Beyond the Pack

Chapter 3

Mae P.O.V.

Here everyone is. Staring at me. Coach Cam ignores me and goes straight to his office. He has caught lifting by myself many times and he used to care because it is a rule to not train at the school without supervision. Now he doesn’t care, because he knows that I am not going to hurt myself. I am probably one the strongest werewolves in the school, including some of the ranked wolves. 

It's so quiet, with only a few of them whispering. I knew that all the guys were all staring at my a**. When I did squats, I knew I looked good. I have a great body. It’s nice and curvy. I have decent sized breasts, a thin waist, with thick thighs and a nice bubble butt. The constant training that I do only enhanced my already amazing body.

“You know that I am looking into a mirror right?” I say to them, while the weight is still on my back as I get ready to squat down again. “Just because I am not facing you, I can still see you… That’s how mirrors work.”

Some of the male trainees got embarrassed immediately, while many of the females just rolled their eyes from what I can assume is jealousy. 

“You know what you are doing is not that impressive…” I heard one of them say.

Ignoring the comment I rerack my weights and add more. I knew exactly who said that. The Gamma of the Indigo Valley Pack, my pack, Tristan. Says the kid that ran away from me in a fight in middle school because he got hit once or twice. 'Man this guy is one cocky SOB.,’ I think to myself.

Instead of saying anything, I added 20 kilos (about 44 lbs) more weight to the bar and squatted it for 10 reps with ease.

That shut him up and made a few gasp audibly. 

It’s quite unsafe to just add that much more weight to the barbell, but I was still warming up and knew that I could do that weight easily. It was also an added bonus to shut that d*** up too.

Everyone was now starting to lift and a couple of my training friends joined me. Lewis and Lacy Dash. They're twins and their dad is an active guard member while their mom was a chef like mine for the Indigo Valley Pack. That is really how we have gotten to know other well. Then they saw me training all the time we just sorta became fast friends. 

“Way to shut that douche up,” Lewis said grinning.

“It's too bad that he will be a guard with us." Lacy chimes in, "But at least his Dad is still Gamma. I don't know what I'd do if I had to take orders from him."

I glance over at him. He’s lifting with Ben, the Beta's son, and a few other girls (that are probably wanted to sleep with him).

Lacy then adds, “I don’t know how Ben deals with him.”

Ben was quite good-looking that’s for sure. Hazel always had a crush on him, but she would kill me if I told anyone. I get it though he was good-looking and seemed to be nice even though he surrounded himself with idiots. I didn’t understand why he hung out with Tristan.

“Well it must not always be nice to be part of the ranked members. Makes you have to friends with douches,” I say. They both nod their heads in agreement and we continued on with the rest of our training for the day.

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After training Lacy caught up to me as I was getting to my bike, “Hey wait Mae!” She catches her breath and continues to ask “What are we all doing for your big day on Saturday?” 

I smile thinking about turning 18 in just a few hours, “I think I wanna check out that new bar in the Triad? What’s it called again? The Social?”

“Ohhh myyyyy gawdddd. That's great idea!” Lacy squeaks, “Call up Hazel and tell her to meet us at the shopping center in the Triad. We need to go shopping.”

I didn’t necessarily need a new outfit for tomorrow, but I wasn’t going to try and tell Lacy that. She may be a great fighter and total bada**, but she also was a total girly girl. She had great taste so I figured why not, and hopped into their truck after putting my bike in the bed of it.

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We dropped Lewis off at their house and then headed back towards the Triad mall where we found Hazel waiting for us outside with a book in hand. Her hair pulled back into a long ponytail, glasses on, and her scrubs. She was so cute and she didn’t even know it.

‘How does she not have a mate yet?’ I think to myself.

We meet up with her and walk into one of the boutiques where Hazel and I just stood there as Lacy piled a bunch of clothes for us to choose from. I don’t get intimated by anything, but I’ll be honest, it was a bit much.

She then shoves us into the dressing rooms and we start trying on all these different outfits Lacy picked for us.

“So did you guys hear about the ?” Lacy starts gossiping.

“Of course not. You know that you are our main source of gossip.” Hazel says to her through the dressing rooms.

“Well I heard that the long lost Alpha of the Emerald Lake pack is coming back.” She says.

We both gasp quite loudly.

