6. The aftermath

“He just doesn’t know any better” the words kept ringing in Xander’s ears, he had heard them before from another woman. A woman with brown and caring eyes. Xander closed his eyes and clenched his fist. He could feel his nails grow a bit cutting his palm. He tried to close of the sounds of his mothers pleading voice. “don’t do anything Xander, he just doesn’t know how to love.”

“We need our mate” Xavi complained.

“I don’t need a mate that can’t take care of herself. I don’t need a mate that let people use her, she is way to weak to be my mate” Xander replied angrily to his wolf.

“We should have killed that guy for touching our mate.” Xavi growled inside Xander’s head.

“She defended him” Xander said angry shutting out the voice of his wolf.

Xander was still enraged, when Christian, Luke and Cammie had retrieved him at the school he had calmed down a bit because his mate had touched his hand, while caring for him. The mate of a werewolf is able to calm the wolfs with their presence, scent and touch. In general werewolves feel and react more on everything. It takes a lot to control the reaction of a wolf. This is also why the love of a mate is the purest of all loves. If a mate gets rejected, it could lead to insanity, rage or death. The same can happen if a mate were to die. In many cases a wolf dies from the sorrow, unless there is some other reason to live on, like pups, revenge or a pack. Alphas feel even more, because their wolf part is stronger. That is the reason that Xander reacted as he did, and he couldn’t stop thinking of what happened.

He had arrived late at the school, but he knew she was there. at the lunchbreak he had went looking for her, his wolf wanted to see her, even though he didn’t want a mate, his wolf wouldn’t shut up about her. So, he just went to see her, so his wolf would quiet down. He had followed her scent and when he saw her, she was caught between the douche from yesterday. He had his hands on her boobs, and she didn’t fight back. She just stood there letting him fondle her. Xander heard him call her a whore more than once and he just saw red. He slammed the boy into the wall, and he was just about to strangle him, when he heard her scream stop. His wolf reacted on her voice, he couldn’t help it, so he told the boy “I will find you and I will kill you if you ever touch what’s mine again ”and he had let go of the boy´s throat even though he wanted to rip out the throat instead.

But then she had tried to care for the boy, at that moment, Xander had been so close to turn, and let his wolf take control. He had to close his eyes and concentrate trying to keep Xavi down. But then, the boy had to call Hannah a whore again. There she was, trying to help him, and she had stopped his punishment once, and for what, so he could call her a whore again. Xander just couldn’t stop his reaction, he saw red, and he felt his nails grow out, and his wolf was about to lose control and go on a rampage and he threw a punch at the boy, but again she had to interfere “he just doesn’t know any better.” At this point Xander had lost it and Xavi was ready to kill. But when he saw her pleading eyes, while standing tall and strong. He had never seen anything that beautiful in his entire life. He wanted her! So Xander grabbed his mate, and he felt all the wonderful tingles on his hand. He wanted to kiss her and mark her. Show her that she shouldn’t care about any other male in the entire universe. Hell, if it weren’t for her innocence he would have mated with her right there at the school.

Xander dragged her into the empty classroom, and by that time he had calmed down a bit, and well at least he had some better control over the situation. While he had yelled at her she just stood there still. Her face didn’t give out any expressions. Even though he used his alpha-voice while yelling, she didn’t even flinch. He had seen grown men, older men, strong men, flinch at that voice. But she just stood there, with her back against the desk and received his anger. The only movement she made was rubbing her wrist. But she didn’t complain, she even told him it didn’t hurt, but he knew, for god’s sake, he could see the red mark he made on her wrist and he got mad at himself. He had sworn to NEVER hurt his mate, well he didn’t want a mate, but he would never hurt her if he met her, so he did what any reasonable man would do. He punched the wall. He punched it so hard, he broke a few bones in his hand. He had welcomed the pain from the punch. He knew that the bones would heal again in just a matter of a few minutes due to his alpha-genes. But the pain had cleared his head. He had turned around and spoken with her, but her face looked like she was worried, and she had tenderly looked at his hand, and cleaned it. The calming touch from her hand felt like something magical, the tingling feeling had spread through his entire body.

He stared at her beautiful face, a fair skinned oval with big round cobalt blue eyes that had a hint of silver around the iris. A few locks and strains of hair had gotten lose and caressed her cheeks. He had felt the urge to touch it. Her cheeks had a hint of pink colour on her cheek bones Xavi had been rumbling with contempt during her care for him. Xander had gotten lost in her beautiful blue eyes. He felt the pull of the mate bond get stronger. The entire world and all the problems with it had disappeared right there. with her hands holding his and he wanted her to never let go again. He wanted to kiss her. Then the others had mind-linked him, saying they were coming, and a second later they had broken the spell by barging through the door. Xavi had growled, “We need our mate, see she loves us” Xavi said.

Xander couldn’t deal with more so he just blocked the link to his wolf.

When he walked out the door, she had thanked him. THANKED him. He had hurt her. He had let another man call her a whore several times in one day and she thanked him. He wasn’t worthy of a mate, and he decided to stay away from her, he just had one left thing to do.

Xander mind-linked Christian. “Find out everything you can about the boy, who called my mate a whore, we are going to destroy and kill”

“yes Alpha”

Xavi was growling in anticipation, he couldn’t wait to get his claws in the boy who called his mate a whore, and who dared to place his filthy hands on her body and on this Xander was completely agreeing with his wolf.