“Hey baby, come over here,” the girl came over and sat down on my lap. Cele rose a brow and drank his soda.
“Get one,” I said and smiled. He shook his head and Samantha was seething next to me.
“Come on, call one over. They’re like puppies; you whistle, they come running,” I rolled my eyes and called over a girl for him. She came over and sat down next to him, batting her eyelashes.
Cole was looking her up and down and then placed some of her hair behind her neck. She leaned in closer and pressed his lips against hers.
When he pulled back he had a weird look on his face. He turned and looked at me.
“This is gonna bite us in the ass one day,” he said.
“What is?”
“Playing god. This, the temptation, the power..it’s gonna backfire. You’re changing, we all are. And I don’t think it’s a good thing.” I clenched my jaw and tightened my fingers around the girl’s waist.
“We’ll be fine,” I said.
~Gabby’s POV~
I had just come back from a run and was taking shower. I ran my hands through my wet hair and soaped up my body. The feeling of the warm water against my bones was amazing. They softened and the soreness disappeared.
Lela had been begging for another run ever since we came back. She had immense energy that I just couldn’t keep up with.
But feeling her emotions and her freedom when on a run put a smile on my face. She was fast, strong, and very much an Alphas wolf. She had this aura around her which demanded respect and without even trying people just knew her power.
I walked out into the room with the towel wrapped around my body. I looked around and saw the empty walls and then made the bed. The curtains were pulled to the sides. I hadn’t been able to do that until today. The sun streamed in and filled the room with a bright light.
It was hard to believe that things were moving forward. In one way I was happy about it because it felt like my life was actually continuing. But in another way, I still felt like I was stuck on the path I was trying to leave.
I shook my head and tried to not think about it so much.
Nothing had been decided, nothing was happening right now and if I worked myself up too much, I’d be back in that bed…or worse.
“Hey,” Cassy said coming down the stairs.
“Hi, where have you been?” I asked her. I had looked for her earlier to ask if she wanted to go on a run with me but I couldn’t find her.
“Just needed a moment to talk to my family,”
“Oh, sure. How are they?”
“They’re good, my brothers are causing hell and my parents are cussing them out,” She said and smirked. A pang of guilt hit me upon seeing her sad little frown.
“If you want to go back, you can,” She looked up hastily and shook her head.
“I don’t, I want to be here with you,” I smiled and walked out of the house. We took a stroll through the town.
“How are you feeling about everything?”
“You mean the messenger?” I asked. Cassy stiffened next to me and I shrugged my shoulders.
At first, I didn’t speak, I didn’t know what to say. Should I lie and pretend to be strong or tell her the truth?
A Luna should be strong; they were as much a pillar as the Alpha, and everyone here kept calling me by that name. It felt weird every time. I didn’t feel like a Luna.
I wasn’t strong, I wasn’t a rock, and I was sure as hell that I wasn’t stable enough to take care of a pack. Besides, being a Luna of this pack would entail I am with the Alpha. And I didn’t know if I could do that.
“Gabby?” She asked and brought me back to the conversation.
“I’m terrified,” I answered truthfully.
She grabbed my hand and gave it a light squeeze.
“And that’s okay. When he comes, we’ll all be prepared.”
“What if I freeze? The other day when that messenger showed up, I froze, Cassy.
How am I supposed to help protect a pack if I can’t fight?”
“If you freeze on the field, you’ll have an entire pack backing you up. Nobody is expecting you to do this on your own.”
We walked around the corner to the cafe and I bumped my shoulder into someone else’s.
I looked up and stared right into Sam’s hollow eyes.
“You,” She seethed. Her friends stepped around her and all of them had the same look.
“You are the reason why he turned on us. You made him throw his own best friend into the dungeon!”
“Yeah, do you have any idea the punishment he could face?” Another said through gritted teeth.
“You’ve fucked with his head and you-”
“Haven’t done shit. Your pissy attitude and obsessiveness are what drove him away. You’re a backstabbing, manipulative, nasty bitch who got exactly what she deserved and as far as Cole is concerned, I couldn’t care less what happens to him.” I stepped closer, standing eye to eye and leaving little space between us.
“You won’t get away with this,”
,” How could someone actually be this dumb?
She believed her own words. Thinking she had done no wrong and that she was in the right.
She honestly thought that she deserved better than what she had gotten.
“I think you’re forgetting that it wasn’t her choice,” Cassy said from behind me.
“Aiden decided to cut you out, and you-” She said and looked at the girls around Sam.
“-He was the one who decided that Cole deserved to be locked up for what he did. Knowing Aiden, which you all do, do you really think the Alpha would let anyone else affect his decisions?”
They looked dumbfounded at Cassy and then Sam’s eyes landed on me one last time. ‘I could see the promise in them. She was planning something, she’d do anything to get Aiden back.