Chapter seven

“How are we doing this? Hand to hand or in our beast forms?” I asked stretching my arms as I got closer, “mid-shift” she said extending her sharp claws, teeth becoming razor sharp and eyes aglow.

Drew came forth but let me keep control so we could stay mid-shift, teeth sharpening and elongating, nails turning into claws, and bit of fur covering my arms.

“Ready or not” she said in a dual voice before she lunged at me.

I was on my back, heaving like a pig with stars dancing in my vision, damn that woman was a power house, “you alright?” she asked standing over me, I could see the outline of her smirk clearly through my hazy vision.

“Peachy” I said with a groan, “damn boy, you got your ass handed to you, something you don’t see every day” Wade laughed from the bench.

I shook my head to clear my vision and got into a sitting position, “you got a few scratches in, I’m impressed, couldn’t do that a year ago” Aunt Taylor said with pride in her tone, eyes shining at me, which made me feel a lot better, my ego, not my body.

Trusting my wolf to deal with healing our body, I got up and noticed dad was watching me with a smile, he nodded in approval, “I’m proud of you son, you’ve gotten so much stronger” he said through the link, making Drew growl in pride at having impressed our father.

We looked up to our dad, he was a great Alpha and a great man, we wanted to be like him, hearing him say he was proud really did a number on our ego, “father is proud of us” Drew yipped, making me chuckle, “thanks dad” I said back.

I got up, stretched my back and winced in pain, she did not hold back one bit, “you’re always hurting my baby” mom said to Aunt Taylor as she came to me, for a second I had forgotten that my mother was a healer, she quickly patched me up, making me sigh in relief, “thanks mom” I said kissing her on the cheek.

One thing that makes my mother and I different from every other wolf out there is that we are the last descendants of the moon goddess. Her bloodline gives us extra abilities, my mom can heal and I, well, I catch fire when I'm mad and I have a temper just as hot.

Hence the nickname the Demon Alpha. 

We don't know a lot about our kind because our people were slaughtered to near extinction just around my mother's birth by a freaking vampire king and his witch mate who found a way to use our blood to make themselves stronger. 

The reason they call me the Demon Alpha is because the witch that kidnapped me and my mom called me a Demon wolf and later found out that there was one with similar powers as me before but there wasn't much information about it. Our history was wiped clean.

“Ooooooh I want to go again” Mia whine while bouncing up and down, “I won’t heal you if you do” my mom warned, “which means no party for you tomorrow” Uncle James said in a stern voice and she deflated immediately.

I shook my head at her, amused, this girl is insatiable, we left the gym and decided to hang out a bit before we were dismissed to go do our homework and boy did I have a lot of it.

I took a quick shower and got into some sweat pants and a long sleeve shirt, grabbed my bag and went to Mia’s room.

I budged in, not even knocking; I always did that, “do you know how rude it is to just budge into a woman’s room? I could have been naked!” she screeched, holding the towel she was using to dry her hair to cover her clothed body.

“You do it to me all the time” I said with a shrug, sitting down on one of the chairs by her table, “it’s not the same! I’m a girl” she argued and I raise a brow at that, “oh so you seeing me naked is ok but I can’t? Tell me how is that even close to fair” I said crossing my hands over my chest, we’ve had this conversation way too many times but still never gets old.

“I didn’t make the rules, society did and besides, women’s bodies are sacred, we are the vessels used by the goddess to bring life” she said with a smirk, “still doesn’t make it right that I have to respect your space and you don’t” I said with a shrug.

“Well, maybe if you started knocking, I would do it as well, you are the Alpha here after all” she said in a matter of fact tone, “you say that like being Alpha will make you respect me” I say rolling my eyes, making her laugh, “tell you what, I will stop budging into your room if you stop” I proposed.

“Blasphemy! How dare you even propose such a treacherous thing” she gasped dramatically, I laughed as she came to sit on the other chair and we got to doing our homework.

We’d been doing our work quietly for about two hours when she suddenly spoke up, “are you excited about tomorrow?” she asked, tapping her pen against the table, she always did that when she was nervous.

I looked up to see her frowning, “I guess, yeah” I responded, feeling a bit worried about her nervous energy, “of course you would, you might find your mate tomorrow” she said with an awkward laugh.

“What’s wrong?” I asked after quietly looking at her for a few seconds, something was definitely bothering her, “nothing, why do you think anything is wrong?” she asked, not even looking at me, she always looks me in the eye when we talk.

“For starters, you’re not looking at me and of course there’s the all that nervous energy rolling off of you” I said, making her sigh and stop tapping her pen.

