My parents stepped out of the car, accompanied by four warriors, all them whom I recognized. The whole energy shifted and in my head it looked like they were moving in slowmotion.
Their smiles were big and bright as they hugged Aiden and his parents. It was odd how everyone could pretend to be this happy when in fact, nobody wanted this. Nobody was geniuenly happy but they all looked like they had won the lottery.
They didn't even know each other, they just fixed their children up and should just back off.
But my brothers words kept playing in my head, how they were coming up with a plan and that gave me hope. It gave me hope that this might actually end and I would be free of everyone. Aiden, my parents and all the people who had been making choices for me since the day I was born. I took a deep breath and repeated Edmund's words in my head.
"Oh, sweetheart!" My mom gushed and came over to hug me.
"How we've missed you. Your brothers really wished they could be here but unfortunately they all had other plans," First thing she says and it's a lie. Figures.
I hugged my dad who was staring at me like a father who actually missed his kid, and then we all went inside too carry on the fake pleasentries.
"I'm surprised you all came here so quickly after our phonecall just yesterday," I said as we walked into the house.
"It was Alpha Aidens insistence that we come as soon we can, he was the one who suggested we come today. Whereas you didn't want us here at all, it's a good thing you were matched with such a gentleman, might teach you some manners," mom said and I rolled my fingers up into a fist.
Of course it was. How could I have believed for even a second that he was going to do something nice for me?
Aiden and my father had stepped into the office to speak.
"Would you care for some sandwiches?" Marie asked.
My mom grabbed one and a cup of coffee and they began talking about the wedding and how it had been ever since. Of course leaving out all of the unfortunate details that my mom would dismiss either way. And then a surprise happened, something that shook me and I couldn't believe it had happened.
"On their wedding night however, Aiden was fooling around with his ex gifrliend," Marie said angrily and looked at my mom. I saw in her eyes how she was studying my mother, looking to see a reaction but the one she got was not the one she expected. My mom laughed and titled her head back.
"Yes well, boys will be boys, and they must have fun. I know how prude my little Gabriella can be,"
"So you feel it is okey for him to seek sexual company from others?"
"If she is not willing to put out then who can blame him. I told Gabby to be a good wife and a part of that is to make your husband happy, in all aspect of the marriage. Which I'm hoping she now is?" She said and looked at me with a narrow gaze.
I scoffed and nodded my head, about to throw in her face everything that I was thinking.
"She is, so I've been told," Marie said just as I parted my lips. All the anger went back down and I didn't understand why she had done that.
"Good," Mom said, looking pleased.
Cassandra was standing next me, digging her nails into my arm as my mother spoke.
She and Marie then walked into the dining hall where lunch would soon be served and that left me and Cassy standing alone.
"I'm gonna kill her," she seethed when she was out of earshot.
"Not if I beat you to it," I said and grinned. She looked at me baffled.
"I'm serious, what kind of mother says that?"
I shurgged a shoulder and began walking.
"Mine." I said.
"Wait," she said and pulled me back.
"Has she always been like this?"
"Yes," I answered with an obvious tone.
"You don't seem surprised at all by her words,"
"Becuase I'm not. This isn't new to me, now you get a glimpse into the life of the 'spoiled princess' as well," I said. I couldn't help but find it amusing. It was my life, it didn't shock me anymore when my parents spoke and said something unbelievable or idiotic or when they did something bad. It was my normal and had been my entire life. But seeing the surprise on Cassy's face showed how truly messed up it was but what else could I do but laugh at it?
We walked in and joined them. Aiden and my father came out from the study and joined us as well.
My mom's face lit up when Aiden sat down next to her and she placed her hand on his shoulder.
"I assume business went well," she said.
"Very well. And I'm glad you could come, I'm eager to learn more about Gabby's past,"
"What would like to know?" Mom asked and started cutting into her steak. Cassy was sitting as close to me as she possibly could without being on my lap. She was cutting small pieces and slowly putting them in her mouth, her eyes locked on my parents.
"How was she as a child?" Aiden asked and my father chuckled.
"Misschevious, always on adventures and doing everything she wasn't supposed to," Aiden smiled a little, his lips tugged up and his parents looked happy as well. That was all about to end.
"Luckily we managed to..." he stopped and looked up, tilting his head back and forth as he thought of a repsonse.
"...corect that behoivour. Eventually she leanered how a proper lady was supposed to act," He said and the smiles disappeared.
"Corect the behavior?" Aiden asked. My mom placed her hand over my fathers and they smiled lovingly at each other.
"We don't need to get into that, let's just say that she eventually grew to be the girl we hoped to have. And those good-for-nothing friends she had, she stopped spending time with them and that was a big part of it,"
"What exactly was she doing with them that you didn't agree with?" Marie asked.
"Having fun," I said and smiled. My mom threw me a glare.
"But our little Gabby didn't have any trouble finding other, better, friends. For one of her friends sixteenth birthday she bought them a mercedes," Dad said.
Everyone turned their heads to me and I rolled my eyes.
"Oh, I can't take all the credit, you're the one who bought it, paid for it and handed her the keys, dad,"
"And wasn't she happy that I did," he said.
"We're rude, let's about you," mom said and looked at Cassy.
"Oh, uhm, what do you want to know?"
"What do you do?"
"I work at a store in the mall not to far from here and I live with my family,"
"That's nice," Mom said with that nasty look on her face.
"Oh, Gabby! Becca told us to say hi, I'm sure she and the girls would like to come visit some day, maybe you can spend more time together if they move here," my heart stopped.
"No." I said sternly.
"They're your friends."
"No, Cassandra is my friend. Becca was a bitch who only hung around me because of all the things I bought for her. And the rest of girls are the same way, the don't like me and I sure as hell don't like them."
"Gabriella, that is no way to speak about your friends. They were there for you, without them you would've been all alone and a freak who just stayed inside the house." I bit down on my jaw and glared at her.
"They were never my friends, they made my life a living hell. With all the things we did together they talked shit behind my back twice as much,"
"Maybe if you would've been more like them they would've accepted you better." She seethed.
"Well look at that, you have a golden oppurtunity to get the daughter you always wanted. Invite Becca to live with you,"
"You will not speak to your mother that way." My father growled.
"Let's get one thing straight, you're inside my borders now. This is my pack and if any of those girls set as much as a toe on this land I will have them tossed back to your pack head first with cuts and bruises covering their pretty faces."
"THAT'S ENOUGH!" My dad roared and stood up, slamming his hands down on the table.
"You were supposed to learn from them but apparently that has all ben taken away since you moved here. Watch your tone young lady. They knew how to act like formidable young ladies and they took their time to try and teach you," he said.
"They were back stating sluts who shit talked anyone that wasn't in their little group. They didn't care about anyone and only stayed around me because you taught me to pay for everyones everything. That was it, it was all I was to them, a bank."
"Maybe they didn't think you deserved anymore than being a bank and who can blame them." My father seethed and my mom was smiling uncomfortably and looking around at everyone. She was more worried about their appearance and what the others would think of them but at least now they got a glimpse into who they really were. For a second I forgot that there were other people present, all I saw was the rage in my fathers eyes and I felt the rage in mine.
"I think it is time that you leave." Everyone turned their heads. Aidens dad was standing up, his shoulders rolled back and his chest pushed out.