Her Mate or Her Professor

Chapter 2

Richard's POV

I never expected to see her on my first day of work, even though, ironically, she was the reason I came here in the first place.

Back at my pack, there was an order every one of us was made to follow, an order that impeded bondage on all of us, especially those who were burdened with the welfare of the pack.

I didn’t want that life, I wanted a simple life, one filled with freedom and opportunities to explore. It was in my quest to find a purpose that I found Mia.

I had just gotten to the Silvermoon pack, Laila was my friend and a teacher at the university. She informed me of a party she wanted to attend and asked me to join her as her plus one. At first, I declined her request, but after giving it much thought, I decided to go with her.

On that night during the party, that was when I found her. I was seated at the rear of the hall when her scent filled my nose, I scanned the room looking for where the scent came from, and my wolf jumped excitedly. That was when my eyes rested on her. She was the most beautiful girl I had ever seen and as if the goddess was playing a smart move on me, she was everything I could ever want in a mate.

She was clean, thick, and beautiful. I knew that instant that she was my mate.

It was an awesome feeling, because though, I wasn't exactly looking for a mate, there was this instant feeling of completion as soon as I laid my eyes on her.

A part of me was curious to meet her that night, but I restrained myself. Going to meet her meant I was ready to be committed to her, and I wasn’t ready for that. I have never been one to like any kind of commitment, So I had to fight the urge to meet her and just settled with watching her from afar.

But as each day passed by, I became restless and all I wanted to do was to be seated next to her, smell her, and touch her.

And most importantly, claim her.

So, after much struggle, I made it my duty to look out for her. I started following her, stalking her if you may say. Even though I couldn't be with her, I couldn't think of letting her out of my sight. My wolf hated me for it, he called me a coward, but I maintained my composure for both our sakes.

With Laila’s help, I was able to apply for a job at the Silvermoon Pack College, I didn’t get one immediately, until last week when I got the email that I would be a temporary anatomy teacher since the old one was leaving. I accepted it instantly, it was all I needed to see her.

And yet, when I finally laid eyes on her, I still wasn’t prepared.

All I wanted to do as soon as I saw her was to take her into my car, strap her to my seat so she never left my sight, and drive away, to a place where no one would find us. In a place, we could be ordinary people relishing in our mate bond.

While we were outside, I tried my best not to stare at her because other students were there, and people would talk if they noticed anything strange.

It was difficult to walk past her like I hadn’t seen her, but it was even more difficult to not look at her while I was teaching. I knew she felt it too, and somehow I could feel she was upset with me, she had every right to.

That was why as soon as she excused herself to go to the bathroom, I couldn’t hold myself anymore, at that moment I didn’t care about what anyone else thought.

I left the class with their permission, to attend to an emergency. Well, it was an emergency, an emergency of the heart.

A second time, I said, "Are you alright?" She didn't answer me. Her stares seemed blank but, yet, intense. I had been planning to ignore her till the end of the class, but I just couldn't make it to possibility.

Her stares had almost tore through my soul in class, I knew we were mates. I had felt the mate bond way before she did. On the night I had met her being harassed by four men. I doubt she would have remembered the incident but I was the one that helped her.

Lycans like myself, can smell their mates from a mile away. It saved a lot of stress on looking for mates.

I couldn't help but feel incredibly drawn to her. Between the both of us, I felt a most incredible force of attraction. But I tried my best to seize and take hold of myself and the urges that usually accompanied the mate bond.

As I stood beside her, a part of me wanted to grab her into myself and make intense love to her just right there. Another part, the more rational side, the logical teacher who had sworn to obey the laws of the school, wanted to stay by myself, till maybe some other time.

Should I tell her about the intense feelings I had for her? I decided against that. I was not by any chance ready for any sort of commitment in my life especially in a school setting such as this.

Moreover, she was young and innocent, something that excited my wolf, but I tried to him in check.

My wolf, although had other plans, as it tried to force its way into my consciousness. I took that too as a cue to get myself out of there.

"I am sorry," I said nervously, brushing my hair back and comporting myself out of the place.

I stepped Into the classroom to see a host of eyes staring at me. I was used to all of this.

I had always been something to look at and admire. It wasn't something that I got embarrassed of anymore. But still, the look from her always got me. I hadn't yet gotten her name. She was still pretty much an enigma to me.

I took my place on my seat and continued my teaching while, actively waiting to see her come back to the class. But seconds morphed into minutes, minutes dwindled into hours, and I still didn't see her.

Soon my class ended and I left the class to let in the next teacher.

Now and then I found myself staring into the crowd of students, hoping to see her walking with her friends or to pick her scent.

Talking about her scent, it was getting fainter by the minute, and I wondered if she had left school or if it was just me overthinking.

"Where did she go to?" I asked myself in whispers.

I took long moments staring at my door, waiting for her to come in any second.

This was how my first day at work in the school had turned out. My neck was already hurting from the constant twisting to inspect for her. Thinking about it, I realized that my life was about to get even more complicated than it was.

I managed to take my next class, and I couldn't help but see her face he some of the students that I was teaching.

The possible thought of her being wrapped up in another guy's hand came to my mind and sudden anger surged through me that I had to pause to control myself.

The moon goddess knows that I would kill any bastard that dares to lay a finger on her.

I tried to burn the thought of her out of my head for the rest of the day. I realized it wouldn't be good for the record if my first day at work was used to obsess over a girl.

That frame of thought seemed to work for a while, but in a minute it came back. The usual obsession. I excused myself from the class to go check around the restroom.

I couldn't go into the female restroom so I had to ask the female students popping out now and then from the place if there was a female student in there. I gave them a description of her, but they all had not seen anyone with that description.

I went back to the class. I wanted to ask some of her friends what might have happened, but I figured that would have been a little bit too forward with that.

Also, I did not want to put any funny ideas in their heads.

Instead, I chose the even harder decision to stalk and eavesdrop on her friends. I knew that there was a group of girls I had earlier seen her with, and they were right there in class.

Whilst doing this, I soon found out her name, Mia. Even though she had mumbled her name back in class, It was nice hearing her friends talk about her.

I also found out that she had sent a text to one of them, saying that she wasn't feeling well quite alright and so had to forfeit classes. According to the words of the one who spoke, she had not been acting strange for quite some time now.

After class hours, I retired back to my office where the air was buzzing with my phone's ringtone. I was annoyed at it in some unusual way I couldn't fathom myself.

I looked at the screen of my phone to see 10 missed calls. I shrugged it off and sat on my seat, staring at the window. My gaze falls across the school vicinity I was staring at.

I heard a knock and someone came in. He was the teacher I was replacing. His old face poked in with a smile.

I smiled back amidst the emotional stress I was going through.

"How are you doing?" He asked.

"I'm doing quite fine, sir," I said.

"This school and the class you're taking can be quite a handful so hit me you'll need pointers on how to settle in,” he said friendly.

My mind raced through everything I had been through that day. Certainly, the old man wouldn't know about how to handle mate bonding with a student, would he? I guessed not.

"Well, I am grateful for your offer. But I think I'll get along just fine," I said to him in assurance.

We say a few more stuff to each other and soon get on our various ways.

After work, I decided to drive towards Mia's hostel and see if she was outside. She wouldn't recognize my car, I said to myself. By luck, there she was, sitting on the lawn.

Every bit of her was a beauty to behold. I sat in my car for a few more minutes watching her and memorizing every inch of her body. But soon she got up and walked into her room, leaving me a little sad and empty.

I could hardly wait for it to be tomorrow.