The Alpha's Hybrid Luna

Voice in my Head

-- Todd

That had gone so much better than I'd hoped. I knew wolf law would hold him to the challenge, but I thought that he'd just forfeit since we were on human territory. I'd never head of a counter-challenge before, but whatever he said was definitely legit because I could feel the magic of wolf law lift the barrier that it'd placed around us for the initial challenge. 

You got lucky.

I don't think so, Gunner. I think this is the moon goddess' way of giving retribution. 

*huff*

I mean it, Gunner! You know how much losing our pack broke us. My dad is still a shadow of the man he once was. And now with no pack, we were forced to live among the humans for our own protection. 

No, this is more than luck. Who would have known that the human school I chose would be the same one that, that scum Landon Achilles would be at? This was the moon goddess' doing. She wanted my family to do well just as much as I did. She wanted revenge for me and I was going to take it. Landon's counter challenge was even better than I would've dreamed to ask for. I hadn't anticipated just how much of my strength it would take to beat him. I'd managed to knock him down a couple of times but I could feel that he was barely using his wolf strength with me and I was tapping mine completely out. This new counter-challenge would give me the time I needed to get strong enough to beat him and the right to his lune. What an i***t. I'd already found my mate, but she wasn't loyal. She rejected me shortly after we were banished, but I hadn't accepted it then. Now with the promise of the luna destined to run Black Forest, I would accept my own mate's rejection. It didn't matter what she looked like, she was bound to be strong. I'd gotten some distance away from Landon when I felt a familiar feeling. 

Is Michaela here Gunner? 

That's not our mate. 

Are you sure? I feel her?

No. You feel Landon's mate. He offered her to you in the counter challenge. We can sense who she is as mate, but she isn't bound to us yet. 

If the gorgeous girl coming out on the field with think jet black curls pulled in a high bun was supposed to be Landon's mate, I'd accept Michaela's rejection for sure. I actually had seen her before. I helped her move a big box in her dorm but I guess I'm just sensing her now because of the counter challenge. She had curves for days and I would gladly take her as mine. She'd be a gorgeous luna. Landon got up just after me and I saw the familiar realization of sensing your mate for the first time. 

Well, that's interesting. He hasn't seen her before. Sucks to be him right now. 

I will NOT mark her. She is not our mate. 

I didn't ask you. And you'll do whatever the heck I tell you. She's not ours yet, but she will be. You'll see. 

*huff*

Stupid wolf. I was getting tired of him huffing at me. Before I could say so, he shut me out. 

"Hi Laya, I see you found me!" Her eyes quickly found mine and she waved. Her smile was genuine but I could see some confusion in her eyes as she looked at me and then Landon, who'd now snapped his head towards me and was baring his canines. 

"Whoa boy. Not in front of the humans ... remember?" I grinned.

It's normal to be territorial for your mate but looks like he was willing to collar himself for the sake of not outing us as werewolves and causing a scene. Lucky for me, I was holding the leash. I wanted to jog towards her and poke at him a bit more, but Gunner was pushing hard against me, so I just went into the locker rooms. We had 30 days until the next challenge. And I already had the upper hand with Laya. We'd already met and I knew where her dorm was. I don't remember smelling a wolf scent on her when we'd met before, so whoever already had a connection with her was going to have the upper hand. So good luck with Landon trying to woo her to be his in a month. Ha, this really had to be the moon goddess. I was definitely grateful. 

-- Laya

"And this is the actual stadium. I figured it'd be best to end here so the new girls could see our field and get a glimpse of our guys as they leave." Terra finished in her stereotypically obnoxious cheerleader voice. 

She was literally the type of girl that always made me rethink my decision to go into cheerleading and not just stay in gymnastics. My parents had made me make a choice between the two when I was in middle school. I figured cheerleading included gymnastics and dance, so I'd gone with it. But the stereotypes were beyond annoying and Terra fit them all perfectly. This was yet another reason why transferring to a new school in my senior year was not a good idea. I was grateful that a school would take me so late in my degree program, but it seemed I plead my case before the board of deans showing all that I'd had to do to get away from my crazy ex-boyfriend. I really didn't want my education to be another thing he could take away from me. I'd worked to hard to have to drop out. So whatever school would take me so late in the game was as good as any. 

Terra had just mentioned the football team still being on the field, but it looked like they were all heading in. All except one and I was not mad. This gorgeous freaking adonis was standing near the middle of the field with shoulders broad enough that I'm sure he didn't need any padding. Even with the scruffy beard on his face I could tell his jawline was perfectly square. He had a broad nose with eyes that were so gray, they were almost silver. His eyes looked like he was wearing eyeliner and lash extensions. Geesh. A girl could get lost in eyes like those. Why was he so fine? No men! You did not come here for a man. Get it together. 

MATE.

