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.

at the shopping complex and sigh when I see

my mother asks. “Yes, still here,” I tell her,

had no idea why I lied, but it wasn’t like it was

wanted to talk to

“What’s that?” I asked.

you put a petition in to change the laws surrounding

ask, knowing I needed at least four Alpha

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

am being serious. You have no idea what is at stake!” she

you up to

Are you hoping to start a war? It will change nothing. No Alpha will sign that petition. It will change nothing

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

is reckless and will cause trouble for your father. You have no idea what you are getting yourself into. You have been Luna for all but 5 minutes and are

wouldn’t last one day. Nothing you say will get me to pull that petition, so jump on board and accept it. I don’t care about your reputation or dad’s. You never cared for mine.” I snapped

are going to start a

“War?” I laugh.

more valuable than a pack of mindless idiots that

berate me. Shaking my head, I was about to

I walked toward the hall. Valarian comes

Where did you and your father go?” I ask him just as Valen steps past me, pecking my cheek as he

around me to look at his father, who was unpacking

ask him when Valen calls

and Valarian rushes off before I could question him more. I purse

could question him on why they took so

turns to the microwave to heat

he says nod when he rummages

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

to something,” I tell them, and Valarian looks up at his father. I narrow

“What?” Valen asks.

two hours late, and it doesn’t take two hours to get two bags of groceries from a shop that is two minutes

well, care to explain why our son has

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

Valen says, and

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

leave it in the car except when we stopped to grab groceries, but you will know soon enough anyway,” Valen chuckles,

to the kitchen and heats his own dinner up and mine, and we sit down and eat. After dinner, Valen stayed busy working on his laptop while Valarian did his homework. Bored with watching TV, I

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