Sandra Pov
I dressed up as I was ready to go to my best friend's house. I am not going there at all because I miss her, but so that I get to see her father. "Sister, I am going to visit Hannah", I shouted on top of my voice so that she can hear.
"You don't need to shout; I am right here", she came out with a novel in her hand.
"I did not know, anyway, don't miss me" I smiled as I nudged her shoulder.
"You are only going there so that you can see Tyler", she teased.
My sister is the one person I never hide anything from. I told her about the crush I had on Tyler, who happened to be Hannah's dad. She always disapproves of telling me how inappropriate it is because of the age gap, but I was not going to give up. I know I can never tell him about my feelings because he will only take me as a daughter and that will devastate me. I dream of him every night.
"Hey, let your mind wander back" she brought me back to reality.
"Don't wait for me if I come in late"
"Have you told Hannah about the feelings you had for her dad?" she queried.
"I can't, she will never talk to me again, and I will never have an excuse to see her father again", I replied.
"More reasons you have to give up. It's going to ruin you guys' friendship", she said.
"I am ready for whatever happens as long as he wants me too," I replied.
"Okay, just stay safe" she told me, and I waved at her as I left the house.
I happily ordered a ride as I got outside as the image of Tyler flashed through, the one I saw him wearing a boxer and I smiled, hoping to see him in his boxers again today.
The ride to his house was splendid. I had made up my mind that I was going to tell him how I feel about him on my 18th birthday. He won't see me as a minor again. I rang the doorbell of the house and Hannah came to open for me. "Hey bestie, you didn't tell me you were coming", she said.
If only you knew I wasn't here for you but your father, I said inside my head, "You know my birthday is coming up, and I have come here to plan it with you", I replied instead.
"You are right," she led me into the house. I looked around and I couldn't see her father.
"Are you the only one at home?" I asked, hoping I was wrong.
"My father went for exercise". She came with a bottle of juice and passed it to me.
"I see" feeling down a little
"That gives us plenty of time to plan your birthday. Are you still planning on doing it here?" I have begged her to tell her dad to let me use their house.
"Did your father agree?" I became alerted.
"Yes, he couldn't say no to my puppy's eyes" she said with so much excitement and I couldn't help but to join her.
"I look forward to my birthday, it will be so much fun" I jump up with so much joy.
At that moment, the door to the entrance opened and her father entered. I couldn't take my eyes off him. He was sweaty, and his muscles were popping. He stops dead in his tract and sniffs the air. He does that around me very well and then his eyes landed on me. "You are here Sandra."
Opportunity come but once, I hurriedly went to hug him. "Thanks for allowing me to use your house for my party:" I squeezed him more tightly.
He seems taken aback but manages to free him. "No problem, you are also my daughter."
The words hurt me so much that tears threatened to fall. I came up with a silly excuse to leave there that instance: "I have forgotten I promised my sister to help run some errands."
"But you just got here", Hannah whined.
"I will be back" I said. I looked up at Tyler and I could see that he looked hurt too, but I didn't care as I left the house. I went straight home. I let the tears flow as I entered my room and crawled up on the bed.
The day of my birthday finally arrived. I have tried as much to avoid him since I will open up to him on my birthday. I had already told my sister that I was going to confess my feelings today. She tried to talk me out of it, but I didn't listen. I dressed up in my beautiful gown and even tried makeup for the first time. I went over to their house to get there before my other guests since it was my party.
Hannah welcomed me with a gift in her hand. "You shouldn't have" I said as I collected it from her. "Using your house is the best gift", I hugged her.
Music was blasting in the house as I smiled as I looked around the house in search of her father, but he wasn't there. Guests soon start storming in. I know they are here because of the free food and drink and not because they came to celebrate with me.
In the evening, her father came back from wherever he had gone to, and my stomach somersaulted at the sight of him. He was wearing an Armani suit which made him look more handsome. Our eyes met and he smiled at me. That was the first time I had ever seen him do that. He always carries a serious expression every time I see him if he is always sniffing the air.
"Happy birthday" everybody that passes me by says to me and I thank them politely.
I was on my way to search for Hannah's father when I heard a moan coming out of a room, out of curiosity to see who could be doing such in someone else's house. I wish I never did, because right in front of me is my crush and my sister suckling each other's faces out.
"Riley" I shouted.
