His broken omega mate

Prologue - First impressions

Valerie’s POV

I was the young daughter of the Gamma of the Moon Stone Pack, but at three years of age my parents were murdered, and I was thrown into the life of an omega orphan. My parents had no siblings to take me, and there was no record available of any grandparents.

In the omega orphanage, they taught us how to serve the rest of the pack. We were never to look into their eyes because our rank was the lowest in the pack and always … ALWAYS, did as we were told, or the repercussions would be severe. So, I kept my head down and did as I was told until, one day, I could get out of there!

I didn’t hope for a mate like the other girls in the omega house. I was pretty dull looking with my jet-black hair and amber eyes. Because I had to spend all my time indoors, my skin was pale, and Melody, the Gamma's daughter, made sure that I was constantly reminded of the fact that I was no beauty. Her flowing blond hair and sparkling blue eyes were the typical characteristics of a pure-blooded ranked member of our pack. I could never figure out how they did it, but they all looked like that.

I went to school with all the other children but quickly learned where my place was after a boy spoke to me, and when I went to the bathroom, Melody and her crew reminded me what would happen if I ever tried to speak to a ranked male again.

So, this…

Is my story

The Moon Stone Pack was the largest pack in the southern part of our country. To the world, they were close to perfect, but the omegas of the pack knew the real truth …

They had a special studies program, to which only the top omega students of each year were allowed to apply, and only one of each gender was chosen, and all this because they had a public image to keep up. I was fortunate to be accepted into this program and was allowed to go to university. I would probably never have seen the inside of the university if they didn’t have an image issue. The rest of the omegas disappeared into the background of servitude, unless, and this had only happened once in the history of the pack … a ranked member chose an omega for a mate.

The Alpha and Luna believed in strong bloodlines, and therefore, this meant that if a ranked member was fated to an omega, they had to reject the omega without hesitation and choose a mate from the ranked members.

On my first day of university, I completed my duties in the kitchen and got ready for class. In my hurry down the long, dark, cold passage of the university, I didn’t see Melody’s foot sticking out around the corner. The shock to my elbows sent a sharp shooting pain through my neck as my face came crashing down on the hard, cold slate floor of the university, and my books went flying out of my hands.

Of course, she would have found a way to embarrass me on my first day, but I wasn’t allowed to say anything, and she knew it, even if we weren’t on pack grounds. With my cheeks completely flushed, I picked up my things and rushed to my first class without looking back. I mumbled an apology in case anyone saw what happened, and she wanted to blame me for some fake injury she was about to report!

The class had already started, and the professor stopped talking the moment I walked in. I wished I could disappear into the background when all eyes turned to me.

Psychology was my first pick in the hopes that a career in the field would give me the freedom I so desperately craved, but I also always found the inner workings of the brain interesting, and perhaps some more background on it would help me navigate the treacherous next four years of university.

The intense glare from the professor made me shuffle in my seat for a moment before I realized that something was wrong! I was wet! Goddammit! Why on earth? The entire class could probably smell my arousal!

I slowly lifted my nose and sniffed the air to check if my scent was that strong, in the hopes that it wasn’t. So many floral scents flooded my nose all at once that I sneezed and all the attention turned towards me for a second time! With the number of perfumes in the air, no one would ever be able to smell my arousal, thank the goddess, but his intense gaze was on me for a moment before he continued.

“As I was saying before. This year and in this class, you will learn the fundamentals of the human mind. You will not only learn the basics of psychology, but also how to find out what really makes a person tick. What makes them act and react the way they do and how those reactions affect not only those around them but society in general. My class is not for the faint of heart, and for those of you who thought my class would teach you how to pick up chicks, please, think again.” His eyes flashed in my direction, and I wondered why the hell he was looking at me as I quickly lowered my eyes. “We will delve into the mind’s innermost workings and how it affects the body and, in the end, the body’s chemistry.”

His words floated through the room but the soft murmurs didn’t stop him, which made me wonder if he’d made this speech before and if he’d probably heard all these murmurs before. He didn’t look the way I imagined a professor to look … What kind of class had I signed up for?! This sounded more like biology than anything else! My eyes found him easily, and I breathed a sigh of relief when he wasn’t looking at me.

