ANIMALS

Thirty-One || Rewrite Fate

~Mason~

"Come on, give me another good one," 

Remy grunts as he holds the mitts out for me to punch, sweat dripping down my back as I stood in the middle of the ring to fight him. Everyone else working out in this gym stayed as far away as possible. 

I hit each one on target with my trained speed and he actually looks impressed for once, until I go to grip my bullet wound again and groan. The damn thing was refusing to heal properly and it hurt like hell. 

"Are you finally going to accept him?" Remy asked as we took a short water break and I nealy choked. 

"I don't know anymore," I say as I clear my throat and Remy shakes his head. 

"He's a good guy Mason," He points out as if I didn't know that. But he doesn't know the full truth. 

He doesn't know there's someone else. 

I rub my chest where the wound was throbbing and ignore Remy. Rewrapping my hands to go up for a second fight, this time without protection. 

"You can fuck me up good but just remember I gotta wife at home who can't know about us," Remy sarcastically warns as he pats my cheek and blows a kiss. 

"Fucking straight," I huff and he rolls his eyes. I put the water bottle back down and go to fight again, giving him a hook in the side before he punches me in the face and takes me down with the kick of his legs. 

Kicking him off me, I get back up and go for a full knock out blow when he suddenly stops and looks behind me.

When the overpowering scent of cinnamon earth hits me head on, it makes me so dizzy that I had to stop too. My heart racing as I dropped my hands and slowly turned around to my packs whispers. 

"What's a human doing here?"

"He smells like a Caspian,"

"Should we capture him?"

"Is he a spy?"

"Should we tell our Alpha?"

"Alpha Mason will know what to do,"

"Wait til Alpha Mason handles him,"

When I saw him, I swear to god if that monitor was still watching my heart, I would have flatlined. 

Mate

My wolf, Yakota, hums in the back of my head and I dropped my raised fists, it was as if the entire gym went silent and it was just me and this tall blonde with gorgeous blue eyes and a shocked expression. 

Almost as if he didn't believe it either. 

He was dressed in that rich kid's school uniform that Tristan wears with the sleeves rolled up so I could see the tattoos on his arms. His gaped pink lips surrounded by his lightly freckled cheeks and his big blue eyes were so beautiful I thought they contained only the bluest oceans.

"Mate," I whispered under my breath and suddenly he turns on his heels and starts running away from me. 

"What the- Wait!" 

Without thinking twice, I hop over the ropes of the arena and run after him. Looking left and right, I caught him running to the right as he ran for dear life with his backpack bobbing up and down behind him. 

I run at max speeds to catch him before he reached the inner city limits and attempted to disappear. 

"WAIT!" 

For a human, he's pretty fast, but not fast enough as I grab hold of him by his backpack sending him flying towards me. Turning him around as he fell into my chest I grabbed him and pulled him close so he couldn't run while trying to catch my breath.

"Please don't run," I beg him as I take in his incredible scent. His body shaking out of fear in my arms and rested my head on his left shoulder. Instantly smelling Tristan's mark on my mate's body.

"I-I don't know why I'm here, I'm sorry," He quickly apologizes and I pull back from him out of confusion. 

"He didn't tell you about me?" I ask and the blue-eyed boy shakes his head.

"Did who tell me? Who are you?" He asked and I remembered his name from when Tristan told me of our dear second mate. 

Looks like I wasn't the only one in the dark.

"Fucking hell Noah," I sigh and he wraps his arms around my neck, tilting my head up so I could look into his curious gaze. 

"Hey, I'm right here. You're not alone anymore," He reminds me and I forget that he can probably feel the sad loner vibes rolling off me. 

I don't need a mate I used to say, yet here I am falling in love at first sight just like they said I would. 

"GET AWAY FROM HIM!" 

The sound of a very pissed off Tristan pops our personal bubble and I turn to find my first mate stomping towards us like he was about to punch me in the face. 

I deserve it though so I guess I wouldn't mind. 

"It's not what it looks like! I swear!" Noah's quick to defend himself as he jumps back from me and Tristan pulls him close. 

"Did he try to hurt you?" Tristan asks Noah like I could lay a single evil hand on either of them and I take a step back. Shocked that he really thinks the attack was my fault. 

How could I hurt him right after telling him how much I love him? 

"Tristan," I call out to him but he ignores me as he looks over Noah before turning back to me.

"Tristan, I didn't-" 

"Will one of you tell me what the fuck is going on!" Noah screams, disrupting both of us as I turned back to him and I can't tell what sucks more. 

The face he has a bad first impression of me or the fact Tristan tried to hide him from me.

Mason, the warriors are coming for he Caspians! Tell them to leave now!

Remy warns me through the pack link and I shove both of them in the direction of the city. 

"Leave my territory now, before I'm forced to hurt both of you," I growl and Tristan turns back to me with his brow raised, refusing to move. 

Suddenly his eyes open wide and I know now he understands it all.

He knows the attack wasn't my fault. 

"Mason," 

"Wait! I don't want to leave you!" Noah cries out, his ocean blue eyes streaming tears of sadness as he tries to reach out to me but Tristan won't let him go. Grabbing our mate's hand and yanking him towards the city, forcing Noah to run with him as I stay behind to face my destiny. 

Turning towards the oncoming army of my strongest wolves, I raise my hands above my head. 

Getting down to my knees as I feel the cold handcuffs snap around my wrist. 

"Alpha Mason, you're under arrest for conspiring with members of the Caspian clan..." 

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Oh, I'm sorry,  we're you expecting their first meeting to be all sweet and uncomplicated? 

When does that ever happen in real life? lmao