Chapter 1

Glinda’s POV 

First day of senior year, and I’ve decided to confess to the love of my life. Ethan Hawk…second son of Alpha Hawk, of the Blackstone pack, and the boy every girl at high school would gladly lose her mind over. 

I’ve loved him since I learned how to spell my name. Today, he’s finally going to notice me. 

He has to.

I straightened my back, tugged at the edges of my blazer, smoothed my skirt, adjusted my big glasses, then I threw in a mint in my mouth and began walking towards him. 

“H-hi Ethan.” He didn't hear me at first, or maybe he did, but chose to ignore me as he spoke to the girls fawning over him while leaning against his locker. “Hey 

Ethan?” I called again, voice a little louder as I chuckled nervously. 

He finally looked at me, “What?” 

“I-I want to speak with you. C-can we have a moment?” I asked, hoping for privacy. 

“No Glinda, please go straight to the point. I'm all ears.” His tone was calm, almost amused, like he already knew I was about to make a fool of myself.

“U-uhm. Okay.” I muttered as I shoved my hand into the pocket of my blazer and brought out the love letter I had spent days writing. 

I hesitated at first, especially as the girls beside him were giving me dirty looks, but I gathered enough courage and gave it to him. 

He stared at the paper for a while, probably contemplating whether he should take it or not, but in the end, he did. 

I don't know why it was taking him forever but with every second that passed I felt my heart getting closer to exploding and my body breaking out in thick sweat.

My face paled, and I felt like I was drained of blood when Ethan handed the paper to the girls he was with and began laughing at me. 

“Have you lost your mind, Glinda? What on earth has come over you? You love me? You love me more than you love your favorite pink top?” He asked, mimicking a writing from my letter and the girls who were now done reading it burst into laughter. 

Soon, the hallway was filled with students as my love letter was being passed around like a joke. 

Suddenly, Ethan's eyes turned red, and the amusement he showed just now disappeared as though it were never there, replaced with nothing but anger and hatred for me. 

“Are you out of your mind?! Have you forgotten who you are?! A wolfless omega mutt! A fool my father picked up from the gutter! A stain in my household! A leech feeding off our wealth! Should you not be grateful that my father was kind enough to take you in?! How dare you pull such a sick stunt?” 

My heart shattered like glass upon hearing this. Each word from him felt like I was being stabbed multiple times with a sword and my vision blurred with tears. Ethan was correct…it was true that I still had not gotten my wolf at eighteen and that I was living under his father's protection as an omega in his pack home. 

Still, it hurts, it hurts like hell because I never imagined that Ethan would say such a thing to me. He had been kind to me back home…at least I thought he was, because he never spoke to me and had given me a ride to school a few times. 

How could he say such a thing to me in front of everyone?!

He stepped closer, his eyes blazing with fury. I swallowed, sure that I could pee myself at that moment…his aura was heavy, unlike anything I had felt. “Don't. Don't you ever try to pull this stunt again Glinda. I tolerate you because of my father, but don't make me fucking hate you.” 

With that he stomped off, muttering words about how he needed to cleanse himself because a mutt like me dared to propose to me. 

At that point, I had forgotten that the entire school was in the hallway and had just witnessed me getting rejected in the most cruel way as I had my head bowed, crying my eyes out. 

It was when they started mocking me, calling me names that made my body tremble that I realized that Ethan didn't only reject me, he did it in front of the entire school. 

“Omega trash!” Someone yelled. 

“Did you really think he’d want you?” Another taunt. 

“Such a disgusting leech!”

My legs wobbled as I tripped over the edge of the hallway tiles, hitting the floor hard as I tried to run away from them. 

Their laughter rang in my ears like a chorus of cruelty, but I didn’t stop. 

I scrambled up, tears streaming down my face, my chest burning as I ran faster, desperate to escape the humiliation that felt like it was crushing me alive. 

I ran blindly, until I got to the rooftop, a place I used to find solace. I slumped to the ground and just cried more, mourning the end of a relationship that had not even started. 

I loved Ethan, I really did and I actually believed that he would fall for me upon reading my love letter. I didn't have friends, no one wanted to be friends with the omega mutt who'd managed to get a scholarship in the most prestigious school in the entire city, so I didn't have anyone to tell me my letter was lame and that ‘I love you more than I love my favorite pink shirt’ was such a lame line. 

“Are you really going to spend the entire day crying? Don't you have better things to do with your life? Class to attend?” A guy's voice suddenly said from behind me, cold and firm, slightly familiar but I didn't turn back to look. 

“Y-you think I'm pathetic?” I sniffled, my nose thick with snot. “I-I don't blame you. But try falling in love, summoning courage to confess, and then get rejected, maybe then you'd feel pity for me.” 

Using the back of my palm to clean off the tears that kept coming, I continued. “I-its been eighteen years, eighteen long years and I've never had a male friend, least of all a boyfriend.”

“While everyone has had their first kiss, I haven't even gotten a small one. Do you know how long I've loved Ethan?! How I've dreamed of the day we would start dating?! What would our first kiss feel like and how we would end up getting married?! I-it hurts, it hurts too bad to be rejected, it kills me to know that my only dream turned into a nightmare…a-and that I may never even get kissed.”

I cleaned my face again as the tears were coming out too fast. “ Because no one, no one in their right senses will want to kiss an omega mutt, one that has been rejected by the second son of the greatest Alpha. No one would want to kiss the girl who made a fool of herself in high school!”

The stranger didn't speak, but I could feel his eyes on me, boring daggers into my soul as he assessed me. I don't know what came over me, or why the thought came to my mind, but I said it anyway. “K-kiss me.”

“What?” The guy asked, surprised. 

“I may have gotten rejected by the one I love but at least let me have my first kiss. I don't want to graduate without getting kissed. I-i want to know what it feels like.” I explained. 

Before the guy could utter a word, I stood up, my legs shaking, head still bowed so I couldn’t meet his eyes. He instinctively took a small step back, but I didn’t give him a chance to pull away. 

I closed my eyes, reached out, grabbed his arm, and pressed it gently against my waist. My heart raced so fast I thought it might explode, and then I leaned in and kissed him. 

At first, he froze, as if he couldn't believe I really did that, then a growl left his lips…not the ‘what the fuck is this?’ type of growl, but a growl that made me feel as though he enjoyed my lips on his. 

I gasped when his hand around my waist tightened and he pulled me closer to him, the heat of his body pressing against mine. 

I don't know how to explain it with words, but I felt a shiver down my spine, my body heated, my core clenched and for a moment, the world became quiet…the hallway, the students who mocked me, even Ethan. 

Nothing existed except the taste of him and the rapid thrum of our hearts. 

I don't know how long we did it, how long his mouth devoured my own but I pulled out in shock when I came to my senses. 

“I…” I tried to apologize. However, as I opened my eyes, my jaw dropped and my eyes widened like saucers. I took a step back, my body shuddering as fear wrapped itself around me like a snake ready to draw blood. 

 “K-kaivrian?” 

I had just kissed Kaivrian! I had just kissed the first son of Alpha Hawk and heir to the Alpha throne! He was my ultimate bully! The man who made life a living hell for me before he suddenly traveled five years ago!

I kissed Ethan's brother and I liked it!

“Hello, Kitten.” He smirked.