The White Wolf (2020)

Chapter Nineteen

JAY

Leaving Sydney's house, Jay was feeling satisfied after the long evening they shared together.

The joy of the blonde high school journalist letting him, reluctantly albeit, into her home to meet her siblings, hearing stories of the young woman's youth over dinner, coupled with the feeling of her stumbling against him in the ice cream store, had Jay almost forgetting that he wasn't a normal teenage guy.

That was till the cashier flirting with Sydney opened the floodgate of animalist hormones through his body leading to his shameful outburst.

Shaking his head and sighing to himself, only one hand on the steering wheel, his other hand propped in the ceil of the window. Despite the warmth in the tips of his ears thinking about losing his composure not just in public like some newbie wolf, but in front of Sydney, a small grin tugged at the corner of his lips though thinking back to her wide green eyes taking in his wolf form.

The sensation of her fingers weaving through his dark brown-black coat still sent tingles down his neck and spine. His eyes threatened to flutter close under the memory of laying his head in her lap, both in wolf form and human. Jay couldn't help but feel a sense of serenity flood him in that moment. It was the first time in as long as he could remember having that feeling.

He tried to remind himself that it might not be his feelings, but the ones Nature was forcing on him, but either way he had to admit it was pleasant.

A ding from his phone pulled his attention back to his drive on the dark road.

'Can we talk again?'

Hope sprung in his heart, his eyes prepared to dart around to look for a way to u-turn back to Sydney, but the name from the text registered in his mind.

Jasmine.

Begrudgingly he replied that he'd be home soon, then tossed his phone into the passenger's seat, the one that his cozy little blond had graced throughout today.

'The splendid scent of our mate still lingers here. How are we supposed to fall asleep tonight without her by our side?'

A buzz of panic shocked his system. Jay hadn't thought of that. The night before had been such a crazy ordeal, that when Sydney crawled into bed and Jay layed on the top sheets, he had drifted off to sleep rather quickly.

It wasn't a deep sleep, his wolf had stayed alert and at the forefront of his consciousness keeping mind of his mate, who tossed and turned about the rest of the time. But nevertheless the following morning her scent was embedded in the fibers of the bed and drifted around that room, which Jay would now likely promote to his favorite room in his house till the scent turned stale.

On top of not having Sydney by his side, while the blood and slaughtered swan had been cleaned up per the command of his father, his own bedroom was still going to feel dirtied and the stench would still linger.

All these layered together, Jay wasn't really looking forward to going home.

What seemed all too soon Jay was pulling into his house.

Inside his house was quiet, but his nose could detect Jasmine's scent up in his room.

'She is no longer privy to our room Human.'

As much as Jay wanted to bat away his wolf, he could agree he didn't like the invasion of his privacy, and with all that was going on, it concerned him how easily people seemed to be getting in and out of his house.

He pushed his door open and his displeasure surmounted seeing Jasmine sprawled across his bed on her stomach, ankles crossed, texting. "Nice to see you made it home. You're parents let me in before leading out to a meeting with some of the other packs in the area. Before your parents left though, they mentioned they were beginning to worry about you with it being a school night and all," Jasmine mocked, not pulling her gaze from her thumbs typing.

Letting his back rest against the wall beside the door and arms folded over his chest. "I hardly believe that."

This pulled her eyes to look at Jay in disdain. "What are you doing?"

"I should be asking you the same thing, last time we talked you said you were finished with me?" Jay jabbed, hoping this would anger her into leaving.

With a quick flip onto her back, she snapped up off the bed and strided towards him, eyes fierce and hips swaying.

'I don't want her anywhere near me.'

"Listen here, Jaycen, you won't go sullying the wolf bloodline, with this human girl. I won't allow it-"

Shoulders pressing against the wall, Jay pushed away from his place to meet the girl baiting him into a rage in the middle of the room, not wanting her to get the idea that she was going to corner him.

"You should watch your mouth. You seem to forget that I am the Alpha. You get no say in what I do, nor what Nature deems best."

An ugly snarl arose from her, "You say that and yet the omega is staking claim on your so-called mate right now!"

Anger funneled through him and he towered over her, "Silence!" Her mouth opened to protest, but his command refused to let words flow. "You will stop coming to my room uninvited, and you will leave Sydney alone. Now. Get. Out."

Her eyes hung on him, glistening with tears, but unable to resist his command, she thankfully rushed past him without a word.

The blood pumping in his veins begged for him to shift, his wolf wanted to race back to Sydney, but he couldn't.

'Why will you not defend our mate and put the omega in his place.'

'She is not used to our way of living. You saw the confusion and how she rebelled against the basic foundations of our life. And even though she shifted into a wolf, there seems to be no consciousness of one. She's not like you and I, she doesn't feel the tug the way we do.'

'But we know!'

'Yes, but we cannot and will not force her. How could I do that, knowing how much I despise when people tell me what my fate is, what I am destined to do. If we want to be with her we will do it the right way, and running over there and destroying whatever sense of normalcy she has will not win us any favors.'

His wolf fell silent, and while Jay knew it hurt his wolf to hear Jay's honest reasoning, the wolf could grasp what he meant, and when it came down to it, the human half helped the wolf's wild nature, and could submit to him when it came to their mate.

Sparing another glance around the room that now felt void and dirtied, Jay grabbed a pair of shorts to sleep in and left for the guest room Sydney and him had shared the night before.

Slipping out of his clothes and into his shorts, he welcomed the sight and smell of the bed, Sydney's soft scent seemed to purmeriate when Jay collapsed into the comforter. Taking in deep breaths and slowing his exhalation, Jay couldn't help but feel it was going to be a long while till he would feel that same serenity with Sydney again.