The Alpha's Mate

3

"Wait up!"

I heard Misabelle's shouts behind me but kept walking. They were getting on my last nerves. We were supposed to be best friends yet they were all keeping something from me. I was so wrapped up in my thoughts that I almost didn't see the boy that had grabbed me around the waist. Stomping on his foot, I shoved away from him and backed up into someone else.

A deep and threatening growl rumbled from the chest behind me and another set of hands gripped my shoulders. Blondie stood off to my left, glaring at me, and I knew who stood behind me. I tried prying his hands off me, but he just wrapped an arm around my waist. Sighing in frustration, I crossed my arms and scowled.

"Don't do that, baby. It'll create frown lines." The kid reached out and rubbed at the spot between my eyebrows.

I smacked his hand away and felt the arm around my waist tighten. "Go bother someone else."

"Aww, don't be like that, baby."

Suddenly the kid's head jerked backwards and he groaned in pain. His hand came up to hold the right side of his face. I saw that he had a spilt lip, then heard the growl from Jace's chest. His hand was fisted and there was a slight cut on his knuckle.

"I'd stay away from her. Got it kid?"

The boy nodded vigorously, his eyes wide and I was dragged along as Jace walked away. I crossed my arms and stopped walking. Jace lifted me up and carried me by his arm around my waist that held me pinned to his side. I huffed and glared at everyone who stared and laughed at me.

Reaching our English room, I squirmed to be put down. Jace ignored my whining and walked into the room, moving to sit me at the desk in the back corner of the room and sitting next to me, preventing me from leaving.

"I need to talk to you."

"I don't want to speak with you." I turned my face away and slouched in my chair.

"I wanted to apologize for earlier. I shouldn't have kissed you nor should I have just left like that." He turned my face towards him. I wrinkled my nose and shut my eyes, not caring that I was being childish. "Open your eyes Laylee."

"No."

"Okay, be that way. You're not going to get out of here sooner, if that's what you're hoping by not talking."

"I'm seriously not liking you right now." I groaned and opened my eyes, glaring at him.

He frowned and faced forward, but not before I saw the hurt that'd been in his eyes. What was that about? I shrugged it off and saw my friends wagging their brows at me. Checking for teachers, I flipped them off behind Jace's back  and they laughed.

"Why can't I go sit somewhere else?"

"Because."

"That's not an answer."

He snarled and seemed bigger somehow. I saw that his usually green eyes were black. Nonetheless, I propped my chin in my hand and glared up at him. He shut his eyes and took a deep breath.

"You shouldn't talk back to me."

"I shouldn't push you, talk back to you, anything else?"

He grinned and leaned towards me. "Yes. You can kiss me."

I laughed and pushed his face away from me. The bell rang, starting class and I laughed at the disappointment on Jace's face. I saw my friends all facepalming and frowned. Jace saw them and grinned, then looked back down at me.

"Just because my friends approve of you for whatever reason doesn't mean you are okay in my book. You have a long way to go to just reach 'okay'."