Alpha’s Regret-My Luna Has A Son

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.

before seeing he was at the shopping complex and sigh when I see it leading toward the car park and know they must be on the

listening?” my mother asks. “Yes, still here,”

an email,” I lied. I had no idea why I lied, but it wasn’t like it

thing I wanted to talk to

“What’s that?” I asked.

a petition in to change the

interested in signing it?” I ask, knowing I needed

a heart attack when it hit his

have no idea what

dad put you up to

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

it upsets. It is time things change. This is a good thing,” I tell

for your father. You have no idea what you are getting yourself into.

you 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

are going to start a war!” She

“War?” I laugh.

at war with the 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 fought for me, but I will fight for mine!” |

annoyed she would ring me just to get me 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

I walked toward the hall.

Valerian says, and I chuckle.” I can tell. Where did you and your father go?” I ask him just as Valen steps past me, pecking my cheek as he heads for the kitchen

get groceries,” Valarian says, looking around me to look

go?” | ask him when Valen

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

he asked before I could

and turns to the microwave to

says nod when he rummages through another bag, pulling out my ice cream

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

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

“What?” Valen asks.

see him, and I 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

son has

it is for his safety, so don’t change the subject. Where were you both?”

Valen says, and

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

in the car except when we stopped to grab groceries, but you will know

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 walked over to see what Valen