My Second Chance Mate

Chapter 6: Continued

Jeremy's POV

I descend the stairs jumping two at a time and enter the kitchen to grab a cup of black coffee. I see boys sitting there with their mates. Noah with his mate Shayna, Liam with Chloe and Garret has still not found his mate yet. I greet them and grab my coffee and sip it. I don't have anything against my friends finding their mates, they are good people even their mates, they treat me like a brother and I am happy with that. And let me tell you Shayna and Chloe are the warriors daughter and they fight too, they match perfectly. Liam, Noah, Garret and me, we are Aiden's squad. Noah is head of the broader line security, Liam looks after the Inside the pack security details. Garret is the Gamma and me being the beta of the pack. We all are good Fighters, warriors including Aiden. We live and kill for the Aiden.

Our pack is one of the largest in the US with 2280 and counting. It is not easy to control so many werewolves in the pack. After all we are wild animals, keeping us sane was important for the peace of pack and safety. Providing security, shelter, livelihood, training and maintenance like hospitals, day cares, school, colleges, Malls and all kinds of shops were available in our pack. About 30% of our pack were refugees due to Alpha's inability to take care of or no heir etc. Alpha Lucas welcomed the refugees with open arms. Initially the pack members opposed it, but later they had to listen to the Alpha, they respected him to go against his decision. Some ran away becoming rogues with their blah blah reasons. Alpha Lucas took care of everything, he was a very good Alpha. He always believed in giving, he used to say 'When we have we give, as much.' His principals sometimes intrigued me. When asked Aiden, he said Alpha has been a fan of some philosopher.

The sound of heels scrapping is echoed through the room, all eyes turn towards the source. Chloe winces and Shayna murmurs 'b***h' looking at Quincy. "I heard that b***h" retorts Quincy and I roll my eyes. This was an everyday occurrence whenever they faced each other. They don't like Quincy, in fact nobody likes Quincy. She is power hungry. Before, she was attached to Aiden. He never entertained her though. However, it was comical to see Aiden tense up whenever she touched him. When he didn't show any interest, she promptly turned towards me, which I welcomed. "Good, because" Shayna tries to say but was cut off by Noah gesturing her to shut up not wanting to listen to their stupid banter. Quincy smirks and sits on my lap and there is complete silence in the room other than the slurping and crunching sound of croissants.Shayna eyes Quincy and crunches the croissant so loudly, as if she is biting Quincy's brain, I hold back a laugh. I glance at Quincy and tell her to leave, she looks unwilling to move but I glare at her, she sprints off.

I glance around the room to see everyone is glaring at me, I shook my head not wanting to be the subject of their discussion. I stand up to walk out of the room. I need a good run. Garret says "Aiden will be here tomorrow. His training is complete." I nod and started walking. " We heard about the market incident. Do you want to talk about it?" asks Shayna to stop me in my tracks, I turn to look at her realising everybody is eyeing me curiously. "There's nothing to talk about" I say not bothering to elaborate. "Why are you doing this? Don't let your past ruin your future " she continued, by now Noah was beside her holding her arm. "I don't want to argue on this" I try to dismiss the topic. "Be ready to argue with Aiden then" Garret says glaring at me. He takes mate bond seriously, silly boy. What does he know?

I stare at him for sometime, I huff "Nobody tells him anything" I declare. "Are you kidding the whole market has seen, if not we some other will tell him, maybe Quincy itself" Shayna pipes in. Suddenly we heard murmurs, 2 omegas were talking to each other. They were talking slowly but we are werewolves, so you know how sensitive our ears are. "I heard that she lost a lot of blood. Maybe she won't live longer." There is a pause we all glance at each other listening "Is she an omega. How unfortunate she is mated to beta? Though he is all a girl needs, he is rude and a womanizer." the other omega speaks.

"Hmm..I dream of him every night, you know" says the earlier one, at that I shift from one foot to another feeling uncomfortable, anyhow I smirk at others. They were stifling their laugh. "But I am good, I am not his mate. I want to live" at that something tugs at my heart, but I successfully ignore it. She is weak, I remind myself and I want someone who is strong to stand beside me. It's better I reject her, at that thought my wolf snarls with so much anger at me saying 'Dont ever do that', as usual I ignore him.

All fell silent, I observed Garret he was mind linking someone. I am sure he was linking the pack doctor. The door bell rings suddenly, and Shayna asks an omega whose name I don't remember to open the door. I am sure she is Quincy 'Why is she here again?' I question myself. The omega opens the door and Quincy barges in saying "That b***h is here!". I ask "Who?" and smell the same alluring smell. I look towards the door and there stands my mate.

"Can I speak to you?" she says her voice is soft and velvety. I gulp. She looks good, nothing like those two omegas were speaking. She just looked pale, no light in her eyes as I had seen before, her hair is dull brown. She was wearing a long, loose shirt and trouser. Nothing sexy. Before I could say something Quincy chimes in saying " What is there to say?".