Filed To Story: Secret with Betas Daughter: Skylar Story Series
“I’m actually sad I missed that.
“Well, you might need to make up with him. We have been following his crew for the last few weeks, they are up to something.”
Osiston says. “And he has been stalking the house, clearly trying to check in on you. He’s not very stealthy. This might work for us.”
“How soon do! need to be friendly again?’ I’m all business now. Tyler means nothing after that. I have no room for people who will turn on me at the first sign of trouble and he didn’t even listen to my side of the story. “I’ll have to start letting him talk to me in class and slowly go from there, he’s got to work for it or he will get suspicious.
“I agree, but sooner rather than later and for sure before the semester ends.”
I nod again and then look back down at my homework. It’s a start that Mina has some history, but I’m still angry and I can’t bring myself to wear the necklace yet, which makes me angry all over again.
She shouldn’t have needed to get my history like that and she shouldn’t have gone over the heads of our group leaders.
This is just another reason for them to not put on a mission until we are old enough. It’s too easy to be impulsive and emotional. The thought of being iced out of missions keeps the anger simmering too.
The only way to make this look real with Tyler is to make up with Mina. I have to stuff this irritation and save it for another day.
I can feel Osiston and Nickolas leave. Mina hangs for a minute longer, but when she realizes I’m done with her she walks to my door. “Sky, I didn’t know, and I really am sorry. I hope you can forgive me.
“I’m working on it.”
I finally made eye contact with her for the first time in three weeks.
“You took something that you can never give back. You may not have had all of the information, but I shouldn’t be forced into giving my history to people for any reason. We have a job here and if you want it to go faster or better or whatever, you need to work with the team. Express your concerns or ideas with everyone.
We’re the green ones here, not the experts, no matter how good we are at a few things. Get your head out of your ass, act like the leader that I know is in there somewhere. We aren’t here to be the guy’ or the hero’ or whatever you and Alyssa have in your heads. I’m sure the literal years that some of these guys have spent on this mission have been miserable.
Our school year can’t compare. I don’t know how long Alyssa has been here, but she isn’t much older than us and she was brought in to track not make decisions and plans. We are better than this, we need to act better.
She just nods. “I won’t make excuses. I wanted to make Tyler feel a little off kilter. He doesn’t drink more than one when we run on Thursdays and I have never seen him drink other than that. He’s always in so much control. We thought that maybe his attraction to you could crack that a little bit. You are everyone’s weakness. It’s kind of creepy really. Even Robbie has a hard time staying out of your orbit and he hates anyone who isn’t Mike or Tyler.
here’s the plan, cause I am still angry at you. We can start going to the gym together, but I am back into my morning and evening runs. Jump on the train, or don’t but this is the program now. We have to look like we are in the process of being friends again otherwise they won’t believe me and we’ll never get back in. I have to work in the morning, come in and sit, see if they notice and follow your lead. You have to be vulnerable and we need a story about my birth mother because we are supposed to be sisters.
The information we give out is supposed to be generic. The set up didn’t allow me to have a proper reaction and I gave out real information unintentionally. We need to talk to Osiston and Nickolas so what we say matches anything they have put out there already.
She nods again. “Are you going to move back in?”
She points over her shoulder to the hallway.
“Maybe. I don’t know yet Now that I know what it’s like to have people around me that want me around, I don’t love being alone. But, I am also still angry enough that I like my space to just be, am going to stay here for now and we’ll see. That’s all I can say.
“Okay, I miss you. All of your crazy overachiever tendencies have made me try and get better. You and I have so much more to do, I can feel it. We have some big things coming our way. I will prove that we can be close again. I’m going to go talk to Nickolas and Osiston and let them know that we have come up with the start of a plan.
“Okay, thanks Mina. I promise I will try.
Once she left, I flopped back on my bed and just sighed. I dont have any more tears for this situation. I am not sad, can’t be anymore. My wolf has been comforting me since my birthday, like she always does. don’t want to feel the blame of my mom dying anymore. I know the truth now, at least as far as that goes and I can’t talk about that with anyone, at least not yet. Alpha Reggie still wants to keep how close we are related a secret for now. There are too many people who will try and target me if they found out. I’m not afraid, but after watching Xander deal with the trophy -wife-wannabes, I can’t imagine what someone would do to me to get to either Xander or Alpha Reggie.
No one said missions would be easy and I have to get better about keeping my emotions in check, or at the very least keep my real life stuff out of the backstory I’m supposed to have. I can’t just go blurting out things like I did on my birthday, I have to be more in control than Tyler seems to be all of the time. That is something that my wolf and have been going over and over in our head. What we both can do to stay in control, when emotions are running high.
I sat back up and finished the notes I was rewriting for the sencond time to make sure I looked busy to everyone and not like I was hiding out in my room like a coward, not wanting to be forced to talk to anyone. Now that Mina and I have a start to a plan, I need to go give my input and return the peace offering by eating dinner with them tonight.
Surveillance was a little different finishing out this week. Mina kept going to classes as usual, starting to hint at her and making up to the people who needed to hear it. I kept going to classes and work and started to appear more like my normal self, leaving some of the broodiness at home.
Nickolas made it look like he was going on a business trip so he could spend time out in the field with Alyssa. He and Osiston were less than pleased with her and Mina’s stunt that could have jeopardized our mission and he is observing her tracking techniques.
Well, that’s what he told her anNay. If I was him and suspicious of the group we have been trying to track down for a year with literally no results. I would assume there is someone inside the operation helping to derail us and I would be spending time with each member of the team in a very close way so there is no way to hide. I don’t have any proof that that is what he is up to and I haven’t said anything to anyone about it. I am learning to watch and listen more than I talk.
It seems to be helping me make better decisions and respond better, although it makes me seem more quiet and reserved, I don’t care. Every single word that comes out of my mouth is calculated and serves a purpose. I should have seen what Mina was doing with my gift and stopped it. I got carried away in this lie that we are living. I can see how long term undercover agents could end up being double agents or switching sides. After a while you start to believe in the lie. I am not here to make real friends, I’m here to help stop a guy that, I am pretty sure, wants to kill my uncle and probably cousin and take over the whole kingdom before moving on to the next one.
Having Mina and I look unsupervised also serves the purpose that we are vulnerable and unprotected. We are back to full on bait mode. So it’s our job to get our scent everywhere, look like college students who just broke out of an overprotective cage iving it up while our chaperone is away. We don’t party, but we have been to every possible gathering, game and campus event since Nickolas’ departure.’ The one thing I haven’t done yet is go to a
Thursday run. I need to make up with Tyler and have him invite me as a peace offering, but Mina goes each week and reports back the same thing we saw the first time. The guys basically take turns doing their perimeter check.
She did catch a pattern though. Each guy goes out and back and then rotates clockwise to the next group, socializes until it’s his turn to patrol again. And there are so many of them that unless you really watched you probably wouldrfi catch on. She also found that they only patrol away from campus, not between the bonfire site and campus. So either they feel really safe in their bubble here or someone else is patrolling the same way elsewhere.
I take a different path each day on my solo run to the gym reporting back the different smells, and who has been where recently. I am learning to be a better tracker, especially with so many wolves mixed with humans as well as the overwhelming smells that can only be associated with a college campus. have discovered that there are some changes in the scents surrounding the campus.
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