Whats A Mate

ALEXY is in a hurry to pack her things. She would walk around in her room several times to find, pick up and put in her big suitcase the important things she would take with her on the upcoming trip.

"Cuz, are you really sure about your plan to leave here temporarily?" a worried Fiona asked, she is her first cousin on the father side. She just watched what she was doing as she leaned against the jamb of the door.

She stopped for a moment and glanced at her. "I'm sure with my plan, Cuz. You'll take care of everything here while I'm gone. And I beg you never to report me to Daddy and Mommy," she answered her question and instructed further. "Also don't forget to update me on the important news that is happening here," she added.

Fiona could do nothing but nod and stop interrogating her. The apprehension was evident in her cousin's expression because of her plan to leave home without informing her parents. "Be careful and make sure that no one will know your true identity so that the most kept secret of our clan cannot be traced and revealed," Fiona told her as a reminder.

She smiled at her as she walked over to her and gave her a tight hug. After their hug, she caressed and touched her left cheek. "Don't worry, I won't do anything to harm our family," she assured her.

She then tapped her cousin's shoulder and went back to her postponed packing. She finished the task and the sound of the zipper, as she closes her suitcase, signaled that nothing could really stop her from escaping home. Or would it be better to say that it is a escape from the responsibility that her parents wanted to place on her?

IT IS half past two in the middle of the night when the private plane where Alexy was on flew from Pennsylvania, USA to the Philippines, the country where her mother came from. This is the third time she will once again set foot on the land of her mother’s beloved hometown.

There were two times the private plane stopped over to refuel and for her and the pilots to get some rest. It was eight o'clock in the evening when they finally arrived at the airport in Manila where they landed. After she got through the scanning and the guards, she also got her suitcase on wheels that she is pulling now.

She is already walking towards the exit to find her friend who will pick her up and take her to her purchased condo unit here in Makati.

She walked quietly pass everyone when unexpectedly someone with a large bulky body hit her. They collided and consecutively was about to fall to the floor. She gasped in shock. Fortunately, she was caught by the daring stranger who ran into her, he reverse their position. He grabbed her then pull over her body to bring her on top and it was him who ended up falling to the hard floor.

They ended up in an undesirable position. She was hunched over the man and their lips were only an inch apart. Their breathing is almost mixed in air as well. She could smell a strange trace of faint breeze coming from the stranger. A fragrant smell that seemed to entice her to bite him, leaving a mark. This is weird. She felt the color of her eyes change. It can't be!

She quickly slapped the man on both shoulders and immediately stood up. "Pervert!" she burst loudly at him before hurriedly leaving dragging her suitcase.

She hadn't been able to think properly awhile ago and she was shocked at the scene she made back inside the airport. She was afraid someone would see the sudden change of the color of her eyes into red. Her nose can still smel the scent of the stranger, which is why her body's in heat was still not subsiding. She knew in herself she was experiencing the mating phase, as a werewolf it was the sense of smell which helps them to follow and find a potential mate.

"What happened to you, Xy? Are you okay? Why do you look so pale?" astonished Felicia, her bestfriend, greeted her as she took her suitcase from her.

She covered her nose, hoping to lose the man's still indelible scent. Why in the long run that it would be here that she will really have the urge to find a mate. Hopefully at least it happens in an uncrowded place so as not to reveal her true identity.

"This is nothing, Fely. Just don't mind me," she recalled replying to the friend. She promptly tapped her on the shoulder before she entered the passenger's side of her car.

Felicia did not complain and just put her suitcase inside the trunk. She then got into the car and started the engine before hitting on the road.

"Are you sure your parents won't be able to follow you or find you? If it ever happened and you're screwed, don't involve me in the trouble you've got into," Fely warned her and she was obviously afraid to get reported to her own parents that she had helped her hide.

"Don't you trust me? I thought we've been close like sisters since childhood?" she pretended to be sulking.

Fely's eyebrows met and she glared at her irritably. "Hey, Xy! Stop with your playing victim card. As your bestfriend, I'm here and I helped you find an untraceable condo unit and I even picked you up from the airport. So if I was you, I'll better choose to be kind and be quiet," she chastised her.

She knew she couldn't calm get her bestfriend through her acting so she just kept her mouth shut and focused her gaze on the front of the car. The deafening silence was better than making Felicia's annoyance worse.