The Bully Alpha's Fake Alpha Mate (BL) Chapter 53: TRANSFORMATION BEGINS

ASHER

The mandatory full moon run was at nine PM.

Every student was required to attend and there were no exceptions.

I stood in my dorm staring at my reflection, trying to figure out how the fuck I was going to survive the next few hours. My skin was flushed, my pupils were blown wide, sweat dampened my hairline despite the cold shower I’d just taken and the pain.

Goddess, the pain was so intense I could barely stand upright. I pressed my hand to my abdon and took a shuddering breath.

I could skip the run, fake being sick, lock myself in my room and pray Reed couldn’t break down the door but the Dean had been clear. Mandatory ant mandatory. Missing the full moon run ant expulsion and if I was expelled, I’d lose my scholarship, my future and everything.

I had no other choice than to go.

I just had to stay away from everyone, stay on the outskirts and shift as quickly as possible before my scent gave away. Once I was in wolf form, I could run, get far away before anyone figured out the Oga scent was coming from .

Simple.

The pain pulsed again and I doubled over, gasping.

Nothing about this was going to be simple.

The woods behind campus were packed with students by the ti I arrived, hundreds of them. All gathering in the clearing where the transformation would take place.

Alphas clustered together in groups, weaker Alphas stood nervously on the edges and everyone was buzzing with excitent for the run.

I kept to the shadows, I stayed as far from the crowd as I could and pulled my hood up to hide my face.

The pain was getting worse by the second. Each breath felt like fire in my lungs and there was a pressure building inside that made want to scream.

Just a few more minutes, just until the transformation started. This was so much worse than I’d anticipated.

"Asher?" I heard my voice from afar and I turned to see Julian standing there, his shirt already off. "You okay? You look like you’re about to pass out."

"I’m fine." I told him, this was a big mistake, he shouldn’t co close to . If he did, then he would notice my different pheromones.

"You don’t look fine. Maybe you should sit this one out—"

"I can’t." My voice ca out harsher than I intended. "I have to run."

Julian studied my face. "What’s wrong with you? You’ve been acting weird all day."

"Nothing’s wrong. I’m just tired."

"Asher—"

"Leave alone, Julian." I took a step back. "Please, just leave alone for now. I just want to be away from you, please."

Julian’s brow furrowed, he didn’t say a word, he just nodded and walked away but not without throwing a glance one last ti.

I could tell he was hurt but it wasn’t my fault.

’I am sorry,Julian. You would soon understand the full moon hit. Please forgive .’ I said quietly, hoping he could hear my thoughts. This was better, I didn’t want him to find out while standing as I shifted to my oga form.

I just know that once it’s ti then I would shift and run before anyone realized what I was.

The Dean stood on a raised platform at the center of the clearing. "Listen up!" His voice carried across the crowd distracting from my thoughts. "Standard rules apply. Stay within the designated territory, no fighting and no hunting of non-ga animals. You have until dawn to run."

The crowd murmured with excitent.

"The full moon rises in five minutes," Dean Blackwood continued. "Prepare yourselves."

Around , students started stripping off their clothes. Getting ready for the shift. I moved further back, closer to the tree line and further from the crowd.

My whole body was shaking now, the pain was getting worse and there was heat building between my legs that made want to sob.

I pulled off my hoodie with trembling hands then my shirt followed by my jeans.

The cold air hit my overheated skin but it did nothing to cool down. I was burning from the inside out.

"Sothing slls different tonight," soone said nearby and I froze imdiately.

An Alpha was sniffing the air. "Do you guys sll that?"

"Sll what?" another student asked.

"I don’t know. Sothing... sweet? Like heat?"

My blood went cold.

No.

The moon wasn’t fully up yet. I was still human. My pheromones shouldn’t be leaking this strongly but more students were starting to notice. Heads turning, noses flaring and confusion spreading through the crowd.

"Where’s that coming from?"

"I can’t tell. It’s faint but—"

"Fuck, that slls good."

I needed to shift now before they tracked the scent to . I closed my eyes and tried to force the transformation early. I tried to pull my wolf form out before the moon fully rose but my body wouldn’t cooperate. The shift only happened during the full moon. I couldn’t force it.

"It’s getting stronger," the Alpha said. His voice was getting rougher. "Whatever it is, it’s close."

"It slls like Oga," soone else said. "Like an Oga in heat."

The clearing went quiet.

"That’s impossible," Julian’s voice cut through. "There are no Ogas enrolled here. We’re an Alpha Academy."

"Then where’s that scent coming from? Its fucking amazinb becausethe oga in heat is unmated. Oh I can’t wait to have the oga, whoever it is." The Alpha said.

I pressed myself against a tree, trying to stay hidden in the shadows. My heart was hamring so hard I thought it might explode.

Just a little longer, just until the moon rose and I could shift and run, please.

The moon broke over the horizon, full, bright and massive. And everything went to hell. The transformation hit like a freight train, and pain exploded through my body. Every muscle, every bone, and every nerve ending lit up at once but I bit down on my lip hard enough to draw blood and forced myself to stay silent.

Around , students were gasping and groaning as their shifts started. The clearing filled with the sounds of bones breaking and reforming and I shifted with them.

The transformation was agonizing. Worse than I’d imagined. My bones broke and reford. My muscles tore and rebuilt and through it all, the heat pulsed and burned and made everything ten tis worse but finally, I was on four legs instead of two.

My wolf form was smaller than the Alphas around , leaner and built for speed rather than strength.

Oga.

The clearing was full of wolves now. Dozens of them shaking out their fur. Testing their new forms and then the scent hit.

Not just slling it, everyone slling it.

My heat pheromones flooded the forest in a wave so strong it was almost visible.

Sweet, warm and intoxicating. Pure Oga in heat.

Every wolf in the clearing froze, heads snapped up, noses turned toward the wind trying to locate the source but I was already moving.

I bolted into the trees before anyone could track the scent to specifically, before anyone could see which wolf was running, just another shadow disappearing into the forest.

Behind , the clearing erupted into chaos, howls filled the air, confused, hungry and desperate.

"There’s an Oga here—"

"Where—"

"Find them—"

But the voices were shifting now. Becoming growls and barks as more students completed their transformations and the hunt began. I ran as fast as my legs could carry . My paws pounded against the forest floor, branches whipped past, the full moon lit my path but I could already hear them behind .

The wolves, dozens of them or maybe hundreds. All following my scent trail and all hunting .

They didn’t know it was , they didn’t know Asher Graham was the Oga they were chasing but they knew there was an unmated Oga in heat sowhere in these woods and every Alpha instinct was screaming at them to find , claim and breed .

I ran faster, my lungs were burning and my muscles were screaming but the heat made everything harder, it made my movents sluggish, it made it difficult to think straight. Behind , the howls were getting closer. The pack was spreading out and searching. So going left, and so going right, trying to track where my scent was strongest and sowhere in that pack, Reed Jackson had shifted.

His rut had hit, his wolf form had caught my scent and he was hunting. I could feel it. So primal part of recognized that he was out there, that he was coming for and that when he caught my scent trail, nothing would stop him from tracking down.

I pushed harder, ran faster, ignored the pain and the heat and the fear but my scent was everywhere, coating the forest, impossible to hide and the wolves were getting closer.

The hunt had begun and I was the prey.