Binding Ties

"Odessa!"

Luca yelled as he ran after her in his polished school uniform. He looked so dashing in them. His white never had a stain whether in the cool of the day or the roughest afternoon after football.

"What?"

Odessa asked feigning some sense of ignorance. She always had a soft spot for him and their childhood friendship had blossomed into a secret affection that they both nursed. "Why are you storming out of the class angrily?" He asked throwing his hands in the air. He had taken the instincts thanks to Zoe's silly advice to mark Vynessa as his mate seeing that they have been betrothed for a while. She was the school's hottest werewolf and his rage was spurned when Ken pecked her to say "good morning".

He fell for the bait that she set.

"Because I can't understand what you just did! You said you were not ready to commit until after 6 months when we would be done with our final exams and now I come into the class and seeing you marking Vynessa?"

Odessa asked with her blue eyes filled with tears threatening to fall. She pinched her skirt to stop her from crying. It would mean more than that.

 "It's not what you think, Odessa. I had to, unlike you humans who have a strong level of freewill, for us we have to do what is right early or live with the consequences. Moreover, she is my mate."

 Luca affirmed as if trying to convince himself. As her eyes searched for answers, he was feeling that strange pull again towards her; his heart was burning with passion for her and his senses were raging mad. He couldn't explain it to anyone that his wolf nature was always ignited whenever he was this close to this human because they would find it silly and conclude that he was just in love. Yes, he was in love with her but his tongue has been locked in for years.

 "Mate? Are you trying to convince me or yourself?"

Odessa scoffed as she pushed her head back to drive back her tears. He was spurning all sort of passion inside of her and insides were on passion fire both out of anger and lust.

"I don't know but I thought you would be here to support me as my friend!"

Luca thumped still trying to lay hold of his feral instincts. He never wanted to use them on her. Moreover, he never had to because it was always a natural strong pull between them. "Friend? Nice, I'm happy for you my friend." Odessa scoffed as she walked briskly out on him. His legs made to run after her when he heard Vynessa's voice. She had been watching. "Luca!"

Her voice held him back even as he watched a piece of him disappear into the school hall way. ***

Odessa held on to the bathroom sink as her body attempted to control her pain. It was a strange feeling for her to fathom. Her head was spiraling with questions like; why am I so angry? Who does he think he is? Am I the fool now? But we kissed I thought it meant something? She couldn't step out of the toilet even if she attempted to, she would be making a mess of herself because of how terrible her tears have made her face appear.

"Hello, Whitney. Please can you come meet me in the rest room?"

She requested as she dropped her cell phone. "Hey, what happened?"

Whitney asked like a concerned guardian. She looked like an angel even as she came to Odessa's aid. Her curly blonde hair fell over her pale shoulders. Her pale skin had grown with Whitney over the years and despite the taunts of everyone that she looked like a dead fellow, she never lost her shine. Odessa had helped her severally with the stupid ideas to tan her skin but like butter under heat, it always fell apart. "Luca marked Vynessa!"

She found herself yelling repeatedly as she hit the ceramic washing basin. It was suffocating her to think about it again. Whitney's face fell in sad wits although she heard the news already from her class; she thought probably Odessa would handle it better. She longed to see her best friend after hearing the news but the burdens of the lecturer in class made it difficult for her to leave. With Odessa's call that was her cue that it was disaster o'clock. She wrapped her hands around Odessa's fidgeting body. "I'm sorry baby. He doesn't deserve you!" Whitney continued reiterating as she patted Odessa's sobbing shoulders. She was too fragile for how hard the system was going to break her and a big name like Luca Tharros was definitely going to push her under the water for long.

"We kissed last summer and I thought it meant something to him but I guess not."

 Odessa expressed between sobs attempting to gain composure.

 "Men are useless, I tell you that all the time. Ladies deserve better those species."

Whitney said in her familiar sarcastic tone which sparked a bit of smile in Odessa's countenance. "I guess you are right."

Odessa scoffed raising herself from the toilet seat with Whitney's hands arranging her scattered hair.

"You look terrible, I'm grateful I came with my make up bag."