A love unspoken

Chapter Five

A hammering on the front door pulled Olivia from her sleep, grumbling loudly to herself, she sat up, grabbed her dressing gown and stumbled down the stairs to the front door, pulling it open to have a whirlwind blow past her into the living room.

Shutting the door with a loud yawn, Olivia followed the ball of energy, slumping down onto the sofa as her best friend Sierra bounced excitedly in front of her. Sierra was the eldest child of Graham and Felicity, though they were a few years apart in age, the pair had been inseparable from the moment they both attended school.

‘Sie, it’s the middle of the night, why are you trying to break down my door?’ Olivia moaned, rubbing her tired eyes.

‘Liv! Firstly it’s six o’clock, so nearly mid morning, and secondly’ she said pausing dramatically, ‘I found my mate!’ she started to squeal loudly, jumping up and down as Olivia stared at her.

‘Not you too!’ she moaned as Sierra pouted down at her.

‘Are you not happy for me? I found my mate Liv!’ the she wolf babbled, throwing herself down next to her friend and hugging her, as if trying to infuse the tired teaching assistant with some of her joy.

‘Of course I'm happy for you Sie, I'm just . . ugh . . when will I find mine?’ she ended dejectedly.

‘You will Liv, he is out there!’ Sie replied giving her another squeeze.

‘Yeah, I'm never going to find him though as I'm not allowed out of the barrier in case demon pack killers find me’ Olivia grumbled lowly before giving herself a shake, ‘enough of my pity party, who is it? How did you meet him?’ she asked, forcing a smile onto her face as Sierra squealed again.

‘Oh Liv! he’s so amazing! Godmother Isabella has come to the pack to visit Alpha Halle and she brought her Beta Daniel with her, well they also brought Daniel’s eldest son, Landen as he will be taking over as Beta when Isabella steps down. They were walking through the square last night with our Beta, where I was tending to the flower pots, and I could smell this amazing scent. I looked up and he was looking at me, our eyes met and he growled Mate and ran over, sweeping me up in his arms, we spent the whole night talking,’ Sierra said dreamily, ‘then he had to go to a meeting with Alpha Halle and I just had to come here to tell you about it’

‘You got the next Silver Cross Beta as your mate?’ Olivia yelled, a proper grin spreading over her face, ‘oh I'm so pleased for you Sie, though I'm going to miss you so much’ she added sadly as the realisation that Sierra would now return to Silver Cross hit her.

Sierra suddenly slumped back against the sofa, her face upset as Olivia’s words sank in, ‘I won’t see you any more’ she whispered as Olivia squeezed her hand consolingly.

‘We can still talk on the phone and you can come back and visit me’ Olivia replied reassuringly as Sierra gave her a small smile.

Looking at her friend, Olivia’s own expression became one of confusion as Sierra’s smile widened, her best friend jumping to her feet as she danced around again. ‘Oh my Goddess! This is so perfect!’ she gasped, her hands on her cheeks as she tried to hold in her excitement.

‘It’s now perfect that you will never see me again?’ Olivia asked slowly.

‘No! It’s perfect that I am going to go back to Silver Cross with Godmother Isabella and Landen! You could come with us! Your dad would surely let you come for a visit with us considering we will have one of the toughest female Alpha’s, her Beta and the next Beta in line with us, not to mention the warriors they brought for protection! We could go and spend some time with Gabriella, We haven’t seen her in a couple of years since the last time Isabella brought her to visit. You could then have a sniff around, see if your mate is nearby’ she added, waggling her eyebrows as Olivia laughed.

‘A sniff around? Like a dog checking marking spots?’ Olivia giggled, but she felt a small wave of hope as well, if she was travelling with the Alpha of Silver Cross, her father just might agree that she would be safe enough to go for a few days. Changing the subject she gave her friend an amused look, ‘so how is it that you haven’t met Landon before now, you have been to Silver Cross a few times over the years’ she asked, intrigued.

Throwing herself back into the chair, Sierra sighed happily, ‘when he turned sixteen, he decided to relocate to Red Moon for a few years, Nathaniel doing the same two years later, to train with Nathaniel’s cousins as they have one of the strongest warrior teams in the land. They only returned to Silver Cross last year to start preparing for taking over from the Alpha.’

A soft knock at the door, put an end to the she wolves conversation, Olivia scrambling to her feet as Sierra padded along behind her, back to gushing about her mate, ‘he has eyes of the most amazing brown and his ass is so tight I want to hold on to it and not let go’ Sierra declared as Olivia pulled the door open to reveal a tall blonde haired warrior who grinned down at the pair as Sierra let out a squeak.

‘What were you saying about my ass?’ the warrior asked as Sierra blushed bright pink.

‘uh nothing’ she muttered, trying to hide her face behind Olivia who was taking in the handsome man at her door.

‘Landen I presume?’ she asked as she pulled the door open wider so that the young man could enter.

‘I am indeed, and you are?’ he asked with a grin that flashed his perfect teeth.

