Packmates

The following morning, I woke up to find the room empty, Christian didn't come back that night.

I was sure of one thing, Christian Armstrong was not my mate.

The reason was crystal clear, I never felt the things a mate should feel when they first meet. As Binnie has told me.

And Christian's behaviour last night was not very mate-like.

I was getting ready when someone knocked on the door.

Frowning, I walked to open to door, revealing a beautiful lady. She was a petite brunette. She had hazel eyes and pale skin. She wore a blue blouse and cardigan paired with white shorts and white boots.

"Hi," I greeted her, I am sure confusion was written all over my face.

She rolled her eyes, "Where's Alpha Christian?" She asked.

Listening to his name sends a wave of disappointment coursing through me. I gulped before speaking, "I don't know, He didn't come back last night, Miss?" I told her before indirectly asking her name.

She looked me up to down, before gazing into my eyes, "Katherine," With that being said, she turned on her heels and walked away.

She paused near the stairs, "They asked me to call you downstairs, It's your first training session with the packmates, be there in ten minutes," She sneered at me. Then she was gone.

I heaved a sigh, 'Guess this dress will do me no good in a training session,' I told myself.

It took me fifteen minutes to hunt down a yoga pants and a blouse comfortable for the training session. I pulled my hair into a high ponytail. Resulting in me being ten minutes late for the training.

When I reached downstairs outside in the ground, Binnie was waiting for me.

She greeted me with a huge smile, "Hey!!! what took you so long," She asked.

I looked pointedly at my outfit, "I don't have clothes, it took me a while to find this one," I told her.

She pouted, "Didn't you check your walk-in closet?"

I frowned, "No in Christian's room there's no walk-in closet, it's just a wardrobe!" I said.

She smiled, looking like she was hiding her laughter, before I can ask the reason, We were called by Dominic.

"Are you girls ready for a hard time?" Dominic said walking to us, behind him was Binnie's mate Kingston.

Kingston hits his head hard, "You try using your filthy pick-up lines on my mate again, and I will bury you six inches within the ground," Kingston threatened, but it sounds plain like a friendly threat.

Binnie laughed, while I was awkward as fuck, because it was the first time I saw Dominic after yesterday's incident.

Without talking more, we all were walking in the direction of the training field.

I saw about a hundred people dressed in their workout clothes, I knew they all were Christian's packmates.

This was the first time I saw all of them together, you can easily recognise them because all of the packmates had a wolf howling tattoo on their right shoulder.

I was jealous as fuck, I never had anything like that. I guess it was because I never belonged anywhere.

The thought hurts like a bitch, I focused all my attention on what was happening in front of me to divert my attention from my thoughts.

"So everyone, Fenris and I will conduct the training session because Alpha Christian is not available today. Before starting, I would like to introduce everyone to our new member," Kingston told everyone in a loud authoritative voice.

He looked at me, I glower in his direction as he motioned me to come forward. Dreadly, I walked to where he and his partner, Fenris was standing.

"This is Trisha Volkov, Alpha's chosen, all of you were patiently waiting to meet her. We hope you all can welcome her and help her in training," Kingston asked everyone, I looked at everyone, some were looking at me with a welcoming look, while the others were expressionless.

I found Katherine in the front of the crowd. She was looking anywhere but at me.

"Now please choose your partners to spare off," Kingston announced with the clap of his hand.

The crowd immediately went to partner up with each other. I was left standing there, when I thought about partnering with Binnie, I saw she was already with a girl. Everyone already had their partners.

Disappointed, I started to walk off to find a corner somewhere, but a firm voice stopped me.

"Miss Trisha? Are you not going to spare off?"

I turned to find the person everyone was calling, Fenris speaking for the first time in front of me.

I gave him a half-hearted smile, "Actually I don't have a partner, I guess already everyone has been paired up."

He looked around, confirming my statement. He nodded, "I can train you if you don't mind," He offered me.

I hesitated, he looked like a good man, He was bulky, blonde. He had these green eyes and a chiselled jaw, giving him a young look. He wore a cargo pants and a tank top.

But who knows how his relationship with Christian was? After Christian's yesterday's behaviour with me, I don't want to even try testing his limits.

Then again, he should not care who I train with when he should be here but he was not.

With a smile, "Sure!" I said.

He extended his arm to show me where we will spare off.

"Do you know the basics of defending yourself?" He asked as we took our positions.

I shrugged, not letting out anything. But this was the only thing I love, I have trained myself since I was seven years old.

"So we will start with some major blows, all you have to dodge my punches, cool?" He asked.

I nodded, he didn't give me a second before he was coming at me. I dodged the punches easily because he was huge and I was tiny, it gave me more space and flexibility to dodge his moments.

When he didn't manage to land even a single blow, he stopped with a grin, "I was not expecting that, guess you are not all soft after all! I want to see what you got, let's spare off!" He told me.

I grinned, it was not every day that someone see what I am actually capable of. I feel a little of my dignity that I have lost in the past few days, coming back.

We spared off for an hour, I managed to land some blows at him but I was covered with bruises. He was very strong so I was proud of myself.

Our fight ended when he pinned me to the ground, we both were laughing my eyes were closed from the impact of the fall. Suddenly the sound of laughter vanished and his weight was lifted off me.

I opened my eyes to look at the scene unfolding in front of me.

I gasped, "Christian!"