Mated to a storm

Bennett's pov

The day has finally come, it was my eighteenth birthday and according to tradition, it is the day that I would find my mate.

It was a week after my altercation with Lucas, a week out of trouble, and a week of merriment. We were on neutral ground, neither my pack's territory nor anyone else's land.

It was just an empty place that we revamped into this awesome party location.

At first I had wanted it to be on pack grounds but my father had an important meeting with important visitors from other packs, so Ryder and I decided to do it out here.

"Sick party, Alpha."

A member of our school committee, our class president Fredrick, commented. I had invited a good number of the school's population, but the majority of the people I invited are allies or possible allies to our packs.

Anybody that had affiliations with Lucas storm or anything that has to do with his pack couldn't come near my party, Ryder had carefully made sure that they didn't get any invitations whatsoever.

I looked forward to the crowd with my glass of wine in my hand. I was ecstatic to say the least because today would be the day I would find her.

"Who do you think your mate would be?" Ryder asked, lollipop in his mouth.

"Well, I don't have any speculations, but if it isn't someone from our pack, I am guessing that it will likely be someone from a neighbouring pack."

"Fair enough."

When most people reach this age, they actually must've had guesses and speculations on who their expected mates will be. But I didn't have that luxury, because I hadn't really dated anyone before.

I tried in junior year, her name was Amara.

Amara Wester was the daughter of my father's friend, but she.....was into girls.

She didn't tell me she was a lesbian, and I fell for her....hard. There were times I dared to dream of a future with us together, Alpha and Luna.

But then I found out she was having an affair with a janitor's daughter, a fellow student in our school, as of then. She was still parading as my romantic interest until I caught her, when I found out she confessed before moving towns.

I lost interest in dating totally, and I had stayed celibate, completely without sex.

I knew how much I craved the connection of a mate. I had waited this long, and I prayed that the goddess would bless me with my perfect better half.

Preferably someone who hated the Storms, too, I smirked.

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The loud fest was over, it was time for the real deal. I could feel it in the air, the way something was pulsing underneath my skin. It was electrifying, it was sweet, it was fate.

Ryder could see the way my eyes glowed with a faint rub of hue. He smiled cheekily and gestured for the music to be cut off.

I could hear a little bit of commotion at the entrance, well it was a party so they could go fuck themselves or whatever.

My wolf was leading me to my mate, and that was the only thing I was focused on.

I felt the connection going deeper, my gaze scanning the females in the crowd, my eyes almost landed on one, I think.

Before I got interrupted,

By Lucas fuckin' storm.

He stood at the entrance, loud and rowdy, with the group of friends that accompanied him. I saw red,

"The fuck are you doing at my party?" I roared.

Lucas chuckled, obviously a little bit intoxicated.

"I am very hurt Bennett," he faked a dramatic pout, "I can't believe you didn't invite me to your party, don't you want me to personally meet your mate?."

That was it,

I had enough.

I stormed towards him, ready to shift and beat his face in. My Beta and friends gathered behind in solidarity.

But just as I was about to throw the first punch. A scent hit me, filling my nostrils and quickening the pace of my heart.

I looked up with wide eyes, in frozen shock as my wolf roared.

"Mate."

Lucas got it too, our eyes pulsed with the strongest of glows, and we could literally hear our heartbeat intertwine similarly.

Fuck,

I couldn't move, the murmurs erupted around us, our Beta's were rooted in shock beside us. I could see Lucas's knees go weak.

I didn't even know what to say, should I scream, growl, turn to the crowd and tell them that this was some kind of sick joke orchestrated by Lucas?.

But they say that once you feel the mate bond, you can't deny it. This was the situation at the moment because no matter how I could've wished this was a joke, it wasn't.

I was mated to a man, a literal fellow man.

Like, I Bennett Cross, was mated to a man.

And not any other man, Lucas Storm, my rival, my enemy, and my foe.

It seems like the same thing that registered in my head, registered in Lucas's. Because he turned around and bolted, running faster than I had ever seen him run.

Lucas's friends followed after him, and mine, they couldn't stop looking at me like I had seen a ghost.

"Bennett, Bennett.....h-how.....dude..... Lucas?, Lucas Storm is your mate?"

Whispers of my now questionable sexuality filled the air, my arm was being grabbed by Ryder as he led me away from the crowd.

It felt like I was holding my breath for too long, and the moment I was outside, I screamed.

A deafening scream packed with frustration and bound with shock.

"Bennett, calm down, please."

"Calm down, calm down?!" I yelled, tugging at my hair. I fell to my knees and gripped the wet grass.

"Ryder, can't you see?" I questioned, my voice shaky, my fingers were even vibrating. "Can't you see the fucking problem!?"

What would I tell my father?

How would I explain it?

That I had been mated to a Storm, Lucas Storm.