His problematic mate

Chapter 6

*** Collin’s POV ***

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I couldn’t believe dad actually sent me to that stupid private school of the council. They wanted to control everything and everyone who they would gain some power from. Finally, I could make him understand that I didn’t want to go to that school, but when I got into trouble again because of lighting that drawing of the dark girl on fire, he changed his mind. I pleaded with him not to do that to me, but as he didn’t hear me, he commanded me to get on the bus along with Ricky and to behave and he did that all by using his Alpha tone, which he had never done before, and which I couldn’t ignore.

“It’s not that bad. Stop sulking.” Ricky said when we were brought to our rooms. His room was next to mine and I was glad at least I didn’t need to share with him.

“Shut up. Maybe you wanted to come here, but I didn’t. I will kill that b*tch for getting me into trouble.” I said frustratedly, even if I knew that it wasn’t intentional on her part.

“It was your own fault.” Ricky shrugged his shoulders and I didn't say anything because he was right. It was all my fault because I defended her when they started making fun of her in class.

Why? That’s a good f*cking question because I have no damn clue about why I did that. I just felt like she had been mistreated for silly reasons ever since she got into school.

The whole thing didn’t make sense to me because it was our second year in that school and she was treated like sh*t all that time. Why did I start to defend her just that day then, and why did I even care if she was bullied by anyone? I really had no idea, but now I really hated her and myself for defending her. I know she thought that I would forget all about her after the two years of my ‘captivity’ and about what had happened, but she was wrong. She pushed me and humiliated me in front of my own pack members and, as the Alpha’s son, I couldn’t let that go, nor forget.

I hated even the thought of the new school, especially because there were a total of five students in the whole building. The place wasn’t even a real school and I already knew that those two years would be boring as hell, until the second day, when a new girl joined us as the sixth student.

At first, I didn’t care about her, but then I looked at her from closer and watched her reactions and interaction with others and I started to like her.

Her name was Serena and she had very long and thick white hair and beautiful blue eyes. I liked her from day one and it seemed like my half brother was smitten with her as well.

At that moment, I thought maybe this private school wouldn’t be so bad, until her friend visited her one day and then I knew that she wasn’t the one for me. They looked like they liked each other. So that meant that she was already taken, so I needed to draw the line between us. Serena turned out to be an amazing girl and a great friend.

There were four girls and Ricky and I were the only boys in our small class. All the six of us had special abilities. That’s why we got into this special private school because the werewolf council wanted to make sure that we would stay on the ‘good’ side.

There was Lena, who was half elf and half werewolf. She had pointed ears and violet eye colour and she had the ability to heal.

Then there was Flora, who was always quiet and she could control nature.

The third girl was the most annoying since she was too obviously into me, Roxana. She had a cool power though, because she had the power of hallucinations. She could make you see anything that she wanted as it was real.

Ricky, my half brother, who was only a half year younger than me, had the ability for levitation and I envied him for that throughout my whole life, since he was always the golden boy in my father’s eyes. He even said that Ricky needed to be the next Alpha because my ability was too wild and threatening.

I could control fire and while I was learning how to use my power properly without hurting anyone, a few accidents happened, so even though I was the older brother, my dad wanted Ricky to be the new Alpha of our pack and that was one of the reasons why I hated him, I mean…. the reason why I tried to hate him. He was actually a good guy, so sometimes it was really hard to do so.

My mom died the day I was born and my dad didn’t waste his time finding a new chosen mate and impregnating her just a few weeks after my mom’s burial. That’s when Ricky was born, the golden son of my dad, while I was always the black sheep in the family.

Ricky‘s mom, Harper, tried to show that she saw us as equals, but I still felt the difference in all my childhood. Whatever Ricky did, he never got into trouble, but me? I did all the time and my dad didn’t fail to punish me because I didn’t have my mom there to defend me like Ricky did.

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*** Eleven months later ***

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“Guys, don’t you want to visit home sometimes?” Sera asked when, in one of the evenings, the five of us sneaked into Ricky’s room to play cards after curfew.

“Ughh… I want to visit my family so badly.” Lena whined while Flora just nodded her head in agreement.

