~Averys POV~
"Okay but wait!" I yelled with my hands in the air and laughing. Lydia, Natasha, and I were in my room, eating snacks and catching up. Lydia told me to ask any and all questions I had regarding anything and she would answer them. So I had, for the past two hours.
"How come you," I said and pointed to Natasha.
"Didn't know that it was Lydia when she walked out of the forest that day?" I asked. This question had brunt a whole in my mind ever since that day.
"Well because I didn't get my wolf until I was eighteen and by then I was living in Brooksten. So my mother never knew what my wolf looked like. I had only shifted once before that day so I barely knew myself." Lydia said with a shrug and popped another sour worm in her mouth.
"I see," I said taking a sip from my wine glass. Being here, with Lydia, talking and drinking wine. It reminded me of how things were before. Whenever I would feel sad, confused, or lost, Lydia was always there to guide me in the right direction.
I missed that. She was my best friend. She is my best friend. And I will never let go of her again.
"How are they doing back home?" I asked and uncertainty was noticeable in my voice. I didn't know if I wanted to know the truth. Lydia and Natasha looked at each other, neither of them answering my question. I nodded my head and took another gulp of wine, twirling it around my mouth before swallowing it.
"I see." I said with a 'tsk' sound at the end.
"I'm sorry, Aves. I don't want to lie to you but I honestly don't think knowing will do you any good. However, I did promise 'no more lies'. So if you want to know, I'll tell you."
"Lydia," Natasha said sternly, in a warning.
"No. She deserves to know. I promised you, Avery, that I wouldn't keep anything from you and I won't. She deserves to know, mom," Lydia said. Natasha knew that there was nothing she could do to change her mind. That was also a thing about Lydia. If she had set her mind on something, there was no stopping her.
Natasha put her hands up in defeat and then clasped them in front of her.
"So?" Lydia asked said and looked at me expectantly. I raised a brow at her,
"So what?" I asked.
"So, do you want to know?" She asked, emphasizing every word. I looked between my best friend and Natasha a few times. I grabbed my wine glass to take another sip but noticed that it was empty. I guess I was taking pretty big sips.
I groaned and as if she was reading my mind, Lydia took the bottle and poured me some more wine. I gave her a smile and started drinking like it was lemonade.
"No. No, I don't think I want to know." I said honestly. What good would it do for me? They were obviously not doing well, neither was I but at least I knew that I'd be back. They were left with the guess that I would be back, but none of us were sure when.
"Wise choice." Natasha said. I nodded my head and Lydia quickly changed the topic.
"What's up with James bother, huh? Is he taken?" Lydia asked me with a raised eyebrow making me giggle.
"Lydia Marie Claeson!" Natasha scolded her daughter. Lydias' hands flew up in surrender as she looked at Natasha with her big eyes.
"I'm sorry, but hey, it's a reasonable question." She said with a shrug and then looked back at me with guilt and a small smirk.
I laughed to the point where I nearly fell of the bed.
"Lydia, you're the daughter of his uncle, you're basically cousins!" I shrieked, scrunching my nose and shaking my head.
~James POV~
What a fucking week. I thought to myself as I dragged my hands over my hair and walked through the woods. I had let Blade out for a run, thinking it might be a good way to get rid of some of the built-up frustration. I was beginning to realize, however, that I didn't need a run, I needed blood.
I needed to kill someone, rip someone's throat out, hit someone until they lay in a pool of their own blood.
Holy fucking shit.
I was walking near the cliffs, thinking about what Alex said.
Dick head.
I went and sat on the cliff, with my legs dangling off the edge. How did life take this turn?
How did this all happen? I needed Avery. I needed her here with me, by my side. Only then would I be able to relax. Only then would I crave her presence more than blood.
"Thought I told you to stay away from the cliffs?" Alex said coming up behind me. I had sniffed him out earlier but didn't bother to acknowledge him.
"Thought I told you not to sneak up on your Alpha." I retorted. Alex scoffed as he took a seat next to me.
"If I could sneak up on you, you wouldn't be my Alpha." He said with a smirk and I felt a jolt of childish amusement flood through me.
"I know that it's hard, brother. But suicide is not the answer," Alex smirk grew even wider as he joked with a fake seriousness to his words.
"You know, one little push is all it takes, and you'll never be able to annoy me again." I said and leaned forward, looking to the river at the bottom. Alex started laughing beside me and shook his head.
"What do you think they would've said had they been here right now?" I asked him as I looked up at the heavens. Alex let out a breath of air before looking up.
"Honestly, they would be on the road, looking for the son of a bitch who's threatening their family." He said. And I couldn't agree more.
"So why don't we?" I asked my brother.
"You know why. He's coming here, James, soon. We just have to be patient." That's the problem. My patience was running thin. It's barely hanging on by a thread.
"So you-" Mid-sentence Alex was cut off. We both got a mind-link.
'Alpha, Beta. There is a man here saying he wants to meet you.'
'Wo is he?'
'He won't say Alpha.'
'We'll be right there.'
'Yes Alpha.'
I and Alex looked at each other before standing up and heading back.
"Who the hell would willingly want to meet you?" Alex asked, walking beside me. I stretched out my hand, sending him into a tree. He quickly recovered though.
"Jackass," Alex cursed, patting his clothes free from dirt.
'It's starting'
What is?
'The war. It's almost time'
I looked at Alex who was already looking at me with furrowed eyebrows.
"Blade?" He asked and I nodded my head.
"He said the war is almost here." I said. Alex clenched his jaw and looked ahead.
"So did Caesar." He said and my head snapped his way. Cesar isn't the one to normally know about the pack business deals. Normally nobody does. This meant that Caesar was talking to the moon goddess as well. Something told me that this would be much greater than any one of us had expected.