They separated from each other. She looks shocked, while Tyler, on the other hand, looks sad. He shouldn't be sad. I am the one that caught them. "How could you?" I cried.
"Sandra, I can explain" she adjusted her clothes and started coming after me, but I didn't wait as I stormed out of the party.
Hannah caught up with me. "Why did you leave your party like that?" she said, holding her chest as she inhaled and exhaled.
"No, it was a lovely party, but I am just tired and need to go home", I replied her
"Are you sure you are okay? What happened there?" she inquired.
"Nothing happened", I half yelled "I need to go now". I ran off and this time she didn't follow me.
I didn't leave my room for three days because I wasn't ready to talk to her. She didn't even try to talk to me, meaning she must have done what she did on purpose. She doesn't care about me, she was only concerned about herself and wanting my man for herself. I picked a school that is in the same state as my cousin and also far away from here. I was ready to leave everything behind. He would forever see me as a daughter and I don't want to. I packed up my bag the last day, left my sister a note before going to Hannah's house. I owe her an apology and I wanted to see Tyler for the last time before going away.
Luckily, I met Hannah outside her house. She was reading a book in their pouch, "Hannah". I made my presence known to her.
"Sandra, are you going out, what's with the bag?" she drops the book in her hand as she comes to greet me.
"I am traveling, and I am not sure if I am ever coming back here", I told her truthfully.
"You can't do that. I thought you said you would be going to university here with me", she said with sadness that I felt my heart knotted in guilt.
"I changed my mind and I have to go now if I do not want to miss my flight"
"Okay, but promise to call me everything" she commands.
"I promise". I know it was a lie. I will never call, I am leaving everything behind, including her.
My heart saddens as I didn't get to see her father for the last time. I hugged her for the very last time. I am going to miss her. She has been nothing but a wonderful best friend to me. I got into my car and I said goodbye to everything forever, especially to my sister who betrayed me. I will never forgive her.
Tyler pov
I am tired of searching for my mate. I have lost hope of finding her after her disappearance. I started believing people's words that she was dead. I couldn't continue to be the Alpha of my people, so I decided to take a break from it and go to the human world where no one knows me. My daughter agrees to go live with me there, and I let my brother take over.
Life takes another turn when it provides me with my second chance mate. It wasn't just anybody, it was my daughter's friend, who is a minor, and I couldn't take advantage of her even if she was my mate.
I knew she could feel the mate pull. I couldn't blame her. I did take a long shower after seeing her. She was gorgeous, and any guy would be lucky to have her. Accepting her will change everything, especially my relationship with my daughter, and she doesn't know that we are werewolves.
I was against her making her birthday here, but my wolf pushed me to agree. Her sister has a thing for me, and I am aware she is the one that confirmed Sandra's feelings for me. When I first thought it was one-sided before, she had tried to seduce me, but she wasn't the one my wolf craved the most.
On the day of Sandra's birthday, I left home early in order to avoid her when I got a call from her sister. I don't know how she got my number. "Hey handsome" she said into the phone.
"What do you want?" her voice disgusted me.
"Common, stop pretending like you don't want me", she stretched.
"I don't want you, what do you want?"
"If I tell you, will you give yourself to me?" she purred.
"If you don't have anything to say, I will end the call now", I informed her.
"My sister is on her way to your house" she quickly says as I was about to hang up.
"I know she is celebrating her birthday at my house."
"Do you know she will be confessing her feelings to you tonight?" she told me and everything around me halted instantly.
"What do you mean?" I asked after a long pause.
"She is going to tell you she loves you tonight, so better pick, and I know you aren't dumb, it's going to be me," she said.
"Goodbye Riley", I hung up the call.
My wolf was happy to hear that his mate was going to confess her feelings tonight, but I on the other hand, was not comfortable about it. My plan was not to go home so that she didn't see me, but that wasn't a long-lasting solution. Then an idea struck me. In the evening, I decided to go home and, to my surprise, the house was as crowded as I expected.
She and my eyes met, and I could see the joy in them. Riley was right, she was going to tell me today. I quickly searched for Riley and dragged her with me to one of the rooms. "I can see you make your choice," she said happily.
I sniffed the air as her scents hit me. That's how I used to know her presence even before seeing her. She has a scent of lavender and rose and that has become my wolf and my favorite scent. I even brought perfume of the same scents to always calm us down. I didn't bother to answer Riley as I kissed her.
