He's my mate

Ariel’s POV 

Kevin told me about how his father showed him this place in eighth grade and how he started having changes in his body. He said he didn't mean to frighten me with his stalking and his letters, but the sight of me made his heart race faster. 

He told me of how he had spoken to his father who then reassured him that it was nothing but infatuation, and that was the reason he had apologized to me. 

I wasn't really listening at all because I got lost in his eyes. It was almost like they changed colors every few seconds. I could swear I saw a shade of blue in there. 

How did he become so handsome? 

Maybe I shouldn't have blown him off. He definitely looks better than Ace now. He looks way better than all the boys at school. He slowly waved his hands in front of my face, and that was when I realized I'd been staring too much. 

"I'm sorry I wasn't paying attention." He shrugged it off. I told him I'm sorry for blowing him off too. Part of me wanted to explain everything to him. If I'd learned anything at all from my last life, it's that I shouldn’t trust anyone. 

Something about him felt vaguely familiar. He felt almost like my mate. But I didn’t have a mate in my past life!

After noticing the uncomfortable silence, Kevin asked me when I would be leaving, and again, I panicked. I had forgotten about that part and now, I guess I would have to tell him a little truth. 

"I don't really feel like going home now. Can I sleep over?" I asked and surprisingly, he agreed. He took me to one of the rooms and when we got to the door, he whispered;

"Here." And I nodded.

As if reading through my thoughts, he offered me some of his clothes, a short and a black tee to be precise, and asked that I sleep in them.

I quickly rushed out an embarrassed “Thank you,” bid him goodnight, and watched him leave. I sighed as I inhaled his sweet masculine smell that filled the air but still couldn’t quite understand why he was suddenly seeming like my mate after all this while.

I jumped into bed and lay there, afraid of sleeping off. I didn’t know what to expect and so I decided to stay awake. What if I wake up to the darkness again? 

What if it was just a one-day thing? 

Tears began to form in my eyes when I thought about how my Nana had died. So they killed my nana and they killed me too?

Only those thoughts lurked in my mind as I fell into a very deep slumber…

***

"What did you do to me?" I cried out as my body felt weak. And Layla, my wolf, felt weaker. Communicating with my wolf, I urged her to stay strong but she couldn’t, the poison in our system was so potent that it had taken her out first. 

Chloe had done something to me. I couldn't believe my eyes and ears. 

How could she do this to me and why is she letting me go now? "I thought we were friends" I struggled on the floor and whimpered as I felt like my insides were curling up and entangling themselves. 

It felt like Layla was going to die. I felt like I was going to die. I turned back into a human and lay naked on the floor while Chloe hovered above me. They were red patches all over my body and they were increasing by every second. It couldn't be a simple human reaction. I was a werewolf. 

I tried moving toward Chloe and she looked pathetically at me before she literally kicked me out of the way. She didn't say a word which made me feel even worse. My insides were boiling. 

Was I poisoned? I didn't know... 

Immediately Ace appeared beside her looking all dressed up. He had just been crowned Alpha leader pack which consisted of three clans, he had been given the position because he had told everyone that he was my mate, and even proposed marriage to me.

I was immediately snapped out of my thoughts when the slapping sounds of tongue against tongue resounded around the air. Tears escaped my eyes when I thought of how blind I had been for so long. 

Ace slowly bent to look at me, with disgust prominent on his face.

"Ohh my darling, does it hurt?" He asked but didn’t wait to hear my reply as their laughter suddenly filled my eardrums and the pain intensified.

All I wanted to do was scream. They took everything away from me. How could they do this to me was the question I kept asking myself. I realized I was in great danger. 

I started crawling further away from them. I would not lose my life. "Where do you think you're going, dear?" Chloe asked me. 

I was in pain and I could barely move. But I didn't stop. I clawed and scratched, wishing that I would make it in time, but just as the thought came, it immediately disappeared as Ace picked me up like I didn’t weigh much and threw me from the high cliff until I fell into the cold water beneath...

***

I woke up sweating. I looked around and discovered that I was still in Kevin's weird big house. It was just a dream. My anger increased. I wouldn't wolf out now, I had the information from my last life. 

I sat on the bed panting and shaking, willing the images from the dream to go away but they wouldn’t. Tears leaked out of my eyes, but they were angry tears.

I quickly wiped the tears away, had a quick bath, and changed into my clothes from yesterday.

As soon as I stepped out of the room, I was hit with a strong-smelling, mouthwatering scent that immediately filled my senses. I slowly walked towards it, only to find Kevin sitting in a corner of the room and pressing away at his phone.

My eyes instantly widened for now it was obvious that he was my mate.

His eyes sprung up too, and when he locked gaze with me, they widened.

“I want to go home!” I quickly rushed out, quite unsure of what else to say now that I felt jittery all of a sudden. He stood up slowly, as if in a daze, and stopped only a few inches away from me.

“You’re my mate?” He questioned slowly, as if still in shock, and I could only nod.

He immediately pressed me into himself, engulfing me in a hug. It felt so safe with him, so peaceful that I didn’t want to ever leave, but I did though, only a few minutes later.

“I’d like to go home now,” I said and he nodded.

I knew that Ace’s mother was already at my house right now, even Ace and Chloe. All I had to do was go there and pretend to be shocked and distraught, and that was exactly what I was going to do.

I had a lot in store for them, all they had to do was wait and watch…