7.

SOREN

I dropped the towel I used to clean my hair in the laundry basket and made my way to the balcony. It had been hours since I watched Amii stormed off, walking past me and Ivannah without sparing a glance in my direction.

I saw a little glimpse of her expression and I had not been able to get it out of my head. I didn’t know if I was exaggerating by assuming it was because she saw me with Ivannah. She always had an expression like I betrayed her anytime she saw me with her sister.

Koa entered my bedroom and paused when he saw the worried expression on my face.  “What’s up with that look on your face?” he asked, coming to sit beside me in the balcony.

I eyed Koa, contemplating whether I should tell him what’s on my mind. Koa had always been the mature one among my friends. He always listened and never judged.

“What do you think about mates?” I asked with an apprehensive tone.

I watched as his expression changed to surprise and I didn’t blame him. Mates was not a topic we discussed if it wasn’t in a classroom.

And I couldn’t stop that nagging at the back of my head that held the delusional thought that Amira could be my mate.

Ridiculous. I know. It was as though I was going mad but no matter how hard I tried to think of why she had red streaks in her hair, why she was the only one who was able to calm me down or why she was the only puzzle in my life that fit? I had no answers except that.

Koa studied me for a few minutes or seconds before leaning back in his seat with a shrug. “Honestly, I have no answer to your question since I’ve never experienced what it means to have a mate and we won’t ever except the goddess changes her mind but it’s been 300 hundred years so I doubt that will happen”

“Forget it” I sighed dejectedly. Of course, he wouldn’t have any opinions. Koa was the practical one.

“Is this about Amira?” he asked, making me jerk but keeping my surprise as subtle as I could “Do you think she is your mate? Is that why you’ve been off lately?”

“What are you talking about?” I tried to deny the accusations but the look in his eyes told me he knew that was the exact thought that I had.

“Don’t try to deny it, Soren. With the way you’ve been acting, it’s easy to figure out why” he pointed out and I raised a brow in confusion.

“What do you mean? I haven’t been acting different” I told him with a frown.

Koa scoffed and turned so his entire body was facing me “You wouldn’t have noticed but you’ve been extra annoying when it comes to Amira. Your protectiveness is worse, you lash out more because of how the alpha talks down on her”

 I scoffed as well “I’ve always argued with my dad when it concerns Amii. That’s nothing new”

“What about last week at school? You almost took that junior’s head off when he tried to talk to her. You’ve been watching him watch her and you stopped him from asking her out on a date”

I bit my lips and leaned back in my chair. I hadn’t known anyone would notice that. It was a habit that I developed without knowing. I found myself watching Amii more often lately and her surrounding.

I watched the people around her and that was how I was able to fish out anyone looking at her with heart eyes and stop whatever thoughts they may have had towards her. She was mine.

“He wasn’t a good person” I answered curtly.

“And you are?” he scoffed. “Amii would have to get mated one day so you can’t keep pushing everyone who comes close to her. You would also be mated to Ivannah, or have you forgotten?”

“Why are you here?” I asked him, brushing off whatever he had to say because it was a discussion I was not ready to have and would probably never.

“You can ignore it as much as you want but you can’t prevent it” he said like the annoying fucker he was.

“What brings you here?” I asked, once again ignoring his words.

“Your dad wants to see you. He has been trying to get you through the mind link, but you blocked him out”

“And he will remain locked out of my head until he decides to learn how to address Amii properly” I snarled as I felt all the anger towards him resurfaced just as the thoughts of what he had called her earlier.

“It’s useless to keep fighting the alpha on that matter, So. You know how your father is. We grew up watching him and you know he will never change his opinion of Amii. The only thing she can continue to do is prove him wrong”

“It doesn’t mean I have to tolerate it and I won’t. What does he even want to talk to me about because I have nothing to say to him”

“I have a feeling it’s about the sparring and how you almost lost control earlier. He must have gone through Sparta’s CCTV and saw it”

“Fuck” I cussed, while running my hands through my hair. If there was one person capable of both frustrating me and draining me out, it was that man.

“I know” Koa shared my sentiment. If that was what my father was calling me for, he was going to spend the rest of the day repeating the same lectures I’ve heard from him countless times.

“He better not say a bad word about Amira” I grumbled, getting up to grab the shirt on my bed as I made my way out of the room to find my father.

“That’s like saying mates existed” Koa scoffed, and I glared at him for making a reference to what we had discussed earlier.

“Fuck you”

“Just don’t fight with him for Amii’s sake, it will only make things worse for her”