There I was sitting across the table from the board. The sports board to be precise. I had done it again. Lost control of my temper.

"How many times are we going to do this Caleb?"

A shrugged frustrated voice called out to me. It was my father.

I was tired of him with all sincerity. I was sick of him. Who wouldn't be tired of someone who made it his life goal to diminish me at any opportunity he got.

"Answer me Caleb!"

He smashed his hands on the table. Which would have scared me but I was way past that.

"You little twat. If you're not making a mess on the ice and breaking all the rules, you're ravaging the campus like a-a-..."

"A beast"

I completed the statement and the entire room went drop dead silent.

"That's what you wanted to say right?"

I continued as I stood up and stared at him. He couldn't look me in the face. Apparently I was his disappointment. His failed experiment.

"Caleb leave"

Everyone in the room was hiding their faces at this point. I was used to it. This scene had played out way too many times.

"I'll go. It's not like you want me here anyway. It's not like I wanted to be here anyways"

I stood up. Headed for the door and banged it behind me.

This scene was so overplayed. So dramatic. I should be used to it by now but I wasn't. I pretended like it didn't bother me but it did.

I rushed back to my dorm and took off my shirt to look at the marks on my chest. The memories ran through my head like it had only been yesterday when it all happened.

Staring at it, the anger I had tried to hide resurfaced. Images of that night played in my head.

"Get the out!"

I screamed as I slammed the mirror with my fist, I didn't even feel the hurt or pain of my hand bleeding. I looked at the shards of the mirror and there it was the beast.

He was looking at me as he took over. He was my other half or my better half. The element of a failed experiment.

***

I was just ten. Ten. Who uses a ten year old for an experiment? My sick Dad.

"He's going to be different from the rest. Faster, stronger and better"

Those were the words that lingered in my father's ears before I was washed into a boiling pot of experimental chemicals.

The smile on his face was unforgettable. He stood there and watched me scream my lungs out.

Helplessly, I gave into the pain. A burning sensation on my skin. I screamed but it was useless.

"Help!"

But nobody moved; they all stood there, observing and watching a kid scream.

The pain grew numb in me. It was as if the pain had melted into my body and become part of me.

I could feel it rummaging and expanding inside me. Something was changing. Something I didn't know. Something I wasn't going to be able to control.

When they brought me out. I felt different. I sensed it. Everything felt sharper. My eyes, nose, speed. My senses were too keen.

"Release him."

My supposed father said.

"We'll have to test him first to know how good he is"

My father nodded with an obvious delight that made me sick to the stomach.

"Go ahead"

He gave his approval. The lab attendants loosened the chains that I had been chained to.

Immediately. I jumped down and I couldn't feel the weight of my body.

"Catch"

They threw an apple at me and I caught it before it could hit the floor.

Then my father smiled. He was quite impressed.

"Impressive"

I said.

"That's not all"

The Medic said.

A sock was thrown at me.

"Find this?"

I picked up the scent and sourced the lab attendant that owned it in less than a second.

My father couldn't hide his delight.

"That's not all, he's got one more trick he needs to perform so that we'll know"

That very moment, the rooftop opened and the full moon appeared. For the first time, my wolf was triggered.

I transformed. I could feel my bones stretching, the fur covering my skin. My breath was shortening. I could feel all of it happening at once.

I grew twice the size of a regular wolf and that was when I knew that something was wrong.

"Magnificent. Oh Frank, you're a genius. This is the first time I'm seeing a wolf this size. With this, our enemies will be no match for us"

Just then as my father was gloating. The beast took control. Before I could process what was going on.

I was destroying everything in the lab and attacking everyone. Everyone started running in different directions.

Just then, beneath my feet I could hear a voice begging for his life.

"Caleb please don't kill me. It's me-me-me Dr Frank"

Before I could think it through. I woke up. Panting. Looking at the floor, I saw the broken mirror. I sighed.

***

I hated the fact that I always woke up at that part. Where Dr Frank was begging me. I don't know why I couldn't seem to get past that part of my nightmares.

The morning sun reflected harshly into my dorm as I made my breakfast, nothing really heavy. Just cereal and milk.

Then I heard a knock on my door. I was curious.

"Who dared knock on the beast's door?"

I placed the bowl down as I tried to sense if it was danger looking for me. But it was just Justin.

"Justin you don't need to knock, you come in"

The doorknob turned and he came in.

"So-so-sorry"

He managed to spew with his glasses hiding his eyes.

"It's okay. I'm used to your stupidity by now".

That was when it hit me. I perceived it. Someone else was with him.

"Who are you? Come in if you wish to die?"

Immediately Justin shoved himself to the corner. I was preparing to pounce on whoever appeared and then she came in.

The entire world paused for a moment. Her scent filled my body and there was something else. Something else was happening to my wolf. It was jumping inside me with the words.

“Mate, mate, mate”

It was clear without regard that this was my mate. I stared at her, oblivious of who she was and what she was doing here. But what I didn't know was that this human standing before me was about to change my life forever.

"My name is Dr Elena, Aris"

She said as she shifted her glasses to sit on the bridge of her nose. I don't even know how I caught up with her words.

My wolf was too busy jumping inside. Luckily, I was able to restrain it. Everything about her was driving me nuts, it was as if the whole room went quiet just because of her presence.

Her ginger hair fluttered perfectly over her shoulders, her freckles made her cheek bones even more beautiful and don't get me started with her blue eyes. They are to die for.

Wait, was I falling for her. No, not possible. How could that be? Why should it be? The crazy part was that she was human, I could tell from her scent. My wolf couldn't stop acting up.

"Caleb, are you there?"

Her voice snapped me out of my thoughts.

"Um yes, yes-yes. I was just wondering what you're-"

My head was virtually empty. The only thing I was hearing was 'mate, mate, mate'

"You're doing here?"

I held a grasp on myself. I wasn't going to let Vincent get the better part of me.

"You didn't get the message?"

"Huh? What message?"

"You were supposed to be informed of my coming before hand"

Just then it hit me. I turned and looked at Justin. The most useless beta anyone could ask for.

"Justin?"

I yelled with a high pitched tone.

"I-I-I was going to tell you but, but you were too busy last night"

Rage filled my face. What did he mean? I was too busy.

"What do you mean I was too busy, what was I doing?"

I stood there and I expected an answer. But only silence filled the room. It only made me angrier. And when I got angry like that it wasn't good for anyone.

I could feel my veins popping out and my head getting bigger.

"Answer me!"

I yelled. Justin coiled in a corner and swallowed a bulge down his throat as I walked closer to him.

"You were... having...you-re nightmares again"

He managed to spill as he pointed to the broken shards of glass on the floor and the obvious mess I had not seen when I woke up.

"How long has this been going on?"

Her voice brought me back to reality again. It calmed me and soothed me.

"How long have you had these temperamental outbursts?"

She asked again. But I couldn't bring myself to answer her. I already knew the truth, I had always known the truth but it was a secret. My secret.

"Since you weren't informed of my arrival. I'll simply just do a brief introduction to ease things out"

She arranged her position and took a more confident stance.

"I am Dr Elena Aris. I am a highly trained psychologist whose profession entails helping people to control their aggression and temperaments. I help people understand what their anger is trying to say and how to stop it from taking over.”