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“Libby, please don’t be immature right now.”
“I just need time to think about stuff, that’s all,” I said.
There was no way in hell I was going to take the pregnancy test. I was still plagued by nightmares constantly, and I had come home to a voicemail from Howl’s Honor Hospital firing me from my receptionist job. Also, the fact that Sergio hated me weighed heavily on me. I couldn’t just easily forget about him.
Picking up a pen and my raggedy notebook full of half-written stories, I flipped through them and stopped upon one that I had particularly enjoyed writing. It was about an omega who had fallen in love with someone outside the island. I wanted to get lost in another person’s story right about now. It was thrilling to write about her journey, but I was too shaken to write, so I set the notebook down.
Maybe Ididneed to get out of the house and just go on the damn camping trip with Lacy and my friend Manny. Pulling out my backpack in my very cluttered room, I started throwing in things I’d need for the trip.
Hearing a knock at the door, I got up to unlock it.
“Here you go,” said my dad gruffly, handing the pink pregnancy box to me, standing there awkwardly. We’d never had a conversation about me mating alphas or about pregnancy.
“Thanks,” I said.
“Let me know when you take it!” screeched my mom from the living room.
“I’m not taking it,” I called back, and I heard her sigh of annoyance. Dumping it on my dresser, I resumed packing. I was ready to get out of here for a few days already, despite how much I missed being home because it was suffocating to me now.
I hadn’t realized how much I had actually changed, and I was way more impatient with things.
A couple of days later, I walked out of my room, ready to go on the trip with Lacy. I wore my sunglasses already with my backpack slung over my shoulder. Lacy was waiting outside in a van with her pack. I decided to wear something simple- jeans and a blue tank top.
“Did you take the test?” my mom asked as I headed out. She asked me that every day, but I still refused to take the damn test.
“Nope,” I said. “I’m not pregnant, Mom. I’ll see you when I get back.”
“Have fun,” she said, her face glowing with happiness at seeing me leave the house. She was so odd sometimes.
“I’ll try,” I said, giving her a hug.Who knew what would happen if I ever left the house again?It was a new kind of paranoia that I had to stop myself from developing. But the fear was still there that I could easily get kidnapped again.
I went outside and saw Lacy all excited with the van door open. The inside was crowded with camping supplies.
“Hey, cuzzo,” said Lacy, making room for me in the van as I flung my backpack on top of the pile. I sat in the middle seat with her while three of her alphas sat in the back row and two at the front. They all started out as her bodyguards, but they had all fallen in love with her during duty.
“How have you been?” I asked Lacy carefully as the van started moving. I hadn’t talked to her ever since I got home last week and had been avoiding her calls.
“I’m great,” she said. “I would’ve liked to know howyou’dbeen all week. I called you a million times, Liv.”
“I know,” I said, looking out the window. “I just needed time to process everything.”
“Yeah,” she sighed sadly. “I never felt at ease since I knew you were still trapped. Every day, I remember you there.”
“Listen, we won’t talk about it,” I said. “I just want to go camping and relax a little. Let’s talk about other things, like your singing. How are Ben and Ty?”
I needed to change the subject quickly because I was scared I might blurt out the truth to her about what really happened at the OBC. I didn’t want her to know what happened to me or anyone for that matter except for my mother. I felt ashamed, embarrassed, and dirty, like it was my fault it happened. She wouldn’t understand since she hadn’t gone through anything like I did there.
At the mention of two other males, Ryder growled from the driver’s seat.
“Oh, hush,” said Lacy, rolling her eyes. “I work with them, and I sleep with you at night, so there is no need to act all territorial now.”
I laughed, and soon the mood brightened again. Lacy rested her hand on her belly, and I contemplated asking her if she was pregnant, even though I couldn’t tell. But I didn’t want to act creepy as hell.
Oh, fuck it.
“Lacy, are you pregnant?”
“I am,” she confirmed, looking down.
