Chapter 1
(Pic: Adorably Hot Bryan)
Bryan's POV
Nothing made me feel more safe than his warm, steel like arms, wrapped around my shoulders, keeping my back close to his bulging, muscular front. The warmth and security being so intoxicating and inviting, I couldn't help but snuggle closer to him and try to get more of the luscious scent that was him. The subtle scent of musk, mixed with a blend of old leather and burning firewood, pulsed off of him, creating a calm effect to my body.
"Bry, I need you, please, let me claim you as mine!" My mystery man said, his warm soft lips on my ear, with such a deep and husky tone, I couldn't help the shiver that ran down my spin. But before I could say yes a thousand times over, never wanting this feeling to go away, he began to slip away.
"No, please, come back. I need you too!" I yelled into the shadows, his body frame drifting farther and farther away.
"NO!" I shouted, shooting up from my bed in a cold sweat, with the aggravating sound of my alarm getting louder and louder from its place on my night stand.
I swear these dreams keep getting more and more realistic, I thought to myself as I got up and went about my normal routine, no longer wanting to find comfort in my sleep.
Walking into the bathroom, down the hall from my bedroom, I turned the water on for the shower, giving it time to heat up so it wouldn't be so cold when I got in. Once I could see the steam coming off of the water, I climbed into the shower, allowing the scolding hot liquid to relax my muscles and try to loosen me up bit.
Standing there, under the soothingly hot water, my mind kept going back to my dreams; the very first one only showing me the tall, muscular figure of a man, with his face complete masked the darkness. With each dream the man moved closer and closer to me saying small or incomplete sentences each time until finally I was able to touch him. The very first time I was able to touch him was such a shock because of the undeniable current of electricity that ran between us. And the scent. God, the mouth watering scent! I had never smelled something so intoxicating and luring ever before. But it always ended the same way; him slipping away until he was nothing more than a blur, and me springing up in my bed with a cold sweat, panting to get breath into my lungs.
I was startled out of my thoughts as the water instantly froze. Realizing I had used all of the hot water, I knew that even the water could help me relax, as it hadn't every other time in the past few weeks.
Only HE can relax us! My wolf said to me, he too being anxious to find our mate.
Well he has to be close, otherwise why would I be having these dreams? I asked, but just like all the other times I asked this question, my wolf didn't answer.
Oh, by the way if you haven't noticed, first off I'm a werewolf--the Beta's son to be exact--and second, I'm gay, so yes I'm expecting my mate to be a guy. What else would my dreams be telling me?! Hopefully it's not saying my mate is an extremely buff female bodybuilder ... no offense to anybody!
After putting on my simple, blood red shirt and a pair of semi-baggy fading dark blue jeans, I looked myself over in the mirror behind my bedroom door. Feeling that I looked just average enough to be the average student that I am, I walked down the stairs to the kitchen to find a note from my parents.
Bry Bry,
Your Father and I will be a little late coming home tonight, due to a company meeting. Go ahead and order some pizza or any other take out food, and, please, make sure to get the kitchen cleaned up afterwards so I won't have to do it later! Love you and don't wait up for us ... ; )
Love,
Mom & Dad
While I was ecstatic that my parents were still as in love as they were when they were teenagers, why did she have to put a wink on the note?!? As if I really needed to know what they were going to be up to tonight ... Eww! I'll never be able to get that image out of my head now that it's been burned into my memory. Thanks mom!
Looking up from the note and over to the oven clock, I recognized I had been in the shower for over 45 minutes and was running late, which would most likely result in me getting another detention for being tardy.
HONK! HONK! HOONNNNKKKKK!
As if on cue, there was my ride. Quickly grabbing an orange from the counter fruit bowl and my bag from beside the stairs, I ran out the front door and rushing down the pathway to the street curb, where I found my two best friends that probably knew me better than I knew myself at times.
"Bry, will you hurry up? We're already running 15 minutes late that ordinarily!" Mona yelled from the back seat of the Black 2013 Audi S7 that her twin brother, Sean, was driving.
"Sorry guys." I said hopping into the passenger seat and putting on my seat belt as Sean took off down the street.
"Bud, what took you so long?" Sean asked, giving me a quick side glance, putting his attention back on the road.
"Sorry, ... I just had some things on my mind this morning." I whispered, keeping my head slightly down, praying that they wouldn't bring the subject up. Yet, it seemed lady luck wasn't on my side this morning. What a shocker!
Mona pulled herself up from the back seat, leaning over the armrest between Sean and me, "You had that dream again didn't you?"
Slightly lifting my head, I found both Sean and Mona looking at me. Wiping my head around, I could see that we had made it to the school parking lot and class didn't start for another 20 minutes. Great, now I couldn't us the I-be-late-for-class excuse to avoid her question.
Not wanting to answer Mona's question, I jumped out of the car and headed to the school entrance, trying to lose them, but seeing as they were the children of my pack's Alpha and Luna, they were a bit faster than me.
Walking into the building I tried to pay them no attention, only praying for the hundredth time this morning, that Mona would drop the subject.
Mona came up bedside me though, and stopped me in the middle of the hallway, pulling me over to the side, where the lockers were, so we wouldn't block the path for the other students rushing by.
"Bryan, was it--" Mona was cut off by Sean before she could finish.
"Mona leave it alone. If he doesn't want to talk about it, then don't push it. If it were me and I was constantly having dreams about my mate, only to wake up and see they weren't there, day after day, I too wouldn't want to be reminded about it, so just drop it!" I gave Sean a thank you glance, while Mona was glaring so hard at him, her stare could melt granite.
"I'M JUST TRYING TO LOOK OUT FOR HIM!" She yelled in her normal motherly tone, stomping off in the other direction with people looking at her retreating figure, then looking over to where Sean and I were still standing. Always the drama queen!
"Thanks Sean." I said in a small tone but with much gratitude in my voice.
"Bry, I'm the future Alpha of Meadows Pack, it's my responsibility to look out for my pack members," he said and my face began to fall at the thought of him only doing it as a 'responsibility', "but you are first and foremost, my best friend and no one will mess with you, even if they mean well!" Sean finished placing a hand on my shoulder, making me smile at the friendly gesture.
But, in some way, I guess what he said about Mona meaning well, was true. She was only trying to help me and be a good friend.
"Sean, I'll catch up with you later. I think I should go talk to Mona and try to fix things." Before I could allow him to protest and have him say something about how she was the one that should be apologizing, I sprinted off is the direction she stormed off several minutes earlier.
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"Mona ..." I said coming up from behind her, as she was standing at her locker getting her books for first period.
"What?" She said exasperated, not turning to look at me. A little harsh, don't you think?
"You were right, you were only trying to be supportive and help me." I said putting a hand on her arm, trying to get her to look at me.
She turned around and only then did I see that she had some tears glistening in her eyes. Now I really felt bad about ignoring her.
"No, Sean was right. I shouldn't have pushed like I did. But ... I don't know, I guess I thought that as your best friend it was job to comfort you and help you until you find your sexy mate." I couldn't help but grin at her understated description of my mate, even though I too had only seen parts of him in my dreams.
"What are you smiling at?" She asked giving me some of her sassy attitude that I loved so much!
"Nothing. I'm just happy that I have a friend that loves and cares for me so much!" She sqeaked as I pulled her into a bear hug. Letting her go, we started to walk to class as the warning bell rang.
Getting ready to go through the door to our Chemistry class, one of the two classes I shared with Mona, I caught a scent that instantly had my wolf attention, making both of us search the very familiar scent.
My wolf only had one thing to say as we both got a stronger grip of the scent.
"MATE!"
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Author's Note:
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