She responded to my kiss like I knew she would and at that moment the door opened and Sandra was staring back at us. My wolf whined at the sight of our mate. He could feel her heart shattering and sadness all through her. She called her sister's name and that was when she noticed her. The way she acted, I knew she was being dramatic, as if she wasn't throwing herself at me.
I wanted to run after Sandra when she bolted out of the room, but I couldn't as I watched her sister run after her. "You hurt mate", my wolf cried in my head.
"You know that's the right thing to do," I reminded him.
"You are just feeling insecure, she already loves us"
"She doesn't know who we are, she will reject us if she knows who we are." I look for an excuse
"She won't, you make our mate cry" he whined.
I locked him out of my head as he was adding more to the pain I was feeling. I went to where they have kept their drink and got myself a drink. I will drink myself till I can't think about her again.
"What happened in just nowhere dad?" Hannah mind linked me
"I don't know, is anything the matter?" I pretended not to understand what she meant.
"Sandra just storms off, and I can see that she has been crying." She told me what I didn't want to keep hearing.
"I don't know what happened, I have been in my room"
I didn't hear any more replies from her as I drowned myself with the alcohol.
In the next few days, I kept myself busy with work. Riley has been calling me, which I kept ignoring. I don't need her again, and she needs to understand that I will never want her. That morning, I asked my daughter about her best friend just to check in on her
"Have you heard or seen your friend?" I questioned.
"Now, she hasn't been picking up my calls" she replied.
"Are you fighting?" I acted normally.
"No, something must have happened on the night of her birthday, and she isn't telling me either," she groaned.
"She is your friend; I am certain she will come around one day", I assured her "See you later, Pumpkin."
"Don't you think you should take a break today; you have been working a lot lately?" she asked.
"It's nothing I can't handle. Have you forgotten I am a werewolf?"
"How can I when I am also one?" we both laughed at our joke as I kissed her forehead and left the house.
I met Hannah sadly when I got back and that is what I have hated since her mother's disappearance. I have promised myself that I was going to take care of her with everything I have. "What's wrong with my pumpkin pie?"
"She left me father. I thought we were friends, but she left" she cried into my arms.
"Who left" I asked, hoping it was not what I was thinking.
"Sandra dad, she sounded like she was never coming back", she replied as she looked into my eye "someone hurt her on her birthday."
"Did she tell you that" my wolf was also hurting when hearing our mate left us.
"No, but I know" she answered back.
"Did she tell you where she was going?" I inquired.
"No, but she said she accepted another school application"
"Meaning she will be here for the holiday; she has only gone to school there" I replied.
"No, she told me she was never coming back again" she replied adamantly.
"Pumpkin, you don't need to jump to a conclusion, we don't know for sure, she will be back" I tried to calm her down and when she finally slept off, I left her
No one was going to calm me down as the thought of losing my second mate started weighing me down. My wolf kept crying and whining, blaming me for everything, and I started regretting my actions. I shouldn't have kissed her sister, I saw a text message pop up on my phone. I went to check, hoping it was her ready to give me another chance, but I hissed as I saw that it was Riley instead and I flung the phone away in annoyance without reading the content.
The next morning, I heard a lock on the door. I listened to my daughter go open it. "Dad, someone is here to see you" she shouted even when she knew she didn't have to. We werewolves have strong hearing, and we can hear what they are saying from a far distance and that is how I know it was Riley at the door.
I went outside the house. "Thank you pumpkin, I got it", I told her as she excused us.
"Why have you been ignoring me?" she attacked me as soon as Hannah was out of sight.
I took her to a place where Hannah wouldn't be able to hear what we were saying. "I don't know what you mean", I denied her accusation.
"You can't kiss me one moment and ignore me the next," she angrily said.
"I am not into you and I will never be", I groaned.
"You kissed me"
"I only want you to get your sister off my back", I said.
"That doesn't make sense except you are also in love with her" she looked into my eyes. "You are in love with her, aren't you?" she scoffed.
"That has nothing to do with the fact that I don't want you", I reminded her
"She is your daughter's age, what are you thinking?" she asked, clearly annoyed.
"That's why I kissed you to get her off my back, so I don't want to ever see you again" I said as I left her standing there with a shocked expression.
Sandra Pov
The summer break ended yesterday and that's why I found myself preparing for school again. I tied my brown hair into a messy bun as I carried my bag. My cousin is waiting for me in her car as we attend the same school.