What the heck? Talking to myself has gone to a new low. Why did it real deal feel like I'd heard another voice in my head? I didn't though, right? Wait ... is he looking at me? Before I could really think about how hard my stomach was flipping or the look that the adonis seemed to be giving me, I heard a vaguely familiar voice call my name. 

"Hi Laya, I see you found me!"

It was the guy from the other day. My mom had sent me a care package that turned out to weigh a ton. He was in the mailroom when I went in and I asked if he'd help take it to my dorm. He was pretty tall, maybe 6'2 or so with dirty blonde hair and scary green eyes. I had been shamelessly batting my eyes and flirting with him at the time then, but he definitely didn't seem as interested then as he does right now. I wonder if that had anything to do with my adonis ...

"Hi" I waved. He had been cute and all, but there was something about this new mystery man that wiped all my memory reserves clean. His name definitely was popping up in my head but I was proud of myself for the one coherent word that I did get out. No sooner than I'd said it though, my adonis' head snapped around towards cute mailroom blonde. I couldn't see his facial expression, but I could feel the tension in his body. I don't know what I just walked into but that kind of aggression was a major red flag and immediately made me think of my ex. They clearly had some kind of feud or something between them because while the tension coming off of angry adonis' body could almost be felt in the air, cute mailroom blonde seemed to soak it up with a smirk. Then he did something strange and bent his neck with his eyes down. I feel like I've seen that before but from an animal. Day 6 of the new school and I was already thinking I should've just taken the job at my dad's office and forgotten about the degree altogether. 

"Eyes over here new girl." Terra snapped. 

My eyes darted back towards her because she was clearly talking to me. All the other girls were old squad members and I'm pretty sure she didn't think the freshmen were even worth her time in addressing. 

She finished, "I don't know who you're looking at, but they're both taken. Trish called dibs on Todd and Landon is mine. Capiche?"

Ugh, was this my life now? 

"Umm, yea. I'm not interested." 

"I didn't ask if you were interested, new girl." Terra glared as she enunciated much too clearly. 

"It's Laya." I scoffed. I know I just needed to finish school, but this chick didn't know me. If she tried me one more time, I was going to beat the bricks off her and gladly walk my behind back to my dorm to pack up and go. 

"Well, Laya," she enunciated my name with a nasty tone, "I was only saying that I wasn't accusing you of having in interest. I just wanted to make sure it was clear that they were attached. We're all sisters here and of course we have girl code. Right?" her head c****d to the sign with a strained sign of innocence and ignorance. But I knew what she'd meant. I'm just glad my tone was strong enough to let her know what I meant. That's all that really mattered. I just wanted to finish school and I know I needed this scholarship to help me do that. 

"Sure Terra. I definitely wouldn't want to go against girl code." I'd already made the mental decision not to mess with either guy without Terra butting in, but I didn't trust her enough to mention it. I was definitely hot for the adonis but had thought against it when I saw the anger in him. Darren, my ex-boyfriend,  had an anger problem that ignored. Until he smacked me one day. It wasn't hard enough to cause major damage, but it was hard enough to make me get the heck out of that relationship. I felt so stupid for ignoring all the signs and even taking him back after he'd cheated. But that slap was the last straw. I went on with life as usual until he started stalking me. The stalking was hella creepy and annoying, but still harmless, right? Wrong. I came home from school one day with a broken lock on my door and a ransacked apartment. He'd posted pictures of us all over my apartment with big Xs over my face. Darren seemed to always get away from the law so the restraining order wasn't enough, I had to get away. I'd been on the academic Bright Future's scholarship and one for cheering to just barely cover tuition at my last school and that was without living on campus. If I was going to live on campus for safety, I knew I absolutely needed to keep this cheering scholarship too. I'd gone through much with Darren to let another bearded face and broad shoulders screw it up. 

"Um, Terra ... ? I've been really trying to hold it, but I've got to pee so bad. How much longer are we going to be out here?" one of the freshmen girls asked. I didn't remember her name, but I reminded myself to thank her for getting the attention off of me. 

"No, that's it out here. We're actually going to go inside so everyone can get their practice schedules and we can make sure we take measurements for everyone's uniforms."

As we turned to go, I noticed the adonis take a step forward, almost as if he was going to follow. Until now, I hadn't realized that he'd only moved to glare at cute mailroom blonde, but why? I know I said I wasn't going to ignore the red flag, but I had this weird feeling when I looked at him. He was angry at the other guy, but his eyes looking at me were calming. It was like they calmed this weird itchy feeling I had. His eyes seemed like they held so much anger, so why did it seem like their thundering gray stare would quiet all the storms in me? I had to remind myself that Terra, Ms. Mean Girl 2000, also had claimed him. Either way the pendulum swung, my beautiful adonis he was trouble for sure. It was definitely time to get away from his penetrating gaze. But as I walked away, I would've sworn I heard a dog whimper in my head. As weird as it sounds, that whimper sounded like the voice I'd heard earlier. I might have to move my next therapy session up sooner, cause I was clearly trippin. There was a freaking voice in my head.