His Inescapable Mate novel Chapter 12

I growled and leaned forward to intimidate her.

Jessie didn't seem phased. "As I recall," she smiled, "Alpha forbade werewolves from attacking humans on school grounds. Plus, Nora would hate you forever if I told her to."

I stood back, shocked at this human's bravery in the face of a werewolf in line to be the beta. Nevertheless, I caved in to her. "Fine, no more mile for you," I growled.

Jessie's smile grew even wider. "Okay, so how do you need my help with Nora?" she asked.

"I need to know how I can win her over." I was growing desperate. Sure it's only been one day, but she won't even tolerate being in the same bed with me, as most mates do on their first night together. I wasn't going to try anything sexual, I just wanted to have her in my arms, keeping her by my side through the night.

Jessie shook her head. "Nora's afraid of the werewolves, ever since they revealed themselves. In fact, she has this plan to go-" Jessie's eyes widened and she stopped talking.

"What plan?" I urged, wanting to know if there was something that my mate was coming up with. "Tell me, now!"

"Uhh," Jessie mumbled. She shuffled her feet and looked down at the ground. "I gotta go. I...uh, have my period." With that Jessie ran off towards the girl locker rooms, leaving me both stunned and disgusted.

Still, I needed to figure out what my mate was up to. As soon as I get home, I'll just have to confront her about it, demanding to know if she had any plans to leave me. A thought popped into my head and I pulled out my cell phone, sending a quick text to a friend that I knew would be of use to me now.

Nora's POV

Luckily for me, Vincent's house was easy to leave. As soon as he left to go to the school, I waited like ten minutes and then just strolled out the door.

It was rather anti-climactic, making me think about how much cooler it would have been if I had been required to make a rope out of bed sheets or had to out-run some guard dog. But nope, instead I walked out of the front door.

I guess with nothing to do, I'll just go home and relax there... oh wait, my brother's home sick today, which means my mom will be there taking care of him. Which means she'll wonder why I'm not at school today, which means she'll eventually learn that I've been chosen to be a werewolf's mate, getting me kicked out of the house.

"Why don't you hide with your mate then?" Reed asked.

I looked up at him in confusion.

"I smell his scent on you," he clarified.

Well that sucks. "He's at work." In a way, I didn't lie. Vincent was actually at work right now. And besides, Reed doesn't need to know that I'm hiding from my...mate, ew.

"Come inside," Danni said, pushing Reed to the side a little bit. I hesitantly walked inside her house and stood awkwardly in the living room that she led me into. I took a seat on the couch that Danni pointed for me to sit on.

Reed followed us in, sitting next to Danni, an arm wrapped securely around her waist. The whole time he kept his gaze trained on me, as if he didn't trust me, which he probably doesn't.