A love unspoken

Chapter Four

‘Aww mum, why can’t I come with you? I'll be so quiet you won’t even know that I am there!’ Gabriella moaned as she threw herself face first on her parents bed whilst her mother carefully straightened her hair in front of the vanity.

‘You are not coming Gabby, you are still grounded’ Isabella growled dangerously, glaring at the hidden face of her daughter.

‘Damn Nate, selling me out again’ Gabriella huffed in annoyance.

‘Well if you stopped running in the woods alone and stopped getting your push over of a father to cover for you, there would be nothing for Nate to tell me would there?’ Isabella threw back at her petulant child.

‘but mum, I haven’t seen Sierra in over a year, please, pretty please, I promise I will not run in the forest alone again, come on’ Gabriella wheedled, as she sat up and put on her best puppy dog face.

Isabella turned around in her chair and met her daughters eyes, her own narrowing slightly, ‘I am not your father, that face does not work on me young lady, you are staying here with Vaya, who will be keeping an eye on you the entire time I am gone’ she warned.

Gabriella’s mouth dropped open in horror, ‘no way! Come on mum, not Vaya, at least make it Daniel or even Landen! Vaya is a tyrant, I can’t do anything with her following me around’ the teenager groaned as her mother smiled triumphantly.

‘Exactly, you will be so well behaved while I am gone that I won’t have to spend a single minute worrying about you’ she replied as she turned back to the mirror, ‘plus Daniel and Landen are coming with me so they cannot baby sit your annoying little ass’

Gabriella pouted, ‘no fair, Landen gets to go but I don’t?’

‘Landen is the next Beta, he needs to start learning from his father so he is ready when the time comes’ Isabella replied, unconcerned by her daughters mood.

‘What about Nate, why isn’t he going then?’ Gabriella mumbled, already wondering how she could get her brother back for this current grounding she was under.

‘Nate will be holding the fort here with the support of your father while I am gone, it will be good practice for him. I wont be at Oak Ridge long, I just need to talk to Hazel about the encroaching Rogues as she has let me know that they are also moving in up there’ Isabella replied, as she put the finishing touches to her make up and stood up from the chair, reaching down to pick up her bag that was already packed on the floor beside her and heading out of the bedroom door, Gabriella trailing along behind her muttering under her breath.

Making their way downstairs, they were met by Riley, Daniel, Vaya, Nathaniel and Landen who were all chatting happily as they waited for their Alpha to finish getting ready.

Looking up, Riley let out a low growl as his walked over and pulled his mate too him, kissing her hard as Gabriella groaned loudly behind them both.

‘Not sure I can let you leave when you look like that Alpha’ Riley grumbled as Isabella pulled away with a laugh.

‘You’ll be fine, you won’t even realise I'm gone’ the Alpha replied as Riley gave a small pout.

‘I will, the bed will be massive, what will I do with all that room without you star fishing in the middle each night?’ he asked as Isabella punched him playfully.

‘I do not starfish the bed’ she growled.

‘No babe’ Riley agreed immediately, ‘you just like to sleep on my side with me’ he added with a smirk.

Sidling around her parents, Gabriella snuck over to her brother who was engrossed in a conversation with Landen, grabbing the back of his jeans gently, she suddenly pulled them upwards sharply causing Nathaniel to roar in pain as she quickly moved around beside Vaya as her parents looked up in shock.

‘What’s up Nate?’ Riley asked confused,

Glaring at the smirking teenager, Nate rearranged his jeans as he replied, ‘nothing’ through gritted teeth, Isabella glaring between the pair of them suspiciously.

Deciding to let it go, Isabella kissed Riley, Daniel doing the same to Vaya before they headed out of the front door with Landen behind them. Turning back as she walked, Isabella fixed her eyes on her daughter who quickly put on an innocent face.

‘Vaya is watching you child, remember that’ Isabella warned before swiftly exiting the building.

Riley left to go into the kitchen, leaning closer to his sister, Nathaniel growled furiously into Gabriella’s ear, ‘I’m going to get you back for that Gabby.’

Turning to grin up at him, Gabriella murmured back, ‘bring it on big brother, but remember the last time you went to war with me . . ‘ she tapered off watching her brother’s face turn white.

‘uh, . . I'll . . uh . . suppose I'll let you off this time’ he grumbled before setting off upstairs hastily, leaving Vaya and Gabriella in the foyer alone.

‘So it’s just you and me Gabs’ Vaya mused, as the teenager pulled a face,

‘Come on Vaya, you don’t want to hang around with me, you’ll be super bored, my life is majorly uninteresting’ Gabriella said with a big fake grin, ‘if you don’t tell mum, I won’t’ she added with a wink.

Folding her arms, Vaya glowered at the youngster, who’s grin slid off her face under the penetrating gaze of the older she wolf. ‘We will be spending so much time together Gabs that I am going to be your new BFF’ Vaya replied evenly, ‘starting tomorrow at 5am’ she added before heading off to the staircase.

‘5am!!’ Gabriella shouted after her appalled, ‘what do we have to do in the middle of the night Vaya!’

‘Training’ came the hybrid’s reply, ‘lots and lots of training as you seem to have sooooo much energy at the minute, I figured we could burn a bit of it off.’

Once she rounded the corner, Gabriella stamped her feet on the tiled floor in anger before stomping into the games room and throwing herself onto the grey sofa next to Henry who was happily playing the games console.

‘What’s up with you?’ Henry asked, not lifting his gaze from the screen.

‘Vaya is my new babysitter’ Gabriella huffed angrily, slumping over the arm of the chair and running her finger in patterns through the carpet.

‘Maybe stop going running through the forest alone?’ Henry suggested.

‘Hen! You are supposed to be on my side! Stop backing up mum and the all annoying Nate’ the she wolf growled as Henry chuckled.

‘Gab, I'm not taking their side, I'm just saying that maybe you should be more careful about looking like you are doing as you are told’ he replied with a chuckle.

‘pfft, its OK for you, mum’s little baby, you can’t put a foot wrong! Nate is the responsible one that is just destined for greatness, then you have me in the middle, forgotten unless I’m in trouble’ Gabriella grumbled, rolling onto her back and placing the back of her hand against her forehead in a olden style woman in despair pose.

‘’I don’t put a foot wrong because mum never catches me genius’ Henry muttered with a small smirk, his eyes following his on screen character.

Gabriella glowered over at the younger teenager, ‘that’s because you never have someone babysitting you all the time’ she complained.

‘Because I don’t get caught’ Henry repeated shaking his head at his sister’s stupidity.

Pushing herself up off the sofa, Gabriella bent over and planted a huge loud kiss on Henry’s cheek, causing him to scowl, pushing her away as he dragged his sleeve down his face, his character in his game dying as he was distracted.

‘Gabriella!!’ Henry shouted annoyed as his sister laughed and ran out of the room, sprinting up the stairs two at a time and sliding into her room to start trying to plot how to ditch her new BFF tomorrow.