Catch Her By Her Scent novel Chapter 20

I never liked crowds, much less a crowd of hundreds of antsy teenage girls. I walk off to the edge of the group and sit down on a rock and wait for the games to start. I watch the setting and sun, but before it set all the way a man stepped in front of the group and whistled to get everyone's attention.

"Ladies, ladies! The mating games will be starting in a few minutes and I have to go over a few things with you before we let you go and the games officially begin."

He looks over all of us with a calculating gaze while we all nod in his general direction.

"First of all no man can force himself on you and force you to be his mate. Second once you find your mate, you have to come back to the main gathering grounds and confirm your mate with the council. Lastly we do not recommend this, but you can reject your mate. If you choose to do this though you have to give the council a reason for your rejection. Is that clear ladies?"

He looked over at us again as we nodded.

"Now that we have gone over the rules are there any last minute questions that you ladies have or anything that you need to be clarified on?"

Once again he looked over the crowd and I saw someone raise their hand to speck.

"Yes young lady what is your concern?"

"What if we do not find our mates?"

"If you do not find your mate this time then you will come to the main gathering areas when the night is over and we will put you on the list the come the games next year. Any more questions?"