The Emerald Lake’s Alpha has a son that is 22 and a daughter that is 20. We went to school with his daughter, Farah, but she was a few grades ahead of us so we didn’t ever talk to her. From the little I know about her I hear she is pretty and friendly. She went away to college though as she was wanting to more than just sit around in the packhouse all day, and comes back only for holidays. 

Now for his son, Kendrick… The dreamy future alpha. Right before his 18th birthday, he left the pack and went to uncle’s pack outside of the alliance. He hasn’t been back since. There are rumors of course, but no one really knows why. Not even Ben and Tristan, who are ranked werewolves.

“How did you hear this?” I immediately inquire. I was not boy crazed by any means, but with my birthday tomorrow and I will be able to have my mate it does peak my interest. But I won’t let Lacy know that.

Lacy squeals, “Oooo someone wanting the future Alpha already?”

Damn it. Guess I need to be a little more subtle.

I rolled my eyes at her and gestured her with my hand to keep going.

“Well my dad has been working a lot lately, which isn’t unusual. But he just got back from a 3 day stay with our Alpha and Beta at Emerald Lake Pack, which that I thought was odd.”

She’s right. It’s not unusual for ranked members only stay over at the packhouse’s for special occasions, but it is for any of them to be staying at each others that are apart of the alliance because our pack territories are so close. 

Lacy continued as Hazel and I are still trying on different outfits in the dressing rooms, “When he got home last night, he told us that he overheard the Alpha and Beta talking about it in the car while they were driving back.”

The word is that no one has seen Kendrick, 

“Wow so he heard it straight from them. So it’s got to be true.” Hazel says as I hear her opening her dressing room door.

Lacy very loudly then says, “Damn Hazel. That’s it. That’s the one. Don’t even think of not buying it.”

I open my dressing room door and see Hazel in a dark greenish colored dress that wasn’t too formal it was tight to her hips and then loose going to above her knee. The green colored looked so good with her reddish/Auburn colored wavy hair. The dress alone would have been super sexy alone, but of course Hazel had a nice grey cardigan over it that she made sure covered her arms. 

“Haz you look so good! But come on do you have to wear the cardigan?.” Lacy adds.

She starts to stammer out, “Well the dress was a little too much, and I’m still waiting for my mate, and my parents wouldn’t ever let me go out if they say me in just that dress alone, and what if it’s cold in there, and…”

“Girl where the sexy cardi. It’ll just come off anyway because I am sure some hunk of a werewolf is gonna be all over you and you’ll be too hot to keep it on.” I say with a grin.

Hazel immediately went red as Lacy and I chuckle.

Trying to get the attention off of herself Hazel looks at me and says, “Well you are one to talk… look at you.”

Lacy adds, “Yeah girl. Even if you don’t find your mate tomorrow. Some lucky guy is gonna shag a 10.”

I look at the mirror and smile as I loved the outfit that Lacy threw together for me. Black skinny jeans with a few holes, a tight light pink shirt with a v-neck that accentuated my cleavage perfectly, with a grey leather jacket. I look like a badass, but the shirt made me look feminine all at the same time. Lacy truly had a gift.

“Ha oh no I will be shagging no one tomorrow.” I chuckled out not blushing at all. I was used to Lacy’s crass humor and I loved it. She was the perfect compliment to Hazel and me. 

“Well that is unless you find your mate….” Lacy threw back at me.

Well that did it… For one of the very few times in my life. Lacy got me to blush.

After all the shopping we did, we grabbed something to eat before going home. Then they dropped me off at my house. I loved my house. My parents did a great job of making a little cottage so homey. My mom had a big green thumb and she planted tons of flowers all in the front of the house. She made sure she had smaller flowers lining the pathway to the front door with two big rose bushes right on either side of the front door. The rose bushes were my favorite.

By the time I got inside, my parents were both watching a movie. I exchanged a few words with them, said our goodnights, and went off to my room with my clothes for tomorrow. I couldn’t help but lay in bed struggling to close my eyes knowing that everything could change tomorrow. As excited as I was to gain my wolf and hopefully show how I belong as a true warrior, I was nervous. I wanted a mate, but I kind of wanted to have some time with just my wolf and myself. I liked how Hazel was able to figure out herself before getting swept away by her mate, even though I know she disagrees with me. I finally close my eyes hoping that tomorrow won’t be too eventful.