Why The Hell Not (Currently Editing)

Kate Kenner

Zara
It's been a week, a whole week since I've seen my mate... in person anyway. He's been all over the news. Packs just can't get over how young he is and how it's somehow disrespectful to everyone else. I personally think they just feel threatened by change.

I've watched pretty much every news story I can about him, practically drooling over how sexy he is. I've only had two interactions with him, and I guess you can say that I'm already addicted.

I'd be lying if I said that some of the news headlines about him didn't have me feeling some type of way.

The hashtag 'Alpha Malakai's Mate' would normally be a good thing to see if the pictures included my face.

But nope, the hashtags included pictures of my mate and the purple headed chick from my brother's office. Countless pictures and videos of them hugging, smiling, and being so very close to each other.

Literarily when you look up his name and click on images, over 50% of the pictures have her face on them.

What makes it worse is that I have no idea who she really is or anyway to ask him about it.

I just see this drop-dead gorgeous girl next to my mate every fucking day and it kills me. She's at every meeting, every conference, everything that he does she's right there like I should be!

Her stupid light brown skin and dumb big brown eyes with the long lashes. Her horribly perfect body that looks fit, almost carved, and her annoyingly angelic voice!

The thought of her being next to him makes me want to punch someone through a wall!

Anyway, it was about 7pm and I decided to go for a walk to clear my head because if I spend more time thinking about it, I'm going to explode.

I liked to take my walks later in the day when most people are in the house getting ready for the next day. This time at night was perfect, it wasn't noisy, hot, or too dark.

I had on a Nike jumpsuit that I got in the towns where the humans lived. I loved going into their territory, they have the coolest stuff and best food!

We normally only eat what we grow, hunt, or trade. Humans eat EVERYTHING! Including sweets! We don't have anything sweat besides maple syrup, honey, and fruits. Anything else we get from the humans.

"Excuse me ma'am?" A strange voice called out. Judging by the pitch I could tell it was a child.

I looked to my side and met eyes with a young girl.

"Hey honey, where's your parents?" I asked, walking over to her. She seemed to be about 5 years old.

Light blond hair, green eyes, with clothes covered in mud.

"At home I think, I don't know" she shrugged. "I told them I wasn't ready to go yet, and they tried to force me, sooooooo I went back out to play on this huge rock thing. I tried to walk home but I think I'm lost." She said, grabbing my hand. "How do I get to the spaceship thing?"

What?

Luckily, I was the one who found her and not some creep! This little girl was very trusting. She held my hand confidently, like she's never met a stranger.

She was also confusing me, so I tried I different approach.

"Do you know your address?" I asked, continuing to walk. Our pack's addresses are broken up into Street, Drive, and Road, all started with a number and our pack name, Midnight. It should be pretty simple to find her house.

Kids normally don't get lost in our pack. My brother absolutely hates crimes against children. He made it a law that all children, under the ages of 15, must be indoors by 6:30 pm if they are not with their parents or a family member listed as a guardian. He does have a list of all of the guardians of each child to make sure this rule is upheld. Families could spend 6 months in jail or have to pay a good amount if their child is not accounted for at all times.