Chapter 2

Kayla

Doing as my mom told me, I walked down to the kitchen to prepare dinner. I put water in the pot and poured all the noodles we had in and set the pot on the heated stove. Besides the soon to be spaghetti making my empty stomach growl, he was the only thing on my mind and I had absolutely no clue why. I have only known him for under five minutes.

I had always thought having a mate really wasn't all that. I had always thought it was just someone who would have your back, someone who would always be there to support you. Honestly, even if that was it, I would be complete. Just the thought of having him next to me was amazing. There was so much more to it than having someone to have your back. Even though I hadn't experienced it, I felt it in the air between us. But, I still couldn't shake off the thought of a mate dragging me down.

But what happened when we were in my dad's office? I couldn't forget how he looked so worried... worried if he looked at me. Was it something about how I smelled or looked? I just wanted to know why.

"Kayla! KAYLA!" My mom screamed and shoved me out of the way.

I was snapped out of my thoughts and looked at the stove. Clearly, the water was past done boiling and a mini fire had started. Was I really that lost in thought to let a fire start?

I didn't have time to think about my thoughts, so I went to grab a bowl of water. But just as I was running to the sink, I heard a sizzling noise. I whipped around and saw Cameron already with a bowl and smoke rising from the pot.

"Well Mrs. Branson..."

"Call me Deena, sweetheart." my mom cut him off.

"It was just a silly little fire and water put it out just fine." He said innocently.

"Well look at the firefighter of the house." my mom laughed at her horrible humor.

This was completely awkward. Cameron saw how clumsy I was daydreaming and then solved the problem himself. Then, never even acknowledged me standing there.

I just decided I wanted sleep, so I started walking up to my room.

"Kayla, just because you burned the pasta, doesn't mean we can't make something different. Aren't you hungry? My mom called after me.

"Nope. I'm going to bed." I mumbled.

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Cameron's POV

I smelled her 5 miles away from their house. That smell. It was mesmerizing. I knew it was her and I knew she was part of the Goldenmoon pack.

I didn't even care if she was ugly, which I knew she wasn't going to be. That was my mate and she was going to be mine. She was going to be my Luna.

Questions started to swirl in my head. Did she have a boyfriend? Did she not want a mate? Was she going to reject me?

I started to get pissed off already and I haven't even met her. I didn't even know who she was. This made me run faster to their house because I needed to see her.

My Alpha Mate

After running the last few miles we had, we stopped before entering their territory. We needed a break before all the crazy began.

We have been traveling for two days straight and we are finally there. We only took two breaks, this was one of the two.

I ruffled my fingers through my hair and sighed. Then, I felt fingers run down my back and come to my sides and then a slender body stepped in front of me. Melissa.

Melissa was sort of like an ex. Don't get me wrong, I didn't regret the relationship. But, I didn't miss it. I never intended to take it too far with her as to making her Luna or anything. I knew my mate and future Luna was out there, and now I found her. But, Melissa and I used to be really close. Used to be.

I didn't know what I would do about Melissa if she tried doing things with me again. Sometimes, I really can't control myself, I'm so used to pleasure that I don't know how to control myself just to make love with one person, but my mate was more important. I would have to work on changing that.

"Hey baby. Let's take a room together so we can have fun tonight. A little treat for taking us all this way would be nice." Melissa said flirtatiously.

"I don't think so."

"Oh why not baby? Are you losing interest in me? Oh don't make me cry." She faked whined and ran her hands down my abs.

"Don't make me do this." I said to her. "Can you understand that we need to stop being something? Don't let me let bad things happen. I can't let those things happen between me and you anymore." I addressed with her, not directly telling her I had a mate.

She frowned and glared at me. "What's your problem all of a sudden Cam? What did you smell your mate suddenly or something?" She laughed as if that was false.

I just gave her a look saying yes. In response, her face turned beet red and she pulled my neck down and started to kiss me. I wrapped my hands around her thin hips instinctively.

About 10 seconds into the kiss, I pushed her away, realizing what I was doing.

"I told you not to fucking mess with me anymore. Don't pull that shit ever again. Do not. There will be consequences. You know I just found my mate and if you screw things up between me and her I won't hesitate to give you punishments."

"Make sure my punishments are good." She said completely ignoring what I said and winked. "And that mate." She pulled me down and whispered in to my ear. "She'll never have what me and you had."

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When we finally got there, I saw the Alpha and the Luna of the pack standing on the back porch. They greeted us and we all went inside. My pack socialized with their pack as the Alpha and Luna, my Beta and bestfriend, Chris, and I went to the pack office to get started right away.

As we walked up the stairs, the smell was getting stronger and stronger. This hallway had to be for the family of the pack because of all the family photos and personal items. I glanced at some of the pictures and realized they had one child. A daughter.

I didn't think I was really going to tell them right away that I had found my mate and it was their daughter. I mean, I've only been here for about five minutes.

Then, we passed a door and the smell burned my nose. I had to fight every muscle in my body not to walk in there and take her. On top of that, next to her room, was the pack office. So the entire time I was in there, that smell would burn my soul.

"Take a seat, please." Alpha Trent instructed for me and Chris to do. We did as he told and I folded my fingers together. We sat across the table from the Luna and Alpha Trent.

"First things first, I would like to introduce you to my wife and myself. This is Deena, the Luna of the pack, in other words, my wife. I, of course, am Alpha Trent Branson, but I do not want you calling me Mr. Branson or Alpha Trent the entire time. Please, call me Trent." He welcomed warmly.

"Well please, let me introduce myself as well. I am Alpha Cameron, but I do not mind what you call me. Call me whatever you please. This is my Beta, and best friend, Christian, but please call him Chris." I introduced back.

"Nice to meet ya sir. And like he said, call me Chris" Chris said friendly.

Chris is the type of person that would make everyone's day because of his niceness. I can't even think of one person that didn't like him. He was to nice AND funny. He just set a good mood.

"Well now that we all know each other, let's get to business. So I know that there are four groups of rogues so far and I'm not sure where they're located. And every direction we go in we can smell them, and we picked up four different scents. Four different packs, we're guessing. We are also very concerned. Rogues do not have different scents, they have none. So we are questioning into it if they are really rogues or not. We just know that there some type of pack and their surrounding our territory. If you take a look at this, you can see we drew out a map of the territory. These spots that are marked red are where we think that the packs are located, in other words their camps." He said grabbing a map from a drawer in his desk.

I stood up so I can get a better look at the entire map because it was pretty big. I saw four dime sized red dots that were right next to eachother. They were marked A, B, C, and D. I closely looked at the map when somebody walked in. The smell, my mate. Instantly, I could feel her eyes burning on my back.

My Beta had started talking to her, but I wasn't paying attention. I had to focus on not turning around taking her on the desk in front of everyone. I had no clue why I felt this way towards her and I hadn't even met her.

As I was too focused to not turning around, Chris nudged me in my side. He told me to turn around and say hi to her. I tried to give him that look like I really can't, but he was very determined that I did. I turned around for split second and saw her beautiful face and body and had to turn back around.

She had long-hair that flowed perfectly a little above her elbows over her tan skin. Her eyes were so sweet and so soft. She was short and came up to about my shoulders, I'm guessing, and had slightly curvy hips. Her pink lips looked so kissable and so great.

It's not that I didn't want to look at her, because trust me she was an amazing sight, but seeing her for those two seconds was irresistible and my wolf was barely hanging at the edge not to come out.

I had a hard time focusing on the map with her in the room.

Finally, her mother told her to go down and start cooking dinner. I was relieved that I didn't have to worry about fucking her right there and then, but also upset she left.