Chapter 4

NARROWED ESCAPES

All the color drained from Kai's face, he had not been paying any attention to what Mr. Blackwood was saying hence, the question had completely thrown him off guard.

His hands clenched in a fist at the embarrassment and Cassie withdrew her hand, she could see the hard lines of his jaw as he gritted his teeth hard.

"I'm sorry," she mouthed when he looked at her.

Just then Mr Blackwood's attention shifted to the door where a student scrambled in late—Jaxon.

"Do you know what the time is?" My Blackwood turned on Jaxon, he was displeased that the ones who were being raised to become future Alphas of the different packs, were the same ones to always act out of character.

"I'm sorry, I kinda got caught up," Jaxon defended himself as he scratched the back of his head.

For a second—maybe 30 seconds—Mr Blackwood stared at Jaxon displeased. Slowly he shook his head, the words on his lips heavy with condemnation.

"I don't see the example you're citing as a future Alpha, punctuality is—"

"Do we really have to go over this today as well? The lecture period is almost over and you and I know I know these things." Jaxon shrugged.

He wasn't going to take a character lecture from a history teacher.

In the time that Jaxon and Mr Blackwood had their banter, Kai was able to put himself together and even find out the question he was being asked—he always had his phone on record so he could listen to boring lectures at home again just to Ace his academics.

"Fix yourself somewhere," Mr Blackwood sighed and returned his attention to Kai—his formerly pale face bright with color and his lips curled with a smug smile.

"Werewolf tradition of mating spawns from when the goddess Se—"

"Save it for the next time I ask you a question." Mr Blackwood snapped knowing Kai already escaped his hook.

"You better take your project seriously and pay attention in class, otherwise I'll be forced to report you to the principal." He narrowed his eyes at Kai, being a predator male. Kai wasn't very pleased with being the prey.

The principal happened to be the pack's council representative in the school and a bad testimony against Kai wasn't going to be good.

"Aria, make sure to report any nonchalance or bad behavior from him to me as well." Aria shrieked in her seat.

As an Omega, she would never dare to challenge a future Alpha but Mr. Blackwood didn't know this, Aria always used suppressants to school as well so only a few people could tell her status as an Omega.

The words cut through Kai like a knife through his skin, his pride was hurt. In his head Ros growled and paced wanting a reaction but Kai sat still and kept his anger under control.

'Why can't we rip his throat out already?' Ros was the typical Alpha wolf with cutting edge emotional imbalance.

The words had held more meaning to Kai, it was an indirect to his authority but as long as he was in school, he was under Mr. Blackwood's Authority so he kept calm.

After 3 classes, the alarm chimed.

At recess, the future Alphas sat at their tables and had lunch.

"Long face again," Ryan was the most sensitive in the group, he was quick to detect the slightest mood switch in anyone even over the phone.

"Good day with Mr Blackwood today," Jaxon teased as usual.

Kai and Jaxon were the only ones amongst the 5 that offered History as a minor though Kai was a science student and Jaxon was art.

"What happened?" Edwin asked, his brows knitting in a frown.

Sigh...

Kai wasn't sure where to start the story from so he started it from the beginning leaving out important details.

"He asked me a question and I wasn't paying attention...nothing much." Ok, he started from the end actually and summarized it but they weren’t convinced.

Kai was seething, still upset about being embarrassed, the last thing he wanted to do was relive the moment in the course of a narration

"Spill the tea already." Ryan pushed when everyone just waited on Kai. He sighed.

There were just four at the table that day, Ryan, Edwin, Jaxon and Kai, Adrian had not joined them after class since he had an errand to run for his Dad.

"Ok...so there's this better girl—Cassie, Jaxon you should know her,"

"I do,"

"We all do bruhhhh, what about her?" Curiosity was getting the better part of Edwin already.

Carefully Kai relayed the incident with Cassie under his desk to his friends.

Jaxon was barely surprised but the way Edwin and Ryan stared in disbelief with mouth agape was funny.

"Cat got your tongues or what?" Jaxon snapped his fingers in their faces.

Kai leaned back in his chair, his jet black hair falling slightly over his face as he waited for any reaction from the duo that had barely known Cassie.

Edwin was the first to comment.

"Damn man, how could you sit still? I'm getting super excited by your tale already."

"Pervert," Ryan smacked him on the head.

"You really can't blame a guy you know, that Cassie girl's got the body, curves like the milky way and—"

"Curves like what now?" Kai interrupted Jaxon's joke mid sentence and their space reverberated with the sound of laughter as each one made a comment about the story.

"Neeeeh, Edwin is a lost course, how are you even getting turned on by his story?" Ryan probed when Edwin wouldn't let the matter slide so easily.

As young Alphas they struggled with high hormones and dominant instincts.

"What next man?" Ryan asked Kai.

"Next about what?"

"Over there,"

Cassie leaned slightly on the cafeteria counter, her extremely short skirt revealing soft porcelain skin.

"Neeeh, I'm not feeling—"

"Well I want to bend her over and hear her scream my name." To their surprise Edwin rose to his feet and approached Cassie.

Kai shook his head but for some reason, he had another female fill his memory. Just then, from the corner of his eyes, he saw her pass.

He had picked up her smell first—Raven but when she walked past, it was just Aria he saw, he frowned.