I had no idea what to expect, but I somehow knew things were not going to end well for me. I didn't have a wolf. At least not one I wanted to let anyone see. I could not take that risk. It was sudden for me. It was something I had no intention of letting loose.
"Are you okay?" Baron looked at me with concern written all over his face.
I sighed and looked, calming myself. I didn't want him to see how much this was affecting me.
"You seem to be very frightened." He said, holding my hand that was trembling slightly.
That was one annoying thing about my body whenever I was full of nerves. My body seemed to work itself to an overdrive, I would not be able to control how it reacted to things like this.
"I'm fine." I replied, my voice intentionally low so he would not hear the shakiness in my tone. I looked up at him, trying to present a calm, composed exterior contradicting the messiness of within.
If this failed, what would become of me? I would not only be accused and bullied of being a thief, I'd have to endure and add the wolf-less tag to the bully list. My life was always going to be unfortunately difficult. Going through one problems or the other. Before the whole, I was to be mocked and seen as the girl without…
I was pulled out of my reverie by a kiss. Baron had kissed me. On my cheek. It was a simple, harmless gesture but it made me react. Not in the negative, but positive. No one had ever given me encouraging kisses before except for my mother. She was the only friend and confidante I had growing up.
"What was that for?" Was all my small voice could ask, my face getting redder.
He cocked a grin. "From the wickedly handsome Alpha to you."
I rolled my eyes, I was not bothered by his cocky smile or arrogant response. I knew him better than that now. Baron was a very sweet soul. Rough on the outside but wonderful on the inside. Such contrasting features in a man. "You're ugly."
He pretended to gasp In horror, but then his face too morphed into one of smugness. I could only roll my eyes again before he could say what I had a clue he wanted to. "You know it's a lie. My presence in your life is hypnotic, you can't help but drool and be enthralled with me."
I did not bother with a reply, I only focused on the place he was literally pulling me to. The open field. Where my fate was about to be known. Mother of the Moon, was there anyway I'd be able to get out of this? If there was, I'd like a clue. I prayed silently, hoping something would happen and it would be cancelled.
I wanted to drag my feet but I didn't want to rouse Baron's suspicions any more than I had. Moreover, dragging my feet or not, I was only delaying what was looking to be inevitable, except of course, something opposite happened to make them cancel it. For life.
But even I knew that was such a ludicrous request. Nothing was going to happen to make them cancel it forever. The boys had once told me this was a thing for them. An annual event they always carried out, even Baron seem to know it because he'd talked briefly on it too.
"I don't think you're ready, Kathy." He eyed me speculatively. "You're trembling, I can see that."
"Hm." I dumbly said both as a confused question and a befuddled answer. Then my eyes travelled around my body, scrutinizing and observing.
He was right. I was quivering all over and I could not control it.
"Why are you this scared?" He asked. We were almost at the entrance of the building. Few steps forward and we'd put of the massive college building and venturing towards the field. I strained my ears to pick out excited voices. My nerves knotted tighter.
"I-I'm not scared." I hope he didn't hear my little stutter.
"Yes, you are. See, you're even stuttering." He observed.
I sighed. He was very observant, picking out every single thing about me that was against this Wolf It event. I could not lie. Well, there was obviously no need to, I was caught. There was no need to deny it, but I could not bring myself to say the truth either.
No one knew. No one except me. Not even my mother knew and I wanted it to remain that way.
"Come." He pulled me and within seconds, we were out of the building and soon, I was greeted with sight of other students miling about the arena in twos and threes. Everyone talking about the event with their cliques.
I had no clique. In fact, without Baron by my side, I would have been all alone. I held tighter to him. I looked up to see his eyes roaming, searching the field as though he was looking for a particular someone.
"Are you looking for someone?" I asked.
"Yes." His eyes were not on me, they were still focused on the arena.
I hoped it was not his brothers he was searching for. I didn't want him to make any trouble with anyone today, there were going to be some lecturers around. He was not a student, but I was and if he made any trouble on account of me, I would get the punishment. Moreover, they would not want to touch the Alpha's son.
My eyes rounded on Aaron and Katelyn, she was as usual hanging onto him as he too, appeared to be searching the arena, who was he looking for? But then he saw me, I could not remove my gaze no matter how much I wanted to. We kept staring at each other. My breath hitched and my heart pounding, whether in fear or something else, I could not tell.
"I'll be right back." He kissed my face again and left.
He had not noticed my intense gaze with Aaron. I removed my gaze. "Where are you going to?" I called out.
But he didn't reply, I followed his movement and saw him stop to talk to the Beta.
Why was the Beta here?