Extending her hand, Olivia smiled back, ‘I'm Olivia, Sierra’s best friend, she just came to tell me about you’ she added as Sierra poked her sharply in the side.

‘About my ass it seems’ Landen replied with a smirk as Olivia laughed. ‘Anyway, one of your warriors directed me here, it seems that your Alpha has linked through to my mate’s father and she has given me a message to pass on’ he continued as his grin widened and he gazed at the young woman who was peeking at him over her friend’s shoulder.

‘The message was, bring your mate here so mum and I can meet him and why am I hearing that my daughter has found her mate from the Alpha and not directly from my child! There better be a good reason young lady’ Linden said as Sierra’s eyes widened.

‘Oh s**t!’ she mumbled, ‘we gotta go’ she added loudly, grabbing Landen’s hand and dragging him to the door, throwing it open and running out.

‘Come see me later and tell me what happened’ Olivia shouted at the pair as they disappeared into the square toward Sierra’s home.

Shutting the door, Olivia grinned to herself as she made her way into the kitchen to put a pot of coffee on, scooping out the coffee into the filter before pressing the button on the front and allowing it to peculate.

‘Was that Sierra screaming the house down at this ridiculous hour?’ came Leo’s voice from the doorway.

Spinning around, Olivia beamed at her father as he stepped into the kitchen, opening one of the cupboards and pulling out two mugs. Picking up the sugar bowl he looked at it before giving Olivia a suspicious look.

Holding her hands up Olivia replied to his unasked question, ‘I haven’t touched it, I promise!’ Laughing as Leo tentatively placed his finger in the bowl and placed it too his tongue to check before nodding satisfied.

‘Can’t believe you didn’t trust me’ Olivia huffed as she grabbed the milk from the fridge and started to pour the hot coffee into the two mugs, Leo spooning a tea spoon of sugar into each and stirring as his daughter added a splash of milk.

Putting the milk away again, Olivia picked up her mug and made her way back into the living room, curling up on the sofa, her father sitting in one of the chairs as he smiled over at the young woman happily.

‘So what did the pack’s fireball have to tell you that was so important we all had to be awake at six am?’ he asked gruffly.

‘She found her mate last night’ Olivia replied as she took a sip of her drink, ‘it’s the next Beta of the Silver Cross pack, Vaya and Daniel’s son Landen.’

Leo looked at his daughter sympathetically, ‘I’m sorry love, I know how close the two of you are, you must be upset that she will leave the pack and move to Silver Cross’ he said quietly.

Olivia nodded, a lump in her throat, ‘yeah, I'll miss her so much, but it’s her mate and as he’s next in line to the Beta position it’s not like he can move here is it’ she replied with a small shrug of her shoulders.

‘Well she can still come to visit, it’s not like you will never see each other again’ Leo reasoned, trying to cheer the young she wolf up.

‘Yeah, that is what I said, and we can talk on the phone when ever we want to’ Olivia added, staring at her coffee. ‘Um, actually, Sierra has an idea, she thought I should run it past you and ma’ she added hesitantly.

‘Oh?’ Leo asked raising an eyebrow, ‘if it came from Miss Sierra, I already know that I am not going to like what you say don’t I?’ he growled softly as Olivia’s eyes widened in shock.

‘She doesn’t always have bad ideas!’ she argued as her father shook his head smirking.

‘How about the time she thought it would be a great idea for you both to tell your parents that you were staying over the others houses so you could sneak out to a party at one of the young warrior’s houses? Forgetting that we are all joined by a mind link and we knew what you had done within fifteen minutes of you leaving?’ Leo growled, ‘or the time she talked you into dying her hair green with a wash in wash out colour that unfortunately didn’t shift for two whole months and she had to walk around the pack like that until it finally faded, or the time . . ‘he continued as Olivia broke across his monologue.

‘OK, sometimes she doesn’t have the greatest ideas! But this one is really good dad, I think you and ma will agree with it’ she said with a smile.

Sighing deeply, Leo gestured for the she wolf to continue, taking a deep breath, Olivia filled her father in on Sierra’s idea for her to go with them for a visit to the Silver Cross pack.

‘I’d be with Alpha Isabella, Beta’s Daniel and Landen and all of their warriors dad! We would be in cars, in a convoy, I would be the safest I could ever be outside this barrier. I can go and see Gabriella, we could all have some girl time before Sierra becomes all mated up. Please daddy, this is possibly the only time I will have a chance to go outside the pack in an environment were I would be completely protected.’

Olivia stared at her father with pleading eyes, watching the war on his face between giving his daughter her desire and wanting to keep her safe, finally he huffed loudly before mumbling, ‘I'll talk to you mother and see what she says.’ Olivia jumped up shrieking as she threw herself into had father’s arms, ‘that is not a yes yet!’ he grumbled as the young woman covered his cheeks in kisses before hopping off and running out of the room to her bedroom to get dressed.

‘That wasn’t a yes!’ Leo’s voice followed behind her as she grinned to herself excitedly.