Luna’s Young Alpha

*****Xena's POV*****

The rain began to fall in torrents again the moment Valkyrie left. She had been totally speechless when I told her that Ryder was my mate. Just like I was the first time I found out, I was speechless and dumbfounded.

She left for the packhouse because she needed to be there on time as she worked in the packhouse and needed to also be available for the party.

I just tidied up the entire living room, ate a little dinner because of Layla, then took my laptop and went upstairs to my bedroom.

The entire time I tried not to think, but each time I tried to relax, I'm always assaulted by the memory of Ryder's hand on my shoulder. I was supposed to go to the packhouse for the coronation, at least to show my happiness for my favorite student who was turning Alpha, but I turned out to be that favorite student's mate.

Such an embarrassing thing if the public found out.

I would find a way to make him reject me before the news got out, because even if I avoided him today, there's still tomorrow when I have to go to school and I'll definitely meet him.

He would also become Alpha and lay out commands which I couldn't disobey.

I strutted into the bathroom for a quick shower as the weather was extremely cold. Stepping out of the bathroom wrapped in my towel, I made my way into the room to get dressed and ready to sleep.

Tomorrow, I would've gotten the courage to finally face him in school, but for now I better stay home and enjoy the cozy atmosphere.

Once I got dressed, I settled in my bed to read through the lessons I had for the next day. I turned off the light in my room, leaving only my reading lights on.

Just when I settled in to begin my reading on my laptop, Layla suddenly posed a question.

"You feel nervous?" She asked and my hand on the keyboard froze.

"Mm." I hummed in reply and she sighed.

"It's normal for you to feel that way." She said to me, but I said nothing in response to that.

I proceeded to type on the laptop, also posing my own question to her, "What do you think about all these?" I asked.

She chuckled at my words, "what I think?" She sighed, "I find it crazy that we're mated to a kid! But we don't have a choice do we?" She returned and I let out a tired sigh.

"That's the thing! We're mated to a kid!"

"But you know, it can't be that bad." She argued, "if you ask me, I'll say we should give it a try."

I froze at her words, give what a try?

Mate with Ryder?

"Hell no!" I yelled out and she just chuckled. "Don't even suggest that. I just can't do that."

I said and she kept mute.

I ran a hand through my hair in frustration, there was just no way I could accept this.

Leaning back on the headboard, I shut my eyes for a brief second, just to catch my breath.

"You know you could do this, we've waited our whole life for this." She started again and rolled my eyes.

"So what? We waited our whole life for a kid." I added and she laughed.

"You make it sound like it's a taboo"

"Because it is a taboo. It's so embarrassing that I can't even picture it in my head. Yes, Ryder doesn't look his age at all and he looks older than me, but I just can't see myself having any relationship with him aside student and teacher."

Layla was trying so hard to make me see the other side of this weird combination, but I just didn't want to accept it. I just didn't want to see it, I just wanted to wake up from the dream I felt I was having.

Maybe my mate was a tall handsome man who is very much older than I was and was bigger too. It was definitely not Ryder, but again, it wasn't a dream.

It was all real!

"You have to calm down, Xena. Over thinking this way wouldn't even go anywhere in helping the situation." Layla said and I hummed. Unfortunately, she was right. Overthinking and stress wouldn't help me at all.

Just as I settled into the covers, the door bell rang startling me from my sitting position.

I glanced at the bedside alarm to see it was already very late and the time was already 10 pm.

Who would visit someone at this hour?

My heart beat accelerated as I climbed out of bed to go check on the anonymous visitor.

"Just relax, if anything goes wrong you let me take over, got it?" Layla assured and I nodded.

I went downstairs to the living room and directly to the front door.

The person only rang the doorbell once, and it scared shit out of me.

Though the city had been very peaceful and quiet, there weren't any cases of murder or stalkers stalking people, so I was 90 percent sure it wasn't a murderer at my doorstep.

But the rain was still falling very heavily, how in the goddess' name would anyone visit another person at such hour and under the rain?

What if it was a stalker, like I had feared at first? I'd be in serious trouble if that were the case. But, as I mentioned, it couldn't be a stalker. I've lived alone for so long and never had a stalker, so it couldn't be one.

I gulped down my saliva as I reached out to unlock the door, my heart thumping so loud I couldn't hear anything else. The rain, along with the mysterious person at my door, made it feel like a scene from a horror movie.

I crept on tiptoes to peek through the peephole, and that's when I spotted the outline of a man. A man was standing at my doorstep.

I still proceeded to reach for the door handle.

Just as I pulled the door open, I came face to face with no other person but Ryder.