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.

I see it leading toward the car park and know they must

listening?” my mother asks. “Yes, still here,” I tell her, turning the loudspeaker

no idea why

another thing I wanted

“What’s that?” I asked.

you put a petition in to change

knowing I needed

unwelcome attention. Your father nearly had a heart attack when it hit his email. Withdraw the

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

dad put you up to

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

not pulling the petition, Mum. I don’t care who it upsets. It is time things change. This is a good thing,” I tell

what you are getting yourself into. You have been Luna for all but 5 minutes and are making poor

trouble it will cause in the City, and it is 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.

to start a war!”

“War?” I laugh.

I sure as hell don’t need a pack because I have something far more valuable than

to pull a petition and berate me. Shaking my head, I was about to ring Valen again when I heard the front door open and

sighed with relief as I walked toward the hall. Valarian comes rushing toward me excitedly, soaking

your father go?” I ask him just

says, looking around me

did you go?” | ask him

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

could question

turns to the microwave to

I can show you around” he says nod when he

being awfully quiet, making me wonder what he was up to. I went to ask when Valarian rushed

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

“What?” Valen asks.

got vague answers. You were both two hours late, and it doesn’t take two hours to get two bags of groceries from a shop that is two minutes from here,”

to explain why our son has a tracking device

don’t change the subject. Where were you both?” I

says, and Valarian nods

me. I will check his tracker data

except when we stopped to grab groceries, but you will know soon enough anyway,” Valen chuckles, and

stayed busy

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