Mates Next Door

~ASTRA~ Growing up, I never led a normal life. My parents were banished from the Lupine Brotherhood Pack after it was discovered that my mother was a vampire and I, a Hybrid. It had been an issue of luck because we all would have been dead if my father didn't plead for us to leave for the human realm and never return again. So now, living in Jacksonville, New York, all the essence of being a hybrid almost gone, we had to mingle with humans and also avoid being attacked by the Agents who were werewolf hunters. At twenty, I was a third year student at NYU. A horny, s*x craving student and I knew why. It was the full moon today and on every full moon, I was filled with the insatiable desire to be ravished by more than one man. More than two, even. I anticipated nightfall as it was the only time I could indulge in my odd fantasies and dream of faceless men ravishing my body and calling me their own. "Astra!" I snapped out of my thoughts and turned to look at my best friend, Valerie. "Y-yes?" "What the hell are you thinking about again?" Valerie frowned at me. "Were you even listening to what I was saying?" "I'm sorry. I've been thinking of our new project. It's been the talk of the week." She smirked and bit her lower lip. "Guess what is the talk of the whole week in the whole of NYU?" Rolling my eyes, I stifled a frustrated groan. "I have no guesses." She leaned towards me and pulled me close so the other students eating before us in the school's cafeteria wouldn't hear us. It wasn't like they could anyway. NYU was populated by humans. "We have three transfer students and they'll be arriving today after lunch!" "And so?" I replied, sounding rather uninterested as I kept squirming and trying to pacify the pleasure build up between my legs. "They're quite popular, c'mon!" She hit my hand. "I heard they were removed from their old college because they brutally assaulted a lecturer." I gazed at her in horror. "So why the f**k are they coming here instead of going to a prison or an asylum?" "According to gossip, they have extremely rich parents. They were able to pull them out of a lawsuit and they're here under the watch of our department's dean." "They better not assault him too," I replied, sounding rather unimpressed. "They don't belong here." "But they're god-level hot. Do you want to see a photo of the three of them?" "No. I couldn't care less." Pushing to my feet, I grabbed my tote bag. "I'll be going to the library to start my project. Have fun." She scrunched her nose up at me. Ignoring her, I began to walk out of the cafeteria. She had no idea what it was like to be a student whose parents couldn't afford her school fees due to hardship. Valeria's parents were well to do and she got whatever she wanted. But I didn't have that privilege. "Oh my God!" Someone screamed in the cafeteria. "Here they are!" The whole cafeteria fell into commotion. Turning, I craned my neck to see what it was that was driving them mad but they had all crowded among a group of people I couldn't even see. I was more disappointed to see the jocks from the basketball team pushing past students to get to them like they were celebrities. "I hate humans." I huffed and made my way over to the library, the only place where I felt like I could be myself, listening to every sound, smelling everything and moving with great speed from one empty column to the other. I was halfway into reading when I heard the library door click open. Snapping my head up, I felt suddenly aware. I was usually the only one at the library during lunch break. So who the hell was here? The door clicked shut and all of a sudden, the room became tense. Goosebumps raised on my skin and the little hairs at the back of my head pricked up in alert. But I remained planted in my seat, waiting for whoever it was to show their face. Whoever had walked in wasn't just anyone. And out of the corner, a tall figure dressed in earth tones appeared, looking like he was a character that jumped out of a novel. He was the perfect description of a handsome young man. A shock of flaxen hair that glinted under the light, razor-sharp jaw that competed with that of Adonis and a build that was only meant for the camera. But here he was in this library, looking through books and dressed like a student from dark academia. He looked like he smelled: coffee, earthy fragrance and books, like unspoken words and woven desires. Mylena, my wolf, began to act up. It wasn't odd. She was always this way when she saw an attractive man on the full moon. So I ignored the feeling. After today, the feeling was going to pass. I snapped my head back to my book when he caught me looking at him, feeling suddenly aware of him. My core clenched and I found myself biting into my lips to fight the moan that threatened to escape my throat. I wanted him. I wanted him so bad and I didn't mind what it was going to take to get him I was never a bold girl but today, and out of nowhere, I was filled with so much confidence that had me pushing to my feet and walking over to where he stood, reading a book. Stopping before him, I tilted my head and took him in. My body sang with desire, with the primal need for this young man standing before me. "Hey." I called and he looked down at me, weakening me to the knees with his vivid green eyes. He raised a brow in askance. "Kiss me." "The f**k?" He frowned in surprise. But there was no time for that. Cupping his cheek, I leaned up to his tall frame and pressed my lips into his. Right now, I wasn't in my right senses. I was being pushed by Mylena and my stupid, stupid need to be ravished by this man and maybe two more others. He pushed me off him and just when I thought he was going to cuss me out, he grabbed me by the waist, pulled me off the floor before crashing his lips into mine. A moan escaped my throat and I arched towards him, pressing my breasts against his chest, kissing and plunging into the depths of him. He felt the same way he smelled and looked, and my heart sang with gladness. I didn't realise that the joy in my heart was a budding feeling that slowly bonded us together until he cupped my breasts. Mark me! Mylena cried from within me. I pushed him off me, my back hitting the bookshelf behind me. Books toppled my feet but that did not matter, because standing right before me with glowing amber eyes was my... "Mate." He breathed out. "You're my mate!”