Chapter 2: Hunter

Nothing makes you limp-dicked quicker than hearing a beautiful girl is going to die.

Olivia gives me one last steely look, and then she walks through the principal’s door.

“You have to leave Mr West.” Receptionist Marley tells me kindly. I smile at her, but inside I think I’m about to explode.

Execution? The Council couldn’t allow something like that.

My dad is on that council. He wouldn’t put Alpha Rick, his best friend, through hell for a girl none of them knows just because she’s human.

Human and fucking stunning.

I literally froze when I saw her golden curls and soft brown eyes, and my dick shot up like an arrow.

I’m ashamed, but the sexual thoughts didn't stop.

In the time it took to walk here, I've imagined pressing my desperate mouth to hers, sucking in her cinnamon and strawberry scent, kissing down to her breasts, her cunt.

Sinking a mating bite into her neck.

I swallow. As if Rick would ever allow me mate her. I don’t even know her.

And I'm not some sleazy fuckboy.

I hurry outside to the bleachers. As expected, two wolves surrounded by a small group are sitting there, and I relax a little.

My pack.

Axel, of course, is the first to spot me. He frowns, sensing my distress before I even drop into my regular spot.

Immediately, the crowd rushes to my side, hungry and desperate for information.

“Hunter, Hunter! Is she really here?” a girl cries.

“Goddess, the human must be a beast.”

“What the hell is her kind doing polluting our school?”

Axel cuts them an angry glance, then barks, “Away. Now!”

They scatter like confetti, hurrying as fast as possible away from the force that is Axel Parker.

Once the last of them leaves, I breathe out, “Thanks, man.”

“Of course. What are Alpha’s for?” He doesn’t take his eyes off me, “You don’t seem to hate her.”

“Why should I? She was-”

A small moan cuts me off. I grimace and turn to the one person who would be making a woman cum in the middle of school.

“Ryker,” I call, but the girl in his lap has made him deaf. He grabs her hips and grinds her against him, the smacking of their wet kiss driving me insane.

“Just like that Rye.” She gasps, pulling him closer as he groans in response. His hand sinks under her skirt, clearly fingering her, and I think I may throw up.

“Enough of this shit,” Axel mutters. His phone whizzes past, knocking Ryker on the skull.

“OW! WHAT THE FUCK MAN?!” Ryker cries, finally pulling away from the girl in his lap. Her tinted lip gloss is smudged on his scowling lips.

Axel doesn’t even spare him a glance. Instead, he gives the girl an icy look that has her clumsily buttoning her blouse.

“I thought I said you should all fuck off.” He growls.

“S-s-sorry Alpha Axel.” She stutters. She doesn’t even bother reaching for her bag before scurrying away.

Before Ryker can glare at Axel, he spots me, and a slow smirk forms on his swollen lips.

Cool as he is, I can basically feel the excitement radiating off him.

“Tell me everything.” He urges, “Was the human hot?”

“For goddess sake Ryker, is sex the only thing you think about?” I snap. His green eyes widen and he reels back.

“Come on man, I just want to know” He pleads, “Talon would ask the same thing.”

“Do not bring Talon into this,” Axel warns. Ryker opens his mouth to argue, but I can already feel a headache coming on.

Nothing good ever comes from talking about Talon.

“She is hot.” I cut in, hoping it stops a potential fight, “but she’s also vulnerable. Dad and uncle Rick made me swear to protect her, and I’m going to.” I pause, “We all are.”

I’m not surprised by Axel’s harsh, humourless laugh, “I didn’t know your dad and uncle controlled my pack.”

“You know that’s not what this is.”

“Okay, so this is your call, then? Some soft human gets your dick up and now it’s the pack’s mission to protect her?” The silver of his eyes is violent.

He pointedly looks at the bulge in my trousers, and my cheeks heat as I use my backpack to hide it.

“Don’t think with your cock, Hunter. That’s Ryker's thing. If your dad wants you to take care of some fucking freak, feel free. But don’t ask our help just so you can play saviour.”

I clench my fists. I knew he would let his hate for humans win.

He hasn’t even met Olivia, but he’s allowing a war that happened 20 years ago form his terrible opinion of her.

I can’t let that happen.

“Ryker?” I plead. I can’t protect Olivia alone, and I need my Alpha, but maybe me and Ryker will be enough for now.

His green eyes light with mischief. It’s clear he’s imagining just what it’ll be like to stick his dick in her. I nearly growl at him.

What is wrong with me?

Finally, he shrugs, swinging his backpack on his shoulder and standing, “If this matters to you Hunt, then sure.”

I can feel Axel glaring at us, but I’m too relieved to care, “Thanks, Rye.”

“Oh don’t thank me yet.” He muses, “I’ll do it only if you agree to a small competition.”

I’m instantly on high alert. Ryker’s competitions are a recipe for disaster.

“Yes?” I ask hesitantly.

“It’s simple, whoever fucks the human first wins.”

I bristle. What kind of bet is that?

Ryker detects my hesitance, because he leans in and pats my back, “Come on Hunter, don’t always be so…good. Be a little reckless.”

Goodness is all I know, all Dad taught me. Plus, if I even start becoming reckless, who takes care of Talon?

I gulp, weighing my options.

I could agree and just… not do it? If it gets Ryker on board then what harm could it cause?

And there’s part of me, a small, terrible part of me, that wants to know what Olivia sounds like when she cums on my dick.

I stick out my hand before I can have more impure thoughts, and (goddess forgive me) I shake Ryker and seal our bet.

“Deal.”