27

Alessio

“Why is mom here?” I flipped around, gritting the words through clenched teeth.

Daniel leaned against the small, round dining table in the hall, his one hand in his pocket and the other one resting on the mahogany surface, “Why can’t she be here?”

“Don’t fuck with me right now, Daniel.” I growled, staring at the food that had been prepared and brought in especially to this room by mom’s orders. She wanted to have a ‘special’ dinner with close people instead of with other pack members on her first day of return. I did not mind the dinner, I did mine the reason she had been brought here for.

Daniel straightened, his both hands slipping inside his trousers as he glanced toward the door before answering me, “I told you, you need help to make a decision about Mia. You and I have been here for over two months now and you have not returned to our pack. You stay here despite this not being your home, you tell me you don’t want a relationship with her but you still can not help your