His Beta and His Mate

The New Beta (Yay!)

Serria and I hung out for a little bit. Mostly it was her recapping her summer after I went to live with Cody. Cody was there for part of it but as soon as my brother was home it was all about Bradley and Cody time. So they went to do their own thing.

According to Serria, Nathan was losing his mind until the new Beta showed up three weeks ago. Then everything was slowly falling into place, but everyone refused to contact me.

I pissed them off too much.

Me? I made them angry?

Cool.

Serria then tried to tell me everything she could to sweeten me up. Gossip she thought I might like. Pack secrets that she thought I didn't already know. As well as updates about Brianna and Nathan. She would have gone back to Cody's house now to finish another year at school as well.

Apparently Brianna and Serria hung out a lot.

I figured that was enough to help Serria with this one thing and then see how good she is to me afterwards. She could just be nice to me for this one thing, but if it's about mates I feel an overwhelming desire to help her out. We will see how it all turns out in the end.

All of us ate dinner together and then Serria drove me over to the other packhouse. Other because technically my house was also a packhouse before most of the pack decided they wanted to live in their own places to raise their kids.

When we got to the house where Nathan and the rest of the current high school population of werewolves live, Serria let out a huge sigh, "there's a lot of training going on these days."

I squinted at her, "okay?"

"It means something is going on. Which is why Nathan wanted a strong Beta."

"Who is your mate?"

"Yes."

I rolled my eyes, "I don't care how strong he is, I still outrank him."

Serria looked at me for a long moment, "right, you're a Luna."

I winked at her and then got out of the car. She quickly scrambled out her side, and then lead me into the house. It smelt funky like too many werewolves hadn't taken a bath in weeks. Knowing how many teenage boys that were about to go through the change, that was probably true. Cody's packhouse never smelt this bad, but there were plenty of girls who had air fresheners and liked to open windows. I'm assuming they have less of that here.

I then followed Serria up to her room where she decided to change into her workout clothes. They were a short pair of black shorts, a black sports bra, and a slightly see-through white tanktop. As she tied up the laces on her sneakers, she was shaking.

I frowned, "why are you so nervous?"

"I'm always nervous when I have to be around him," she sighed and looked up at me. "When you see how he is, you'll understand."

So I deiced to shut my mouth and wait. After that, Serria took her time in going out to the backyard. I had no doubt that everyone already knew we were here. I also know that Nathan was probably pissed. But everyone was going to have to hold their breath and wait for Serria to be ready.

When she was, I quickly noted the backyard. The training was a little chaotic compared to Cody's techniques. However, everyone was doing something. Nathan growled from across the yard to get my attention.

I looked at him and smirked. This was the last thing he wanted. Me coming into his house and interrupting his evening training. After watching his face turn to anger, I slid my gaze to the giant man standing beside him. He was several inches taller than Natha, who was already very tall, and also had several more muscles than any werewolf deserves to have. He looked like one of the buff guys in Hollywood who was acting the part of the werewolf.

Serra noted where I was looking and poked me, "what?"

She frowned.

"That why we're here?" I smirked at her and she frowned even more. "I'm going to take that as a yes."

I took a seat on the porch and waited while Serria went to join the training. Before I knew it, the new beta was sitting next to me. I only knew because I smelt someone knew and felt a presence beside me. I didn't look away from Serria and acknowledge him in any way.

"You must be new," he finally spoke first. I put on the best, most dazzling smile, that I could muster and finally turned to face him. "You're too pretty for me to not have recognized you earlier."

I giggled, "Oh? You notice just the pretty girls?"

His smile was enough to melt any heart that wasn't already taken. It would have worked on me before I met Cody. All I felt right now was like a gross slimy slug for smiling back at him.

"I noticed you, didn't I?"

It took everything in me to not throw up.

Serria on the other hand growled in her training. I straightened my back, "how about you come over to my house Friday, after school, and then we can talk some more." I threw in a wink for good measure.

I saw how his face changed as if he had me right where he wanted me. But he had no idea that I had him right where Serria wanted him.

"Oh yeah, I get your address already?"

I laughed lightly, "Nathan knows where my house is. Tell him to come over too."

That made his face falter for a second. "Nathan?"

I shrugged, "I have something he wants."

Then I stood up and went back into the house. I didn't wait for Serria to try and get out of training to catch up with me. I left out the front door and used my werewolf speed to get me across town and back into my own house. Cody was standing on the front doorstep, looking worried.

I sighed with happiness when I saw him and he frowned at me, "What happened? You felt... gross."

I shivered, "Serria's mate is a total player. But he's coming over Friday night."

Cody raised an eyebrow, "you have explaining to do."

I wrapped my arms around him and he wrapped his arms back around me. I took in his nice scent and sighed again, "can Brianna come over Friday night too?"

He paused, I could feel him hesitate. "Triple date?"

I chuckled, "I think you really want to meet Nathan's new Beta."