My Odd Mates

Mate

Ran, the son of the Alpha, had just arrived in their pack after he spent his summer vacation in searching for his fated mate when he learned that his father was in the hospital. Just when he was about to open the door, he felt the bond between his father and him being severed. Indicating that Alpha is dead. And to his horror, when he opened the hospital door, the daughter of the traitor was holding his father's hand.

'Did she kill my father?'

Everything went red before his eyes. The next thing he knew, the girl's neck was in his hand. The beta is telling him something but he cannot understand it. He just wants blood. He wants this girl to be dead. Somehow, it escaped his claws because of the beta's help and escape. Yeah, escape for now! But I will find you after my father's burial!

....

At midnight, while Ran was alone in his office, he suddenly felt hungry and went to the kitchen to find some food. He had been busy arranging his father's funeral. 40 days after the burial, his ascension ceremony as an alpha would be held.

He is not sure if he wants it. He is still too young. He'll be graduating this year, at 17 years old, from his Business Administration course. But now that his father is dead, he will be forced to stop and attend the alpha academy for two years while handling all the alpha's affairs. He doesn't have any choice. He felt his head aching and he felt a knot in his stomach. Aside from the headache, another feeling arose. Anger. Yes. He is angry with that traitor whose name he never learns!

'I will kill that she-wolf! I will have her blood upon my hands. I will -'

'Wait. What is that smell? His wolf growled, Mate!'

'Mate?!'

'Are you kidding me?! I searched the world for her and I can find her here? Wait, what time is it?'

His watch states midnight.

'Yeah! So it makes sense now. She hasn't shifted yet, so I cannot scent her yet. Someone just had her birthday today. Great timing. Tsk!'

Ran forgot his growling stomach and followed the scent. He felt a little guilty. His father had just died and he should be doing something more important than chasing after his mate.

He followed the scent and it led him to the back of the kitchen. He wonders what his mate is doing in this place at this time.

His pursuit leads him to a small room. He smells the mixed scent of strawberries and pineapple but there is another smell. A smell of an omega. He feels conflicted. An omega. What if his mate is an omega? Will he accept her? Will mother allow it? He knows his mom pretty well. She won't just accept it. He sighs.

'Whatever'

He twisted the doorknob open and a double-decked bed with an old omega lying at the bottom opened her eyes and met his.

Realizing he is the son of the Alpha, she bows her head before him.

'Alpha'. The omega murmur.

The voice is hardly audible. I held my breath before I asked in my Alpha voice, releasing a bit of my Alpha aura.

'Is there someone living with you here?'

The poor omega shuddered. I don't know why. I did not intend to intimidate the old woman but couldn't help it. It is a mix of excitement, exhaustion and other emotions that I cannot point out.

With her eyes still looking at the floor, the woman whispered, 'Amarah, my daughter. Did she cause trouble on her first shift, Alpha?'

'Amarah... What a beautiful name', Ran thought.

'And where is she?' He did not answer her question and directly asked where she was.

'I am sorry, Alpha. She is probably in the woods for her first shift. Today is her birthday. I cannot go with her because, as you may see, I am bed-ridden.' The woman spoke slowly, probably because of her current status. I felt pity for the woman but did not show it.

After hearing her last words, he hastily went out of the room into the direction of the woods. There is a faint scent of orange and strawberries in the air. He tries to follow it but it is now closing to the border, yet his mate shows no signs. And the scent is not getting stronger either.

'Where the hell is she?'

'Damn'. He can't help but curse. 'I am now out of the territory but she is still nowhere to be seen. The only light that is illuminating my search is the moonlight and it is as if taunting me.

'I promise to devour every inch of you once I get a hold of you.' Insane woman for coming to such a place where rouges, wiches and other shifters reside. She is not safe out of the pack!

Heaven, as if mocking me, pours its acidity on me. I can't believe it! It is raining. The faint scent in the air slowly disappeared. The cold rain woke me up. f**k! What am I doing? The scent has already disappeared, I am now outside my territory, my father is dead and there is that b***h who killed my father who smells like orange.

Wait...

Smells like orange?!

Could it be? Could it be that she is my mate? I only smell orange because she is not of age yet? Did she shift tonight and run away from the pack?

Damn! It cannot be. That is impossible.

He hurried back to the pack. He needs to talk to the beta!

As soon as he enters the pack, he mindlinks Aldo, his father's beta. He is still undecided if he will have his son as his beta. He thinks he is still not ready like him. Complicated. Everything is very complicated.

'Aldo, go to my office now'

He received no reply. Maybe he is sleeping already. His watch tells him it is already 2 in the morning. Wow, he's been running for almost 2 hours now, back and forth.

'This is not good'

'Aldo! Aldo! Aldo!

He almost screamed in his mind. Maybe he has been too tired. It was after a while when the beta responded.

'Apologize alpha. It has been 3 days since I last slept.'

He sighs. He understands it. The rouge attack left several casualties and the alpha has been wounded, so he has been acting beta on father's behalf.

'Please got to my office. I am 10 minutes away from the packhouse.'

'Okay' He can almost see the beta nodding on his mindlink.

He doubled his speed. As soon as he arrived, he shifted back and got his trousers from the stockroom. It was placed in there for unexpected shifting like this.

He went straight to his office, which is located on the 3rd floor.

As soon as I open the door, the beta stands on the couch he is sitting on and greets me.

'Alpha'

I nooded for him to sit down.

'Thank you for coming at a short notice and apologize for summoning you at this hour'

'No need to apologize, Ran. You are like a son to me.'

The beta quipped and he could feel the drowsiness in his voice.

'I will go straight to the point.' 'I would like to know if you know someone who is called Amarah. Her mother is a bed-ridden omega.'

He could feel the beta's heart rate quicken and heard his voice in a hasty tone.

'I'm sorry beta. But you misunderstood what happened earlier'

Earlier? Does he speak about the incident from the hospital?

'Amarah didn't do anything to your father.' The beta continued.

I knew it! He was Amarah! I can feel the anguish in my wolf. We almost killed our mate!

The beta continues, 'Alpha Raniel asks for her presence in the hospital because he feels that he owes something to the girl. He wanted to apologize for what your mother did to her and for what you did to her before. And for what happened to her mother.'

Beta's explanation is long, but all he can remember are the words, 'what you did to her'

Memories flashed before his eyes. He saw my 5-year-old, 8 year old, 9 year old, 10 year-old self beating a skinny girl with curly hair and adoring eyes that annoyed him the most. He likes the girl but his mom hates her and he can't understand why she has to be the daughter of the traitor Luna.

'Why do I like such a detestable person? All my frustrations, I directed them to her. Hoping that by beating her, my feelings would disappear.'

I hated her before. But I can be the Alpha now. I can have whatever I want, including hers. She could be my Luna.

My luna. Yes, she is mine. But what can I do?

Will she forgive me?

I feel suffocated. Dear moon goddess, please let her forgive me. Please give me a second chance to show her my love.