I watch as my Gamma runs to my house from Amy’s. What the fuck is he doing? Why is he talking to her all of the sudden? And why is it pissing me off so bad?
Once he steps inside, I grab him by the throat and throw him into the wall. “What the fuck are you doing?” I yell, not understanding my own emotions. “Put him down, Liam.” My father comes out of nowhere and calmly commands me. I growl but let my friend down. He smirks up at me, “Goddess, I was only talking to her. What’s the big deal?” Dallas asks. That’s the problem, I don’t know what the big deal is. I haven’t spoken to Amy since we were twelve. Why do I care that he’s talking to her. When I saw him talking to her at lunch though it took everything in me not to rip his head off, now he’s walking her home. Fuck! I need to get myself under control.
“The problem is that she’s human. She shouldn’t even know about our existence, let alone start seeing any of us!” I shout, still not having my temper one hundred percent under control. My dad walks over, being a busy body today of all days. “I don’t see the problem. She already knows of our existence, her and her mom don’t go around telling anybody, and Dallas still has a couple months until he turns eighteen. Let’em have some fun, until he can find his mate.” My anger flares at him saying let them have some fun. Is my dad the new pimp of the pack? I growl at my dad, giving him warning to leave us alone, but he is the Alpha of the pack. There isn’t much I can do if he wants to stay. He laughs at me and goes on his merry way. Just then Cole and Walker come into the house. I look through the door and see Amy greeting Mia at her door, before Cole shuts the door interrupting my stalking.
Luckily, no one seems to notice. I finally give up on Dallas and we all move to the game room. I grab a pool stick and so does Walker, and I go to break. “So, what’s up with you and Amy?” Cole asks Dallas, while they both grab a drink from mini fridge. He smirks at me and then answers Cole, “I’m not sure. She said something funny in the lunch line today, and now I can’t stop thinking about her.” My pool stick breaks from the pressure I had it under while listening to him. He smirks over at me again, “Future Alpha over here doesn’t want me to be talking to her though.” They all look over at me questioningly. I shrug and grab a beer from the fridge. I don’t know what they want me to say, and I have no idea what I want to say, so I’ll just stay quiet.
“When I asked her, what was going on, she wasn’t very friendly.” Cole says laughing, Dallas looks at him with murder in his eyes. “What did you say?” He asks accusingly, Cole smirks. “Just asked her what was going on and she waded up my note and threw it away!” Cole says looking hurt. A small laugh comes from Dallas, “I invited her to the party this weekend.” Dallas informs us not remarking on Cole talking to Amy, causing my hair to stand on ends. “You did what?” I shout, they all look at me confused but they try and laugh it off. “Is she coming?” Walker asks, I intently listen. For some reason I’m not sure which answer I’m hoping for. “No, she says she has plans.” Dallas answers, and for some reason I deflate a little. Walker laughs, and speaks, “Well, that’s bullshit.” I look at him confused. He rolls his eyes, “Mia’s coming to the party. Mia’s her only friend. She has no plans she just didn’t want to come with you.” He explains looking straight at Dallas and smirks at him, I see him deflate just a little. I don’t know why, but that makes me smile.
He hops off the counter he was leaning against and pulls out his phone. He starts texting someone. Cole laughs, “Are you texting her?” Dallas smirks and nods. The fact that he has her number has me feeling a certain type of way, but I don’t understand it.
Soon, we hear his phone chime, and we all seem interested on what she has to say. “Says her mom wants to hang out with her on Saturday, so she’s spending the day with her.” Dallas smirks. I can tell he has a plan, but I still don’t think it’s the best idea to have her come to the party. She gets bullied enough at school, who knows how much worse it could be without any adults. “Whatcha thinking?” Cole asks Dallas. He looks up at us with a big smile, “I’m thinking, mom’s love me.” That gets a laugh from everybody but me.
“It’s really not a good idea. Clara and the girls are going to be here, and you know how they are with her. Plus, Olive has a thing for you, it’ll get that much worse for her if Olive sees her hanging out with you.” I try and reason with them, because clearly I would have to Alpha command them to listen to me at this point, and I don’t have that ability just yet. Walker and Cole seem to think about it, but Dallas has anger written all over his face. “I’ll kill all of them if they lay a finger on her.” He says slowly, and murderously. I’ve literally never seen him act like that in my life. Does he actually have feelings for her? How? They literally just started talking today.
I look at him like he’s grown an extra head. He seems to cool off, but I guess I was wrong. “Just keep your slut and her friends away from us.” He says calmly, but a growl comes from the back of his throat. He hasn’t taken his eyes off me, then he walks out of the room. A few seconds later I hear my front door slam shut. What the fuck just happened? I look at Walker and Cole, who look just as dumbfounded as me. Cole speaks first, “Fuck, did she put a love spell on him or something? What the fuck was that?”
I don’t think she could have put a love spell on him. All witches live outside pack lands, and she never leaves. How would she have gotten ahold of one? The question still needs an answer, because I don’t know why my gamma is acting like that. “Yeah, we’re gonna have to figure out what’s going on, because that.” I gesture toward the door, “can’t be happening.”
I see my mom coming downstairs, but she stops in the doorway. “A love spell? Seriously?” My mom says, while rolling her eyes. She’s always had a soft spot for Amy, she was never happy with me that I cut off contact with her. “Did you see him?” Walker asks her, gesturing at the door. She laughs, “You guys ever think maybe if you got to know her, you’d like her to? You boys sit over here in your ivory tower and think because she’s not a part of it that she isn’t worth it. And as someone who does love her, I can promise you she’s worth it. And Liam before you got your wolf you thought she was worth it to. You boys still have so much growing up to do.” She rolls her eyes and walks back up the stairs.
