Filed To Story: Secret with Betas Daughter: Skylar Story Series
He winks at Brandon whose smile lights up his whole face, making me smile too.
A low rumbling huff comes from the other side of the sparring circle. I look up sharply to see Oliver staring daggers at me with a scowl on his face. He rolls his eyes and turns to walk away.
He doesn’t get far before we hear, “Oh Goddess there you are! I have been looking for you everywhere. The Luna wasn’t sure where all of you were. Of course you are working with these sweet little pups, it’s so great how you spend your spare time with them. I just wanted to make sure that you boys left on time to get ready to take us to the mating ball. We have to be right on time for the grand entrance. I heard that Alpha Prince Alexander was coming too since he became such good friends with you all during the trial, so we for sure can’t be late.”
Kaley’s high-pitched tone came at us from the entrance of the arena. She is talking animatedly with her hands like a fairy in a movie.
“What are you talking about?”
Sam asks coming up next to me. “We have plenty of time, two more training sessions and none of us are taking you anywhere. I know that we all made that perfectly clear. We are going as a group.”
He points generally to the guys, Sierra and I. “And just to be one hundred percent clear that does not include yourself, Marnie or Jeanie. Please stop trying to force the issue or change our minds.
Kaley’s face went more crimson than I have ever seen it before, but I’m not sure if it was from anger or embarrassment at this going down with an audience.
”My father said Cameron and Dakota will be escorting me, Mateo will be escorting Jeanie and Oliver will be escorting Marnie. I have no reason to think otherwise.
He set everything up and I expect you all to pick us up on time so we can make our entrance properly as the future leaders of this pack.”
She raises her chin to Sam as if she is giving a command.
“T suggest you watch your tone to your future leaders.”
Oliver emphasizes the word leaders.’ “Your father is not a leader in any way shape or form, and therefore has no control over us or really anything in this pack. As you have been told on more than enough occasions, we are going as a group.”
He gestures to the guys around the sparring circle again for emphasis. “The future Alphas, Betas, Gammas and Delta. You are none of those things. Do not expect any of us to show up to escort you anywhere. None of us can sense our mate, so this ball is nothing more than an end of year dance and formality for any of us.
There is no reason to make such a big deal out of it. If you choose to attend we might see you later.”
He turns and heads towards the entrance to the arena without a glance back at any of us.
I did not miss the plurals of Beta’ and Gamma”
including Sierra and I by our ranks. My heart stings watching him go, he’s still angry at me for wanting to leave and not listening to his pleas to stay. I take a deep breath and roll my eyes inwardly. He has to let me go. I can’t be stifled here.
Before Kaley can say anything else Delta Kyle comes up and claps his hands. “You all did very well today, we will see you next weekend. Make sure you work on everything that you learned today so you can come back stronger next week. The Luna would like a word with you all so I am going to take the rest of the training for today.”
He doesn’t even spare Kaley a glance.
“Awe man! I was totally going to whoop you this time too.”
Brandon stomps the ground.
There’s always next time, little man.”
Cam pats him on the shoulder.
I turn out of Dakota’s grasp. “I’m just going to grab my things then I will be on my way, you guys don’t have to wait, I’ll catch up.”
I head swiftly towards the locker area.
I don’t really have anything to grab, I just really don’t want to walk with them. There’s still a huge tension between all of us and I’m not sure how to get past it. I guess I’ll have to figure it out soon if I want to hang out with all of them for the rest of the night though.
I fiddle around in the girls locker room for about ten minutes and figure they should be gone by now and if they aren’t I will just have to deal with them walking me to the packhouse. As I go to grab the door it comes flying open and the momentum I wasn’t expecting knocks me on my butt. Before I know what is happening I see a fist flying towards my head and then everything goes black.
Plink Drip. Plink Drip. Plink Drip. Plink Drip.
“Ugh.”
What is that sound? And why does my head hurt so badly? Where am I? I try to open my eyes, but they feel like they are being weighed down by something. I move my eyeballs around behind my eyelids really slowly and then try opening again. This time I get light through just a sliver of an opening in my eyelids, but everything is fuzzy. I blink some more willing something to come into focus.
Plink Drip. Plink Drip. Plink Drip. Plink Drip.
I squeeze my eyes shut, which actually hurts, then crack them open again and get enough body awareness to shift my head toward the sound that is like nails on a chalkboard in this otherwise silent space. Finally I can see it. One of the faucets in the communal showers is dripping, I’m still in the locker room. Why was I in the locker room? The obnoxious sound is coming from the water hitting the metal soap shelf and then the drain and sending chills up my spine. I slowly move my head back forward, why am I so slow and groggy? Even thinking is hard. I don’t think I am standing, but I don’t think I’m on the floor either. Huh.
I can’t see and I don’t think I can move, what can I do? I can smell, maybe. I try to inhale. “Umph, uhh.”
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