Kade’s POV- When I was up to start our second game I smelled the most delicious scent in the air, which was weird in this place. Usually it just smells like alcohol, grease, and cheap cologne. This smell though, so fresh and alluring, like strawberries and vanilla. I thought I smelled it for a moment during our first game, but it disappeared right away when the door opened a gust of wind came through the place. It was the same smell I first got a taste of this morning, my mate. I knew it. I stood up after shanking my shot and started looking around. Alec looked at me like I was crazy so I had to let him know.“She’s here.”“She? You mean Cataleya?”“Yeah. I can smell her,” I tell him, trying to follow her scent without looking suspicious. I don’t know how I could have missed her coming in. I blame it on having too many scents all around but I don’t know. Maybe because she’s human. It’s still crazy to me that my mate would be a human, but I don’t care. I will still love her just the s
Dean’s POV- One week later It’s finally senior year. The last year I will ever have to worry about grades. I don’t mind doing the work, I just don’t like relying on other people’s opinions to tell me whether I succeed or fail. Football will help me get through this semester, but the next one will be rough for sure. I got up early this morning to do some training before heading over to campus. Since we don’t live that far from the school, it's not that bad staying at the compound. I don’t have practice today so Cataleya is riding with me so we can have our last, first day ride together. Yeah we can be corny like that sometimes. As her big brother it’s my job to show her around campus and let her know all the secrets I’ve learned throughout my time here and show her the ropes. That also includes keeping all my horny teammates away from her. I know how they think and how they talk and there is no way anyone will be mentioning her in my locker room. I was kind of worried about her thi
Cataleya’s POV- Starting the school year with Dean made it feel like old times. When we would go school together and laugh about the teachers and the crazy drama that revolves around every high school. I’m glad that we have this good relationship, even though I do still hate him sometimes, and I hope that one day my kids will have the same. Wait, kids? I’ve never thought about having kids before! What is going on with my head? Ok time to focus on school. Dean and I were talking about our classes when I noticed someone walking up behind him. He looks familiar, then I realize he’s walking towards us. It’s Alec, the almost Alpha wolf. If he’s here, then… oh my God is Kade here too? I look around to see if anyone else is around when he starts talking to Dean. Would I feel it if he was close, like how I felt eyes on me when we were playing pool? Is that what the mate bond does? I was able to look it up a little bit this last week, but we don’t really have that much information about it.
Cataleya’s POV continued- After class had been going for a while, I took a peek over at Kade. To my surprise he was actually paying close attention to the professor and seemed to be interested in the material. Seeing him the other night I figured he would be more of the spaced out jock in class who only showed up to make sure he would meet the requirements to play sports. I’m glad that wasn’t the case. I’m not sure how I feel about the whole Moon Goddess thing, but I do feel a little more comfortable that if that is how all of this works, she didn’t pair me with some brain dead jerk. The professor takes a few minutes to get something else ready and I see Kade go straight to his phone. Since the professor came in and started class so quickly earlier he didn’t have much of a chance to text me. He had put his phone away right when class started so that he could give his full attention to the professor. I figured by now he probably forgot what I asked him or that I even put my number in
Kade’s POV- Yesterday was the best day of my life. I can’t help but think about it while I’m sitting here in my first football team meeting. I know I should be paying attention to what the coaches are discussing but I can’t help it. I didn’t think much about the first day of college when I woke up, just another school year basically. I rode to campus with the rest of the guys, and being the only incoming freshman they were giving me plenty of shit about being the noob all over again. I didn’t mind. Especially since I’m sure with being new to the football team as well, this will only be the beginning. The more I react to it the more they will do it so I just try to let it all slide. When we got to campus I wanted to walk around a bit just to get acclimated to everything. Some of the guys were showing me the athletic center so I would know where today’s meeting was going to be and Alec said he needed to go take care of something before class and went off on his own. I figured I had se
Kade’s POV continued- It’s a good thing that I did get that rest because a short pack meeting, then a football team meeting all before classes was a hell of a way to start my second day. After the pack meeting Alpha Zeke let us know that he heard back from the nearby packs about their missing or recently left omegas, and the number was a lot higher than any of us thought, especially since we weren’t missing any. There is definitely more to this story than we are getting. The politics droned on a bit and it’s decided that we don’t have enough information on that yet to bring it to the hunters. The football meeting is mostly to meet the guys and go over practice expectations and guidelines so we can get a running start later today. We all have to make sure our lockers are prepped and ready before practice so we don’t miss any time that we could be on the field or in the film rooms. Coach isn’t playing this year. I think he realizes he’s going to lose a bunch of talent over the next tw
Dean’s POV- Going into the first practice of the year I knew what I had to do. Of course as the team captain it was my job to welcome everyone to the team, which I did a little bit of at the meeting, but as a big brother it was also my job to make sure all these horny college guys stayed far away from my sister. So as soon as I walked into the locker room I got everyone’s attention and did just that. Towards the end of my little speech I saw the wolves on the team, and it looks like the new freshman is the one that asked about her last week. I knew I was going to have to keep an eye on him. First practices aren’t much. Mostly working out and getting to know everybody. This lets me sit back a little bit and watch everyone to see how they perform and figure out who has worked out in the off season and who hasn’t. I’m lucky that the coach respects me enough to value my opinion on the guys. We were a small school so he didn’t have the huge coaching staff that a lot of division 1 schools
Cataleya’s POV- I knew I would be able to get something out of the rogue. I honestly should have gone in there a lot sooner, but everything with Kade was throwing me off of my game. After our little talk on Monday I felt calmer somehow. I don’t know how to explain it, but I definitely wasn’t stressing as much about that whole situation. Now I’m stressing about this new situation. As soon as the rogue said ‘essence’ I knew that witches were involved somehow. Now I just have to explain this to these knuckleheads around me.“What do you mean witches?” Dean asked.“I mean witches. You know, magic wielding crazy ladies with a vendetta against almost everyone else for some reason.”“No shit, but how did you reach the conclusion that they were involved?”“Do you seriously never do any research on your own? The ‘essence’, also called Spiritus Vitae, is the breath or spirit of life. Kind of like what most people would call a person's soul. Without the soul the body would slowly deteriorate an