I hadn’t made the best impression on my first day in my first class by being late, and his intense gaze up to now was proof of that. In the back of my mind, I swore at Melody, before making a conscious effort to concentrate on the class and the professor.

When class was over, I was about to hurry off again when I literally walked right into the arms of Ruston, son of the Beta of the Moon Stone pack!

“Hey, slow down!” Something in his eyes flashed for a moment before he let go of me and I rushed down the steps of the gallery and out of the classroom. I heard my heart pounding in my chest! It couldn’t be! No, I must have imagined it. There is no way he could be someone I was attracted to! Was he the reason I suddenly became so damn horny in class?

I couldn’t remember a special scent … The girls were forever talking about some special scent you smell when your mate is around … Damn these girls! First, they fill my mind with cobwebs and then their fragrances stink up the damn place!

Making my way to my second class, I shook all the thoughts of mates and THAT out of my mind.

After my second class, I almost ran down the passage to catch the bus on time. I was in the evening service and would make it just in time to help with dinner.

What a day!!

A car playing loud music pulled up alongside the bus, and I noticed Ruston and his crew sitting in it. Sighing, I thought of how different my life could have been if I had been born ranked, but then his car pulled away in a cloud of dust and it made me realize I was thankful I wasn’t one of the spoiled ranked brats!

When the bus pulled up outside the pack grounds, I quickly jumped out and ran to the omega's house. Omegas weren’t allowed to ride the bus all the way up to the pack house.

I guess things here weren’t as bad as in some of the packs that I’ve heard of, but it would have been nice not to have to run everywhere I needed to be.

I didn’t have time to shower, and just dumped my books on my bed before going to the kitchen, making it just in time to be handed a bowl of potatoes to peel. The head chef knew how much I hated peeling and that I would much rather be behind the hot ovens, but it was as if she had something against me, and arriving on time was apparently punishable today.

Dinner with the pack was the most physically challenging activity of the day. Serving the entire pack all at once was something to be seen. We might be omegas, but we were well trained omegas and we moved in perfect unison. However, that didn’t make it easy.

I was dead on my feet by the time I got back to my room, and all I wanted was a shower and to crawl into bed, but fate, it seemed, had different plans for me.

“I didn’t realize you were one of ours.” Ruston’s charming smile stopped me in my tracks. He had made himself comfortable on my smaller than single bed while he paged through my psychology textbook. I quickly averted my eyes when I realized I was staring! I should have remembered to lock my door! How long had he been there waiting? What if he went through my things?

“I … Do you need anything?” I hoped that distracting him from the line of thought his mind was so clearly going into would help, but it just made everything worse!

“Yes, as a matter of fact. I need you.”

Aries POV

Her striking beauty made me physically react the moment she walked in and I almost lost my train of thought, but something wasn’t completely right. The young woman hardly gave me a second look before casting her eyes down again and taking her seat. She had to be one of the omegas from the Moon Stone Pack … They were the only ones who acted naturally submissive. But I couldn’t keep staring at her! I had a class to teach. As it is, my father was already on my case about being at university and not at the pack house paying attention to my duties as the future Alpha of the Blood Stone Pack. My mother convinced my father to allow me to live a normal life until it was time for me to take over, but that time had long since come and gone.

I thought that she secretly hoped I would find my love match, which I clearly hadn’t, and there was no better place than the university where so many of the different packs' females were concentrated together.

Unlike with other packs, I didn’t take over from my father at the young age of twenty-one or, in some cases, some Alphas even took over at eighteen. At twenty-six, I was a professor of psychology. The youngest professor on staff, as a matter of fact. I was convinced that my parents had a hand in me receiving the position in the first place, but this was one time I didn’t mind their meddling. I loved teaching. I loved opening the minds of young people and showing them there was more to life than just mating! Not that my personal life reflected what I was trying to teach them.

She had caught my eye again as she rushed out of the class. Her cheeks all flushed, the image was stuck in my mind while I was sitting at the dinner table trying to avoid my mother’s questions about the new students.