Catch Her By Her Scent novel Chapter 8

"I'm sure you were." He said smirking at me.

Now I know that he won't tell anyone. He was sympathetic for me. He knew this was hard for me. I can't even imagine he feels though going to the mating games year after year and not finding his mate.

He walks back to his seat and so do I. I get there just in time for the seatbelt sign to light up. I have a feeling that the landing is going to be the worst part of the trip. I grip my seat so tightly I think I tore it a little.

We get out of the plane. I am just happy that we are back on the ground, nothing like solid earth beneath your feet. I look around at the city of London. It's beautiful, but it is a bit dreary with the foggy look about it. Now we have to spend a few hours in a bus to take us to the mansion for our pack while the games are in session.

We arrived at the mansion and it was enormous. It was big enough to fit a pack twice our size in it, let alone the few pack members that came with us. We walked inside and the inside was even more outstanding than the outside. When you walk in the first thing you see is the huge living room and kitchen on either side of the door. I didn't really care about those things though I just wanted to get a bedroom to sleep and hopefully they would forget about me and I could spend this whole experience in my room.

Alpha Max came in and he said, "Ok everyone, all the rooms are first come first serve, but you can't choose any room on the top floor."

I was the first one to run up the stairs to pick my room. I chose the room with the biggest bed and bathroom, with a TV. As soon as I set my things in the door I ran to the bed and threw myself down and groaned. The bed was so unbelievably comfortable and soft, it felt like I was lying on a cloud. I flipped over and went to grab the remote when the Alpha mind linked all of us, "dinner is going to be at the gathering ground a few minutes from here so once you get settled you all need to come down stairs so we can leave."

"Ok I wasn't sick per say I was just a little home sick and wanted to stay here to be sad and depressed and all that stuff.", I waved my hand in the air and tried to look sad and even teared up a little for it to have an effect on him, but of course he knew me to well to believe that.

"Nope you are not getting out of anything during this trip. You are going to do all the activities that are scheduled and you are going to at least try to enjoy them. So get out of the shower get ready and we will leave in ten minutes. If you aren't ready by then I will drag you out to the car ready or not, so I would hurry if I was you."

I grumbled and got out of the shower and went to my bag and got out some fresh clothes and went to wash my face to get all the sweat off. I changed into black jeans and a blue tank top and my favorite pair of blue and green converse. I went downstairs and stomped to the door like a little kid having temper tantrum. I walk out to the car and Maximum starts it and heads off toward the gathering. I hope I don't have to stay long, I hate huge crowds and this is certain to be the most crowded place I have ever been.