A Male Best Friend!!!!
A wolf's life is dependent on his mate—everyone has heard this. They sometimes are left behind to live a life of a human if, due to some circumstances, their mates are gone. Yeah, some do live and run in the race to find a new mate or simply look for someone whose mate they are.
Well, honestly, it seemed more than that in Ryley's life. He ran and ran, struggling to catch a few words with his wolf Shine, who refused to talk. He must know her location. He can sense her presence around. Even if she is sitting in the class and he has just come to school, Shine would scream and shy as though she were standing across from them. He can smell her within the diameter of fifteen feet.
Stopping at the school gate, he tried once again to get Shine speaking. Unluckily, what he got in reply was just his irked-out howl that made it clear he was not in the sense to help him in any way. "Shine, please, tell me if you can smell her around." Although Ryley can search for her too via his olfactory perception, alas, he was not able to as there were many other strong odors of burning trash, crying of night animals, chirping of insects affecting his concentration. In fact, he was still in the phase of learning. Spotting people through their smell was not aced by him like other expert wolves. He needed more time to improve the ability of his hearing.
He did catch a girl's cries coming from afar, but when he neared the location, he realized that was nothing other than the fake cries playing on a small television in a shop on loud voice. "Did you see Valen returning to school to gather any forgotten stuff?" he was loitering in the premises of the school after jumping the gate and met their watchman who was on his third round.
The children of the school were a pain in the ass. They often barged in the school during the night and hid in the classes with crates of beer that would be lying everywhere in the school by the morning arrived. And to avoid such students barging in, the senior gatekeeper with two of his other members left for taking rounds thrice in the night to make sure there were not any brats inside. And to mock up everything here, it is a must-mention that Ryley and his were the very first who did that, including some others! Dang.
And so it made the old man cock an eyebrow looking at his back. "No, she didn't come back again!" He replied, eyeing his back as though warning himself that something was up and his friends were hiding somewhere around while this Alpha's son diverted their gazes.
"Okay, anybody else from my friends after they left school! Or did you see them going right after Valen?" He shot another question, breathing still deeply as he turned a gaze around to find anything he could.