The Wolfless Alpha

Chapter 5

In the office, Kai stands in front of the receptionist, no matter how many times he asks for help, there is no reply. He ends up resorting to waving his hand in front of her face, still to receive no reply. She has not stopped staring at him for even a moment, she even seems to not have the ability to blink, her mind has turned to jelly as she stares at the man that brings a new definition to handsome, the man that eclipses anyone that would even dare to call themselves handsome, she wants to swat the hand that is swinging in front of her as it is breaking her sight of the perfection.

Kai sighs. Why would they hire someone so young, who is not professional in the slightest, to be the first face that people see? Aren’t they worried about embarrassing the whole establishment? What type of joke are their employment standards?

While he has had this reaction before, it seems awfully exaggerated right now because he actually needs information from this woman, instead of being able to walk away like he would usually do in the same situation.

He finally bypasses her infatuated sight, knocking on the door of the principal's office before entering and getting all the relevant information.

He gets escorted to his first class. He has no first day jitters, he has no being nervous around new people, he even has no fear of getting into trouble, he just wants to sit down and waste his six months away until he can get back his wolf and can take leadership of the pack, getting rid of all these stupid old rules. How slowly can six months pass?

He blindly walks in the room without even taking in his surroundings, he cannot be bothered with this getting to know you. Let's all be friends. We are such good classmates, happy, happy times. He doesn’t even acknowledge the teacher as he walks past.

Kai is led to a seat and sits down in a leisurely fashion, placing his bag beside his feet and staring blankly at the front of the classroom.

Ember looks at Kai and his completely relaxed attitude can't help but quirk her lips in a small smile.

"Well, if it isn't the new kid?"

Kai still doesn't lift his head, just playing with his pen on the desk, he just hums in acknowledgement. His tone is bored, his expression uninterested, as he hears the sweet voice.

"That is me"

"While I don't usually agree with the masses. But I must say they are right this time. You are extraordinarily handsome, something about making the world stop spinning with your face. I could see that happening"

Kai finally looks up with a smirk on his face. The smirk quickly turns into a slight look of shock as he assesses the girl in front of him, before reverting straight back into a smirk. The girl sitting next to him is the most beautiful creature he has ever seen in his life, leaps and bounds in beauty above anyone else. Caramel coloured hair and her dazzling green eyes, the colouring is so vivid and matched perfectly with her exquisite facial features.

While many people stare at Kai, he has never had anyone quite so blatant as the girl sitting next to him.

But it is the way she looks at him that interests him, like she is passing by and admiring a piece of art, something that she has no intention of owning for herself, just appreciation, nothing more, nothing less.

It is the oddest gaze he has ever encountered and he can't help but look twice at this girl and not just for her stunning beauty.

"Is that a compliment?"

Ember laughs.

"How else could you possibly take extraordinarily handsome?"

"Well, you are extraordinarily beautiful, so I thought you might just be passing comment from one good-looking person to the next”

Ember laughs harder, her green eyes come alive when she laughs, adding another dimension to her beauty. It is not false to call her a breathtaking beauty as Kai actually feels his lungs constrict as he watches her.

"Congratulations, that is the most narcissistic thing I have ever heard in my life and I have incredibly narcissistic brothers, so it is a true accomplishment"

Kai can't help but smile genuinely this time, his smirk is gone, the way that the girl's face lights up when she smiles and her laugh is as smooth as silk. It is hard not to be infected by her joyous laugh.

"What can I say? I do have a mirror"

Ember laughs again and sticks out her hand for a handshake, offering an introduction. Kai doesn’t pause before taking her small soft hand inside his large rough hand. The size difference between the two looks perfect, the two fitting together so well.

"Not that you probably care, but in between looking at yourself in the mirror and having the entire female population drooling, in case you feel like chatting to someone sometime my name is Ember"

"Hi Ember, my name is Kai"

"What brings you to this school Kai?"

The more Ember looks at Kai the more she finds it confusing. He is obviously human, but his physique, his look, basically everything about him screams wolf apart from the blatant lack of scent.

