Alpha Zander
Chapter 23

Monday morning rolls around, but all too quickly, the weekend is never long enough.

It was great to see Zander on Saturday evening. I loved the little cottage and could imagine us maybe living there or in something similar if we had to be on the pack lands.

It felt somewhat familiar being there. I couldn’t quite put my fIgure on it but I had a few weird flashbacks and a strange feeling of Deja Vu. After a while, I brushed away the odd feelings and enjoyed his company. It was nice to get to know him a bit and try to understand him and put aside all the roamers and previous encounters we have had. As hard as some of them were, I was still going to be mindful that he had a past. I didn’t want to hold it against him, but I still had to keep it in mind.

Kia loved running around with Jace. She is a bit more of a free spirit than I am, but we are always in sync, epically more so, now we have found our mate. While I am still getting to know Zander, Kia has already decided she wants Jace and only Jace. So even if something happened it would have to be a lot for her to allow me to reject him, she won’t have it any other way.

Monday was my day helping with cooking and cleaning, so here I was up at 6 am on a Monday morning helping Mum get everything ready. I quickly have a shower and get ready for school. I kind of wish our school had a uniform so it wasn’t so hard to choose what to wear, but they reasoned that in most workplace environments you are not wearing a uniform, so they are preparing us more for adulthood and responsibility.

I run downstairs after getting ready, making sure everything is tucked away neatly and ready to help with the cooking.

Mum is already in the kitchen cooking away on the stove. I heard a timer go off as I stopped at the Island bench.

“Morning sweetie, can you please grab the plates and set the table,” mum asked with her back turned away facing the stove table, focusing on the cooking in front of her.

“Sure mamma”, I nodded automatically even though she couldn’t see me.

I walked around slowly waiting to see where she would move next so I didn’t run into her and disturb her cooking process.

I reached up and grabbed the glasses from the top cupboard above the stove and then turned around and grabbed the plates and cutlery out of the drawers on the island bench.

I heard a gasp behind me as I was reaching down and pulling everything out. Frowning, I turned around to see what happened.

Mum was standing behind me looking at me like she had seen a ghost, some of the color on her face had drained.

She looked pale and was just standing there still like a statue, like she couldn’t comprehend what was going on.

She had the tea towel all crumpled up in her hands holding it tightly.

“What’s wrong?” I asked. I could feel confused features forming on my face.

She quickly gathered herself together as though nothing happened in the last 30 seconds.

“Nothing sweetie, don’t worry about it” she waved a hand dismissively and went back to cooking the rest of the food.

“So how was your weekend? Did you enjoy yourself?” she asked trying to spark up a conversation to forget the awkward encounter.

I nodded again, a frown still appeared on my features, this time she could see me.

I so badly wanted to tell them about Zander I hated keeping secrets from everyone but I was unsure about the repercussions that it would cause between our packs.

I didn’t want to have any drama about it just yet while I was still trying to figure out my feelings.

“lt was good, I enjoyed the training with Dad and Uncle, hopefully, I will be able to get better over time with tracking, Kia definitely enjoyed it” I kept it short and simple, with a little bit of detail but not too much for her to ask more questions… hopefully it would be enough to not pry any further.

Mum nodded in response while cooking, I could hear everyone starting to wake up now, there were a few showers that turned on upstairs and down the corridor where Meg and Alex live.

I quickly went around and helped set everything up, everyone was usually up and down stairs by 6.45 am or 7.00 am.

We had to make sure we left by 7.30 at least to be at school on time.

In the next 15 minutes, everyone was buzzing around downstairs seated at the table ready to start the day.

Ollie and Brent looked exhausted, I wondered what they got up to last night, or maybe they were just exhausted from the warriors training they had on Sunday evening. I honestly didn’t think it was too bad, I enjoyed training like that lIt was good to get our wolves out now and then. We nearly always train in our human form so it was nice for a change.

After we had all had breakfast we piled into Olie’s car and took off to school.

I was looking forward to going today, for the first time l’ll actually admit I missed Zander, I wished we had more time on Saturday night but I needed to get back when I did to be ready for Sunday Training.

As we arrived at the school parking lot I could see him get out of his car with Daniel, I felt butterflies forminstomachy stomach as I watched him. ‘Ugh, I feel such a creeper right now.’ I mumbled to Kia.

‘hehe, I don’t I like our sexy mate, I want to go over there and jump him right now, stuff what everyone else thinks’

I rolled my eyes, silly horny wolf.’ I will only wait for so long Lei, he is our mate whether you are ok with that or not but I won’t reject him, not now.’ she told me with such determination and confidence it made me wonder what I actually was waiting for.

I meet Chloe and Skyla at the lockers to catch up over the weekend days, I really needed to have a girl’s night and catch up it has been forever, as we chat at the lockers I smell him before he has walked passed. I hitch a breath and everything is buzzing around me feeling a little numb with power, Kia is bouncing up and down happily to be in his proximity, it’s a different feeling to Saturday evening. I feel more alive now than I did before, I feel like I have more energy. I frowned at the new power I felt, What’s going on? I asked Kia.

Sometimes I get a little weak from being away from Zander and Jace for so long, being in close proximity now helps us both’ Kia answers my confusing question.

It’s weird I didn’t feel any difference on Saturday night, I didn’t even realize we had gotten weaker.

The thought worried me a little bit, but I guess because we see Zander at school and will probably meet him regularly through the week it helped me settle that we will be able to manage it.

I hoped he noticed me wearing his hairpiece, I really love it and want him to know I am all in with him, I want to make this work as I think this thought his beautiful eyes move up to lock with mine, I give a small smile as he passes through chatting with Daniel and one of his other friends.

It was so hard not going up to him and talking to him, right now we have to ignore each other, only giving silent messages through our eyes hoping no one sees.