Mate... Or Second Chance Mate?

Wayne pulls back from the kiss, eyes wide and guilty as he calls her name, “Tori…”

But she only turns and walks right out of the apartment, momentarily unable to weigh everything she had just seen.

On the other hand, Wayne pushes Elena away from him and runs right after Tori, hoping to meet her outside.

Elena watches as he heads outside before wiping her mouth with the back of her palms, her other hand typing on her phone and she raises the phone to her ears to make a call.

“Hello?” A familiar male voice comes over the speakers.

“Hey darling, so my plan just might work. I came over to his house as I told you and she met me here, I smelt her and pulled the idiot in for a kiss. She caught us in it. I am pretty sure they won’t be mates for much longer.”

Wade chuckles audibly over the phone. “Thank you Elena, what would I do without you?”

Elena laughs slyly. “How about you make it up to me?”

“Hm hm… And how would you want me to do that?”

“Are you really asking me that? We could meet up ton…” Elena is rudely interrupted by the opening of the door, it’s hinges slamming against the door and in comes Tori, slightly red in the face. Elena hangs up immediately, hoping that she did not hear the conversation she just had with Wade.

“Big sister…” She starts fakely, wiping the back of her mouth over and over again, almost scrubbing the skin off of it. “I came here to ask him who he was so I could know if he really felt the mate bond towards you but he suddenly said he liked me instead and it was only a way for him to get my attention. He kissed me suddenly, I swear on the moon.” Elena whines, pouting and cleaning her lips after every sentence.

“Really? He came on to you by himself?”

Elena raises her head to nod but before she can, Tori is standing right in front of her and lands her one crisp, reverberating slap. “He came on to you as suddenly as this slap? Or slower than this?” Tori asks, her voice dangerously soft as she watches her ‘little sister’ collapse into the couch behind her, shocked and hand clamping down on her red cheeks.

*

Wayne stops at the end of the short road, looking around at both ends of opposite roads and as far as his eyes can see, she is nowhere on either grounds.

Where could she possibly have gone in such a short time?

There is a sudden tingling in his head and he is very aware of her surroundings. She is in his living room… How?

He turns back around and races back home, willing with every bone in his body to correct what she had walked into and knowing how terribly misunderstanding such a scene can be, and knowing just ow much scheming Elena can get, he has to correct it, and fast.

By the time he gets right to the front of his house, he hears the sound of a slap. He takes the stairs three at a time and pushes open the door only to see Tori leaning right over Elena who has her hands covering her cheeks, her beet red cheeks. She is obviously the one who got slapped.

Tori barely turns on her shoulders, knowing it is him by the door. “Did you say he came on to you? Let me show you so you can confirm it.” She turns right around and walks over to Wayne, who, unsure of why she’s stalking over to him, takes a cautious step backwards.

 But she only grabs both his cheeks, pulls them down to her height ad plants a kiss on his lips.

Wayne is petrified.

Elena gasps softly.

Tori lets huis lips go and goes back to her former height. “He is my mate and I don’t give a damn what he does or what someone claims that he does. Next time, do not visit a man alone, you never know if they are dealing with some personal problems. I should not be the one teaching you these but since your parents failed so elaborately at their jobs, I can’t help it.”

There is a momentary silence in the room before Tori breaks it again.

“You are still here?”

Elena pulls herself up from the chair and runs out of the room with the imaginary tails between her legs.

“Tori, I didn’t…” Wayne starts but Tori shuts him up with her raised palm.

“I know. I’m sorry for kissing you just like that.” She apologizes, unable to meet his eyes.

Wayne stares at her for a hot few seconds before chuckling. “Welcome to my abode. What would you like to have?”

Tori raises her head. “I’m fine. I still have to get back to school in time or they’ll know I skipped.”

School… She had been past all of these youthful and stupid time but now, she has a second chance to redo it all and while she’s thankful for it, it has its disadvantages, like having to follow her ‘father’s’ rules, such as being a role model for the other female wolves in the pack.

“Sure then…”

It is awkward for a few seconds.

“If you don’t mind, can I ask you some questions?” Tori asks while Wayne nods. “How are you related to this pack? I have never seen you around.”

This time in her past life, she knew no one named Wayne Wright but now, there is someone who hadn’t been there that is now present and e has the key to her happiness in his hands. And what’s more pressing is why… Why is he around now? Does he know something? He had also gotten stabbed in the future. Did he get a second chance at life too or is he just a part of her past that has been shifted up?

“My name is Wayne… You know that already. How am I related to all of these? I don’t know. I just woke up and felt the need to be close to you. You are in some danger than not even you knows about just yet, I don’t know what it is either but I just have to be close to you, at least, until you find your true mate.”

Tori frowns. Does he really not know anything? “My true mate? Isn’t it you?”

Wayne looks at her like she has grown two heads all of a sudden. “Me?” He asks rhetorically before laughing for a little bit. “No. I have had my mate and I have lost her.”

This, is new news to Tori.

Is the coin being flipped on her now? She is not his mate? Or more, could she be his second chance mate?