Filed To Story: Secret with Betas Daughter: Skylar Story Series
“You got it, boss.”
“Not you too.”
“What else should I say? Yes Luna?”
“Ugh!”
“Have a good patrol Bitty.”
He laughs as I feel the connection weaken with the distance, but never totally go away. That’s new.
I tell Jena what Oliver said while we run. I find it weird that we got here following a massive rogue pack, then they disappear. Then we have a two front attack, then they disappear again Now for weeks it’s been crickets. I guess if you want to wear your enemy down, just make them paranoid and burn themselves out looking over their shoulders. But, this is starting to really suck.
We make it to the training grounds and I trade out Jena for Lil and this time Delta Kyle and Sam aren’t alone. Mateo is with them and he looks awful. Like he drinks all night and doesn’t shower or take care of himself.
His blonde hair is long and a mess, not his usual style. He looks like he has two black eyes, but they are just sunk and deep purple from lack of sleep. He’s looking at the ground, hands tucked into his pockets.
I walk right into him, just slamming into his chest wrapping my arms around his waist. He clearly can’t reciprocate based on the tension his muscles and then he just whimpers and starts to shake. Then I feel it, a warm drop on my cheek. I look up and his eyes arm clamped shut, tears streaming and he is shaking from the sobbing, but none of that can escape him because of his gag order.
I lean back in and press my cheek to his hard chest. “I’m here, I’m still fighting.”
I whisper to him and he takes a rattling deep breath in. “We will figure this out, okay. Just give me a little more time. Eat and sleep. I’m going to need you in top shape when sh*t really hits the fan.”
I let go of him and walked away with Lil and Sam. That was harder than I thought.
We complete training and as we are walking out I link Sam.
“How am I supposed to get a bracelet on any of them if they can’t even pull their hands out of their pockets to hug me, Sam?” “You were able to touch him though, right?”
“Yeah, I was able to hug him, but not the other way. He looked awful.”
“They all do. Maybe one of us can get the bracelet on, maybe if you just have physical contact with them it will work.”
“It’s worth a shot anyway.”
“I wonder if it’s going to be the same with the twins or if you won’t be able to touch them at all.”
“This is so stupid.”
I huff through the link.
“Bright side. Birthdays are coming up and no one can get in the way of that. Eighteen baby!”
“You wanna bet? And I will not be eighteen.”
“We always celebrate together. It’s an us thing, always has been.”
“I was not a part of that ‘us’ thing for fourteen years, remember.”
“Nope, I don’t remember anything of the sort. You have been around since the dawn of time. You were just the silent partner for a really long time. Now you have your voice and ‘silent’ isn’t even in your vocabulary.”
“You are stupid, but I love you. You will have fun no matter what.”
“It’s my birthday. Everyone else can f*ck right the f*ck off. If we have to, we will party at your house in the backyard. I just want to be with all of my friends for my eighteenth. Is that so much to ask?” “Once a diva, always a diva.”
“This is happening Sky, it has to.”
All his playfulness is gone. “This one is important, you know that, I know that, everyone knows that. Does it surprise you that all this sh*t is going down right as all of us are about to come of age?”
“Yeah, I thought about that too.”
“Not just the crap with Kaley though. Everything. All the attacks, The Alpha going crazy, tons of new people coming into the pack. All of it. This is big.”
“We just have to keep everyone safe until this all blows over then. Which means we have to figure out how to get the twins alone long enough for someone to get those bracelets on them and for me to set the incantation. That’s a big task.”
“We’ll figure it out. Go sleep, you are running on none right now.”
New Book: Returned To Make Them Pay
On her wedding anniversary, Alicia is drugged and stumbles into the wrong room—straight into the arms of the powerful Caden Ward, a man rumored never to touch women. Their night of passion shocks even him, especially when he discovers she’s still a virgin after two years of marriage to Joshua Yates.