We arrived home around 6:30 pm. My dad helps me inside, much to my refusal. “Where would you like to sit Princess? Would you like to go to your room, or sit on the couch, whatever you want is fine by me.” I chuckle a little, I have never seen my dad like this before. “Dad, I’m fine, really, I can walk around by myself, you don’t have to help me. Dr. Kelechi said I needed to walk around on my own, at my own pace to get better. I will go slowly, I promise.”
Dad didn’t like the idea of leaving me to walk around alone but he let go of my arm. Now to get him to quit hovering while I walk around the house. I go and sit on the couch, and he follows closely. I look over at him and smile, “Okay dad, time to talk.”
His smile wavered a bit, but he tried not to show it. He nodded to me and I took that as an okay to start talking. “Okay, so I guess I’ll start from after you left this morning. I got up and got ready for the day, thinking to myself about meeting my mate and trying to imagine what he would look like. I left for the pack house early so I could eat breakfast and as I was walking, I started to sense my mate. I noticed as I got closer to the pack house it became stronger. I walked into the pack house and towards the dining hall and as soon as I entered and got in line, I heard the loudest growl I have ever heard before. It shook the pack house, and the pups covered their ears. I was looking around, trying to find an escape when Alpha Damon mind-linked me to go to the guest room on the 2nd floor. —About this time, I started to see my dad’s mood change, he was going back and forth from anger to sympathy. I placed my hand on his knee to try and calm him down and reassure him that I was okay. “As I made my way up to the 2nd floor, he came up behind me and grabbed my arm and dragged me up the rest of the stairs, and flung me into the guest room where I tumbled to the floor. He yelled at me to get up, insulted me, and then he rejected me. I knew I had no other choice, so I accepted his rejection. After that, I passed out, I don’t know who found me, and I don’t know what happened after, I just know I opened my eyes and I saw white all around me.” I paused from explaining and said that I would be back and that I was going to the restroom. I kid you not, I had to tell him several times to stay seated, and that I could walk to the bathroom without his help. I passed myself and walked slowly to the bathroom in the hall by my dad’s room. Our house has two bathrooms, one in my room and the other in the hall for my dad. I think that when he moved us here, he gave me the master bedroom so that I would have room to grow and could have the privacy of the bathroom. I’ll have to make a note and ask him when we finish this conversation. Anyways I finish up in the restroom and make my way back to the couch where my dad is waiting on me.
I get settled back in on the couch and get comfortable and pull the super soft fluffy throw blanket off the back of the couch and cover up. “Okay, where was I?” I ponder back on where I left him, he hasn’t said one thing since starting this conversation, I guess he is just taking it all in. “Oh right, so when I woke up, I saw nothing but white. I wasn’t sure if I was dead or alive.” I carry on with the story and let him know everything, down to what all my mom had said about him. I look over at him and see his face, he’s on the verge of tears, I grab his hand and let him know that everything’s okay, that we were fine and that mom was watching over us, literally watching over us. I go on to explain that I know everything about mom and who she is and I also explain that I may never get a wolf but that it would be okay since I will still have a mate. It’s the last part of this conversation that I don’t want to endure but know that I must since it is the most important. “Okay dad, this last part is not going to be easy to hear but you must understand that I am not choosing this, mom told me this is what has to happen.” I take a deep breath to calm my nerves before starting. “I am given two years to complete training before I have to leave the pack and go to The Gold Moon Pack, where you and mom came from. I am supposed to learn everything there is to know about wolves, this pack, the Gold Moon Pack, mom, how to fight, how to be a leader, and how to track and hunt. All of this in 2 years, I don’t think mom wanted me to finish school.” I said that last part and it was like I threw a bucket of cold water on my dad. He immediately shook his head and stood up. “You will finish school young lady! You just won’t have any social life or time for a job. You will have to find me after school, and we can train and I can teach things about hunting and tracking while on border patrol, and then when I’m off we can work on other tasks. Did your mother tell you if you could involve anyone else” I’m assuming he meant like the Alpha or head warrior for training. She did not but I’m sure they would be willing to help me once they find out who I am. “No, she didn’t but I’m sure the Alpha will help considering all of this happened because of his son.” I say smugly, crossing my arms. I look over to my dad and see he is in the middle of a mind link, please don’t be to the Alpha. “I’ve contacted the Alpha, he said he and the others will be here in thirty minutes to talk.”
I make myself more presentable and get a glass of water while I wait for the Alpha and the others, as dad put it, get here. About that time there was a knock at the door, from the scent alone I knew it was the Alpha. I walk over to the door to answer it, “Good evening Alpha, Beta, Gamma, Warrior James, thank you all for coming on such short notice” I say while bowing my head to show my respect to them. “Oh, cut it out Kazmiyah, you don’t need to bow after the day you had, especially when my son was the one to cause all of this.” Alpha Alan said with a grimace on his face. I step aside and let them all enter the house. I didn’t think all of the leaders would be here. I thought it was just going to be the Alpha and maybe the head warrior. This is going to be a long night, and it’s only 8:00 pm.