Filed To Story: Secret with Betas Daughter: Skylar Story Series
“I remember Oliver mentioning the tequila.”
“Yep, and we haven’t had it since. I vaguely remember it. Enough to know I did, but that was it.”
“Yeah, I really don’t need any of those details.”
“She hasn’t let it go, though. She has pulled us in empty classrooms, closets and the locker room at school trying to catch us off guard. She used to sneak up to our rooms, which is why we have the keypad now. But somehow she kept figuring out the code.”
Dakota rolled his eyes.
“The day in the hospital, with dad…”
Cam looks me in the eye now. “She actually managed to get upstairs and we woke up to her giving us hand jobs. That’s what you smelled on us.”
“I have never had little Dakota shrink up so fast in my life. We had to kind of fight her off and then we all were told to go to the training grounds to talk about the trials. Then this f*cker made out with you in front of everyone and all hell broke loose.”
“We didn’t make out and it was my birthday. You two woke up to a BJ on my birthday, serves you right.”
“Why have you kept her around if she is such a problem?” It’s probably my biggest question.
“We can’t just kick people out for being annoying and chasing us.
“But she has harmed people in the pack. Not just me, Ben’s daughter had her leg broken and so many other kids were hurt, although I think my injuries have been the worst.”
The twins look at each other and at Oliver. They are trying to come up with an answer for me, but I can see it in their eyes, they don’t have one. I want to cry all over again.
Cam finally takes a deep breath after way too much time and is the one to fall on the sword. “She’s been smart about what she’s done. No one can prove things she did in the past and everyone she messed with is too afraid to come forward. At least now we have something to work with.”
“Yep, when no one in the pack is here for a trial.”
I shake my head. “Whatever, you guys know the truth now at least. It’s something. We need to go and handle this f*cking pentagram.”
“Wait, you said you saw a shimmer of magic on the packhouse the night you left. Is it still there?” Kota asks. “And what about the people we rescued, are they being tracked magically? No one went over sh*t like this when we were at training.”
“Yeah, magic is a lot, especially when no one really explains it until you have to just use it and hope that you’re working it right. As far as we know, there were no other magical trackers on the hostages. Osiston was working with Doc Sylvia to do a better sweep of physical ones. They are coordinating through Sierra. I haven’t noticed anything more on or at the packhouse, but I’m sure if there was Gentry and Elena would have handled it. They seem to be pretty offended about the magic being used on innocence too. I will ask to make sure though.”
“Are you ever going to forgive us Tiny? I mean really forgive us. No one deserves to be treated the way that you have, but we can’t go back and fix it or change it. We’re obviously learning from it, the hard way.
I twist my hands together, am I capable of that or will I hold a grudge? “I can just say that I am trying. I know not everything is your fault, but the thing about magic is most of the mind control stuff is just suggestion. You had to have some inkling of a thought in your head for it to take root. That is the part I’m having the hardest time letting go of. You had to agree with the sentiment in some way for the magic to work on you.”
They all nod in understanding. I’m not sure what that means though.
I roll my eyes at them, but I can’t argue either. “I learned that when I went to people more bad things usually happened and it wasn’t punishment for the person who was doing the bullying, the person who told or the victim typically got hurt. I wasn’t going to put anyone else in harm’s way or have them disappear. I don’t trust easily…well I didn’t trust easily. I’m learning, but the people I trust the most have had my back in situations where they could have chosen to step away and save themselves, but they didn’t. For some reason I keep coming back to you guys though, so there’s trust there too, it’s just different.”
“Can we at least put it out there that we don’t want Kaley, we never have. She’s a pain in the ass but so are a lot of other people and one of the things dad taught us and we learned at training is we have to learn to deal with them too. That is easier said than done.”
Kota asks.”
“Sure as long as you learn that not saying anything is actually more harmful. It makes her think that you agree with her, like other pain in the asses. You have to make decisions and be okay when people don’t like what you say. That was probably your dad’s biggest flaw. I loved him, he was more my dad than my own was, but he just smiled and said nothing. That is not helpful.”
Both twins nod. I guess that’s all I’m going to get out of them. We all asked each other to speak more. I don’t know if there is anything more wwe can say right now.
“What did your mom want?” Oliver looks back and forth at the twins.
“Umm…She actually wanted to show us the Alpha floor. She moved out. That’s what she’s been up to with your dad for the last few days.”
“What? Where did she go? It’s not somewhere in the packhouse is it? We would have noticed. Nathaniel would have said something to me.”
“She actually told him to keep it quiet. She didn’t want any of us to worry about her. She knows we have stuff to do to take care of the pack. She just wanted the time to go through everything and just let dad go.”
“She actually moved into the Gamma house.”
Kota looks over at Oliver who is definitely surprised.
“My dad didn’t say anything about that.”
“Well he knows we’re busy too and she is his priority now. So if she wanted it quiet, that’s what he would do.”
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