His Inescapable Mate novel Chapter 3

One our way back to the locker room, I felt a tap on my shoulder. I turned and, to my dismay, saw Kyle walking behind me.

"'Sup Nora," he smiled, showing off his huge canines. His giant fang-like teeth sent shivers down my spine. If there was one physical aspect I hate about werewolves, it's their canines.

"Hi," I mumbled, turning my gaze forward. I was only about one minute away from the girls' locker room, why did Kyle have to catch me now?

"So I was wonderin'," Kyle began, moving so that he was he was in front of me, walking backwards, "there's this new horror movie playing tomorrow at the theaters, and I wanted to know if you and Jessie would like to come with me and Josh."

I shook my head. There's no way in Hell that I'd ever hang out with a werewolf! "No thanks, I'm busy."

Kyle put on a fake frown. "C'mon Nora, you know you should take full advantage before I find a mate," he said, trying to wiggle his eyebrow seductively.

"I have a boyfriend," I lied, again. Damn, I'm a regular Pinocchio today.

Kyle eyed me suspiciously, totally challenging my made-up boyfriend. "What's his name?"

I rolled my eyes. "You're not Alpha, I don't have answer to you."

"Well then," Kyle mused, "I could just mention that you've never met my friend Josh, who doesn't have a mate either." Kyle smirked, knowing that he got me. Unmated werewolves had priority over humans. I was sort of required now to meet Josh if he demanded to see me just in case to see if we were, God forbid, mates. Plus, if a human is in a relationship and gets chosen to be a werewolf's mate, then the human has to end the relationship. If they're married though, then the human has the right to stay with their spouse, but it's likely that the werewolf will either try to kidnap their mate or kill the spouse. Plus, a mated werewolf is forbidden to be in a relationship with anyone but their mate...if that were possible.

Werewolves become completely obsessed with their mates.

"Tell Josh to call me if he really wants to see me, then I'll think about it," I said. I finally reached the locker room and rushed inside to get away from Kyle. My locker was at the back of the room next to Danni's.

"Hi Nora," Danni said when she saw me. She took off her gym shirt, allowing me to see the bite mark that her mate put on her shoulder, signifying that she's taken.

"Hi Danni," I mumbled, a little scared to talk to her, lest her mate get jealous of our semi-friendship. Danni sensed this and quickly got changed so that she could leave. Ever since Danni got chosen to be a mate, people grew afraid of her mate's possessiveness.

I got dressed in my regular clothes and went out of the locker room to wait in the hallway for the remaining three minutes of Thursday at school. Jessie soon left the locker room and walked up to me. "I was just told by Andrea that there's a new PE coach. Old Coach is getting fired, that's why he was in a bad mood...well, extra bad mood today," she said.

"Are they human?" I asked, hoping with all my might that I'd have a human teacher this year.

Jessie shook her head. "No he's a werewolf. He's actually the beta-to-be."

"That sucks."

"I'm Vincent," he said, "I'm your mate."

I stared up into the face of this Vincent werewolf who was now claiming that I'm his mate. There's no way I can be the mate to a werewolf! It's impossible, he's got to be joking. I scanned his face to see if he was just messing with me.

Vincent stared at my face with longing in his eyes, his mouth in a wide smile. His whole face was alight with zeal, like he had just won the lottery.

"Mate," he breathed, reaching out with his arm, as if to touch me.

My body was trembling. Shit! I can't be a werewolf's mate! I can't be stuck here in this territory! I'm supposed to be running away to Miami! I'm meant to live with humans, not werewolf monsters!

I quickly moved from his reach. "Sorry," I quickly muttered. "You've got the wrong person." I ran back into the girls' locker room where the male werewolf wouldn't be able to follow me. I frantically looked around for another exit that I'd be able to escape that stupid werewolf through.

I can't be his mate!

Tears began to well up in my eyes and I grabbed at my hair. What do I do? What will my parents say? They hate werewolves, there's no way they'll want me to be mated to one! I'll be kicked out, and I won't be allowed to live on the streets because my supposed mate will make me live with him.