THE ALPHA'S PROTECTIVE BROTHERS

IVY'S POV After spending another 8 hours in the car with my mother today I was so glad when we finally reached the small town of Oak Grove in Louisiana. Our final destination. The place where we were finally going to set up shop and hopefully stay here indefinitely. I hated that we had to move but I was glad to be away from our last pack. They were full of nothing but nasty assholes who picked on me at school because I was the bastard child from a teenage mother. My mother was only 18 and unmated when she had me and I've never met my father. My last pack would refer to my mother as a slut because she never gave up the name of the father so they assumed that she didn't know which man was my father. But I trusted my mother with everything I had and she didn't want to talk about it. She never wanted to talk to me about it. So I accepted that answer and assumed that it was probably really painful for her. She wasn't kicked out of her last pack like they usually do to unmated girls tha

After dinner Beau helped me with the dishes and cleaning up and everything and then he had to get going and I made sure all the doors were locked and I went upstairs to my room. I had a shower and I got dressed into a singlet and shorts and I went to the library and started unpacking my boxes of books until I heard mom finally get home at around 11pm. So I went out to the kitchen to see her. "You're dinner's in the fridge." I say. "Fantastic. Thank you so much." She says opening the fridge but then examining the large dish of lasagna. " You must have been hungry." She commented seeing how much was missing. "I ate the usual amount. I had company." I say. And she closed the fridge door without getting any food looking at me suspiciously. "You can calm down. It was Beau. The Alpha's little brother. He stopped by to meet me when I got back from buying groceries and that's when you sent me the text saying that you weren't going to be home. So I invited him to stay." I explained.

I avoided Beau for the rest of the day. Even in training after lunch that was mandatory. And instead I teamed up with a girl that I didn't even know. I hadn't met her or seen her all day. "Well, if we're going to be beating the crap out of each other today I should probably introduce myself. I'm Spencer." She says. "Ivy." I say. "Yeah. You've already gotten around. That shit at lunch time. Emma's an entitled bitch. She deserved what you gave her. Most people aren't game enough to fight back." She says. Well, I've had to fight back a lot in my life otherwise people would have been walking over me wherever I went in my old pack. "She pissed me off." I say. "Yeah. She does that very easily." Spencer says. And then the instructor got started and demonstrated a few different moves and we got straight into training. But I could feel Beau watching me almost the whole time even though I ignored him and had nothing to say to him. He tried to catch up with me after school but I ignore

IVY POV That day at school went by pretty smoothly. And in the afternoon I was paired up with Spencer again during training. But Beau and Cole were always paired up together. I ignored them yesterday but I paid a little bit of attention today and they were actually pretty comical to watch. They took every cheap shot in the book and acted like true siblings. Beau ended up getting the last blow when he punched Cole in the crotch and Cole fell to the ground holding himself like they were going to fall off or something. And he turned to me with a huge smile on his face. When we finished training we headed to the locker room and my locker was right next to Spencer's and she says that it looks like Beau and I are back on track. "What are you talking about?" I asked. "Everyone thought that you and him were over before you began." She says. "We're not together. We're friends." I am confused. "Oh. The way you two act, you really look like you're dating. If not, you're at least head

IVY POV Beau said that we were going to get together to hang out or whatever but I haven't heard from him. So I tried to call him several times and sent a few texts. When I didn't hear back I started doubting myself. I started thinking that maybe he was having doubts about last night. It really wouldn't surprise me. It's not like I actually believed that someone like him would be interested in me. No one has ever been interested in me like that before. Or interested in me, period. When I finished double guessing myself I decided to go to his house and confront him about it. If he wanted to forget about the kiss then that was fine. But I had a right to know why he was shutting me out. I didn't deserve that. And I knew that I didn't deserve that. I don't have much self esteem but I know that this kind of shit is not on. When I got to his house and rang the doorbell I didn't know what I was expecting, but when that man opened the door and he smelled of fresh rain I had to pull myself