My Brother My Mate

It has to be a #%! joke

It had to be a damn joke, I thought as I packed my suitcase, which I had just pulled out from the bottom of the closet.

That had to be the moment when I woke up and realized it was all a bad dream. I would be in my bed and I hadn't been adopted along with my stalker.

But no.

I didn't wake up, and the few clothes I had kept piling up in the suitcase.

I was going to live with Anthony as my stepbrother, in the same house, with the same parents, the same pack, and surely the same high school, where he would continue to harass me and tell everyone the anecdote in the dining room, about how I 'squished berries' in my crotch.

Could a worse future await me?

At least at the charity center, there was a floor of distance between our dormitories, which were also shared with a hundred other orphans, among whom I could blend in, but there, in the new house I was going to live in, I might have to encounter him even in the bathroom.

It was going to be an unbearable situation.

When I went downstairs with my packed suitcase, I ran into the girl who had lent me the jacket that I still had tied around my waist.

"Keep it. It's not even mine," the girl replied with a certain disgust in her gaze as I was about to hand her the garment.

"I'm not coming back. A couple…"

"Yes, we all know," the girl interrupted, whose kindness, displayed in the dining room, had completely vanished. "You're going to live with Anthony. How lucky for you."

I didn't know if the girl who had given me the jacket was being sarcastic or serious.

Who could feel flattered to live with a guy like Anthony?

Well, maybe a girl he didn't harass, at least not in the way and manner he harassed me.

"Okay. Goodbye. And thanks again," I said, shaking her hand.

As I left the Grey Hills pack charity center, I saw the car of the Green Valley pack Alpha couple, and inside, in the back seat, was Anthony, saying goodbye to a bunch of girls crowded at the car door.

Could he be any more pathetic!

Now I considered that my time at the charity center had actually been purgatory, because the real hell would begin at that moment.

"Are you really going to live with the nerd?"

"Were both of you adopted, really?"

The girls besieging Anthony's window asked, like groupies, while I dragged my suitcase.

"I'm going to miss you all. I promise I won't stop answering your messages on my Discord," Anthony repeated, to which I rolled my eyes.

"Let me help you," Alpha Damian approached and took my suitcase. I blushed at the first display of chivalry a man had directed towards me in my life. "The jacket, aren't you going to take it off?"

I was stunned, not knowing what to answer, and just shook my head, even more embarrassed. Alpha Damian narrowed his eyes and, after a moment, seemed to understand the reasons why I refused to give it to him.

"Oh. Well, no problem, don't worry. Luna Emma is about to come out, if you suddenly want to talk to her."

Embarrassed enough, I chose not to follow my new father's recommendation and got into the car, making sure to sit on top of the jacket. Luna Emma soon came out and also got into the vehicle after her husband opened the door for her.

They seemed to be a perfect mated pair, I thought when I saw the way Alpha Damian looked at his wife.

Would I ever find my mate?

For that to happen, I would first have to turn eighteen and become an adult. Then, on my birthday, not only would I start to sense my wolf, which would only manifest itself that day, but I would also have my first transformation, and from that moment on, I could perceive my mate, not before. There was still a year to go for that, but I was already eager to discover who the Goddess had chosen for my life.

"Say goodbye, kids, because I don't think you'll see this center again for a long time," Alpha Damian said before starting the car.

With kisses and promises, Anthony left his fans behind, while I directed my middle finger raised towards the window.

"Is that for me?" Anthony asked when he noticed the gesture I was making towards the window.

I didn't think anyone else would see it, but Anthony seemed to be hanging on everything I did, or didn't do.

"No, no, I'm sorry. It was just…" I stuttered, regretting what I had done.

"I haven't forgotten that you ruined my favorite shoes, nerd."

"What are you two talking about?" Luna Emma wanted to know, looking at her new children through the rearview mirror. "Did you have a common story at the center? Tell me, were you good friends?"

Anthony smiled wickedly as he looked at me, and then I feared he would tell our new adoptive parents what our relationship really was and that they would despise me for having all the characteristics of an omega, something that would only be defined when I finally felt my wolf.

"In fact, Luna, we just started talking a moment ago, in the dining room, because she spilled her lunch tray on my sneakers," Anthony replied without taking his eyes off mine.

Alpha Damian's gaze lifted to the rearview mirror.

"I had the impression that you were closer."

Anthony had the chance to humiliate me in front of the powerful Alpha couple, but for some reason, he didn't.

"I'm afraid not, Alpha," Anthony replied as his green eyes, with a wild feline look, moved away from mine. I lowered my gaze immediately. "We just started talking a few hours ago, and it was because she dirtied my shoes."

As I averted my gaze from my harasser, I could see the way Alpha and Luna exchanged a quick look, in which they revealed some uncertainty about their new son's words.

"Did you not even get together to celebrate your birthdays together?" Luna Emma asked.

I was bewildered, and I noticed that Anthony was too.

"Our birthday, Luna?" I asked in a weak voice.

Again, I noticed the bewildered look of the couple, our new parents.

"Yes. Don't you know that you both have the same birthday, which is tomorrow?"

This time it was me who instinctively sought Anthony's gaze, but only to exchange the deep disgust I felt for that coincidence.

"What! The same day?" we said in unison.

Luna Emma and Alpha Damian shared a laugh.

"Seriously, you didn't know, kids? I can't believe it!" exclaimed Alpha Damian without taking his eyes off the road.

Luna Emma pulled out the folder with the records of their two new children and read the birth dates.

"We've organized a joint birthday party for you," Luna Emma said proudly. "Tomorrow you'll have the chance to meet all the notables of the Green Valley pack, who are dying to meet you."

"It will be a sensational party," added Alpha Damian.

I was in shock, just like my new stepbrother. I couldn't believe the Goddess was doing this to me. Now I even had to share, for the rest of my life, the birthday with my stalker.

What else was missing?

"Did they also have to share the same room, the same bed, and the same bathroom? That couldn't be true, I thought. That nightmare had to end.

"Are you okay, dear?" Luna Emma asked, noticing the paleness that must have come over my face.

"She's menstruating, that's all, Luna," said the shameless and shameless Anthony with a smirk.

I looked up and had never seen someone with so much hatred and repressed helplessness at the same time. That jerk really could be a complete i***t!

If it hadn't even been an hour since he became my half-brother and he was already behaving like the i***t he was, what would his days be like from now on, I thought as my heart continued to fill with hatred towards that imbecile.

"Is it true, dear? Is that why you're wearing that jacket? Do you want us to stop to buy some tampons? Come on, you have nothing to be ashamed of."

Luna Emma directed a harsh look at Anthony, who only then stopped smiling.

Distressed, all I could think was that it was a precious first day with my new family...

"St. Clair, kids. From now on, that will be your last name," Alpha Damian said after we had resumed the journey following the stop I made with Luna Emma at a gas station minimarket.

The journey extended until night settled in the sky and the car entered an impressive mansion that made my jaw drop.

"Welcome home, children. This will be your new home, do you like it?" Luna Emma asked with a smile."