“You know you can tell me anything, right?” I assured, trying to get her to open up, “I know, I just…” she started but then cut herself off, “talk to me” I said softly, taking her hand in mine.

“I feel like I’m going to lose my best friend tomorrow, you’ll find your mate and forget all about me and I couldn’t even say anything because how do you demand attention from someone else’s mate” she whispered in a small sad voice, ending with a sad chuckle.

“I’ve already lost Britney, I don’t want to lose you too” she said pulling her hand away.

I did notice that we haven’t seen much of Britney around but I didn’t think Mia would feel abandoned and being the friend that she is, she just backed off, not wanting to come between Britney and Cole.

After everything that happened to her, losing her family and everything, Uncle Mika was the first person to truly take her in, and then Uncle James.

She and I were thick as thieves from the moment we met and then came Britney. She has trouble letting people in because she’s afraid they’ll leave her one way or the other.

“Mia, you’ll always be my best friend and even when I have a mate, I’ll always be there for you, you know this, right?” I said, sitting side ways in my chair to face her.

I lifted her head and the tears I saw in her eyes made both Drew and I sad, “I’ll always be here, I promise” I said pulling her in for a hug, she held me close, like I was her lifeline and right now, I felt like I was.

I held her whiles she cried, stroking her hair and whispering sweet nothings into her ear.

It didn’t take long for her to calm down, pulling away, I wiped the last of her tears, kissing her forehead, “damn, I’m such a wimp” she muttered, making me chuckle, “you will tell no one of this” she said with a playful glare, “I won’t, until I need leverage” I said with a smirk, making her gasp, “you traitor” she said with a hand on her chest to emphasize the mock shock.

We laughed it off, glad that I could reassure her that she wasn’t going to lose me.

We got linked to come down for dinner and she told me to go ahead, “you sure, I can wait” I said, to which she just waved her hand in dismissal, “it’s fine, I’ll be down in a minute, just need to clean up, don’t want to be worrying the whole family, you go on ahead” she said getting up and going to her bathroom.

Reluctantly, I left her room and went down to join everyone, they were already seated and since Aunt Taylor was here, I couldn’t take my usual seat next to my mom but there was a spot open for me next to dad.

Instead of taking the seat, I took one next to Cole, as there were two seats there, my mom raised a brow and I just shrug it off, and she didn’t ask any questions.

I started filling the plates in front of me and the one next to me, in the empty chair, with food, this time though; I got more than a questioning look.

“What are you doing?” my mom asked and I shrugged, “it’s for Mia” I said like it was the most normal thing to do. A few minutes later, I sensed her come down so I quickly linked her, “your spot is next to me tonight” I said and she linked back an “ok”.

She took the seat next to me without a word, giving me a small smile before her attention went to the food in front of her, she started digging in, a smile playing on her lips as she ate the delicious food.

I could sense everyone’s gaze on us, which gave me an idea of how I can make her feel even better than a few reassuring words. “I have an idea, want to prank the family one last time before I become an adult” I linked her, to which she looked at me with a bright smile, “what do you have in mind?” she asked back, looking down at her plate, so not to give us up.

I leaned in close to whisper right into her ear, making sure that my voice was so low, even the sharpest ear couldn’t hear. “The family is already looking at us weirdly, how about we make them believe we’re dating” I whispered, to which she giggled, looking down at her plate to stop the laughter I knew was bubbling up inside, which also played in our favour, because it looked like she was blushing.

We kept whispering and laughing between ourselves, her taking food from my plate and me pouring her a glass of juice, and not forgetting those occasional smiles we would throw at each other.

“Ok, that’s it, what is going on between you two?” Uncle Mika asked, throwing nasty eyes in our direction, “what are you talking about dad?” Mia asked innocently, “oh cut the crap, you’ve been acting like you’re dating all eveni… oh my goddess are you two dating?” he asked with a gasp.

Keeping up with the act, I placed my hand behind Mia’s chair  and smile at her, “let’s tell them my love” I said kissing her cheek, I had to stifle my laughter when I heard the gasps, “we didn’t want to say anything but we decided to get together. We just couldn’t deny the chemistry between us anymore” she said looking at her hands, “I hope you’re okay with it” she whispered but I know everyone heard.

“Trevor, you’re turning eighteen tomorrow, what if you find your mate?” my dad asked and I shrugged, “I love Mia and I won’t let anything come between us, if I find my mate, then I’ll reject her” I said kissing Mia’s forehead.

The silence that followed was too much and we couldn’t take it anymore, Mia and I burst out laughing, tears and everything.