Chapter 1: The Rejection
Clara POV
Run! That's all I could think to do after his smell hit me. My wolf was shocked but also extremely pleased by who our mate was. Me however, all I could do was stand there looking at him like a deer caught in headlights.
As he began to walk closer to me with a pleased smile on his face, I was a little confused by his expression, was he happy about the Goddesses pairing of myself and him?
Or was he keeping his cool so he could reject me in front of the other classmates, that were crowding the hallway, not even noticing he and I.
I took a step back once he stopped in front of me. The pained look on his face as I did so didn't go unnoticed. I turned my head away from his gaze, I couldn't stand looking into those piercing brown eyes of his.
"Clara, please look at me?" I've heard him say my name a thousand times but, the way he said it now hurt me for some reason.
Clearly he wanted me to look at him so he could reject me, right? "You don't know that he'll reject us, Clara. Just give him a chance, for us?" My wolf whispered to me.
With her urging me nonstop to give in tears began to sting my eyes as I finally turned and looked at him. He wore a small smile but once he noticed the tears his face dropped. "Why are you crying? Do know how long I've waited for you to turn 17 and finally notice who I was to you?" He said as he went to reach for my hand.
Stepping back once again, "If you knew I was your mate why the hell didn't you tell me? You've known this for over a year, Wyatt!" I said a little louder than I intended it to be. A tear slipped from my eye as I noticed a few students look at me. Some of the girls wore an angry expression, Stacey being the most prominent one as she glared at me because I was mated to Wyatt and not her.
"Clara, I'm sorry. When I turned 17 I wanted to tell you but-" I let out a humorless laugh and shook my head slightly as a few more tears fell from my eyes, "But what? You've been going out with Sara since you were 15, how can I compete with her, Wyatt? She's absolutely beautiful, she's popular, and not to mention smart. She's also genuinely nice to everybody."
"She's not you!" He said, and I didn't know how to respond to rhat. I was a little taken aback by what he just said. With my silence he continued, "Sara knows you're my mate. I told her the day I found out. She honestly wasn't upset about it, in fact she said she had a feeling you and I would be paired together by the Goddess!"
My wolf began doing a happy dance in my head by what he just said, she was overjoyed in fact."Wyatt you're my brothers best friend and the future Beta of our pack. I'm just a Gamma-""
"I'd still want you even if you were an Omega! Titles don't matter to me, Clara. You know this."
"Yes I know that, but you deserve more than me, Wyatt!" My wolf began to howl in my head. She felt the emotions I felt and knew what I was about to do.
"Don't do this. Please?" He begged me. The school bell rang loudly in the halls and the students that were lingering around finally dispersed from the hall leaving both Wyatt and I alone in the hallway.
"I'm sorry, Wyatt but I have to," I felt nonstop tears flowing down my face as I sought out the courage to look him in his eyes."I, Clara Baker reject you Wyatt Nichols as my mate!"
My chest burned and my heart began to race violently in my chest as I struggled to stay upright.
The heartache in his eyes was unbearable. I, couldn't even look at him anymore. "I Wyatt Nichols reject your rejection." He said through clenched teeth, clearly trying to withstand the pain he felt.
"I'm sorry..." I mumbled as I turned around, I began running, I could hear him calling my name but I couldn't stop. With the howling of my wolf and my own heartache I couldn't stand there another minute. So I ran, ran out of the school, ran past the pack house, and ran into the forest. I finally stopped once I reached a small stream in the woods.
Hearing a tree branch break behind me I quickly spun around only to come face-to-face with a huge black wolf. But I couldn't find the courage to be afraid of him. But once I caught his scent I began to freak out all over again.
"Mate!" My wolf purred in my head. No not him.
It wasn't Wyatt, although he had a similar aura and their scent was also close to being the same too, although his aura was stronger than Wyatt's.
It was our packs next alpha, Noah Evans.
