Alpha Adryan
twelve

Adryan was sitting in his office when he had smelled her scent, thescent of strawberries overpowered his strong wolf senses. It wascoming from the direction of the hallway.

Violet had asked Jade to meet her in her room, which was a floor belowthe one Jade was currently staying in.

Her mind wandered towards Adryan unconsciously, she hadn't realizedthat she was thinking about him.

Just as she was about to take a step forward, a hands shoots out ofnowhere, circling around her waist as they pulled her towards theirchest.

Tingles rose all around both of their body as their skins came in contactwith each other.

Jade was too surprised to react at first.

“Wha-" she speaks up but gets cut off by Adryan's loud voice.

“What the fuck were you thinking ? Do you have a fucking death wishor something? Because you were about to take a tumble down thefucking stairs and break your fucking neck and spinal cord into two" hisdeep voice snaps loudly, his incessant use of the word “fucking’ madeher cringe.

“I - 1 was thinking about someone” she says

She realized her mistake a second too later when she felt Adryan's gripon her waist tighten considerately.

Adryan's mind almost immediately went towards that Delta of his. Theone Jade had gone out on a date with. His mind flares up in rage as hethinks about them together and even worse that mutt being on hismates mind.

“What? Couldn't get that night out of your mind princess?“Adryan’s lipsquirk up on one side in a smirk. Taunting her, when suddenly thatnights events hit him.

His question made her gasp in shock, she didn't think he would bringthat up. It had almost been a good two weeks, and she had thought hewould forget about it with time and plus he seemed busy with hisAlpha duties, she wasn't expecting this.

Adryan's smirk widens when he sees her reaction to his words.

Leaning forwards so that his lips were near her ear, he whispers into herears seductively.

“Don't worry, I couldn't get the feeling of your body against mine outof my mind" his nose trials the side of her neck in a slow motion, sparksigniting her whole body at his action.

“I need to go” she immediately steps back from his hold, and for someweird reason he lets her go too. She immediately scurries away from hisfigure. This time she was careful while she descended the steps, carefulnot to break her neck.

"Finally you are here" these were Violet's first words the moment Jadehad stepped into her room. Violet helped her guide into her room. Theroom smelled of apples, Violet's scent and citrus which Jade guessedwas Brian scent, the Beta and Violet's mate.

Violet's takes in Jades appearance, she appeared to be flustered a bit."Did anything happen? Did that bitch Lucia do or say anything to

you?" Violet asks her with a scrunch of her brows.

Violet was enraged when she had heard about the things Lucia said toViolet. She wanted to tear that she-wolves fake extensions off her head."No, I — I just seemed to forget the directions to your room, so I

had asked Malia for the directions" Jade lies, she felt bad for lying,

but she didn’t want to reveal the piece of information where she hadbeen with Adryan.

Violet just replies with an “okay’, but still felt suspicious of Jade's fidgetyactions, but didn't question her about it.

"Okay, so do you know anything about the Mating Ball?"

"Uh- yeah I do. Why?" Jade asks confused.

"Well, it's going to be held at our pack this year. And guess what? It'sthe next month." Violet speaks up, her voice dripping with excitement.The Mating Ball was conducted every year, it was a tradition that hadbeen going on for hundreds of years. Mating Ball was held for the solepurpose of helping newly shifted wolves replace their soul

mates, chosen mates for the rejected ones.

Werewolves shift into their wolves at the age of sixteen, where one canbe able to recognize his or her mate with touch, scent etc.

Rejected wolves could mate with each other willingly, or even withthose whose mate that unfortunately passed away.

Every wolf looked forward to this Ball. It was one of the main event ofthe year. Packs from all across the globe attended this Ball.

From ranks that of Omega's to Alphas, this ball had every singlemember of a pack.

Even the mated couples attended this ceremony, including toddlers andchildren, teenagers etc.

There was no exception. It was some sort of reunion of sort for thewerewolf population.

Over the years, the Ball also helped form connections between twopacks, forming alliances among each other as such.

"Why is it being conducted here this year?" Jade asks with confusion."Because our pack has the biggest Ballroom of all, silly. And for the pastfive years it had been conducted in our pack.”

"Oh" Jade didn't know this piece of information since she had neverattended the Mating Ball ever, also one of the reason why Adryan neverfound her earlier and plus Jade was twenty whereas Adryan

was twenty-five. She was nine years too late.

"You didn't know it, did you?" Violet questions her when she sees Jade'slack of response.

Jade shakes her head in a no.

"Well, I had picked up a dress for you when we visited the mall lastweek. I can't wait to dress you up.” Violet squeals excitedly.

Being a Beta female, other she wolf's in the pack were afraid of Violet.Also, she didn't get along with some of them since they'd try to hit onher mate occasionally which made her wolf and herself mad.

Ever since Jade had arrived six months ago, Violet was able to form astrong bond of friendship with her, and she was thankful for her,

also now that Violet has someone to play dress up with.

About a week ago Violet and Jade had

gone out shopping for Jade, since she only had casual clothing with herand nothing fancy. Violet had forced her to visit almost every shop shecould replace and try on millions on pieces of dresses. Jade was exhaustedby the end of their shopping adventure but Violet's happiness made itworth it.

Jade was excited as well as nervous for the Mating Ball.