“I don’t know.. I was never mommy’s little girl.” Roxy said while she tried to act tough, but we could all see that she actually wished to visit her family.

“Why do you ask?” Ricky asked Serena and her cheeks turned slightly red.

Her power was teleportation and I caught her the last time when she sneaked out to visit home, so I knew what she meant and I also suspected why she asked that.

“I thought… if you guys want to… I could teleport you home for a few hours in the night without anyone noticing it.” She said and everyone looked at one another. It was nice of Sera to offer that.

“Really? You would risk getting into trouble just to help us?” Roxy asked with narrowed eyes and Sera shrugged her shoulders.

“What can they do? Kick us out?” Sera smiled and I smiled back at her.

“I would be glad if you would help me.” Lena said happily and hugged Sera excitedly.

“Me too. I miss my family so badly.” Flora added with a smile and Roxy shrugged her shoulders.

“Whatever, I guess I could go and visit my friends.” She said, trying to act nonchalantly, but we could all see through her stubborn shell, so I just shook my head at her.

“What about the two of you?” Sera asked and I looked at Ricky while he was already looking at me.

“I am good.” We said at the same time, which made her chuckle, and I couldn’t help but smile at her.

“Alright. Let’s go girls.” She said and she teleported them home, one by one, before she came back.

“Are you sure you don’t want to go home?” She asked. While she was holding the photos, the girls showed her so she would know where to go.

“Maybe another time.” I said and Ricky nodded his head, agreeing with me.

Honestly, I didn’t hate my brother. I couldn’t. He always looked up at me and I tried to make him hate me as much as I wanted to hate him, but it didn’t really work. I would never tell him that though. Also, being here for almost a year now has brought us closer.

“Alright. See you guys in the morning then.” She said with a smile and disappeared. I guess she went to meet her boyfriend again and I let out a sigh.

“Don’t you want to visit home?” Ricky asked and I knew that he really wanted to, but he wouldn’t if I didn’t go. It was eleven months ago that we saw anyone from home after all.

“I don’t know, but you can go if you want to,” I said, and he nodded his head.

“I think I will ask Sera to take me home tomorrow then.” He said and I nodded my head.

“I will go to sleep. See you tomorrow.” I stood up and headed to the door.

“Alright. Good night.” Ricky said with a smile on his face and went to get into his bed.

His silver hair was all over the place and I shook my head at my younger brother before heading to my room and getting into my bed.

Ricky had a good heart, which was even more annoying because it made it even more impossible to hate him.

I remember how I used to defend him in secret back in basic school when some humans started bullying him for having an unusual appearance. He was my brother, so I was the only one who was allowed to bully him and no one else.

Werewolves respected us, since we were the sons of the Alpha, but other species stayed away from us only because our dad was the principal. Humans were the bravest though, because they were clueless about what we really were.

My dad owned the whole school and he didn’t mind making it a mixed school where everyone was welcome to study. There were witches, werewolves, humans, some vampires and who knows how many other species studied there.

While thinking about that, I couldn’t help but think about that mysterious dark looking girl who was the reason that I got so far away from my family and pack.

She smelled like a human, but when she pushed me, I felt her aura changing for a few seconds to a powerful one. The f*rce she used was so huge that it actually hurt to hit my head on the wall and it also made me bleed a little. I was shocked and by the time I got myself together, she was nowhere to be found. The next day I couldn’t wait to call her out on it, even though I was the one who started bullying her and ruined her lunch for revenge for making me sit next to Kenzie, but she didn’t show up at school.

That was the same day my dad told me that I was going to private school with Ricky as soon as I packed my stuff.

I wondered what I would do if I could visit home. Go to see my dad? Nah, for sure not. Benjamin? Maybe, but I wouldn’t go to spend hours with him, maybe just to catch up in half an hour.

Maybe, for the rest of the time, I could go to visit the dark girl everyone called Raven. Giving her a fright by showing up by her window in the middle of the night sounded fun and it would be a perfect revenge plan. She shouldn’t think that I let her off the hook.

I decided to go to sleep and think about it in the morning. I was kind of sleepy so I just closed my eyes and drifted off to sleep.