ALPHA BROTHERS

Mates

Rain's pov

I came out of the washroom of his bedroom and found his shirt and trousers with a note wedged on the black bedsheet of his king-size bed.

“Wear them.” It was written on that yellow small piece of paper.

He was being nice, quite unexpected from Asher Da Vinci. The one, who bullies everyone and even threatened me, was acting like a gentleman.

I wore his white shirt and black trousers, yet the trousers were too loose for my thin waist compared to his.

Only if they were stretchable!!

Left with no choice, my bare feet stepped out of his bedroom…without wearing those black trousers. It's not like I was completely naked, my red panties were still on and his white shirt was long enough to reach my thighs.

He was in the kitchen, my nose could smell the delicious food he was probably making for me, I guess?

My feet slowly approached him in the kitchen, yet stopped at the door.

He was really making dinner, wearing that same tight fit black t-shirt from before, exposing his strapping biceps.

His ocean blue eyes noticed me standing at the door…and slowly scanned me from top to bottom with a stiff look on his sharp jawline gorgeous face.

A tight smile glinted on his lips and he shifted his focus back to cooking.

“Your trousers are too loose!” Words came out of my mouth.

“I never asked anything!” His husky voice answered back.

My soul was embarrassed, more than embarrassed…it was dying from inside.

*Sigh

My feet walked over to his presence and perched on the chair in front of him.

“Why did you help me?” My curious tone broke the silence again.

Our eyes met again and his head slightly tilted to the left. He grabbed a knife from the cutlery set and closed the distance between us to inches.

We were close, very close!!

My heart started pounding and nervousness shrouded my body.

“Why did I help you?” His brow twitched.

“Because you're my target, others can't play with you…not until Asher Da Vinci is bored playing with you.”

That nerve of his!!

He pointed the knife at my neck and slowly slid down to my chest. Our eyes were still looking at each other, even though the focus was somewhere else.

He tore the top buttons of the shirt with that knife and the buttons flung high against the wall. My cleavage was exposed and his eyes were looking at it with the same stiff face which makes you think about his wicked mind.

“Thought it would be suffocating!”

His sarcastic tone mumbled.

The rest of the night, we didn't exchange words…he served me dinner, went back to his bedroom and closed the door.

On the other hand, I finished my dinner and stayed in the guest room till 4 am in the morning. My eyes couldn't sleep, the bed was too comfortable and the room was big enough to freeze me cold, even though there was a warm blanket.

The main door was locked and Asher was still sleeping in his bedroom, so I just jumped off the guest room's window and left his mansion, leaving his shirt behind.

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My feet entered the school through that same dark tunnel. Luckily, I was early since the water motor starts at 5 am.

My slow tapping steps quietly stepped into my room and jumped onto the bed. The school starts at 8 am, so there was no one to notice my sneaky presence.

Three hours later…

My eyes opened with the sound of my alarm clock, and it was already school time. I was looking like a zombie, but at least my tired body managed to get up from the bed.

Getting dressed, my feet headed straight to the classroom and once again…my presence was the center of attention.

A rumor started in the school that Rain Bonetti is trying to seduce Asher Da Vinci. Does it even make sense?

I walked over to my bench and Nadine rushed to me with a guilty face. Tears rolled down her eyes and she hugged me tightly…perhaps, her way of saying sorry for what happened last night.

“Are you angry?” She narrowed her eyes with stress.

“Don't worry about it.” My lips smiled.

“You're an angel.” Her soul was relieved.

“But were you with him at his mansion?” She whispered.

My head nodded to her words.

Her palms grasped her mouth and her eyes widened with shock.

“No wonder Sasha is pis*ed at you!”

“She spread the rumor that you're trying to steal her man, her mate!”

“Mate?” My mind had no idea.

“You don't know about mates?” Nadine furrowed her brows.

Father taught me everything, trained me, but he never mentioned mates. It was always how to kill an enemy stronger than you…the word mate was new to me.

Now that I think about it, Sylvia never brought it up either.

“Were you living under a rock?” Her voice slightly raised.

Yeah, it was like living under a rock, but she can't know that.

*Breath

“Let me explain it to you.” She took charge to educate me on that topic.

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There's a mate mirror in the white church of Marceta which reveals every Wolf's mate on their 17th birthday.

It's like an old tradition of our Black Storm clan, where once you turn 17, you go to the white church and ask the mate mirror to reveal your mate given to you by the Moon Goddess.

There's a possibility that one male wolf can have two mates, but a female wolf only has one mate.

When a male marks his mate either on her neck or her shoulder with her permission then only their bond is accepted and grows stronger, but if he doesn't mark his mate, their bond will never grow and he/she ends up choosing someone else.

The mate mirror will never reveal your mate if it's a human since humans are our enemies, the mirror is shrouded with a magic which protects a wolf from knowing about his human mate.

If any wolf is found with a human mate, the human will be killed.

The mate bond is so strong that if the bond is broken after the marking and one of them dies, the other mate will also die or might go crazy.

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“So the wolf with a human mate…how will he recognize his mate since the mirror won't show it to him?”

“If he ever crosses paths with his human mate, a strong bond will slowly start to form and though it will take time, both of them will eventually recognize each other as their mates.”

Nadine covered her face with her palms and further spoke…

“But it will never happen since humans are not even allowed to step foot in Marceta. The wolf with a human mate might have to live alone for the rest of his life or with a chosen mate.”

“Who is your mate?” My lips asked.

Her face frowned and she appeared to be extremely disappointed.

“Some guy, he's just a player!”

“He hasn't marked you yet?”

“He wanted to, but I never allowed him.”

“Forget about me…”

“Aren't you curious about your mate?”

To be honest, my heart wanted to know about my mate, even though we can never be together in this life.

Before my words could answer, a student hurried inside and announced to the whole class in his loud voice...

“Rocco is back and he is waiting for you in the theatre room.” His finger pointed at me in the whole class.