When I got to school the next day, everyone was staring at me. I knew they were trying to see if I would reveal anything to them about the photo that they had received. Jasper showed me the message that went along with the photo.
Our lovely Nova with an older man. I wonder what other secrets she has
It was just meant to imply that I was dating an older man and I knew that it was for the triplets sake that she did it. She probably truly believed it as well. But that doesn’t make it real or right to send it to everyone at school.
I managed to ignore everyone and ever since I had gone after Izzy during volleyball, they all knew not to really say anything in case I went off at them as well.
I mean, if I am game enough to go off at Izzy, then the rest of them are fair game and a lot easier to scare.
But while I was at my locker I was quickly pulled out of the way and my locker door was slammed shut.
I turned to look at the guy who had grabbed my arm and I was looking into the beautiful and mesmerizing eyes of Tyler.
He held up his phone and showed me the photo.
“Yeah. I bet you were the first one she sent that to.” I said.
“I thought we were getting along pretty well. Our hike through the forest, in the clearing. I really thought that we were getting along, getting closer. And then I get this photo.” He said.
I stood there waiting for him to stop but all the while I was staring at him with no emotions on my face at all.
“Tyler. That’s Logan. He’s my mother’s ex boyfriend.” I said.
“What?” He asked, confused.
“He’s only about 8 years older than me. A lot younger than my mother. But he came here to check up on me. He wanted to make sure that I’m alright. He knows what my mother is like but there is absolutely nothing going on with us. We became really good friends when he was dating my mother. He is one of the very few men that she’s dated who I’ve actually liked.” I explained.
“So, there’s really nothing going on between you two?” He asked.
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“Hell no. He’s more like a father to me. Never mind the age gap. Maybe now that he’s not dating my mother we might be friends. But I’ve never thought of him like that. Especially not while he was screwing my mother.” I explicitly pointed out.
“Yeah. That makes sense. A guy that goes for both mother and daughter is a little sick.” He
said.
“Exactly. Which is why I have no attraction to him at all.” I said. And he nodded his head.
His face relaxed and I could tell that he was finally starting to calm down.
I saw out of the corner of my eye that Izzy was walking down the hall with her posse and I casually put my hand on Tyler’s arm and started stroking it up and down while looking back at him.
He was definitely upset when he got the photo and since he was calming down I was assuring him that he had nothing to worry about. I was also showing Izzy that her former s*x buddy was being consoled by the one person she hated the most.
I know that it was petty and probably sinking to her level, but I just really didn’t care. I could be a very petty person if I wanted to be. And if I knew that it was going to work.
Of course I was going to give her back a little of what she was doing to me.
She was trying to smear my name but when Lexie ran over to me she wanted all of the details before she realized that Tyler was there.
She tried to excuse herself but I stopped her and I told her everything that I just told Tyler. There’s nothing to worry about with Logan. He’s my mother’s ex boyfriend and everything was fine.
“What did she say?” I heard Dean’s voice floating through Tyler’s voice. They were mind linking and since I was with Tyler, I could even hear Dean. That was really weird.
“It’s fine. The guy is her mother’s ex boyfriend and he’s only in town checking up on her because he knew that she was going to be in trouble living alone with her mother.” Tyler explained to Dean. And then it cut off.
“So, are we still okay?” I asked.
“Yeah. We’re good. I’m sorry I went off like that. I should have just asked you who he was.” Tyler said.
“Yeah. That was a little weird. I mean, we’ve hung out once. It was a really good time that we had, but we still only hung out once. I don’t think you really have a right to be this upset.” I
said.
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It’s the mate bond that was making him act this crazy. But I had to pretend like he was going a little overboard when I knew that he wasn’t.
We all made our way to our first class and Izzy sat right on the other side of the room with us and I was next to Lexie again.
The guys were in front of us, like they always were and the rest of the day went by pretty good.
The other two still hadn’t talked to me but I would talk to Tyler, even if he was with the other
two.
I would occasionally look over at Jasper and he just had a smirk on his face.
I think he was just happy that I was finally interacting with them. But I tried to ignore him.
After school Lexie and I decided to go for a drive around and I was definitely up for that task.
I didn’t want to go home and driving around sounded fine since there was nothing else to do in
town.
We drove about an hour away from town and we got out at a parking lot and we walked through the forest for a couple of minutes before we came to a clearing. It was beautiful up there. It was higher up on the hill so we could see the entire town from where we were.
I tried to imagine what it would look like covered in snow. And that was something I was definitely going to come up here and see.
While we were standing there looking out we heard something in the forest behind us.
We both turned around and I could see the fear on Lexie’s face.
“What the f**k was that? We don’t have patrols out this far?” She asked herself. She didn’t say
it out loud, but I could still hear it. “It’s not an animal. I’d smell it. It’s something else.” She
said.
“Are you alright?” I asked.
“I think we should probably head back now.” Lexie said.
She didn’t wait for a response before she grabbed my arm and started walking back towards
the car. But we had to cut through the forest to get to the car.
Lexie’s head was darting around everywhere. And I wasn’t what she thought I was either. I
knew exactly what was in the woods watching us, I just couldn’t say.
“It’s probably just an animal or something.” I said.
“Yeah. Animals around here are pretty vicious.” She said.
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So we got in the car and she peeled out of the car park and sped the whole way back to town.
She drove me to the end of my driveway since I didn’t want her to see my house and I got out and told her that I still think she’s freaking out about nothing.
But when she left, I knew that she was heading straight to the triplets place. So I ran to the edge of the forest, next to the house and I dropped my bag inside the treeline and I jumped up
and as soon as I knew I was alone, I ran at the speed of light around the town and I started in
the forest until I got to the little township that they had on the other side of town in the forest.
As soon as I got there, I saw Lexie’s car in her driveway but I went to the packhouse and I
stood in the treeline.
I could hear them in the living room with Lexie.
“Are you sure that’s what you heard in the forest?” Koda asked.
“I’m positive. There was a f*****g witch watching us. It’s me and Nova.” Lexie said.
“Nova. They know about Nova.” Dean said.
“What are you talking about?” Alpha Grayson asked.
“I’ve been spending time with that new girl Nova.” Tyler said.
“Bullshit. Tell him the truth. He needs to know.” Dean demanded. And there was a long pause.
“Nova’s our mate. I know that she’s just a human, but she’s our mate.” Koda said. And there was nothing else said. But I heard Alpha Grayson walking upstairs.
“Well, that could have gone better.” Tyler said.
“We need to make sure that they don’t get near her.” Dean said.
“And we will. We have to increase patrols.” Koda said.
