Chapter 5 Veni vidi vici

Zoey's POV

Early the next morning.

I open my eyes slowly and I literally melt when I feel two arms hugging me and a warm forehead resting on mine.

This is what makes me continue to move forward.

The fact that in this cruel world someone still cares about me.

I smile and kiss Nana's temple as I leave her arms.

She was waiting for me in the living room when I got back yesterday, and my emotions, which had calmed down, broke down the moment I saw her, and tears came to my eyes.

She asked me again and again if I am fine, what really happened but I continued to cry as for the first time since my life went upside down I collapsed.

Just like that, she held me all night long on our little sofa in the living room.

I take a thick blanket and wrap it around my Nana so she will not suffer from the cold and I move in the kitchen where I start to prepare breakfast.

Tea and toast with jam and peanut butter. That's all we've got for today as I didn't find anything to work during the last week.

I need a plan, another plan or I will really become a criminal and I'll have my Nana's death on my conscience. I need to provide her medicine and food ASAP.

Think Zoey! You are smart enough to figure it out and find a solution.

"We should leave the pack" suddenly Tilly tells me and I stop in my tracks.

"Leave the Crescent Moon Pack?"

Is not that I don't want to do it but until today it was Tilly who begged me to stay here , hoping that Tristan will change his mind and his heart.

Did he hurt her so badly yesterday that she wants to leave this place?

"Are you sure, Tilly?" I asked her back, because I really want to be sure that she is in. I don't need more drama if she changes her mind later.

"Yeah…If he won't help us, we need to find someone else to help us with Nana." she tells me in a calm voice, as if she thought about this the whole night.

"But where to go, Tilly? Leaving from here we will really become rogues, and no one will accept us as pack members." I need to break my bond with the Crescent Moon Pack if I leave or lose my wolf, otherwise Tristan will find me anywhere in this world.

"We will make it in human's world." Tilly tells me, and my heart stops for a second.

She is not joking, she really wants us to do it.

My heart starts to beat faster and faster. All we need to do is convince Nana to come with us, or this plan will not work.

"She will follow us everywhere," Tilly tells me. "And you know what? We should tell her about Tristan!"

Now I freak out.

"NO!"

Only the thought of her finding out about me being mated with Tristan will kill her.

She keeps telling me that one day I will find my fated mate , that he will love me unconditionally and I will have a good life.

Finding the truth will kill her.

And we are leaving. There is no need for her to find out that I already found that mate and that he is a scoundrel.

I smile and I pour the tea into cups. I am ready to wake up my Nana so she will have her breakfast, when I hear someone knocking at the door.

No one comes here and that's what scares me. If Tristan sent someone to kill me for disrespecting his command…

I look at Nana and close the door from the living room so I won't wake her up and I open the front door only to face Rose Mayer in front of me.

"Hey, Zoey!" She tells me in a soft voice but I am like an open book right now and she frowns a little seeing my complex reaction.

What the hell is she doing here? I look behind her, but she is alone.

"Can I?" she asks me, suggesting that she wants to enter my house.

I just motion her to enter and lead her to our tiny kitchen.

"What do you want , Rose?" I ask her directly while she is staring at my tea cups.

It smells fantastic, I know. I picked up the wild flowers for this tea. It is free of charge and healthier. I just motion her to take the cup of tea and she is doing it in the next second. And so the rich people eat at the table of the poor ones.

"Why are you here, Rose?" I ask her again , fearing that Nana will wake up and find out what really happened yesterday.

"To check on you?" she says sipping tea. "I just want to be sure that you are fine after everything you went through."

"I am sorry to tell you this, Rose." I say and place my cup of tea on the table. "But you should mind your own business. I don't know what you know about yesterday but there is nothing to be concerned about. Continue your good work, and ignore me."

She saw me four times in five years and now she is worried about me? Is she kidding me?

I was expecting for her to growl at me or command me to shut up, but she just smiles at me and continues to have her tea.

"This is really good, you know?"

"I know!" I say in a rough voice.

"Now can you please go? You saw me. I am fine." but she ignores me.

Oh my goddess! I scolded her in my mind.

"Rose," I start again, trying to control my voice. "I want to be alone." and as soon as I said that exactly what I hoped to avoid happened.

The kitchen's door opens, and a very exhausted Nana shows up in the frame door.

"Zoey! Why didn't you wake me up ? We have guests?" and Nana is as shocked as me to see Rose here.

"Nana Moore?" Rose asks in shock. "Is that you?" and she places the cup of tea on the table and runs to Nana and hugs her.

How could I forget? My Nana was the Alpha's family nanny.

"It's me, Rosie" Nana says and I help her to take a seat, because even ten steps is too much for her.

"You were here all this time?" Rose asks and looks at me and the way she is doing it is telling me that she is shocked. "I thought that you moved to another pack."

But Nana starts to laugh. "And leave my goddaughter alone in this pack? That's not my style."

"She has her mate" Rose says, but I hit her leg under the table motioning her to shut up.

"When she will find him, I hope to treat her well but until then she has me."

Rose stares at me.

Yeah, Rose. Nana can't find out about Tristan. It will break her heart.

"Nana, Rose was leaving." I tell her, suggesting Rose to get lost.

I know that she will not make a scene in front of Nana, and I don't want to see her here, so I am forcing her hand.

"It was so nice to see you again, Rose. You became such a beautiful young woman!"

"It was my pleasure to see you again, Nana!" Rose tells her and offers her a warm hug. "See you soon."

And I grab her arm and push her away from our kitchen.

"What's wrong with Nana?" Rose asks me when I open the door for her to leave.

I suppose that there is no problem telling her the truth. In the end we will leave this place soon, what can she do?

"She is sick. She has one or two years of living and I want these last years to be filled with calm and happiness. For that I need your family away from us!"

Rose gasps in horror.

I know that I am mean, but I need them away from us for real.

The stress will put Nana in a grave faster. So looking straight into Rose's eyes I say.

"You know that saying? Veni vidi vici? You did it. Now go!"

And I push her outside the house and close the door in her nose.

She shouldn't have come here.