Chapter 3

Skye's POV

I watched him look at me with a soft gaze. Finally! My mate!

I was looking forward to what he would say when out of nowhere, a woman shoved me making me lose my balance and fall to the ground.

"Who do you think you are touching?!" I recognize the face of the woman, she was the one who was leeching to my mate when I Soul Wandered to him.

This! And she has the nerve to push me when she's the one stealing what's mine!

Anger suddenly raged within me and I quickly stood up, pushing her on the ground too with much more force.

I heard the people gasp at what I did, but I didn't care, she was the one who started it, I was just plainly following through.

My mate seemed to snap out of his stupor, he turned to look at the woman and helped her get up, asking her if she was okay.

And they seemed to have an undeniable relationship, which made me somewhat angry.

"Alec, do you know that woman?" The woman asked, rudely pointing her finger at me.

Tsk! If I could, I would have bitten her finger off and fed it to my snakes at home. To us, pointing fingers is a huge disrespect, not to mention I'm way older than her in terms of mental age, but physically I still look like a blooming youthful girl. And way prettier than this skunk!

"No, of course not." I stood up, and hearing my mate's reply made me scowl. I threw dagger look eyes at this immoral woman and was about to scratch her face when my mate got in between us and pushed me, knocking me a few steps away.

"You…" He spoke, but his voice was breaking, as if he was unsure what to tell me.

"Leave," He said, glaring at me, and I saw his eyes flicker, it turned gold for a second, but when he clenched his jaw, his eyes turned back to normal.

I read once that werewolves could talk to their beast, if that was true, then did the gold eyes belong to his beast? Was he communicating with him just now?

"Hey idiot, did you hear what my boyfriend said? Leave! You're not even a student here. Guards!" The woman was shrieking with a high tone voice making my ears hurt. Ugh! She's really irritating.

And seconds later, a few guys wearing a black outfit that looked identical to one another held me in my arms, and forcefully dragged me away.

"Let go of me!" I resisted but they weren't heeding me, so using a bit of my strength, I flipped one of the guards over knocking him to the ground with one hand, and using my legs, I jumped in the air and gave a swift kick on the other man's face, blood spurting out of his mouth, making him go unconscious.

I looked at their sorry figures and watched them grimace in pain.

Then I heard shouting which alerted me, and I looked at everyone and saw them staring right at me.

I got scared for a second so I dashed out of the place.

I looked for a quiet place where I could rest and saw a giant tree that I could hide in.

I flew for many hours just to get here and tracked his scent tirelessly, and this was what was greeting me! Unbelievable!

"It was all that woman's fault! That woman is clinging to him like a leech. I really want to tear her face apart!" I gritted my teeth and rested my head in the trunk of the tree, and closed my eyes for a while to relax.

I was about to drift to a much more peaceful place, which was sleep, but out of nowhere, I heard a clicking sound, so I bolted straight up and examined my surroundings.

And then I saw a leaf falling in front of my face. I then heard another sound, but this time, I heard where it exactly came from.

I slowly tilted my head up, only to be shocked to see a man looking at me with a solemn face.

"Ahhh!!!" I yelled, horrified, and I quickly got up and managed to jump a few metres away.

"Who are you?!" I asked him, but the man was just staring at me, not moving, not talking, just…staring at me.

"Who are you?" He deflected my question by asking me back.

I assessed his features and I was dumbfounded to see some resemblance with that of my mate. He looks like a younger version of him.

"What are you looking at?" He asked me with a snarky voice. And I smiled thinking that their temperament is even the same. Are they perhaps related to each other?

"Do you know my mate?" I asked thoughtlessly, and I saw his eyes bulge for some reason and he looked left and right to see if there were people around, then when he noticed that there weren't, he jumped off the huge branch of the tree and landed in front of me, startling me a little.

"You're not human. What are you?" His question made me even more confused. How did he know? Was it my appearance that blew my cover? I could tell that he was a werewolf by his scent but us phoenixes smell just like humans, so how the heck did he know?

"How did you know?" I surveyed his face awaiting his answer so I could detect if he would try to lie, but his answer was out of my expectations.

"Well first of all, your clothes are ugly and don't fit in the human category of fashion," He said pointing at my dress, it has a few scratches on it, and the details are really intricate, but nonetheless, what I'm wearing is completely fine. He's just a nincompoop.

"And second, you just said the word mate. Who are you implying to? Is he from here?" He was bombarding me with questions, and me being a natural slowpoke, was torn if I should answer his questions all in one go. Or do it one at a time.

But seeing his prying eyes, I decided to just tell him since he seems like a trustworthy person, and his heartbeat is steady which means he is not a threat.

"You're right, I'm not human. And for your second question, I was referring to Alec, I don't know his surname since I didn't hear the announcer say it but that's his name, I suppose. Alec…A really good name, which means defender. A defender of humankind, really heroic." I said, repeating my mate's name twice, savouring the feeling it gives me as I say it on the tip of my tongue.

He instantly became quiet, nodding his head, as if he was contemplating what I just said.

"Is that so?" He spoke with inquisitive eyes as he looked at me, quite unnaturally actually, like the expression my cousin's used to make when they were about to make a scheme.

"You should come with me." He said, smiling widely at me.

"Where? I don't even know you." I said, stepping a couple of feet back.

"I'm Alec's brother, Nathan. Alec will be home later since he has a meeting to attend to, so why don't you just come with me and wait for Alex at home." He told me, which sent butterflies to my stomach.

The thought of my mate smiling at me when he gets home makes my heart tingle with excitement.

And without second thoughts, I briskly nodded at him in agreement.

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"Stay here for a while. And don't let anyone see you." Nathan led me to a huge wooden house in the middle of the forest, and slipped me inside of one of the rooms and locked me there, telling me that I should wait for him to come back.

I didn't want to be suspicious of him, but he seemed somewhat paranoid for someone who lived here.

We had to stop a couple of times since he wanted to make sure no one was around when we came in. What was he scared of?

But I guess he had his reasons, and I still trust him since he's my mate's brother.

I patiently waited for him to come back, but it felt like a lot of time had passed since he left me, and he still didn't come back to see me.

Where is he? Did he forget that I was here?

Out of boredom I roamed around the room to see if there's anything that would interest me.

I rummaged through the cabinets and drawers and saw one particular black underpants that was quite worn off, laying on the floor with white smudges on it, and it also had a bit of an unusual smell to it as I sniffed the center.

I started stretching it and played with it since I didn't have anything better to do, until I heard the door click open making me turn my heels preparing to scold Nathan for leaving me for such a long time.

But to my surprise, it wasn't him who was inside. It was my mate.

Alec.

I was so happy to see him, I examined his face, noticing he was looking at me intently which made me blush.

However, it finally dawned upon me when I saw his eyes twitch and looked down. He wasn't looking at me! He was…he was looking at the underpants that I was holding in my hands!

I hurriedly hid it behind my back not wanting him to misunderstand.

But seconds after that, everything that happened felt like a blur, since I was suddenly pinned down on the bed, with him breathing heavily in front of me, trapping me, as he gripped both of my hands above my head tightly, and his face so close to mine as he growled dangerously at me, his minty breath wafting over my nose.

"What are you doing here?" He asked with a dark voice, which sent shivers down my spine.

His scent was so heavenly, and because of our position I started feeling something weird.

I didn't answer him.

And instead, my eyes travelled from his eyes, to his nose, and to his lips.

And without thinking. I kissed him.

My lips landed on his soft and thin lips, and it was the best feeling I felt in a long time.

I could see his eyes bulge at what I did, probably shocked, but I didn't care. I was relishing the moment.

My first ever kiss.