Leave it to my mom to throw me under the bus and walk away. What is up with my parents today, all team Amy right now. Not saying they don’t love her, but they aren’t usually so blatant about throwing it in my face.
I look over at my friends and shrug, not wanting any questions. I grab another beer while Walker and Cole grab the remotes, to start playing some video game. What is going on right now? Everything feels off. It can’t all be just because Dallas wants to be with Amy.
The house looks pristine. Like he’s had a cleaner coming here everyday and a gardener to keep the outside looking brand new. It surprises me.Clearly, he took the opposite route with our house then I did with my moms. Which I couldn’t be happier about. I would have been heartbroken if this house was burnt to ash when we got back.I stand in the living room with Dallas and Liam, and just look around for awhile. Everything’s still here right where we left it. If it wasn’t so freaking clean, it’d be like we never left.The house was never dirty, but it was lived in. It always showed a family, and all their friends occupied the house, but now it looks more like a museum.I grab Liam’s hand, and he squeezes mine in return, “Come on, Angel.” He pulls me, and leads me up the stairs and to our bedroom.Dallas stays in the living room, giving us some much needed space to be alone.I go straight to our room, wanting nothing more than to lay down on our bed after not having a comfortable bed for
I grunt frustrated and lay my head in my hands. “You put your mate in a cell?” I ask Griffon after he tells me everything that’s happened since we left. He nods, looking over at the window, “She tried to kill me. I mean… I know now that she didn’t really want to kill me, but at the time I thought she did.” He explains and I sigh.I shake my head and change to subject, “The stage is coming down, and we’re putting the park back. Your mom and I are not staying here, we’ll be heading back home. I’m getting rid of most of your safety rules. You’re going to explain to the pack how you acted out of fear and concern, then you’re going to apologize.”His teeth clench and he shakes his head, “I may not have done everything right, but everything I did was to keep the pack safe. You said yourself mom said that she wanted to get to us, and she couldn’t.” He says and I roll my eyes, “She couldn’t get to Heather either. And you know why? She used other witches to protect her pack. She didn’t take aw
Hazel and Cole don’t stay in the office for long. Hazel announcing they’re going to go see what books they have that’ll help with all this.Griffon tells everyone else that there’s food waiting for us in the dining room, and everyone except Griffon, Liam and I go.Liam walks over to Griffon’s desk, and forces him to move. Griffon stands up and Liam sits down. Griffon stares at him. “What does this mean? I’m not an Alpha anymore?” He asks, and I’m honestly not sure.I don’t know if Liam will want to take back his position or just help him fix the wrongs of what he’s done.I look over at Liam, as he starts rummaging through everything on the desk. He grunts frustrated as Griffon continues to stare at him. “I don’t know, Griffon.” He growls and then stands up and looks out the giant window overlooking the pack.I walk over to him and wrap my arms around his waist and look out at the pack with him. He wraps his arm around my shoulders and keeps me close to his chest.I know his mind is re
Driving up to the pack, I think I’ve set myself up for what I’m going to see.I’m wrong.Griffon’s car in front of us stops at the gate… No… Wall, and he talks to the guard that walks up to him.I can see the fear in the guards eyes from here.Goddess.Dallas must sense where my mind is, because he reaches out and grabs my hand.He doesn’t speak. I doubt he knows what to say. He helped do this. He helped Griffon create this nightmare.Aspen looks back at me through the rearview mirror, her eyes worried like she doesn’t know if I can handle what we’re about to walk in to.I give her a curt nod and lay my head down on Liam’s shoulder, his arm around me tightens.The wall opens and allows all of us to drive through. The guard looks into the car as we pass, and his eyes widen when he sees Liam and me.I try to smile. I really do, but it falls short.‘Aw. All this for little old me. It’s sweet.’ The witch speaks, but I ignore her. It’s what I’ve decided is best. I don’t want to engage with
Aspen leads us back to her new house. In her new pack and that just doesn’t sit right with me.I hate that things have gone so wrong since we’ve been gone, but I agree with Liam, we have other things to concern ourselves with.I don’t know how much stronger this witch is, but if she only needs one night a year to do what my dad did in twelve nights a year, that frightens me.I’m terrified at what the death toll will be if we allow it. I know I won’t allow it. I know I’ll do whatever I have to do to stop it, but I also know I’m going to be fighting everybody when it comes to that.Liam won’t ever just agree to let me end this.‘You won’t be able to anyway.’ The witches voice echos in my mind, and I grit my teeth. What does she know?She crackles, “A lot more than you. You think your dad never woke up after killing his family and tried to end it all? It won’t be possible. Nothing you do will stop this.’ She tells me and I close my eyes as Liam leads me up the stairs to the house.I open
“Everybody get the fuck out.” I shout at all of them.I ask one fucking thing, for them to leave her out of it, and I come back to find her on the fucking floor while they stand around shouting at each other.“Liam.” Mia starts, but the look I give her has her nodding and starting to leave.I hold onto Amy, trying to process what she said to me. The witch is fucking talking to her. Goddess.I remember the memory of when we saw her dad arguing with someone inside his head.I pick her up and take her over to her bed, as she clings to me and hides her face in my chest. I can’t believe this is happening. I thought we were done. I thought we had killed her, but we played right into her hands. Gave her exactly what she wanted.Everybody leaves except for Dallas, and I make myself okay with that, considering he was the only one that seemed to be trying to help her.When I sit her down on the bed, she looks up at me scared. “Liam. It’s only going to get worse. What do we do?” She begs me for