The First One

Chapter 3: My Mate

Aiden Scott’s P.O.V

Another lonely day, waking up alone without someone by my side. Being an alpha of such a big pack as mine is hard without a partner beside me. 

My wolf, Luke, has been anxious for the past two weeks like he’s telling something big will happen soon. I just hope it’s a good thing for me and my pack. I don’t want war or rogues coming in my territory to cause damage. I want everything to be calm as it is now. In the past, we had too many misfortune many wanted to take down my pack but I didn’t let that happen. I made a promise to never let my pack down no matter what.

I don’t think it’s something bad that is since I’ve been dreaming of this woman with the prettiest eyes I have ever seen in my life, blue like the ocean. It’s maybe a sign that I could be meeting my mate soon. But what bugs me the most of these dreams is that I can’t see her face clearly. I don’t think I know her from what I tell by her eyes. It could be my mate as I think but I can’t really know if it. Would I meet her soon like my feeling are saying or I will have to wait like I have been doing for the past few years? Is she far or near? She could be from a pack on the other side of the world from what I know. 

I’ve been visiting neighbour packs to see if I could find something but found nothing.    

In my dreams, I’m in a big crowd looking for someone when I finally see her far from me in the huge crowd and the only thing I can see clearly are her eyes, nothing else not even the other persons who are from the crowd just her blue eyes. 

*

I became alpha of this pack a little after I turned 18 years old when my parents were killed by rogues. 

Everyone is in the packhouse there’s a party, we’re enjoying the party and we then hear the siren that alerts that we are under attack. My dad started shouting orders, warriors and men that are in the packhouse prepare to fight. Outside everyone ready to fight. Women already knew where to go with the kids and elders in those cases so they all directed the elders and kids to the safe room. My dad approaches me with my mom and he grabs my face with both of his hands to make me look at him directly in the eyes. “Aiden goes to the secure room in our secret location, don’t get out of there no matter what. You have to stay there until everyone passes, promise me you will be safe no matter what happens.”

“No dad let me go with you, I have to be by your side. Let me help you.”

“No Aiden! Do as I say. We can’t risk you to son. Promise me you will do what I just told you. Promise me, son.”

“O..okay dad but please stay safe you too mom. I love you both.” They both look at me like it was our last time seeing each other like it was our goodbye. What I didn’t know is that it was our goodbye, the last time I will be seeing them.

My parents were actually expecting this, we have received many letters and warnings that they were after the pack and mostly my parents. My dad gets envied a lot, having created the strongest pack in this country at such a young age. I want to be as good as he is, I want to become the greatest leader as he is. I admire my dad so much like many others.

I turn to get to our secret location when suddenly I get back to give my parents a hug and telling them that I love them. 

In the secure room, I lock myself in and tell my parents through our mind link that I’m safe and locked in the room. I then feel them blocking me. This feels like a nightmare, I don’t want anything to happen to them. I’m scared. I wish I could do something. 

Around two hours later, I feel empty, like I just lost a part of myself. The bond that I have with my parents just broke, I don’t feel any of them. I just don’t get anything from them. I try to communicate with my dad nothing and I do the same with my mom and still nothing. I fall on the floor, I don’t want to be what I think it is. 

I just lost the most important persons in my life and I couldn’t do anything about it and that breaks me. They’re gone, I’m left alone.

Somebody is trying to mind link me so I let them in. “Aiden!” It’s Max the beta’s son and a future beta of this pack. 

“Tell me what’s going on, Max.” I just want to know more about what it’s going on. 

“Aiden we need you here, your parents died they didn’t survive. My dad is gravely injured and there are warriors injured as well and some dead. There was a lot of damage. This is the worst I have seen. Where are you? I will come where you are.”

“Are you in the pack? I will come if you’re not there go there and gather everyone there at the back of it.” 

“Sure”

I finally get to the packhouse and I see some pack members already gather there at the back. I look up at the stage and see Max, Alexander, Mike and Cameron there. I walk up to them, some pack members looking at me as I passed them. 

Today became the worst day of my 18 years of life. It became my worst nightmare.

*

I’m currently looking out the window of my room seeing pups and their mothers playing and enjoying the day and some warriors training. “Aiden I need to talk to you.” Max's mind links me. 

I start to get ready for my day. “Okay let’s see each other in my office in ten.”

“Alright.”

I finish getting ready and get out of my bedroom. “Good morning Alpha.” Lily, the mate of Nick the head warrior, a recent addition to the pack. She is from one of the neighbouring pack and allies pack. “Good morning Lily.” I nod at her. I continue my way to my office.  

Entering my office I see that Max is already there. “Good morning Alpha!” “Good morning, what did you want to tell me?” 

“Well as you know, the Moon Shine pack is having a mating ceremony next week, you know where your dad had met your mom and I thought...” I cut him off. “Stop with that! I’m more than fine as I am right now. I don’t need some random female to become my mate, I’m waiting for the one who is fated for me. Even if I’m 25 soon 26, I still want to wait for mine. Look at you, you found yours a little more than a year ago. You may be two years younger than me but it still took time for you to find yours.” “I know but the pack needs a Luna and you know that.” 

I sight and sit in my office chair. “I know but I will wait. Let’s make a deal if within a year I don’t find her I will have a ceremony here and I will choose one who suits to be the luna of this pack. Deal?”

“Deal!”

We start working on some papers we didn’t finish last night. “So how’s Catherine?” “She’s good but I feel miserable without her by my side.” 

