor. I bristled and shifted in my place, waiting for his reply.
“Astrid,”
he finally said. “This is the best schedule we have arranged for you. You are a transfer student and we had to accommodate you with our existing schedule. Right now, it’s not possible, but I’ll see if there is an option to do so. Additionally, we discourage students from developing biases towards their peers.”
“Oh! I am not biased!”
I tried to explain, but realized that I must have sounded prejudiced. “I just-“
“I understand,”
he replied, cutting me off. “And it’s good that you’ve come here.”
He got up and went to his cupboard from where he retrieved a blue folder. “This is for you. Kael Hanks is struggling with his math grades and requires help. Since you had applied for extra credits, I thought you could help him out. Despite being an intelligent student, his coach’s demands are impeding his focus on his studies. He has managed to get “A”
on all subjects except math.”
He sat down in his chair and slid the blue folder towards me. “I’d like it if you could draw a plan and help him out.”
My mouth dropped open. This was exactly what I didn’t want. Kael and I were a mistake in happening, and I had to prevent that mistake. “With all due respect, Principal Henson,”
I said in a low voice, staring at the folder. “I don’t think I can tutor Kael. He’s too busy. It will affect my studies. We just have three months before the finals, and I’d like to focus on my studies instead of running after Kael. If there’s some other student, I’ll go for him or her.”
???
He pursed his lips as he steepled his fingers below his chin. “You sound very selfish, Astrid. I didn’t expect that from you. I assigned you this project because Kael is our top student, along with his brothers Toren and Aiden. There’s no other student who has applied for extra credits.”
“I am not selfish, it’s just that-“I flushed. This was embarrassing.
He leaned forward on the table. “You should take him up,”
he said. “I’m sure you can keep your studies and personal life separate.”
I knew that Principal Henson threw a challenge at me. His words meant I was getting affected by Kael emotionally. This was a terrible impression. “Okay,”
I breathed, picking up the gauntlet. “I’ll tutor him.”
He relaxed and leaned back with a victory smile. “Great, please take this folder and see where he needs help.”
All my plans to stay away from Kael foiled as I picked up the folder and smiled back. Yeah, I purposefully stepped into a giant mistake.
I got out of Principal Henson’s office tightly clutching a folder I never wanted to get hold of, cursing fates. The irony wasn’t wasted on me. Why was life throwing a curveball towards me?
The bell rang and students came out of their classes like bats from hell. I bumped into several enthusiastic ones who said sorry and rushed to the cafeteria. When I reached my locker, I found Briana waiting for me..
“Hey!”
she said, staring at my blue folder.
“Hi,”
I replied in a monotonous tone as I opened my locker and stuffed my books in, along with the folder.
She leaned closer and said, “The entire school is abuzz with the gossip that Kael made you carry his bag to the practice match.”
She giggled. “What is going on? Don’t tell me Kael has lost interest in Tracy and you are his new flavor!”
“Shut up!”
I hissed. “Tracy is his girlfriend, and no one loses interest in their girlfriends in just a day.”
I closed the locker with a bang feeling agitated by my statement, and said, “I’m hungry and I want to drown myself in the sea of delicious carbs to forget the drama of the first day in school.”
She chuckled and hooked her arm in mine. “Come on. Nate is waiting for us in the cafeteria. He always reserves the best place for us,”
“And what is the best place? Because I want to hide from everyone,”
I drawled, seeing how girls were stealing glances at me.
“It’s always the last booth,”
she informed with a twinkle in her eyes.
Students were milling around in the cafeteria. As soon as we spotted Nate, we hurried to him. To my surprise, Parker was sitting there. He smiled at Briana, his body stiffening.
But to my shock, Kael was sitting with his brothers, Tracy, Nat and Kayla, right next to our booth.
And worse, our gazes locked. His dark, soul–ripping, accusatory ones with my green ones.
Kael POV
I wanted Astrid to stay close to me, right in front of my eyes. My protective urges about her were getting stronger by the minute. I could sense her heartbeat, her emotions, and my wolf was driving me crazy to go near her.
This was the problem with us being with humans. We couldn’t tell our exact emotions to them because they wouldn’t understand it. Fuck, even I didn’t understand my emotions because they were overflowing. I had never experienced a tornado of such emotions. My mind was everywhere and nowhere.
