when an Alpha, Beta or Omega hits a certain age and is not mated, the government pairs them with an arranged mate, you knew that, because it just happened to you. A letter, and a collar.

Ghost saw how you shyly entered the common room that day, with a scarf around your neck, which was odd, you never wore something like that before, his Alpha instincts were telling him that something was wrong, so he brought himself to you, inspecting you up and down, methodically.

"Why the scarf?"