Chapter 7 Mate

Hazel's POV

Getting to our room we started started arranging the charcoals in the fireplace, the rest of our roommates did not participate but at least they said few words of appreciation.

This room always feels like it is being inhabited by only Lilian and I because the other two is as good as invisible. They just go about their daily activities and mind their business however you won't blame them, even though we had spent four months here people are still trying to heal emotionally. Suddenly loosing your freedom to save others can be traumatizing and may take some times to heal and adapt so I can understand them hiding within themselves. I guess this would be my state too if not that I have Lilian here with me.

" I think we should light these ones and leave the rest for when it burns out." Lilian suggested folding the nylon bag containing the remaining charcoals.

" Yeah, that's nice. Where is the lighter?" I asked

" That is it at the other side of the wall in the window slab, I will get it. " she replied but before she finished I was already at the window and gotten the lighter and returned.

" Wow that was fast. " she replied ad I handed her the lighter and I smiled, sometimes I use to imagine that Lilian would make a good mother. She encourages every little wins even if it is a regular thing everyone does.

She lighted the candles and proceed to lighting the charcoals, this is the most difficult part ; lighting the charcoals without an oil. However Lilian is such a PRO in that aspect that it only takes few minutes for her to light it unlike me, it would literally take a day or two for me to successfully set the charcoals ablaze and burning.

I collected the lighter from her to return but just then some aromas passes through my face, it was so close that it literally hit my olfactory center head on.

" Hmm m, do you smell that?" I asked her earning myself a side eye, it looks like I was the only one that smelled it.

" smell what? And don't tell me that you smell food because I'm not getting even a whiff of any scent." she replied laughing, yeah I know I can be a foodie most times smelling imaginary foods but this one is different.

" Lilly am serious, I can smell something like a mixture of chocolate and forest sand." I tried explaining more but Lilian burst into laughter making me to laugh too, am I imagining the smell?

Lilian could barely hold her laughter so as not to disturb our roommates as she left to get her sweater.

" Hazel, you are funny" she replied bursting into fresh laughter but she suddenly paused halfway

" Wait, you smell a mixture of chocolate and forest sand?" She asked and I nodded.

" And you just got the lighter from the window?" She asked again and I nodded again confused at what she was driving at.

" How were you able to see the lighter at the window slab?" And you were fast too! She gasped and covered her mouth in surprise, I was confused.

" oh my God, baby congratulations!" She exclaimed engulfing me on a bear hug not minding if she woke our roommates up or not

Well, if you think that I was confused before then you need to see my face now, if confusion was a person it would be my face.

I was lost at what she was driving at, the questions and her sudden switch from laughing to seriousness and then going all emotional and currently hugging me.

" Emm Lily, I am kinda lost here. What is happening? Why are you congratulating me?" I was barely breathing from her tight hug.

She looked up at my eyes and what she said next has me transfixed. " Hazel you are gradually turning, your eyes and your sense of smell. The chocolate and forest sand scent is mine. I am so happy for you! " she was literally screaming into my ear as she joyfully broke the news to me.

I was lost of words and could only stand while she squeezed, hugged and kissed me all over. I don't even know how I feel, was I not supposed to be excited? I am gradually turning so I'm no longer stuck in between being a werewolf and a human, I'm really supposed to be happy for this development. At least I am sure that since the changes had started I may shift and meet my wolf soon. Sure am supposed to be jubilating but I can't even explain the emotions I feel at this moment.

I was hoping that one day if by any chance I can leave this place that I may join the human race and spend the rest of my life living as a human but now becoming a werewolf full it may be impossible.

"Lily, did you hear what I said?" Lilian's voice drew me back to the present and I only nodded as I hugged her back but suddenly our emotional embrace was interrupted by the presence of very bright lights, not just light but the person with the light.

His scent was delicious, I know it sounds weird for a scent to be delicious but that is the only way I can explain the amazing scent drifting into my nostrils exciting my olfactory center. It is a combination of forest and fresh hibiscus flowers and as I turned around his appearance got my knees weak but the words that followed pulled me out the trance.

"mine" he roared and the anger that had been buried deep inside my heart erupted.

He is the young deadly alpha, yeah the one that we are enslaved to. He is an alpha, one of the reasons I am stuck in here. He is the reasons why I lost my family and is currently going through emotional healing and he had the gut to call me that?

The anger boiling inside me was huge and I was barely breathing, my eyes hurts as I gathered all my willpower trying to stop the fluids from failing, it's high time I stop shedding a tear for these animals called alphas and without thinking twice I voiced the phrase "Reject me. "