Sold To Her Mate ✅ (+ bonuses upcoming)

8: losing control

A/N: last chapter was a bit of a filler but trust me, stuff gets interesting in this chapter 🐺  plus it is really long so enjoy ☺️
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Damon's POV

I was sitting in a lecture, twirling my pen between my fingers, occasionally adding to my notes, when it happened. The feeling started in the pit of my stomach. A sense of unease, of something wrong. It then curled higher, twisting and grabbing hold of my heart. Repulsion mixed with panic and anger, completed by pure stinging jealousy.

No, Neo whined in my mind as if he were in pain.
What's going on? I questioned him.
Mate is with someone else his feelings were a mess and it was making me have difficulty thinking.
I told you, I'm not sure she's our mate, I grumbled.
If you don't stop her from being with another man I will never speak to you again Neo interrupted and I could feel his panic and possessive anger wash over me.

The thought of Lexi with someone else was making my own aggression boil until I no longer knew where my feelings ended and Neo's started. All I felt was blind jealousy and the knowledge that I needed to get to Lexi.

The people around me glanced in surprise as I suddenly stood up and shoved all my books in my bag, but I silenced their questioning looks with glares before barging past them and escaping from the room. I stood in the corridor, my muscles tense and my heart beating fast. My feelings had already merged with Neo's and I was struggling to stop him from taking me over completely. It would be disastrous if I shifted inside the university.

Find her goddamnit you idiot Neo howled restlessly in my head and I grunted, clenching my fists tightly to try to calm myself.

I lifted my head, let my eyes flutter closed and gave a big sniff. Usually us werewolves avoided inhaling through our noses in public places like this because with our heightened sense of smell, the cacophony of odours hitting us was hard to cope with. The stink of concrete and metal, the sweat of the students. Sugary sweet bubblegum and flowery perfume mixed with overpowering cologne. The smell of paper and trash and an overwhelming quantity of people.

But at that moment I had to let all these scents register in my attempt to hunt down Lexi. I recalled her smell, her intoxicating fragrance of fresh rain-soaked grass, and began making my way through the corridors, nearly on autopilot as Neo and I recognised the faint aroma in midst of the others. 

Her scent grew stronger as did its sweetness and I growled lowly in my throat as I stalked down the corridors faster and faster, the knot in my chest tightening painfully at the realisation that she was aroused. I was practically jogging when I came to a grinding halt in front of the janitors' closet door.

Her smell was vibrant in the air, so rich and delicious and making my skin tingle, but its sweetness making possessiveness darken my thoughts. Another smell was mingling with hers, one of juniper and musk that I knew all too well. My Beta. Neo let out a roar in my mind and it took all my self-control to not shift then and there.

I ripped open the door, feeling my pupils dilate rapidly between wolf and human as I took in the sight of Lexi pressed up against the wall, arms winded around Luke's neck and lips cherry red and swollen. Luke turned his head in surprise, confusion clouding his blue eyes chased by wariness as he took in my state.

"Alph- I mean, Damon, wha-" he fumbled for words but I could stand the sight of his hands on Lexi no longer and wrenched him out of the closet by his collar before he could finish his sentence.