Chapter Four

Jordan POV

The girls gossip to each other while we wait for dad to finish his goodbyes. I was always bored after pack meetings because he never stops talking to everyone. ‘The people’s Alpha’ they called him. Everyone considered him more of a friend than an Alpha.

I watch my interim mate as she fiddles with a hair tie around her wrist. Something was off with Cassidy. She was worried about something, but I’m not sure what. I never noticed how cute she was before. Her dark olive skin had a glow about it that was hard to explain. Chesnutt waves ran down her back just touching the floor where she sat. She looks over at me and smiles, dimples slightly forming as she does, but the smile doesn’t quite reach her chocolate eyes.

“You, okay?” I mouth to her and she nods once before calling my dad over.

Dad hands me the keys and tells me to take Cass back to our place until they can find her parents. It wasn’t like Blake not to answer his phone and none of us could reach him or Bethany through the mind-link.

“Why didn’t you tell me you hadn’t seen your parents?” I ask her, opening the passenger side of dad’s car for her. Lani gets in the back rolling her eyes at me.

“I didn’t think it would be relevant to you,” she retorts as she climbs in the seat. I scoff as I slam the door behind her making her jump. Marching around to the driver’s side, I stop. Taking a deep breathe, calming myself before I get in.

“I’m your mate now Cass, I need you to be honest with me and don’t hide things from me. Okay?”

“I’m sorry,” she mumbles. I start the car.

“Don’t be hard on her, her life has just been turned upside down, cut the girl some slack.” My wolf Koray chiming in. He usually likes to keep to himself, but Cassidy’s presence today has had him sitting forward into the veil more.

“I know, I wasn’t thinking. This whole situation just has me annoyed.” I reply to him, talking through the veil.

“I’m sorry Cass,” I say, turning my head to see her watching me. “This day has been a lot for me too, I shouldn’t have snapped at you.”

“Good boy,” Koray says before stepping away from the veil, going back into hiding.

“Whole lotta sorry’s and nobody has noticed we passed my house?” Lani chimes in from the backseat, I forgot she was here.

“My bad,” I reply as I turn the car around and pull into her driveway. I wave goodbye to her as she gets out of the car and says her goodbyes to Cassidy.

“Do you need anything from your house?” I ask Cass, remembering she doesn’t have anything at mine.

“Uhm yeah, can we stop in for five, so I can grab some stuff?” She asks and I nod in reply. It’s a short drive to her house. There were no lights on inside the house when we pull up, confirmation that her parents weren’t home.

“I’ll just be a sec,” she says as she gets out of the car. I watch her as she unlocks the door heading inside. It isn’t long before she comes back out with a big bag of stuff and her laptop. I jump out to help her put her stuff in the boot.

“You got everything?”

“I think so,” she looks at her things in the boot to double check.

“Okay let’s go, dad will be wondering where we are.” I shut the boot and we get back in the car. It’s a fifteen-minute drive back to the packhouse I call home. Samuels runs over us as we park, before grabbing Cassidy’s things from the boot.

“I’ll put these in Reigns old room,” he says before heading back inside. I start to head inside when I notice Cassidy stopped by the car.

“You coming?” She sighs before she runs up to me. We walk in silence. I didn’t know what to say to her to help her feel comfortable or make this less awkward for both of us.

After dinner I show her to Reigns old room. A queen bed and a makeup desk were the only two pieces of furniture Reign left when she moved out. Dad just left it as a spare bedroom now. Cassidy thanks me as she walks over to her stuff.

“There’s an ensuite through that door and the other one is a walk-in,” I tell her as I gesture to the door to the right of the bed. She nods back at me and I decide to leave her alone. “Let me know if you need anything,” I tell her as I walk back down the hall to my room. I spend the next couple hours playing video games before I hear a knock on my door.

“Come in,” I shout, taking my headphones off. Cassidy opens the door, her face puffy and red from crying.

“Can I sleep in here with you?” She asks. Concern washing over me.

“Of course, I can sleep on the floor if you want.” She comes inside shutting the door behind her.

“Thanks, I just don’t want to be alone.” I watch her as she climbs on my bed. She looks like a lost puppy just sitting there with tears in her eyes. I turn around and turn off my computer before getting up to go shower. I grab my boxers from my draw and head to the bathroom shutting the door slightly behind me. I turn the shower on before stripping off, letting the water heat up.

Enjoying the feel of the hot water on my skin I decide to wash my hair, prolonging my time alone.

“You should talk to her,” Koray says, breaking the silence I was enjoying.

“I will when I get out.”

“I want to talk to her,” He says surprising me. He never wants to talk to anyone. “Don’t act so surprised, she’s going to be my mate.”

“You don’t know that. She doesn’t even have a wolf,” I snap back at him.

“So what? She’s still going to be our mate.”

“Only until we find our true mate.”

“Yeah, yeah.” I can feel him roll his eyes at me. “See if she will let us mark her.”

“You want to mark her? What the hell for?!” I shut the water off and get out, grabbing the towel to dry off. My blissful shower now ruined.

“Because. She. Is. Our. Mate. Must I keep reminding you?” Oh, now he wants to give me attitude.

“Why don’t you go back to your hole.” I snap at him before pushing him away from the veil. I walk out of the bathroom to find Cassidy laying down and looking at me from the bed. She taps the empty side of the mattress, gesturing me to lay in bed with her.

“Did you want to talk at all?” I ask as I climb into bed with her. I roll over to face her.

“Not tonight,” She says before closing her eyes. We both drift off to sleep.