บททั้งหมดของ Never too late: บทที่ 31 - บทที่ 40

I force my mind to focus on the act of mopping the gym floors. If I’d had any idea how trashed the school gets after a single day, I would have had much more respect towards the school janitor. Right now, I was stuck completing my community hours after school. It is the first day and I’m already done with it. I had at least hoped that I would get the chance to spend some alone time with Lea but she was assigned something else to do which is why I’m here all alone, mopping the gym floor. This place is so empty I can hear the echoes of my breaths rattling against these grey and drab walls.I had gotten an earful from Mom as soon as she had found me alone. I had resisted the urge to roll my eyes throughout her monologue. She kept emphasizing how rash it was for me to act out like this, outright disobeying the alpha’s orders by breaking the nighttime curfew, and how disappointed she was in me. She kept going on and on about the fact that Samuel was doing us a huge favor by taking us in an

I am anxious. There, I said it. I hadn’t expected I would feel this way but I am. My mind is running in a hundred different directions and I don’t know what to do. I can’t get my mind to rest, to settle. I keep going over these thousands of different scenarios and I don’t like how any of them turn out in my head. Noah told me a couple of minutes ago that the Alpha’s parents are coming back here after their long vacation and I don’t know what or how I’m supposed to feel about this. I mean, they’re supposed to be my grandparents and I don’t know how they are going to take this news that they have a living eighteen-year-old grandson about whom they had no idea till now. What if they’re like the alpha and don’t want anything to do with me, or what if they’re nothing like the alpha and want me to be a part of their weird family immediately? I can’t imagine what is worse and I shudder when I think about how every scenario could play out.I am fidgety and restless. I can’t seem to sit still.

Noah had come to the gym to inform me that my grandparents were close to the pack border and it would be unseemly to meet them all gross and sweaty. He suggested I take a shower and dress up and he will come to get me when it’s time. I only listened to him because I couldn’t stomach the idea of having another set of grandparents. I had always known Mom’s parents died when she was young but Brad was my dad and his parents were my grandparents. The thought of calling them Grandma and Grandpa creeped the hell out of me. Coming here, to this pack, has been an emotional rollercoaster for me and I haven’t been entirely ready for the surprises that have been continuously springing in me left, right, and center.I’m sitting anxiously on my bed after taking a hot shower, trying to calm myself down, trying not to expect anything, trying to gauge all the possible ways this meet and greet could go. Noah had very subtly asked me to wait in my room and that he would come and get me himself when it

I had to get out of that room. The company of my grandparents was so stifling that I could barely breathe. I have no idea how everyone else was able to tolerate their debauchery and arrogance but me and my wolf were disgusted by it. As soon as I could, I made my excuses to leave that room. It didn’t matter that I didn’t have dessert, spending another minute there would have made me go all kinds of crazy and would have resulted in me jumping up from my seat and grabbing my grandpa’s collar. Not the sweet family reunion everyone was hoping for.If it had been a few weeks ago, I would have liked nothing better than to shift into my wolf and let it run free. Run down through all that frustration and antagonism, this helplessness of not being able to do what I wanted, to push people away because they were too important. I would have gone for a run, leaching off layers of uneasiness until it all turned to euphoria. The feeling of the dry earth beneath my paws beckoned me. I wanted to feel t

I don’t know how long it has been but I’m still in Lea’s room, watching her sleep and this might have been creepy but I can’t make myself stop. I never realized that we fell asleep during the afternoon after Lea shared some pretty heavy stuff about her family and I have never felt as close to her as I do now. It is a single bed and as a result, Lea is pressed to my side, drifting closer to me as she falls deeper into her sleep. I don’t mind one bit and my wolf is so calm that I don’t think he has ever felt better than this.My eyes opened a few minutes ago, landing straight to a sleepy Lea next to me, snoring softly and I haven’t been able to look at anything else. Her eyelashes seem long and soft, cute freckles dust her cheeks, her forehead is somehow always pinched or in a frown is relaxed, and she seems so relaxed that I can’t help but absorb every inch of her. My palms itch to touch her, her face, pinch her cheeks, touch he lips, her shoulders, but I make myself resist the temptat