“Well don’t worry you will be seeing her this weekend.”

“Yeah but two days a week is not enough.”

“At least you see her, not like me I don’t have anything.”

“My bad, sorry. She’s been talking about how she met a new student that just moved from Canada. In these few weeks, they have become close to what she told me.” 

“Well, I’m glad for her.” Catherine Smith is Max’s mate he found her a few months ago. He is the happiest werewolf since he met her. 

A werewolf’s mate is a big deal in our world. They are everything, we could do everything for them. As the years pass human mates have become more common. In my pack, we have a few members who are humans and I’m thankful that my pack members have been open about it. It’s great to see humans being accepting of us too and becoming a part of us. 

Us high positioned werewolves we can’t have human mates because a beta's mate or an alpha's mate should be a strong she-wolf who would help and support their mate and the pack members. I don’t really think it matters but that is what the Moon Goddess had decided. 

a few months later

For the past few months, I’ve been having the same dream again and again but haven’t made any progress. My dream keeps being the same one and I still don’t see anything else apart from her blue eyes. I’ve been visiting many neighbour packs for some clues but nothing. I’m starting to lose hope. 

It makes me wonder if I do have a mate or if she maybe died. That thought makes my heart ache so much, I don’t want that to even be an option but do to the circumstance it makes me believe the worst. 

It’s already the month of June and I started having those dreams in December, it’s already been 7 months and still nothing. 

Today the werewolves who were in high school will finally be back from their school dormitory because Riverland high is at an hour's drive from here. It’s the nearest high school and it’s where werewolves can study since there is a teacher who are werewolves themself. In that school, they are obviously humans but not that many. 

My beta is super excited since his mate will be back permanently instead of just the weekend. How she’s still in high school at 19 years old well it’s simple she missed a school year when her mom died but thankfully she is better now. 

Today is the graduation ceremony so the students will be back soon. 

“Jeez come down, Max you’re worst that a little girl.” I roll my eyes at him. He doesn’t stay calm, he is walking from one side to the other in my office. It’s making me dizzy. Please send some help Moon Goddess. 

Suddenly there’s this amazing smell coming from outside my office door. The door of my office then opens and there enters Catherine, Max’s mate and beta female of the pack. Wait what? How is this smell coming from her? She is mated. Maybe it could be from one of her friends. I haven’t seen her much since the winter break that students have in December so it may be what I’m suggesting. 

Max turns to look at the door. “Babe there you are!” He runs to her and gives her a big hug, he’s probably crushing her. Why that smell comes from Catherine? “How was the ceremony?” He looks at her with the biggest smile.

She smiles at me. “Nice to see you alpha.” She then looks at Max and replies to his question. “It was good babe, everything was so beautiful and I got to be with all my friends.” She has a big smile on her face.

“Catherine”

“Yes alpha?”

“Is there one of your friends that doesn’t have a mate? When you came in the office there was this amazing smell coming from you and it still is but it’s faint. I know it’s not from you obviously but it could be from one of your friends who’s not from the pack.” I look at her with a serious face not because I’m mad at her it’s because I could be near my mate and that is a serious matter.

“Well from my close group of friends there are two that are from the River Stone pack and one is from the Black River pack but they all have mates. The others are from this pack and are four of them. Three of them have mates and one doesn’t have a mate but she’s already 18 years old so you would have already know if she was your mate. There’s another one but she’s not really of options so...” Max and her are looking at me with sadness, they both know how much I crave for my mate.  

“Tell me the name of the one that doesn’t have a mate to go confirm if she is my mate or not. And why do you say the other one is not an option? Everyone right now is an option.” I get near her desperate for answers.

She looks at Max. “She’s the one that I’ve told you about, the one that came from Canada.” She then turns to me. “She can’t be an option because she’s a human. That’s why I said that. I’m sorry alpha but I don’t think it’s someone from my close group of friends. I may have been a student that was in the graduation ceremony but they were too many students there near me to tell who it could have been. Sorry.” She gives me an apologetic look.

“It’s okay, now give me the name of your mateless friend so I can see if she is the one.” 

*

Nothing. 

I went looking for her at her family cabin which is at the back of the packhouse, where are the cabins of families that want to have their privacy and that don’t want to live in the packhouse are located. Her little brother opened the door and she then came to the door and nothing. I was so embarrassed, I had to make an excuse for why I was looking for her. I apologize to her family for the interruption thankfully they weren’t mad or anything. 

I’m so mad at the destiny and Moon Goddess, she was my last chance well not really but if it wasn’t her then who is it? From what Catherine told me she was the only one who didn’t have a mate. Could my mate be someone who already has a mate? No, I don’t so, I’m getting crazy already. 

At 26 and still haven’t found my mate, I’m starting to lose hope little by little. If it wasn’t for the faint smell I smelled on Catherine I wouldn’t have a clue if my mate is near or not. What scares me is that she could be far by now and I may never know.

There’s only one this that I want the most in my life the one that will complete me and that’s...

My mate.

A/N: Hi guys!

I will like to clarify some things because I’m pretty sure some of you are confused.

Here where I live we start school in the final August then there’s a two-week winter break in December. Then there’s a graduation ceremony at the beginning of June for senior and by the end of June, there’s prom.

For this story what I did is that the graduation ceremony is the last event and school is over. Sorry if for some it doesn’t make sense but for my story, it does so please bear with it.

Thank you!