My Mate

I dont want a mate!

Fear.. It gripped at me, causing me to jerk up in my bed. Cold sweat ran down my face as I turned to look at the clock. Great. 4:30 in the morning, I thought to myself. Not wanting to go back to sleep, I crawled out of bed and made my way to my bathroom for a shower. Quickly getting that out of the way, I put on my training pants and a tank top and I headed straight for the training area. The training area in itself is about the size of two football fields. It has every work out stuff you could think of, from two track fields, a large pool, and a gym. Knowing that I only had about an hour and a half before the real trainers got there, I turned on the bluetooth speaker and turned up the music, then I started running. I wanted to beat my record of running 8 miles in 30 minutes. Halting after, my time went off, I took a deep breath and looked at my tracker. 8 miles in 32.4 minutes. Taking a few more breaths, I headed over to the gym. Picking up the 30lbs for each hand, I began lifting them above my head, then straight out at eye level. After finishing my reps for the day, I turned off the Bluetooth and headed out the doors, just in time, because as I was leaving I ran into the still-in-training soldiers and among them were my brothers.

Jayden patted my head when he saw me with a grin. "aren't you on breakfast duty today?" rolling my eyes, I smacked his hand away just to hear Michael grumble "dont burn it this time" Giving him a smug look, I turned to the youngest of the boys' Chance. He was a man of few words and always handed me a wooden carving of a wolf. " Thanks Chance, it's beautiful", nodding his head, he moved forward to catch up with the rest. Watching them goof-off then quickly change to serious was entertaining, to say the least. Leaving them be, I began my walk back home.

As I was talking about the grounds, taking the long way, I was stopped by one of our soldier scouts whom I might add was pretty handsome to look at. "Your father wants you to meet him at his office in five minutes to discuss business", without waiting for my response, he turned on his heels and went back to work. Great, I thought, what have I done this time to be requested by my old man? Not wanting to keep him waiting, I quickened my steps and I went to my father's office door. Knocking on the door, I waited until I heard him say come in, when I opened the door. I stepped in, I found my father sitting behind his big stained oak wood desk that was just covered in paper, even more on the floor.

"Sarah, good you're here. We need to have a talk about your new training which starts after you leave here!" Confused and excited by this, I sat on the leather chair that was in front of his desk "Are you finally going to let me train with the other soldiers to fight?" He put down the paper work that was in his hands and looks at me with a disappointing look, with a big sigh his just simply says no. Rolling my eyes, I sat all the way back while he began to explain "As of today you will be training to be a proper lady. In a week is your eighteenth birthday, also the day you shift and find your mate. Now I could have started this a year ago, but you are a fast learner, so I didn't."

Inraged by this, I stood up from my seat and glared at him. "I will not! You know I could care less about finding a mate, I'd rather train every day until I find that Beast." I spat that last word out with such rage and disgust that I got lost in thought only to be snapped out of it by my father's first on the desk. "You will listen and you will obey an order from your beta!" he yelled at me "Now Celi is outside waiting for you, not another word unless its yes sir! Am I clear?" Did.. did my father just pull rank on me! Growling now, I turned and left the room with the bang of the door closing behind me.

Upon leaving the room, I was greeted by a smiling 5'6 slim woman. "Hello Sarah! So glad we can be hanging out this week". I just stared at her, seeing how chipper she was, I knew I'd want to knock her out before the week was over. As we began walking, she just talked on and on. "First we will need to learn to dance and how to walk like a graceful woman. We will also need to work on applying make-up and fixing your hair." I paused for a second before asking why dancing, which was a mistake. "Because silly girl, three of the most awful alphas and their clans are coming here on business and then to celebrate an alliance with us! I heard one of the Alpha still hasn't found his mate and was handsome like a god!" She was cheering like a high school girl on the inside and out.

An alliance, huh, I wonder why. Is it because of the attack 11 years ago, and if so, why now? Then I groaned, It was my father playing match maker. After my dad became the new beta, we moved to the house pack, so when we reached my door, Celi stopped talking and just grinned. Quickly opening my door to see that it had been changed! My bed was replaced with a king-sized bed, a flat screen TV and couch replaced where my workout bench was. My computer had flowers all over it, and the smell of roses was so thick it could kill! "What the actual hell happened to my room!" Celi giggled and ran past me to my closet, opening it to reveal my clothes were also changed. There were dresses and formal wear, everything a proper lady wears. "Celi, where are my clothes? how am I supposed to train in these?" I cried out. Celi rolled her eyes at me. "Your father's orders were that you would not be trained like boys. By Friday I will have you looking and acting like a lady! You will turn every head in this pack by the time I am done." with that she left the room with a pep in her step, leaving me there confused, angry and finally defeated. Why is the old man doing this to me?