He let Alpha Gretta know that he was back and then made his way to his dorm, Audrey was all smiles the minute the door was closed behind them, “I’ve missed you.” she murmured softly “Did you miss, me?”
Did he miss her? The answer was actually no, he’d not had a moment’s peace since he’d gotten home, and shit had hit the fan, and he’d had other, more important things to do from the moment Ori had gone rogue. So no, he had not missed her at all.
“Audrey.” He’d looked at her. “I’m not in the mood.”
“I could take your mind off your troubles.” She smiled at him “For many hours.” She slid a hand up his arm and he’d sighed. She probably could, if he felt what she did, but he didn’t feel all those tingles of a mate bond on his skin as she’d told him she did.
“I’m sorry Audrey.” He shook his head “I’m just not in the mood.” And he really wasn’t either.
She pouted at him near instantly, but then nodded “Alright, I understand. I’ll stay with you though, keep you company. You’ll sleep better with me next to you.”
He sighed just a little, for he might well do, so just nodded his head and sank down. She was right there next to him, all leaned into him. “It’ll be alright you know, Slade. Your family, her family, they will find her, and bring her back to the pack.”
“I don’t know about that to be honest. It’s so screwed up.”
“She’s just angry and hurt. Needs time to sort through her feelings is all. She might come back on her own, given a few days away from the pack. We girls are complicated, and highly strung at times.”
He could see that Audrey was trying to be supportive and comforting at the same time. She was happy to have him back and he knew it. She sat with him all afternoon, went to dinner with him and chatted away with his and her friends like nothing was wrong.
Everything here at Alpha College was completely normal and unchanged, he felt out of place almost, knowing what was going on with his own pack and life, that everyone around him was fine and all good.
Two Alphas had even paired up on the full moon, and they seemed happy about it, though they weren’t yet marked and mated, not allowed until that mating alliance was drawn up and signed by all parties; the young Alphas and both their parents.
Though from what he was seeing of the pair of them they were all hot and heavy, and keeping them apart was a bit of an issue. He saw a few days later that they were actually given permission by all the parties involved to go and mate at will, but had to keep the bands on, so there was no actually Marking until the official paperwork was attended to.
But sex was now allowed, because it was becoming a bit of a nightmare keeping them apart. They were Alpha-blooded wolves mated to each other, and they were happy about it, wanting to be together, and their need to claim each other was high. Being kept apart was causing fights to break out when they were being separated from each other.
Both parents and the council agreed that letting them Mate at will would resolve the issue and cause less injury to those trying to separate them.
Audrey had giggled about it once back in his dorm room and told him “That will be us in a few weeks.” She’d not once left his side since he’d gotten back, had pretty much taken up residence in his dorm room.
He’d woken up on more than one occasion with her mouth going to town on him, getting him all hard and hot and bothered, and he’d let her, used the sex as a distraction from his own thoughts. So that, for a few hours a day, he didn’t think about Ori and the reports he was getting from Palmer and Yuri, that told him they were no closer to finding her.
Though they’d managed to get a clearer picture of her now at the airport under full lighting, the one on the pack road where there were no actual lights, didn’t give a great amount of clarity at night in the dark, they’d seen the suitcase, and she’d appeared to have her hair pulled up as always. Because none of them had seen it flowing down her back.
He’d not even noticed that she’d gotten a new haircut, being that it was dark on that forest-lined road. He’d had to put a call into Lindal when he’d heard what was going on, and she’d told him, ‘Yes, I dyed it when she asked me to, after she just hacked it all off herself that night, I even fixed the haircut. A new hairstyle for a new start.’
Slade had sighed, and not really said much, Ori had well and truly gone out of her way to hide herself, though knowing she had a new haircut and what colour it was, blonde with purple highlights, had made it easier for their tech guys to go back through the airport footage once more and hunt her down. They got to see her walk the entire airport and then not come out of a gate at all.
That gate had two planes leave from it within 15 minutes of her strolling in there, Boston, Massachusetts and Lansing, Michigan, so at least they now had some idea where she was, on the east side of the country. Their search now had some sort of location to it, though the tech’s were now checking flight manifests for her name, to find out just where she had gone. The camera angle in the airport hadn’t actually been the best, had shown the gate but not a clear defined angle of the gangways, to see which flight she’d actually gotten on.
He found himself in bed with Audrey a few days prior to the full moon, and she was not only all over him, and aggressive in the mating of him but begging him to claim her. The full moon was only 4 days away, and she was really riding the hell out of him, kind of holding him down even, screaming his name. It seemed to him that her needs were ever-increasing, and she was getting out of control in her need to sate herself.
He saw those fangs of hers elongate as she looked down at him, at his neck to be precise, and he realised she was about to Mark him and Claim him for herself. Hail snarled inside his mind and his hands shot up and out to stop her. His own wolf pushed forward and halted Audrey in her claiming of him.
She was suddenly screaming at him, in a full fury for his stopping of her, for not letting her claim what was hers. He’d yelled right back at her about not scenting her to get the hell off of him. He had shoved her off of him, right off the damned bed even, and she’d gotten up and launched herself right at him all aggression, and a fight broke out between them as she tried to Claim him, and he tried to stop her.
Both he and Hail had to actively roll their aura at her with all they had to get her to back the hell off, and step away from them, make those fangs of hers retract. He stood there fully ticked off. “I don’t scent you.” he’d told her “There will be no claiming until I do.”
She’d burst into tears and started sobbing, “You don’t want me.” She’d sobbed and fled his dorm room completely naked.
He’d actually walked over to his door and closed it, made sure the lock was firmly engaged, then had just gone and sat on the edge of his bed and stared at the door, kind of couldn’t really believe what had just happened. It was only four days to the full moon, it wasn’t that hard to wait for it.
‘Tried to mate us.’ Hail snarled at him, sounding very unhappy.
‘Could well have mated herself to us.’ Slade had muttered right back. ‘Just not marked us is all.’ This was not good. He knew he had to find out, but also didn’t think that it was wise to hunt her down right this very minute either, she needed to calm herself down.
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