Through His Eyes

Theron

She was getting closer this time; I could feel it. Her sweet scent of honeysuckle and fresh rain consumed my senses. My wolf Hoku was going wild for her; we had to have her, claim her, and mate with her. I was running faster and faster through the forest, gazing at the white wolf in front of me, taunting me. I was just about to pounce and claim her as mine when I heard a siren from afar. I looked around but couldn’t see anything. It kept blaring, coming closer and closer. I looked, but my mate was nowhere to be seen. All there was in the foggy forest was snow on the ground and that siren sound blaring.

I jolted at the sound of my alarm early Saturday morning, yelling at me to get up. Rubbing my eyes and stretching my arms above my head, I went straight to the bathroom to take a cold shower and hopefully stench the hard-on I had from my dream. I had training with the pack this morning and intended to tell everyone what happened at the meeting this past week. Reed was especially anxious to hear the news. I deliberately waited to tell them about the possible war until after last night’s game. I needed them focused on WestMoon. Hopefully, we can win this year’s championship and gain the upper hand on the packs, making us the renowned champions and forcing the rest of the packs down, away from the idea of a war.

No one but the alphas and their heirs knew this, but the real reason for the football championships was for the power over the packs. Whoever won the tournament had the final say in all that happened between the packs. It was supposed to be a way to share the power from year to year, but Alpha Zander ensured he was always on top by any means necessary. He’s even resorted to cheating and brutally injuring players in the past to win. It’s what ended my father’s football career his senior year ten years before with a broken femur. Even with his super-healing abilities, it took him out of the game, making the Red Fang pack win again.

Thankfully, the elders could keep Alpha Zander at bay all these years, but their power was thinning. We found out at the meeting that Alpha Zander was the one who called the meeting with the packs. This year, he seemed extra aggressive about the championship. Alpha Zander looked straight at my father and me when he threatened to take the pack lands and “all who dwelled there” right after he beat us in the championship game. He claimed that after he took our lands and became the new alpha, he would use our warriors and come for the others.

It was strange his sudden interest in our people since it was never the pack itself he cared for but the blood of the family that took his son. It made me wonder if he knew we had just acquired a new family somehow and that it had to do with his sudden interest in our people. Their entrance into our lands was supposed to be a secret, though, so I only know how he would have known about them if there was a mole in our pack, which I refused to believe.

Thankfully, the Phantom Moon pack had been training our warriors in secret all these years and knew we had a good chance of keeping that vicious, callous wolf off our lands. Still, it would come at a significant cost. One my father and I would try our hardest to stop it from happening if we could, mainly because Alpha Zander would come himself for our pack. It was my uncle Osias, the old alpha of our pack, who killed his son in the final battle before Alpha Zander took my uncles life. Alpha Zander now has a personal vendetta against us. I know all of this and should be more focused on the rising threat at hand if it wasn’t for those damned dreams I keep having.

They started almost a year ago, faint at first, but as time passed, I kept getting more and more glimpses of this beautifully fierce white wolf running with me in our woods. White wolves were rare due to their strength and abilities. Knowing one was in my dream intrigued me even more. In one dream, I gained the knowledge of her scent and haven’t been able to shake it since. It reached a point where any other female wolf wouldn’t do.

That’s why I finally broke it off with Olivia last semester. I started to date her because my dad told me it would make a good pairing since I hadn’t found my mate yet. I was never her biggest fan, but I did as requested since I was to take the throne. As time went on, though, and I kept seeing what I now know is my destined mate, I started not being able to stand the scent of Olivia anytime I slept with her.

My father was angry at first and worried, as he had a right to be. Without my mate or a female to curb my aggressions, Hoku has become more vicious and hungry for anything to satiate him. Training hard with the team used to help his needs when we couldn’t stand to be around other females since learning our mate’s scent. With these dreams becoming more and more realistic, though, even training isn’t taking the edge off. I assured my father we had it under control and even explained that we knew our mate was near. I had thought the new girl may have had some answers for us, so I was eager to get home and meet her for myself.

Reed relayed she was human, but I didn’t believe him. It couldn’t be; my dreams had become so vivid and intense around the same time she just happened to show up; I knew she was the one I dreamt about. On Friday at the game, I felt her eyes on me, and when I turned, I felt Hoku stir. Even from far away, I could tell she was beautiful and wild. Our eyes held each other for what felt like a lifetime, and when she blushed, the heat of it caused my groin to stir. At half-time, I couldn’t help but gaze at her the whole time, noticing how cute she was trying to force herself to sit still as if she needed to join in, biting her full bottom lip as if it would hold her to the seat. All I could think about was nibbling on that lip. I knew she felt my eyes on her, unable to help herself from staring back.

I needed to get closer to her, to smell the scent I knew she would have. Her scent has been engraved in my mind since I first smelled it many moons ago. Thankfully, Ny had already started a bond with her, so getting her to come to the after-party was easy. Reed warned me she was only human, so just in case he was right and I was wrong; I made sure the pack knew not to cause a scene or give away what we were just in case she was only human. Our pack could get feral after a win like we had, shifting and running wild around the fire and surrounding woods. Werewolves are only make-believe to the human world, and we’d like to keep it that way.

During the rest of the game, Hoku was unhinged with the idea that we might meet our mate tonight. He played with a new vigor I’d never felt before. It was as if her presence brought out his strength. He was lethal and on point, feeding me the strength that helped us finally win the game. All the lads were excited to let loose and party when I only wanted to see her. I urged Hoku to keep calm inside while we waited for Naya and the girls to arrive. He was jumping and whirling within me; it took everything in me not to shift and run to her right away.

When Reed announced through the mind link she was approaching, I whirled to see Naya, Danika, and Lana linking arms with the new girl. It made me happy she had been invited and easily welcomed into the squad. As she approached, though, and I gazed into her stormy grey eyes, I couldn’t smell her. Not a whiff of the honeysuckle or fresh rain I craved so much. Reed was right; she was human and couldn’t be the wolf I had dreamt about. I felt my heart break a little, but something was still familiar about her. Hoku howled inside and whined while we gazed at her. Her eyes were radiant and seemed to swirl when she came closer to me.