Chapter 82 – Everly POV 

Hours passed, and dinner was going cold while I waited for Valen and Valerian. Not that I made anything special; I was too tired and wanted to sleep. So I only made spaghetti bolognese.

However, Valen said he would be home before dinner, and dinner was cooked two hours ago. Glancing at the clock, it was 730 PM, and the storm outside had intensified. Lightning streaked across the gloomy sky, not one star in sight as the clouds blocked out even the moon. Walking back into the living room, I snatched my phone off the coffee table and redialed his number. The phone didn’t even ring; it went straight to voicemail.

Waiting another 10 minutes, I picked up my phone again to call when it began ringing in my hand. A private number came through, and I sighed. Finally, he thought to ring back. Only when I answered I wasn’t expecting the feminine voice I heard.

“Hello, is this Everly’s phone?” comes my mother’s voice. Shocked, I pull the phone from my ear to look at the screen before placing it back.

“Mum?” I asked.

“Oh, thank God, I thought your receptionist gave me another wrong number,” she says. I didn’t know what t o say. It was one thing seeing her on the day of the Alpha meeting, but I found myself suddenly lost for words on the phone. I no longer knew how to speak to the woman who gave birth to me. So much had changed, and I had changed. My family were suddenly strangers to me, and I no longer identified myself with them anymore.

“Are you there?” she asks.

“Ah, yes, sorry. Why are you calling?” I blurted, without thinking. She had never rung before, not even when she promised to when I turned up on her doorstep that stormy night. So many broken promises, our relationship now non-existent.

“I um. I wanted to check on you after the incident with the rogues. Your father tried to see, but your mate wouldn’t let him in.”

 

“Well, you could have visited; he let Ava in,” I tell her, and she falls quiet. I found it hard to make chit-chat with her. The silence as we tried to think of what to say was awkward.

“So, how have you been?” she asks, and I bite my lip, hesitant to answer. Did she genuinely care? Something bothered me with how she rang out of the blue.

“Yeah, good, waiting for Valen and Valarian to get home,” I tell her.

“He looks so much like his father,” she says, and I nod, moving into the kitchen and covering their dinners.

“So, ah, how is Ava?” | ask, trying to divert the conversation.

“Ava is Ava. She is being difficult.”

“And why is that?”

“Because she wants to go away to university, she doesn’t want to take over the pack,” My mother says.

“Well, find someone else to take over then,” I tell her, looking at the clock and the minutes ticking by. I was starting to worry that something had happened because I had heard no word. Placing the phone on the loudspeaker, I searched for Valarian’s tracking device in his watch…

“It’s not that simple, and you know that,” she answers.

shopping complex and sigh when I see it leading toward the car park and

still here,” I tell her, turning

lied. I had no idea why I

is another thing I wanted to talk

“What’s that?” I asked.

a petition in to change the

it?” I ask, knowing I

drawing unwelcome attention. Your father nearly had a heart attack when it hit his email. Withdraw the application, Everly,” my

serious. You have no

you up to

is correct. Are you hoping to start a war? It will change nothing. No

care who it upsets. It is time things change. This is a good

into. You have been

why I am doing it. Try living in the rogue’s shoes for once, mother. Without your credit cards or the pack’s money, you wouldn’t last one day. Nothing you say will get me to pull that petition, so jump on board and accept it.

are going to start a

“War?” I laugh.

packs since I was 17. Packs don’t scare me, mother. I learned to live on my own without a pack. Instead, I built an empire. And I sure as hell don’t need a pack because I have something far more valuable than a pack of mindless idiots that follow orders from Alpha that has no care for his people. I have a family, and families fight for each other. You may not have

would ring me just to get me to pull a petition and berate me. Shaking my

toward the hall. Valarian

raining,” Valerian says, and I chuckle.” I can tell. Where did you and your father go?” I ask him just as Valen steps past me,

groceries,” Valarian says, looking around me to look at his father,

| ask him when Valen calls out

of your wet clothes, quick. Mum made dinner,” he says, and Valarian rushes off before I could question him more. I purse my lips, watching

your day?” he asked before I could question him on

shrugs and turns to the microwave to heat Valarian’s

by tomorrow so I can show you around” he says nod when he rummages through another bag, pulling out my ice cream and chucking

you remembered,” I tell him, placing it in the freezer. Yet Valen was being awfully quiet, making me wonder what he was up to. I went to ask when Valarian rushed out in dry clothes and sat at the table. Valen pulls his dinner from the microwave and takes it over to

and Valarian looks up at his father. I narrow

“What?” Valen asks.

him, and I got vague answers. You were both two hours late, and it doesn’t take two hours to get two bags of

to explain why our son has a tracking device on his watch?” Valen

why. Besides, it is for his safety, so don’t change the

says, and Valarian

me. I will check his tracker data later,” I smirked, folding my arms

I made him leave it in the car except when we stopped to grab groceries, but you will know soon

busy working on his laptop while Valarian did his homework. Bored with watching TV, I walked over to

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