Filed To Story: Secret with Betas Daughter: Skylar Story Series
No one has approached us, but that might be because of our chaperone who is less than pleased when any male walks our way. Nickolas is playing his protective part a little too well, but it does give us an excuse to rebel a little. We haven’t done anything yet, but we do plan on returning to this area in January with Mina attending classes at the University. If anyone asks, I’m being homeschooled until I can join her. It’s the most plausible story we have. So Mina and I have come up with a few ways to sneak out’ and meet up with a few of the other girls we have met while walking around when we get back.
We have our rental until the Thanksgiving holiday and then we need to move on for a bit to make our mate story more believable.
There are several conservation areas in this state and surrounding our position. While we have been working the people here, the rest of the team has been fanning out working methodically to search them for any signs of rogue camps or hideouts. They keep coming up empty handed, but that also could be the masking thing they have going on too.
I think everything is truly riding on Mina and I being taken. That is where we are going to get answers. I don’t know how I feel about that though. I know we have plans in place so our attackers won’t get far with us no matter how sedated or subdued we are. And we get to be temporarily branded sometime after the Thanksgiving break so they can track us. Since Mina will be 18 soon, I think whoever is holding up the branding process was waiting and hoping for her to find her mate, which would effectively put a stop to this part of the operation since no one in their right mind would let me out alone for this.
Nickolas and Osiston got their way though, since we venture further and further from them as we explore the city. They can’t be with us all the time and our mind link only goes so far. The magic of the brand is it covers any distance and Nickolas more than anyone has been fighting for us to get it done, especially now that we are in this mission fully.
“I can’t wait to go back to the compound, I want to train and run hard, my body needs it. I feel so lazy right now.”
I whine at Mina in our shared room of the rental property.
We just got back from shopping and meeting up for dinner with some other college freshman we met a couple weeks ago. We have managed to keep people friendly but at a distance. We don’t go to people’s houses and they don’t come to ours. Having an overprotective uncle’ is doing wonders to keep a certain level of separation.
“I can’t wait to go back and use the hot tub. My feet are killing me.
“You were the idiot who chose to wear heels to the mall.”
I scoff at her, but she smiles right back.
“Yeah, but it got their attention, didn’t it?
I roll my eyes. “Of course it did, your legs look a mile long with them on and that short skirt. I still can’t force myself to wear those. These shorts are bad enough, there’s barely enough material to cover my hooha.
“What are you talking about? You wear skimpier stuff to training. Those shorts are nothing.
“My training gear isn’t going to intrigue anybody, we all wear the same stuff, it’s a uniform. This stuff we wear to the mall and everywhere else is a choice I would not normally make on my own.
“Yeah, but you have to admit, they look good on you. You have this tiny, totally ripped body that you only show off during training. You really need to show it off more, you work too hard to hide it under the baggy crap you like to lounge in. Have your boys seen you in normal’ clothes?”
She air quotes at me.
“They have seen me in lots of stuff. I had to dress up for a couple things for Luna Ava, they’ve seen me in that kind of stuff.
“But they haven’t seen you recently, have they? I mean you haven’t had the chance to message them while we have been on assignment. And I know you only sent the one letter after they all wrote you separately. You have put on some weight and gotten more definition since I met you. I’m sure you will look completely different to them.”
She waggles her eyebrows at me. “I can’t wait for them to see you all glammed up the way Luna Queen Anne does. I bet they will all fall over from heart attacks.”
She’s laughing at the prospect now.
She’s had more than a couple conversations with Sierra while we have been at school and apparently Sierra has some insight to my interactions with the guys she didn’t even bother to tell me. Now Mina likes to give me a hard time the way she does at their supposed infatuation.
“Okay! Stop! You’re making it weird now. They are my brother and friends. None of them see me as more than a little sister. And that is still only a year in the making, before that, I was nothing to them.
“All the more reason to learn to flaunt it tastefully. Let them know what they are missing.”
She Laughs again as I throw a pillow at her.
“Okay, for real, enough now. I need to finish this assignment. You may not care about your grades, but mine can’t slip. That is one of the stipulations of my being here. I have to stay ahead, no matter how distracting you are.
I have been emailing in most of my assignments and logging in when the teacher can set up a video so I can follow along with the classes. For the most part, Mina joins in on those classes otherwise her dad would hear about her slacking and would pull her from this assignment. That is something we both learned the hard way.
She missed a lesson once and I thought the phone was going to break when he called to yell at her. It’s never happened again, that he is aware of. She has taken to hanging out with a few girls from around here that are high school seniors. She’s hoping that it will get us more invites to parties and other social scenes when we come back in January. Many of the girls know people who are going to the University and have invited us a few times to parties. We declined them all for now, but Mina promises she will be all in when she gets settled at school. It will be easier for me to tag along then too. I have met them all and they seem alright, but I am playing at being newly social and trying to get over my shyness. It’s not a total lie, so the story is easy to sell.
The boys have taken notice of Mina too, human and wolf. I mean, even I have to admit, she’s gorgeous so I can’t blame them. Her personality and general good nature draw people in. Her dark reddish brown hair flows down her back silkily, even when she is fighting. I’m kind of jealous really. I just look like a sweaty hot mess. Her average height makes it easy to look straight in her eyes to talk, no matter your own height. She’s in shape, obviously, and the boys around here really seem to appreciate her efforts.
“Sky!”
Mina jumps off her bed. “Beth just messaged me and said that her brother told her that his best friend’s cousin is on the football team and they are planning a party after we all get back. They have a bi-week and will be free the first weekend after classes start.
“Huh?! I understood bi-week’ in all of that.”
Mina speaking girl’ is like trying to understand German sometimes.
“Basically, in your language, there is a football party when they all get back from the winter break. And she told me so we can plan on being here in time to go. That’s all that you need to know. Oh, and plan on wearing a skirt and doing your hair. I wish we could call Sierra in on this, she’s so much better at getting you to do the girly stuff than I am.”
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