The Adopted Alpha

Mates!

Clare had been avoiding Hunter's gaze since the incident earlier that day. Which was a bit harder now since he was sitting across from her on the table they had chosen with her friends.

Gabby came with her mate, Aiden. He was a cute teenager with red hair and freckles on his face. He was really shy compared to Gabby's more assertive personality. To Clare, they were the cutest couple she had ever seen.

Since it was a restaurant, someone had to go get their food from the counter up front and sweet Aiden volunteered to go for everyone.

To avoid the awkwardness of small talk with the others at the table, Hunter decided to join him and give a helping hand. Which was a good call because as soon as they took their orders and left....

"Who's the hottie? Don't tell me he is your mate?" Neil gushed in his exuberant way. "Is he an Alpha? I can't exactly pinpoint his status though."

"No! No on both counts." Clare replied to both her friends who were looking at her expectantly. "We are not mates and He is not a werewolf too."

"No way he is not a werewolf, he feels like an Alpha, only darker and stronger." Gabby said and Neil nodded in agreement.

Clare looked at them weirdly "I think he is more likely a vampire or mafia leader or both." She whisper yelled across the table "Do you guys not feel the cold aura from him? I mean I've gotten used to it but it used be quite a surprise to me when I first met him.

"Do you have a Vampire Mafia boss kink?" Neil said with a skeptic glance "I mean that's oddly specific but I won't judge. I have a possessive mate kink myself."

Gabby eyed her friend dubiously. "Are those even a thing?"

"Well they are." He then muttered "You don't know what s**t people are into these days."

"Well we're just friends, Hunter and I." Clare clarified. "He just came to support me since he is the only friend I have that knows that I am a werewolf."

"And I'm to believe that no hanky panky prelude has happened between the both of you?"

Clare gasped looking around like she was scared someone would hear them. "Neil!"

"What?! I'm just saying since the both of you are sharing a room, you never know." He gave her an innocent smile that was anything but.

Clare's cheeks flared up as she remembered what happened earlier.

"O. M. G! Something did happen. Spill!"

Clare shook her head blushing furiously "No way."

"So something did happen?" Gabby shared a conspiracy smirk with Neil. "Now you have to tell us."

Clare buried her face behind her hands wishing she could disappear from their sight. "We are just friends. Nothing more.!" She insisted. She could not tell them what happened, it was nothing major since she had not even gotten a good look but it quickly made things awkward between them that they might has well have run into each other naked.

Gabby saved her though "It's fine. You don't have to tell us if you are that embarrassed."

Clare peeked from behind her hands and saw Neil reluctantly nod "Well if you are not going to get him, maybe send him my way?"

"Neil! You are such a horn dog." Gabby gasped.

"Funny you should say that," Clare said "Last time I did that, he almost left me stranded in the middle of nowhere. I'm not risking that again."

"Come on, you have to do it. For my kink's sake."

Clare rolled her eyes at him "I doubt Hunter Pyrros is your type. He is pretty much laid back about everything and I don't think he has it in him to be possessive which pretty much defeats the purpose of the kink."

"Which makes him the perfect guy for my plan."

Gabby asked "How? What plan?"

Neil motioned for them to come closer so he could whisper to them. "I smelt my mate this morning, among the contestants. Smells like pineapple and the woods."

"Oh my God, Neil. You didn't say anything. Did you talk to them?" Gabby yelled in surprise and Neil shushed her.

"No, I did not see him neither did I go to meet him."

"How are you so sure it is a guy if you did not see him?" Clare whispered

"Neil is gay." Gabby deadpanned

Neil nodded "I am. One hundred percent, gay."

"Oh, okay." Clare nodded

"I'm also the bottomest bottom and a submissive, never the other way around." Neil was grinning broadly.

"He is." Gabby agreed.

"So that means the perfect mate for me has to be..."

"A top and A dominant." Clare finished for him.

Neil nodded "Exactly! And also possessive since it's one of my kinks."

"I... don't think that is necessarily true." Gabby replied

"Shut up, the moon goddess never makes a mistake. These are one of the things she considers."

"You seem so sure."

"Have you ever seen anyone who is not sexually attracted to their mate?" He asked and gave them a cheeky smile "So if anyone can get my Alpha to be possessive...." Neil said with a wink.

"I want an Alpha." He added by the way of an explanation before continuing.

"If he hasn't seek me out yet then, he must need a little push. That is where your hottie roommate, Hunter, comes in."

"Oh!" Both girls exclaimed finally getting his drift.

"Is your mate here, right now?" Gabby asked

Neil shook his head. "He is not here yet."

The sounds of approaching footsteps alerted them to the return of the other boys. They dropped the table and began eating suspending their current discussion to talk about the tournament instead.

Suddenly, Neil cleared his throat to get the girls attention. "He is here!" He announced excitedly.

"Who is here?" Aiden asked cluelessly looking around the cafeteria.

"Don't look yet. I'll check." Neil glanced up and looked in the direction of the woodsy smell of his mate then paused and glared at the sight he saw. "Okay! Who is that skank hanging off of my mate?"

They all turned and looked in his line of vision. Clare's jaw dropped in an instant. "Your mate is.... Rick?"