I should be your Beta, not your Mate

2 - »Those eyes...«

I knocked on the door to the classroom because I was already too late but didn't expect any »Come in«. It was just too loud for that. Even a human with a deaf-aid would hear them.

Sighing, I just opened the door and almost immediately a paper ball hit my head. Great!

The whole class instantly shut their mouths because of my silent glare. It was so silent that you could hear cricket's chirp.

For a moment, I closed my eyes before I met eyes with the young teacher. He stood behind his desk and seemed like he did try to silence the students but failed.

»Can I help you?« His pissed voice hit a nerve that I swallowed because I was already used to it. »I'm new in this class.«

Confused, he frowned after my monotonous answer and looked at his papers. »Well, you can't really call yourself new,« he mumbled with lifted eyebrows. »But so be it, you can sit down in the first row, there should be something free.«

I nodded and went to my old table – the only free one I saw in the first row. There were a few free desks in the back but I preferred the first row over sitting close to Cassian. The sitting order had just changed in a few places but mostly it was the same as two years ago.

I leaned my guitar case against the wall and sat down at the table for two.

The teacher was new to me because I only knew an old man teaching math. But surprisingly he could teach really well. He conveyed the information understandable, something that not every teacher could do. He had talent – with small faults.

I didn't smell him in class.

His scent was indeed inside this room but it had faded. Probably from yesterday or a few days ago. Lucky for me.

However, I already saw Kate and Lucien when I entered the classroom. And now I could feel their eyes on my back. They almost burned them into me. Mostly the ready to attack look from Kate.

They probably smelled my scent and figured out I was one of them but for them I was a foreign wolf.

In my time in Canada, I was a member of their pack and until my Alpha here accepted me again, I would stay being a part of the Canadian pack – or with some time I would be a wolf without a pack.

As discussed before my time abroad, the Alpha here would accept me the minute I stood in front of his home. Only one look from him would be enough to accept me again.

How it really worked was too complicated to explain. The easier explanation was that it was kind of an invisible bond that he grabbed and tied to him and connected it to the other pack members.

But even if they thought I was a wolf of another pack; I would act dumb if they tried talking to me.

Both of them were in contact with Cassian. I didn't want to risk that he immediately knew of my return. Just for today. Just so, I could return home in peace.

After three long hours the bell finally rang and started the first break. I was one of the first to leave the classroom. It was 11 o' clock because school in this town started pretty late, but I liked it like this. The morning was easier this way.

I didn't come far when a hand grabbed my shoulder.

»What are you doing in our territory, foreign wolf?!« Kate growled and squeezed my shoulder harder. So hard that I could hear it crack and a piercing pain filled my shoulder. Goddammit, her grip!

Expressionless, hiding the pain I just felt because of her, I looked down at her hand and then in her blue eyes.

Just play the pain in your shoulder cool, Kyran, I talked good to myself.