His exiled assassin mate

Fate intervening

*Zay*

The letter never came. I waited and waited, but she never wrote as she had promised. I was crushed and ended up telling my mother about the kiss, asking if that was the reason she didn't write to me. If I had been wrong to kiss her.

My dear mother told me she was quite sure it had nothing to do with that. That something else must have gotten in the way.

I did however hear my parents talk about how this was for the better. There was so e kinda problem with his father, that I didn’t really understand, but apparently Raya was not the best company for me as the future Alpha. Not that I would have cared had she been here.

Later I found out her mother didn't want her to write to me, and had their new Alpha forbid her to do so. Maybe to them, I wasn’t the right company either.

But of course I couldn't forget her and I always carried a picture of her in my wallet. I was taken, by me, in our garden about a week before they left. I had another one under my pillow, so she was never far from me.

Shortly after my parents decided to build new schools for the older kids on the ground. They had visited some other pack and had decided gender-separated schools were the way to less trouble with the young ones. So they built one for boys and one for girls, capable of taking in boarding students from other packs too.

I was actually happy about this change at first. I emerged myself in school, I wanted to learn as much as I could for when I had to be Alpha one day. My father wanted me to get into sports, but it was just never me.

I started getting more friends, and soon enough my friends and I started getting interested in girls, just like every teenage guy does, wolf or not, and we were no longer happy about the gender split schools.

We would spend a lot of time talking about the girls... which ones were pretty and which were sweet. Which one we would like to date and which one we hoped would be our mate. But when I was alone Raya was the girl I thought most about. Where she was and what she was doing and how she looked now.

One day after dinner when I was 16 years old a couple of the other guys asked me if I wanted to sneak over to the girls school for an evening peek.

We would climb the big tree outside and try to get glimpses of the boarding girls through the windows. Yeah, pathetic but well we were teenagers and there were no girls at our school. And outside School we rarely got to hang with the girls either. Boys and girls simply had different roles in the pack.

"I don't know, I have a paper I need to finish before tomorrow". I say. I always feel a bit bad spying on the girls. But well it doesn’t stop me most of the time.

One of the guys, Nick grins. "Come on Zay, there is this new girl you just have to see. She is so hot, much hotter than Anita''.

"Okay okay". I say, knowing I am giving in way too easily. "Even though I have a hard time believing that someone can be much hotter than Anita".

Anita is like all the boys' wet dreams come true. The one most of them hope will be their mate.

We sneak over there and climb the tree, hoping not to get spotted by the un-mated she-wolves who run the school. Because they have no problem pulling our ears all the way back to my father, and no one wants that, least of all me.

"Maybe she has gone home… the new girl. She is a day student, she lives here in the pack… but she is often here in the evening anyway". Nick says. “But there are other cute girls to look at”.

“Maybe we should just go home”. I mumble. I really do not want to be caught.

But then someone looks out the window. "Wait, she is right there. I mean …look, Isn't she hot ?"

I almost fall out of the tree, desperately grabbing a branch. It's her. It really is her. My Raya, right here. "She is, she is utter perfection, that one".

"I told you so. That one I surely wouldn't mind getting a date with". He says grinning.

I shoot him a glare. "Well, but I would mind. That right there is Raya, my best friend since we were babies and the first girl I kissed".

"Holy s**t Zay, you know her ? You kissed her ? You lucky bastard". He says making big eyes and I can't help smiling. Feeling a tiny bit proud.

“I can’t believe you don’t remember her Nick”. I shake my head. “She went to the same School as us until less than two years ago”.

He looks thoughtful, then shakes his head. “Yeah, I was not very interested in the girls back then. She is younger than us, right ?”

I nod. “Yeah, two years younger”.

“That’s why then…”. He starts saying.

Suddenly a tall, mean looking woman comes charging out the front door, yelling at us. "Don't you think I can't see you, you dirty rascals ? Get away from that tree and stop spying on the girls".

We jump from the tree, running for our lives. Or well more for the safety of our ears and our dignity. Back to my garden, hoping the she-wolf won’t follow.

But I know I need to get close to Raya. I need to talk to her.