Heart for Three

6

Jax

"Fuck." I muttered to myself as I basically ran down the hall. "Fuck. Fuck. Fuck. Fuck."

I shouldered some freshmen out of the way but didn't stop to apologize. I needed to get away from that girl and her alluring scent that still clung to my nostrils.

"Why are you leaving? That's our mate!" My wolf growled in my mind.

"You know damn well why." I spat back, putting the wall up between us, if only to keep myself from running back to her like he was urging us to.

I didn't stop until I reached the parking lot and hastily climbed into my jeep. I slammed the door closed, breathing deeply to calm myself down.

It wasn't working.

I punched the steering wheel and cursed when it bent out of shape.

Ava's pretty face ran through my head again and I groaned, leaning back in my seat and running a hand through my hair.

I pulled out my phone and quickly typed a text to Arsen, my beta.

"Yo, I'm headed back to the house. I'll see you there later."

The three little dots floated on the screen for barely a second before his reply popped up.

"You good?"

I threw the phone onto the passenger seat with a humorless laugh. No, no I was definitely not "good".

I sighed and started the car, quickly backing out of the space and listened to the tires squeal as I sped out of the parking lot. A small group of students jumped out of the street as I sped past them. I ignored the curses they yelled after me.

It wasn't until I got onto the highway that I started to calm down. I reached for my phone without looking away from the road.

"Siri, call Dad." I said into the speaker, thrumming my fingers against my now bent steering wheel as it rang. I'd have to fix that when I got home.

"Hey son, I'm in a meeting, can I call you bac-" My dad said cheerily when he answered the phone.

"I found my mate." I blurted out, wincing when I was met with silence on the other end.

"Dad?" I asked after a long moment.

"I'm here, I'm here." He said, I heard rustling in the background and figured he was getting up to go into his office for privacy. "Ok, I can talk. Are you sure it's her?"

I squeezed my eyes shut for a brief moment before focusing back on the road. "I'm positive. I knew the second she looked at me."

"Well?" He asked when I didn't say anything else.

"She's fucking beautiful." I groaned. He chuckled before becoming serious again.

"Did you- you didn't um, you didn't mark her yet did you?" He asked hesitantly.

I couldn't help rolling my eyes. "Of course not. I do have some self control."

"Good, good. Come to the pack house. We'll talk about this. I'll have Arsen meet us here too. I'm guessing you ditched school?"

"Yea.." I grimaced. He chuckled again and I couldn't help feeling a little bit relieved.

"Normally I'd tell ya to turn your ass around and get back there, but today, I'll let it slide. I'll see you when you get here."

"Alright."

He hung up and I put on some music, trying and failing to take my mind off of the gorgeous curly haired girl that had just unknowingly turned our worlds upside down. I sighed in frustration as I hit shuffle, because it would be just my luck that the song she had been listening to when I first saw her began playing.