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“Oh, congratulations,” I said. “How many months?”
“Two, but there’s also something else…”
“Yeah?” I asked, not sure what else could top this news. I was happy for her, but it only made me think of my own possible pregnancy. I really hoped I wasn’t pregnant. I still felt sick every morning, but I refused to take the test and be subjected to what reality had to offer.
“I got married too,” said Lacy. “Meet my new husbands.”
Now that hurt. She went ahead and got married without me being there. Did she even intend to ever come back for me?What the hell?!
But I put on a fake smile instead of losing it on her, “I’m really happy for you. You deserve all the happiness in the world. No need to put your life on hold because of me.”
Chapter 27
Olivia
“Whyareyousettingup your tent so far away?” Lacy asked, following me.
“I don’t want to hear any knottings going on,” I said, and she blushed furiously.
“God, you don’t have to be so gross,” she said. “I’ll come back when you’re less grouchy.”
Manny and Adam, whom I considered brothers to me, had also arrived on the trip. We had all grown up together as children, and our mothers were very close, so we were comfortable with each other.
“It’s so amazing you’re here again,” said Manny, helping me with my tent while Adam worked on his tent to share with Manny. “I tried my best with the Royal Pack and all, but they wouldn’t pay attention to a sigma like me.”
“Wait, are you sure you’re a sigma?” I asked.
I was happy for him but also apprehensive since sigmas weren’t accepted well into the Howl’s Edge community yet. I took a good look at him. Considering his wide shoulders and big-boned structure, I could see that he was a sigma. There weren’t many of these types of werewolves on the island, and were shunned in the past as outcasts. They didn’t like to be ordered about by authority, which is why his sigma fathers never lived in the city and would rather live on the outskirts of the island.
“Yes,” he said, smiling. “Just like my dads, Kodan and Seth. Even though Luke is an alpha, he treats me the same.”
“Of course he would,” I said, hugging him. “He’s your dad too.”
But Manny’s face suddenly fell, “my beta girlfriend doesn’t think it’s cool that I’m a sigma, and I could tell she’s disgusted by me.”
“Aw, Manny, I’m sorry,” I said, tucking my hair behind my ear. It was a little windy today despite the sun. “You’ll find someone who’ll appreciate you. Or maybe she’ll come around.”
“Highly doubt that,” he said. “What’s up with you and Lacy? Your tent is so far from hers.”
“Nothing,” I said. “I just want to be nearer to the trees.”
After we finished setting up our tents, we all decided to go on a hike before lunch. I tried to enjoy myself talking to everyone, but I kept to myself. The hurt still settled within me that everyone just forgot about me despite what I’d gone through.
They didn’t give a fuck if I died or not.
“You seem quiet today,” said Adam when we took a break from walking, and we all sat around on the boulders.
“From what she’d gone through, I don’t blame her,” said Lacy, speaking for me. I gritted my teeth, sitting there as they talked. But then Lacy addressed me. “Aren’t you glad you came on this trip with me? Your mom thought it would be a good idea for me to take you out of the house.”
“My mom?” I asked, taken aback. Annoyance swirled through me that she’d been talking to my mom behind my back.
“Yeah, she called me and said it would be a good idea for us to do something,” said Lacy.
“So you did all this for me?”
“Well…yeah, but I also wanted to have fun,” she said, smiling and not at all aware that I was fuming by now.
“So whatever my mom says, you’ll just do it? Without talking to me first?”