"My father forcing me into it?"

“You sound like you are asking me”

“Maybe I am?”

Ember smiles and shakes her head in amusement.

"Your father forced you to come to this school? Why?"

"Now that there, my dear Ember, is a question that I have no answer for"

Ember decides to ignore the boy, he has player written all over him 'my dear ember' what a smooth talker, yuck.

She faces the front but still moves her books slightly to the middle so that Kai can follow the page and catch up on the notes.

Kai can obviously sense the alienation that is coming off her in waves, his smile grows slightly. Good he was hoping that she wasn't like the others. He gave her an in and instead of taking it, she backed right up.

She is obviously a wolf, whether she has her wolf or any other information, without his own wolf and being able to scent her, he has no idea.

This school has a lot of downsides, such as the swarm that nearly attacked him at the gate this morning, being a big one, the receptionist being another, but at the very least there is a sassy little eye candy. Kai gets out his schedule and slides it in front of Ember. Looking at her with his bewitching copper eyes.

She looks quickly at his class schedule and then back up into his eyes. She has never seen eyes that color before. She shakes her head once again, she would think her nose was faulty, but the uproar in the school was big enough already. If it really was a new stunningly handsome wolf that had started from no where, the whole school would have spontaneously combusted.

She rolls her eyes as his smile grows and she realizes that she has been staring at him for way too long, damn those copper eyes being so mesmerizing. In her defence, she is innocent, she was not fan girling, just slightly hypnotized.

"Fine”

Her slender tanned finger runs down the list before pausing.

“I have the same next class. I will escort you, but follow far behind me. I don't need the type of rumors that you will bring with you"

"Are you saying that I am embarrassing?"

Ember raises her eyebrows and gives him a sinister smirk.

"Take it how you will"

"What if I was to walk along holding your hand?"

Kai finds it hard to kick his cocky alpha attitude and just really wants to tease this girl, her expressions are so animated.

"If you want to be beaten up by three males, go for it"

"Wow Ember”

Kai looks her up and down assessing her before continuing.

“Three on the go?"

Ember resists the urge to mess up his handsome face with her fist. Three on the go?

"Two brothers and a boyfriend"

"You have two brothers at this school?"

"Yep, we are triplets"

Kai nods multiples in wolves is a reasonably common occurrence, so doesn’t ask further.

"You aren't surprised?"

"Should I be?"

Ember shrugs. Well, obviously it is not interesting at all.

“Tell me more about your boyfriend”

"Temporary"

Ember wants to clamp a hand over her mouth as the word fell out. Why would she say that to him? What was she even thinking?

"Temporary?"

Damage is done, so she can only explain.

"We are waiting for the loves of our lives"

"So you aren't each others?"

"Nope, we thought we were, but turns out we are not"

Kai is suddenly amused by how fluently she can spout nonsense to a 'human'. Because without the mate bond, as if it would be so easy at eighteen to tell so finally who the ‘love of your life’ is. He wants to press her to see how far she can go with this ridiculous description.

"How do you know when you meet the love of your life?"

"It will be love at first sight”

"Could it be me?"

Ember looks at Kai with a smirk, how a whole lot of handsome brings a whole lot of over confidence.

"Well, I have seen you and there is not much love, so probably not"

"Could it be though?"

"I couldn't handle a lover like you. I need to be the best looking one in the relationship, otherwise the man will have wandering eyes"

"And being the better looking one eliminates the risk?"

"Doesn't eliminate, only helps"

What Kai gathers from that whole situation is that her boyfriend is not her mate but her explanation of love at first sight and true love being so easy to come by. One look and you know who the love of your life is, it sounds so superficial to say it without knowing the mate bond, it sounds like you can make the decision on your life partner just based on what is on the outside. If she was actually talking to a human they would think she is insane.

But for some reason he seems to like listening to her dribbling nonsense like it is fact.

Maybe helped by the fact that her voice is very sweet and very soothing and helped a lot by the fact the words are coming out of a very beautiful mouth, that is attached to a stunning face.