Giving her my bag and asking her to wait for me on the bleachers was an excuse to see her during practice. I didn’t want to let her go from my sight because it calmed my wolf. I agree it was a stupid excuse, but I baited her and I loved how she complied. The idea of dominating her, physically and mentally, was thrilling. If her honeysuckle scent calmed me, her presence stirred me.
Astrid was the most beautiful girl I’d ever seen in my life, and I didn’t know why I felt that she was made for me. If she had a wolf, we would have recognized each other as mates. But then also she wasn’t eighteen. I wouldn’t have known her as my mate because werewolves recognized their mates only when they shifted for the first time when they were eighteen.
I saw her leaving the stadium after she forcefully gave my bag to Tracy. That unsettled me so much that I missed a hit, attracting the coach’s ire. I wanted to go after her, chase her and stop her, but my game demanded me. Clenching my fists, I focused myself on the game, but it wasn’t the same. Why did she leave? Earlier, when a tear rolled out of her eye, I wanted to run to her and envelope her in my arms and maybe lick her tear with my tongue and assure her with my words that everything was going to be fine. It took all my strength to will my wolf down and stay in the game.
Because I wanted her to stay close to me, I had devised a plan. I had gone to Principal Henson’s office yesterday and requested him to schedule all my classes with her. Not only that, when he revealed Astrid was looking for extra credits, I pressured him to make Astrid take up my case. I got B in one of my math exams and that was the perfect excuse. I had never been so thankful for a B in my life.
He wasn’t agreeing carlier, but when I threatened that I’d step down from the football team, he knew I was serious. Principal Henson had to assign her to me and change m sche my cla aligning hers with mine. Before leaving, I requested him to stay discreet about this conversation or I would leave the school. As such, mom dad were pressuring Toren and me to return to the Nord Pack.
ormed towards my locker, but Toren stopped me. “Kael, everything okay?”
After taking a bath, I my jaw. “Nope!”
I replied truly.
A muscle ticked
He lowered his wolves mating
“Don’t get so emotionally tangled with a human. It’s going to be disastrous. I researched and there has been no reporting of humans. So I’m sure that’s your infatuation with her.”
I hoped so, because I was going insane without her. My mind was concocting ways on how to be close to her. Every unmated boy around her was a threat, and my wolf wanted to challenge them.
As soon as I came out of the room, I saw Tracy standing with my bag. She immediately curled her arms around my waist and pouted, “I am so sorry, Kael. But you shouldn’t have trusted the new girl. She shoved your bag in my lap, saying how much she hated you.”
Goddess. Earlier, when Tracy hugged me, I liked it, but now her nearness was repulsive. I removed her hand politely from me. “She hates me?”
I asked, feeling a surge of anger in my chest.
Tracy nodded, staring into my eyes. “Baby, you shouldn’t indulge her. She doesn’t fit in with our little group of wolves. She’s a human, and you should keep her at bay.”
Ignoring her words, I asked, “What else did she say?”
I swung the bag on my shoulder and tightened the strap close to my chest.
Tracy hooked her hand onto my arm, and we proceeded towards the school canteen. “She was being spiteful for no reason. I just asked her about her friends and what all subjects she had taken. She got provoked and started cursing me and you, saying that she wasn’t your servant to keep a tab on your bag.”
Enraged, I felt like punching something or someone. Nat, Kayla, Aiden and Toren joined us in the corridor and when we reached, I saw Astrid sitting there with Briana, Nate and Parker. Fuck. Now I wanted to kill Parker, every fucking logic flying out of my brain. She looked at me and when our gazes locked, the world around me faded. Astrid should’ve been sitting on my lap, cating with me on the same plate and talking to me. Jealousy burst inside me like a ball of fire. I glared at her and my feisty little human glared back at me.
Astrid got up to get her lunch along with Nate. I got up at the same time and went after her, disregarding everyone else at the table. Before Nate could get in the line after her, I pushed my way in. “You left the field early,”
I said, lowering my voice as I leaned towards her and inhaled her scent. Fuck. It reached my cock, and it tented my pants.
She whipped her head back, her eyes going wide. She glanced at Nate, tilting her body, who shrugged, but she didn’t reply to me.
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