After I came to live with them, she has become my backbone and only support. She sneaks me out to parties and covers up for me a lot not to put me in trouble.
"Are you ready to rock school?' she asked excitedly.
"You know how much I hate going to school" I scoffed.
"It will be different this season. I can feel it already. Moreso, I heard from the frat party that I went to that there is a new hot teacher joining us."
"Okay, I can't wait to see who they are talking about" I replied as we drove to school.
The school compound was crowded as usual as students stormed in and out of the building. People were chattering and greeting each other as some had seen each other for a very long time. They got out of the car. "See you later", my cousin said, waving at me as soon as she sighted her friend.
I shook my head. I don't have any friends here, not because I don't want to, but people here see me as a nerd and no one wants to get along with a nerd and I can't blame them. After what happened to them, I put my social life to a halt and began to wear baggy clothes to school.
I bumped into a lady. "Hey I am sorry". I bent to help her with her books that were scattered on the floor.
"It's fine, I wasn't paying attention" she replied.
I haven't seen her before, meaning she must be a new student; I pass her book to her while I dust my own hand. "Sorry once again."
"My name is Avery; I am new here" she introduced herself.
"I am Sandra, nice meeting you." I introduced myself too.
"Do you mind showing me around the school as I don't know my way around here?" she pleads with her eyes.
"I don't mind at all", I smiled at her.
"Thank you so much, I have a feeling we will be best of friends", Avery said happily.
"Why would you want to be friends with a nerd?" I asked.
"Nonsense, your personality is not a barrier to us being friends" she answered as we both walked into the school building.
"Let me see your schedule" I asked, and she dipped her hand into her pocket, passing me the shit of paper.
"Good, we are having our first period together", I told her, passing it back to her.
"Good, nature to agree to our friendship" she rejoiced.
"You are weird", I informed her as I laughed.
We took out our books as we got ready for the lecturer to go inside. Just then, my boyfriend Ethan entered with his goons behind him.
He came to my side as he saw me. "Hey babe" he pecked my forehead as that was the only place I gave him access to.
"Hello to you too, I saved you a seat", I pointed at the empty seat beside me.
"Don't worry, I will be sitting with my friends today" he answered, referring to the guys that were with him.
I nodded "okay"
"Won't you introduce me to this beautiful lady beside you?"
"Ethan, meet Avery, Avery, meet my boyfriend Ethan". I introduced both of them to each other.
Ethan stretched forth his hand to take her hand as he kissed the back of her hand. "Nice meeting you"
I rolled my eyes. I know the kind of guy Ethan is, I know he flirts with anything in skirt, he doesn't care if I was there or not.
"Nice meeting you too", Avery replied.
Ethan went away with his friends, and I am glad he isn't going to be sitting down beside me because all he does is distract me by poking me every second with his pen.
"Good morning class", a voice yet a familiar one.
I will recognize the voices everywhere because they come to haunt me in my dreams. I raised my head up and standing in front of me was no other person than Tyler himself. I shook my head in disbelief, he couldn't possibly be the new teacher they were talking about. I watched him sniff the air and then his eyes started roaming about as if he was looking for something, but then his eyes found mine.
He seemed shocked to see me as his mouth opened and then closed again. We kept staring at each other until Avery nudged me by my shoulder. "What?" I asked.
"You are staring too much", she cautioned, and I looked around to see that the rest of the class was also looking at us. "Do you know him before?" she added.
"No" I lied
"Something tells me you are lying about the way both of you were looking at each other", she points out.
"Fine, he is my sister's boyfriend", I spat with disgust.
"And you are not in support of their relationship," she said.
"Not really, it's complicated", I answered truthfully.
"I know you just met me, but you can talk to me and I can assure you that your secret is safe with me" she insisted.
"It's nothing really", I responded.
She looked at me suspiciously but didn't say anything again. Tyler introduced himself to the rest of the class, but I didn't care why he had come here, he had come to flaunt his relationship with my sister. My sister also came here with him.
I was feeling uneasy as I remembered everything over again. "Are you sure you are okay?" Avery said, looking at me.
"I will be fine" I wasn't okay, and I could pretend to be
Students were asking Tyler questions about his life. The ladies were asking personal questions and I can't blame them. He is handsome and hot in the Armani suit he was wearing. If I wasn't angry, I would be drooling over him too.